The First Book of the Chronicles

   {1:1} Adam, Sheth, Enosh, {1:2} Kenan, Mahalaleel, Jered, {1:3}
Henoch, Methuselah, Lamech, {1:4} Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

   {1:5} The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan,
and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras. {1:6} And the sons of Gomer;
Ashchenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah. {1:7} And the sons of Javan;
Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.

   {1:8} The sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, Put, and Canaan. {1:9} And
the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raamah, and
Sabtecha. And the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan. {1:10} And Cush
begat Nimrod: he began to be mighty upon the earth. {1:11} And Mizraim
begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Napthtuhim, {1:12} And
Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (of whom came the Philistines,) and
Caphthorim. {1:13} And Canaan begat Zidon his firstborn, and Heth,
{1:14} The Jebusite also, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite, {1:15}
And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite, {1:16} And the
Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite.

   {1:17} The sons of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud,
and Aram, and Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Meshech. {1:18} And Arphaxad
begat Shelah, and Shelah begat Eber. {1:19} 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. {1:20} And Joktan
begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah, {1:21} Hadoram
also, and Uzal, and Diklah, {1:22} And Ebal, and Abimael, and Sheba,
{1:23} And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab. All these [were] the sons of
Joktan.

   {1:24} Shem, Arphaxad, Shelah, {1:25} Eber, Peleg, Reu, {1:26}
Serug, Nahor, Terah, {1:27} Abram; the same [is] Abraham. {1:28} The
sons of Abraham; Isaac, and Ishmael.

   {1:29} These [are] their generations: The firstborn of Ishmael,
Nebaioth; then Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam, {1:30} Mishma and Dumah,
Massa, Hadad, and Tema, {1:31} Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. These are
the sons of Ishmael.

   {1:32} Now the sons of Keturah, Abraham's concubine: she bare
Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. And
the sons of Jokshan; Sheba, and Dedan. {1:33} And the sons of Midian;
Ephah, and Epher, and Henoch, and Abida, and Eldaah. All these [are]
the sons of Keturah. {1:34} And Abraham begat Isaac. The sons of Isaac;
Esau and Israel.

   {1:35} The sons of Esau; Eliphaz, Reuel, and Jeush, and Jaalam, and
Korah. {1:36} The sons of Eliphaz; Teman, and Omar, Zephi, and Gatam,
Kenaz, and Timna, and Amalek. {1:37} The sons of Reuel; Nahath, Zerah,
Shammah, and Mizzah. {1:38} And the sons of Seir; Lotan, and Shobal,
and Zibeon, and Anah, and Dishon, and Ezar, and Dishan. {1:39} And the
sons of Lotan; Hori, and Homam: and Timna [was] Lotan's sister. {1:40}
The sons of Shobal; Alian, and Manahath, and Ebal, Shephi, and Onam.
And the sons of Zibeon; Aiah, and Anah. {1:41} The sons of Anah;
Dishon. And the sons of Dishon; Amram, and Eshban, and Ithran, and
Cheran. {1:42} The sons of Ezer; Bilhan, and Zavan, [and] Jakan. The
sons of Dishan; Uz, and Aran.

   {1:43} Now these [are] the kings that reigned in the land of Edom
before [any] king reigned over the children of Israel; Bela the son of
Beor: and the name of his city [was] Dinhabah. {1:44} And when Bela was
dead, Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his stead. {1:45} And
when Jobab was dead, Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his
stead. {1:46} And when Husham was dead, Hadad the son of Bedad, which
smote Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his stead: and the name
of his city [was] Avith. {1:47} And when Hadad was dead, Samlah of
Masrekah reigned in his stead. {1:48} And when Samlah was dead, Shaul
of Rehoboth by the river reigned in his stead. {1:49} And when Shaul
was dead, Baal-hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his stead. {1:50} And
when Baal-hanan was dead, Hadad reigned in his stead: and the name of
his city [was] Pai; and his wife's name [was] Mehetabel, the daughter
of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.

   {1:51} Hadad died also. And the dukes of Edom were; duke Timnah,
duke Aliah, duke Jetheth, {1:52} Duke Aholibamah, duke Elah, duke
Pinon, {1:53} Duke Kenaz, duke Teman, duke Mibzar, {1:54} Duke Magdiel,
duke Iram. These [are] the dukes of Edom.

   {2:1} These [are] the sons of Israel; Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and
Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun, {2:2} Dan, Joseph, and Benjamin,
Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.

   {2:3} 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.
{2:4} And Tamar his daughter in law bare him Pharez and Zerah. All the
sons of Judah [were] five. {2:5} The sons of Pharez; Hezron, and Hamul.
{2:6} And the sons of Zerah; Zimri, and Ethan, and Heman, and Calcol,
and Dara: five of them in all. {2:7} And the sons of Carmi; Achar, the
troubler of Israel, who transgressed in the thing accursed. {2:8} And
the sons of Ethan; Azariah. {2:9} The sons also of Hezron, that were
born unto him; Jerahmeel, and Ram, and Chelubai. {2:10} And Ram begat
Amminadab; and Amminadab begat Nahshon, prince of the children of
Judah; {2:11} And Nahshon begat Salma, and Salma begat Boaz, {2:12} And
Boaz begat Obed, and Obed begat Jesse,

   {2:13} And Jesse begat his firstborn Eliab, and Abinadab the second,
and Shimma the third, {2:14} Nethaneel the fourth, Raddai the fifth,
{2:15} Ozem the sixth, David the seventh: {2:16} Whose sisters [were]
Zeruiah, and Abigail. And the sons of Zeruiah; Abishai, and Joab, and
Asahel, three. {2:17} And Abigail bare Amasa: and the father of Amasa
[was] Jether the Ishmeelite.

   {2:18} And Caleb the son of Hezron begat [children] of Azubah [his]
wife, and of Jerioth: her sons [are] these; Jesher, and Shobab, and
Ardon. {2:19} And when Azubah was dead, Caleb took unto him Ephrath,
which bare him Hur. {2:20} And Hur begat Uri, and Uri begat Bezaleel.

   {2:21} And afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the
father of Gilead, whom he married when he [was] threescore years old;
and she bare him Segub. {2:22} And Segub begat Jair, who had three and
twenty cities in the land of Gilead. {2:23} 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. {2:24} And after that Hezron was dead in
Caleb-ephratah, then Abiah Hezron's wife bare him Ashur the father of
Tekoa.

   {2:25} And the sons of Jerahmeel the firstborn of Hezron were, Ram
the firstborn, and Bunah, and Oren, and Ozem, [and] Ahijah. {2:26}
Jerahmeel had also another wife, whose name [was] Atarah; she [was] the
mother of Onam. {2:27} And the sons of Ram the firstborn of Jerahmeel
were, Maaz, and Jamin, and Eker. {2:28} And the sons of Onam were,
Shammai, and Jada. And the sons of Shammai; Nadab, and Abishur. {2:29}
And the name of the wife of Abishur [was] Abihail, and she bare him
Ahban, and Molid. {2:30} And the sons of Nadab; Seled, and Appaim: but
Seled died without children. {2:31} And the sons of Appaim; Ishi. And
the sons of Ishi; Sheshan. And the children of Sheshan; Ahlai. {2:32}
And the sons of Jada the brother of Shammai; Jether and Jonathan: and
Jether died without children. {2:33} And the sons of Jonathan; Peleth,
and Zaza. These were the sons of Jerahmeel.

   {2:34} Now Sheshan had no sons, but daughters. And Sheshan had a
servant, an Egyptian, whose name [was] Jarha. {2:35} And Sheshan gave
his daughter to Jarha his servant to wife; and she bare him Attai.
{2:36} And Attai begat Nathan, and Nathan begat Zabad, {2:37} And Zabad
begat Ephlal, and Ephlal begat Obed, {2:38} And Obed begat Jehu, and
Jehu begat Azariah, {2:39} And Azariah begat Helez, and Helez begat
Eleasah, {2:40} And Eleasah begat Sisamai, and Sisamai begat Shallum,
{2:41} And Shallum begat Jekamiah, and Jekamiah begat Elishama.

   {2:42} Now the sons of Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel [were,] Mesha
his firstborn, which was the father of Ziph; and the sons of Mareshah
the father of Hebron. {2:43} And the sons of Hebron; Korah, and
Tappuah, and Rekem, and Shema. {2:44} And Shema begat Raham, the father
of Jorkoam: and Rekem begat Shammai. {2:45} And the son of Shammai
[was] Maon: and Maon [was] the father of Beth-zur. {2:46} And Ephah,
Caleb's concubine, bare Haran, and Moza, and Gazez: and Haran begat
Gazez. {2:47} And the sons of Jahdai; Regem, and Jotham, and Gesham,
and Pelet, and Ephah, and Shaaph. {2:48} Maachah, Caleb's concubine,
bare Sheber, and Tirhanah. {2:49} She bare also Shaaph the father of
Madmannah, Sheva the father of Machbenah, and the father of Gibea: and
the daughter of Caleb [was] Achsa.

   {2:50} These were the sons of Caleb the son of Hur, the firstborn of
Ephratah; Shobal the father of Kirjath-jearim, {2:51} Salma the father
of Bethlehem, Hareph the father of Beth- gader. {2:52} And Shobal the
father of Kirjath-jearim had sons; Haroeh, [and] half of the
Manahethites. {2:53} And the families of Kirjath-jearim; the Ithrites,
and the Puhites, and the Shumathites, and the Mishraites; of them came
the Zareathites, and the Eshtaulites. {2:54} The sons of Salma;
Bethlehem, and the Netophathites, Ataroth, the house of Joab, and half
of the Manahethites, the Zorites. {2:55} And the families of the
scribes which dwelt at Jabez; the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, [and]
Suchathites. These [are] the Kenites that came of Hemath, the father of
the house of Rechab.

   {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: {3:2} The third, Absalom the son of
Maachah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur: the fourth, Adonijah the
son of Haggith: {3:3} The fifth, Shephatiah of Abital: the sixth,
Ithream by Eglah his wife. {3:4} [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. {3:5} And these were born
unto him in Jerusalem; Shimea, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon,
four, of Bath-shua the daughter of Ammiel: {3:6} Ibhar also, and
Elishama, and Eliphelet, {3:7} And Nogah, and Nepheg, and Japhia, {3:8}
And Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphelet, nine. {3:9} [These were] all
the sons of David, beside the sons of the concubines, and Tamar their
sister.

   {3:10} And Solomon's son [was] Rehoboam, Abia his son, Asa his son,
Jehoshaphat his son, {3:11} Joram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his
son, {3:12} Amaziah his son, Azariah his son, Jotham his son, {3:13}
Ahaz his son, Hezekiah his son, Manasseh his son, {3:14} Amon his son,
Josiah his son. {3:15} And the sons of Josiah [were,] the firstborn
Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum.
{3:16} And the sons of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son, Zedekiah his son.

   {3:17} And the sons of Jeconiah; Assir, Salathiel his son, {3:18}
Malchiram also, and Pedaiah, and Shenazar, Jecamiah, Hoshama, and
Nedabiah. {3:19} And the sons of Pedaiah [were,] Zerubbabel, and
Shimei: and the sons of Zerubbabel; Meshullam, and Hananiah, and
Shelomith their sister: {3:20} And Hashubah, and Ohel, and Berechiah,
and Hasadiah, Jushab-hesed, five. {3:21} And the sons of Hananiah;
Pelatiah, and Jesaiah: the sons of Rephaiah, the sons of Arnan, the
sons of Obadiah, the sons of Shechaniah. {3:22} And the sons of
Shechaniah; Shemaiah; and the sons of Shemaiah; Hattush, and Igeal, and
Bariah, and Neariah, and Shaphat, six. {3:23} And the sons of Neariah;
Elioenai, and Hezekiah, and Azrikam, three. {3:24} And the sons of
Elioenai [were,] Hodaiah, and Eliashib, and Pelaiah, and Akkub, and
Johanan, and Dalaiah, and Anani, seven.

   {4:1} The sons of Judah; Pharez, Hezron, and Carmi, and Hur, and
Shobal. {4:2} And Reaiah the son of Shobal begat Jahath; and Jahath
begat Ahumai and Lahad. These [are] the families of the Zorathites.
{4:3} And these [were of] the father of Etam; Jezreel, and Ishma, and
Idbash: and the name of their sister [was] Hazelelponi: {4:4} And
Penuel the father of Gedor and Ezer the father of Hushah. These [are]
the sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephratah, the father of Bethlehem.

   {4:5} And Ashur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah.
{4:6} And Naarah bare him Ahuzam, and Hepher, and Temeni, and
Haahashtari. These [were] the sons of Naarah. {4:7} And the sons of
Helah [were,] Zereth, and Jezoar, and Ethnan. {4:8} And Coz begat Anub,
and Zobebah, and the families of Aharhel the son of Harum.

   {4:9} And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren: and his
mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with sorrow.
{4:10} 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.

   {4:11} And Chelub the brother of Shuah begat Mehir, which [was] the
father of Eshton. {4:12} And Eshton begat Beth-rapha, and Paseah, and
Tehinnah the father of Ir-nahash. These [are] the men of Rechah. {4:13}
And the sons of Kenaz; Othniel, and Seraiah: and the sons of Othniel;
Hathath. {4:14} And Meonothai begat Ophrah: and Seraiah begat Joab, the
father of the valley of Charashim; for they were craftsmen. {4:15} And
the sons of Caleb the son of Jephunneh; Iru, Elah, and Naam: and the
sons of Elah, even Kenaz. {4:16} And the sons of Jehaleleel; Ziph, and
Ziphah, Tiria, and Asareel. {4:17} 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. {4:18} 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. {4:19} And the sons of [his] wife Hodiah the
sister of Naham, the father of Keilah the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the
Maachathite. {4:20} And the sons of Shimon [were,] Amnon, and Rinnah,
Ben-hanan, and Tilon. And the sons of Ishi [were,] Zoheth, and
Ben-zoheth.

   {4:21} 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, {4:22} And
Jokim, and the men of Chozeba, and Joash, and Saraph, who had the
dominion in Moab, and Jashubi-lehem. And [these are] ancient things.
{4:23} These [were] the potters, and those that dwelt among plants and
hedges: there they dwelt with the king for his work.

   {4:24} The sons of Simeon [were,] Nemuel, and Jamin, Jarib, Zerah,
[and] Shaul: {4:25} Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son.
{4:26} And the sons of Mishma; Hamuel his son, Zacchur his son, Shimei
his son. {4:27} 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. {4:28} And they dwelt at Beer-sheba, and
Moladah, and Hazar-shual, {4:29} And at Bilhah, and at Ezem, and at
Tolad, {4:30} And at Bethuel, and at Hormah, and at Ziklag, {4:31} And
at Beth-marcaboth, and Hazar-susim, and at Beth- birei, and at
Shaaraim. These [were] their cities unto the reign of David. {4:32} And
their villages [were,] Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan,
five cities: {4:33} And all their villages that [were] round about the
same cities, unto Baal. These [were] their habitations, and their
genealogy. {4:34} And Meshobab, and Jamlech, and Joshah the son of
Amaziah, {4:35} And Joel, and Jehu the son of Josibiah, the son of
Seraiah, the son of Asiel, {4:36} And Elioenai, and Jaakobah, and
Jeshohaiah, and Asaiah, and Adiel, and Jesimiel, and Benaiah, {4:37}
And Ziza the son of Shiphi, the son of Allon, the son of Jedaiah, the
son of Shimri, the son of Shemaiah; {4:38} These mentioned by [their]
names [were] princes in their families: and the house of their fathers
increased greatly.

   {4:39} And they went to the entrance of Gedor, [even] unto the east
side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks. {4:40} And they
found fat pasture and good, and the land [was] wide, and quiet, and
peaceable; for [they] of Ham had dwelt there of old. {4:41} 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. {4:42} 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. {4:43} And they smote the rest of the Amalekites that
were escaped, and dwelt there unto this day.

   {5:1} 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. {5:2} For Judah
prevailed above his brethren, and of him [came] the chief ruler; but
the birthright [was] Joseph's:) {5:3} The sons, [I say,] of Reuben the
firstborn of Israel [were,] Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. {5:4}
The sons of Joel; Shemaiah his son, Gog his son, Shimei his son, {5:5}
Micah his son, Reaia his son, Baal his son, {5:6} Beerah his son, whom
Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria carried away [captive:] he [was]
prince of the Reubenites. {5:7} And his brethren by their families,
when the genealogy of their generations was reckoned, [were] the chief,
Jeiel, and Zechariah, {5:8} And Bela the son of Azaz, the son of Shema,
the son of Joel, who dwelt in Aroer, even unto Nebo and Baal-meon:
{5:9} And eastward he inhabited unto the entering in of the wilderness
from the river Euphrates: because their cattle were multiplied in the
[land] of Gilead. {5:10} 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.

   {5:11} And the children of Gad dwelt over against them, in the land
of Bashan unto Salchah: {5:12} Joel the chief, and Shapham the next,
and Jaanai, and Shaphat in Bashan. {5:13} And their brethren of the
house of their fathers [were,] Michael, and Meshullam, and Sheba, and
Jorai, and Jachan, and Zia, and Heber, seven. {5:14} 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; {5:15} Ahi the son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, chief of the
house of their fathers. {5:16} And they dwelt in Gilead in Bashan, and
in her towns, and in all the suburbs of Sharon, upon their borders.
{5:17} All these were reckoned by genealogies in the days of Jotham
king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel.

   {5:18} The sons of Reuben, and the Gadites, and half the tribe of
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. {5:19} And they
made war with the Hagarites, with Jetur, and Nephish, and Nodab. {5:20}
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. {5:21} 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. {5:22} For there
fell down many slain, because the war [was] of God. And they dwelt in
their steads until the captivity.

   {5:23} And the children of the half tribe of Manasseh dwelt in the
land: they increased from Bashan unto Baal-hermon and Senir, and unto
mount Hermon. {5:24} 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.

   {5:25} 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. {5:26} And the God of Israel stirred up the
spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgath-pilneser king
of Assyria, and he carried them away, even the Reubenites, and the
Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, and brought them unto Halah,
and Habor, and Hara, and to the river Gozan, unto this day.

   {6:1} The sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. {6:2} And the
sons of Kohath; Amram, Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel. {6:3} And the
children of Amram; Aaron, and Moses, and Miriam. The sons also of
Aaron; Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

   {6:4} Eleazar begat Phinehas, Phinehas begat Abishua, {6:5} And
Abishua begat Bukki, and Bukki begat Uzzi, {6:6} And Uzzi begat
Zerahiah, and Zerahiah begat Meraioth, {6:7} Meraioth begat Amariah,
and Amariah begat Ahitub, {6:8} And Ahitub begat Zadok, and Zadok begat
Ahimaaz, {6:9} And Ahimaaz begat Azariah, and Azariah begat Johanan,
{6:10} And Johanan begat Azariah, (he [it is] that executed the
priest's office in the temple that Solomon built in Jerusalem:) {6:11}
And Azariah begat Amariah, and Amariah begat Ahitub, {6:12} And Ahitub
begat Zadok, and Zadok begat Shallum, {6:13} And Shallum begat Hilkiah,
and Hilkiah begat Azariah, {6:14} And Azariah begat Seraiah, and
Seraiah begat Jehozadak, {6:15} And Jehozadak went [into captivity,]
when the LORD carried away Judah and Jerusalem by the hand of
Nebuchadnezzar.

   {6:16} The sons of Levi; Gershom, Kohath, and Merari. {6:17} And
these [be] the names of the sons of Gershom; Libni, and Shimei. {6:18}
And the sons of Kohath [were,] Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and
Uzziel. {6:19} The sons of Merari; Mahli, and Mushi. And these [are]
the families of the Levites according to their fathers. {6:20} Of
Gershom; Libni his son, Jahath his son, Zimmah his son, {6:21} Joah his
son, Iddo his son, Zerah his son, Jeaterai his son. {6:22} The sons of
Kohath; Amminadab his son, Korah his son, Assir his son, {6:23} Elkanah
his son, and Ebiasaph his son, and Assir his son, {6:24} Tahath his
son, Uriel his son, Uzziah his son, and Shaul his son. {6:25} And the
sons of Elkanah; Amasai, and Ahimoth. {6:26} [As for] Elkanah: the sons
of Elkanah; Zophai his son, and Nahath his son, {6:27} Eliab his son,
Jeroham his son, Elkanah his son. {6:28} And the sons of Samuel; the
firstborn Vashni, and Abiah. {6:29} The sons of Merari; Mahli, Libni
his son, Shimei his son, Uzza his son, {6:30} Shimea his son, Haggiah
his son, Asaiah his son. {6:31} And these [are they] whom David set
over the service of song in the house of the LORD, after that the ark
had rest. {6:32} 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. {6:33} 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, {6:34} The son of Elkanah,
the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Toah, {6:35} The son
of Zuph, the son of Elkanah, the son of Mahath, the son of Amasai,
{6:36} The son of Elkanah, the son of Joel, the son of Azariah, the son
of Zephaniah, {6:37} The son of Tahath, the son of Assir, the son of
Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, {6:38} The son of Izhar, the son of Kohath,
the son of Levi, the son of Israel. {6:39} And his brother Asaph, who
stood on his right hand, [even] Asaph the son of Berachiah, the son of
Shimea, {6:40} The son of Michael, the son of Baaseiah, the son of
Malchiah, {6:41} The son of Ethni, the son of Zerah, the son of Adaiah,
{6:42} The son of Ethan, the son of Zimmah, the son of Shimei, {6:43}
The son of Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi. {6:44} 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, {6:45} The son of
Hashabiah, the son of Amaziah, the son of Hilkiah, {6:46} The son of
Amzi, the son of Bani, the son of Shamer, {6:47} The son of Mahli, the
son of Mushi, the son of Merari, the son of Levi. {6:48} Their brethren
also the Levites [were] appointed unto all manner of service of the
tabernacle of the house of God.

   {6:49} But Aaron and his sons offered upon the altar of the burnt
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. {6:50}
And these [are] the sons of Aaron; Eleazar his son, Phinehas his son,
Abishua his son, {6:51} Bukki his son, Uzzi his son, Zerahiah his son,
{6:52} Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son, {6:53} Zadok
his son, Ahimaaz his son.

   {6:54} Now these [are] their dwelling places throughout their
castles in their coasts, of the sons of Aaron, of the families of the
Kohathites: for theirs was the lot. {6:55} And they gave them Hebron in
the land of Judah, and the suburbs thereof round about it. {6:56} But
the fields of the city, and the villages thereof, they gave to Caleb
the son of Jephunneh. {6:57} And to the sons of Aaron they gave the
cities of Judah, [namely,] Hebron, [the city] of refuge, and Libnah
with her suburbs, and Jattir, and Eshtemoa, with their suburbs, {6:58}
And Hilen with her suburbs, Debir with her suburbs, {6:59} And Ashan
with her suburbs, and Beth-shemesh with her suburbs: {6:60} And out of
the tribe of Benjamin; Geba with her suburbs, and Alemeth with her
suburbs, and Anathoth with her suburbs. All their cities throughout
their families [were] thirteen cities. {6:61} 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. {6:62} 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. {6:63} 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. {6:64} And the children of Israel gave to the Levites
[these] cities with their suburbs. {6:65} 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. {6:66} And [the
residue] of the families of the sons of Kohath had cities of their
coasts out of the tribe of Ephraim. {6:67} And they gave unto them,
[of] the cities of refuge, Shechem in mount Ephraim with her suburbs;
[they gave] also Gezer with her suburbs, {6:68} And Jokmeam with her
suburbs, and Beth-horon with her suburbs, {6:69} And Aijalon with her
suburbs, and Gath- rimmon with her suburbs: {6:70} 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. {6:71} 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: {6:72} And out of the tribe of Issachar; Kedesh with her
suburbs, Daberath with her suburbs, {6:73} And Ramoth with her suburbs,
and Anem with her suburbs: {6:74} And out of the tribe of Asher; Mashal
with her suburbs, and Abdon with her suburbs, {6:75} And Hukok with her
suburbs, and Rehob with her suburbs: {6:76} And out of the tribe of
Naphtali; Kedesh in Galilee with her suburbs, and Hammon with her
suburbs, and Kirjathaim with her suburbs. {6:77} Unto the rest of the
children of Merari [were given] out of the tribe of Zebulun. Rimmon
with her suburbs, Tabor with her suburbs: {6:78} And on the other side
Jordan by Jericho, on the east side of Jordan, [were given them] out of
the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the wilderness with her suburbs, and
Jahzah with her suburbs, {6:79} Kedemoth also with her suburbs, and
Mephaath with her suburbs: {6:80} And out of the tribe of Gad; Ramoth
in Gilead with her suburbs, and Mahanaim with her suburbs, {6:81} And
Heshbon with her suburbs, and Jazer with her suburbs.

   {7:1} Now the sons of Issachar [were,] Tola, and Puah, Jashub, and
Shimrom, four. {7:2} 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. {7:3} And the sons of Uzzi; Izrahiah: and the
sons of Izrahiah; Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, Ishiah, five: all of
them chief men. {7:4} 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. {7:5} And
their brethren among all the families of Issachar [were] valiant men of
might, reckoned in all by their genealogies fourscore and seven
thousand.

   {7:6} [The sons] of Benjamin; Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three.
{7:7} 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. {7:8} 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. {7:9} And
the number of them, after their genealogy by their generations, heads
of the house of the fathers, mighty men of valour, [was] twenty
thousand and two hundred. {7:10} The sons also of Jediael; Bilhan: and
the sons of Bilhan; Jeush, and Benjamin, and Ehud, and Chenaanah, and
Zethan, and Tharshish, and Ahishahar. {7:11} All these the sons of
Jediael, by the heads of their fathers, mighty men of valour, [were]
seventeen thousand and two hundred [soldiers,] fit to go out for war
[and] battle. {7:12} Shuppim also, and Huppim, the children of Ir,
[and] Hushim, the sons of Aher.

   {7:13} The sons of Naphtali; Jahziel, and Guni, and Jezer, and
Shallum, the sons of Bilhah.

   {7:14} The sons of Manasseh; Ashriel, whom she bare: [(but] his
concubine the Aramitess bare Machir the father of Gilead: {7:15} And
Machir took to wife [the sister] of Huppim and Shuppim, whose sister's
name [was] Maachah;) and the name of the second [was] Zelophehad: and
Zelophehad had daughters. {7:16} 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. {7:17} And the sons of
Ulam; Bedan. These [were] the sons of Gilead, the son of Machir, the
son of Manasseh. {7:18} And his sister Hammoleketh bare Ishod, and
Abiezer, and Mahalah. {7:19} And the sons of Shemidah were, Ahian, and
Shechem, and Likhi, and Aniam.

   {7:20} And the sons of Ephraim; Shuthelah, and Bered his son, and
Tahath his son, and Eladah his son, and Tahath his son,

   {7:21} 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. {7:22} And Ephraim
their father mourned many days, and his brethren came to comfort him.

   {7:23} And when he went in to his wife, she conceived, and bare a
son, and he called his name Beriah, because it went evil with his
house. {7:24} (And his daughter [was] Sherah, who built Beth-horon the
nether, and the upper, and Uzzen-sherah.) {7:25} And Rephah [was] his
son, also Resheph, and Telah his son, and Tahan his son, {7:26} Laadan
his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son, {7:27} Non his son,
Jehoshuah his son.

   {7:28} And their possessions and habitations [were,] Bethel and the
towns thereof, and eastward Naaran, and westward Gezer, with the towns
thereof; Shechem also and the towns thereof, unto Gaza and the towns
thereof: {7:29} And by the borders of the children of Manasseh,
Beth-shean and 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.

   {7:30} The sons of Asher; Imnah, and Isuah, and Ishuai, and Beriah,
and Serah their sister. {7:31} And the sons of Beriah; Heber, and
Malchiel, who [is] the father of Birzavith. {7:32} And Heber begat
Japhlet, and Shomer, and Hotham, and Shua their sister. {7:33} And the
sons of Japhlet; Pasach, and Bimhal, and Ashvath. These [are] the
children of Japhlet. {7:34} And the sons of Shamer; Ahi, and Rohgah,
Jehubbah, and Aram. {7:35} And the sons of his brother Helem; Zophah,
and Imna, and Shelesh, and Amal. {7:36} The sons of Zophah; Suah, and
Harnepher, and Shual, and Beri, and Imrah, {7:37} Bezer, and Hod, and
Shamma and Shilshah, and Ithran, and Beera. {7:38} And the sons of
Jether; Jephunneh, and Pispah, and Ara. {7:39} And the sons of Ulla;
Arah, and Haniel, and Rezia. {7:40} All these [were] the children of
Asher, heads of [their] father's house, choice [and] mighty men of
valour, chief of the princes. And the number throughout the genealogy
of them that were apt to the war [and] to battle [was] twenty and six
thousand men.

   {8:1} Now Benjamin begat Bela his firstborn, Ashbel the second, and
Aharah the third, {8:2} Nohah the fourth, and Rapha the fifth. {8:3}
And the sons of Bela were, Addar, and Gera, and Abihud, {8:4} And
Abishua, and Naaman, and Ahoah, {8:5} And Gera, and Shephuphan, and
Huram. {8:6} And these [are] the sons of Ehud: these are the heads of
the fathers of the inhabitants of Geba, and they removed them to
Manahath: {8:7} And Naaman, and Ahiah, and Gera, he removed them, and
begat Uzza, and Ahihud. {8:8} And Shaharaim begat [children] in the
country of Moab, after he had sent them away; Hushim and Baara [were]
his wives. {8:9} And he begat of Hodesh his wife, Jobab, and Zibia, and
Mesha, and Malcham, {8:10} And Jeuz, and Shachia, and Mirma. These
[were] his sons, heads of the fathers. {8:11} And of Hushim he begat
Abitub, and Elpaal. {8:12} The sons of Elpaal; Eber, and Misham, and
Shamed, who built Ono, and Lod, with the towns thereof: {8:13} Beriah
also, and Shema, who [were] heads of the fathers of the inhabitants of
Aijalon, who drove away the inhabitants of Gath: {8:14} And Ahio,
Shashak, and Jeremoth, {8:15} And Zebadiah, and Arad, and Ader, {8:16}
And Michael, and Ispah, and Joha, the sons of Beriah; {8:17} And
Zebadiah, and Meshullam, and Hezeki, and Heber, {8:18} Ishmerai also,
and Jezliah, and Jobab, the sons of Elpaal; {8:19} And Jakim, and
Zichri, and Zabdi, {8:20} And Elienai, and Zilthai, and Eliel, {8:21}
And Adaiah, and Beraiah, and Shimrath, the sons of Shimhi; {8:22} And
Ishpan, and Heber, and Eliel, {8:23} And Abdon, and Zichri, and Hanan,
{8:24} And Hananiah, and Elam, and Antothijah, {8:25} And Iphedeiah,
and Penuel, the sons of Shashak; {8:26} And Shamsherai, and Shehariah,
and Athaliah, {8:27} And Jaresiah, and Eliah, and Zichri, the sons of
Jeroham. {8:28} These [were] heads of the fathers, by their
generations, chief [men.] These dwelt in Jerusalem. {8:29} And at
Gibeon dwelt the father of Gibeon; whose wife's name [was] Maachah:
{8:30} And his firstborn son Abdon, and Zur, and Kish, and Baal, and
Nadab, {8:31} And Gedor, and Ahio, and Zacher. {8:32} And Mikloth begat
Shimeah. And these also dwelt with their brethren in Jerusalem, over
against them.

   {8:33} And Ner begat Kish, and Kish begat Saul, and Saul begat
Jonathan, and Malchi- shua, and Abinadab, and Esh-baal. {8:34} And the
son of Jonathan [was] Merib-baal; and Merib-baal begat Micah. {8:35}
And the sons of Micah [were,] Pithon, and Melech, and Tarea, and Ahaz.
{8:36} And Ahaz begat Jehoadah; and Jehoadah begat Alemeth, and
Azmaveth, and Zimri; and Zimri begat Moza, {8:37} And Moza begat Binea:
Rapha [was] his son, Eleasah his son, Azel his son: {8:38} And Azel had
six sons, whose names [are] these, Azrikam, Bocheru, and Ishmael, and
Sheariah, and Obadiah, and Hanan. All these [were] the sons of Azel.
{8:39} And the sons of Eshek his brother [were,] Ulam his firstborn,
Jehush the second, and Eliphelet the third. {8:40} And the sons of Ulam
were mighty men of valour, archers, and had many sons, and sons' sons,
an hundred and fifty. All these [are] of the sons of Benjamin.

   {9:1} So all Israel were reckoned by genealogies; and, behold, they
[were] written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah, [who] were
carried away to Babylon for their transgression.

   {9:2} Now the first inhabitants that [dwelt] in their possessions in
their cities [were,] the Israelites, the priests, Levites, and the
Nethinims. {9:3} And in Jerusalem dwelt of the children of Judah, and
of the children of Benjamin, and of the children of Ephraim, and
Manasseh; {9:4} Uthai the son of Ammihud, the son of Omri, the son of
Imri, the son of Bani, of the children of Pharez the son of Judah.
{9:5} And of the Shilonites; Asaiah the firstborn, and his sons. {9:6}
And of the sons of Zerah; Jeuel, and their brethren, six hundred and
ninety. {9:7} And of the sons of Benjamin; Sallu the son of Meshullam,
the son of Hodaviah, the son of Hasenuah, {9:8} And Ibneiah the son of
Jeroham, and Elah the son of Uzzi, the son of Michri, and Meshullam the
son of Shephatiah, the son of Reuel, the son of Ibnijah; {9:9} 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.

   {9:10} And of the priests; Jedaiah, and Jehoiarib, and Jachin,
{9:11} 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; {9:12} 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; {9:13}
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. {9:14} And of the Levites; Shemaiah the son of
Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, of the sons of
Merari; {9:15} And Bakbakkar, Heresh, and Galal, and Mattaniah the son
of Micah, the son of Zichri, the son of Asaph; {9:16} And Obadiah the
son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah
the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, that dwelt in the villages of the
Netophathites. {9:17} And the porters [were,] Shallum, and Akkub, and
Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brethren: Shallum [was] the chief; {9:18}
Who hitherto [waited] in the king's gate eastward: they were porters in
the companies of the children of Levi. {9:19} And Shallum the son of
Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of 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. {9:20}
And Phinehas the son of Eleazar was the ruler over them in time past,
[and] the Lord [was] with him. {9:21} [And] Zechariah the son of
Meshelemiah [was] porter of the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation. {9:22} All these [which were] chosen to be porters in the
gates were two hundred and twelve. These were reckoned by their
genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer did ordain
in their set office. {9:23} So they and their children [had] the
oversight of the gates of the house of the Lord, [namely,] the house of
the tabernacle, by wards. {9:24} In four quarters were the porters,
toward the east, west, north, and south. {9:25} And their brethren,
[which were] in their villages, [were] to come after seven days from
time to time with them. {9:26} For these Levites, the four chief
porters, were in [their] set office, and were over the chambers and
treasuries of the house of God.

   {9:27} And they lodged round about the house of God, because the
charge [was] upon them, and the opening thereof every morning
[pertained] to them. {9:28} And [certain] of them had the charge of the
ministering vessels, that they should bring them in and out by tale.
{9:29} [Some] of them also [were] appointed to oversee the vessels, and
all the instruments of the sanctuary, and the fine flour, and the wine,
and the oil, and the frankincense, and the spices. {9:30} And [some] of
the sons of the priests made the ointment of the spices. {9:31} 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. {9:32} And [other] of their brethren, of the sons of the
Kohathites, [were] over the shewbread, to prepare [it] every sabbath.
{9:33} And these [are] the singers, chief of the fathers of the
Levites, [who remaining] in the chambers [were] free: for they were
employed in that work day and night. {9:34} These chief fathers of the
Levites [were] chief throughout their generations; these dwelt at
Jerusalem.

   {9:35} And in Gibeon dwelt the father of Gibeon, Jehiel, whose
wife's name [was] Maachah: {9:36} And his firstborn son Abdon, then
Zur, and Kish, and Baal, and Ner, and Nadab, {9:37} And Gedor, and
Ahio, and Zechariah, and Mikloth. {9:38} And Mikloth begat Shimeam. And
they also dwelt with their brethren at Jerusalem, over against their
brethren. {9:39} And Ner begat Kish; and Kish begat Saul; and Saul
begat Jonathan, and Malchi-shua, and Abinadab, and Esh-baal. {9:40} And
the son of Jonathan [was] Merib- baal: and Merib-baal begat Micah.
{9:41} And the sons of Micah [were,] Pithon, and Melech, and Tahrea,
[and Ahaz. ]{9:42} And Ahaz begat Jarah; and Jarah begat Alemeth, and
Azmaveth, and Zimri; and Zimri begat Moza; {9:43} And Moza begat Binea;
and Rephaiah his son, Eleasah his son, Azel his son. {9:44} And Azel
had six sons, whose names [are] these, Azrikam, Bocheru, and Ishmael,
and Sheariah, and Obadiah, and Hanan: these [were] the sons of Azel.

   {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. {10:2} And the Philistines followed hard after Saul, and after
his sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and
Malchi-shua, the sons of Saul. {10:3} And the battle went sore against
Saul, and the archers hit him, and he was wounded of the archers.
{10:4} Then said Saul to his armourbearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust
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. {10:5} And when his armourbearer saw that Saul
was dead, he fell likewise on the sword, and died. {10:6} So Saul died,
and his three sons, and all his house died together. {10:7} 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.

   {10:8} 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. {10:9} 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. {10:10} And they put
his armour in the house of their gods, and fastened his head in the
temple of Dagon.

   {10:11} And when all Jabesh-gilead heard all that the Philistines
had done to Saul, {10:12} 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.

   {10:13} 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; ]{10:14} And enquired not of the LORD: therefore he
slew him, and turned the kingdom unto David the son of Jesse.

   {11:1} Then all Israel gathered themselves to David unto Hebron,
saying, Behold, we [are] thy bone and thy flesh. {11:2} And moreover in
time past, even when Saul was king, thou [wast] 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,
and thou shalt be ruler over my people Israel. {11:3} 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.

   {11:4} And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem, which [is] Jebus;
where the Jebusites [were,] the inhabitants of the land. {11:5} And the
inhabitants of Jebus said to David, Thou shalt not come hither.
Nevertheless David took the castle of Zion, which [is] the city of
David. {11:6} 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. {11:7} And David dwelt in the castle; therefore they
called it the city of David. {11:8} And he built the city round about,
even from Millo round about: and Joab repaired the rest of the city.
{11:9} So David waxed greater and greater: for the LORD of hosts [was]
with him.

   {11:10} 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. {11:11} And this [is] the number of the mighty men whom David
had; Jashobeam, and Hachmonite, the chief of the captains: he lifted up
his spear against three hundred slain [by him] at one time. {11:12} And
after him [was] Eleazar the son of Dodo, the Ahohite, who [was one] of
the three mighties. {11:13} He was with David at Pas-dammim, and there
the Philistines were gathered together to battle, where was a parcel of
ground full of barley; and the people fled from before the Philistines.
{11:14} And they set themselves in the midst of [that] parcel, and
delivered it, and slew the Philistines; and the LORD saved [them] by a
great deliverance.

   {11:15} 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. {11:16} And David [was] then in the
hold, and the Philistines' garrison [was] then at Bethlehem. {11:17}
And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the
water of the well of Bethlehem, that [is] at the gate! {11:18} And the
three brake through the host 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: but David would not drink [of] it, but poured it
out to the LORD, {11:19} 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.

   {11:20} 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. {11:21} Of the three, he was more honourable
than the two; for he was their captain: howbeit he attained not to the
[first] three. {11:22} Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a
valiant man of 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.
{11:23} 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. {11:24} These
[things] did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had the name among the
three mighties. {11:25} Behold, he was honourable among the thirty, but
attained not to the [first] three: and David set him over his guard.

   {11:26} Also the valiant men of the armies [were,] Asahel the
brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem, {11:27} Shammoth
the Harorite, Helez the Pelonite, {11:28} Ira the son of Ikkesh the
Tekoite, Abi-ezer the Antothite, {11:29} Sibbecai the Hushathite, Ilai
the Ahohite, {11:30} Maharai the Netophathite, Heled the son of Baanah
the Netophathite, {11:31} Ithai the son of Ribai of Gibeah, [that
pertained] to the children of Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite,
{11:32} Hurai of the brooks of Gaash, Abiel the Arbathite, {11:33}
Azmaveth the Baharumite, Eliahba the Shaalbonite, {11:34} The sons of
Hashem the Gizonite, Jonathan the son of Shage the Hararite, {11:35}
Ahiam the son of Sacar the Hararite, Eliphal the son of Ur, {11:36}
Hepher the Mecherathite, Ahijah the Pelonite, {11:37} Hezro the
Carmelite, Naarai the son of Ezbai, {11:38} Joel the brother of Nathan,
Mibhar the son of Haggeri, {11:39} Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the
Berothite, the armourbearer of Joab the son of Zeruiah, {11:40} Ira the
Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite, {11:41} Uriah the Hittite, Zabad the son of
Ahlai, {11:42} Adina the son of Shiza the Reubenite, a captain of the
Reubenites, and thirty with him, {11:43} Hanan the son of Maachah, and
Joshaphat the Mithnite, {11:44} Uzzia the Ashterathite, Shama and
Jehiel the sons of Hothan the Aroerite, {11:45} Jediael the son of
Shimri, and Joha his brother, the Tizite, {11:46} Eliel the Mahavite,
and Jeribai, and Joshaviah, the sons of Elnaam, and Ithmah the Moabite,
{11:47} Eliel, and Obed, and Jasiel the Mesobaite.

   {12:1} 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. {12:2} [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. {12:3} 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, {12:4} And Ismaiah the Gibeonite,
a mighty man among the thirty, and over the thirty; and Jeremiah, and
Jahaziel, and Johanan, and Josabad the Gederathite, {12:5} Eluzai, and
Jerimoth, and Bealiah, and Shemariah, and Shephatiah the Haruphite,
{12:6} Elkanah, and Jesiah, and Azareel, and Joezer, and Jashobeam, the
Korhites, {12:7} And Joelah, and Zebadiah, the sons of Jeroham of
Gedor. {12:8} And of the Gadites there separated themselves unto David
into 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; {12:9} Ezer the first, Obadiah the second, Eliab the third,
{12:10} Mishmannah the fourth, Jeremiah the fifth, {12:11} Attai the
sixth, Eliel the seventh, {12:12} Johanan the eighth, Elzabad the
ninth, {12:13} Jeremiah the tenth, Machbanai the eleventh. {12:14}
These [were] of the sons of Gad, captains of the host: one of the least
[was] over an hundred, and the greatest over a thousand. {12:15} These
[are] they that went over Jordan in the first month, when it had
overflown all his banks; and they put to flight all [them] of the
valleys, [both] toward the east, and toward the west. {12:16} And there
came of the children of Benjamin and Judah to the hold unto David.
{12:17} And David went out to meet them, and answered and said unto
them, If ye be come peaceably unto me to help me, mine heart shall be
knit unto you: but if [ye be come] to betray me to mine enemies, seeing
[there is] no wrong in mine hands, the God of our fathers look
[thereon,] and rebuke [it. ]{12:18} Then the spirit came upon Amasai,
[who was] chief of 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. {12:19} 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. {12:20} 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. {12:21} And they helped David
against the band [of the rovers:] for they [were] all mighty men of
valour, and were captains in the host. {12:22} For at [that] time day
by day there came to David to help him, until [it was] a great host,
like the host of God.

   {12:23} And these [are] the numbers of the bands [that were] ready
armed to the war, [and] came to David to Hebron, to turn the kingdom of
Saul to him, according to the word of the LORD. {12:24} The children of
Judah that bare shield and spear [were] six thousand and eight hundred,
ready armed to the war. {12:25} Of the children of Simeon, mighty men
of valour for the war, seven thousand and one hundred. {12:26} Of the
children of Levi four thousand and six hundred. {12:27} And Jehoiada
[was] the leader of the Aaronites, and with him [were] three thousand
and seven hundred; {12:28} And Zadok, a young man mighty of valour, and
of his father's house twenty and two captains. {12:29} And of the
children of Benjamin, the kindred of Saul, three thousand: for hitherto
the greatest part of them had kept the ward of the house of Saul.
{12:30} And of the children of Ephraim twenty thousand and eight
hundred, mighty men of valour, famous throughout the house of their
fathers. {12:31} And of the half tribe of Manasseh eighteen thousand,
which were expressed by name, to come and make David king. {12:32} And
of the children of Issachar, [which were men] that had 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.
{12:33} 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. {12:34} And of Naphtali a thousand captains,
and with them with shield and spear thirty and seven thousand. {12:35}
And of the Danites expert in war twenty and eight thousand and six
hundred. {12:36} And of Asher, such as went forth to battle, expert in
war, forty thousand. {12:37} 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. {12:38} 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. {12:39}
And there they were with David three days, eating and drinking: for
their brethren had prepared for them. {12:40} Moreover they that were
nigh them, [even] unto Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, brought bread
on asses, and on camels, and on mules, and on oxen, [and] meat, meal,
cakes of figs, and bunches of raisins, and wine, and oil, and oxen, and
sheep abundantly: for [there was] joy in Israel.

   {13:1} And David consulted with the captains of thousands and
hundreds, [and] with every leader. {13:2} And David said unto all the
congregation of Israel, If [it seem] good 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: {13:3} And let us bring again the
ark of our God to us: for we enquired not at it in the days of Saul.
{13:4} And all the congregation said that they would do so: for the
thing was right in the eyes of all the people. {13:5} So David gathered
all Israel together, from Shihor of Egypt even unto the entering of
Hemath, to bring the ark of God from Kirjath-jearim. {13:6} And David
went up, and all Israel, to Baalah, [that is,] to Kirjath- jearim,
which [belonged] to Judah, to bring up thence the ark of God the LORD,
that dwelleth [between] the cherubims, whose name is called [on it.
]{13:7} And they carried the ark of God in a new cart out of the house
of Abinadab: and Uzza and Ahio drave the cart. {13:8} And David and all
Israel played before God with all [their] might, and with singing, and
with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals,
and with trumpets.

   {13:9} And when they came unto the threshingfloor of Chidon, Uzza
put forth his hand to hold the ark; for the oxen stumbled. {13:10} 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.
{13:11} And David was displeased, because the LORD had made a breach
upon Uzza: wherefore that place is called Perez-uzza to this day.
{13:12} And David was afraid of God that day, saying, How shall I bring
the ark of God [home] to me? {13:13} So David brought not the ark
[home] to himself to the city of David, but carried it aside into the
house of Obed-edom the Gittite. {13:14} And the ark of God remained
with the family of Obed-edom in his house three months. And the LORD
blessed the house of Obed-edom, and all that he had.

   {14:1} Now Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and timber
of cedars, with masons and carpenters, to build him an house. {14:2}
And David perceived that the LORD had confirmed him king over Israel,
for his kingdom was lifted up on high, because of his people Israel.

   {14:3} And David took more wives at Jerusalem: and David begat more
sons and daughters. {14:4} Now these [are] the names of [his] children
which he had in Jerusalem; Shammua, and Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon,
{14:5} And Ibhar, and Elishua, and Elpalet, {14:6} And Nogah, and
Nepheg, and Japhia, {14:7} And Elishama, and Beeliada, and Eliphalet.

   {14:8} 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. {14:9} And the Philistines
came and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim. {14:10} 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. {14:11} So they came up to
Baal-perazim; 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 Baal-perazim.
{14:12} And when they had left their gods there, David gave a
commandment, and they were burned with fire. {14:13} And the
Philistines yet again spread themselves abroad in the valley. {14:14}
Therefore David enquired again of God; and God said unto him, Go not up
after them; turn away from them, and come upon them over against the
mulberry trees. {14:15} 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. {14:16} David therefore did as God commanded him: and
they smote the host of the Philistines from Gibeon even to Gazer.
{14:17} And the fame of David went out into all lands; and the LORD
brought the fear of him upon all nations.

   {15:1} And [David] made him houses in the city of David, and
prepared a place for the ark of God, and pitched for it a tent. {15:2}
Then David said, None ought to carry the ark of God but the Levites:
for them hath the LORD chosen to carry the ark of God, and to minister
unto him for ever. {15:3} 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. {15:4} And David assembled the children of Aaron, and
the Levites: {15:5} Of the sons of Kohath; Uriel the chief, and his
brethren an hundred and twenty: {15:6} Of the sons of Merari; Asaiah
the chief, and his brethren two hundred and twenty: {15:7} Of the sons
of Gershom; Joel the chief, and his brethren an hundred and thirty:
{15:8} Of the sons of Elizaphan; Shemaiah the chief, and his brethren
two hundred: {15:9} Of the sons of Hebron; Eliel the chief, and his
brethren fourscore: {15:10} Of the sons of Uzziel; Amminadab the chief,
and his brethren an hundred and twelve. {15:11} And David called for
Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for the Levites, for Uriel, Asaiah,
and Joel, Shemaiah, and Eliel, and Amminadab, {15:12} 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.
{15:13} 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.
{15:14} So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring
up the ark of the LORD God of Israel. {15:15} And the children of the
Levites bare the ark of God upon their shoulders with the staves
thereon, as Moses commanded according to the word of the LORD. {15:16}
And David spake to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren
[to be] the singers with instruments of musick, psalteries and harps
and cymbals, sounding, by lifting up the voice with joy. {15:17} So the
Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel; and of his brethren, Asaph the
son of Berechiah; and of the sons of Merari their brethren, Ethan the
son of Kushaiah; {15:18} 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 Obed-edom, and Jeiel, the porters. {15:19} So the
singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, [were appointed] to sound with
cymbals of brass; {15:20} And Zechariah, and Aziel, and Shemiramoth,
and Jehiel, and Unni, and Eliab, and Maaseiah, and Benaiah, with
psalteries on Alamoth; {15:21} And Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and
Mikneiah, and Obed-edom, and Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps on the
Sheminith to excel. {15:22} And Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, [was]
for song: he instructed about the song, because he [was] skilful.
{15:23} And Berechiah and Elkanah [were] doorkeepers for the ark.
{15:24} And Shebaniah, and Jehoshaphat, and Nethaneel, and Amasai, and
Zechariah, and Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, did blow with the
trumpets before the ark of God: and Obed-edom and Jehiah [were]
doorkeepers for the ark.

   {15:25} 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 Obed-edom with joy. {15:26} 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. {15:27} 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. {15:28} 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.

   {15:29} 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.

   {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. {16:2} 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. {16:3} 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.]

   {16:4} 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: {16:5} Asaph the chief, and next to him Zechariah,
Jeiel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab, and
Benaiah, and Obed-edom: and Jeiel with psalteries and with harps; but
Asaph made a sound with cymbals; {16:6} Benaiah also and Jahaziel the
priests with trumpets continually before the ark of the covenant of God.

   {16:7} Then on that day David delivered first [this psalm] to thank
the LORD into the hand of Asaph and his brethren. {16:8} Give thanks
unto the LORD, call upon his name, make known his deeds among the
people. {16:9} Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him, talk ye of all his
wondrous works. {16:10} Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of
them rejoice that seek the LORD. {16:11} Seek the LORD and his
strength, seek his face continually. {16:12} Remember his marvellous
works that he hath done, his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth;
{16:13} O ye seed of Israel his servant, ye children of Jacob, his
chosen ones. {16:14} He [is] the LORD our God; his judgments [are] in
all the earth. {16:15} Be ye mindful always of his covenant; the word
[which] he commanded to a thousand generations; {16:16} [Even of the
covenant] which he made with Abraham, and of his oath unto Isaac;
{16:17} And hath confirmed the same to Jacob for a law, [and] to Israel
[for] an everlasting covenant, {16:18} Saying, Unto thee will I give
the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance; {16:19} When ye were
but few, even a few, and strangers in it. {16:20} And [when] they went
from nation to nation, and from [one] kingdom to another people;
{16:21} He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for
their sakes, {16:22} [Saying,] Touch not mine anointed, and do my
prophets no harm. {16:23} Sing unto the LORD, all the earth; shew forth
from day to day his salvation. {16:24} Declare his glory among the
heathen; his marvellous works among all nations. {16:25} For great [is]
the LORD, and greatly to be praised: he also [is] to be feared above
all gods. {16:26} For all the gods of the people [are] idols: but the
LORD made the heavens. {16:27} Glory and honour [are] in his presence;
strength and gladness [are] in his place. {16:28} Give unto the LORD,
ye kindreds of the people, give unto the LORD glory and strength.
{16:29} Give unto the LORD the glory [due] unto his name: bring an
offering, and come before him: worship the LORD in the beauty of
holiness. {16:30} Fear before him, all the earth: the world also shall
be stable, that it be not moved. {16:31} Let the heavens be glad, and
let the earth rejoice: and let [men] say among the nations, The LORD
reigneth. {16:32} Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof: let the
fields rejoice, and all that [is] therein. {16:33} Then shall the trees
of the wood sing out at the presence of the LORD, because he cometh to
judge the earth. {16:34} O give thanks unto the LORD; for [he is] good;
for his mercy [endureth] for ever. {16:35} And say ye, Save us, O God
of our salvation, and gather us together, and deliver us from the
heathen, that we may give thanks to thy holy name, [and] glory in thy
praise. {16:36} Blessed [be] the LORD God of Israel for ever and ever.
And all the people said, Amen, and praised the LORD.

   {16:37} So he left there before the ark of the covenant of the LORD
Asaph and his brethren, to minister before the ark continually, as
every day's work required: {16:38} And Obed- edom with their brethren,
threescore and eight; Obed-edom also the son of Jeduthun and Hosah [to
be] porters: {16:39} And Zadok the priest, and his brethren the
priests, before the tabernacle of the LORD in the high place that [was]
at Gibeon, {16:40} To offer burnt offerings unto the LORD upon the
altar of the burnt offering continually morning and evening, and [to
do] according to all that is written in the law of the LORD, which he
commanded Israel; {16:41} And with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the
rest that were chosen, who were expressed by name, to give thanks to
the LORD, because his mercy [endureth] for ever; {16:42} And with them
Heman and Jeduthun with trumpets and cymbals for those that should make
a sound, and with musical instruments of God. And the sons of Jeduthun
[were] porters. {16:43} And all the people departed every man to his
house: and David returned to bless his house.

   {17:1} 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. {17:2} Then
Nathan said unto David, Do all that is in thine heart; for God [is]
with thee.

   {17:3} And it came to pass the same night, that the word of God came
to Nathan, saying, {17:4} Go and tell David my servant, Thus saith the
LORD, Thou shalt not build me an house to dwell in: {17:5} For I have
not dwelt in an house since the day that I brought up Israel unto this
day; but have gone from tent to tent, and from [one] tabernacle [to
another. ]{17:6} Wheresoever I have walked with all Israel, spake I a
word to any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my
people, saying, Why have ye not built me an house of cedars? {17:7} Now
therefore thus shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus 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: {17:8}
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. {17:9} 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,
{17:10} 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.

   {17:11} 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. {17:12} He shall build me an house, and I will stablish his
throne for ever. {17:13} 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: {17:14} But I will settle him in mine house and
in my kingdom for ever: and his throne shall be established for
evermore. {17:15} According to all these words, and according to all
this vision, so did Nathan speak unto David.

   {17:16} And David the king came and sat before the LORD, and said,
Who [am] I, O LORD God, and what [is] mine house, that thou hast
brought me hitherto? {17:17} 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. {17:18} What can David [speak] more to
thee for the honour of thy servant? for thou knowest thy servant.
{17:19} O LORD, for thy servant's sake, and according to thine own
heart, hast thou done all this greatness, in making known all these
great things. {17:20} O LORD, [there is] none like thee, neither [is
there any] God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with
our ears. {17:21} And what one nation in the earth [is] like thy people
Israel, whom God went to redeem [to be] his own people, to make thee a
name of greatness and terribleness, by driving out nations from before
thy people, whom thou hast redeemed out of Egypt? {17:22} For thy
people Israel didst thou make thine own people for ever; and thou,
LORD, becamest their God. {17:23} Therefore now, LORD, let the thing
that thou hast spoken concerning thy servant and concerning his house
be established for ever, and do as thou hast said. {17:24} 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. {17:25}
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. {17:26} And now, LORD, thou art God, and hast promised this
goodness unto thy servant: {17:27} Now therefore let it please thee to
bless the house of thy servant, that it may be before thee for ever:
for thou blessest, O LORD, and [it shall be] blessed for ever.

   {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. {18:2} And he smote Moab; and the Moabites
became David's servants, [and] brought gifts.

   {18:3} And David smote Hadarezer king of Zobah unto Hamath, as he
went to stablish his dominion by the river Euphrates. {18:4} And David
took from him a thousand chariots, and seven thousand horsemen, and
twenty thousand footmen: David also houghed all the chariot [horses,]
but reserved of them an hundred chariots. {18:5} And when the Syrians
of Damascus came to help Hadarezer king of Zobah, David slew of the
Syrians two and twenty thousand men. {18:6} Then David put [garrisons]
in Syria-damascus; and the Syrians became David's servants, [and]
brought gifts. Thus the LORD preserved David whithersoever he went.
{18:7} And David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of
Hadarezer, and brought them to Jerusalem. {18:8} Likewise from Tibhath,
and from Chun, cities of Hadarezer, brought David very much brass,
wherewith Solomon made the brasen sea, and the pillars, and the vessels
of brass.

   {18:9} Now when Tou king of Hamath heard how David had smitten all
the host of Hadarezer king of Zobah; {18:10} He sent Hadoram his son to
king David, to enquire of his welfare, and to congratulate him, because
he had fought against Hadarezer, and smitten him; (for Hadarezer had
war with Tou;) and [with him] all manner of vessels of gold and silver
and brass.

   {18:11} Them also king David dedicated unto the LORD, with the
silver 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. {18:12} Moreover Abishai the son of
Zeruiah slew of the Edomites in the valley of salt eighteen thousand.

   {18:13} And he put garrisons in Edom; and all the Edomites became
David's servants. Thus the LORD preserved David whithersoever he went.

   {18:14} So David reigned over all Israel, and executed judgment and
justice among all his people. {18:15} And Joab the son Zeruiah was over
the host; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, recorder. {18:16} And
Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Abimelech the son of Abiathar, [were] the
priests; and Shavsha was scribe; {18:17} And Benaiah the son of
Jehoiada [was] over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and the sons of
David [were] chief about the king.

   {19:1} Now it came to pass after this, that Nahash the king of the
children of Ammon died, and his son reigned in his stead. {19:2} And
David said, I will shew kindness unto Hanun the son of Nahash, because
his father shewed kindness to me. And David sent messengers to comfort
him concerning his father. So the servants of David came into the land
of the children of Ammon to Hanun, to comfort him. {19:3} But the
princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, Thinkest 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? {19:4} 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. {19:5} 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.

   {19:6} And when the children of Ammon saw that they had made
themselves odious to David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent a
thousand talents of silver to hire them chariots and horsemen out of
Mesopotamia, and out of Syria-maachah, and out of Zobah. {19:7} So they
hired thirty and two thousand chariots, and the king of 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.
{19:8} And when David heard [of it,] he sent Joab, and all the host of
the mighty men. {19:9} 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. {19:10} 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.
{19:11} 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. {19:12} 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. {19:13} 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. {19:14}
So Joab and the people that [were] with him drew nigh before the
Syrians unto the battle; and they fled before him. {19:15} And when the
children of Ammon saw that the Syrians were fled, they likewise fled
before Abishai his brother, and entered into the city. Then Joab came
to Jerusalem.

   {19:16} 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. {19:17} 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. {19:18} But
the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew of the Syrians seven
thousand [men which fought in] chariots, and forty thousand footmen,
and killed Shophach the captain of the host. {19:19} And when the
servants of Hadarezer saw that they were put to the worse before
Israel, they made peace with David, and became his servants: neither
would the Syrians help the children of Ammon any more.

   {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. {20:2} 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. {20:3} 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.

   {20:4} 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.
{20:5} 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. {20:6} 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. {20:7} But when he defied Israel,
Jonathan the son of Shimea David's brother slew him. {20:8} These were
born unto the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David, and by
the hand of his servants.

   {21:1} And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to
number Israel. {21:2} And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the
people, Go, number Israel from Beer- sheba even to Dan; and bring the
number of them to me, that I may know [it. ]{21:3} 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? {21:4} Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab.
Wherefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to
Jerusalem.

   {21:5} And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people unto David.
And all [they of] Israel were a thousand thousand and an hundred
thousand men that drew sword: and Judah [was] four hundred threescore
and ten thousand men that drew sword. {21:6} But Levi and Benjamin
counted he not among them: for the king's word was abominable to Joab.
{21:7} And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote
Israel. {21:8} 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.

   {21:9} And the LORD spake unto Gad, David's seer, saying, {21:10} 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.
{21:11} So Gad came to David, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD,
Choose thee {21:12} 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. {21:13} 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.

   {21:14} So the LORD sent pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of
Israel seventy thousand men. {21:15} And God sent an angel unto
Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he 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. {21:16} 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. {21:17} 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.

   {21:18} 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. {21:19} And David went up at the
saying of Gad, which he spake in the name of the LORD. {21:20} And
Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons with him hid
themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat. {21:21} And as David came to
Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshingfloor,
and bowed himself to David with [his] face to the ground. {21:22} 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. {21:23}
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. {21:24} 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. {21:25} So David gave to Ornan for the place
six hundred shekels of gold by weight. {21:26} 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. {21:27} And the LORD commanded the angel;
and he put up his sword again into the sheath thereof.

   {21:28} At that time when David saw that the LORD had answered him
in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there.
{21:29} For the tabernacle of the LORD, which Moses made in the
wilderness, and the altar of the burnt offering, [were] at that season
in the high place at Gibeon. {21:30} But David could not go before it
to enquire of God: for he was afraid because of the sword of the angel
of the LORD.

   {22:1} Then David said, This [is] the house of the LORD God, and
this [is] the altar of the burnt offering for Israel. {22:2} And David
commanded to gather together the strangers that [were] in the land of
Israel; and he set masons to hew wrought stones to build the house of
God. {22:3} 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; {22:4} Also cedar trees in abundance: for the Zidonians
and they of Tyre brought much cedar wood to David. {22:5} And David
said, Solomon my son [is] young and tender, and the house [that is] to
be builded for the LORD [must be] exceeding magnifical, of fame and of
glory throughout all countries: I will [therefore] now make preparation
for it. So David prepared abundantly before his death.

   {22:6} Then he called for Solomon his son, and charged him to build
an house for the LORD God of Israel. {22:7} And David said to Solomon,
My son, as for me, it was in my mind to build an house unto the name of
the LORD my God: {22:8} But the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
Thou hast shed 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. {22:9} 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. {22:10} 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. {22:11} 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. {22:12} 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. {22:13} 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. {22:14} Now, behold, in my
trouble I have prepared for the house of the LORD an hundred thousand
talents of gold, and a thousand thousand talents of silver; and of
brass and iron without weight; for it is in abundance: timber also and
stone have I prepared; and thou mayest add thereto. {22:15} Moreover
[there are] workmen with thee in abundance, hewers and workers of stone
and timber, and all manner of cunning men for every manner of work.
{22:16} 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.

   {22:17} David also commanded all the princes of Israel to help
Solomon his son, [saying, ]{22:18} [Is] not the LORD your God with you?
and hath he [not] given you 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. {22:19} 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.

   {23:1} So when David was old and full of days, he made Solomon his
son king over Israel.

   {23:2} And he gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the
priests and the Levites. {23:3} Now the Levites were numbered from the
age of thirty years and upward: and their number by their polls, man by
man, was thirty and eight thousand. {23:4} 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: {23:5} Moreover four thousand
[were] porters; and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments
which I made, [said David,] to praise [therewith. ]{23:6} And David
divided them into courses among the sons of Levi, [namely,] Gershon,
Kohath, and Merari.

   {23:7} Of the Gershonites [were,] Laadan, and Shimei. {23:8} The
sons of Laadan; the chief [was] Jehiel, and Zetham, and Joel, three.
{23:9} The sons of Shimei; Shelomith, and Haziel, and Haran, three.
These [were] the chief of the fathers of Laadan. {23:10} And the sons
of Shimei [were,] Jahath, Zina, and Jeush, and Beriah. These four
[were] the sons of Shimei. {23:11} And Jahath was the chief, and Zizah
the second: but Jeush and Beriah had not many sons; therefore they were
in one reckoning, according to [their] father's house.

   {23:12} The sons of Kohath; Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four.
{23:13} The sons of Amram; Aaron and Moses: and Aaron was separated,
that he should sanctify the most holy things, he and his sons for ever,
to burn incense before the LORD, to minister unto him, and to bless in
his name for ever. {23:14} Now [concerning] Moses the man of God, his
sons were named of the tribe of Levi. {23:15} The sons of Moses [were,]
Gershom, and Eliezer. {23:16} Of the sons of Gershom, Shebuel [was] the
chief. {23:17} And the sons of Eliezer [were,] Rehabiah the chief. And
Eliezer had none other sons; but the sons of Rehabiah were very many.
{23:18} Of the sons of Izhar; Shelomith the chief. {23:19} Of the sons
of Hebron; Jeriah the first, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third,
and Jekameam the fourth. {23:20} Of the sons of Uzziel; Micah the
first, and Jesiah the second.

   {23:21} The sons of Merari; Mahli, and Mushi. The sons of Mahli;
Eleazar, and Kish. {23:22} And Eleazar died, and had no sons, but
daughters: and their brethren the sons of Kish took them. {23:23} The
sons of Mushi; Mahli, and Eder, and Jeremoth, three.

   {23:24} 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. {23:25}
For David said, The LORD God of Israel hath given rest unto his people,
that they may dwell in Jerusalem for ever: {23:26} And also unto the
Levites; they shall no [more] carry the tabernacle, nor any vessels of
it for the service thereof. {23:27} For by the last words of David the
Levites [were] numbered from twenty years old and above: {23:28}
Because their office [was] to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service
of the house of the LORD, in the courts, and in the chambers, and in
the purifying of all holy things, and the work of the service of the
house of God; {23:29} Both for the shewbread, and for the fine flour
for meat offering, 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; {23:30} And to stand every morning to thank and
praise the LORD, and likewise at even; {23:31} 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: {23:32} 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.

   {24:1} Now [these are] the divisions of the sons of Aaron. The sons
of Aaron; Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. {24:2} But Nadab and
Abihu died before their father, and had no children: therefore Eleazar
and Ithamar executed the priest's office. {24:3} And David distributed
them, both Zadok of the sons of Eleazar, and Ahimelech of the sons of
Ithamar, according to their offices in their service. {24:4} And there
were more chief men found of the sons of Eleazar than 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.
{24:5} Thus were they divided by lot, one sort with another; for the
governors of the sanctuary, and governors [of the house] of God, were
of the sons of Eleazar, and of the sons of Ithamar. {24:6} And Shemaiah
the son of Nethaneel the scribe, [one] of 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. {24:7} Now the first lot came forth to
Jehoiarib, the second to Jedaiah, {24:8} The third to Harim, the fourth
to Seorim, {24:9} The fifth to Malchijah, the sixth to Mijamin, {24:10}
The seventh to Hakkoz, the eighth to Abijah, {24:11} The ninth to
Jeshua, the tenth to Shecaniah, {24:12} The eleventh to Eliashib, the
twelfth to Jakim, {24:13} The thirteenth to Huppah, the fourteenth to
Jeshebeab, {24:14} The fifteenth to Bilgah, the sixteenth to Immer,
{24:15} The seventeenth to Hezir, the eighteenth to Aphses, {24:16} The
nineteenth to Pethahiah, the twentieth to Jehezekel, {24:17} The one
and twentieth to Jachin, the two and twentieth to Gamul, {24:18} The
three and twentieth to Delaiah, the four and twentieth to Maaziah.
{24:19} 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.

   {24:20} And the rest of the sons of Levi [were these:] Of the sons
of Amram; Shubael: of the sons of Shubael; Jehdeiah. {24:21} Concerning
Rehabiah: of the sons of Rehabiah, the first [was] Isshiah. {24:22} Of
the Izharites; Shelomoth: of the sons of Shelomoth; Jahath. {24:23} And
the sons [of Hebron;] Jeriah [the first,] Amariah the second, Jahaziel
the third, Jekameam the fourth. {24:24} [Of] the sons of Uzziel;
Michah: of the sons of Michah; Shamir. {24:25} The brother of Michah
[was] Isshiah: of the sons of Isshiah; Zechariah. {24:26} The sons of
Merari [were] Mahli and Mushi: the sons of Jaaziah; Beno.

   {24:27} The sons of Merari by Jaaziah; Beno, and Shoham, and Zaccur,
and Ibri. {24:28} Of Mahli [came] Eleazar, who had no sons. {24:29}
Concerning Kish: the son of Kish [was] Jerahmeel. {24:30} The sons also
of Mushi; Mahli, and Eder, and Jerimoth. These [were] the sons of the
Levites after the house of their fathers. {24:31} 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.

   {25:1} Moreover David and the captains of the host separated to the
service of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who should
prophesy with harps, with psalteries, and with cymbals: and the number
of the workmen according to their service was: {25:2} Of the sons of
Asaph; Zaccur, and Joseph, and Nethaniah, and Asarelah, the sons of
Asaph under the hands of Asaph, which prophesied according to the order
of the king. {25:3} Of Jeduthun: the sons of Jeduthun; Gedaliah, and
Zeri, and 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. {25:4} Of Heman: the sons of Heman; Bukkiah,
Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel, and Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah,
Giddalti, and Romamti-ezer, Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, [and]
Mahazioth: {25:5} All these [were] the sons of Heman the king's seer in
the words of God, to lift up the horn. And God gave to Heman fourteen
sons and three daughters. {25:6} 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. {25:7} 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.

   {25:8} And they cast lots, ward against [ward,] as well the small as
the great, the teacher as the scholar. {25:9} Now the first lot came
forth for Asaph to Joseph: the second to Gedaliah, who with his
brethren and sons [were] twelve: {25:10} The third to Zaccur, [he,] his
sons, and his brethren, [were] twelve: {25:11} The fourth to Izri,
[he,] his sons, and his brethren, [were] twelve: {25:12} The fifth to
Nethaniah, [he,] his sons, and his brethren, [were] twelve: {25:13} The
sixth to Bukkiah, [he,] his sons, and his brethren, [were] twelve:
{25:14} The seventh to Jesharelah, [he,] his sons, and his brethren,
[were] twelve: {25:15} The eighth to Jeshaiah, [he,] his sons, and his
brethren, [were] twelve: {25:16} The ninth to Mattaniah, [he,] his
sons, and his brethren, [were] twelve: {25:17} The tenth to Shimei,
[he,] his sons, and his brethren, [were] twelve: {25:18} The eleventh
to Azareel, [he,] his sons, and his brethren, [were] twelve: {25:19}
The twelfth to Hashabiah, [he,] his sons, and his brethren, [were]
twelve: {25:20} The thirteenth to Shubael, [he,] his sons, and his
brethren, [were] twelve: {25:21} The fourteenth to Mattithiah, [he,]
his sons, and his brethren, [were] twelve: {25:22} The fifteenth to
Jeremoth, [he,] his sons, and his brethren, [were] twelve: {25:23} The
sixteenth to Hananiah, [he,] his sons, and his brethren, [were] twelve:
{25:24} The seventeenth to Joshbekashah, [he,] his sons, and his
brethren, [were] twelve: {25:25} The eighteenth to Hanani, [he,] his
sons, and his brethren, [were] twelve: {25:26} The nineteenth to
Mallothi, [he,] his sons, and his brethren, [were] twelve: {25:27} The
twentieth to Eliathah, [he,] his sons, and his brethren, [were] twelve:
{25:28} The one and twentieth to Hothir, [he,] his sons, and his
brethren, [were] twelve: {25:29} The two and twentieth to Giddalti,
[he,] his sons, and his brethren, [were] twelve: {25:30} The three and
twentieth to Mahazioth, [he,] his sons, and his brethren, [were]
twelve: {25:31} The four and twentieth to Romamti-ezer, [he,] his sons,
and his brethren, [were] twelve.

   {26:1} Concerning the divisions of the porters: Of the Korhites
[was] Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph. {26:2} And the
sons of Meshelemiah [were,] Zechariah the firstborn, Jediael the
second, Zebadiah the third, Jathniel the fourth, {26:3} Elam the fifth,
Jehohanan the sixth, Elioenai the seventh. {26:4} Moreover the sons of
Obed-edom [were,] Shemaiah the firstborn, Jehozabad the second, Joah
the third, and Sacar the fourth, and Nethaneel the fifth, {26:5} Ammiel
the sixth, Issachar the seventh, Peulthai the eighth: for God blessed
him. {26:6} Also unto Shemaiah his son were sons born, that ruled
throughout the house of their father: for they [were] mighty men of
valour. {26:7} The sons of Shemaiah; Othni, and Rephael, and Obed,
Elzabad, whose brethren [were] strong men, Elihu, and Semachiah. {26:8}
All these of the sons of Obed-edom: they and their sons and their
brethren, able men for strength for the service, [were] threescore and
two of Obed-edom. {26:9} And Meshelemiah had sons and brethren, strong
men, eighteen. {26:10} 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;) {26:11} Hilkiah the second, Tebaliah the third,
Zechariah the fourth: all the sons and brethren of Hosah [were]
thirteen. {26:12} Among these [were] the divisions of the porters,
[even] among the chief men, [having] wards one against another, to
minister in the house of the LORD.

   {26:13} And they cast lots, as well the small as the great,
according to the house of their fathers, for every gate. {26:14} And
the lot eastward fell to Shelemiah. Then for Zechariah his son, a wise
counsellor, they cast lots; and his lot came out northward. {26:15} To
Obed- edom southward; and to his sons the house of Asuppim. {26:16} To
Shuppim and Hosah [the lot came forth] westward, with the gate
Shallecheth, by the causeway of the going up, ward against ward.
{26:17} Eastward [were] six Levites, northward four a day, southward
four a day, and toward Asuppim two [and] two. {26:18} At Parbar
westward, four at the causeway, [and] two at Parbar. {26:19} These
[are] the divisions of the porters among the sons of Kore, and among
the sons of Merari.

   {26:20} And of the Levites, Ahijah [was] over the treasures of the
house of God, and over the treasures of the dedicated things. {26:21}
[As concerning] the sons of Laadan; the sons of the Gershonite Laadan,
chief fathers, [even] of Laadan the Gershonite, [were] Jehieli. {26:22}
The sons of Jehieli; Zetham, and Joel his brother, [which were] over
the treasures of the house of the LORD. {26:23} Of the Amramites, [and]
the Izharites, the Hebronites, [and] the Uzzielites: {26:24} And
Shebuel the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, [was] ruler of the
treasures. {26:25} And his brethren by Eliezer; Rehabiah his son, and
Jeshaiah his son, and Joram his son, and Zichri his son, and Shelomith
his son. {26:26} 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. {26:27} Out of the spoils won in battles did
they dedicate to maintain the house of the LORD. {26:28} 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.

   {26:29} Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons [were] for the
outward business over Israel, for officers and judges. {26:30} [And] of
the Hebronites, Hashabiah and his brethren, men of valour, a thousand
and seven hundred, [were] officers among them of Israel on this side
Jordan westward in all the business of the LORD, and in the service of
the king. {26:31} Among the Hebronites [was] Jerijah the chief, [even]
among the Hebronites, according to the generations of his fathers. In
the fortieth year of the reign of David they were sought for, and there
were found among them mighty men of valour at Jazer of Gilead. {26:32}
And his brethren, men of valour, [were] two thousand and seven 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.

   {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. {27:2} Over the first
course for the first month [was] Jashobeam the son of Zabdiel: and in
his course [were] twenty and four thousand. {27:3} Of the children of
Perez [was] the chief of all the captains of the host for the first
month. {27:4} And over the course of the second month [was] Dodai an
Ahohite, and of his course [was] Mikloth also the ruler: in his course
likewise [were] twenty and four thousand. {27:5} 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. {27:6} This
[is that] Benaiah, [who was] mighty [among] the thirty, and above the
thirty: and in his course [was] Ammizabad his son. {27:7} The fourth
[captain] for the fourth month [was] Asahel the brother of Joab, and
Zebadiah his son after him: and in his course [were] twenty and four
thousand. {27:8} The fifth captain for the fifth month [was] Shamhuth
the Izrahite: and in his course [were] twenty and four thousand. {27:9}
The sixth [captain] for the sixth month [was] Ira the son of Ikkesh the
Tekoite: and in his course [were] twenty and four thousand. {27:10} The
seventh [captain] for the seventh month [was] Helez the Pelonite, of
the children of Ephraim: and in his course [were] twenty and four
thousand. {27:11} The eighth [captain] for the eighth month [was]
Sibbecai the Hushathite, of the Zarhites: and in his course [were]
twenty and four thousand. {27:12} The ninth [captain] for the ninth
month [was] Abiezer the Anetothite, of the Benjamites: and in his
course [were] twenty and four thousand. {27:13} The tenth [captain] for
the tenth month [was] Maharai the Netophathite, of the Zarhites: and in
his course [were] twenty and four thousand. {27:14} 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.
{27:15} The twelfth [captain] for the twelfth month [was] Heldai the
Netophathite, of Othniel: and in his course [were] twenty and four
thousand.

   {27:16} Furthermore over the tribes of Israel: the ruler of the
Reubenites [was] Eliezer the son of Zichri: of the Simeonites,
Shephatiah the son of Maachah: {27:17} Of the Levites, Hashabiah the
son of Kemuel: of the Aaronites, Zadok: {27:18} Of Judah, Elihu, [one]
of the brethren of David: of Issachar, Omri the son of Michael: {27:19}
Of Zebulun, Ishmaiah the son of Obadiah: of Naphtali, Jerimoth the son
of Azriel: {27:20} Of the children of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of
Azaziah: of the half tribe of Manasseh, Joel the son of Pedaiah:
{27:21} Of the half [tribe] of Manasseh in Gilead, Iddo the son of
Zechariah: of Benjamin, Jaasiel the son of Abner: {27:22} Of Dan,
Azareel the son of Jeroham. These [were] the princes of the tribes of
Israel.

   {27:23} But David took not the number of them from twenty years old
and under: because the LORD had said he would increase Israel like to
the stars of the heavens. {27:24} 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.

   {27:25} 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:
{27:26} And over them that did the work of the field for tillage of the
ground [was] Ezri the son of Chelub: {27:27} And over the vineyards was
Shimei the Ramathite: over the increase of the vineyards for the wine
cellars [was] Zabdi the Shiphmite: {27:28} And over the olive trees and
the sycomore trees that [were] in the low plains [was] Baal-hanan the
Gederite: and over the cellars of oil [was] Joash: {27:29} 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:
{27:30} Over the camels also was Obil the Ishmaelite: and over the
asses [was] Jehdeiah the Meronothite: {27:31} And over the flocks [was]
Jaziz the Hagerite. All these [were] the rulers of the substance which
[was] king David's. {27:32} Also Jonathan David's uncle was a
counsellor, a wise man, and a scribe: and Jehiel the son of Hachmoni
[was] with the king's sons: {27:33} And Ahithophel [was] the king's
counsellor: and Hushai the Archite [was] the king's companion: {27:34}
And after Ahithophel [was] Jehoiada the son of Benaiah, and Abiathar:
and the general of the king's army [was] Joab.

   {28:1} 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. {28:2} Then David the
king stood up upon his feet, and said, Hear me, my brethren, and my
people: [As for me,] I [had] in mine heart to build an house of rest
for the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and for the footstool of our
God, and had made ready for the building: {28:3} But God said unto me,
Thou shalt not build an house for my name, because thou [hast been] a
man of war, and hast shed blood. {28:4} 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: {28:5} 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. {28:6} 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. {28:7}
Moreover I will establish his kingdom for ever, if he be constant to do
my commandments and my judgments, as at this day. {28:8} Now therefore
in the sight of all Israel the congregation of the 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.

   {28:9} 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. {28:10} Take heed now; for
the LORD hath chosen thee to build an house for the sanctuary: be
strong, and do [it.]

   {28:11} Then David gave to Solomon his son the pattern of the porch,
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, {28:12} 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: {28:13} 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. {28:14} [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: {28:15} 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. {28:16} And by weight [he gave] gold for the tables
of shewbread, for every table; and [likewise] silver for the tables of
silver: {28:17} Also pure gold for the fleshhooks, and the bowls, and
the cups: and for the golden basons [he gave gold] by weight for every
bason; and [likewise silver] by weight for every bason of silver:
{28:18} 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. {28:19} All
[this, said David,] the LORD made me understand in writing by [his]
hand upon me, [even] all the works of this pattern. {28:20} 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. {28:21}
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.

   {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. {29:2} 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. {29:3}
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, {29:4} [Even] three thousand talents of gold, of the gold
of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the
walls of the houses [withal: ]{29:5} The gold for [things] of gold, and
the silver for [things] of silver, 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?

   {29:6} 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, {29:7} 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. {29:8} 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. {29:9}
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.

   {29:10} 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. {29:11} 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. {29:12} 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. {29:13} Now therefore, our God,
we thank thee, and praise thy glorious name. {29:14} 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. {29:15} 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. {29:16} 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. {29:17} I know also, my
God, that thou triest the heart, and hast pleasure in uprightness. As
for me, in the uprightness of mine heart I have willingly offered all
these things: and now have I seen with joy thy people, which are
present here, to offer willingly unto thee. {29:18} O LORD God of
Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this for ever in the
imagination of the thoughts of the heart of thy people, and prepare
their heart unto thee: {29:19} And give unto Solomon my son a perfect
heart, to keep thy commandments, thy testimonies, and thy statutes, and
to do all [these things,] and to build the palace, for the which I have
made provision.

   {29:20} And David said to all the congregation, Now bless the LORD
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. {29:21} 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: {29:22}
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. {29:23} Then Solomon sat on the throne of the LORD as king
instead of David his father, and prospered; and all Israel obeyed him.
{29:24} And all the princes, and the mighty men, and all the sons
likewise of king David, submitted themselves unto Solomon the king.
{29:25} And the LORD magnified Solomon exceedingly in the sight of all
Israel, and bestowed upon him [such] royal majesty as had not been on
any king before him in Israel.

   {29:26} Thus David the son of Jesse reigned over all Israel. {29:27}
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. {29:28} And he died in a good old age, full of days, riches,
and honour: and Solomon his son reigned in his stead. {29:29} Now the
acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they [are] written in
the book of Samuel the seer, and in the book of Nathan the prophet, and
in the book of Gad the seer, {29:30} 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.





The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians

   {1:1} Paul, called [to be] an apostle of Jesus Christ through the
will of God, and Sosthenes [our] brother, {1:2} Unto the church of God
which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus,
called [to be] saints, with all that in every place call upon the name
of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours: {1:3} Grace [be] unto
you, and peace, from God our Father, and [from] the Lord Jesus Christ.

   {1:4} I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God
which is given you by Jesus Christ; {1:5} That in every thing ye are
enriched by him, in all utterance, and [in] all knowledge; {1:6} Even
as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you: {1:7} So that ye come
behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ:
{1:8} Who shall also confirm you unto the end, [that ye may be]
blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. {1:9} God [is] faithful,
by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our
Lord.

   {1:10} Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus
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. {1:11} 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. {1:12} Now this I say, that every
one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and
I of Christ. {1:13} Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or
were ye baptized in the name of Paul? {1:14} I thank God that I
baptized none of you, but Crispus and Gaius; {1:15} Lest any should say
that I had baptized in mine own name. {1:16} And I baptized also the
household of Stephanas: besides, I know not whether I baptized any
other. {1:17} For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the
gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be
made of none effect.

   {1:18} For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish
foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. {1:19}
For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will
bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. {1:20} Where [is]
the wise? where [is] the scribe? where [is] the disputer of this world?
hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? {1:21} For after
that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased
God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. {1:22}
For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: {1:23}
But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and
unto the Greeks foolishness; {1:24} But unto them which are called,
both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
{1:25} Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the
weakness of God is stronger than men. {1:26} For ye see your calling,
brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty,
not many noble, [are called: ]{1:27} 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; {1:28} 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: {1:29} That no flesh should glory in his presence. {1:30} But of
him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and
righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: {1:31} That,
according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

   {2:1} And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency
of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God. {2:2}
For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ,
and him crucified. {2:3} And I was with you in weakness, and in fear,
and in much trembling. {2:4} And my speech and my preaching [was] not
with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit
and of power: {2:5} That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of
men, but in the power of God. {2:6} 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: {2:7} But we speak the wisdom of
God in a mystery, [even] the hidden [wisdom,] which God ordained before
the world unto our glory: {2:8} Which none of the princes of this world
knew: for had they known [it,] they would not have crucified the Lord
of glory. {2:9} But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard,
neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath
prepared for them that love him. {2:10} But God hath revealed [them]
unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the
deep things of God. {2:11} For what man knoweth the things of a man,
save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God
knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. {2:12} 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. {2:13} 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.
{2:14} 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. {2:15} But he that is spiritual
judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. {2:16} For who
hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have
the mind of Christ.

   {3:1} And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual,
but as unto carnal, [even] as unto babes in Christ. {3:2} I have fed
you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able [to
bear it,] neither yet now are ye able.

   {3:3} For ye are yet carnal: for whereas [there is] among you
envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
{3:4} For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I [am] of
Apollos; are ye not carnal? {3:5} Who then is Paul, and who [is]
Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to
every man? {3:6} I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the
increase. {3:7} So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither
he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase. {3:8} Now he that
planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his
own reward according to his own labour. {3:9} For we are labourers
together with God: ye are God's husbandry, [ye are] God's building.
{3:10} According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise
masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth
thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon. {3:11}
For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus
Christ. {3:12} Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver,
precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; {3:13} Every man's work shall be
made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be
revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort
it is. {3:14} If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he
shall receive a reward. {3:15} If any man's work shall be burned, he
shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
{3:16} Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and [that] the Spirit
of God dwelleth in you? {3:17} If any man defile the temple of God, him
shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which [temple] ye are.

   {3:18} Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to
be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
{3:19} For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is
written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness. {3:20} And again,
The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain. {3:21}
Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours; {3:22}
Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death,
or things present, or things to come; all are yours; {3:23} And ye are
Christ's; and Christ [is] God's.

   {4:1} Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and
stewards of the mysteries of God. {4:2} Moreover it is required in
stewards, that a man be found faithful. {4:3} But with me it is a very
small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment: yea,
I judge not mine own self. {4:4} For I know nothing by myself; yet am I
not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord. {4:5}
Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who 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. {4:6} 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. {4:7} 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? ]{4:8} 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. {4:9} 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. {4:10} We
[are] fools for Christ's sake, but ye [are] wise in Christ; we [are]
weak, but ye [are] strong; ye [are] honourable, but we [are] despised.
{4:11} Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are
naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace; {4:12} And
labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being
persecuted, we suffer it: {4:13} Being defamed, we intreat: we are made
as the filth of the world, [and are] the offscouring of all things unto
this day. {4:14} I write not these things to shame you, but as my
beloved sons I warn [you. ]{4:15} 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. {4:16} Wherefore I
beseech you, be ye followers of me. {4:17} For this cause have I sent
unto you Timotheus, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord,
who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as
I teach every where in every church. {4:18} Now some are puffed up, as
though I would not come to you. {4:19} 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. {4:20} For the kingdom of God [is] not in
word, but in power. {4:21} What will ye? shall I come unto you with a
rod, or in love, and [in] the spirit of meekness?

   {5:1} It is reported commonly [that there is] fornication among you,
and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles,
that one should have his father's wife. {5:2} And ye are puffed up, and
have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be
taken away from among you. {5:3} 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, {5:4} In the name of our
Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with
the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, {5:5} 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. {5:6} Your glorying [is] not good. Know ye
not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? {5:7} Purge out
therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are
unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: {5:8}
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. {5:9} I wrote unto you in an epistle not to
company with fornicators: {5:10} Yet not altogether with the
fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or
with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. {5:11} But
now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is
called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a
railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to
eat. {5:12} For what have I to do to judge them also that are without?
do not ye judge them that are within? {5:13} But them that are without
God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked
person.

   {6:1} Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law
before the unjust, and not before the saints? {6:2} Do ye not know that
the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by
you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters? {6:3} Know ye not
that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this
life? {6:4} If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this
life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church. {6:5} I
speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you?
no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren? {6:6} But
brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.
{6:7} 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? {6:8} Nay, ye do wrong, and
defraud, and that [your] brethren. {6:9} Know ye not that the
unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived:
neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor
abusers of themselves with mankind, {6:10} Nor thieves, nor covetous,
nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the
kingdom of God. {6:11} And such were some of you: but ye are washed,
but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord
Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

   {6:12} 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. {6:13} 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. {6:14}
And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his
own power. {6:15} Know ye not that your bodies are the members of
Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make [them] the
members of an harlot? God forbid. {6:16} What? know ye not that he
which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be
one flesh. {6:17} But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
{6:18} Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the
body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
{6:19} What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost
[which is] in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
{6:20} For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your
body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

   {7:1} Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: [It is]
good for a man not to touch a woman. {7:2} Nevertheless, [to avoid]
fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have
her own husband. {7:3} Let the husband render unto the wife due
benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. {7:4} The
wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also
the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife. {7:5} 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. {7:6} But I speak this
by permission, [and] not of commandment. {7:7} 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.

   {7:8} I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for
them if they abide even as I. {7:9} But if they cannot contain, let
them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn. {7:10} And unto the
married I command, [yet] not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart
from [her] husband: {7:11} But and if she depart, let her remain
unmarried, or be reconciled to [her] husband: and let not the husband
put away [his] wife. {7:12} 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. {7:13} And the woman which hath an
husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let
her not leave him. {7:14} For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by
the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else
were your children unclean; but now are they holy. {7:15} But if the
unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under
bondage in such [cases:] but God hath called us to peace. {7:16} For
what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save [thy] husband? or
how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save [thy] wife? {7:17} 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. {7:18} Is any
man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Is any
called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised. {7:19}
Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping
of the commandments of God. {7:20} Let every man abide in the same
calling wherein he was called. {7:21} Art thou called [being] a
servant? care not for it: but if thou mayest be made free, use [it]
rather. {7:22} For he that is called in the Lord, [being] a servant, is
the Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is called, [being] free, is
Christ's servant. {7:23} Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the
servants of men. {7:24} Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called,
therein abide with God.

   {7:25} Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet
I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be
faithful. {7:26} I suppose therefore that this is good for the present
distress, [I say,] that [it is] good for a man so to be. {7:27} Art
thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a
wife? seek not a wife. {7:28} But and if thou marry, thou hast not
sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such
shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you. {7:29} But this I
say, brethren, the time [is] short: it remaineth, that both they that
have wives be as though they had none; {7:30} And they that weep, as
though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced
not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not; {7:31} And they
that use this world, as not abusing [it:] for the fashion of this world
passeth away. {7:32} But I would have you without carefulness. He that
is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may
please the Lord: {7:33} But he that is married careth for the things
that are of the world, how he may please [his] wife. {7:34} There is
difference [also] between a wife and a virgin. The 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. {7:35} 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. {7:36} 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. {7:37} 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. {7:38}
So then he that giveth [her] in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth
[her] not in marriage doeth better. {7:39} The wife is bound by the law
as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at
liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord. {7:40} But
she is happier if she so abide, after my judgment: and I think also
that I have the Spirit of God.

   {8:1} Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all
have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth. {8:2} And
if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as
he ought to know. {8:3} But if any man love God, the same is known of
him. {8:4} As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are
offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol [is] nothing in
the world, and that [there is] none other God but one. {8:5} For though
there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there
be gods many, and lords many,) {8:6} But to us [there is but] one God,
the Father, of whom [are] all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus
Christ, by whom [are] all things, and we by him. {8:7} 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. {8:8} But meat commendeth us not to
God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not,
are we the worse. {8:9} But take heed lest by any means this liberty of
yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak. {8:10} For if any
man see thee which hast knowledge sit at meat in the idol's temple,
shall not the conscience of him which is weak be emboldened to eat
those things which are offered to idols; {8:11} And through thy
knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died? {8:12}
But when ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak
conscience, ye sin against Christ. {8:13} Wherefore, if meat make my
brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I
make my brother to offend.

   {9:1} Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus
Christ our Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord? {9:2} If I be not an
apostle unto others, yet doubtless I am to you: for the seal of mine
apostleship are ye in the Lord. {9:3} Mine answer to them that do
examine me is this, {9:4} Have we not power to eat and to drink? {9:5}
Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other
apostles, and [as] the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas? {9:6} Or I
only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working? {9:7} 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? {9:8} Say I these things as a man? or
saith not the law the same also? {9:9} 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? {9:10} 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. {9:11} If we have sown unto you spiritual
things, [is it] a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?
{9:12} If others be partakers of [this] power over you, [are] not we
rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all
things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ. {9:13} 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? {9:14} Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the
gospel should live of the gospel. {9:15} 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. {9:16} 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! {9:17} For if I do this thing
willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation [of
the gospel] is committed unto me. {9:18} What is my reward then?
[Verily] that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of
Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel. {9:19}
For though I be free from all [men,] yet have I made myself servant
unto all, that I might gain the more. {9:20} And unto the Jews I became
as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law,
as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law; {9:21}
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. {9:22} 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. {9:23} And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I might be
partaker thereof with [you. ]{9:24} Know ye not that they which run in
a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may
obtain. {9:25} And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate
in all things. Now they [do it] to obtain a corruptible crown; but we
an incorruptible. {9:26} I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so
fight I, not as one that beateth the air: {9:27} But I keep under my
body, and bring [it] into subjection: lest that by any means, when I
have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.

   {10:1} 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; {10:2} And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in
the sea; {10:3} And did all eat the same spiritual meat; {10:4} And did
all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual
Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ. {10:5} But with many
of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the
wilderness. {10:6} Now these things were our examples, to the intent we
should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. {10:7} Neither
be ye idolaters, as [were] some of them; as it is written, The people
sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. {10:8} Neither let us
commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day
three and twenty thousand. {10:9} Neither let us tempt Christ, as some
of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents. {10:10} Neither
murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the
destroyer. {10:11} Now all these things happened unto them for
ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends
of the world are come. {10:12} Wherefore let him that thinketh he
standeth take heed lest he fall. {10:13} 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.]

   {10:14} Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry. {10:15} I
speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say. {10:16} The cup of blessing
which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The
bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?
{10:17} For we [being] many are one bread, [and] one body: for we are
all partakers of that one bread. {10:18} Behold Israel after the flesh:
are not they which eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar?
{10:19} What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is
offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing? {10:20} But [I say,] that
the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and
not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils.
{10:21} Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye
cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils.
{10:22} Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?
{10:23} All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient:
all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not. {10:24} Let no
man seek his own, but every man another's [wealth. ]{10:25} Whatsoever
is sold in the shambles, [that] eat, asking no question for conscience
sake: {10:26} For the earth [is] the Lord's, and the fulness thereof.
{10:27} If any of them that believe not bid you [to a feast,] and ye be
disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question
for conscience sake. {10:28} 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: {10:29} Conscience, I say, not thine own, but of the other:
for why is my liberty judged of another [man's] conscience? {10:30} For
if I by grace be a partaker, why am I evil spoken of for that for which
I give thanks? {10:31} Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or
whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God. {10:32} Give none
offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of
God: {10:33} Even as I please all [men] in all [things,] not seeking
mine own profit, but the [profit] of many, that they may be saved.

   {11:1} Be ye followers of me, even as I also [am] of Christ.

   {11:2} Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all
things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered [them] to you. {11:3}
But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and
the head of the woman [is] the man; and the head of Christ [is] God.
{11:4} Every man praying or prophesying, having [his] head covered,
dishonoureth his head. {11:5} But every woman that prayeth or
prophesieth with [her] head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that
is even all one as if she were shaven. {11:6} For if the woman be not
covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be
shorn or shaven, let her be covered. {11:7} For a man indeed ought not
to cover [his] head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but
the woman is the glory of the man. {11:8} For the man is not of the
woman; but the woman of the man. {11:9} Neither was the man created for
the woman; but the woman for the man. {11:10} For this cause ought the
woman to have power on [her] head because of the angels. {11:11}
Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman
without the man, in the Lord. {11:12} For as the woman [is] of the man,
even so [is] the man also by the woman; but all things of God. {11:13}
Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered?
{11:14} Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long
hair, it is a shame unto him? {11:15} But if a woman have long hair, it
is a glory to her: for [her] hair is given her for a covering. {11:16}
But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither
the churches of God.

   {11:17} Now in this that I declare [unto you] I praise [you] not,
that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse. {11:18}
For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that
there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it. {11:19} For
there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may
be made manifest among you. {11:20} When ye come together therefore
into one place, [this] is not to eat the Lord's supper. {11:21} For in
eating every one taketh before [other] his own supper: and one is
hungry, and another is drunken. {11:22} What? have ye not houses to eat
and to drink in? or despise ye 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. {11:23} 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: {11:24} And when he had given thanks, he brake
[it,] and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you:
this do in remembrance of me. {11:25} After the same manner also [he
took] the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new
testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink [it,] in
remembrance of me. {11:26} For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink
[this] cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come. {11:27} Wherefore
whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord,
unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. {11:28}
But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of [that] bread, and
drink of [that] cup. {11:29} For he that eateth and drinketh
unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning
the Lord's body. {11:30} For this cause many [are] weak and sickly
among you, and many sleep. {11:31} For if we would judge ourselves, we
should not be judged. {11:32} But when we are judged, we are chastened
of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world. {11:33}
Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one for
another. {11:34} And if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that ye
come not together unto condemnation. And the rest will I set in order
when I come.

   {12:1} Now concerning spiritual [gifts,] brethren, I would not have
you ignorant. {12:2} Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto
these dumb idols, even as ye were led. {12:3} Wherefore I give you to
understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus
accursed: and [that] no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the
Holy Ghost. {12:4} Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same
Spirit. {12:5} And there are differences of administrations, but the
same Lord. {12:6} And there are diversities of operations, but it is
the same God which worketh all in all. {12:7} But the manifestation of
the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal. {12:8} For to one is
given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of
knowledge by the same Spirit; {12:9} To another faith by the same
Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit; {12:10} To
another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another
discerning of spirits; to another [divers] kinds of tongues; to another
the interpretation of tongues: {12:11} But all these worketh that one
and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.
{12:12} For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the
members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also [is]
Christ. {12:13} For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body,
whether [we be] Jews or Gentiles, whether [we be] bond or free; and
have been all made to drink into one Spirit. {12:14} For the body is
not one member, but many. {12:15} If the foot shall say, Because I am
not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
{12:16} And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of
the body; is it therefore not of the body? {12:17} If the whole body
[were] an eye, where [were] the hearing? If the whole [were] hearing,
where [were] the smelling? {12:18} But now hath God set the members
every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him. {12:19} And if
they were all one member, where [were] the body? {12:20} But now [are
they] many members, yet but one body. {12:21} And the eye cannot say
unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet,
I have no need of you. {12:22} Nay, much more those members of the
body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary: {12:23} And those
[members] of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these
we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely [parts] have more
abundant comeliness. {12:24} For our comely [parts] have no need: but
God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour
to that [part] which lacked: {12:25} That there should be no schism in
the body; but [that] the members should have the same care one for
another. {12:26} And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer
with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
{12:27} Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.
{12:28} And God hath set some in the church, first apostles,
secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts
of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues. {12:29} [Are]
all apostles? [are] all prophets? [are] all teachers? [are] all workers
of miracles? {12:30} Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with
tongues? do all interpret? {12:31} But covet earnestly the best gifts:
and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way.

   {13:1} Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and
have not charity, I am become [as ]sounding brass, or a tinkling
cymbal. {13:2} And though I have [the gift of] prophecy, and understand
all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that
I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. {13:3}
And though I bestow all my goods to feed [the poor,] and though I give
my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
{13:4} Charity suffereth long, [and] is kind; charity envieth not;
charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, {13:5} Doth not behave
itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh
no evil; {13:6} Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
{13:7} Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things,
endureth all things. {13:8} Charity never faileth: but whether [there
be] prophecies, they shall fail; whether [there be] tongues, they shall
cease; whether [there be] knowledge, it shall vanish away. {13:9} For
we know in part, and we prophesy in part. {13:10} But when that which
is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
{13:11} When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a
child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away
childish things. {13:12} 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. {13:13} And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these
three; but the greatest of these [is] charity.

   {14:1} Follow after charity, and desire spiritual [gifts,] but
rather that ye may prophesy. {14:2} 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.
{14:3} But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men [to] edification, and
exhortation, and comfort. {14:4} He that speaketh in an [unknown]
tongue edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth the church.
{14:5} I would that ye all spake with tongues, but rather that ye
prophesied: for greater [is] he that prophesieth than he that speaketh
with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive
edifying. {14:6} Now, brethren, if I come unto you speaking with
tongues, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either by
revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by doctrine? {14:7}
And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except
they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is
piped or harped? {14:8} For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who
shall prepare himself to the battle? {14:9} So likewise ye, except ye
utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known
what is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air. {14:10} There are, it
may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them [is]
without signification. {14:11} Therefore if I know not the meaning of
the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that
speaketh [shall be] a barbarian unto me. {14:12} Even so ye, forasmuch
as ye are zealous of spiritual [gifts,] seek that ye may excel to the
edifying of the church. {14:13} Wherefore let him that speaketh in an
[unknown] tongue pray that he may interpret. {14:14} For if I pray in
an [unknown] tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is
unfruitful. {14:15} 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. {14:16} 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? {14:17} For thou verily givest thanks well, but the
other is not edified. {14:18} I thank my God, I speak with tongues more
than ye all: {14:19} Yet in the church I had rather speak five words
with my understanding, that [by my voice] I might teach others also,
than ten thousand words in an [unknown] tongue. {14:20} Brethren, be
not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in
understanding be men. {14:21} In the law it is written, With [men of]
other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people; and yet for
all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord. {14:22} 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. {14:23} 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? {14:24} But if all prophesy, and there come in one
that believeth not, or [one] unlearned, he is convinced of all, he is
judged of all: {14:25} And thus are the secrets of his heart made
manifest; and so falling down on [his] face he will worship God, and
report that God is in you of a truth. {14:26} 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. {14:27} 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. {14:28} But if there be no interpreter,
let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and
to God. {14:29} Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the other
judge. {14:30} If [any thing] be revealed to another that sitteth by,
let the first hold his peace. {14:31} For ye may all prophesy one by
one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted. {14:32} And the
spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets. {14:33} For God is
not [the author] of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the
saints. {14:34} Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is
not permitted unto them to speak; but [they are commanded] to be under
obedience, as also saith the law. {14:35} And if they will learn any
thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women
to speak in the church. {14:36} What? came the word of God out from
you? or came it unto you only? {14:37} 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. {14:38} But if any man be
ignorant, let him be ignorant. {14:39} Wherefore, brethren, covet to
prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues. {14:40} Let all things
be done decently and in order.

   {15:1} Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I
preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;
{15:2} By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached
unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. {15:3} For I delivered unto
you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for
our sins according to the scriptures; {15:4} And that he was buried,
and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
{15:5} And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve: {15:6} After
that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the
greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep.
{15:7} After that, he was seen of James; then of all the apostles.
{15:8} And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of
due time. {15:9} For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet
to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
{15:10} But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace [which
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.
{15:11} Therefore whether [it were] I or they, so we preach, and so ye
believed. {15:12} Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead,
how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?
{15:13} But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not
risen: {15:14} And if Christ be not risen, then [is] our preaching
vain, and your faith [is] also vain. {15:15} Yea, and we are found
false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised
up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not.
{15:16} For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised: {15:17}
And if Christ be not raised, your faith [is] vain; ye are yet in your
sins. {15:18} Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are
perished. {15:19} If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are
of all men most miserable. {15:20} But now is Christ risen from the
dead, [and] become the firstfruits of them that slept. {15:21} For
since by man [came] death, by man [came] also the resurrection of the
dead. {15:22} For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be
made alive. {15:23} But every man in his own order: Christ the
firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming. {15:24}
Then [cometh] the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to
God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all
authority and power. {15:25} For he must reign, till he hath put all
enemies under his feet. {15:26} The last enemy [that] shall be
destroyed [is] death. {15:27} 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. {15:28} 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. {15:29} 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? {15:30} And why stand we in jeopardy every hour? {15:31} I
protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die
daily. {15:32} If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at
Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and
drink; for to morrow we die. {15:33} Be not deceived: evil
communications corrupt good manners. {15:34} Awake to righteousness,
and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak [this] to
your shame.

   {15:35} But some [man] will say, How are the dead raised up? and
with what body do they come? {15:36} [Thou] fool, that which thou
sowest is not quickened, except it die: {15:37} 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: ]{15:38} But God giveth it a
body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body. {15:39}
All flesh [is] not the same flesh: but [there is] one [kind of] flesh
of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, [and] another of
birds. {15:40} [There are] also celestial bodies, and bodies
terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial [is] one, and the [glory]
of the terrestrial [is] another. {15:41} [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. {15:42} So also [is]
the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in
incorruption: {15:43} It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory:
it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power: {15:44} It is sown a
natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body,
and there is a spiritual body. {15:45} And so it is written, The first
man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam [was made] a quickening
spirit. {15:46} Howbeit that [was] not first which is spiritual, but
that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual. {15:47}
The first man [is] of the earth, earthy: the second man [is] the Lord
from heaven. {15:48} As [is] the earthy, such [are] they also that are
earthy: and as [is] the heavenly, such [are] they also that are
heavenly. {15:49} And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we
shall also bear the image of the heavenly. {15:50} Now this I say,
brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God;
neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. {15:51} Behold, I shew
you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
{15:52} In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for
the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible,
and we shall be changed. {15:53} For this corruptible must put on
incorruption, and this mortal [must] put on immortality. {15:54} So
when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal
shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying
that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. {15:55} O death,
where [is] thy sting? O grave, where [is] thy victory? {15:56} The
sting of death [is] sin; and the strength of sin [is] the law. {15:57}
But thanks [be] to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord
Jesus Christ. {15:58} Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast,
unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye
know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

   {16:1} Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given
order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye. {16:2} Upon the first
[day] of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as [God]
hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come. {16:3} And
when I come, whomsoever ye shall approve by [your] letters, them will I
send to bring your liberality unto Jerusalem. {16:4} And if it be meet
that I go also, they shall go with me. {16:5} Now I will come unto you,
when I shall pass through Macedonia: for I do pass through Macedonia.
{16:6} And it may be that I will abide, yea, and winter with you, that
ye may bring me on my journey whithersoever I go. {16:7} For I will not
see you now by the way; but I trust to tarry a while with you, if the
Lord permit. {16:8} But I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost. {16:9}
For a great door and effectual is opened unto me, and [there are] many
adversaries. {16:10} Now if Timotheus come, see that he may be with you
without fear: for he worketh the work of the Lord, as I also [do.
]{16:11} Let no man therefore despise him: but conduct him forth in
peace, that he may come unto me: for I look for him with the brethren.
{16:12} 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. {16:13}
Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.
{16:14} Let all your things be done with charity. {16:15} I beseech
you, brethren, (ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is the
firstfruits of Achaia, and [that] they have addicted themselves to the
ministry of the saints,) {16:16} That ye submit yourselves unto such,
and to every one that helpeth with [us,] and laboureth. {16:17} I am
glad of the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus: for that
which was lacking on your part they have supplied. {16:18} For they
have refreshed my spirit and yours: therefore acknowledge ye them that
are such.

   {16:19} The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla salute
you much in the Lord, with the church that is in their house. {16:20}
All the brethren greet you. Greet ye one another with an holy kiss.
{16:21} The salutation of [me] Paul with mine own hand. {16:22} If any
man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha.
{16:23} The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [be] with you. {16:24} My
love [be] with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.





The First Book of Esdras

   {1:1} And Josias held the feast of the passover in Jerusalem unto
his Lord, and offered the passover the fourteenth day of the first
month;

   {1:2} Having set the priests according to their daily courses, being
arrayed in long garments, in the temple of the Lord.

   {1:3} And he spake unto the Levites, the holy ministers of Israel,
that they should hallow themselves unto the Lord, to set the holy ark
of the Lord in the house that king Solomon the son of David had built:

   {1:4} And said, Ye shall no more bear the ark upon your shoulders:
now therefore serve the Lord your God, and minister unto his people
Israel, and prepare you after your families and kindreds,

   {1:5} According as David the king of Israel prescribed, and
according to the magnificence of Solomon his son: and standing in the
temple according to the several dignity of the families of you the
Levites, who minister in the presence of your brethren the children of
Israel,

   {1:6} Offer the passover in order, and make ready the sacrifices for
your brethren, and keep the passover according to the commandment of
the Lord, which was given unto Moses.

   {1:7} And unto the people that was found there Josias gave thirty
thousand lambs and kids, and three thousand calves: these things were
given of the king's allowance, according as he promised, to the people,
to the priests, and to the Levites.

   {1:8} And Helkias, Zacharias, and Syelus, the governors of the
temple, gave to the priests for the passover two thousand and six
hundred sheep, and three hundred calves.

   {1:9} And Jeconias, and Samaias, and Nathanael his brother, and
Assabias, and Ochiel, and Joram, captains over thousands, gave to the
Levites for the passover five thousand sheep, and seven hundred calves.

   {1:10} And when these things were done, the priests and Levites,
having the unleavened bread, stood in very comely order according to
the kindreds,

   {1:11} And according to the several dignities of the fathers, before
the people, to offer to the Lord, as it is written in the book of
Moses: and thus did they in the morning.

   {1:12} And they roasted the passover with fire, as appertaineth: as
for the sacrifices, they sod them in brass pots and pans with a good
savour,

   {1:13} And set them before all the people: and afterward they
prepared for themselves, and for the priests their brethren, the sons
of Aaron.

   {1:14} For the priests offered the fat until night: and the Levites
prepared for themselves, and the priests their brethren, the sons of
Aaron.

   {1:15} The holy singers also, the sons of Asaph, were in their
order, according to the appointment of David, to wit, Asaph, Zacharias,
and Jeduthun, who was of the king's retinue.

   {1:16} Moreover the porters were at every gate; it was not lawful
for any to go from his ordinary service: for their brethren the Levites
prepared for them.

   {1:17} Thus were the things that belonged to the sacrifices of the
Lord accomplished in that day, that they might hold  the passover,

   {1:18} And offer sacrifices upon the altar of the Lord, according to
the commandment of king Josias.

   {1:19} So the children of Israel which were present held the
passover at that time, and the feast of sweet bread seven days.

   {1:20} And such a passover was not kept in Israel since the time of
the prophet Samuel.

   {1:21} Yea, all the kings of Israel held not such a passover as
Josias, and the priests, and the Levites, and the Jews, held with all
Israel that were found dwelling at Jerusalem.

   {1:22} In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josias was this
passover kept.

   {1:23} And the works or Josias were upright before his Lord with an
heart full of godliness.

   {1:24} As for the things that came to pass in his time, they were
written in former times, concerning those that sinned, and did wickedly
against the Lord above all people and kingdoms, and how they grieved
him exceedingly, so that the words of the Lord rose up against Israel.

   {1:25} Now after all these acts of Josias it came to pass, that
Pharaoh the king of Egypt came to raise war at Carchamis upon
Euphrates: and Josias went out against him.

   {1:26} But the king of Egypt sent to him, saying, What have I to do
with thee, O king of Judea?

   {1:27} I am not sent out from the Lord God against thee; for my war
is upon Euphrates: and now the Lord is with me, yea, the Lord is with
me hasting me forward: depart from me, and be not against the Lord.

   {1:28} Howbeit Josias did not turn back his chariot from him, but
undertook to fight with him, not regarding the words of the prophet
Jeremy spoken by the mouth of the Lord:

   {1:29} But joined battle with him in the plain of Magiddo, and the
princes came against king Josias.

   {1:30} Then said the king unto his servants, Carry me away out of
the battle; for I am very weak. And immediately his servants took him
away out of the battle.

   {1:31} Then gat he up upon his second chariot; and being brought
back to Jerusalem died, and was buried in his father's sepulchre.

   {1:32} And in all Jewry they mourned for Josias, yea, Jeremy the
prophet lamented for Josias, and the chief men with the women made
lamentation for him unto this day: and this was given out for an
ordinance to be done continually in all the nation of Israel.

   {1:33} These things are written in the book of the stories of the
kings of Judah, and every one of the acts that Josias did, and his
glory, and his understanding in the law of the Lord, and the things
that he had done before, and the things now recited, are reported in
the book of the kings of Israel and Judea.

   {1:34} And the people took Joachaz the son of Josias, and made him
king instead of Josias his father, when he was twenty and three years
old.

   {1:35} And he reigned in Judea and in Jerusalem three months: and
then the king of Egypt deposed him from reigning in Jerusalem.

   {1:36} And he set a tax upon the land of an hundred talents of
silver and one talent of gold.

   {1:37} The king of Egypt also made king Joacim his brother king of
Judea and Jerusalem.

   {1:38} And he bound Joacim and the nobles: but Zaraces his brother
he apprehended, and brought him out of Egypt.

   {1:39} Five and twenty years old was Joacim when he was made king in
the land of Judea and Jerusalem; and he did evil before the Lord.

   {1:40} Wherefore against him Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon came
up, and bound him with a chain of brass, and carried him into Babylon.

   {1:41} Nabuchodonosor also took of the holy vessels of the Lord, and
carried them away, and set them in his own temple at Babylon.

   {1:42} But those things that are recorded of him, and of his
uncleaness and impiety, are written in the chronicles of the kings.

   {1:43} And Joacim his son reigned in his stead: he was made king
being eighteen years old;

   {1:44} And reigned but three months and ten days in Jerusalem; and
did evil before the Lord.

   {1:45} So after a year Nabuchodonosor sent and caused him to be
brought into Babylon with the holy vessels of the Lord;

   {1:46} And made Zedechias king of Judea and Jerusalem, when he was
one and twenty years old; and he reigned eleven years:

   {1:47} And he did evil also in the sight of the Lord, and cared not
for the words that were spoken unto him by the prophet Jeremy from the
mouth of the Lord.

   {1:48} And after that king Nabuchodonosor had made him to swear by
the name of the Lord, he forswore himself, and rebelled; and hardening
his neck, his heart, he transgressed the laws of the Lord God of Israel.

   {1:49} The governors also of the people and of the priests did many
things against the laws, and passed all the pollutions of all nations,
and defiled the temple of the Lord, which was sanctified in Jerusalem.

   {1:50} Nevertheless the God of their fathers sent by his messenger
to call them back, because he spared them and his tabernacle also.

   {1:51} But they had his messengers in derision; and, look, when the
Lord spake unto them, they made a sport of his prophets:

   {1:52} So far forth, that he, being wroth with his people for their
great ungodliness, commanded the kings of the Chaldees to come up
against them;

   {1:53} Who slew their young men with the sword, yea, even within the
compass of their holy temple, and spared neither young man nor maid,
old man nor child, among them; for he delivered all into their hands.

   {1:54} And they took all the holy vessels of the Lord, both great
and small, with the vessels of the ark of God, and the king's
treasures, and carried them away into Babylon.

   {1:55} As for the house of the Lord, they burnt it, and brake down
the walls of Jerusalem, and set fire upon her towers:

   {1:56} And as for her glorious things, they never ceased till they
had consumed and brought them all to nought: and the people that were
not slain with the sword he carried unto Babylon:

   {1:57} Who became servants to him and his children, till the
Persians reigned, to fulfil the word of the Lord spoken by the mouth of
Jeremy:

   {1:58} Until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths, the whole time of
her desolation shall she rest, until the full term of seventy years.

   {2:1} In the first year of Cyrus king of the Persians, that the word
of the Lord might be accomplished, that he had promised by the mouth of
Jeremy;

   {2:2} The Lord raised up the spirit of Cyrus the king of the
Persians, and he made proclamation through all his kingdom, and also by
writing,

   {2:3} Saying, Thus saith Cyrus king of the Persians; The Lord of
Israel, the most high Lord, hath made me king of the whole world,

   {2:4} And commanded me to build him an house at Jerusalem in Jewry.

   {2:5} If therefore there be any of you that are of his people, let
the Lord, even his Lord, be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem
that is in Judea, and build the house of the Lord of Israel: for he is
the Lord that dwelleth in Jerusalem.

   {2:6} Whosoever then dwell in the places about, let them help him,
those, I say, that are his neighbours, with gold, and with silver,

   {2:7} With gifts, with horses, and with cattle, and other things,
which have been set forth by vow, for the temple of the Lord at
Jerusalem.

   {2:8} Then the chief of the families of Judea and of the tribe of
Benjamin stood up; the priests also, and the Levites, and all they
whose mind the Lord had moved to go up, and to build an house for the
Lord at Jerusalem,

   {2:9} And they that dwelt round about them, and helped them in all
things with silver and gold, with horses and cattle, and with very many
free gifts of a great number whose minds were stirred up thereto.

   {2:10} King Cyrus also brought forth the holy vessels, which
Nabuchodonosor had carried away from Jerusalem, and had set up in his
temple of idols.

   {2:11} Now when Cyrus king of the Persians had brought them forth,
he delivered them to Mithridates his treasurer:

   {2:12} And by him they were delivered to Sanabassar the governor of
Judea.

   {2:13} And this was the number of them; A thousand golden cups, and
a thousand of silver, censers of silver twenty nine, vials of gold
thirty, and of silver two thousand four hundred and ten, and a thousand
other vessels.

   {2:14} So all the vessels of gold and of silver, which were carried
away, were five thousand four hundred threescore and nine.

   {2:15} These were brought back by Sanabassar, together with them of
the captivity, from Babylon to Jerusalem.

   {2:16} But in the time of Artexerxes king of the Persians Belemus,
and Mithridates, and Tabellius, and Rathumus, and Beeltethmus, and
Semellius the secretary, with others that were in commission with them,
dwelling in Samaria and other places, wrote unto him against them that
dwelt in Judea and Jerusalem these letters following;

   {2:17} To king Artexerxes our lord, Thy servants, Rathumus the
storywriter, and Semellius the scribe, and the rest of their council,
and the judges that are in Celosyria and Phenice.

   {2:18} Be it now known to the lord king, that the Jews that are up
from you to us, being come into Jerusalem, that rebellious and wicked
city, do build the marketplaces, and repair the walls of it and do lay
the foundation of the temple.

   {2:19} Now if this city and the walls thereof be made up again, they
will not only refuse to give tribute, but also rebel against kings.

   {2:20} And forasmuch as the things pertaining to the temple are now
in hand, we think it meet not to neglect such a matter,

   {2:21} But to speak unto our lord the king, to the intent that, if
it be thy pleasure it may be sought out in the books of thy fathers:

   {2:22} And thou shalt find in the chronicles what is written
concerning these things, and shalt understand that that city was
rebellious, troubling both kings and cities:

   {2:23} And that the Jews were rebellious, and raised always wars
therein; for the which cause even this city was made desolate.

   {2:24} Wherefore now we do declare unto thee, O lord the king, that
if this city be built again, and the walls thereof set up anew, thou
shalt from henceforth have no passage into Celosyria and Phenice.

   {2:25} Then the king wrote back again to Rathumus the storywriter,
to Beeltethmus, to Semellius the scribe, and to the rest that were in
commission, and dwellers in Samaria and Syria and Phenice, after this
manner;

   {2:26} I have read the epistle which ye have sent unto me: therefore
I commanded to make diligent search, and it hath been found that that
city was from the beginning practising against kings;

   {2:27} And the men therein were given to rebellion and war: and that
mighty kings and fierce were in Jerusalem, who reigned and exacted
tributes in Celosyria and Phenice.

   {2:28} Now therefore I have commanded to hinder those men from
building the city, and heed to be taken that there be no more done in
it;

   {2:29} And that those wicked workers proceed no further to the
annoyance of kings,

   {2:30} Then king Artexerxes his letters being read, Rathumus, and
Semellius the scribe, and the rest that were in commission with them,
removing in haste toward Jerusalem with a troop of horsemen and a
multitude of people in battle array, began to hinder the builders; and
the building of the temple in Jerusalem ceased until the second year of
the reign of Darius king of the Persians.

   {3:1} Now when Darius reigned, he made a great feast unto all his
subjects, and unto all his household, and unto all the princes of Media
and Persia,

   {3:2} And to all the governors and captains and lieutenants that
were under him, from India unto Ethiopia, of an hundred twenty and
seven provinces.

   {3:3} And when they had eaten and drunken, and being satisfied were
gone home, then Darius the king went into his bedchamber, and slept,
and soon after awaked.

   {3:4} Then three young men, that were of the guard that kept the
king's body, spake one to another;

   {3:5} Let every one of us speak a sentence: he that shall overcome,
and whose sentence shall seem wiser than the others, unto him shall the
king Darius give great gifts, and great things in token of victory:

   {3:6} As, to be clothed in purple, to drink in gold, and to sleep
upon gold, and a chariot with bridles of gold, and an headtire of fine
linen, and a chain about his neck:

   {3:7} And he shall sit next to Darius because of his wisdom, and
shall be called Darius his cousin.

   {3:8} And then every one wrote his sentence, sealed it, and laid it
under king Darius his pillow;

   {3:9} And said that, when the king is risen, some will give him the
writings; and of whose side the king and the three princes of Persia
shall judge that his sentence is the wisest, to him shall the victory
be given, as was appointed.

   {3:10} The first wrote, Wine is the strongest.

   {3:11} The second wrote, The king is strongest.

   {3:12} The third wrote, Women are strongest: but above all things
Truth beareth away the victory.

   {3:13} Now when the king was risen up, they took their writings, and
delivered them unto him, and so he read them:

   {3:14} And sending forth he called all the princes of Persia and
Media, and the governors, and the captains, and the lieutenants, and
the chief officers;

   {3:15} And sat him down in the royal seat of judgment; and the
writings were read before them.

   {3:16} And he said, Call the young men, and they shall declare their
own sentences. So they were called, and came in.

   {3:17} And he said unto them, Declare unto us your mind concerning
the writings. Then began the first, who had spoken of the strength of
wine;

   {3:18} And he said thus, O ye men, how exceeding strong is wine! it
causeth all men to err that drink it:

   {3:19} It maketh the mind of the king and of the fatherless child to
be all one; of the bondman and of the freeman, of the poor man and of
the rich:

   {3:20} It turneth also every thought into jollity and mirth, so that
a man remembereth neither sorrow nor debt:

   {3:21} And it maketh every heart rich, so that a man remembereth
neither king nor governor; and it maketh to speak all things by talents:

   {3:22} And when they are in their cups, they forget their love both
to friends and brethren, and a little after draw out swords:

   {3:23} But when they are from the wine, they remember not what they
have done.

   {3:24} O ye men, is not wine the strongest, that enforceth to do
thus? And when he had so spoken, he held his peace.

   {4:1} Then the second, that had spoken of the strength of the king,
began to say,

   {4:2} O ye men, do not men excel in strength that bear rule over sea
and land and all things in them?

   {4:3} But yet the king is more mighty: for he is lord of all these
things, and hath dominion over them; and whatsoever he commandeth them
they do.

   {4:4} If he bid them make war the one against the other, they do it:
if he send them out against the enemies, they go, and break down
mountains walls and towers.

   {4:5} They slay and are slain, and transgress not the king's
commandment: if they get the victory, they bring all to the king, as
well the spoil, as all things else.

   {4:6} Likewise for those that are no soldiers, and have not to do
with wars, but use husbundry, when they have reaped again that which
they had sown, they bring it to the king, and compel one another to pay
tribute unto the king.

   {4:7} And yet he is but one man: if he command to kill, they kill;
if he command to spare, they spare;

   {4:8} If he command to smite, they smite; if he command to make
desolate, they make desolate; if he command to build, they build;

   {4:9} If he command to cut down, they cut down; if he command to
plant, they plant.

   {4:10} So all his people and his armies obey him: furthermore he
lieth down, he eateth and drinketh, and taketh his rest:

   {4:11} And these keep watch round about him, neither may any one
depart, and do his own business, neither disobey they him in any thing.

   {4:12} O ye men, how should not the king be mightiest, when in such
sort he is obeyed? And he held his tongue.

   {4:13} Then the third, who had spoken of women, and of the truth,
(this was Zorobabel) began to speak.

   {4:14} O ye men, it is not the great king, nor the multitude of men,
neither is it wine, that excelleth; who is it then that ruleth them, or
hath the lordship over them? are they not women?

   {4:15} Women have borne the king and all the people that bear rule
by sea and land.

   {4:16} Even of them came they: and they nourished them up that
planted the vineyards, from whence the wine cometh.

   {4:17} These also make garments for men; these bring glory unto men;
and without women cannot men be.

   {4:18} Yea, and if men have gathered together gold and silver, or
any other goodly thing, do they not love a woman which is comely in
favour and beauty?

   {4:19} And letting all those things go, do they not gape, and even
with open mouth fix their eyes fast on her; and have not all men more
desire unto her than unto silver or gold, or any goodly thing
whatsoever?

   {4:20} A man leaveth his own father that brought him up, and his own
country, and cleaveth unto his wife.

   {4:21} He sticketh not to spend his life with his wife. and
remembereth neither father, nor mother, nor country.

   {4:22} By this also ye must know that women have dominion over you:
do ye not labour and toil, and give and bring all to the woman?

   {4:23} Yea, a man taketh his sword, and goeth his way to rob and to
steal, to sail upon the sea and upon rivers;

   {4:24} And looketh upon a lion, and goeth in the darkness; and when
he hath stolen, spoiled, and robbed, he bringeth it to his love.

   {4:25} Wherefore a man loveth his wife better than father or mother.

   {4:26} Yea, many there be that have run out of their wits for women,
and become servants for their sakes.

   {4:27} Many also have perished, have erred, and sinned, for women.

   {4:28} And now do ye not believe me? is not the king great in his
power? do not all regions fear to touch him?

   {4:29} Yet did I see him and Apame the king's concubine, the
daughter of the admirable Bartacus, sitting at the right hand of the
king,

   {4:30} And taking the crown from the king's head, and setting it
upon her own head; she also struck the king with her left hand.

   {4:31} And yet for all this the king gaped and gazed upon her with
open mouth: if she laughed upon him, he laughed also: but if she took
any displeasure at him, the king was fain to flatter, that she might be
reconciled to him again.

   {4:32} O ye men, how can it be but women should be strong, seeing
they do thus?

   {4:33} Then the king and the princes looked one upon another: so he
began to speak of the truth.

   {4:34} O ye men, are not women strong? great is the earth, high is
the heaven, swift is the sun in his course, for he compasseth the
heavens round about, and fetcheth his course again to his own place in
one day.

   {4:35} Is he not great that maketh these things? therefore great is
the truth, and stronger than all things.

   {4:36} All the earth crieth upon the truth, and the heaven blesseth
it: all works shake and tremble at it, and with it is no unrighteous
thing.

   {4:37} Wine is wicked, the king is wicked, women are wicked, all the
children of men are wicked, and such are all their wicked works; and
there is no truth in them; in their unrighteousness also they shall
perish.

   {4:38} As for the truth, it endureth, and is alwaYs strong; it
liveth and conquereth for evermore.

   {4:39} With her there is no accepting of persons or rewards; but she
doeth the things that are just, and refraineth from all unjust and
wicked things; and all men do well like of her works.

   {4:40} Neither in her judgment is any unrighteousness; and she is
the strength, kingdom, power, and majesty, of all ages. Blessed be the
God of truth.

   {4:41} And with that he held his peace. And all the people then
shouted, and said, Great is Truth, and mighty above all things.

   {4:42} Then said the king unto him, Ask what thou wilt more than is
appointed in the writing, and we will give it thee, because thou art
found wisest; and thou shalt sit next me, and shalt be called my cousin.

   {4:43} Then said he unto the king, Remember thy vow, which thou hast
vowed to build Jerusalem, in the day when thou camest to thy kingdom,

   {4:44} And to send away all the vessels that were taken away out of
Jerusalem, which Cyrus set apart, when he vowed to destroy Babylon, and
to send them again thither.

   {4:45} Thou also hast vowed to build up the temple, which the
Edomites burned when Judea was made desolate by the Chaldees.

   {4:46} And now, O lord the king, this is that which I require, and
which I desire of thee, and this is the princely liberality proceeding
from thyself: I desire therefore that thou make good the vow, the
performance whereof with thine own mouth thou hast vowed to the King of
heaven.

   {4:47} Then Darius the king stood up, and kissed him, and wrote
letters for him unto all the treasurers and lieutenants and captains
and governors, that they should safely convey on their way both him,
and all those that go up with him to build Jerusalem.

   {4:48} He wrote letters also unto the lieutenants that were in
Celosyria and Phenice, and unto them in Libanus, that they should bring
cedar wood from Libanus unto Jerusalem, and that they should build the
city with him.

   {4:49} Moreover he wrote for all the Jews that went out of his realm
up into Jewry, concerning their freedom, that no officer, no ruler, no
lieutenant, nor treasurer, should forcibly enter into their doors;

   {4:50} And that all the country which they hold should be free
without tribute; and that the Edomites should give over the villages of
the Jews which then they held:

   {4:51} Yea, that there should be yearly given twenty talents to the
building of the temple, until the time that it were built;

   {4:52} And other ten talents yearly, to maintain the burnt offerings
upon the altar every day, as they had a commandment to offer seventeen:

   {4:53} And that all they that went from Babylon to build the city
should have free liberty, as well they as their posterity, and all the
priests that went away.

   {4:54} He wrote also concerning. the charges, and the priests'
vestments wherein they minister;

   {4:55} And likewise for the charges of the Levites, to be given them
until the day that the house were finished, and Jerusalem builded up.

   {4:56} And he commanded to give to all that kept the city pensions
and wages.

   {4:57} He sent away also all the vessels from Babylon, that Cyrus
had set apart; and all that Cyrus had given in commandment, the same
charged he also to be done, and sent unto Jerusalem.

   {4:58} Now when this young man was gone forth, he lifted up his face
to heaven toward Jerusalem, and praised the King of heaven,

   {4:59} And said, From thee cometh victory, from thee cometh wisdom,
and thine is the glory, and I am thy servant.

   {4:60} Blessed art thou, who hast given me wisdom: for to thee I
give thanks, O Lord of our fathers.

   {4:61} And so he took the letters, and went out, and came unto
Babylon, and told it all his brethren.

   {4:62} And they praised the God of their fathers, because he had
given them freedom and liberty

   {4:63} To go up, and to build Jerusalem, and the temple which is
called by his name: and they feasted with instruments of musick and
gladness seven days.

   {5:1} After this were the principal men of the families chosen
according to their tribes, to go up with their wives and sons and
daughters, with their menservants and maidservants, and their cattle.

   {5:2} And Darius sent with them a thousand horsemen, till they had
brought them back to Jerusalem safely, and with musical [instruments]
tabrets and flutes.

   {5:3} And all their brethren played, and he made them go up together
with them.

   {5:4} And these are the names of the men which went up, according to
their families among their tribes, after their several heads.

   {5:5} The priests, the sons of Phinees the son of Aaron: Jesus the
son of Josedec, the son of Saraias, and Joacim the son of Zorobabel,
the son of Salathiel, of the house of David, out of the kindred of
Phares, of the tribe of Judah;

   {5:6} Who spake wise sentences before Darius the king of Persia in
the second year of his reign, in the month Nisan, which is the first
month.

   {5:7} And these are they of Jewry that came up from the captivity,
where they dwelt as strangers, whom Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon
had carried away unto Babylon.

   {5:8} And they returned unto Jerusalem, and to the other parts of
Jewry, every man to his own city, who came with Zorobabel, with Jesus,
Nehemias, and Zacharias, and Reesaias, Enenius, Mardocheus. Beelsarus,
Aspharasus, Reelius, Roimus, and Baana, their guides.

   {5:9} The number of them of the nation, and their governors, sons of
Phoros, two thousand an hundred seventy and two; the sons of Saphat,
four hundred seventy and two:

   {5:10} The sons of Ares, seven hundred fifty and six:

   {5:11} The sons of Phaath Moab, two thousand eight hundred and
twelve:

   {5:12} The sons of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four: the
sons of Zathul, nine hundred forty and five: the sons of Corbe, seven
hundred and five: the sons of Bani, six hundred forty and eight:

   {5:13} The sons of Bebai, six hundred twenty and three: the sons of
Sadas, three thousand two hundred twenty and two:

   {5:14} The sons of Adonikam, six hundred sixty and seven: the sons
of Bagoi, two thousand sixty and six: the sons of Adin, four hundred
fifty and four:

   {5:15} The sons of Aterezias, ninety and two: the sons of Ceilan and
Azetas threescore and seven: the sons of Azuran, four hundred thirty
and two:

   {5:16} The sons of Ananias, an hundred and one: the sons of Arom,
thirty two: and the sons of Bassa, three hundred twenty and three: the
sons of Azephurith, an hundred and two:

   {5:17} The sons of Meterus, three thousand and five: the sons of
Bethlomon, an hundred twenty and three:

   {5:18} They of Netophah, fifty and five: they of Anathoth, an
hundred fifty and eight: they of Bethsamos, forty and two:

   {5:19} They of Kiriathiarius, twenty and five: they of Caphira and
Beroth, seven hundred forty and three: they of Pira, seven hundred:

   {5:20} They of Chadias and Ammidoi, four hundred twenty and two:
they of Cirama and Gabdes, six hundred twenty and one:

   {5:21} They of Macalon, an hundred twenty and two: they of Betolius,
fifty and two: the sons of Nephis, an hundred fifty and six:

   {5:22} The sons of Calamolalus and Onus, seven hundred twenty and
five: the sons of Jerechus, two hundred forty and five:

   {5:23} The sons of Annas, three thousand three hundred and thirty.

   {5:24} The priests: the sons of Jeddu, the son of Jesus among the
sons of Sanasib, nine hundred seventy and two: the sons of Meruth, a
thousand fifty and two:

   {5:25} The sons of Phassaron, a thousand forty and seven: the sons
of Carme, a thousand and seventeen.

   {5:26} The Levites: the sons of Jessue, and Cadmiel, and Banuas, and
Sudias, seventy and four.

   {5:27} The holy singers: the sons of Asaph, an hundred twenty and
eight.

   {5:28} The porters: the sons of Salum, the sons of Jatal, the sons
of Talmon, the sons of Dacobi, the sons of Teta, the sons of Sami, in
all an hundred thirty and nine.

   {5:29} The servants of the temple: the sons of Esau, the sons of
Asipha, the sons of Tabaoth, the sons of Ceras, the sons of Sud, the
sons of Phaleas, the sons of Labana, the sons of Graba,

   {5:30} The sons of Acua, the sons of Uta, the sons of Cetab, the
sons of Agaba, the sons of Subai, the sons of Anan, the sons of Cathua,
the sons of Geddur,

   {5:31} The sons of Airus, the sons of Daisan, the sons of Noeba, the
sons of Chaseba, the sons of Gazera, the sons of Azia, the sons of
Phinees, the sons of Azare, the sons of Bastai, the sons of Asana, the
sons of Meani, the sons of Naphisi, the sons of Acub, the sons of
Acipha, the sons of Assur, the sons of Pharacim, the sons of Basaloth,

   {5:32} The sons of Meeda, the sons of Coutha, the sons of Charea,
the sons of Charcus, the sons of Aserer, the sons of Thomoi, the sons
of Nasith, the sons of Atipha.

   {5:33} The sons of the servants of Solomon: the sons of Azaphion,
the sons of Pharira, the sons of Jeeli, the sons of Lozon, the sons of
Israel, the sons of Sapheth,

   {5:34} The sons of Hagia, the sons of Pharacareth, the sons of Sabi,
the sons of Sarothie, the sons of Masias, the sons of Gar, the sons of
Addus, the sons of Suba, the sons of Apherra, the sons of Barodis, the
sons of Sabat, the sons of Allom.

   {5:35} All the ministers of the temple, and the sons of the servants
of Solomon, were three hundred seventy and two.

   {5:36} These came up from Thermeleth and Thelersas, Charaathalar
leading them, and Aalar;

   {5:37} Neither could they shew their families, nor their stock, how
they were of Israel: the sons of Ladan, the son of Ban, the sons of
Necodan, six hundred fifty and two.

   {5:38} And of the priests that usurped the office of the priesthood,
and were not found: the sons of Obdia, the sons of Accoz, the sons of
Addus, who married Augia one of the daughters of Barzelus, and was
named after his name.

   {5:39} And when the description of the kindred of these men was
sought in the register, and was not found, they were removed from
executing the office of the priesthood:

   {5:40} For unto them said Nehemias and Atharias, that they should
not be partakers of the holy things, till there arose up an high priest
clothed with doctrine and truth.

   {5:41} So of Israel, from them of twelve years old and upward, they
were all in number forty thousand, beside menservants and womenservants
two thousand three hundred and sixty.

   {5:42} Their menservants and handmaids were seven thousand three
hundred forty and seven: the singing men and singing women, two hundred
forty and five:

   {5:43} Four hundred thirty and five camels, seven thousand thirty
and six horses, two hundred forty and five mules, five thousand five
hundred twenty and five beasts used to the yoke.

   {5:44} And certain of the chief of their families, when they came to
the temple of God that is in Jerusalem, vowed to set up the house again
in his own place according to their ability,

   {5:45} And to give into the holy treasury of the works a thousand
pounds of gold, five thousand of silver, and an hundred priestly
vestments.

   {5:46} And so dwelt the priests and the Levites and the people in
Jerusalem, and in the country, the singers also and the porters; and
all Israel in their villages.

   {5:47} But when the seventh month was at hand, and when the children
of Israel were every man in his own place, they came all together with
one consent into the open place of the first gate which is toward the
east.

   {5:48} Then stood up Jesus the son of Josedec, and his brethren the
priests and Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, and his brethren, and made
ready the altar of the God of Israel,

   {5:49} To offer burnt sacrifices upon it, according as it is
expressly commanded in the book of Moses the man of God.

   {5:50} And there were gathered unto them out of the other nations of
the land, and they erected the altar upon his own place, because all
the nations of the land were at enmity with them, and oppressed them;
and they offered sacrifices according to the time, and burnt offerings
to the Lord both morning and evening.

   {5:51} Also they held the feast of tabernacles, as it is commanded
in the law, and offered sacrifices daily, as was meet:

   {5:52} And after that, the continual oblations, and the sacrifice of
the sabbaths, and of the new moons, and of all holy feasts.

   {5:53} And all they that had made any vow to God began to offer
sacrifices to God from the first day of the seventh month, although the
temple of the Lord was not yet built.

   {5:54} And they gave unto the masons and carpenters money, meat, and
drink, with cheerfulness.

   {5:55} Unto them of Zidon also and Tyre they gave carrs, that they
should bring cedar trees from Libanus, which should be brought by
floats to the haven of Joppa, according as it was commanded them by
Cyrus king of the Persians.

   {5:56} And in the second year and second month after his coming to
the temple of God at Jerusalem began Zorobabel the son of Salathiel,
and Jesus the son of Josedec, and their brethren, and the priests, and
the Levites, and all they that were come unto Jerusalem out of the
captivity:

   {5:57} And they laid the foundation of the house of God in the first
day of the second month, in the second year after they were come to
Jewry and Jerusalem.

   {5:58} And they appointed the Levites from twenty years old over the
works of the Lord. Then stood up Jesus, and his sons and brethren, and
Cadmiel his brother, and the sons of Madiabun, with the sons of Joda
the son of Eliadun, with their sons and brethren, all Levites, with one
accord setters forward of the business, labouring to advance the works
in the house of God. So the workmen built the temple of the Lord.

   {5:59} And the priests stood arrayed in their vestments with musical
instruments and trumpets; and the Levites the sons of Asaph had cymbals,

   {5:60} Singing songs of thanksgiving, and praising the Lord,
according as David the king of Israel had ordained.

   {5:61} And they sung with loud voices songs to the praise of the
Lord, because his mercy and glory is for ever in all Israel.

   {5:62} And all the people sounded trumpets, and shouted with a loud
voice, singing songs of thanksgiving unto the Lord for the rearing up
of the house of the Lord.

   {5:63} Also of the priests and Levites, and of the chief of their
families, the ancients who had seen the former house came to the
building of this with weeping and great crying.

   {5:64} But many with trumpets and joy shouted with loud voice,

   {5:65} Insomuch that the trumpets might not be heard for the weeping
of the people: yet the multitude sounded marvellously, so that it was
heard afar off.

   {5:66} Wherefore when the enemies of the tribe of Judah and Benjamin
heard it, they came to know what that noise of trumpets should mean.

   {5:67} And they perceived that they that were of the captivity did
build the temple unto the Lord God of Israel.

   {5:68} So they went to Zorobabel and Jesus, and to the chief of the
families, and said unto them, We will build together with you.

   {5:69} For we likewise, as ye, do obey your Lord, and do sacrifice
unto him from the days of Azbazareth the king of the Assyrians, who
brought us hither.

   {5:70} Then Zorobabel and Jesus and the chief of the families of
Israel said unto them, It is not for us and you to build together an
house unto the Lord our God.

   {5:71} We ourselves alone will build unto the Lord of Israel,
according as Cyrus the king of the Persians hath commanded us.

   {5:72} But the heathen of the land lying heavy upon the inhabitants
of Judea, and holding them strait, hindered their building;

   {5:73} And by their secret plots, and popular persuasions and
commotions, they hindered the finishing of the building all the time
that king Cyrus lived: so they were hindered from building for the
space of two years, until the reign of Darius.

   {6:1} Now in the second year of the reign of Darius Aggeus and
Zacharias the son of Addo, the prophets, prophesied unto the Jews in
Jewry and Jerusalem in the name of the Lord God of Israel, which was
upon them.

   {6:2} Then stood up Zorobabel the son of Salatiel, and Jesus the son
of Josedec, and began to build the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, the
prophets of the Lord being with them, and helping them.

   {6:3} At the same time came unto them Sisinnes the governor of Syria
and Phenice, with Sathrabuzanes and his companions, and said unto them,

   {6:4} By whose appointment do ye build this house and this roof, and
perform all the other things? and who are the workmen that perform
these things?

   {6:5} Nevertheless the elders of the Jews obtained favour, because
the Lord had visited the captivity;

   {6:6} And they were not hindered from building, until such time as
signification was given unto Darius concerning them, and an answer
received.

   {6:7} The copy of the letters which Sisinnes, governor of Syria and
Phenice, and Sathrabuzanes, with their companions, rulers in Syria and
Phenice, wrote and sent unto Darius; To king Darius, greeting:

   {6:8} Let all things be known unto our lord the king, that being
come into the country of Judea, and entered into the city of Jerusalem
we found in the city of Jerusalem the ancients of the Jews that were of
the captivity

   {6:9} Building an house unto the Lord, great and new, of hewn and
costly stones, and the timber already laid upon the walls.

   {6:10} And those works are done with great speed, and the work goeth
on prosperously in their hands, and with all glory and diligence is it
made.

   {6:11} Then asked we these elders, saying, By whose commandment
build ye this house, and lay the foundations of these works?

   {6:12} Therefore to the intent that we might give knowledge unto
thee by writing, we demanded of them who were the chief doers, and we
required of them the names in writing of their principal men.

   {6:13} So they gave us this answer, We are the servants of the Lord
which made heaven and earth.

   {6:14} And as for this house, it was builded many years ago by a
king of Israel great and strong, and was finished.

   {6:15} But when our fathers provoked God unto wrath, and sinned
against the Lord of Israel which is in heaven, he gave them over into
the power of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, of the Chaldees;

   {6:16} Who pulled down the house, and burned it, and carried away
the people captives unto Babylon.

   {6:17} But in the first year that king Cyrus reigned over the
country of Babylon Cyrus the king wrote to build up this house.

   {6:18} And the holy vessels of gold and of silver, that
Nabuchodonosor had carried away out of the house at Jerusalem, and had
set them in his own temple those Cyrus the king brought forth again out
of the temple at Babylon, and they were delivered to Zorobabel and to
Sanabassarus the ruler,

   {6:19} With commandment that he should carry away the same vessels,
and put them in the temple at Jerusalem; and that the temple of the
Lord should be built in his place.

   {6:20} Then the same Sanabassarus, being come hither, laid the
foundations of the house of the Lord at Jerusalem; and from that time
to this being still a building, it is not yet fully ended.

   {6:21} Now therefore, if it seem good unto the king, let search be
made among the records of king Cyrus:

   {6:22} And if it be found that the building of the house of the Lord
at Jerusalem hath been done with the consent of king Cyrus, and if our
lord the king be so minded, let him signify unto us thereof.

   {6:23} Then commanded king Darius to seek among the records at
Babylon: and so at Ecbatane the palace, which is in the country of
Media, there was found a roll wherein these things were recorded.

   {6:24} In the first year of the reign of Cyrus king Cyrus commanded
that the house of the Lord at Jerusalem should be built again, where
they do sacrifice with continual fire:

   {6:25} Whose height shall be sixty cubits and the breadth sixty
cubits, with three rows of hewn stones, and one row of new wood of that
country; and the expences thereof to be given out of the house of king
Cyrus:

   {6:26} And that the holy vessels of the house of the Lord, both of
gold and silver, that Nabuchodonosor took out of the house at
Jerusalem, and brought to Babylon, should be restored to the house at
Jerusalem, and be set in the place where they were before.

   {6:27} And also he commanded that Sisinnes the governor of Syria and
Phenice, and Sathrabuzanes, and their companions, and those which were
appointed rulers in Syria and Phenice, should be careful not to meddle
with the place, but suffer Zorobabel, the servant of the Lord, and
governor of Judea, and the elders of the Jews, to build the house of
the Lord in that place.

   {6:28} I have commanded also to have it built up whole again; and
that they look diligently to help those that be of the captivity of the
Jews, till the house of the Lord be finished:

   {6:29} And out of the tribute of Celosyria and Phenice a portion
carefully to be given these men for the sacrifices of the Lord, that
is, to Zorobabel the governor, for bullocks, and rams, and lambs;

   {6:30} And also corn, salt, wine, and oil, and that continually
every year without further question, according as the priests that be
in Jerusalem shall signify to be daily spent:

   {6:31} That offerings may be made to the most high God for the king
and for his children, and that they may pray for their lives.

   {6:32} And he commanded that whosoever should transgress, yea, or
make light of any thing afore spoken or written, out of his own house
should a tree be taken, and he thereon be hanged, and all his goods
seized for the king.

   {6:33} The Lord therefore, whose name is there called upon, utterly
destroy every king and nation, that stretcheth out his hand to hinder
or endamage that house of the Lord in Jerusalem.

   {6:34} I Darius the king have ordained that according unto these
things it be done with diligence.

   {7:1} Then Sisinnes the governor of Celosyria and Phenice, and
Sathrabuzanes, with their companions following the commandments of king
Darius,

   {7:2} Did very carefully oversee the holy works, assisting the
ancients of the Jews and governors of the temple.

   {7:3} And so the holy works prospered, when Aggeus and Zacharias the
prophets prophesied.

   {7:4} And they finished these things by the commandment of the Lord
God of Israel, and with the consent of Cyrus, Darius, and Artexerxes,
kings of Persia.

   {7:5} And thus was the holy house finished in the three and
twentieth day of the month Adar, in the sixth year of Darius king of
the Persians

   {7:6} And the children of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and
others that were of the captivity, that were added unto them, did
according to the things written in the book of Moses.

   {7:7} And to the dedication of the temple of the Lord they offered
an hundred bullocks two hundred rams, four hundred lambs;

   {7:8} And twelve goats for the sin of all Israel, according to the
number of the chief of the tribes of Israel.

   {7:9} The priests also and the Levites stood arrayed in their
vestments, according to their kindreds, in the service of the Lord God
of Israel, according to the book of Moses: and the porters at every
gate.

   {7:10} And the children of Israel that were of the captivity held
the passover the fourteenth day of the first month, after that the
priests and the Levites were sanctified.

   {7:11} They that were of the captivity were not all sanctified
together: but the Levites were all sanctified together.

   {7:12} And so they offered the passover for all them of the
captivity, and for their brethren the priests, and for themselves.

   {7:13} And the children of Israel that came out of the captivity did
eat, even all they that had separated themselves from the abominations
of the people of the land, and sought the Lord.

   {7:14} And they kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days,
making merry before the Lord,

   {7:15} For that he had turned the counsel of the king of Assyria
toward them, to strengthen their hands in the works of the Lord God of
Israel.

   {8:1} And after these things, when Artexerxes the king of the
Persians reigned came Esdras the son of Saraias, the son of Ezerias,
the son of Helchiah, the son of Salum,

   {8:2} The son of Sadduc, the son of Achitob, the son of Amarias, the
son of Ezias, the son of Meremoth, the son of Zaraias, the son of
Savias, the son of Boccas, the son of Abisum, the son of Phinees, the
son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chief priest.

   {8:3} This Esdras went up from Babylon, as a scribe, being very
ready in the law of Moses, that was given by the God of Israel.

   {8:4} And the king did him honour: for he found grace in his sight
in all his requests.

   {8:5} There went up with him also certain of the children of Israel,
of the priest of the Levites, of the holy singers, porters, and
ministers of the temple, unto Jerusalem,

   {8:6} In the seventh year of the reign of Artexerxes, in the fifth
month, this was the king's seventh year; for they went from Babylon in
the first day of the first month, and came to Jerusalem, according to
the prosperous journey which the Lord gave them.

   {8:7} For Esdras had very great skill, so that he omitted nothing of
the law and commandments of the Lord, but taught all Israel the
ordinances and judgments.

   {8:8} Now the copy of the commission, which was written from
Artexerxes the king, and came to Esdras the priest and reader of the
law of the Lord, is this that followeth;

   {8:9} King Artexerxes unto Esdras the priest and reader of the law
of the Lord sendeth greeting:

   {8:10} Having determined to deal graciously, I have given order,
that such of the nation of the Jews, and of the priests and Levites
being within our realm, as are willing and desirous should go with thee
unto Jerusalem.

   {8:11} As many therefore as have a mind thereunto, let them depart
with thee, as it hath seemed good both to me and my seven friends the
counsellors;

   {8:12} That they may look unto the affairs of Judea and Jerusalem,
agreeably to that which is in the law of the Lord;

   {8:13} And carry the gifts unto the Lord of Israel to Jerusalem,
which I and my friends have vowed, and all the gold and silver that in
the country of Babylon can be found, to the Lord in Jerusalem,

   {8:14} With that also which is given of the people for the temple of
the Lord their God at Jerusalem: and that silver and gold may be
collected for bullocks, rams, and lambs, and things thereunto
appertaining;

   {8:15} To the end that they may offer sacrifices unto the Lord upon
the altar of the Lord their God, which is in Jerusalem.

   {8:16} And whatsoever thou and thy brethren will do with the silver
and gold, that do, according to the will of thy God.

   {8:17} And the holy vessels of the Lord, which are given thee for
the use of the temple of thy God, which is in Jerusalem, thou shalt set
before thy God in Jerusalem.

   {8:18} And whatsoever thing else thou shalt remember for the use of
the temple of thy God, thou shalt give it out of the king's treasury.

   {8:19} And I king Artexerxes have also commanded the keepers of the
treasures in Syria and Phenice, that whatsoever Esdras the priest and
the reader of the law of the most high God shall send for, they should
give it him with speed,

   {8:20} To the sum of an hundred talents of silver, likewise also of
wheat even to an hundred cors, and an hundred pieces of wine, and other
things in abundance.

   {8:21} Let all things be performed after the law of God diligently
unto the most high God, that wrath come not upon the kingdom of the
king and his sons.

   {8:22} I command you also, that ye require no tax, nor any other
imposition, of any of the priests, or Levites, or holy singers, or
porters, or ministers of the temple, or of any that have doings in this
temple, and that no man have authority to impose any thing upon them.

   {8:23} And thou, Esdras, according to the wisdom of God ordain
judges and justices, that they may judge in all Syria and Phenice all
those that know the law of thy God; and those that know it not thou
shalt teach.

   {8:24} And whosoever shall transgress the law of thy God, and of the
king, shall be punished diligently, whether it be by death, or other
punishment, by penalty of money, or by imprisonment.

   {8:25} Then said Esdras the scribe, Blessed be the only Lord God of
my fathers, who hath put these things into the heart of the king, to
glorify his house that is in Jerusalem:

   {8:26} And hath honoured me in the sight of the king, and his
counsellors, and all his friends and nobles.

   {8:27} Therefore was I encouraged by the help of the Lord my God,
and gathered together men of Israel to go up with me.

   {8:28} And these are the chief according to their families and
several dignities, that went up with me from Babylon in the reign of
king Artexerxes:

   {8:29} Of the sons of Phinees, Gerson: of the sons of Ithamar,
Gamael: of the sons of David, Lettus the son of Sechenias:

   {8:30} Of the sons of Pharez, Zacharias; and with him were counted
an hundred and fifty men:

   {8:31} Of the sons of Pahath Moab, Eliaonias, the son of Zaraias,
and with him two hundred men:

   {8:32} Of the sons of Zathoe, Sechenias the son of Jezelus, and with
him three hundred men: of the sons of Adin, Obeth the son of Jonathan,
and with him two hundred and fifty men:

   {8:33} Of the sons of Elam, Josias son of Gotholias, and with him
seventy men:

   {8:34} Of the sons of Saphatias, Zaraias son of Michael, and with
him threescore and ten men:

   {8:35} Of the sons of Joab, Abadias son of Jezelus, and with him two
hundred and twelve men:

   {8:36} Of the sons of Banid, Assalimoth son of Josaphias, and with
him an hundred and threescore men:

   {8:37} Of the sons of Babi, Zacharias son of Bebai, and with him
twenty and eight men:

   {8:38} Of the sons of Astath, Johannes son of Acatan, and with him
an hundred and ten men:

   {8:39} Of the sons of Adonikam the last, and these are the names of
them, Eliphalet, Jewel, and Samaias, and with them seventy men:

   {8:40} Of the sons of Bago, Uthi the son of Istalcurus, and with him
seventy men.

   {8:41} And these I gathered together to the river called Theras,
where we pitched our tents three days: and then I surveyed them.

   {8:42} But when I had found there none of the priests and Levites,

   {8:43} Then sent I unto Eleazar, and Iduel, and Masman,

   {8:44} And Alnathan, and Mamaias, and Joribas, and Nathan, Eunatan,
Zacharias, and Mosollamon, principal men and learned.

   {8:45} And I bade them that they should go unto Saddeus the captain,
who was in the place of the treasury:

   {8:46} And commanded them that they should speak unto Daddeus, and
to his brethren, and to the treasurers in that place, to send us such
men as might execute the priests' office in the house of the Lord.

   {8:47} And by the mighty hand of our Lord they brought unto us
skilful men of the sons of Moli the son of Levi, the son of Israel,
Asebebia, and his sons, and his brethren, who were eighteen.

   {8:48} And Asebia, and Annus, and Osaias his brother, of the sons of
Channuneus, and their sons, were twenty men.

   {8:49} And of the servants of the temple whom David had ordained,
and the principal men for the service of the Levites to wit, the
servants of the temple two hundred and twenty, the catalogue of whose
names were shewed.

   {8:50} And there I vowed a fast unto the young men before our Lord,
to desire of him a prosperous journey both for us and them that were
with us, for our children, and for the cattle:

   {8:51} For I was ashamed to ask the king footmen, and horsemen, and
conduct for safeguard against our adversaries.

   {8:52} For we had said unto the king, that the power of the Lord our
God should be with them that seek him, to support them in all ways.

   {8:53} And again we besought our Lord as touching these things, and
found him favourable unto us.

   {8:54} Then I separated twelve of the chief of the priests,
Esebrias, and Assanias, and ten men of their brethren with them:

   {8:55} And I weighed them the gold, and the silver, and the holy
vessels of the house of our Lord, which the king, and his council, and
the princes, and all Israel, had given.

   {8:56} And when I had weighed it, I delivered unto them six hundred
and fifty talents of silver, and silver vessels of an hundred talents,
and an hundred talents of gold,

   {8:57} And twenty golden vessels, and twelve vessels of brass, even
of fine brass, glittering like gold.

   {8:58} And I said unto them, Both ye are holy unto the Lord, and the
vessels are holy, and the gold and the silver is a vow unto the Lord,
the Lord of our fathers.

   {8:59} Watch ye, and keep them till ye deliver them to the chief of
the priests and Levites, and to the principal men of the families of
Israel, in Jerusalem, into the chambers of the house of our God.

   {8:60} So the priests and the Levites, who had received the silver
and the gold and the vessels, brought them unto Jerusalem, into the
temple of the Lord.

   {8:61} And from the river Theras we departed the twelfth day of the
first month, and came to Jerusalem by the mighty hand of our Lord,
which was with us: and from the beginning of our journey the Lord
delivered us from every enemy, and so we came to Jerusalem.

   {8:62} And when we had been there three days, the gold and silver
that was weighed was delivered in the house of our Lord on the fourth
day unto Marmoth the priest the son of Iri.

   {8:63} And with him was Eleazar the son of Phinees, and with them
were Josabad the son of Jesu and Moeth the son of Sabban, Levites: all
was delivered them by number and weight.

   {8:64} And all the weight of them was written up the same hour.

   {8:65} Moreover they that were come out of the captivity offered
sacrifice unto the Lord God of Israel, even twelve bullocks for all
Israel, fourscore and sixteen rams,

   {8:66} Threescore and twelve lambs, goats for a peace offering,
twelve; all of them a sacrifice to the Lord.

   {8:67} And they delivered the king's commandments unto the king's
stewards' and to the governors of Celosyria and Phenice; and they
honoured the people and the temple of God.

   {8:68} Now when these things were done, the rulers came unto me, and
said,

   {8:69} The nation of Israel, the princes, the priests and Levites,
have not put away from them the strange people of the land, nor the
pollutions of the Gentiles to wit, of the Canaanites, Hittites,
Pheresites, Jebusites, and the Moabites, Egyptians, and Edomites.

   {8:70} For both they and their sons have married with their
daughters, and the holy seed is mixed with the strange people of the
land; and from the beginning of this matter the rulers and the great
men have been partakers of this iniquity.

   {8:71} And as soon as I had heard these things, I rent my clothes,
and the holy garment, and pulled off the hair from off my head and
beard, and sat me down sad and very heavy.

   {8:72} So all they that were then moved at the word of the Lord God
of Israel assembled unto me, whilst I mourned for the iniquity: but I
sat still full of heaviness until the evening sacrifice.

   {8:73} Then rising up from the fast with my clothes and the holy
garment rent, and bowing my knees, and stretching forth my hands unto
the Lord,

   {8:74} I said, O Lord, I am confounded and ashamed before thy face;

   {8:75} For our sins are multiplied above our heads, and our
ignorances have reached up unto heaven.

   {8:76} For ever since the time of our fathers we have been and are
in great sin, even unto this day.

   {8:77} And for our sins and our fathers' we with our brethren and
our kings and our priests were given up unto the kings of the earth, to
the sword, and to captivity, and for a prey with shame, unto this day.

   {8:78} And now in some measure hath mercy been shewed unto us from
thee, O Lord, that there should be left us a root and a name in the
place of thy sanctuary;

   {8:79} And to discover unto us a light in the house of the Lord our
God, and to give us food in the time of our servitude.

   {8:80} Yea, when we were in bondage, we were not forsaken of our
Lord; but he made us gracious before the kings of Persia, so that they
gave us food;

   {8:81} Yea, and honoured the temple of our Lord, and raised up the
desolate Sion, that they have given us a sure abiding in Jewry and
Jerusalem.

   {8:82} And now, O Lord, what shall we say, having these things? for
we have transgressed thy commandments, which thou gavest by the hand of
thy servants the prophets, saying,

   {8:83} That the land, which ye enter into to possess as an heritage,
is a land polluted with the pollutions of the strangers of the land,
and they have filled it with their uncleanness.

   {8:84} Therefore now shall ye not join your daughters unto their
sons, neither shall ye take their daughters unto your sons.

   {8:85} Moreover ye shall never seek to have peace with them, that ye
may be strong, and eat the good things of the land, and that ye may
leave the inheritance of the land unto your children for evermore.

   {8:86} And all that is befallen is done unto us for our wicked works
and great sins; for thou, O Lord, didst make our sins light,

   {8:87} And didst give unto us such a root: but we have turned back
again to transgress thy law, and to mingle ourselves with the
uncleanness of the nations of the land.

   {8:88} Mightest not thou be angry with us to destroy us, till thou
hadst left us neither root, seed, nor name?

   {8:89} O Lord of Israel, thou art true: for we are left a root this
day.

   {8:90} Behold, now are we before thee in our iniquities, for we
cannot stand any longer by reason of these things before thee.

   {8:91} And as Esdras in his prayer made his confession, weeping, and
lying flat upon the ground before the temple, there gathered unto him
from Jerusalem a very great multitude of men and women and children:
for there was great weeping among the multitude.

   {8:92} Then Jechonias the son of Jeelus, one of the sons of Israel,
called out, and said, O Esdras, we have sinned against the Lord God, we
have married strange women of the nations of the land, and now is all
Israel aloft.

   {8:93} Let us make an oath to the Lord, that we will put away all
our wives, which we have taken of the heathen, with their children,

   {8:94} Like as thou hast decreed, and as many as do obey the law of
the Lord.

   {8:95} Arise and put in execution: for to thee doth this matter
appertain, and we will be with thee: do valiantly.

   {8:96} So Esdras arose, and took an oath of the chief of the priests
and Levites of all Israel to do after these things; and so they sware.

   {9:1} Then Esdras rising from the court of the temple went to the
chamber of Joanan the son of Eliasib,

   {9:2} And remained there, and did eat no meat nor drink water,
mourning for the great iniquities of the multitude.

   {9:3} And there was a proclamation in all Jewry and Jerusalem to all
them that were of the captivity, that they should be gathered together
at Jerusalem:

   {9:4} And that whosoever met not there within two or three days
according as the elders that bare rule appointed, their cattle should
be seized to the use of the temple, and himself cast out from them that
were of the captivity.

   {9:5} And in three days were all they of the tribe of Judah and
Benjamin gathered together at Jerusalem the twentieth day of the ninth
month.

   {9:6} And all the multitude sat trembling in the broad court of the
temple because of the present foul weather.

   {9:7} So Esdras arose up, and said unto them, Ye have transgressed
the law in marrying strange wives, thereby to increase the sins of
Israel.

   {9:8} And now by confessing give glory unto the Lord God of our
fathers,

   {9:9} And do his will, and separate yourselves from the heathen of
the land, and from the strange women.

   {9:10} Then cried the whole multitude, and said with a loud voice,
Like as thou hast spoken, so will we do.

   {9:11} But forasmuch as the people are many, and it is foul weather,
so that we cannot stand without, and this is not a work of a day or
two, seeing our sin in these things is spread far:

   {9:12} Therefore let the rulers of the multitude stay, and let all
them of our habitations that have strange wives come at the time
appointed,

   {9:13} And with them the rulers and judges of every place, till we
turn away the wrath of the Lord from us for this matter.

   {9:14} Then Jonathan the son of Azael and Ezechias the son of
Theocanus accordingly took this matter upon them: and Mosollam and
Levis and Sabbatheus helped them.

   {9:15} And they that were of the captivity did according to all
these things.

   {9:16} And Esdras the priest chose unto him the principal men of
their families, all by name: and in the first day of the tenth month
they sat together to examine the matter.

   {9:17} So their cause that held strange wives was brought to an end
in the first day of the first month.

   {9:18} And of the priests that were come together, and had strange
wives, there were found:

   {9:19} Of the sons of Jesus the son of Josedec, and his brethren;
Matthelas and Eleazar, and Joribus and Joadanus.

   {9:20} And they gave their hands to put away their wives and to
offer rams to make reconcilement for their errors.

   {9:21} And of the sons of Emmer; Ananias, and Zabdeus, and Eanes,
and Sameius, and Hiereel, and Azarias.

   {9:22} And of the sons of Phaisur; Elionas, Massias Israel, and
Nathanael, and Ocidelus and Talsas.

   {9:23} And of the Levites; Jozabad, and Semis, and Colius, who was
called Calitas, and Patheus, and Judas, and Jonas.

   {9:24} Of the holy singers; Eleazurus, Bacchurus.

   {9:25} Of the porters; Sallumus, and Tolbanes.

   {9:26} Of them of Israel, of the sons of Phoros; Hiermas, and
Eddias, and Melchias, and Maelus, and Eleazar, and Asibias, and Baanias.

   {9:27} Of the sons of Ela; Matthanias, Zacharias, and Hierielus, and
Hieremoth, and Aedias.

   {9:28} And of the sons of Zamoth; Eliadas, Elisimus, Othonias,
Jarimoth, and Sabatus, and Sardeus.

   {9:29} Of the sons of Babai; Johannes, and Ananias and Josabad, and
Amatheis.

   {9:30} Of the sons of Mani; Olamus, Mamuchus, Jedeus, Jasubus,
Jasael, and Hieremoth.

   {9:31} And of the sons of Addi; Naathus, and Moosias, Lacunus, and
Naidus, and Mathanias, and Sesthel, Balnuus, and Manasseas.

   {9:32} And of the sons of Annas; Elionas and Aseas, and Melchias,
and Sabbeus, and Simon Chosameus.

   {9:33} And of the sons of Asom; Altaneus, and Matthias, and Baanaia,
Eliphalet, and Manasses, and Semei.

   {9:34} And of the sons of Maani; Jeremias, Momdis, Omaerus, Juel,
Mabdai, and Pelias, and Anos, Carabasion, and Enasibus, and
Mamnitanaimus, Eliasis, Bannus, Eliali, Samis, Selemias, Nathanias: and
of the sons of Ozora; Sesis, Esril, Azaelus, Samatus, Zambis, Josephus.

   {9:35} And of the sons of Ethma; Mazitias, Zabadaias, Edes, Juel,
Banaias.

   {9:36} All these had taken strange wives, and they put them away
with their children.

   {9:37} And the priests and Levites, and they that were of Israel,
dwelt in Jerusalem, and in the country, in the first day of the seventh
month: so the children of Israel were in their habitations.

   {9:38} And the whole multitude came together with one accord into
the broad place of the holy porch toward the east:

   {9:39} And they spake unto Esdras the priest and reader, that he
would bring the law of Moses, that was given of the Lord God of Israel.

   {9:40} So Esdras the chief priest brought the law unto the whole
multitude from man to woman, and to all the priests, to hear law in the
first day of the seventh month.

   {9:41} And he read in the broad court before the holy porch from
morning unto midday, before both men and women; and the multitude gave
heed unto the law.

   {9:42} And Esdras the priest and reader of the law stood up upon a
pulpit of wood, which was made for that purpose.

   {9:43} And there stood up by him Mattathias, Sammus, Ananias,
Azarias, Urias, Ezecias, Balasamus, upon the right hand:

   {9:44} And upon his left hand stood Phaldaius, Misael, Melchias,
Lothasubus, and Nabarias.

   {9:45} Then took Esdras the book of the law before the multitude:
for he sat honourably in the first place in the sight of them all.

   {9:46} And when he opened the law, they stood all straight up. So
Esdras blessed the Lord God most High, the God of hosts, Almighty.

   {9:47} And all the people answered, Amen; and lifting up their hands
they fell to the ground, and worshipped the Lord.

   {9:48} Also Jesus, Anus, Sarabias, Adinus, Jacubus, Sabateas,
Auteas, Maianeas, and Calitas, Asrias, and Joazabdus, and Ananias,
Biatas, the Levites, taught the law of the Lord, making them withal to
understand it.

   {9:49} Then spake Attharates unto Esdras the chief priest. and
reader, and to the Levites that taught the multitude, even to all,
saying,

   {9:50} This day is holy unto the Lord; (for they all wept when they
heard the law:)

   {9:51} Go then, and eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send part
to them that have nothing;

   {9:52} For this day is holy unto the Lord: and be not sorrowful; for
the Lord will bring you to honour.

   {9:53} So the Levites published all things to the people, saying,
This day is holy to the Lord; be not sorrowful.

   {9:54} Then went they their way, every one to eat and drink, and
make merry, and to give part to them that had nothing, and to make
great cheer;

   {9:55} Because they understood the words wherein they were
instructed, and for the which they had been assembled.





The First Epistle General of John

   {1:1} 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; {1:2} (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;) {1:3}
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. {1:4} And these things write we unto
you, that your joy may be full.

   {1:5} This then is the message which we have heard of him, and
declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
{1:6} If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness,
we lie, and do not the truth: {1:7} But if we walk in the light, as he
is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of
Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. {1:8} If we say that we
have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. {1:9} If
we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us [our] sins,
and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. {1:10} If we say that we
have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

   {2:1} 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: {2:2} And he is the propitiation for our sins:
and not for ours only, but also for [the sins of] the whole world.
{2:3} And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his
commandments. {2:4} He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his
commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. {2:5} But whoso
keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby
know we that we are in him. {2:6} He that saith he abideth in him ought
himself also so to walk, even as he walked.

   {2:7} Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old
commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the
word which ye have heard from the beginning. {2:8} Again, a new
commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you:
because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth. {2:9} He
that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness
even until now. {2:10} He that loveth his brother abideth in the light,
and there is none occasion of stumbling in him. {2:11} But he that
hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth
not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.
{2:12} I write unto you, little children, because your sins are
forgiven you for his name's sake. {2:13} I write unto you, fathers,
because ye have known him [that is] 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. {2:14} 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. {2:15} 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.
{2:16} 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. {2:17} And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof:
but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

   {2:18} Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard
that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists;
whereby we know that it is the last time. {2:19} 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. {2:20} But ye have an
unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things. {2:21} I have not
written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it,
and that no lie is of the truth. {2:22} Who is a liar but he that
denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the
Father and the Son. {2:23} Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not
the Father: [(but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.
]{2:24} Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the
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. {2:25}
And this is the promise that he hath promised us, [even] eternal life.
{2:26} These [things] have I written unto you concerning them that
seduce you. {2:27} 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. {2:28} 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. {2:29} If ye
know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth
righteousness is born of him.

   {3:1} 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. {3:2} 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. {3:3} And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself,
even as he is pure. {3:4} Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also
the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. {3:5} And ye know
that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin.
{3:6} Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not
seen him, neither known him. {3:7} Little children, let no man deceive
you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
{3:8} He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth
from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested,
that he might destroy the works of the devil. {3:9} Whosoever is born
of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he
cannot sin, because he is born of God. {3:10} In this the children of
God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not
righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
{3:11} For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that
we should love one another. {3:12} Not as Cain, [who] was of that
wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because
his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

   {3:13} Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you. {3:14} We
know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the
brethren. He that loveth not [his] brother abideth in death. {3:15}
Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no
murderer hath eternal life abiding in him. {3:16} Hereby perceive we
the love [of God,] because he laid down his life for us: and we ought
to lay down [our] lives for the brethren. {3:17} 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?
{3:18} My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue;
but in deed and in truth. {3:19} And hereby we know that we are of the
truth, and shall assure our hearts before him. {3:20} For if our heart
condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.
{3:21} Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, [then] have we confidence
toward God. {3:22} And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we
keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his
sight. {3:23} 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. {3:24} 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.

   {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. {4:2} Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that
confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: {4:3} And
every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in 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.
{4:4} 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. {4:5} They
are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world
heareth them. {4:6} We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he
that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth,
and the spirit of error.

   {4:7} Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and
every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. {4:8} He that
loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. {4:9} 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. {4:10}
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent
his Son [to be] the propitiation for our sins. {4:11} Beloved, if God
so loved us, we ought also to love one another. {4:12} No man hath seen
God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his
love is perfected in us. {4:13} Hereby know we that we dwell in him,
and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit. {4:14} And we
have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son [to be] the
Saviour of the world. {4:15} Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the
Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. {4:16} And we have
known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he
that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. {4:17} Herein is
our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of
judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. {4:18} There is no
fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath
torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. {4:19} We love
him, because he first loved us. {4:20} 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? {4:21}
And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his
brother also.

   {5:1} 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. {5:2} By this we know that we love the children of
God, when we love God, and keep his commandments. {5:3} For this is the
love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are
not grievous. {5:4} For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world:
and this is the victory that overcometh the world, [even] our faith.
{5:5} Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that
Jesus is the Son of God? {5:6} This is he that came by water and blood,
[even] Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it
is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth. {5:7}
For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word,
and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. {5:8} And there are three
that bear witness in earth, the spirit, and the water, and the blood:
and these three agree in one. {5:9} If we receive the witness of men,
the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he
hath testified of his Son. {5:10} 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.
{5:11} And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life,
and this life is in his Son. {5:12} He that hath the Son hath life;
[and] he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. {5:13} These
things have I written unto you that believe on the name of 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. {5:14} And this is the
confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to
his will, he heareth us: {5:15} And if we know that he hear us,
whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired
of him. {5:16} If any man see his brother sin a sin [which is] not unto
death, he 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. {5:17} All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto
death. {5:18} We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he
that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth
him not. {5:19} And we know that we are of God, and the whole world
lieth in wickedness. {5:20} [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. {5:21} Little children, keep yourselves
from idols. Amen.





The First Book of the KingsCommonly Called the Third Book of the Kings

   {1:1} Now king David was old [and] stricken in years; and they
covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat. {1:2} Wherefore his
servants said unto him, Let there be sought for my 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.
{1:3} So they sought for a fair damsel throughout all the coasts of
Israel, and found Abishag a Shunammite, and brought her to the king.
{1:4} And the damsel [was] very fair, and cherished the king, and
ministered to him: but the king knew her not.

   {1:5} Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I
will be king: and he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men
to run before him. {1:6} 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. {1:7} And he conferred
with Joab the son of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar the priest: and they
following Adonijah helped [him. ]{1:8} But Zadok the priest, and
Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and Nathan the prophet, and Shimei, and
Rei, and the mighty men which [belonged] to David, were not with
Adonijah. {1:9} And Adonijah slew sheep and oxen and fat cattle by the
stone of Zoheleth, which [is] by En-rogel, and called all his brethren
the king's sons, and all the men of Judah the king's servants: {1:10}
But Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, and the mighty men, and Solomon
his brother, he called not.

   {1:11} Wherefore Nathan spake unto Bath-sheba the mother of Solomon,
saying, Hast thou not heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith doth
reign, and David our lord knoweth [it] not? {1:12} Now therefore come,
let me, I pray thee, give thee counsel, that thou mayest save thine own
life, and the life of thy son Solomon. {1:13} Go and get thee in unto
king David, and say unto him, Didst not thou, my lord, O king, swear
unto thine handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign
after me, and he shall sit upon my throne? why then doth Adonijah
reign? {1:14} Behold, while thou yet talkest there with the king, I
also will come in after thee, and confirm thy words.

   {1:15} And Bath-sheba went in unto the king into the chamber: and
the king was very old; and Abishag the Shunammite ministered unto the
king. {1:16} And Bath-sheba bowed, and did obeisance unto the king. And
the king said, What wouldest thou? {1:17} And she said unto him, My
lord, thou swarest by the LORD thy God unto thine handmaid, [saying,]
Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon
my throne. {1:18} And now, behold, Adonijah reigneth; and now, my lord
the king, thou knowest [it] not: {1:19} And he hath slain oxen and fat
cattle and sheep in abundance, 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. {1:20} 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. {1:21}
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.

   {1:22} And, lo, while she yet talked with the king, Nathan the
prophet also came in. {1:23} And they told the king, saying, Behold
Nathan the prophet. And when he was come in before the king, he bowed
himself before the king with his face to the ground. {1:24} And Nathan
said, My lord, O king, hast thou said, Adonijah shall reign after me,
and he shall sit upon my throne? {1:25} For he is gone down this day,
and hath slain oxen and fat cattle 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. {1:26} But me, [even] me thy servant, and Zadok the
priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and thy servant Solomon, hath
he not called. {1:27} 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?

   {1:28} Then king David answered and said, Call me Bath-sheba. And
she came into the king's presence, and stood before the king. {1:29}
And the king sware, and said, [As] the LORD liveth, that hath redeemed
my soul out of all distress, {1:30} Even as I sware unto thee by the
LORD God of Israel, saying, 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. {1:31} Then Bath-sheba bowed with [her] face to
the earth, and did reverence to the king, and said, Let my lord king
David live for ever.

   {1:32} 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. {1:33} 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: {1:34} 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. {1:35} Then ye shall come up
after him, that he may come and sit upon my throne; for he shall be
king in my stead: and I have appointed him to be ruler over Israel and
over Judah. {1:36} And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king,
and said, Amen: the LORD God of my lord the king say so [too. ]{1:37}
As the LORD hath been with my lord the king, even so be he with
Solomon, and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord king
David. {1:38} 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. {1:39} 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. {1:40} 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.

   {1:41} 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? {1:42} 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. {1:43} And Jonathan
answered and said to Adonijah, Verily our lord king David hath made
Solomon king. {1:44} And the king hath sent with him Zadok the priest,
and Nathan 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: {1:45} 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. {1:46} And also Solomon sitteth on the throne of the
kingdom. {1:47} 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. {1:48} 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. ]{1:49} And all the guests that [were] with
Adonijah were afraid, and rose up, and went every man his way.

   {1:50} And Adonijah feared because of Solomon, and arose, and went,
and caught hold on the horns of the altar. {1:51} And it was told
Solomon, saying, Behold, Adonijah feareth king Solomon: for, lo, he
hath caught hold on the horns of the altar, saying, Let king Solomon
swear unto me to day that he will not slay his servant with the sword.
{1:52} 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. {1:53} 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.

   {2:1} Now the days of David drew nigh that he should die; and he
charged Solomon his son, saying, {2:2} I go the way of all the earth:
be thou strong therefore, and shew thyself a man; {2:3} 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: {2:4} 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. {2:5} 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. {2:6} Do therefore according to thy
wisdom, and let not his hoar head go down to the grave in peace. {2:7}
But shew kindness unto the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let
them be of those that eat at thy table: for so they came to me when I
fled because of Absalom thy brother. {2:8} And, behold, [thou hast]
with thee Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite of Bahurim, which cursed
me with a grievous curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim: but he
came down to meet me at Jordan, and I sware to him by the LORD, saying,
I will not put thee to death with the sword. {2:9} Now therefore hold
him not guiltless: for thou [art] a wise man, and knowest what thou
oughtest to do unto him; but his hoar head bring thou down to the grave
with blood. {2:10} So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in
the city of David. {2:11} 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.

   {2:12} Then sat Solomon upon the throne of David his father; and his
kingdom was established greatly.

   {2:13} And Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bath-sheba the mother
of Solomon. And she said, Comest thou peaceably? And he said,
Peaceably. {2:14} He said moreover, I have somewhat to say unto thee.
And she said, Say on. {2:15} And he said, Thou knowest that the kingdom
was mine, and [that] 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. {2:16} And now I ask one petition of
thee, deny me not. And she said unto him, Say on. {2:17} And he said,
Speak, I pray thee, unto Solomon the king, (for he will not say thee
nay,) that he give me Abishag the Shunammite to wife. {2:18} And
Bath-sheba said, Well; I will speak for thee unto the king.

   {2:19} Bath-sheba therefore went unto king Solomon, to speak unto
him 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. {2:20} 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.
{2:21} And she said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah
thy brother to wife. {2:22} And king Solomon answered and said unto his
mother, And why 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. {2:23}
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.
{2:24} 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. {2:25}
And king Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and
he fell upon him that he died.

   {2:26} And unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get thee to
Anathoth, 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. {2:27} 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.

   {2:28} 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.
{2:29} And it was told king Solomon that Joab was fled unto the
tabernacle of the LORD; and, behold, [he is] by the altar. Then Solomon
sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, Go, fall upon him. {2:30} And
Benaiah came to the tabernacle of the LORD, and said unto 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. {2:31} 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. {2:32} 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. {2:33} 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. {2:34} 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.

   {2:35} 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.

   {2:36} 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. {2:37} 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. {2:38} 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. {2:39} 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. {2:40} 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. {2:41} And it was told Solomon that
Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and was come again. {2:42} And
the king sent and called for Shimei, and said unto him, Did I 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. {2:43} Why then hast thou not kept the oath of
the LORD, and the commandment that I have charged thee with? {2:44} The
king said moreover to Shimei, Thou knowest all 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; {2:45} And
king Solomon [shall be] blessed, and the throne of David shall be
established before the LORD for ever. {2:46} So the king commanded
Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; which went out, and fell upon him, that he
died. And the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.

   {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. {3:2} Only the people sacrificed
in high places, because there was no house built unto the name of the
LORD, until those days. {3:3} And Solomon loved the LORD, walking in
the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense
in high places. {3:4} And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there;
for that [was] the great high place: a thousand burnt offerings did
Solomon offer upon that altar.

   {3:5} In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night:
and God said, Ask what I shall give thee. {3:6} And Solomon said, Thou
hast shewed unto thy servant David my father great mercy, according as
he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in
uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast kept for him this great
kindness, that thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as [it
is] this day. {3:7} And now, O LORD my God, thou hast made thy servant
king instead of David my father: and I [am but] a little child: I know
not [how] to go out or come in. {3:8} And thy servant [is] in the midst
of thy people which thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be
numbered nor counted for multitude. {3:9} Give therefore thy servant an
understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between
good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people?
{3:10} And the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this
thing. {3:11} 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; {3:12} 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. {3:13} 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. {3:14} 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. {3:15} 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.

   {3:16} Then came there two women, [that were] harlots, unto the
king, and stood before him. {3:17} And the one woman said, O my lord, I
and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with
her in the house. {3:18} 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. {3:19} And this woman's child died in the night; because she
overlaid it. {3:20} 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. {3:21} 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. {3:22}
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. {3:23} 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. {3:24} And the king said, Bring me a sword. And
they brought a sword before the king. {3:25} And the king said, Divide
the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the
other. {3:26} Then spake the woman whose the living child [was] unto
the king, 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. ]{3:27} Then the
king answered and said, Give her the living child, and in no wise slay
it: she [is] the mother thereof. {3:28} And all Israel heard of the
judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king: for they
saw that the wisdom of God [was] in him, to do judgment.

   {4:1} So king Solomon was king over all Israel. {4:2} And these
[were] the princes which he had; Azariah the son of Zadok the priest,
{4:3} Elihoreph and Ahiah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the
son of Ahilud, the recorder. {4:4} And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada
[was] over the host: and Zadok and Abiathar [were] the priests: {4:5}
And Azariah the son of Nathan [was] over the officers: and Zabud the
son of Nathan [was] principal officer, [and] the king's friend: {4:6}
And Ahishar [was] over the household: and Adoniram the son of Abda
[was] over the tribute. {4:7} And Solomon had twelve officers over all
Israel, which provided victuals for the king and his household: each
man his month in a year made provision. {4:8} And these [are] their
names: The son of Hur, in mount Ephraim: {4:9} The son of Dekar, in
Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth-shemesh, and Elon-beth-hanan: {4:10}
The son of Hesed, in Aruboth; to him [pertained] Sochoh, and all the
land of Hepher: {4:11} The son of Abinadab, in all the region of Dor;
which had Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife: {4:12} Baana the son
of Ahilud; [to him pertained] Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth-shean,
which is by Zartanah beneath Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah,
[even] unto [the place that is] beyond Jokneam: {4:13} The son of
Geber, in Ramoth-gilead; to him [pertained] the towns 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: {4:14} Ahinadab the son of Iddo [had] Mahanaim: {4:15}
Ahimaaz [was] in Naphtali; he also took Basmath the daughter of Solomon
to wife: {4:16} Baanah the son of Hushai [was] in Asher and in Aloth:
{4:17} Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar: {4:18} Shimei the
son of Elah, in Benjamin: {4:19} 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.

   {4:20} Judah and Israel [were] many, as the sand which [is] by the
sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry. {4:21} And
Solomon reigned over all kingdoms from the river unto the land of the
Philistines, and unto the border of Egypt: they brought presents, and
served Solomon all the days of his life.

   {4:22} And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of
fine flour, and threescore measures of meal, {4:23} Ten fat oxen, and
twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred sheep, beside harts,
and roebucks, and fallowdeer, and fatted fowl. {4:24} 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. {4:25} And Judah and Israel dwelt
safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even
to Beer-sheba, all the days of Solomon.

   {4:26} And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his
chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen. {4:27} And those officers
provided victual for king Solomon, and for all that came unto king
Solomon's table, every man in his month: they lacked nothing. {4:28}
Barley also and straw for the horses and dromedaries brought they unto
the place where [the officers] were, every man according to his charge.

   {4:29} And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much,
and largeness of heart, even as the sand that [is] on the sea shore.
{4:30} And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of
the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt. {4:31} For he was wiser
than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Chalcol, and
Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in all nations round about.
{4:32} And he spake three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a
thousand and five. {4:33} And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree
that [is] in Lebanon 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. {4:34} And there came of all people to hear the wisdom of
Solomon, from all kings of the earth, which had heard of his wisdom.

   {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. {5:2} And Solomon sent to Hiram,
saying, {5:3} 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.
{5:4} But now the LORD my God hath given me rest on every side, [so
that there is] neither adversary nor evil occurrent. {5:5} And, behold,
I purpose to build an house unto the name of the 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. {5:6} 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.

   {5:7} 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. {5:8}
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. {5:9} 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. {5:10} So
Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees and fir trees [according to] all his
desire. {5:11} And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat
[for] food to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil: thus gave
Solomon to Hiram year by year. {5:12} 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.

   {5:13} And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the
levy was thirty thousand men. {5:14} And he sent them to Lebanon ten
thousand a month by courses: a month they were in Lebanon, [and] two
months at home: and Adoniram [was] over the levy. {5:15} And Solomon
had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and fourscore
thousand hewers in the mountains; {5:16} Beside the chief of Solomon's
officers which [were] over the work, three thousand and three hundred,
which ruled over the people that wrought in the work. {5:17} And the
king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, [and]
hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house. {5:18} And Solomon's
builders and Hiram's builders did hew [them,] and the stonesquarers: so
they prepared timber and stones to build the house.

   {6:1} 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.
{6:2} 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. {6:3} 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. {6:4} And for the house he made
windows of narrow lights.

   {6:5} 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: {6:6} 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. {6:7} 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. {6:8} 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. {6:9} So he built the house, and finished
it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar. {6:10} And
[then] he built chambers against all the house, five cubits high: and
they rested on the house [with] timber of cedar.

   {6:11} And the word of the LORD came to Solomon, saying, {6:12}
[Concerning] this house which thou art in building, if thou wilt walk
in my statutes, and execute my judgments, and keep all my commandments
to walk in them; then will I perform my word with thee, which I spake
unto David thy father: {6:13} And I will dwell among the children of
Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel. {6:14} So Solomon built
the house, and finished it. {6:15} And he built the walls of the house
within with boards of cedar, both the floor of the house, and the walls
of the cieling: [and] he covered [them] on the inside with wood, and
covered the floor of the house with planks of fir. {6:16} 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. ]{6:17} And the house,
that [is,] the temple before it, was forty cubits [long. ]{6:18} And
the cedar of the house within [was] carved with knops and open flowers:
all [was] cedar; there was no stone seen. {6:19} And the oracle he
prepared in the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of
the LORD. {6:20} And the oracle in the forepart [was] twenty cubits in
length, 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. {6:21} 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. {6:22} 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.

   {6:23} And within the oracle he made two cherubims [of] olive tree,
[each] ten cubits high. {6:24} And five cubits [was] the one wing of
the cherub, and five cubits the other wing of the cherub: from the
uttermost part of the one wing unto the uttermost part of the other
[were] ten cubits. {6:25} And the other cherub [was] ten cubits: both
the cherubims [were] of one measure and one size. {6:26} The height of
the one cherub [was] ten cubits, and so [was it] of the other cherub.
{6:27} 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. {6:28} And he overlaid the cherubims with gold. {6:29} 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. {6:30}
And the floor of the house he overlaid with gold, within and without.

   {6:31} 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.
]{6:32} 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. {6:33} So also made he for the door of the temple posts
of olive tree, a fourth part [of the wall. ]{6:34} 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. {6:35} And he carved
[thereon] cherubims and palm trees and open flowers: and covered [them]
with gold fitted upon the carved work.

   {6:36} And he built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone,
and a row of cedar beams.

   {6:37} In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of the
LORD laid, in the month Zif: {6:38} And in the eleventh year, in the
month Bul, which [is] the eighth 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.

   {7:1} But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he
finished all his house.

   {7:2} 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. {7:3} And [it was] covered with
cedar above upon the beams, that [lay] on forty five pillars, fifteen
[in] a row. {7:4} And [there were] windows [in] three rows, and light
[was] against light [in] three ranks. {7:5} And all the doors and posts
[were] square, with the windows: and light [was] against light [in]
three ranks.

   {7:6} And he made a porch of pillars; the length thereof [was] fifty
cubits, and the breadth thereof thirty cubits: and the porch was before
them: and the [other] pillars and the thick beam [were] before them.

   {7:7} 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.

   {7:8} 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.
{7:9} 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. {7:10} And the foundation [was of] costly stones, even great
stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits. {7:11} And
above [were] costly stones, after the measures of hewed stones, and
cedars. {7:12} And the great court round about [was] with three rows of
hewed 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.

   {7:13} And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre. {7:14}
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. {7:15} For he cast two pillars
of brass, of eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits
did compass either of them about. {7:16} And he made two chapiters [of]
molten brass, to set upon the tops of the pillars: the height of the
one chapiter [was] five cubits, and the height of the other chapiter
[was] five cubits: {7:17} [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. {7:18}
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. {7:19} And the chapiters that [were]
upon the top of the pillars [were] of lily work in the porch, four
cubits. {7:20} And the chapiters upon the two pillars [had
pomegranates] also above, over against the belly which [was] by the
network: and the pomegranates [were] two hundred in rows round about
upon the other chapiter. {7:21} 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 he called the name
thereof Boaz. {7:22} And upon the top of the pillars [was] lily work:
so was the work of the pillars finished.

   {7:23} And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the
other: [it was] round all about, and his height [was] five cubits: and
a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about. {7:24} 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. {7:25} 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. {7:26}
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.

   {7:27} 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. {7:28} And the work of the bases [was] on this [manner:]
they had borders, and the borders [were] between the ledges: {7:29} And
on the borders that [were] between the ledges [were] lions, 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. {7:30}
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. {7:31} 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. {7:32} 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 a half a cubit. {7:33} 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. {7:34} And [there were] four undersetters to the four corners
of one base: [and] the undersetters [were] of the very base itself.
{7:35} And in the top of the base [was there] a round compass of half a
cubit high: and on the top of the base the ledges thereof and the
borders thereof [were] of the same. {7:36} For on the plates of the
ledges thereof, and on the borders thereof, he graved cherubims, lions,
and palm trees, according to the proportion of every one, and additions
round about. {7:37} After this [manner] he made the ten bases: all of
them had one casting, one measure, [and] one size.

   {7:38} Then made he ten lavers of brass: one laver contained forty
baths: [and] every laver was four cubits: [and] upon every one of the
ten bases one laver. {7:39} 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.

   {7:40} 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: {7:41} 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; {7:42} 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; {7:43} And the
ten bases, and ten lavers on the bases; {7:44} And one sea, and twelve
oxen under the sea; {7:45} 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. {7:46} In the plain of
Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and
Zarthan. {7:47} And Solomon left all the vessels [unweighed,] because
they were exceeding many: neither was the weight of the brass found
out. {7:48} 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, ]{7:49} 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, {7:50} 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. {7:51} 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.

   {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. {8:2}
And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto king Solomon at the
feast in the month Ethanim, which [is] the seventh month. {8:3} And all
the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark. {8:4} 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. {8:5} 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. {8:6} 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. {8:7} 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. {8:8} 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. {8:9}
[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. {8:10} And
it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy [place,]
that the cloud filled the house of the LORD, {8:11} So that the priests
could not stand to minister because of the cloud: for the glory of the
LORD had filled the house of the LORD.

   {8:12} Then spake Solomon, The LORD said that he would dwell in
thick darkness. {8:13} I have surely built thee an house to dwell in, a
settled place for thee to abide in for ever. {8:14} And the king turned
his face about, and blessed all the congregation of Israel: (and all
the congregation of Israel stood;) {8:15} And he said, Blessed [be] the
LORD God of Israel, which spake with his mouth unto David my father,
and hath with his hand fulfilled [it,] saying, {8:16} 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. {8:17} And it
was in the heart of David my father to build an house for the name of
the LORD God of Israel. {8:18} And the LORD said unto David my father,
Whereas it was in thine heart to build an house unto my name, thou
didst well that it was in thine heart. {8:19} 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. {8:20} 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. {8:21}
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.

   {8:22} 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: {8:23} And he said, LORD God of Israel, [there is] no
God like thee, in heaven above, or on earth beneath, who keepest
covenant and mercy with thy servants that walk before thee with all
their heart: {8:24} Who hast kept with thy servant David my father that
thou promisedst him: thou spakest also with thy mouth, and hast
fulfilled [it] with thine hand, as [it is] this day. {8:25} Therefore
now, LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant David 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.
{8:26} And now, O God of Israel, let thy word, I pray thee, be
verified, which thou spakest unto thy servant David my father. {8:27}
But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven
of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have
builded? {8:28} 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: {8:29} 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. {8:30} 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.

   {8:31} 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: {8:32} 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.

   {8:33} 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: {8:34} 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.

   {8:35} 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: {8:36}
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.

   {8:37} If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence,
blasting, mildew, locust, [or] if there be caterpiller; if their enemy
besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever
sickness [there be; ]{8:38} What prayer and supplication soever be
[made] by any man, [or] by all thy people Israel, which shall know
every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands
toward this house: {8:39} 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;) {8:40} That they may fear thee all the days
that they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers. {8:41}
Moreover concerning a stranger, that [is] not of thy people Israel, but
cometh out of a far country for thy name's sake; {8:42} (For they shall
hear of thy great name, and of thy strong hand, and of thy stretched
out arm;) when he shall come and pray toward this house; {8:43} 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.

   {8:44} 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: {8:45} Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and
their supplication, and maintain their cause. {8:46} If they sin
against thee, (for [there is] no man that sinneth not,) 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; {8:47} [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; {8:48} 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: {8:49} Then
hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven thy dwelling
place, and maintain their cause, {8:50} And forgive thy people that
have sinned against thee and all their transgressions wherein they have
transgressed against thee, and give them compassion before them who
carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them: {8:51} For
they [be] thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest
forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron: {8:52} That
thine eyes may be open unto the supplication of thy servant, and unto
the supplication of thy people Israel, to hearken unto them in all that
they call for unto thee. {8:53} For thou didst separate them from among
all the people of the earth, [to be] thine inheritance, as thou spakest
by the hand of Moses thy servant, when thou broughtest our fathers out
of Egypt, O Lord GOD. {8:54} And it was [so,] that when Solomon had
made an end of praying 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. {8:55} And he stood, and blessed
all the congregation of Israel with a loud voice, saying, {8:56}
Blessed [be] the LORD, that hath given rest unto his people 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. {8:57} The LORD our God be with us, as he was with our
fathers: let him not leave us, nor forsake us: {8:58} That he may
incline our hearts unto him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his
commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments, which he commanded
our fathers. {8:59} 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: {8:60} That
all the people of the earth may know that the LORD [is] God, [and that
there is] none else. {8:61} Let your heart therefore be perfect with
the LORD our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his
commandments, as at this day.

   {8:62} And the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice
before the LORD. {8:63} 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. {8:64} 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. {8:65} And at that
time Solomon held a feast, and all Israel with him, a great
congregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt,
before the LORD our God, seven days and seven days, [even] fourteen
days. {8:66} On the eighth day he sent the people away: and they
blessed 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.

   {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, {9:2} That the LORD appeared to Solomon the
second time, as he had appeared unto him at Gibeon. {9:3} And the LORD
said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy 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. {9:4} And if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy
father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do
according to all that I have commanded thee, [and] wilt keep my
statutes and my judgments: {9:5} Then I will establish the throne of
thy kingdom upon Israel for ever, as I promised to David thy father,
saying, There shall not fail thee a man upon the throne of Israel.
{9:6} [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:
{9:7} 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: {9:8} 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? {9:9}
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.

   {9:10} 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,
{9:11} ([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.
{9:12} And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had
given him; and they pleased him not. {9:13} And he said, What cities
[are] these which thou hast given me, my brother? And he called them
the land of Cabul unto this day. {9:14} And Hiram sent to the king
sixscore talents of gold.

   {9:15} 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.
{9:16} [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. {9:17}
And Solomon built Gezer, and Beth-horon the nether, {9:18} and Baalath,
and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land, {9:19} 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. {9:20} [And] all the
people [that were] left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites,
and Jebusites, which [were] not of the children of Israel, {9:21} 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. {9:22} 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. {9:23} 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.

   {9:24} 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.

   {9:25} 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.

   {9:26} And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion-geber, which
is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom.
{9:27} And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had
knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon. {9:28} And they
came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty
talents, and brought [it] to king Solomon.

   {10:1} And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon
concerning the name of the LORD, she came to prove him with hard
questions. {10:2} And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train,
with camels 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. {10:3} And Solomon told her all her questions: there was
not [any] thing hid from the king, which he told her not. {10:4} And
when the queen of Sheba had seen all Solomon's wisdom, and the house
that he had built, {10:5} And the meat of his table, and the sitting of
his servants, and the 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. {10:6} And she said to
the king, It was a true report that I heard in mine own land of thy
acts and of thy wisdom. {10:7} Howbeit I believed not the words, until
I came, and mine eyes had seen [it:] and, behold, the half was not told
me: thy wisdom and prosperity exceedeth the fame which I heard. {10:8}
Happy [are] thy men, happy [are] these thy servants, which stand
continually before thee, [and] that hear thy wisdom. {10:9} Blessed be
the LORD thy God, which delighted in thee, to set thee on the throne of
Israel: because the LORD loved Israel for ever, therefore made he thee
king, to do judgment and justice. {10:10} 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. {10:11} And the navy
also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir
great plenty of almug trees, and precious stones. {10:12} 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. {10:13} 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.

   {10:14} Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was
six hundred threescore and six talents of gold. {10:15} Beside [that he
had] of the merchantmen, and of the traffick of the spice merchants,
and of all the kings of Arabia, and of the governors of the country.

   {10:16} And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold:
six hundred [shekels] of gold went to one target. {10:17} And he made
three hundred shields of beaten gold; three pound of gold went to one
shield: and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.

   {10:18} Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid
it with the best gold. {10:19} The throne had six steps, and the top of
the throne [was] round behind: and [there were] stays on either side on
the place of the seat, and two lions stood beside the stays. {10:20}
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.

   {10:21} 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. {10:22} 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. {10:23} So king
Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and for wisdom.

   {10:24} And all the earth sought to Solomon, to hear his wisdom,
which God had put in his heart. {10:25} And they brought every man his
present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and
armour, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.

   {10:26} And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen: and he
had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen,
whom he bestowed in the cities for chariots, and with the king at
Jerusalem. {10:27} And the king made silver [to be] in Jerusalem as
stones, and cedars made he [to be] as the sycomore trees that [are] in
the vale, for abundance.

   {10:28} And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn:
the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price. {10:29} And a
chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred [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.

   {11:1} But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the
daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites,
Zidonians, [and] Hittites; {11:2} 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. {11:3}
And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred
concubines: and his wives turned away his heart. {11:4} For it came to
pass, when Solomon was old, [that] his wives turned 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. {11:5} For Solomon went after
Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the
abomination of the Ammonites. {11:6} And Solomon did evil in the sight
of the LORD, and went not fully after the LORD, as [did] David his
father. {11:7} Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the
abomination of Moab, in the hill that [is] before Jerusalem, and for
Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon. {11:8} And likewise
did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense and sacrificed
unto their gods. {11:9} And the LORD was angry with Solomon, because
his heart was turned from the LORD God of Israel, which had appeared
unto him twice, {11:10} And had commanded him concerning this thing,
that he should not go after other gods: but he kept not that which the
LORD commanded. {11:11} 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. {11:12} Notwithstanding in
thy days I will not do it for David thy father's sake: [but] I will
rend it out of the hand of thy son. {11:13} Howbeit I will not rend
away all the kingdom; [but] will give one tribe to thy son for David my
servant's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake which I have chosen.

   {11:14} And the LORD stirred up an adversary unto Solomon, Hadad the
Edomite: he [was] of the king's seed in Edom. {11:15} For it came to
pass, when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the host was gone
up to bury the slain, after he had smitten every male in Edom; {11:16}
(For six months did Joab remain there with all Israel, until he had cut
off every male in Edom:) {11:17} That Hadad fled, he and certain
Edomites of his father's servants with him, to go into Egypt; Hadad
[being] yet a little child. {11:18} 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. {11:19} 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. {11:20} And
the sister of Tahpenes bare him Genubath his son, whom Tahpenes weaned
in Pharaoh's house: and Genubath was in Pharaoh's household among the
sons of Pharaoh. {11:21} And when Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept
with his fathers, and that Joab the captain of the host was dead, Hadad
said to Pharaoh, Let me depart, that I may go to mine own country.
{11:22} Then Pharaoh said unto him, But what hast thou lacked with me,
that, behold, thou seekest to go to thine own country? And he answered,
Nothing: howbeit let me go in any wise.

   {11:23} And God stirred him up [another] adversary, Rezon the son of
Eliadah, which fled from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah: {11:24} And
he gathered men unto him, and became captain over a band, when David
slew them [of Zobah:] and they went to Damascus, and dwelt therein, and
reigned in Damascus. {11:25} 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.

   {11:26} And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephrathite of Zereda,
Solomon's servant, whose mother's name [was] Zeruah, a widow woman,
even he lifted up [his] hand against the king. {11:27} And this [was]
the cause that he lifted up [his] hand against the king: Solomon built
Millo, [and] repaired the breaches of the city of David his father.
{11:28} 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. {11:29} 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: {11:30} And Ahijah
caught the new garment that [was] on him, and rent it [in] twelve
pieces: {11:31} 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: {11:32} (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:) {11:33} 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. {11:34}
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: {11:35}
But I will take the kingdom out of his son's hand, and will give it
unto thee, [even] ten tribes. {11:36} And unto his son will I give one
tribe, that David my servant may have a light alway before me in
Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to put my name there.
{11:37} And I will take thee, and thou shalt reign according to all
that thy soul desireth, and shalt be king over Israel. {11:38} And it
shall be, if thou wilt hearken unto all that I command thee, and wilt
walk in my ways, and do [that is] right in my sight, to keep my
statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did; that I will be
with thee, and build thee a sure house, as I built for David, and will
give Israel unto thee. {11:39} And I will for this afflict the seed of
David, but not for ever. {11:40} Solomon sought therefore to kill
Jeroboam. And Jeroboam arose, and fled into Egypt, unto Shishak king of
Egypt, and was in Egypt until the death of Solomon.

   {11:41} And the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did,
and his wisdom, [are] they not written in the book of the acts of
Solomon? {11:42} And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over
all Israel [was] forty years. {11:43} And Solomon slept with his
fathers, and was buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam
his son reigned in his stead.

   {12:1} And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel were come to
Shechem to make him king. {12:2} And it came to pass, when Jeroboam the
son of Nebat, who was yet in Egypt, heard [of it,] (for he was fled
from the presence of king Solomon, and Jeroboam dwelt in Egypt;) {12:3}
That they sent and called him. And Jeroboam and all the congregation of
Israel came, and spake unto Rehoboam, saying, {12:4} Thy father made
our yoke grievous: now therefore make thou the grievous service of thy
father, and his heavy yoke which he put upon us, lighter, and we will
serve thee. {12:5} And he said unto them, Depart yet [for] three days,
then come again to me. And the people departed.

   {12:6} And king Rehoboam consulted with the old men, that stood
before Solomon his father while he yet lived, and said, How do ye
advise that I may answer this people? {12:7} 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. {12:8} 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: {12:9} 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? {12:10} 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. {12:11} 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.

   {12:12} 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.
{12:13} And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the old
men's counsel that they gave him; {12:14} And spake to them after the
counsel of the young men, saying, 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. {12:15} 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.

   {12:16} 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. {12:17} But [as for] the children of Israel which
dwelt in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them. {12:18} Then
king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who [was] over the tribute; 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. {12:19} So
Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this day. {12:20} 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.

   {12:21} 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. {12:22} But the word of God came unto Shemaiah the man of God,
saying, {12:23} 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, {12:24} 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.

   {12:25} Then Jeroboam built Shechem in mount Ephraim, and dwelt
therein; and went out from thence, and built Penuel. {12:26} And
Jeroboam said in his heart, Now shall the kingdom return to the house
of David: {12:27} If this people go up to do sacrifice in the house of
the LORD at 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. {12:28} 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. {12:29} And he
set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan. {12:30} And this
thing became a sin: for the people went [to worship] before the one,
[even] unto Dan. {12:31} And he made an house of high places, and made
priests of the lowest of the people, which were not of the sons of
Levi. {12:32} And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the
fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that [is] in Judah, and
he offered upon the altar. So did he in Bethel, sacrificing unto the
calves that he had made: and he placed in Bethel the priests of the
high places which he had made. {12:33} So he offered upon the altar
which he had made in Bethel the 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.

   {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. {13:2} 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. {13:3} 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. {13:4} 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. {13:5} 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. {13:6} 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. {13:7} And the king said unto the man of
God, Come home with me, and refresh thyself, and I will give thee a
reward. {13:8} And the man of God said unto the king, If thou wilt give
me half thine house, I will not go in with thee, neither will I eat
bread nor drink water in this place: {13:9} 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. {13:10} So he went another way,
and returned not by the way that he came to Bethel.

   {13:11} 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. {13:12} 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. {13:13} And he said unto his sons, Saddle me the ass. So
they saddled him the ass: and he rode thereon, {13:14} And went after
the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak: and he said unto
him, [Art] thou the man of God that camest from Judah? And he said, I
[am. ]{13:15} Then he said unto him, Come home with me, and eat bread.
{13:16} 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:
{13:17} 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. {13:18} 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. {13:19} So he went back with him,
and did eat bread in his house, and drank water.

   {13:20} 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: {13:21} 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, {13:22}
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.

   {13:23} 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. {13:24} 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. {13:25} 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. {13:26} 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. {13:27} And
he spake to his sons, saying, Saddle me the ass. And they saddled [him.
]{13:28} 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. {13:29} 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. {13:30} And
he laid his carcase in his own grave; and they mourned over him,
[saying,] Alas, my brother! {13:31} And it came to pass, after he had
buried him, that he spake to 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: {13:32} 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.

   {13:33} 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. {13:34} 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.

   {14:1} At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick. {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. {14:3} 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. {14:4} 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.

   {14:5} 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. ]{14:6} 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.
]{14:7} 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, {14:8} 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; {14:9} 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: {14:10} 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. {14:11} 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.
{14:12} Arise thou therefore, get thee to thine own house: [and] when
thy feet enter into the city, the child shall die. {14:13} And all
Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him: for he only of 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. {14:14}
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. {14:15} 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. {14:16} And he shall give Israel
up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who did sin, and who made Israel to
sin.

   {14:17} And Jeroboam's wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah:
[and] when she came to the threshold of the door, the child died;
{14:18} 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. {14:19} 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. {14:20} 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.

   {14:21} 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. {14:22} 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. {14:23} For they
also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high
hill, and under every green tree. {14:24} And there were also sodomites
in the land: [and] they did according to all the abominations of the
nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

   {14:25} And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam,
[that] Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem: {14:26} And he
took away the treasures of the house of the LORD, and 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. {14:27} 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.
{14:28} 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.

   {14:29} 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? {14:30} And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all
[their] days. {14:31} 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.

   {15:1} Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat
reigned Abijam over Judah. {15:2} Three years reigned he in Jerusalem.
And his mother's name [was] Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom. {15:3}
And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before
him: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as the heart
of David his father. {15:4} Nevertheless for David's sake did the LORD
his God give him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and
to establish Jerusalem: {15:5} Because David did [that which was] right
in the eyes of the LORD, 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. {15:6} And there was war between Rehoboam and
Jeroboam all the days of his life. {15:7} Now the rest of the acts of
Abijam, and all that he did, [are] they not written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Judah? And there was war between Abijam and
Jeroboam. {15:8} And Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him
in the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead.

   {15:9} And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel reigned
Asa over Judah. {15:10} And forty and one years reigned he in
Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was] Maachah, the daughter of
Abishalom. {15:11} And Asa did [that which was] right in the eyes of
the LORD, as [did] David his father. {15:12} And he took away the
sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers
had made. {15:13} And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from
[being] queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa
destroyed her idol, and burnt [it] by the brook Kidron. {15:14} But the
high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa's heart was perfect with
the LORD all his days. {15:15} And he brought in the things which his
father had dedicated, and the things which himself had dedicated, into
the house of the LORD, silver, and gold, and vessels.

   {15:16} And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all
their days. {15:17} 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. {15:18} 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 Ben-hadad, the son of Tabrimon, the
son of Hezion, king of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying, {15:19}
[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. {15:20} So Ben- hadad 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 Abel-beth-maachah, and all Cinneroth, with
all the land of Naphtali. {15:21} And it came to pass, when Baasha
heard [thereof,] that he left off building of Ramah, and dwelt in
Tirzah. {15:22} 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. {15:23} 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. {15:24} 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.

   {15:25} 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. {15:26} And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in
the way of his father, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin.

   {15:27} And Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar,
conspired against him; and Baasha smote him at Gibbethon, which
[belonged] to the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel laid siege to
Gibbethon. {15:28} Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did
Baasha slay him, and reigned in his stead. {15:29} And it came to pass,
when he reigned, [that] he smote all the house of Jeroboam; he left not
to Jeroboam any that breathed, until he had destroyed him, according
unto the saying of the LORD, which he spake by his servant Ahijah the
Shilonite: {15:30} Because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and
which he made Israel sin, by his provocation wherewith he provoked the
LORD God of Israel to anger.

   {15:31} Now the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did,
[are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Israel? {15:32} And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel
all their days. {15:33} 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. {15:34} And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and
walked in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel
to sin.

   {16:1} Then the word of the LORD came to Jehu the son of Hanani
against Baasha, saying, {16:2} 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; {16:3} 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. {16:4} 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. {16:5} 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? {16:6} So
Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah: and Elah his
son reigned in his stead. {16:7} And also by the hand of the prophet
Jehu the son of Hanani 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.

   {16:8} In the twenty and sixth year of Asa king of Judah began Elah
the son of Baasha to reign over Israel in Tirzah, two years. {16:9} And
his servant Zimri, captain of half [his] chariots, conspired against
him, as he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza
steward of [his] house in Tirzah. {16:10} And Zimri went in and smote
him, and killed him, in the twenty and seventh year of Asa king of
Judah, and reigned in his stead.

   {16:11} 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. {16:12} 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, {16:13} 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.
{16:14} Now the rest of the acts of Elah, and all that he did, [are]
they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

   {16:15} In the twenty and seventh year of Asa king of Judah did
Zimri reign seven days in Tirzah. And the people [were] encamped
against Gibbethon, which [belonged] to the Philistines. {16:16} 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. {16:17} And Omri went up
from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah.
{16:18} And it came to pass, when Zimri saw that the city was taken,
that he went into the palace of the king's house, and burnt the king's
house over him with fire, and died, {16:19} 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. {16:20}
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?

   {16:21} 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. {16:22} But the people that followed Omri prevailed
against the people that followed Tibni the son of Ginath: so Tibni
died, and Omri reigned.

   {16:23} In the thirty and first year of Asa king of Judah began Omri
to reign over Israel, twelve years: six years reigned he in Tirzah.
{16:24} And he bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two talents of
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.

   {16:25} But Omri wrought evil in the eyes of the LORD, and did worse
than all that [were] before him. {16:26} For he walked in all the way
of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel
to sin, to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger with their vanities.
{16:27} 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? {16:28} So Omri slept with his fathers, and was
buried in Samaria: and Ahab his son reigned in his stead.

   {16:29} And in the thirty and eighth year of Asa king of Judah began
Ahab the son of Omri to reign over Israel: and Ahab the son of Omri
reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty and two years. {16:30} And Ahab
the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD above all that [were]
before him. {16:31} And it came to pass, as if it had been a light
thing for him to walk 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. {16:32} And he reared up an
altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria.
{16:33} And Ahab made a grove; and Ahab did more to provoke the LORD
God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before
him.

   {16:34} 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.

   {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. {17:2} And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, {17:3}
Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook
Cherith, that [is] before Jordan. {17:4} And it shall be, [that] thou
shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee
there. {17:5} So he went and did according unto the word of the LORD:
for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that [is] before Jordan.
{17:6} And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and
bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook. {17:7} And
it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there
had been no rain in the land.

   {17:8} And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, {17:9} Arise,
get thee to Zarephath, which [belongeth] to Zidon, and dwell there:
behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee. {17:10}
So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to 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. {17:11} And as she was going to fetch [it,]
he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in
thine hand. {17:12} And she said, [As] the LORD thy God liveth, I have
not a cake, 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. {17:13} 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. {17:14} 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.
{17:15} And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and
she, and he, and her house, did eat [many] days. {17:16} [And] the
barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according
to the word of the LORD, which he spake by Elijah.

   {17:17} And it came to pass after these things, [that] the son of
the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was
so sore, that there was no breath left in him. {17:18} 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? {17:19}
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. {17:20} 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? {17:21} 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. {17:22} And the LORD
heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him
again, and he revived. {17:23} And Elijah took the child, and brought
him down out of the chamber into the house, and delivered him unto his
mother: and Elijah said, See, thy son liveth.

   {17:24} And the woman said to Elijah, Now by this I know that thou
[art] a man of God, [and] that the word of the LORD in thy mouth [is]
truth.

   {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. {18:2} And Elijah went to
shew himself unto Ahab. And [there was] a sore famine in Samaria.
{18:3} And Ahab called Obadiah, which [was] the governor of [his]
house. (Now Obadiah feared the LORD greatly: {18:4} For it was [so,]
when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah took an
hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with
bread and water.) {18:5} 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. {18:6} So they divided the land between them to pass throughout
it: Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by
himself.

   {18:7} 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? {18:8} And he answered him, I [am:] go, tell thy lord, Behold,
Elijah [is here. ]{18:9} And he said, What have I sinned, that thou
wouldest deliver thy servant into the hand of Ahab, to slay me? {18:10}
[As] the LORD thy God liveth, there is no nation or kingdom, 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. {18:11} And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold,
Elijah [is here. ]{18:12} And it shall come to pass, [as soon as] I am
gone from thee, that 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. {18:13}
Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of
the LORD, how I hid an hundred men of the LORD'S prophets by fifty in a
cave, and fed them with bread and water? {18:14} And now thou sayest,
Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah [is here:] and he shall slay me.
{18:15} And Elijah said, [As] the LORD of hosts liveth, before whom I
stand, I will surely shew myself unto him to day. {18:16} So Obadiah
went to meet Ahab, and told him: and Ahab went to meet Elijah.

   {18:17} And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said
unto him, [Art] thou he that troubleth Israel? {18:18} And he answered,
I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father's house, in that
ye have forsaken the commandments of the LORD, and thou hast followed
Baalim. {18:19} Now therefore send, [and] gather to me all Israel unto
mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the
prophets of the groves four hundred, which eat at Jezebel's table.
{18:20} So Ahab sent unto all the children of Israel, and gathered the
prophets together unto mount Carmel. {18:21} And Elijah came unto all
the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the
LORD [be] God, follow him: but if Baal, [then] follow him. And the
people answered him not a word. {18:22} 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. {18:23} 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: ]{18:24} 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.
{18:25} 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. ]{18:26} 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. {18:27} And it came to pass
at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud: for he [is] a
god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey,
[or] peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked. {18:28} And they
cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and
lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them. {18:29} 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. {18:30} 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.
{18:31} 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: {18:32} 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. {18:33} 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. {18:34} 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. {18:35} And the water
ran round about the altar; and he filled the trench also with water.
{18:36} And it came to pass at [the time of] the offering of the
[evening] 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. {18:37} 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. {18:38} 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.
{18:39} And when all the people saw [it,] they fell on their faces: and
they said, The LORD, he [is] the God; the LORD, he [is] the God.
{18:40} And Elijah said unto them, Take the prophets of Baal; let not
one of them escape. And they took them: and Elijah brought them down to
the brook Kishon, and slew them there.

   {18:41} And Elijah said unto Ahab, Get thee up, eat and drink; for
[there is] a sound of abundance of rain. {18:42} So Ahab went up to eat
and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he cast
himself down upon the earth, and put his face between his knees,
{18:43} 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. {18:44} 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. {18:45} 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. {18:46}
And the hand of the LORD was on Elijah; and he girded up his loins, and
ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.

   {19:1} And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and withal
how he had slain all the prophets with the sword. {19:2} Then Jezebel
sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, So let the 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. {19:3} And when he saw [that,] he arose, and
went for his life, and came to Beer-sheba, which [belongeth] to Judah,
and left his servant there.

   {19:4} But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and
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. {19:5} And as he lay and
slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an angel touched him, and said
unto him, Arise [and] eat. {19:6} 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. {19:7} 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. {19:8} 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.

   {19:9} 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? {19:10} 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. {19:11} 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: {19:12} And after the
earthquake a fire; [but] the LORD [was] not in the fire: and after the
fire a still small voice. {19:13} And it was [so,] when Elijah heard
[it,] that he wrapped his face in 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? {19:14} 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. {19:15} And the LORD said unto him,
Go, return on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus: and when thou
comest, anoint Hazael [to be] king over Syria: {19:16} And Jehu the son
of Nimshi shalt thou anoint [to be] king over Israel: and Elisha the
son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah shalt thou anoint [to be] prophet in thy
room. {19:17} 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. {19:18} 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.

   {19:19} 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.
{19:20} 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?
{19:21} 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.

   {20:1} And Ben-hadad 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. {20:2} And he sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel into the city,
and said unto him, Thus saith Ben-hadad, {20:3} Thy silver and thy gold
[is] mine; thy wives also and thy children, [even] the goodliest, [are]
mine. {20:4} And the king of Israel answered and said, My lord, O king,
according to thy saying, I [am] thine, and all that I have. {20:5} And
the messengers came again, and said, Thus speaketh Ben-hadad, saying,
Although I have sent unto thee, saying, Thou shalt deliver me thy
silver, and thy gold, and thy wives, and thy children; {20:6} 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. {20:7} 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.
{20:8} And all the elders and all the people said unto him, Hearken not
[unto him,] nor consent. {20:9} Wherefore he said unto the messengers
of Ben-hadad, Tell my 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. {20:10} And
Ben-hadad 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. {20:11} And the king of Israel answered and
said, Tell [him,] Let not him that girdeth on [his harness] boast
himself as he that putteth it off. {20:12} And it came to pass, when
[Ben-hadad] heard this message, as 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.

   {20:13} 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. {20:14} 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. {20:15} 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. {20:16} And they went out at noon. But Ben-hadad [was]
drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty
and two kings that helped him. {20:17} And the young men of the princes
of the provinces went out first; and Ben-hadad sent out, and they told
him, saying, There are men come out of Samaria. {20:18} And he said,
Whether they be come out for peace, take them alive; or whether they be
come out for war, take them alive. {20:19} So these young men of the
princes of the provinces came out of the city, and the army which
followed them. {20:20} And they slew every one his man: and the Syrians
fled; and Israel pursued them: and Ben-hadad the king of Syria escaped
on an horse with the horsemen. {20:21} And the king of Israel went out,
and smote the horses and chariots, and slew the Syrians with a great
slaughter.

   {20:22} And the prophet came to the king of Israel, and said unto
him, 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.
{20:23} 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. {20:24} And do this thing, Take the kings away, every man
out of his place, and put captains in their rooms: {20:25} And number
thee an army, like the army that thou hast lost, 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. {20:26} And it came to pass at the return of the
year, that Ben-hadad numbered the Syrians, and went up to Aphek, to
fight against Israel. {20:27} And the children of Israel were numbered,
and were all present, and went against them: and the children of Israel
pitched before them like two little flocks of kids; but the Syrians
filled the country. {20:28} 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. {20:29} 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. {20:30} 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 Ben-hadad fled, and
came into the city, into an inner chamber.

   {20:31} 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. {20:32}
So they girded sackcloth on their loins, and [put] ropes on their
heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, Thy servant Ben-hadad
saith, I pray thee, let me live. And he said, [Is] he yet alive? he is
my brother. {20:33} Now the men did diligently observe whether [any
thing would come] from him, and did hastily catch [it:] and they said,
Thy brother Ben-hadad. Then he said, Go ye, bring him. Then Ben-hadad
came forth to him; and he caused him to come up into the chariot.
{20:34} 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.

   {20:35} 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. {20:36} 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. {20:37} Then he found another man,
and said, Smite me, I pray thee. And the man smote him, so that in
smiting he wounded [him. ]{20:38} So the prophet departed, and waited
for the king by the way, and disguised himself with ashes upon his
face. {20:39} And as the king passed by, he cried unto the king: and he
said, 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. {20:40} 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. ]{20:41} And he
hasted, and took the ashes away from his face; and the king of Israel
discerned him that he [was] of the prophets. {20:42} And he said unto
him, Thus saith the LORD, Because thou hast let go out of [thy] hand a
man whom I appointed to utter destruction, therefore thy life shall go
for his life, and thy people for his people. {20:43} And the king of
Israel went to his house heavy and displeased, and came to Samaria.

   {21:1} And it came to pass after these things, [that] Naboth the
Jezreelite had a vineyard, which [was] in Jezreel, hard by the palace
of Ahab king of Samaria. {21:2} And Ahab spake unto Naboth, saying,
Give me thy vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because
it [is] near unto my house: and I will give thee for it a better
vineyard than it; [or,] if it seem good to thee, I will give thee the
worth of it in money. {21:3} And Naboth said to Ahab, The LORD forbid
it me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers unto thee.
{21:4} And Ahab came into his house heavy and displeased because of 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.

   {21:5} But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said unto him, Why is
thy spirit so sad, that thou eatest no bread? {21:6} And he said unto
her, Because I spake unto Naboth the 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. {21:7} 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.
{21:8} 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. {21:9} And she wrote in the
letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the
people: {21:10} 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. {21:11} 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. {21:12} They
proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people. {21:13} 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. {21:14} Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, Naboth
is stoned, and is dead.

   {21:15} 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. {21:16} And it came to
pass, when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, that Ahab rose up to go
down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.

   {21:17} And the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite,
saying, {21:18} Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, which [is]
in Samaria: behold, [he is] in the vineyard of Naboth, whither he is
gone down to possess it. {21:19} And thou shalt speak unto him, saying,
Thus saith the LORD, 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. {21:20} 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. {21:21} 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, {21:22} 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. {21:23} And of Jezebel also spake the LORD,
saying, The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel. {21:24} Him
that dieth of Ahab in the city the dogs shall eat; and him that dieth
in the field shall the fowls of the air eat.

   {21:25} But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to
work wickedness in the sight of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred
up. {21:26} 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. {21:27} 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. {21:28} And the word of
the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying, {21:29} Seest thou how
Ahab humbleth himself before me? because he 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.

   {22:1} And they continued three years without war between Syria and
Israel. {22:2} And it came to pass in the third year, that Jehoshaphat
the king of Judah came down to the king of Israel. {22:3} And the king
of Israel said unto his servants, Know ye that Ramoth in Gilead [is]
ours, and we [be] still, [and] take it not out of the hand of the king
of Syria? {22:4} And he said unto Jehoshaphat, Wilt thou go with me to
battle to Ramoth- gilead? And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, I
[am] as thou [art,] my people as thy people, my horses as thy horses.
{22:5} And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel, Enquire, I pray
thee, at the word of the LORD to day. {22:6} Then the king of Israel
gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said unto
them, Shall I go against Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I forbear?
And they said, Go up; for the Lord shall deliver [it] into the hand of
the king. {22:7} And Jehoshaphat said, [Is there] not here a prophet of
the LORD besides, that we might enquire of him? {22:8} And the king of
Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, [There is] yet one 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. {22:9} Then the king of Israel called an
officer, and said, Hasten [hither] Micaiah the son of Imlah. {22:10}
And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah sat 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.
{22:11} 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. {22:12} And all the prophets prophesied
so, saying, Go up to Ramoth- gilead, and prosper: for the LORD shall
deliver [it] into the king's hand. {22:13} 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. {22:14} And Micaiah said, [As] the LORD liveth, what the LORD
saith unto me, that will I speak.

   {22:15} So he came to the king. And the king said unto him, Micaiah,
shall we go against Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall we forbear? And
he answered him, Go, and prosper: for the LORD shall deliver [it] into
the hand of the king. {22:16} And the king said unto him, How many
times shall I adjure thee that thou tell me nothing but [that which is]
true in the name of the LORD? {22:17} 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. {22:18} And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, Did I
not tell thee that he would prophesy no good concerning me, but evil?
{22:19} And he said, Hear thou therefore the word of the LORD: I saw
the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by
him on his right hand and on his left. {22:20} And the LORD said, Who
shall persuade Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead? And
one said on this manner, and another said on that manner. {22:21} And
there came forth a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said, I will
persuade him. {22:22} And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith? And he
said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all
his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt persuade [him,] and prevail also:
go forth, and do so. {22:23} 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. {22:24} 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? {22:25} And Micaiah
said, Behold, thou shalt see in that day, when thou shalt go into an
inner chamber to hide thyself. {22:26} And the king of Israel said,
Take Micaiah, and carry him back unto Amon the governor of the city,
and to Joash the king's son; {22:27} 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. {22:28} 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. {22:29} So the king
of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth-gilead.
{22:30} 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. {22:31} 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. {22:32} 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. {22:33} 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. {22:34} 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. {22:35} 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. {22:36} 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.

   {22:37} So the king died, and was brought to Samaria; and they
buried the king in Samaria. {22:38} And [one] washed the chariot in the
pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood; and they washed his
armour; according unto the word of the LORD which he spake. {22:39} 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? {22:40} So Ahab
slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead.

   {22:41} And Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah in
the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel. {22:42} Jehoshaphat [was]
thirty and five 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. {22:43} 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.
{22:44} And Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel. {22:45} 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? {22:46} And the remnant of the sodomites, which
remained in the days of his father Asa, he took out of the land.
{22:47} [There was] then no king in Edom: a deputy [was] king. {22:48}
Jehoshaphat made ships of Tharshish to go to Ophir for gold: but they
went not; for the ships were broken at Ezion-geber. {22:49} Then said
Ahaziah the son of Ahab unto Jehoshaphat, Let my servants go with thy
servants in the ships. But Jehoshaphat would not.

   {22:50} 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.

   {22:51} Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in
Samaria the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned
two years over Israel. {22:52} And he did evil in the sight of the
LORD, and walked in the way 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: {22:53} For he served Baal, and worshipped him, and provoked to
anger the LORD God of Israel, according to all that his father had done.





The First Book of the Maccabees

   {1:1} And it happened, after that Alexander son of Philip, the
Macedonian, who came out of the land of Chettiim, had smitten Darius
king of the Persians and Medes, that he reigned in his stead, the first
over Greece,

   {1:2} And made many wars, and won many strong holds, and slew the
kings of the earth,

   {1:3} And went through to the ends of the earth, and took spoils of
many nations, insomuch that the earth was quiet before him; whereupon
he was exalted and his heart was lifted up.

   {1:4} And he gathered a mighty strong host and ruled over countries,
and nations, and kings, who became tributaries unto him.

   {1:5} And after these things he fell sick, and perceived that he
should die.

   {1:6} Wherefore he called his servants, such as were honourable, and
had been brought up with him from his youth, and parted his kingdom
among them, while he was yet alive.

   {1:7} So Alexander reigned twelves years, and then died.

   {1:8} And his servants bare rule every one in his place.

   {1:9} And after his death they all put crowns upon themselves; so
did their sons after them many years: and evils were multiplied in the
earth.

   {1:10} And there came out of them a wicked root Antiochus surnamed
Epiphanes, son of Antiochus the king, who had been an hostage at Rome,
and he reigned in the hundred and thirty and seventh year of the
kingdom of the Greeks.

   {1:11} In those days went there out of Israel wicked men, who
persuaded many, saying, Let us go and make a covenant with the heathen
that are round about us: for since we departed from them we have had
much sorrow.

   {1:12} So this device pleased them well.

   {1:13} Then certain of the people were so forward herein, that they
went to the king, who gave them licence to do after the ordinances of
the heathen:

   {1:14} Whereupon they built a place of exercise at Jerusalem
according to the customs of the heathen:

   {1:15} And made themselves uncircumcised, and forsook the holy
covenant, and joined themselves to the heathen, and were sold to do
mischief.

   {1:16} Now when the kingdom was established before Antiochus, he
thought to reign over Egypt that he might have the dominion of two
realms.

   {1:17} Wherefore he entered into Egypt with a great multitude, with
chariots, and elephants, and horsemen, and a great navy,

   {1:18} And made war against Ptolemee king of Egypt: but Ptolemee was
afraid of him, and fled; and many were wounded to death.

   {1:19} Thus they got the strong cities in the land of Egypt and he
took the spoils thereof.

   {1:20} And after that Antiochus had smitten Egypt, he returned again
in the hundred forty and third year, and went up against Israel and
Jerusalem with a great multitude,

   {1:21} And entered proudly into the sanctuary, and took away the
golden altar, and the candlestick of light, and all the vessels thereof,

   {1:22} And the table of the shewbread, and the pouring vessels, and
the vials. and the censers of gold, and the veil, and the crown, and
the golden ornaments that were before the temple, all which he pulled
off.

   {1:23} He took also the silver and the gold, and the precious
vessels: also he took the hidden treasures which he found.

   {1:24} And when he had taken all away, he went into his own land,
having made a great massacre, and spoken very proudly.

   {1:25} Therefore there was a great mourning in Israel, in every
place where they were;

   {1:26} So that the princes and elders mourned, the virgins and young
men were made feeble, and the beauty of women was changed.

   {1:27} Every bridegroom took up lamentation, and she that sat in the
marriage chamber was in heaviness,

   {1:28} The land also was moved for the inhabitants thereof, and all
the house of Jacob was covered with confusion.

   {1:29} And after two years fully expired the king sent his chief
collector of tribute unto the cities of Juda, who came unto Jerusalem
with a great multitude,

   {1:30} And spake peaceable words unto them, but all was deceit: for
when they had given him credence, he fell suddenly upon the city, and
smote it very sore, and destroyed much people of Israel.

   {1:31} And when he had taken the spoils of the city, he set it on
fire, and pulled down the houses and walls thereof on every side.

   {1:32} But the women and children took they captive, and possessed
the cattle.

   {1:33} Then builded they the city of David with a great and strong
wall, and with mighty towers, and made it a strong hold for them.

   {1:34} And they put therein a sinful nation, wicked men, and
fortified themselves therein.

   {1:35} They stored it also with armour and victuals, and when they
had gathered together the spoils of Jerusalem, they laid them up there,
and so they became a sore snare:

   {1:36} For it was a place to lie in wait against the sanctuary, and
an evil adversary to Israel.

   {1:37} Thus they shed innocent blood on every side of the sanctuary,
and defiled it:

   {1:38} Insomuch that the inhabitants of Jerusalem fled because of
them: whereupon the city was made an habitation of strangers, and
became strange to those that were born in her; and her own children
left her.

   {1:39} Her sanctuary was laid waste like a wilderness, her feasts
were turned into mourning, her sabbaths into reproach her honour into
contempt.

   {1:40} As had been her glory, so was her dishonour increased, and
her excellency was turned into mourning.

   {1:41} Moreover king Antiochus wrote to his whole kingdom, that all
should be one people,

   {1:42} And every one should leave his laws: so all the heathen
agreed according to the commandment of the king.

   {1:43} Yea, many also of the Israelites consented to his religion,
and sacrificed unto idols, and profaned the sabbath.

   {1:44} For the king had sent letters by messengers unto Jerusalem
and the cities of Juda that they should follow the strange laws of the
land,

   {1:45} And forbid burnt offerings, and sacrifice, and drink
offerings, in the temple; and that they should profane the sabbaths and
festival days:

   {1:46} And pollute the sanctuary and holy people:

   {1:47} Set up altars, and groves, and chapels of idols, and
sacrifice swine's flesh, and unclean beasts:

   {1:48} That they should also leave their children uncircumcised, and
make their souls abominable with all manner of uncleanness and
profanation:

   {1:49} To the end they might forget the law, and change all the
ordinances.

   {1:50} And whosoever would not do according to the commandment of
the king, he said, he should die.

   {1:51} In the selfsame manner wrote he to his whole kingdom, and
appointed overseers over all the people, commanding the cities of Juda
to sacrifice, city by city.

   {1:52} Then many of the people were gathered unto them, to wit every
one that forsook the law; and so they committed evils in the land;

   {1:53} And drove the Israelites into secret places, even wheresoever
they could flee for succour.

   {1:54} Now the fifteenth day of the month Casleu, in the hundred
forty and fifth year, they set up the abomination of desolation upon
the altar, and builded idol altars throughout the cities of Juda on
every side;

   {1:55} And burnt incense at the doors of their houses, and in the
streets.

   {1:56} And when they had rent in pieces the books of the law which
they found, they burnt them with fire.

   {1:57} And whosoever was found with any the book of the testament,
or if any committed to the law, the king's commandment was, that they
should put him to death.

   {1:58} Thus did they by their authority unto the Israelites every
month, to as many as were found in the cities.

   {1:59} Now the five and twentieth day of the month they did
sacrifice upon the idol altar, which was upon the altar of God.

   {1:60} At which time according to the commandment they put to death
certain women, that had caused their children to be circumcised.

   {1:61} And they hanged the infants about their necks, and rifled
their houses, and slew them that had circumcised them.

   {1:62} Howbeit many in Israel were fully resolved and confirmed in
themselves not to eat any unclean thing.

   {1:63} Wherefore the rather to die, that they might not be defiled
with meats, and that they might not profane the holy covenant: so then
they died.

   {1:64} And there was very great wrath upon Israel.

   {2:1} In those days arose Mattathias the son of John, the son of
Simeon, a priest of the sons of Joarib, from Jerusalem, and dwelt in
Modin.

   {2:2} And he had five sons, Joannan, called Caddis:

   {2:3} Simon; called Thassi:

   {2:4} Judas, who was called Maccabeus:

   {2:5} Eleazar, called Avaran: and Jonathan, whose surname was Apphus.

   {2:6} And when he saw the blasphemies that were committed in Juda
and Jerusalem,

   {2:7} He said, Woe is me! wherefore was I born to see this misery of
my people, and of the holy city, and to dwell there, when it was
delivered into the hand of the enemy, and the sanctuary into the hand
of strangers?

   {2:8} Her temple is become as a man without glory.

   {2:9} Her glorious vessels are carried away into captivity, her
infants are slain in the streets, her young men with the sword of the
enemy.

   {2:10} What nation hath not had a part in her kingdom and gotten of
her spoils?

   {2:11} All her ornaments are taken away; of a free woman she is
become a bondslave.

   {2:12} And, behold, our sanctuary, even our beauty and our glory, is
laid waste, and the Gentiles have profaned it.

   {2:13} To what end therefore shall we live any longer?

   {2:14} Then Mattathias and his sons rent their clothes, and put on
sackcloth, and mourned very sore.

   {2:15} In the mean while the king's officers, such as compelled the
people to revolt, came into the city Modin, to make them sacrifice.

   {2:16} And when many of Israel came unto them, Mattathias also and
his sons came together.

   {2:17} Then answered the king's officers, and said to Mattathias on
this wise, Thou art a ruler, and an honourable and great man in this
city, and strengthened with sons and brethren:

   {2:18} Now therefore come thou first, and fulfil the king's
commandment, like as all the heathen have done, yea, and the men of
Juda also, and such as remain at Jerusalem: so shalt thou and thy house
be in the number of the king's friends, and thou and thy children shall
be honoured with silver and gold, and many rewards.

   {2:19} Then Mattathias answered and spake with a loud voice, Though
all the nations that are under the king's dominion obey him, and fall
away every one from the religion of their fathers, and give consent to
his commandments:

   {2:20} Yet will I and my sons and my brethren walk in the covenant
of our fathers.

   {2:21} God forbid that we should forsake the law and the ordinances.

   {2:22} We will not hearken to the king's words, to go from our
religion, either on the right hand, or the left.

   {2:23} Now when he had left speaking these words, there came one of
the Jews in the sight of all to sacrifice on the altar which was at
Modin, according to the king's commandment.

   {2:24} Which thing when Mattathias saw, he was inflamed with zeal,
and his reins trembled, neither could he forbear to shew his anger
according to judgment: wherefore he ran, and slew him upon the altar.

   {2:25} Also the king's commissioner, who compelled men to sacrifice,
he killed at that time, and the altar he pulled down.

   {2:26} Thus dealt he zealously for the law of God like as Phinees
did unto Zambri the son of Salom.

   {2:27} And Mattathias cried throughout the city with a loud voice,
saying, Whosoever is zealous of the law, and maintaineth the covenant,
let him follow me.

   {2:28} So he and his sons fled into the mountains, and left all that
ever they had in the city.

   {2:29} Then many that sought after justice and judgment went down
into the wilderness, to dwell there:

   {2:30} Both they, and their children, and their wives; and their
cattle; because afflictions increased sore upon them.

   {2:31} Now when it was told the king's servants, and the host that
was at Jerusalem, in the city of David, that certain men, who had
broken the king's commandment, were gone down into the secret places in
the wilderness,

   {2:32} They pursued after them a great number, and having overtaken
them, they camped against them, and made war against them on the
sabbath day.

   {2:33} And they said unto them, Let that which ye have done hitherto
suffice; come forth, and do according to the commandment of the king,
and ye shall live.

   {2:34} But they said, We will not come forth, neither will we do the
king's commandment, to profane the sabbath day.

   {2:35} So then they gave them the battle with all speed.

   {2:36} Howbeit they answered them not, neither cast they a stone at
them, nor stopped the places where they lay hid;

   {2:37} But said, Let us die all in our innocency: heaven and earth
will testify for us, that ye put us to death wrongfully.

   {2:38} So they rose up against them in battle on the sabbath, and
they slew them, with their wives and children and their cattle, to the
number of a thousand people.

   {2:39} Now when Mattathias and his friends understood hereof, they
mourned for them right sore.

   {2:40} And one of them said to another, If we all do as our brethren
have done, and fight not for our lives and laws against the heathen,
they will now quickly root us out of the earth.

   {2:41} At that time therefore they decreed, saying, Whosoever shall
come to make battle with us on the sabbath day, we will fight against
him; neither will we die all, as our brethren that were murdered im the
secret places.

   {2:42} Then came there unto him a company of Assideans who were
mighty men of Israel, even all such as were voluntarily devoted unto
the law.

   {2:43} Also all they that fled for persecution joined themselves
unto them, and were a stay unto them.

   {2:44} So they joined their forces, and smote sinful men in their
anger, and wicked men in their wrath: but the rest fled to the heathen
for succour.

   {2:45} Then Mattathias and his friends went round about, and pulled
down the altars:

   {2:46} And what children soever they found within the coast of
Israel uncircumcised, those they circumcised valiantly.

   {2:47} They pursued also after the proud men, and the work prospered
in their hand.

   {2:48} So they recovered the law out of the hand of the Gentiles,
and out of the hand of kings, neither suffered they the sinner to
triumph.

   {2:49} Now when the time drew near that Mattathias should die, he
said unto his sons, Now hath pride and rebuke gotten strength, and the
time of destruction, and the wrath of indignation:

   {2:50} Now therefore, my sons, be ye zealous for the law, and give
your lives for the covenant of your fathers.

   {2:51} Call to remembrance what acts our fathers did in their time;
so shall ye receive great honour and an everlasting name.

   {2:52} Was not Abraham found faithful in temptation, and it was
imputed unto him for righteousness?

   {2:53} Joseph in the time of his distress kept the commandment and
was made lord of Egypt.

   {2:54} Phinees our father in being zealous and fervent obtained the
covenant of an everlasting priesthood.

   {2:55} Jesus for fulfilling the word was made a judge in Israel.

   {2:56} Caleb for bearing witness before the congregation received
the heritage of the land.

   {2:57} David for being merciful possessed the throne of an
everlasting kingdom.

   {2:58} Elias for being zealous and fervent for the law was taken up
into heaven.

   {2:59} Ananias, Azarias, and Misael, by believing were saved out of
the flame.

   {2:60} Daniel for his innocency was delivered from the mouth of
lions.

   {2:61} And thus consider ye throughout all ages, that none that put
their trust in him shall be overcome.

   {2:62} Fear not then the words of a sinful man: for his glory shall
be dung and worms.

   {2:63} To day he shall be lifted up and to morrow he shall not be
found, because he is returned into his dust, and his thought is come to
nothing.

   {2:64} Wherefore, ye my sons, be valiant and shew yourselves men in
the behalf of the law; for by it shall ye obtain glory.

   {2:65} And behold, I know that your brother Simon is a man of
counsel, give ear unto him alway: he shall be a father unto you.

   {2:66} As for Judas Maccabeus, he hath been mighty and strong, even
from his youth up: let him be your captain, and fight the battle of the
people.

   {2:67} Take also unto you all those that observe the law, and avenge
ye the wrong of your people.

   {2:68} Recompense fully the heathen, and take heed to the
commandments of the law.

   {2:69} So he blessed them, and was gathered to his fathers.

   {2:70} And he died in the hundred forty and sixth year, and his sons
buried him in the sepulchres of his fathers at Modin, and all Israel
made great lamentation for him.

   {3:1} Then his son Judas, called Maccabeus, rose up in his stead.

   {3:2} And all his brethren helped him, and so did all they that held
with his father, and they fought with cheerfulness the battle of Israel.

   {3:3} So he gat his people great honour, and put on a breastplate as
a giant, and girt his warlike harness about him, and he made battles,
protecting the host with his sword.

   {3:4} In his acts he was like a lion, and like a lion's whelp
roaring for his prey.

   {3:5} For He pursued the wicked, and sought them out, and burnt up
those that vexed his people.

   {3:6} Wherefore the wicked shrunk for fear of him, and all the
workers of iniquity were troubled, because salvation prospered in his
hand.

   {3:7} He grieved also many kings, and made Jacob glad with his acts,
and his memorial is blessed for ever.

   {3:8} Moreover he went through the cities of Juda, destroying the
ungodly out of them, and turning away wrath from Israel:

   {3:9} So that he was renowned unto the utmost part of the earth, and
he received unto him such as were ready to perish.

   {3:10} Then Apollonius gathered the Gentiles together, and a great
host out of Samaria, to fight against Israel.

   {3:11} Which thing when Judas perceived, he went forth to meet him,
and so he smote him, and slew him: many also fell down slain, but the
rest fled.

   {3:12} Wherefore Judas took their spoils, and Apollonius' sword
also, and therewith he fought all his life long.

   {3:13} Now when Seron, a prince of the army of Syria, heard say that
Judas had gathered unto him a multitude and company of the faithful to
go out with him to war;

   {3:14} He said, I will get me a name and honour in the kingdom; for
I will go fight with Judas and them that are with him, who despise the
king's commandment.

   {3:15} So he made him ready to go up, and there went with him a
mighty host of the ungodly to help him, and to be avenged of the
children of Israel.

   {3:16} And when he came near to the going up of Bethhoron, Judas
went forth to meet him with a small company:

   {3:17} Who, when they saw the host coming to meet them, said unto
Judas, How shall we be able, being so few, to fight against so great a
multitude and so strong, seeing we are ready to faint with fasting all
this day?

   {3:18} Unto whom Judas answered, It is no hard matter for many to be
shut up in the hands of a few; and with the God of heaven it is all
one, to deliver with a great multitude, or a small company:

   {3:19} For the victory of battle standeth not in the multitude of an
host; but strength cometh from heaven.

   {3:20} They come against us in much pride and iniquity to destroy
us, and our wives and children, and to spoil us:

   {3:21} But we fight for our lives and our laws.

   {3:22} Wherefore the Lord himself will overthrow them before our
face: and as for you, be ye not afraid of them.

   {3:23} Now as soon as he had left off speaking, he leapt suddenly
upon them, and so Seron and his host was overthrown before him.

   {3:24} And they pursued them from the going down of Bethhoron unto
the plain, where were slain about eight hundred men of them; and the
residue fled into the land of the Philistines.

   {3:25} Then began the fear of Judas and his brethren, and an
exceeding great dread, to fall upon the nations round about them:

   {3:26} Insomuch as his fame came unto the king, and all nations
talked of the battles of Judas.

   {3:27} Now when king Antiochus heard these things, he was full of
indignation: wherefore he sent and gathered together all the forces of
his realm, even a very strong army.

   {3:28} He opened also his treasure, and gave his soldiers pay for a
year, commanding them to be ready whensoever he should need them.

   {3:29} Nevertheless, when he saw that the money of his treasures
failed and that the tributes in the country were small, because of the
dissension and plague, which he had brought upon the land in taking
away the laws which had been of old time;

   {3:30} He feared that he should not be able to bear the charges any
longer, nor to have such gifts to give so liberally as he did before:
for he had abounded above the kings that were before him.

   {3:31} Wherefore, being greatly perplexed in his mind, he determined
to go into Persia, there to take the tributes of the countries, and to
gather much money.

   {3:32} So he left Lysias, a nobleman, and one of the blood royal, to
oversee the affairs of the king from the river Euphrates unto the
borders of Egypt:

   {3:33} And to bring up his son Antiochus, until he came again.

   {3:34} Moreover he delivered unto him the half of his forces, and
the elephants, and gave him charge of all things that he would have
done, as also concerning them that dwelt in Juda and Jerusalem:

   {3:35} To wit, that he should send an army against them, to destroy
and root out the strength of Israel, and the remnant of Jerusalem, and
to take away their memorial from that place;

   {3:36} And that he should place strangers in all their quarters, and
divide their land by lot.

   {3:37} So the king took the half of the forces that remained, and
departed from Antioch, his royal city, the hundred forty and seventh
year; and having passed the river Euphrates, he went through the high
countries.

   {3:38} Then Lysias chose Ptolemee the son of Dorymenes, Nicanor, and
Gorgias, mighty men of the king's friends:

   {3:39} And with them he sent forty thousand footmen, and seven
thousand horsemen, to go into the land of Juda, and to destroy it, as
the king commanded.

   {3:40} So they went forth with all their power, and came and pitched
by Emmaus in the plain country.

   {3:41} And the merchants of the country, hearing the fame of them,
took silver and gold very much, with servants, and came into the camp
to buy the children of Israel for slaves: a power also of Syria and of
the land of the Philistines joined themselves unto them.

   {3:42} Now when Judas and his brethren saw that miseries were
multiplied, and that the forces did encamp themselves in their borders:
for they knew how the king had given commandment to destroy the people,
and utterly abolish them;

   {3:43} They said one to another, Let us restore the decayed fortune
of our people, and let us fight for our people and the sanctuary.

   {3:44} Then was the congregation gathered together, that they might
be ready for battle, and that they might pray, and ask mercy and
compassion.

   {3:45} Now Jerusalem lay void as a wilderness, there was none of her
children that went in or out: the sanctuary also was trodden down, and
aliens kept the strong hold; the heathen had their habitation in that
place; and joy was taken from Jacob, and the pipe with the harp ceased.

   {3:46} Wherefore the Israelites assembled themselves together, and
came to Maspha, over against Jerusalem; for in Maspha was the place
where they prayed aforetime in Israel.

   {3:47} Then they fasted that day, and put on sackcloth, and cast
ashes upon their heads, and rent their clothes,

   {3:48} And laid open the book of the law, wherein the heathen had
sought to paint the likeness of their images.

   {3:49} They brought also the priests' garments, and the firstfruits,
and the tithes: and the Nazarites they stirred up, who had accomplished
their days.

   {3:50} Then cried they with a loud voice toward heaven, saying, What
shall we do with these, and whither shall we carry them away?

   {3:51} For thy sanctuary is trodden down and profaned, and thy
priests are in heaviness, and brought low.

   {3:52} And lo, the heathen are assembled together against us to
destroy us: what things they imagine against us, thou knowest.

   {3:53} How shall we be able to stand against them, except thou, O
God, be our help?

   {3:54} Then sounded they with trumpets, and cried with a loud voice.

   {3:55} And after this Judas ordained captains over the people, even
captains over thousands, and over hundreds, and over fifties, and over
tens.

   {3:56} But as for such as were building houses, or had betrothed
wives, or were planting vineyards, or were fearful, those he commanded
that they should return, every man to his own house, according to the
law.

   {3:57} So the camp removed, and pitched upon the south side of
Emmaus.

   {3:58} And Judas said, arm yourselves, and be valiant men, and see
that ye be in readiness against the morning, that ye may fight with
these nations, that are assembled together against us to destroy us and
our sanctuary:

   {3:59} For it is better for us to die in battle, than to behold the
calamities of our people and our sanctuary.

   {3:60} Nevertheless, as the will of God is in heaven, so let him do.

   {4:1} Then took Gorgias five thousand footmen, and a thousand of the
best horsemen, and removed out of the camp by night;

   {4:2} To the end he might rush in upon the camp of the Jews, and
smite them suddenly. And the men of the fortress were his guides.

   {4:3} Now when Judas heard thereof he himself removed, and the
valiant men with him, that he might smite the king's army which was at
Emmaus,

   {4:4} While as yet the forces were dispersed from the camp.

   {4:5} In the mean season came Gorgias by night into the camp of
Judas: and when he found no man there, he sought them in the mountains:
for said he, These fellows flee from us

   {4:6} But as soon as it was day, Judas shewed himself in the plain
with three thousand men, who nevertheless had neither armour nor swords
to their minds.

   {4:7} And they saw the camp of the heathen, that it was strong and
well harnessed, and compassed round about with horsemen; and these were
expert of war.

   {4:8} Then said Judas to the men that were with him, Fear ye not
their multitude, neither be ye afraid of their assault.

   {4:9} Remember how our fathers were delivered in the Red sea, when
Pharaoh pursued them with an army.

   {4:10} Now therefore let us cry unto heaven, if peradventure the
Lord will have mercy upon us, and remember the covenant of our fathers,
and destroy this host before our face this day:

   {4:11} That so all the heathen may know that there is one who
delivereth and saveth Israel.

   {4:12} Then the strangers lifted up their eyes, and saw them coming
over against them.

   {4:13} Wherefore they went out of the camp to battle; but they that
were with Judas sounded their trumpets.

   {4:14} So they joined battle, and the heathen being discomfited fled
into the plain.

   {4:15} Howbeit all the hindmost of them were slain with the sword:
for they pursued them unto Gazera, and unto the plains of Idumea, and
Azotus, and Jamnia, so that there were slain of them upon a three
thousand men.

   {4:16} This done, Judas returned again with his host from pursuing
them,

   {4:17} And said to the people, Be not greedy of the spoil inasmuch
as there is a battle before us,

   {4:18} And Gorgias and his host are here by us in the mountain: but
stand ye now against our enemies, and overcome them, and after this ye
may boldly take the spoils.

   {4:19} As Judas was yet speaking these words, there appeared a part
of them looking out of the mountain:

   {4:20} Who when they perceived that the Jews had put their host to
flight and were burning the tents; for the smoke that was seen declared
what was done:

   {4:21} When therefore they perceived these things, they were sore
afraid, and seeing also the host of Judas in the plain ready to fight,

   {4:22} They fled every one into the land of strangers.

   {4:23} Then Judas returned to spoil the tents, where they got much
gold, and silver, and blue silk, and purple of the sea, and great
riches.

   {4:24} After this they went home, and sung a song of thanksgiving,
and praised the Lord in heaven: because it is good, because his mercy
endureth forever.

   {4:25} Thus Israel had a great deliverance that day.

   {4:26} Now all the strangers that had escaped came and told Lysias
what had happened:

   {4:27} Who, when he heard thereof, was confounded and discouraged,
because neither such things as he would were done unto Israel, nor such
things as the king commanded him were come to pass.

   {4:28} The next year therefore following Lysias gathered together
threescore thousand choice men of foot, and five thousand horsemen,
that he might subdue them.

   {4:29} So they came into Idumea, and pitched their tents at
Bethsura, and Judas met them with ten thousand men.

   {4:30} And when he saw that mighty army, he prayed and said, Blessed
art thou, O Saviour of Israel, who didst quell the violence of the
mighty man by the hand of thy servant David, and gavest the host of
strangers into the hands of Jonathan the son of Saul, and his
armourbearer;

   {4:31} Shut up this army in the hand of thy people Israel, and let
them be confounded in their power and horsemen:

   {4:32} Make them to be of no courage, and cause the boldness of
their strength to fall away, and let them quake at their destruction:

   {4:33} Cast them down with the sword of them that love thee, and let
all those that know thy name praise thee with thanksgiving.

   {4:34} So they joined battle; and there were slain of the host of
Lysias about five thousand men, even before them were they slain.

   {4:35} Now when Lysias saw his army put to flight, and the manliness
of Judas' soldiers, and how they were ready either to live or die
valiantly, he went into Antiochia, and gathered together a company of
strangers, and having made his army greater than it was, he purposed to
come again into Judea.

   {4:36} Then said Judas and his brethren, Behold, our enemies are
discomfited: let us go up to cleanse and dedicate the sanctuary.

   {4:37} Upon this all the host assembled themselves together, and
went up into mount Sion.

   {4:38} And when they saw the sanctuary desolate, and the altar
profaned, and the gates burned up, and shrubs growing in the courts as
in a forest, or in one of the mountains, yea, and the priests' chambers
pulled down;

   {4:39} They rent their clothes, and made great lamentation, and cast
ashes upon their heads,

   {4:40} And fell down flat to the ground upon their faces, and blew
an alarm with the trumpets, and cried toward heaven.

   {4:41} Then Judas appointed certain men to fight against those that
were in the fortress, until he had cleansed the sanctuary.

   {4:42} So he chose priests of blameless conversation, such as had
pleasure in the law:

   {4:43} Who cleansed the sanctuary, and bare out the defiled stones
into an unclean place.

   {4:44} And when as they consulted what to do with the altar of burnt
offerings, which was profaned;

   {4:45} They thought it best to pull it down, lest it should be a
reproach to them, because the heathen had defiled it: wherefore they
pulled it down,

   {4:46} And laid up the stones in the mountain of the temple in a
convenient place, until there should come a prophet to shew what should
be done with them.

   {4:47} Then they took whole stones according to the law, and built a
new altar according to the former;

   {4:48} And made up the sanctuary, and the things that were within
the temple, and hallowed the courts.

   {4:49} They made also new holy vessels, and into the temple they
brought the candlestick, and the altar of burnt offerings, and of
incense, and the table.

   {4:50} And upon the altar they burned incense, and the lamps that
were upon the candlestick they lighted, that they might give light in
the temple.

   {4:51} Furthermore they set the loaves upon the table, and spread
out the veils, and finished all the works which they had begun to make.

   {4:52} Now on the five and twentieth day of the ninth month, which
is called the month Casleu, in the hundred forty and eighth year, they
rose up betimes in the morning,

   {4:53} And offered sacrifice according to the law upon the new altar
of burnt offerings, which they had made.

   {4:54} Look, at what time and what day the heathen had profaned it,
even in that was it dedicated with songs, and citherns, and harps, and
cymbals.

   {4:55} Then all the people fell upon their faces, worshipping and
praising the God of heaven, who had given them good success.

   {4:56} And so they kept the dedication of the altar eight days and
offered burnt offerings with gladness, and sacrificed the sacrifice of
deliverance and praise.

   {4:57} They decked also the forefront of the temple with crowns of
gold, and with shields; and the gates and the chambers they renewed,
and hanged doors upon them.

   {4:58} Thus was there very great gladness among the people, for that
the reproach of the heathen was put away.

   {4:59} Moreover Judas and his brethren with the whole congregation
of Israel ordained, that the days of the dedication of the altar should
be kept in their season from year to year by the space of eight days,
from the five and twentieth day of the month Casleu, with mirth and
gladness.

   {4:60} At that time also they builded up the mount Sion with high
walls and strong towers round about, lest the Gentiles should come and
tread it down as they had done before.

   {4:61} And they set there a garrison to keep it, and fortified
Bethsura to preserve it; that the people might have a defence against
Idumea.

   {5:1} Now when the nations round about heard that the altar was
built and the sanctuary renewed as before, it displeased them very much.

   {5:2} Wherefore they thought to destroy the generation of Jacob that
was among them, and thereupon they began to slay and destroy the people.

   {5:3} Then Judas fought against the children of Esau in Idumea at
Arabattine, because they besieged Gael: and he gave them a great
overthrow, and abated their courage, and took their spoils.

   {5:4} Also he remembered the injury of the children of Bean, who had
been a snare and an offence unto the people, in that they lay in wait
for them in the ways.

   {5:5} He shut them up therefore in the towers, and encamped against
them, and destroyed them utterly, and burned the towers of that place
with fire, and all that were therein.

   {5:6} Afterward he passed over to the children of Ammon, where he
found a mighty power, and much people, with Timotheus their captain.

   {5:7} So he fought many battles with them, till at length they were
discomfited before him; and he smote them.

   {5:8} And when he had taken Jazar, with the towns belonging thereto,
he returned into Judea.

   {5:9} Then the heathen that were at Galaad assembled themselves
together against the Israelites that were in their quarters, to destroy
them; but they fled to the fortress of Dathema.

   {5:10} And sent letters unto Judas and his brethren, The heathen
that are round about us are assembled together against us to destroy us:

   {5:11} And they are preparing to come and take the fortress
whereunto we are fled, Timotheus being captain of their host.

   {5:12} Come now therefore, and deliver us from their hands, for many
of us are slain:

   {5:13} Yea, all our brethren that were in the places of Tobie are
put to death: their wives and their children also they have carried
away captives, and borne away their stuff; and they have destroyed
there about a thousand men.

   {5:14} While these letters were yet reading, behold, there came
other messengers from Galilee with their clothes rent, who reported on
this wise,

   {5:15} And said, They of Ptolemais, and of Tyrus, and Sidon, and all
Galilee of the Gentiles, are assembled together against us to consume
us.

   {5:16} Now when Judas and the people heard these words, there
assembled a great congregation together, to consult what they should do
for their brethren, that were in trouble, and assaulted of them.

   {5:17} Then said Judas unto Simon his brother, Choose thee out men,
and go and deliver thy brethren that are in Galilee, for I and Jonathan
my brother will go into the country of Galaad.

   {5:18} So he left Joseph the son of Zacharias, and Azarias, captains
of the people, with the remnant of the host in Judea to keep it.

   {5:19} Unto whom he gave commandment, saying, Take ye the charge of
this people, and see that ye make not war against the heathen until the
time that we come again.

   {5:20} Now unto Simon were given three thousand men to go into
Galilee, and unto Judas eight thousand men for the country of Galaad.

   {5:21} Then went Simon into Galilee, where he fought many battles
with the heathen, so that the heathen were discomfited by him.

   {5:22} And he pursued them unto the gate of Ptolemais; and there
were slain of the heathen about three thousand men, whose spoils he
took.

   {5:23} And those that were in Galilee, and in Arbattis, with their
wives and their children, and all that they had, took he away with him,
and brought them into Judea with great joy.

   {5:24} Judas Maccabeus also and his brother Jonathan went over
Jordan, and travelled three days' journey in the wilderness,

   {5:25} Where they met with the Nabathites, who came unto them in a
peaceable manner, and told them every thing that had happened to their
brethren in the land of Galaad:

   {5:26} And how that many of them were shut up in Bosora, and Bosor,
and Alema, Casphor, Maked, and Carnaim; all these cities are strong and
great:

   {5:27} And that they were shut up in the rest of the cities of the
country of Galaad, and that against to morrow they had appointed to
bring their host against the forts, and to take them, and to destroy
them all in one day.

   {5:28} Hereupon Judas and his host turned suddenly by the way of the
wilderness unto Bosora; and when he had won the city, he slew all the
males with the edge of the sword, and took all their spoils, and burned
the city with fire,

   {5:29} From whence he removed by night, and went till he came to the
fortress.

   {5:30} And betimes in the morning they looked up, and, behold, there
was an innumerable people bearing ladders and other engines of war, to
take the fortress: for they assaulted them.

   {5:31} When Judas therefore saw that the battle was begun, and that
the cry of the city went up to heaven, with trumpets, and a great sound,

   {5:32} He said unto his host, Fight this day for your brethren.

   {5:33} So he went forth behind them in three companies, who sounded
their trumpets, and cried with prayer.

   {5:34} Then the host of Timotheus, knowing that it was Maccabeus,
fled from him: wherefore he smote them with a great slaughter; so that
there were killed of them that day about eight thousand men.

   {5:35} This done, Judas turned aside to Maspha; and after he had
assaulted it he took and slew all the males therein, and received the
spoils thereof and and burnt it with fire.

   {5:36} From thence went he, and took Casphon, Maged, Bosor, and the
other cities of the country of Galaad.

   {5:37} After these things gathered Timotheus another host and
encamped against Raphon beyond the brook.

   {5:38} So Judas sent men to espy the host, who brought him word,
saying, All the heathen that be round about us are assembled unto them,
even a very great host.

   {5:39} He hath also hired the Arabians to help them and they have
pitched their tents beyond the brook, ready to come and fight against
thee. Upon this Judas went to meet them.

   {5:40} Then Timotheus said unto the captains of his host, When Judas
and his host come near the brook, if he pass over first unto us, we
shall not be able to withstand him; for he will mightily prevail
against us:

   {5:41} But if he be afraid, and camp beyond the river, we shall go
over unto him, and prevail against him.

   {5:42} Now when Judas came near the brook, he caused the scribes of
the people to remain by the brook: unto whom he gave commandment,
saying, Suffer no man to remain in the camp, but let all come to the
battle.

   {5:43} So he went first over unto them, and all the people after
him: then all the heathen, being discomfited before him, cast away
their weapons, and fled unto the temple that was at Carnaim.

   {5:44} But they took the city, and burned the temple with all that
were therein. Thus was Carnaim subdued, neither could they stand any
longer before Judas.

   {5:45} Then Judas gathered together all the Israelites that were in
the country of Galaad, from the least unto the greatest, even their
wives, and their children, and their stuff, a very great host, to the
end they might come into the land of Judea.

   {5:46} Now when they came unto Ephron, (this was a great city in the
way as they should go, very well fortified) they could not turn from
it, either on the right hand or the left, but must needs pass through
the midst of it.

   {5:47} Then they of the city shut them out, and stopped up the gates
with stones.

   {5:48} Whereupon Judas sent unto them in peaceable manner, saying,
Let us pass through your land to go into our own country, and none
shall do you any hurt; we will only pass through on foot: howbeit they
would not open unto him.

   {5:49} Wherefore Judas commanded a proclamation to be made
throughout the host, that every man should pitch his tent in the place
where he was.

   {5:50} So the soldiers pitched, and assaulted the city all that day
and all that night, till at the length the city was delivered into his
hands:

   {5:51} Who then slew all the males with the edge of the sword, and
rased the city, and took the spoils thereof, and passed through the
city over them that were slain.

   {5:52} After this went they over Jordan into the great plain before
Bethsan.

   {5:53} And Judas gathered together those that came behind, and
exhorted the people all the way through, till they came into the land
of Judea.

   {5:54} So they went up to mount Sion with joy and gladness, where
they offered burnt offerings, because not one of them were slain until
they had returned in peace.

   {5:55} Now what time as Judas and Jonathan were in the land of
Galaad, and Simon his brother in Galilee before Ptolemais,

   {5:56} Joseph the son of Zacharias, and Azarias, captains of the
garrisons, heard of the valiant acts and warlike deeds which they had
done.

   {5:57} Wherefore they said, Let us also get us a name, and go fight
against the heathen that are round about us.

   {5:58} So when they had given charge unto the garrison that was with
them, they went toward Jamnia.

   {5:59} Then came Gorgias and his men out of the city to fight
against them.

   {5:60} And so it was, that Joseph and Azaras were put to flight, and
pursued unto the borders of Judea: and there were slain that day of the
people of Israel about two thousand men.

   {5:61} Thus was there a great overthrow among the children of
Israel, because they were not obedient unto Judas and his brethren, but
thought to do some valiant act.

   {5:62} Moreover these men came not of the seed of those, by whose
hand deliverance was given unto Israel.

   {5:63} Howbeit the man Judas and his brethren were greatly renowned
in the sight of all Israel, and of all the heathen, wheresoever their
name was heard of;

   {5:64} Insomuch as the the people assembled unto them with joyful
acclamations.

   {5:65} Afterward went Judas forth with his brethren, and fought
against the children of Esau in the land toward the south, where he
smote Hebron, and the towns thereof, and pulled down the fortress of
it, and burned the towers thereof round about.

   {5:66} From thence he removed to go into the land of the
Philistines, and passed through Samaria.

   {5:67} At that time certain priests, desirous to shew their valour,
were slain in battle, for that they went out to fight unadvisedly.

   {5:68} So Judas turned to Azotus in the land of the Philistines, and
when he had pulled down their altars, and burned their carved images
with fire, and spoiled their cities, he returned into the land of Judea.

   {6:1} About that time king Antiochus travelling through the high
countries heard say, that Elymais in the country of Persia was a city
greatly renowned for riches, silver, and gold;

   {6:2} And that there was in it a very rich temple, wherein were
coverings of gold, and breastplates, and shields, which Alexander, son
of Philip, the Macedonian king, who reigned first among the Grecians,
had left there.

   {6:3} Wherefore he came and sought to take the city, and to spoil
it; but he was not able, because they of the city, having had warning
thereof,

   {6:4} Rose up against him in battle: so he fled, and departed thence
with great heaviness, and returned to Babylon.

   {6:5} Moreover there came one who brought him tidings into Persia,
that the armies, which went against the land of Judea, were put to
flight:

   {6:6} And that Lysias, who went forth first with a great power was
driven away of the Jews; and that they were made strong by the armour,
and power, and store of spoils, which they had gotten of the armies,
whom they had destroyed:

   {6:7} Also that they had pulled down the abomination, which he had
set up upon the altar in Jerusalem, and that they had compassed about
the sanctuary with high walls, as before, and his city Bethsura.

   {6:8} Now when the king heard these words, he was astonished and
sore moved: whereupon he laid him down upon his bed, and fell sick for
grief, because it had not befallen him as he looked for.

   {6:9} And there he continued many days: for his grief was ever more
and more, and he made account that he should die.

   {6:10} Wherefore he called for all his friends, and said unto them,
The sleep is gone from mine eyes, and my heart faileth for very care.

   {6:11} And I thought with myself, Into what tribulation am I come,
and how great a flood of misery is it, wherein now I am! for I was
bountiful and beloved in my power.

   {6:12} But now I remember the evils that I did at Jerusalem, and
that I took all the vessels of gold and silver that were therein, and
sent to destroy the inhabitants of Judea without a cause.

   {6:13} I perceive therefore that for this cause these troubles are
come upon me, and, behold, I perish through great grief in a strange
land.

   {6:14} Then called he for Philip, one of his friends, who he made
ruler over all his realm,

   {6:15} And gave him the crown, and his robe, and his signet, to the
end he should bring up his son Antiochus, and nourish him up for the
kingdom.

   {6:16} So king Antiochus died there in the hundred forty and ninth
year.

   {6:17} Now when Lysias knew that the king was dead, he set up
Antiochus his son, whom he had brought up being young, to reign in his
stead, and his name he called Eupator.

   {6:18} About this time they that were in the tower shut up the
Israelites round about the sanctuary, and sought always their hurt, and
the strengthening of the heathen.

   {6:19} Wherefore Judas, purposing to destroy them, called all the
people together to besiege them.

   {6:20} So they came together, and besieged them in the hundred and
fiftieth year, and he made mounts for shot against them, and other
engines.

   {6:21} Howbeit certain of them that were besieged got forth, unto
whom some ungodly men of Israel joined themselves:

   {6:22} And they went unto the king, and said, How long will it be
ere thou execute judgment, and avenge our brethren?

   {6:23} We have been willing to serve thy father, and to do as he
would have us, and to obey his commandments;

   {6:24} For which cause they of our nation besiege the tower, and are
alienated from us: moreover as many of us as they could light on they
slew, and spoiled our inheritance.

   {6:25} Neither have they stretched out their hand against us only,
but also against their borders.

   {6:26} And, behold, this day are they besieging the tower at
Jerusalem, to take it: the sanctuary also and Bethsura have they
fortified.

   {6:27} Wherefore if thou dost not prevent them quickly, they will do
the greater things than these, neither shalt thou be able to rule them.

   {6:28} Now when the king heard this, he was angry, and gathered
together all his friends, and the captains of his army, and those that
had charge of the horse.

   {6:29} There came also unto him from other kingdoms, and from isles
of the sea, bands of hired soldiers.

   {6:30} So that the number of his army was an hundred thousand
footmen, and twenty thousand horsemen, and two and thirty elephants
exercised in battle.

   {6:31} These went through Idumea, and pitched against Bethsura,
which they assaulted many days, making engines of war; but they of
Bethsura came out, and burned them with fire, and fought valiantly.

   {6:32} Upon this Judas removed from the tower, and pitched in
Bathzacharias, over against the king's camp.

   {6:33} Then the king rising very early marched fiercely with his
host toward Bathzacharias, where his armies made them ready to battle,
and sounded the trumpets.

   {6:34} And to the end they might provoke the elephants to fight,
they shewed them the blood of grapes and mulberries.

   {6:35} Moreover they divided the beasts among the armies, and for
every elephant they appointed a thousand men, armed with coats of mail,
and with helmets of brass on their heads; and beside this, for every
beast were ordained five hundred horsemen of the best.

   {6:36} These were ready at every occasion: wheresoever the beast
was, and whithersoever the beast went, they went also, neither departed
they from him.

   {6:37} And upon the beasts were there strong towers of wood, which
covered every one of them, and were girt fast unto them with devices:
there were also upon every one two and thirty strong men, that fought
upon them, beside the Indian that ruled him.

   {6:38} As for the remnant of the horsemen, they set them on this
side and that side at the two parts of the host giving them signs what
to do, and being harnessed all over amidst the ranks.

   {6:39} Now when the sun shone upon the shields of gold and brass,
the mountains glistered therewith, and shined like lamps of fire.

   {6:40} So part of the king's army being spread upon the high
mountains, and part on the valleys below, they marched on safely and in
order.

   {6:41} Wherefore all that heard the noise of their multitude, and
the marching of the company, and the rattling of the harness, were
moved: for the army was very great and mighty.

   {6:42} Then Judas and his host drew near, and entered into battle,
and there were slain of the king's army six hundred men.

   {6:43} Eleazar also, surnamed Savaran, perceiving that one of the
beasts, armed with royal harness, was higher than all the rest, and
supposing that the king was upon him,

   {6:44} Put himself in jeopardy, to the end he might deliver his
people, and get him a perpetual name:

   {6:45} Wherefore he ran upon him courageously through the midst of
the battle, slaying on the right hand and on the left, so that they
were divided from him on both sides.

   {6:46} Which done, he crept under the elephant, and thrust him
under, and slew him: whereupon the elephant fell down upon him, and
there he died.

   {6:47} Howbeit the rest of the Jews seeing the strength of the king,
and the violence of his forces, turned away from them.

   {6:48} Then the king's army went up to Jerusalem to meet them, and
the king pitched his tents against Judea, and against mount Sion.

   {6:49} But with them that were in Bethsura he made peace: for they
came out of the city, because they had no victuals there to endure the
siege, it being a year of rest to the land.

   {6:50} So the king took Bethsura, and set a garrison there to keep
it.

   {6:51} As for the sanctuary, he besieged it many days: and set there
artillery with engines and instruments to cast fire and stones, and
pieces to cast darts and slings.

   {6:52} Whereupon they also made engines against their engines, and
held them battle a long season.

   {6:53} Yet at the last, their vessels being without victuals, (for
that it was the seventh year, and they in Judea that were delivered
from the Gentiles, had eaten up the residue of the store;)

   {6:54} There were but a few left in the sanctuary, because the
famine did so prevail against them, that they were fain to disperse
themselves, every man to his own place.

   {6:55} At that time Lysias heard say, that Philip, whom Antiochus
the king, whiles he lived, had appointed to bring up his son Antiochus,
that he might be king,

   {6:56} Was returned out of Persia and Media, and the king's host
also that went with him, and that he sought to take unto him the ruling
of the affairs.

   {6:57} Wherefore he went in all haste, and said to the king and the
captains of the host and the company, We decay daily, and our victuals
are but small, and the place we lay siege unto is strong, and the
affairs of the kingdom lie upon us:

   {6:58} Now therefore let us be friends with these men, and make
peace with them, and with all their nation;

   {6:59} And covenant with them, that they shall live after their
laws, as they did before: for they are therefore displeased, and have
done all these things, because we abolished their laws.

   {6:60} So the king and the princes were content: wherefore he sent
unto them to make peace; and they accepted thereof.

   {6:61} Also the king and the princes made an oath unto them:
whereupon they went out of the strong hold.

   {6:62} Then the king entered into mount Sion; but when he saw the
strength of the place, he broke his oath that he had made, and gave
commandment to pull down the wall round about.

   {6:63} Afterward departed he in all haste, and returned unto
Antiochia, where he found Philip to be master of the city: so he fought
against him, and took the city by force.

   {7:1} In the hundred and one and fiftieth year Demetrius the son of
Seleucus departed from Rome, and came up with a few men unto a city of
the sea coast, and reigned there.

   {7:2} And as he entered into the palace of his ancestors, so it was,
that his forces had taken Antiochus and Lysias, to bring them unto him.

   {7:3} Wherefore, when he knew it, he said, Let me not see their
faces.

   {7:4} So his host slew them. Now when Demetrius was set upon the
throne of his kingdom,

   {7:5} There came unto him all the wicked and ungodly men of Israel,
having Alcimus, who was desirous to be high priest, for their captain:

   {7:6} And they accused the people to the king, saying, Judas and his
brethren have slain all thy friends, and driven us out of our own land.

   {7:7} Now therefore send some man whom thou trustest, and let him go
and see what havock he hath made among us, and in the king's land, and
let him punish them with all them that aid them.

   {7:8} Then the king chose Bacchides, a friend of the king, who ruled
beyond the flood, and was a great man in the kingdom, and faithful to
the king,

   {7:9} And him he sent with that wicked Alcimus, whom he made high
priest, and commanded that he should take vengeance of the children of
Israel.

   {7:10} So they departed, and came with a great power into the land
of Judea, where they sent messengers to Judas and his brethren with
peaceable words deceitfully.

   {7:11} But they gave no heed to their words; for they saw that they
were come with a great power.

   {7:12} Then did there assemble unto Alcimus and Bacchides a company
of scribes, to require justice.

   {7:13} Now the Assideans were the first among the children of Israel
that sought peace of them:

   {7:14} For said they, One that is a priest of the seed of Aaron is
come with this army, and he will do us no wrong.

   {7:15} So he spake unto them, peaceably, and sware unto them,
saying, we will procure the harm neither of you nor your friends.

   {7:16} Whereupon they believed him: howbeit he took of them
threescore men, and slew them in one day, according to the words which
he wrote,

   {7:17} The flesh of thy saints have they cast out, and their blood
have they shed round about Jerusalem, and there was none to bury them.

   {7:18} Wherefore the fear and dread of them fell upon all the
people, who said, There is neither truth nor righteousness in them; for
they have broken the covenant and oath that they made.

   {7:19} After this, removed Bacchides from Jerusalem, and pitched his
tents in Bezeth, where he sent and took many of the men that had
forsaken him, and certain of the people also, and when he had slain
them, he cast them into the great pit.

   {7:20} Then committed he the country to Alcimus, and left with him a
power to aid him: so Bacchides went to the king.

   {7:21} But Alcimus contended for the high priesthood.

   {7:22} And unto him resorted all such as troubled the people, who,
after they had gotten the land of Juda into their power, did much hurt
in Israel.

   {7:23} Now when Judas saw all the mischief that Alcimus and his
company had done among the Israelites, even above the heathen,

   {7:24} He went out into all the coasts of Judea round about, and
took vengeance of them that had revolted from him, so that they durst
no more go forth into the country.

   {7:25} On the other side, when Alcimus saw that Judas and his
company had gotten the upper hand, and knew that he was not able to
abide their force, he went again to the king, and said all the worst of
them that he could.

   {7:26} Then the king sent Nicanor, one of his honourable princes, a
man that bare deadly hate unto Israel, with commandment to destroy the
people.

   {7:27} So Nicanor came to Jerusalem with a great force; and sent
unto Judas and his brethren deceitfully with friendly words, saying,

   {7:28} Let there be no battle between me and you; I will come with a
few men, that I may see you in peace.

   {7:29} He came therefore to Judas, and they saluted one another
peaceably. Howbeit the enemies were prepared to take away Judas by
violence.

   {7:30} Which thing after it was known to Judas, to wit, that he came
unto him with deceit, he was sore afraid of him, and would see his face
no more.

   {7:31} Nicanor also, when he saw that his counsel was discovered,
went out to fight against Judas beside Capharsalama:

   {7:32} Where there were slain of Nicanor's side about five thousand
men, and the rest fled into the city of David.

   {7:33} After this went Nicanor up to mount Sion, and there came out
of the sanctuary certain of the priests and certain of the elders of
the people, to salute him peaceably, and to shew him the burnt
sacrifice that was offered for the king.

   {7:34} But he mocked them, and laughed at them, and abused them
shamefully, and spake proudly,

   {7:35} And sware in his wrath, saying, Unless Judas and his host be
now delivered into my hands, if ever I come again in safety, I will
burn up this house: and with that he went out in a great rage.

   {7:36} Then the priests entered in, and stood before the altar and
the temple, weeping, and saying,

   {7:37} Thou, O Lord, didst choose this house to be called by thy
name, and to be a house of prayer and petition for thy people:

   {7:38} Be avenged of this man and his host, and let them fall by the
sword: remember their blasphemies, and suffer them not to continue any
longer.

   {7:39} So Nicanor went out of Jerusalem, and pitched his tents in
Bethhoron, where an host out of Syria met him.

   {7:40} But Judas pitched in Adasa with three thousand men, and there
he prayed, saying,

   {7:41} O Lord, when they that were sent from the king of the
Assyrians blasphemed, thine angel went out, and smote an hundred
fourscore and five thousand of them.

   {7:42} Even so destroy thou this host before us this day, that the
rest may know that he hath spoken blasphemously against thy sanctuary,
and judge thou him according to his wickedness.

   {7:43} So the thirteenth day of the month Adar the hosts joined
battle: but Nicanor's host was discomfited, and he himself was first
slain in the battle.

   {7:44} Now when Nicanor's host saw that he was slain, they cast away
their weapons, and fled.

   {7:45} Then they pursued after them a day's journey, from Adasa unto
Gazera, sounding an alarm after them with their trumpets.

   {7:46} Whereupon they came forth out of all the towns of Judea round
about, and closed them in; so that they, turning back upon them that
pursued them, were all slain with the sword, and not one of them was
left.

   {7:47} Afterwards they took the spoils, and the prey, and smote off
Nicanors head, and his right hand, which he stretched out so proudly,
and brought them away, and hanged them up toward Jerusalem.

   {7:48} For this cause the people rejoiced greatly, and they kept
that day a day of great gladness.

   {7:49} Moreover they ordained to keep yearly this day, being the
thirteenth of Adar.

   {7:50} Thus the land of Juda was in rest a little while.

   {8:1} Now Judas had heard of the the Romans, that they were mighty
and valiant men, and such as would lovingly accept all that joined
themselves unto them, and make a league of amity with all that came
unto them;

   {8:2} And that they were men of great valour. It was told him also
of their wars and noble acts which they had done among the Galatians,
and how they had conquered them, and brought them under tribute;

   {8:3} And what they had done in the country of Spain, for the
winning of the mines of the silver and gold which is there;

   {8:4} And that by their policy and patience they had conquered all
the place, though it were very far from them; and the kings also that
came against them from the uttermost part of the earth, till they had
discomfited them, and given them a great overthrow, so that the rest
did give them tribute every year:

   {8:5} Beside this, how they had discomfited in battle Philip, and
Perseus, king of the Citims, with others that lifted up themselves
against them, and had overcome them:

   {8:6} How also Antiochus the great king of Asia, that came against
them in battle, having an hundred and twenty elephants, with horsemen,
and chariots, and a very great army, was discomfited by them;

   {8:7} And how they took him alive, and covenanted that he and such
as reigned after him should pay a great tribute, and give hostages, and
that which was agreed upon,

   {8:8} And the country of India, and Media and Lydia and of the
goodliest countries, which they took of him, and gave to king Eumenes:

   {8:9} Moreover how the Grecians had determined to come and destroy
them;

   {8:10} And that they, having knowledge thereof sent against them a
certain captain, and fighting with them slew many of them, and carried
away captives their wives and their children, and spoiled them, and
took possession of their lands, and pulled down their strong holds, and
brought them to be their servants unto this day:

   {8:11} It was told him besides, how they destroyed and brought under
their dominion all other kingdoms and isles that at any time resisted
them;

   {8:12} But with their friends and such as relied upon them they kept
amity: and that they had conquered kingdoms both far and nigh, insomuch
as all that heard of their name were afraid of them:

   {8:13} Also that, whom they would help to a kingdom, those reign;
and whom again they would, they displace: finally, that they were
greatly exalted:

   {8:14} Yet for all this none of them wore a crown or was clothed in
purple, to be magnified thereby:

   {8:15} Moreover how they had made for themselves a senate house,
wherein three hundred and twenty men sat in council daily, consulting
alway for the people, to the end they might be well ordered:

   {8:16} And that they committed their government to one man every
year, who ruled over all their country, and that all were obedient to
that one, and that there was neither envy nor emmulation among them.

   {8:17} In consideration of these things, Judas chose Eupolemus the
son of John, the son of Accos, and Jason the son of Eleazar, and sent
them to Rome, to make a league of amity and confederacy with them,

   {8:18} And to intreat them that they would take the yoke from them;
for they saw that the kingdom of the Grecians did oppress Israel with
servitude.

   {8:19} They went therefore to Rome, which was a very great journey,
and came into the senate, where they spake and said.

   {8:20} Judas Maccabeus with his brethren, and the people of the
Jews, have sent us unto you, to make a confederacy and peace with you,
and that we might be registered your confederates and friends.

   {8:21} So that matter pleased the Romans well.

   {8:22} And this is the copy of the epistle which the senate wrote
back again in tables of brass, and sent to Jerusalem, that there they
might have by them a memorial of peace and confederacy:

   {8:23} Good success be to the Romans, and to the people of the Jews,
by sea and by land for ever: the sword also and enemy be far from them,

   {8:24} If there come first any war upon the Romans or any of their
confederates throughout all their dominion,

   {8:25} The people of the Jews shall help them, as the time shall be
appointed, with all their heart:

   {8:26} Neither shall they give any thing unto them that make war
upon them, or aid them with victuals, weapons, money, or ships, as it
hath seemed good unto the Romans; but they shall keep their covenants
without taking any thing therefore.

   {8:27} In the same manner also, if war come first upon the nation of
the Jews, the Romans shall help them with all their heart, according as
the time shall be appointed them:

   {8:28} Neither shall victuals be given to them that take part
against them, or weapons, or money, or ships, as it hath seemed good to
the Romans; but they shall keep their covenants, and that without
deceit.

   {8:29} According to these articles did the Romans make a covenant
with the people of the Jews.

   {8:30} Howbeit if hereafter the one party or the other shall think
to meet to add or diminish any thing, they may do it at their
pleasures, and whatsoever they shall add or take away shall be ratified.

   {8:31} And as touching the evils that Demetrius doeth to the Jews,
we have written unto him, saying, Wherefore thou made thy yoke heavy
upon our friends and confederates the Jews?

   {8:32} If therefore they complain any more against thee, we will do
them justice, and fight with thee by sea and by land.

   {9:1} Furthermore, when Demetrius heard the Nicanor and his host
were slain in battle, he sent Bacchides and Alcimus into the land of
Judea the second time, and with them the chief strength of his host:

   {9:2} Who went forth by the way that leadeth to Galgala, and pitched
their tents before Masaloth, which is in Arbela, and after they had won
it, they slew much people.

   {9:3} Also the first month of the hundred fifty and second year they
encamped before Jerusalem:

   {9:4} From whence they removed, and went to Berea, with twenty
thousand footmen and two thousand horsemen.

   {9:5} Now Judas had pitched his tents at Eleasa, and three thousand
chosen men with him:

   {9:6} Who seeing the multitude of the other army to he so great were
sore afraid; whereupon many conveyed themselves out of the host,
insomuch as abode of them no more but eight hundred men.

   {9:7} When Judas therefore saw that his host slipt away, and that
the battle pressed upon him, he was sore troubled in mind, and much
distressed, for that he had no time to gather them together.

   {9:8} Nevertheless unto them that remained he said, Let us arise and
go up against our enemies, if peradventure we may be able to fight with
them.

   {9:9} But they dehorted him, saying, We shall never be able: let us
now rather save our lives, and hereafter we will return with our
brethren, and fight against them: for we are but few.

   {9:10} Then Judas said, God forbid that I should do this thing, and
flee away from them: if our time be come, let us die manfully for our
brethren, and let us not stain our honour.

   {9:11} With that the host of Bacchides removed out of their tents,
and stood over against them, their horsemen being divided into two
troops, and their slingers and archers going before the host and they
that marched in the foreward were all mighty men.

   {9:12} As for Bacchides, he was in the right wing: so the host drew
near on the two parts, and sounded their trumpets.

   {9:13} They also of Judas' side, even they sounded their trumpets
also, so that the earth shook at the noise of the armies, and the
battle continued from morning till night.

   {9:14} Now when Judas perceived that Bacchides and the strength of
his army were on the right side, he took with him all the hardy men,

   {9:15} Who discomfited the right wing, and pursued them unto the
mount Azotus.

   {9:16} But when they of the left wing saw that they of the right
wing were discomfited, they followed upon Judas and those that were
with him hard at the heels from behind:

   {9:17} Whereupon there was a sore battle, insomuch as many were
slain on both parts.

   {9:18} Judas also was killed, and the remnant fled.

   {9:19} THen Jonathan and Simon took Judas their brother, and buried
him in the sepulchre of his fathers in Modin.

   {9:20} Moreover they bewailed him, and all Israel made great
lamentation for him, and mourned many days, saying,

   {9:21} How is the valiant man fallen, that delivered Israel!

   {9:22} As for the other things concerning Judas and his wars, and
the noble acts which he did, and his greatness, they are not written:
for they were very many.

   {9:23} Now after the death of Judas the wicked began to put forth
their heads in all the coasts of Israel, and there arose up all such as
wrought iniquity.

   {9:24} In those days also was there a very great famine, by reason
whereof the country revolted, and went with them.

   {9:25} Then Bacchides chose the wicked men, and made them lords of
the country.

   {9:26} And they made enquiry and search for Judas' friends, and
brought them unto Bacchides, who took vengeance of them, and used them
despitefully.

   {9:27} So was there a great affliction in Israel, the like whereof
was not since the time that a prophet was not seen among them.

   {9:28} For this cause all Judas' friends came together, and said
unto Jonathan,

   {9:29} Since thy brother Judas died, we have no man like him to go
forth against our enemies, and Bacchides, and against them of our
nation that are adversaries to us.

   {9:30} Now therefore we have chosen thee this day to be our prince
and captain in his stead, that thou mayest fight our battles.

   {9:31} Upon this Jonathan took the governance upon him at that time,
and rose up instead of his brother Judas.

   {9:32} But when Bacchides gat knowledge thereof, he sought for to
slay him

   {9:33} Then Jonathan, and Simon his brother, and all that were with
him, perceiving that, fled into the wilderness of Thecoe, and pitched
their tents by the water of the pool Asphar.

   {9:34} Which when Bacchides understood, he came near to Jordan with
all his host upon the sabbath day.

   {9:35} Now Jonathan had sent his brother John, a captain of the
people, to pray his friends the Nabathites, that they might leave with
them their carriage, which was much.

   {9:36} But the children of Jambri came out of Medaba, and took John,
and all that he had, and went their way with it.

   {9:37} After this came word to Jonathan and Simon his brother, that
the children of Jambri made a great marriage, and were bringing the
bride from Nadabatha with a great train, as being the daughter of one
of the great princes of Chanaan.

   {9:38} Therefore they remembered John their brother, and went up,
and hid themselves under the covert of the mountain:

   {9:39} Where they lifted up their eyes, and looked, and, behold,
there was much ado and great carriage: and the bridegroom came forth,
and his friends and brethren, to meet them with drums, and instruments
of musick, and many weapons.

   {9:40} Then Jonathan and they that were with him rose up against
them from the place where they lay in ambush, and made a slaughter of
them in such sort, as many fell down dead, and the remnant fled into
the mountain, and they took all their spoils.

   {9:41} Thus was the marriage turned into mourning, and the noise of
their melody into lamentation.

   {9:42} So when they had avenged fully the blood of their brother,
they turned again to the marsh of Jordan.

   {9:43} Now when Bacchides heard hereof, he came on the sabbath day
unto the banks of Jordan with a great power.

   {9:44} Then Jonathan said to his company, Let us go up now and fight
for our lives, for it standeth not with us to day, as in time past:

   {9:45} For, behold, the battle is before us and behind us, and the
water of Jordan on this side and that side, the marsh likewise and
wood, neither is there place for us to turn aside.

   {9:46} Wherefore cry ye now unto heaven, that ye may be delivered
from the hand of your enemies.

   {9:47} With that they joined battle, and Jonathan stretched forth
his hand to smite Bacchides, but he turned back from him.

   {9:48} Then Jonathan and they that were with him leapt into Jordan,
and swam over unto the other bank: howbeit the other passed not over
Jordan unto them.

   {9:49} So there were slain of Bacchides' side that day about a
thousand men.

   {9:50} Afterward returned Bacchides to Jerusalem and repaired the
strong cites in Judea; the fort in Jericho, and Emmaus, and Bethhoron,
and Bethel, and Thamnatha, Pharathoni, and Taphon, these did he
strengthen with high walls, with gates and with bars.

   {9:51} And in them he set a garrison, that they might work malice
upon Israel.

   {9:52} He fortified also the city Bethsura, and Gazera, and the
tower, and put forces in them, and provision of victuals.

   {9:53} Besides, he took the chief men's sons in the country for
hostages, and put them into the tower at Jerusalem to be kept.

   {9:54} Moreover in the hundred fifty and third year, in the second
month, Alcimus commanded that the wall of the inner court of the
sanctuary should be pulled down; he pulled down also the works of the
prophets

   {9:55} And as he began to pull down, even at that time was Alcimus
plagued, and his enterprizes hindered: for his mouth was stopped, and
he was taken with a palsy, so that he could no more speak any thing,
nor give order concerning his house.

   {9:56} So Alcimus died at that time with great torment.

   {9:57} Now when Bacchides saw that Alcimus was dead, he returned to
the king: whereupon the land of Judea was in rest two years.

   {9:58} Then all the ungodly men held a council, saying, Behold,
Jonathan and his company are at ease, and dwell without care: now
therefore we will bring Bacchides hither, who shall take them all in
one night.

   {9:59} So they went and consulted with him.

   {9:60} Then removed he, and came with a great host, and sent letters
privily to his adherents in Judea, that they should take Jonathan and
those that were with him: howbeit they could not, because their counsel
was known unto them.

   {9:61} Wherefore they took of the men of the country, that were
authors of that mischief, about fifty persons, and slew them.

   {9:62} Afterward Jonathan, and Simon, and they that were with him,
got them away to Bethbasi, which is in the wilderness, and they
repaired the decays thereof, and made it strong.

   {9:63} Which thing when Bacchides knew, he gathered together all his
host, and sent word to them that were of Judea.

   {9:64} Then went he and laid siege against Bethbasi; and they fought
against it a long season and made engines of war.

   {9:65} But Jonathan left his brother Simon in the city, and went
forth himself into the country, and with a certain number went he forth.

   {9:66} And he smote Odonarkes and his brethren, and the children of
Phasiron in their tent.

   {9:67} And when he began to smite them, and came up with his forces,
Simon and his company went out of the city, and burned up the engines
of war,

   {9:68} And fought against Bacchides, who was discomfited by them,
and they afflicted him sore: for his counsel and travail was in vain.

   {9:69} Wherefore he was very wroth at the wicked men that gave him
counsel to come into the country, inasmuch as he slew many of them, and
purposed to return into his own country.

   {9:70} Whereof when Jonathan had knowledge, he sent ambassadors unto
him, to the end he should make peace with him, and deliver them the
prisoners.

   {9:71} Which thing he accepted, and did according to his demands,
and sware unto him that he would never do him harm all the days of his
life.

   {9:72} When therefore he had restored unto him the prisoners that he
had taken aforetime out of the land of Judea, he returned and went his
way into his own land, neither came he any more into their borders.

   {9:73} Thus the sword ceased from Israel: but Jonathan dwelt at
Machmas, and began to govern the people; and he destroyed the ungodly
men out of Israel.

   {10:1} In the hundred and sixtieth year Alexander, the son of
Antiochus surnamed Epiphanes, went up and took Ptolemais: for the
people had received him, by means whereof he reigned there,

   {10:2} Now when king Demetrius heard thereof, he gathered together
an exceeding great host, and went forth against him to fight.

   {10:3} Moreover Demetrius sent letters unto Jonathan with loving
words, so as he magnified him.

   {10:4} For said he, Let us first make peace with him, before he join
with Alexander against us:

   {10:5} Else he will remember all the evils that we have done against
him, and against his brethren and his people.

   {10:6} Wherefore he gave him authority to gather together an host,
and to provide weapons, that he might aid him in battle: he commanded
also that the hostages that were in the tower should be delivered him.

   {10:7} Then came Jonathan to Jerusalem, and read the letters in the
audience of all the people, and of them that were in the tower:

   {10:8} Who were sore afraid, when they heard that the king had given
him authority to gather together an host.

   {10:9} Whereupon they of the tower delivered their hostages unto
Jonathan, and he delivered them unto their parents.

   {10:10} This done, Jonathan settled himself in Jerusalem, and began
to build and repair the city.

   {10:11} And he commanded the workmen to build the walls and the
mount Sion and about with square stones for fortification; and they did
so.

   {10:12} Then the strangers, that were in the fortresses which
Bacchides had built, fled away;

   {10:13} Insomuch as every man left his place, and went into his own
country.

   {10:14} Only at Bethsura certain of those that had forsaken the law
and the commandments remained still: for it was their place of refuge.

   {10:15} Now when king Alexander had heard what promises Demetrius
had sent unto Jonathan: when also it was told him of the battles and
noble acts which he and his brethren had done, and of the pains that
they had endured,

   {10:16} He said, Shall we find such another man? now therefore we
will make him our friend and confederate.

   {10:17} Upon this he wrote a letter, and sent it unto him, according
to these words, saying,

   {10:18} King Alexander to his brother Jonathan sendeth greeting:

   {10:19} We have heard of thee, that thou art a man of great power,
and meet to be our friend.

   {10:20} Wherefore now this day we ordain thee to be the high priest
of thy nation, and to be called the king's friend; (and therewithal he
sent him a purple robe and a crown of gold:) and require thee to take
our part, and keep friendship with us.

   {10:21} So in the seventh month of the hundred and sixtieth year, at
the feast of the tabernacles, Jonathan put on the holy robe, and
gathered together forces, and provided much armour.

   {10:22} Whereof when Demetrius heard, he was very sorry, and said,

   {10:23} What have we done, that Alexander hath prevented us in
making amity with the Jews to strengthen himself?

   {10:24} I also will write unto them words of encouragement, and
promise them dignities and gifts, that I may have their aid.

   {10:25} He sent unto them therefore to this effect: King Demetrius
unto the people of the Jews sendeth greeting:

   {10:26} Whereas ye have kept covenants with us, and continued in our
friendship, not joining yourselves with our enemies, we have heard
hereof, and are glad.

   {10:27} Wherefore now continue ye still to be faithful unto us, and
we will well recompense you for the things ye do in our behalf,

   {10:28} And will grant you many immunities, and give you rewards.

   {10:29} And now do I free you, and for your sake I release all the
Jews, from tributes, and from the customs of salt, and from crown taxes,

   {10:30} And from that which appertaineth unto me to receive for the
third part or the seed, and the half of the fruit of the trees, I
release it from this day forth, so that they shall not be taken of the
land of Judea, nor of the three governments which are added thereunto
out of the country of Samaria and Galilee, from this day forth for
evermore.

   {10:31} Let Jerusalem also be holy and free, with the borders
thereof, both from tenths and tributes.

   {10:32} And as for the tower which is at Jerusalem, I yield up
authority over it, and give the high priest, that he may set in it such
men as he shall choose to keep it.

   {10:33} Moreover I freely set at liberty every one of the Jews, that
were carried captives out of the land of Judea into any part of my
kingdom, and I will that all my officers remit the tributes even of
their cattle.

   {10:34} Furthermore I will that all the feasts, and sabbaths, and
new moons, and solemn days, and the three days before the feast, and
the three days after the feast shall be all of immunity and freedom for
all the Jews in my realm.

   {10:35} Also no man shall have authority to meddle with or to molest
any of them in any matter.

   {10:36} I will further, that there be enrolled among the king's
forces about thirty thousand men of the Jews, unto whom pay shall be
given, as belongeth to all king's forces.

   {10:37} And of them some shall be placed in the king's strong holds,
of whom also some shall be set over the affairs of the kingdom, which
are of trust: and I will that their overseers and governors be of
themselves, and that they live after their own laws, even as the king
hath commanded in the land of Judea.

   {10:38} And concerning the three governments that are added to Judea
from the country of Samaria, let them be joined with Judea, that they
may be reckoned to be under one, nor bound to obey other authority than
the high priest's.

   {10:39} As for Ptolemais, and the land pertaining thereto, I give it
as a free gift to the sanctuary at Jerusalem for the necessary expences
of the sanctuary.

   {10:40} Moreover I give every year fifteen thousand shekels of
silver out of the king's accounts from the places appertaining.

   {10:41} And all the overplus, which the officers payed not in as in
former time, from henceforth shall be given toward the works of the
temple.

   {10:42} And beside this, the five thousand shekels of silver, which
they took from the uses of the temple out of the accounts year by year,
even those things shall be released, because they appertain to the
priests that minister.

   {10:43} And whosoever they be that flee unto the temple at
Jerusalem, or be within the liberties hereof, being indebted unto the
king, or for any other matter, let them be at liberty, and all that
they have in my realm.

   {10:44} For the building also and repairing of the works of the
sanctuary expences shall be given of the king's accounts.

   {10:45} Yea, and for the building of the walls of Jerusalem, and the
fortifying thereof round about, expences shall be given out of the
king's accounts, as also for the building of the walls in Judea.

   {10:46} Now when Jonathan and the people heard these words, they
gave no credit unto them, nor received them, because they remembered
the great evil that he had done in Israel; for he had afflicted them
very sore.

   {10:47} But with Alexander they were well pleased, because he was
the first that entreated of true peace with them, and they were
confederate with him always.

   {10:48} Then gathered king Alexander great forces, and camped over
against Demetrius.

   {10:49} And after the two kings had joined battle, Demetrius' host
fled: but Alexander followed after him, and prevailed against them.

   {10:50} And he continued the battle very sore until the sun went
down: and that day was Demetrius slain.

   {10:51} Afterward Alexander sent ambassadors to Ptolemee king of
Egypt with a message to this effect:

   {10:52} Forasmuch as I am come again to my realm, and am set in the
throne of my progenitors, and have gotten the dominion, and overthrown
Demetrius, and recovered our country;

   {10:53} For after I had joined battle with him, both he and his host
was discomfited by us, so that we sit in the throne of his kingdom:

   {10:54} Now therefore let us make a league of amity together, and
give me now thy daughter to wife: and I will be thy son in law, and
will give both thee and her as according to thy dignity.

   {10:55} Then Ptolemee the king gave answer, saying, Happy be the day
wherein thou didst return into the land of thy fathers, and satest in
the throne of their kingdom.

   {10:56} And now will I do to thee, as thou hast written: meet me
therefore at Ptolemais, that we may see one another; for I will marry
my daughter to thee according to thy desire.

   {10:57} So Ptolemee went out of Egypt with his daughter Cleopatra,
and they came unto Ptolemais in the hundred threescore and second year:

   {10:58} Where king Alexander meeting him, he gave unto him his
daughter Cleopatra, and celebrated her marriage at Ptolemais with great
glory, as the manner of kings is.

   {10:59} Now king Alexander had written unto Jonathan, that he should
come and meet him.

   {10:60} Who thereupon went honourably to Ptolemais, where he met the
two kings, and gave them and their friends silver and gold, and many
presents, and found favour in their sight.

   {10:61} At that time certain pestilent fellows of Israel, men of a
wicked life, assembled themselves against him, to accuse him: but the
king would not hear them.

   {10:62} Yea more than that, the king commanded to take off his
garments, and clothe him in purple: and they did so.

   {10:63} And he made him sit by himself, and said into his princes,
Go with him into the midst of the city, and make proclamation, that no
man complain against him of any matter, and that no man trouble him for
any manner of cause.

   {10:64} Now when his accusers saw that he was honored according to
the proclamation, and clothed in purple, they fled all away.

   {10:65} So the king honoured him, and wrote him among his chief
friends, and made him a duke, and partaker of his dominion.

   {10:66} Afterward Jonathan returned to Jerusalem with peace and
gladness.

   {10:67} Furthermore in the; hundred threescore and fifth year came
Demetrius son of Demetrius out of Crete into the land of his fathers:

   {10:68} Whereof when king Alexander heard tell, he was right sorry,
and returned into Antioch.

   {10:69} Then Demetrius made Apollonius the governor of Celosyria his
general, who gathered together a great host, and camped in Jamnia, and
sent unto Jonathan the high priest, saying,

   {10:70} Thou alone liftest up thyself against us, and I am laughed
to scorn for thy sake, and reproached: and why dost thou vaunt thy
power against us in the mountains?

   {10:71} Now therefore, if thou trustest in thine own strength, come
down to us into the plain field, and there let us try the matter
together: for with me is the power of the cities.

   {10:72} Ask and learn who I am, and the rest that take our part, and
they shall tell thee that thy foot is not able to to flight in their
own land.

   {10:73} Wherefore now thou shalt not be able to abide the horsemen
and so great a power in the plain, where is neither stone nor flint,
nor place to flee unto.

   {10:74} So when Jonathan heard these words of Apollonius, he was
moved in his mind, and choosing ten thousand men he went out of
Jerusalem, where Simon his brother met him for to help him.

   {10:75} And he pitched his tents against Joppa: but; they of Joppa
shut him out of the city, because Apollonius had a garrison there.

   {10:76} Then Jonathan laid siege unto it: whereupon they of the city
let him in for fear: and so Jonathan won Joppa.

   {10:77} Whereof when Apollonius heard, he took three thousand
horsemen, with a great host of footmen, and went to Azotus as one that
journeyed, and therewithal drew him forth into the plain. because he
had a great number of horsemen, in whom he put his trust.

   {10:78} Then Jonathan followed after him to Azotus, where the armies
joined battle.

   {10:79} Now Apollonius had left a thousand horsemen in ambush.

   {10:80} And Jonathan knew that there was an ambushment behind him;
for they had compassed in his host, and cast darts at the people, from
morning till evening.

   {10:81} But the people stood still, as Jonathan had commanded them:
and so the enemies' horses were tired.

   {10:82} Then brought Simon forth his host, and set them against the
footmen, (for the horsemen were spent) who were discomfited by him, and
fled.

   {10:83} The horsemen also, being scattered in the field, fled to
Azotus, and went into Bethdagon, their idol's temple, for safety.

   {10:84} But Jonathan set fire on Azotus, and the cities round about
it, and took their spoils; and the temple of Dagon, with them that were
fled into it, he burned with fire.

   {10:85} Thus there were burned and slain with the sword well nigh
eight thousand men.

   {10:86} And from thence Jonathan removed his host, and camped
against Ascalon, where the men of the city came forth, and met him with
great pomp.

   {10:87} After this returned Jonathan and his host unto Jerusalem,
having any spoils.

   {10:88} Now when king ALexander heard these things, he honoured
Jonathan yet more.

   {10:89} And sent him a buckle of gold, as the use is to be given to
such as are of the king's blood: he gave him also Accaron with the
borders thereof in possession.

   {11:1} And the king of Egypt gathered together a great host, like
the sand that lieth upon the sea shore, and many ships, and went about
through deceit to get Alexander's kingdom, and join it to his own.

   {11:2} Whereupon he took his journey into Spain in peaceable manner,
so as they of the cities opened unto him, and met him: for king
Alexander had commanded them so to do, because he was his brother in
law.

   {11:3} Now as Ptolemee entered into the cities, he set in every one
of them a garrison of soldiers to keep it.

   {11:4} And when he came near to Azotus, they shewed him the temple
of Dagon that was burnt, and Azotus and the suburbs thereof that were
destroyed, and the bodies that were cast abroad and them that he had
burnt in the battle; for they had made heaps of them by the way where
he should pass.

   {11:5} Also they told the king whatsoever Jonathan had done, to the
intent he might blame him: but the king held his peace.

   {11:6} Then Jonathan met the king with great pomp at Joppa, where
they saluted one another, and lodged.

   {11:7} Afterward Jonathan, when he had gone with the king to the
river called Eleutherus, returned again to Jerusalem.

   {11:8} King Ptolemee therefore, having gotten the dominion of the
cities by the sea unto Seleucia upon the sea coast, imagined wicked
counsels against Alexander.

   {11:9} Whereupon he sent ambasadors unto king Demetrius, saying,
Come, let us make a league betwixt us, and I will give thee my daughter
whom Alexander hath, and thou shalt reign in thy father's kingdom:

   {11:10} For I repent that I gave my daughter unto him, for he sought
to slay me.

   {11:11} Thus did he slander him, because he was desirous of his
kingdom.

   {11:12} Wherefore he took his daughter from him, and gave her to
Demetrius, and forsook Alexander, so that their hatred was openly known.

   {11:13} Then Ptolemee entered into Antioch, where he set two crowns
upon his head, the crown of Asia, and of Egypt.

   {11:14} In the mean season was king Alexander in Cilicia, because
those that dwelt in those parts had revolted from him.

   {11:15} But when Alexander heard of this, he came to war against
him: whereupon king Ptolemee brought forth his host, and met him with a
mighty power, and put him to flight.

   {11:16} So Alexander fled into Arabia there to be defended; but king
Ptolemee was exalted:

   {11:17} For Zabdiel the Arabian took off Alexander's head, and sent
it unto Ptolemee.

   {11:18} King Ptolemee also died the third day after, and they that
were in the strong holds were slain one of another.

   {11:19} By this means Demetrius reigned in the hundred threescore
and seventh year.

   {11:20} At the same time Jonathan gathered together them that were
in Judea to take the tower that was in Jerusalem: and he made many
engines of war against it.

   {11:21} Then came ungodly persons, who hated their own people, went
unto the king, and told him that Jonathan besieged the tower,

   {11:22} Whereof when he heard, he was angry, and immediately
removing, he came to Ptolemais, and wrote unto Jonathan, that he should
not lay siege to the tower, but come and speak with him at Ptolemais in
great haste.

   {11:23} Nevertheless Jonathan, when he heard this, commanded to
besiege it still: and he chose certain of the elders of Israel and the
priests, and put himself in peril;

   {11:24} And took silver and gold, and raiment, and divers presents
besides, and went to Ptolemais unto the king, where he found favour in
his sight.

   {11:25} And though certain ungodly men of the people had made
complaints against him,

   {11:26} Yet the king entreated him as his predecessors had done
before, and promoted him in the sight of all his friends,

   {11:27} And confirmed him in the high priesthood, and in all the
honours that he had before, and gave him preeminence among his chief
friends.

   {11:28} Then Jonathan desired the king, that he would make Judea
free from tribute, as also the three governments, with the country of
Samaria; and he promised him three hundred talents.

   {11:29} So the king consented, and wrote letters unto Jonathan of
all these things after this manner:

   {11:30} King Demetrius unto his brother Jonathan, and unto the
nation of the Jews, sendeth greeting:

   {11:31} We send you here a copy of the letter which we did write
unto our cousin Lasthenes concerning you, that ye might see it.

   {11:32} King Demetrius unto his father Lasthenes sendeth greeting:

   {11:33} We are determined to do good to the people of the Jews, who
are our friends, and keep covenants with us, because of their good will
toward us.

   {11:34} Wherefore we have ratified unto them the borders of Judea,
with the three governments of Apherema and Lydda and Ramathem, that are
added unto Judea from the country of Samaria, and all things
appertaining unto them, for all such as do sacrifice in Jerusalem,
instead of the payments which the king received of them yearly
aforetime out of the fruits of the earth and of trees.

   {11:35} And as for other things that belong unto us, of the tithes
and customs pertaining unto us, as also the saltpits, and the crown
taxes, which are due unto us, we discharge them of them all for their
relief.

   {11:36} And nothing hereof shall be revoked from this time forth for
ever.

   {11:37} Now therefore see that thou make a copy of these things, and
let it be delivered unto Jonathan, and set upon the holy mount in a
conspicuous place.

   {11:38} After this, when king Demetrius saw that the land was quiet
before him, and that no resistance was made against him, he sent away
all his forces, every one to his own place, except certain bands of
strangers, whom he had gathered from the isles of the heathen:
wherefore all the forces of his fathers hated him.

   {11:39} Moreover there was one Tryphon, that had been of Alexander's
part afore, who, seeing that all the host murmured against Demetrius,
went to Simalcue the Arabian that brought up Antiochus the young son of
Alexander,

   {11:40} And lay sore upon him to deliver him this young Antiochus,
that he might reign in his father's stead: he told him therefore all
that Demetrius had done, and how his men of war were at enmity with
him, and there he remained a long season.

   {11:41} In the mean time Jonathan sent unto king Demetrius, that he
would cast those of the tower out of Jerusalem, and those also in the
fortresses: for they fought against Israel.

   {11:42} So Demetrius sent unto Jonathan, saying, I will not only do
this for thee and thy people, but I will greatly honour thee and thy
nation, if opportunity serve.

   {11:43} Now therefore thou shalt do well, if thou send me men to
help me; for all my forces are gone from me.

   {11:44} Upon this Jonathan sent him three thousand strong men unto
Antioch: and when they came to the king, the king was very glad of
their coming.

   {11:45} Howbeit they that were of the city gathered themselves
together into the midst of the city, to the number of an hundred and
twenty thousand men, and would have slain the king.

   {11:46} Wherefore the king fled into the court, but they of the city
kept the passages of the city, and began to fight.

   {11:47} Then the king called to the Jews for help, who came unto him
all at once, and dispersing themselves through the city slew that day
in the city to the number of an hundred thousand.

   {11:48} Also they set fire on the city, and gat many spoils that
day, and delivered the king.

   {11:49} So when they of the city saw that the Jews had got the city
as they would, their courage was abated: wherefore they made
supplication to the king, and cried, saying,

   {11:50} Grant us peace, and let the Jews cease from assaulting us
and the city.

   {11:51} With that they cast away their weapons, and made peace; and
the Jews were honoured in the sight of the king, and in the sight of
all that were in his realm; and they returned to Jerusalem, having
great spoils.

   {11:52} So king Demetrius sat on the throne of his kingdom, and the
land was quiet before him.

   {11:53} Nevertheless he dissembled in all that ever he spake, and
estranged himself from Jonathan, neither rewarded he him according to
the benefits which he had received of him, but troubled him very sore.

   {11:54} After this returned Tryphon, and with him the young child
Antiochus, who reigned, and was crowned.

   {11:55} Then there gathered unto him all the men of war, whom
Demetrius had put away, and they fought against Demetrius, who turned
his back and fled.

   {11:56} Moreover Tryphon took the elephants, and won Antioch.

   {11:57} At that time young Antiochus wrote unto Jonathan, saying, I
confirm thee in the high priesthood, and appoint thee ruler over the
four governments, and to be one of the king's friends.

   {11:58} Upon this he sent him golden vessels to be served in, and
gave him leave to drink in gold, and to be clothed in purple, and to
wear a golden buckle.

   {11:59} His brother Simon also he made captain from the place called
The ladder of Tyrus unto the borders of Egypt.

   {11:60} Then Jonathan went forth, and passed through the cities
beyond the water, and all the forces of Syria gathered themselves unto
him for to help him: and when he came to Ascalon, they of the city met
him honourably.

   {11:61} From whence he went to Gaza, but they of Gaza shut him out;
wherefore he laid siege unto it, and burned the suburbs thereof with
fire, and spoiled them.

   {11:62} Afterward, when they of Gaza made supplication unto
Jonathan, he made peace with them, and took the sons of their chief men
for hostages, and sent them to Jerusalem, and passed through the
country unto Damascus.

   {11:63} Now when Jonathan heard that Demetrius' princes were come to
Cades, which is in Galilee, with a great power, purposing to remove him
out of the country,

   {11:64} He went to meet them, and left Simon his brother in the
country.

   {11:65} Then Simon encamped against Bethsura and fought against it a
long season, and shut it up:

   {11:66} But they desired to have peace with him, which he granted
them, and then put them out from thence, and took the city, and set a
garrison in it.

   {11:67} As for Jonathan and his host, they pitched at the water of
Gennesar, from whence betimes in the morning they gat them to the plain
of Nasor.

   {11:68} And, behold, the host of strangers met them in the plain,
who, having laid men in ambush for him in the mountains, came
themselves over against him.

   {11:69} So when they that lay in ambush rose out of their places and
joined battle, all that were of Jonathan's side fled;

   {11:70} Insomuch as there was not one of them left, except
Mattathias the son of Absalom, and Judas the son of Calphi, the
captains of the host.

   {11:71} Then Jonathan rent his clothes, and cast earth upon his
head, and prayed.

   {11:72} Afterwards turning again to battle, he put them to flight,
and so they ran away.

   {11:73} Now when his own men that were fled saw this, they turned
again unto him, and with him pursued them to Cades, even unto their own
tents, and there they camped.

   {11:74} So there were slain of the heathen that day about three
thousand men: but Jonathan returned to Jerusalem.

   {12:1} Now when Jonathan saw that time served him, he chose certain
men, and sent them to Rome, for to confirm and renew the friendship
that they had with them.

   {12:2} He sent letters also to the Lacedemonians, and to other
places, for the same purpose.

   {12:3} So they went unto Rome, and entered into the senate, and
said, Jonathan the high priest, and the people of the Jews, sent us
unto you, to the end ye should renew the friendship, which ye had with
them, and league, as in former time.

   {12:4} Upon this the Romans gave them letters unto the governors of
every place that they should bring them into the land of Judea
peaceably.

   {12:5} And this is the copy of the letters which Jonathan wrote to
the Lacedemonians:

   {12:6} Jonathan the high priest, and the elders of the nation, and
the priests, and the other of the Jews, unto the Lacedemonians their
brethren send greeting:

   {12:7} There were letters sent in times past unto Onias the high
priest from Darius, who reigned then among you, to signify that ye are
our brethren, as the copy here underwritten doth specify.

   {12:8} At which time Onias entreated the ambassador that was sent
honourably, and received the letters, wherein declaration was made of
the league and friendship.

   {12:9} Therefore we also, albeit we need none of these things, that
we have the holy books of scripture in our hands to comfort us,

   {12:10} Have nevertheless attempted to send unto you for the
renewing of brotherhood and friendship, lest we should become strangers
unto you altogether: for there is a long time passed since ye sent unto
us.

   {12:11} We therefore at all times without ceasing, both in our
feasts, and other convenient days, do remember you in the sacrifices
which we offer, and in our prayers, as reason is, and as it becometh us
to think upon our brethren:

   {12:12} And we are right glad of your honour.

   {12:13} As for ourselves, we have had great troubles and wars on
every side, forsomuch as the kings that are round about us have fought
against us.

   {12:14} Howbeit we would not be troublesome unto you, nor to others
of our confederates and friends, in these wars:

   {12:15} For we have help from heaven that succoureth us, so as we
are delivered from our enemies, and our enemies are brought under foot.

   {12:16} For this cause we chose Numenius the son of Antiochus, and
Antipater he son of Jason, and sent them unto the Romans, to renew the
amity that we had with them, and the former league.

   {12:17} We commanded them also to go unto you, and to salute and to
deliver you our letters concerning the renewing of our brotherhood.

   {12:18} Wherefore now ye shall do well to give us an answer thereto.

   {12:19} And this is the copy of the letters which Oniares sent.

   {12:20} Areus king of the Lacedemonians to Onias the high priest,
greeting:

   {12:21} It is found in writing, that the Lacedemonians and Jews are
brethren, and that they are of the stock of Abraham:

   {12:22} Now therefore, since this is come to our knowledge, ye shall
do well to write unto us of your prosperity.

   {12:23} We do write back again to you, that your cattle and goods
are our's, and our's are your's We do command therefore our ambassadors
to make report unto you on this wise.

   {12:24} Now when Jonathan heard that Demebius' princes were come to
fight against him with a greater host than afore,

   {12:25} He removed from Jerusalem, and met them in the land of
Amathis: for he gave them no respite to enter his country.

   {12:26} He sent spies also unto their tents, who came again, and
told him that they were appointed to come upon them in the night season.

   {12:27} Wherefore so soon as the sun was down, Jonathan commanded
his men to watch, and to be in arms, that all the night long they might
be ready to fight: also he sent forth centinels round about the host.

   {12:28} But when the adversaries heard that Jonathan and his men
were ready for battle, they feared, and trembled in their hearts, and
they kindled fires in their camp.

   {12:29} Howbeit Jonathan and his company knew it not till the
morning: for they saw the lights burning.

   {12:30} Then Jonathan pursued after them, but overtook them not: for
they were gone over the river Eleutherus.

   {12:31} Wherefore Jonathan turned to the Arabians, who were called
Zabadeans, and smote them, and took their spoils.

   {12:32} And removing thence, he came to Damascus, and so passed
through all the country,

   {12:33} Simon also went forth, and passed through the country unto
Ascalon, and the holds there adjoining, from whence he turned aside to
Joppa, and won it.

   {12:34} For he had heard that they would deliver the hold unto them
that took Demetrius' part; wherefore he set a garrison there to keep it.

   {12:35} After this came Jonathan home again, and calling the elders
of the people together, he consulted with them about building strong
holds in Judea,

   {12:36} And making the walls of Jerusalem higher, and raising a
great mount between the tower and the city, for to separate it from the
city, that so it might be alone, that men might neither sell nor buy in
it.

   {12:37} Upon this they came together to build up the city, forasmuch
as part of the wall toward the brook on the east side was fallen down,
and they repaired that which was called Caphenatha.

   {12:38} Simon also set up Adida in Sephela, and made it strong with
gates and bars.

   {12:39} Now Tryphon went about to get the kingdom of Asia, and to
kill Antiochus the king, that he might set the crown upon his own head.

   {12:40} Howbeit he was afraid that Jonathan would not suffer him,
and that he would fight against him; wherefore he sought a way how to
take Jonathan, that he might kill him. So he removed, and came to
Bethsan.

   {12:41} Then Jonathan went out to meet him with forty thousand men
chosen for the battle, and came to Bethsan.

   {12:42} Now when Tryphon saw Jonathan came with so great a force, he
durst not stretch his hand against him;

   {12:43} But received him honourably, and commended him unto all his
friends, and gave him gifts, and commanded his men of war to be as
obedient unto him, as to himself.

   {12:44} Unto Jonathan also he said, Why hast thou brought all this
people to so great trouble, seeing there is no war betwixt us?

   {12:45} Therefore send them now home again, and choose a few men to
wait on thee, and come thou with me to Ptolemais, for I will give it
thee, and the rest of the strong holds and forces, and all that have
any charge: as for me, I will return and depart: for this is the cause
of my coming.

   {12:46} So Jonathan believing him did as he bade him, and sent away
his host, who went into the land of Judea.

   {12:47} And with himself he retained but three thousand men, of whom
he sent two thousand into Galilee, and one thousand went with him.

   {12:48} Now as soon as Jonathan entered into Ptolemais, they of
Ptolemais shut the gates and took him, and all them that came with him
they slew with the sword.

   {12:49} Then sent Tryphon an host of footmen and horsemen into
Galilee, and into the great plain, to destroy all Jonathan's company.

   {12:50} But when they knew that Jonathan and they that were with him
were taken and slain, they encouraged one another; and went close
together, prepared to fight.

   {12:51} They therefore that followed upon them, perceiving that they
were ready to fight for their lives, turned back again.

   {12:52} Whereupon they all came into the land of Judea peaceably,
and there they bewailed Jonathan, and them that were with him, and they
were sore afraid; wherefore all Israel made great lamentation.

   {12:53} Then all the heathen that were round about then sought to
destroy them: for said they, They have no captain, nor any to help
them: now therefore let us make war upon them, and take away their
memorial from among men.

   {13:1} Now when Simon heard that Tryphon had gathered together a
great host to invade the land of Judea, and destroy it,

   {13:2} And saw that the people was in great trembling and fear, he
went up to Jerusalem, and gathered the people together,

   {13:3} And gave them exhortation, saying, Ye yourselves know what
great things I, and my brethren, and my father's house, have done for
the laws and the sanctuary, the battles also and troubles which we have
seen.

   {13:4} By reason whereof all my brethren are slain for Israel's
sake, and I am left alone.

   {13:5} Now therefore be it far from me, that I should spare mine own
life in any time of trouble: for I am no better than my brethren.

   {13:6} Doubtless I will avenge my nation, and the sanctuary, and our
wives, and our children: for all the heathen are gathered to destroy us
of very malice.

   {13:7} Now as soon as the people heard these words, their spirit
revived.

   {13:8} And they answered with a loud voice, saying, Thou shalt be
our leader instead of Judas and Jonathan thy brother.

   {13:9} Fight thou our battles, and whatsoever, thou commandest us,
that will we do.

   {13:10} So then he gathered together all the men of war, and made
haste to finish the walls of Jerusalem, and he fortified it round about.

   {13:11} Also he sent Jonathan the son of Absolom, and with him a
great power, to Joppa: who casting out them that were therein remained
there in it.

   {13:12} So Tryphon removed from Ptolemaus with a great power to
invade the land of Judea, and Jonathan was with him in ward.

   {13:13} But Simon pitched his tents at Adida, over against the plain.

   {13:14} Now when Tryphon knew that Simon was risen up instead of his
brother Jonathan, and meant to join battle with him, he sent messengers
unto him, saying,

   {13:15} Whereas we have Jonathan thy brother in hold, it is for
money that he is owing unto the king's treasure, concerning the
business that was committed unto him.

   {13:16} Wherefore now send an hundred talents of silver, and two of
his sons for hostages, that when he is at liberty he may not revolt
from us, and we will let him go.

   {13:17} Hereupon Simon, albeit he perceived that they spake
deceitfully unto him yet sent he the money and the children, lest
peradventure he should procure to himself great hatred of the people:

   {13:18} Who might have said, Because I sent him not the money and
the children, therefore is Jonathan dead.

   {13:19} So he sent them the children and the hundred talents:
howbeit Tryphon dissembled neither would he let Jonathan go.

   {13:20} And after this came Tryphon to invade the land, and destroy
it, going round about by the way that leadeth unto Adora: but Simon and
his host marched against him in every place, wheresoever he went.

   {13:21} Now they that were in the tower sent messengers unto
Tryphon, to the end that he should hasten his coming unto them by the
wilderness, and send them victuals.

   {13:22} Wherefore Tryphon made ready all his horsemen to come that
night: but there fell a very great snow, by reason whereof he came not.
So he departed, and came into the country of Galaad.

   {13:23} And when he came near to Bascama he slew Jonathan, who was
buried there.

   {13:24} Afterward Tryphon returned and went into his own land.

   {13:25} Then sent Simon, and took the bones of Jonathan his brother,
and buried them in Modin, the city of his fathers.

   {13:26} And all Israel made great lamentation for him, and bewailed
him many days.

   {13:27} Simon also built a monument upon the sepulchre of his father
and his brethren, and raised it aloft to the sight, with hewn stone
behind and before.

   {13:28} Moreover he set up seven pyramids, one against another, for
his father, and his mother, and his four brethren.

   {13:29} And in these he made cunning devices, about the which he set
great pillars, and upon the pillars he made all their armour for a
perpetual memory, and by the armour ships carved, that they might be
seen of all that sail on the sea.

   {13:30} This is the sepulchre which he made at Modin, and it
standeth yet unto this day.

   {13:31} Now Tryphon dealt deceitfully with the young king Antiochus,
and slew him.

   {13:32} And he reigned in his stead, and crowned himself king of
Asia, and brought a great calamity upon the land.

   {13:33} Then Simon built up the strong holds in Judea, and fenced
them about with high towers, and great walls, and gates, and bars, and
laid up victuals therein.

   {13:34} Moreover Simon chose men, and sent to king Demetrius, to the
end he should give the land an immunity, because all that Tryphon did
was to spoil.

   {13:35} Unto whom king Demetrius answered and wrote after this
manner:

   {13:36} King Demetrius unto Simon the high priest, and friend of
kings, as also unto the elders and nation of the Jews, sendeth greeting:

   {13:37} The golden crown, and the scarlet robe, which ye sent unto
us, we have received: and we are ready to make a stedfast peace with
you, yea, and to write unto our officers, to confirm the immunities
which we have granted.

   {13:38} And whatsoever covenants we have made with you shall stand;
and the strong holds, which ye have builded, shall be your own.

   {13:39} As for any oversight or fault committed unto this day, we
forgive it, and the crown tax also, which ye owe us: and if there were
any other tribute paid in Jerusalem, it shall no more be paid.

   {13:40} And look who are meet among you to be in our court, let then
be enrolled, and let there be peace betwixt us.

   {13:41} Thus the yoke of the heathen was taken away from Israel in
the hundred and seventieth year.

   {13:42} Then the people of Israel began to write in their
instruments and contracts, In the first year of Simon the high priest,
the governor and leader of the Jews.

   {13:43} In those days Simon camped against Gaza and besieged it
round about; he made also an engine of war, and set it by the city, and
battered a certain tower, and took it.

   {13:44} And they that were in the engine leaped into the city;
whereupon there was a great uproar in the city:

   {13:45} Insomuch as the people of the city rent their clothes, and
climbed upon the walls with their wives and children, and cried with a
loud voice, beseeching Simon to grant them peace.

   {13:46} And they said, Deal not with us according to our wickedness,
but according to thy mercy.

   {13:47} So Simon was appeased toward them, and fought no more
against them, but put them out of the city, and cleansed the houses
wherein the idols were, and so entered into it with songs and
thanksgiving.

   {13:48} Yea, he put all uncleanness out of it, and placed such men
there as would keep the law, and made it stronger than it was before,
and built therein a dwellingplace for himself.

   {13:49} They also of the tower in Jerusalem were kept so strait,
that they could neither come forth, nor go into the country, nor buy,
nor sell: wherefore they were in great distress for want of victuals,
and a great number of them perished through famine.

   {13:50} Then cried they to Simon, beseeching him to be at one with
them: which thing he granted them; and when he had put them out from
thence, he cleansed the tower from pollutions:

   {13:51} And entered into it the three and twentieth day of the
second month in the hundred seventy and first year, with thanksgiving,
and branches of palm trees, and with harps, and cymbals, and with
viols, and hymns, and songs: because there was destroyed a great enemy
out of Israel.

   {13:52} He ordained also that that day should be kept every year
with gladness. Moreover the hill of the temple that was by the tower he
made stronger than it was, and there he dwelt himself with his company.

   {13:53} And when Simon saw that John his son was a valiant man, he
made him captain of all the hosts; and he dwelt in Gazera.

   {14:1} Now in the hundred threescore and twelfth year king Demetrius
gathered his forces together, and went into Media to get him help to
fight against Tryphone.

   {14:2} But when Arsaces, the king of Persia and Media, heard that
Demetrius was entered within his borders, he sent one of his princes to
take him alive:

   {14:3} Who went and smote the host of Demetrius, and took him, and
brought him to Arsaces, by whom he was put in ward.

   {14:4} As for the land of Judea, that was quiet all the days of
Simon; for he sought the good of his nation in such wise, as that
evermore his authority and honour pleased them well.

   {14:5} And as he was honourable in all his acts, so in this, that he
took Joppa for an haven, and made an entrance to the isles of the sea,

   {14:6} And enlarged the bounds of his nation, and recovered the
country,

   {14:7} And gathered together a great number of captives, and had the
dominion of Gazera, and Bethsura, and the tower, out of the which he
took all uncleaness, neither was there any that resisted him.

   {14:8} Then did they till their ground in peace, and the earth gave
her increase, and the trees of the field their fruit.

   {14:9} The ancient men sat all in the streets, communing together of
good things, and the young men put on glorious and warlike apparel.

   {14:10} He provided victuals for the cities, and set in them all
manner of munition, so that his honourable name was renowned unto the
end of the world.

   {14:11} He made peace in the land, and Israel rejoiced with great
joy:

   {14:12} For every man sat under his vine and his fig tree, and there
was none to fray them:

   {14:13} Neither was there any left in the land to fight against
them: yea, the kings themselves were overthrown in those days.

   {14:14} Moreover he strengthened all those of his people that were
brought low: the law he searched out; and every contemner of the law
and wicked person he took away.

   {14:15} He beautified the sanctuary, and multiplied vessels of the
temple.

   {14:16} Now when it was heard at Rome, and as far as Sparta, that
Jonathan was dead, they were very sorry.

   {14:17} But as soon as they heard that his brother Simon was made
high priest in his stead, and ruled the country, and the cities therein:

   {14:18} They wrote unto him in tables of brass, to renew the
friendship and league which they had made with Judas and Jonathan his
brethren:

   {14:19} Which writings were read before the congregation at
Jerusalem.

   {14:20} And this is the copy of the letters that the Lacedemonians
sent; The rulers of the Lacedemonians, with the city, unto Simon the
high priest, and the elders, and priests, and residue of the people of
the Jews, our brethren, send greeting:

   {14:21} The ambassadors that were sent unto our people certified us
of your glory and honour: wherefore we were glad of their coming,

   {14:22} And did register the things that they spake in the council
of the people in this manner; Numenius son of Antiochus, and Antipater
son of Jason, the Jews' ambassadors, came unto us to renew the
friendship they had with us.

   {14:23} And it pleased the people to entertain the men honourably,
and to put the copy of their ambassage in publick records, to the end
the people of the Lacedemonians might have a memorial thereof:
furthermore we have written a copy thereof unto Simon the high priest.

   {14:24} After this Simon sent Numenius to Rome with a great shield
of gold of a thousand pound weight to confirm the league with them.

   {14:25} Whereof when the people heard, they said, What thanks shall
we give to Simon and his sons?

   {14:26} For he and his brethren and the house of his father have
established Israel, and chased away in fight their enemies from them,
and confirmed their liberty.

   {14:27} So then they wrote it in tables of brass, which they set
upon pillars in mount Sion: and this is the copy of the writing; The
eighteenth day of the month Elul, in the hundred threescore and twelfth
year, being the third year of Simon the high priest,

   {14:28} At Saramel in the great congregation of the priests, and
people, and rulers of the nation, and elders of the country, were these
things notified unto us.

   {14:29} Forasmuch as oftentimes there have been wars in the country,
wherein for the maintenance of their sanctuary, and the law, Simon the
son of Mattathias, of the posterity of Jarib, together with his
brethren, put themselves in jeopardy, and resisting the enemies of
their nation did their nation great honour:

   {14:30} (For after that Jonathan, having gathered his nation
together, and been their high priest, was added to his people,

   {14:31} Their enemies prepared to invade their country, that they
might destroy it, and lay hands on the sanctuary:

   {14:32} At which time Simon rose up, and fought for his nation, and
spent much of his own substance, and armed the valiant men of his
nation and gave them wages,

   {14:33} And fortified the cities of Judea, together with Bethsura,
that lieth upon the borders of Judea, where the armour of the enemies
had been before; but he set a garrison of Jews there:

   {14:34} Moreover he fortified Joppa, which lieth upon the sea, and
Gazera, that bordereth upon Azotus, where the enemies had dwelt before:
but he placed Jews there, and furnished them with all things convenient
for the reparation thereof.)

   {14:35} The people therefore sang the acts of Simon, and unto what
glory he thought to bring his nation, made him their governor and chief
priest, because he had done all these things, and for the justice and
faith which he kept to his nation, and for that he sought by all means
to exalt his people.

   {14:36} For in his time things prospered in his hands, so that the
heathen were taken out of their country, and they also that were in the
city of David in Jerusalem, who had made themselves a tower, out of
which they issued, and polluted all about the sanctuary, and did much
hurt in the holy place:

   {14:37} But he placed Jews therein. and fortified it for the safety
of the country and the city, and raised up the walls of Jerusalem.

   {14:38} King Demetrius also confirmed him in the high priesthood
according to those things,

   {14:39} And made him one of his friends, and honoured him with great
honour.

   {14:40} For he had heard say, that the Romans had called the Jews
their friends and confederates and brethren; and that they had
entertained the ambassadors of Simon honourably;

   {14:41} Also that the Jews and priests were well pleased that Simon
should be their governor and high priest for ever, until there should
arise a faithful prophet;

   {14:42} Moreover that he should be their captain, and should take
charge of the sanctuary, to set them over their works, and over the
country, and over the armour, and over the fortresses, that, I say, he
should take charge of the sanctuary;

   {14:43} Beside this, that he should be obeyed of every man, and that
all the writings in the country should be made in his name, and that he
should be clothed in purple, and wear gold:

   {14:44} Also that it should be lawful for none of the people or
priests to break any of these things, or to gainsay his words, or to
gather an assembly in the country without him, or to be clothed in
purple, or wear a buckle of gold;

   {14:45} And whosoever should do otherwise, or break any of these
things, he should be punished.

   {14:46} Thus it liked all the people to deal with Simon, and to do
as hath been said.

   {14:47} Then Simon accepted hereof, and was well pleased to be high
priest, and captain and governor of the Jews and priests, and to defend
them all.

   {14:48} So they commanded that this writing should be put in tables
of brass, and that they should be set up within the compass of the
sanctuary in a conspicuous place;

   {14:49} Also that the copies thereof should be laid up in the
treasury, to the end that Simon and his sons might have them.

   {15:1} Moreover Antiochus son of Demetrius the king sent letters
from the isles of the sea unto Simon the priest and prince of the Jews,
and to all the people;

   {15:2} The contents whereof were these: King Antiochus to Simon the
high priest and prince of his nation, and to the people of the Jews,
greeting:

   {15:3} Forasmuch as certain pestilent men have usurped the kingdom
of our fathers, and my purpose is to challenge it again, that I may
restore it to the old estate, and to that end have gathered a multitude
of foreign soldiers together, and prepared ships of war;

   {15:4} My meaning also being to go through the country, that I may
be avenged of them that have destroyed it, and made many cities in the
kingdom desolate:

   {15:5} Now therefore I confirm unto thee all the oblations which the
kings before me granted thee, and whatsoever gifts besides they granted.

   {15:6} I give thee leave also to coin money for thy country with
thine own stamp.

   {15:7} And as concerning Jerusalem and the sanctuary, let them be
free; and all the armour that thou hast made, and fortresses that thou
hast built, and keepest in thine hands, let them remain unto thee.

   {15:8} And if anything be, or shall be, owing to the king, let it be
forgiven thee from this time forth for evermore.

   {15:9} Furthermore, when we have obtained our kingdom, we will
honour thee, and thy nation, and thy temple, with great honour, so that
your honour shall be known throughout the world.

   {15:10} In the hundred threescore and fourteenth year went Antiochus
into the land of his fathers: at which time all the forces came
together unto him, so that few were left with Tryphon.

   {15:11} Wherefore being pursued by king Antiochus, he fled unto
Dora, which lieth by the sea side:

   {15:12} For he saw that troubles came upon him all at once, and that
his forces had forsaken him.

   {15:13} Then camped Antiochus against Dora, having with him an
hundred and twenty thousand men of war, and eight thousand horsemen.

   {15:14} And when he had compassed the city round about, and joined
ships close to the town on the sea side, he vexed the city by land and
by sea, neither suffered he any to go out or in.

   {15:15} In the mean season came Numenius and his company from Rome,
having letters to the kings and countries; wherein were written these
things:

   {15:16} Lucius, consul of the Romans unto king Ptolemee, greeting:

   {15:17} The Jews' ambassadors, our friends and confederates, came
unto us to renew the old friendship and league, being sent from Simon
the high priest, and from the people of the Jews:

   {15:18} And they brought a shield of gold of a thousand pound.

   {15:19} We thought it good therefore to write unto the kings and
countries, that they should do them no harm, nor fight against them,
their cities, or countries, nor yet aid their enemies against them.

   {15:20} It seemed also good to us to receive the shield of them.

   {15:21} If therefore there be any pestilent fellows, that have fled
from their country unto you, deliver them unto Simon the high priest,
that he may punish them according to their own law.

   {15:22} The same things wrote he likewise unto Demetrius the king,
and Attalus, to Ariarathes, and Arsaces,

   {15:23} And to all the countries and to Sampsames, and the
Lacedemonians, and to Delus, and Myndus, and Sicyon, and Caria, and
Samos, and Pamphylia, and Lycia, and Halicarnassus, and Rhodus, and
Aradus, and Cos, and Side, and Aradus, and Gortyna, and Cnidus, and
Cyprus, and Cyrene.

   {15:24} And the copy hereof they wrote to Simon the high priest.

   {15:25} So Antiochus the king camped against Dora the second day,
assaulting it continually, and making engines, by which means he shut
up Tryphon, that he could neither go out nor in.

   {15:26} At that time Simon sent him two thousand chosen men to aid
him; silver also, and gold, and much armour.

   {15:27} Nevertheless he would not receive them, but brake all the
covenants which he had made with him afore, and became strange unto him.

   {15:28} Furthermore he sent unto him Athenobius, one of his friends,
to commune with him, and say, Ye withhold Joppa and Gazera; with the
tower that is in Jerusalem, which are cities of my realm.

   {15:29} The borders thereof ye have wasted, and done great hurt in
the land, and got the dominion of many places within my kingdom.

   {15:30} Now therefore deliver the cities which ye have taken, and
the tributes of the places, whereof ye have gotten dominion without the
borders of Judea:

   {15:31} Or else give me for them five hundred talents of silver; and
for the harm that ye have done, and the tributes of the cities, other
five hundred talents: if not, we will come and fight against you

   {15:32} So Athenobius the king's friend came to Jerusalem: and when
he saw the glory of Simon, and the cupboard of gold and silver plate,
and his great attendance, he was astonished, and told him the king's
message.

   {15:33} Then answered Simon, and said unto him, We have neither
taken other men's land, nor holden that which appertaineth to others,
but the inheritance of our fathers, which our enemies had wrongfully in
possession a certain time.

   {15:34} Wherefore we, having opportunity, hold the inheritance of
our fathers.

   {15:35} And whereas thou demandest Joppa and Gazera, albeit they did
great harm unto the people in our country, yet will we give thee an
hundred talents for them. Hereunto Athenobius answered him not a word;

   {15:36} But returned in a rage to the king, and made report unto him
of these speeches, and of the glory of Simon, and of all that he had
seen: whereupon the king was exceeding wroth.

   {15:37} In the mean time fled Tryphon by ship unto Orthosias.

   {15:38} Then the king made Cendebeus captain of the sea coast, and
gave him an host of footmen and horsemen,

   {15:39} And commanded him to remove his host toward Judea; also he
commanded him to build up Cedron, and to fortify the gates, and to war
against the people; but as for the king himself, he pursued Tryphon.

   {15:40} So Cendebeus came to Jamnia and began to provoke the people
and to invade Judea, and to take the people prisoners, and slay them.

   {15:41} And when he had built up Cedrou, he set horsemen there, and
an host of footmen, to the end that issuing out they might make
outroads upon the ways of Judea, as the king had commanded him.

   {16:1} Then came up John from Gazera, and told Simon his father what
Cendebeus had done.

   {16:2} Wherefore Simon called his two eldest sons, Judas and John,
and said unto them, I, and my brethren, and my father's house, have
ever from my youth unto this day fought against the enemies of Israel;
and things have prospered so well in our hands, that we have delivered
Israel oftentimes.

   {16:3} But now I am old, and ye, by God's mercy, are of a sufficient
age: be ye instead of me and my brother, and go and fight for our
nation, and the help from heaven be with you.

   {16:4} So he chose out of the country twenty thousand men of war
with horsemen, who went out against Cendebeus, and rested that night at
Modin.

   {16:5} And when as they rose in the morning, and went into the
plain, behold, a mighty great host both of footmen and horsemen came
against them: howbeit there was a water brook betwixt them.

   {16:6} So he and his people pitched over against them: and when he
saw that the people were afraid to go over the water brook, he went
first over himself, and then the men seeing him passed through after
him.

   {16:7} That done, he divided his men, and set the horsemen in the
midst of the footmen: for the enemies' horsemen were very many.

   {16:8} Then sounded they with the holy trumpets: whereupon Cendebeus
and his host were put to flight, so that many of them were slain, and
the remnant gat them to the strong hold.

   {16:9} At that time was Judas John's brother wounded; but John still
followed after them, until he came to Cedron, which Cendebeus had built.

   {16:10} So they fled even unto the towers in the fields of Azotus;
wherefore he burned it with fire: so that there were slain of them
about two thousand men. Afterward he returned into the land of Judea in
peace.

   {16:11} Moreover in the plain of Jericho was Ptolemeus the son of
Abubus made captain, and he had abundance of silver and gold:

   {16:12} For he was the high priest's son in law.

   {16:13} Wherefore his heart being lifted up, he thought to get the
country to himself, and thereupon consulted deceitfully against Simon
and his sons to destroy them.

   {16:14} Now Simon was visiting the cities that were in the country,
and taking care for the good ordering of them; at which time he came
down himself to Jericho with his sons, Mattathias and Judas, in the
hundred threescore and seventeenth year, in the eleventh month, called
Sabat:

   {16:15} Where the son of Abubus receiving them deceitfully into a
little hold, called Docus, which he had built, made them a great
banquet: howbeit he had hid men there.

   {16:16} So when Simon and his sons had drunk largely, Ptolemee and
his men rose up, and took their weapons, and came upon Simon into the
banqueting place, and slew him, and his two sons, and certain of his
servants.

   {16:17} In which doing he committed a great treachery, and
recompensed evil for good.

   {16:18} Then Ptolemee wrote these things, and sent to the king, that
he should send him an host to aid him, and he would deliver him the
country and cities.

   {16:19} He sent others also to Gazera to kill John: and unto the
tribunes he sent letters to come unto him, that he might give them
silver, and gold, and rewards.

   {16:20} And others he sent to take Jerusalem, and the mountain of
the temple.

   {16:21} Now one had run afore to Gazera and told John that his
father and brethren were slain, and, quoth he, Ptolemee hath sent to
slay thee also.

   {16:22} Hereof when he heard, he was sore astonished: so he laid
hands on them that were come to destroy him, and slew them; for he knew
that they sought to make him away.

   {16:23} As concerning the rest of the acts of John, and his wars,
and worthy deeds which he did, and the building of the walls which he
made, and his doings,

   {16:24} Behold, these are written in the chronicles of his
priesthood, from the time he was made high priest after his father.





The First Epistle General of Peter

   {1:1} Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered
throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, {1:2} Elect
according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through
sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the
blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.

   {1:3} Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a
lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, {1:4} To
an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away,
reserved in heaven for you, {1:5} Who are kept by the power of God
through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
{1:6} Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be,
ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: {1:7} That the trial
of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth,
though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and
glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ: {1:8} 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: {1:9} Receiving the end of your
faith, [even] the salvation of [your] souls. {1:10} Of which salvation
the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of
the grace [that should come] unto you: {1:11} 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. {1:12} 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. {1:13} 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; {1:14} As obedient children, not fashioning
yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance: {1:15} But
as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of
conversation; {1:16} Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.
{1:17} And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons
judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning
[here] in fear: {1:18} Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed
with corruptible things, [as] silver and gold, from your vain
conversation [received] by tradition from your fathers; {1:19} But with
the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without
spot: {1:20} Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the
world, but was manifest in these last times for you, {1:21} Who by him
do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him
glory; that your faith and hope might be in God. {1:22} 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: {1:23} Being born again, not of corruptible seed,
but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for
ever. {1:24} For all flesh [is] as grass, and all the glory of man as
the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof
falleth away: {1:25} But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And
this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.

   {2:1} Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and
hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, {2:2} As newborn
babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
{2:3} If so be ye have tasted that the Lord [is] gracious. {2:4} To
whom coming, [as unto] a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but
chosen of God, [and] precious, {2:5} Ye also, as lively stones, are
built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual
sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. {2:6} Wherefore also it
is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner
stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be
confounded. {2:7} 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, {2:8} 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. {2:9}
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: {2:10} 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.

   {2:11} Dearly beloved, I beseech [you] as strangers and pilgrims,
abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; {2:12} Having
your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak
against you as evildoers, they may by [your] good works, which they
shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.

   {2:13} Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's
sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; {2:14} Or unto governors,
as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and
for the praise of them that do well. {2:15} For so is the will of God,
that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish
men: {2:16} As free, and not using [your] liberty for a cloke of
maliciousness, but as the servants of God. {2:17} Honour all [men.]
Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king. {2:18} Servants, [be]
subject to [your] masters with all fear; not only to the good and
gentle, but also to the froward. {2:19} For this [is] thankworthy, if a
man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.
{2:20} For what glory [is it,] if, when ye be buffeted for your faults,
ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer [for
it,] ye take it patiently, this [is] acceptable with God. {2:21} For
even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us,
leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps: {2:22} Who did
no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: {2:23} Who, when he was
reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but
committed [himself] to him that judgeth righteously: {2:24} Who his own
self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to
sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
{2:25} For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the
Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.

   {3:1} Likewise, ye wives, [be] in subjection to your own husbands;
that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won
by the conversation of the wives; {3:2} While they behold your chaste
conversation [coupled] with fear. {3:3} Whose adorning let it not be
that outward [adorning] of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold,
or of putting on of apparel; {3:4} But [let it be] the hidden man of
the heart, in that which is not corruptible, [even the ornament] of a
meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
{3:5} For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who
trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own
husbands: {3:6} Even as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose
daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any
amazement. {3:7} 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. {3:8} Finally, [be ye] all of one mind, having compassion one
of another, love as brethren, [be] pitiful, [be] courteous: {3:9} Not
rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise
blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit
a blessing. {3:10} For he that will love life, and see good days, let
him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no
guile: {3:11} Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and
ensue it. {3:12} 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.

   {3:13} And who [is] he that will harm you, if ye be followers of
that which is good? {3:14} But and if ye suffer for righteousness'
sake, happy [are ye:] and be not afraid of their terror, neither be
troubled; {3:15} But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and [be]
ready always to [give] an answer to every man that asketh you a reason
of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear: {3:16} Having a good
conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they
may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.
{3:17} For [it is] better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for
well doing, than for evil doing. {3:18} For Christ also hath once
suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to
God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
{3:19} By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
{3:20} Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of
God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein
few, that is, eight souls were saved by water. {3:21} 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: {3:22} Who is gone into
heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and
powers being made subject unto him.

   {4:1} Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh,
arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered
in the flesh hath ceased from sin; {4:2} That he no longer should live
the rest of [his] time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the
will of God. {4:3} For the time past of [our] life may suffice us to
have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in
lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and
abominable idolatries: {4:4} Wherein they think it strange that ye run
not with [them] to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of [you:
]{4:5} Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick
and the dead. {4:6} 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.

   {4:7} But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober,
and watch unto prayer. {4:8} And above all things have fervent charity
among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins. {4:9}
Use hospitality one to another without grudging. {4:10} As every man
hath received the gift, [even so] minister the same one to another, as
good stewards of the manifold grace of God. {4:11} If any man speak,
[let him speak] as the oracles of God; if any 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.

   {4:12} Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial
which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:
{4:13} But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's
sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also
with exceeding joy. {4:14} 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.
{4:15} But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or [as] a thief, or
[as] an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's matters. {4:16} Yet
if [any man suffer] as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him
glorify God on this behalf. {4:17} For the time [is come] that judgment
must begin at the house of God: and if [it] first [begin] at us, what
shall the end [be] of them that obey not the gospel of God? {4:18} And
if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the
sinner appear? {4:19} Wherefore let them that suffer according to the
will of God commit the keeping of their souls [to him] in well doing,
as unto a faithful Creator.

   {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: {5:2} 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; {5:3} Neither as
being lords over [God's] heritage, but being ensamples to the flock.
{5:4} And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a
crown of glory that fadeth not away. {5:5} Likewise, ye younger, submit
yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all [of you] be subject one to another,
and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth
grace to the humble.

   {5:6} Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that
he may exalt you in due time: {5:7} Casting all your care upon him; for
he careth for you. {5:8} Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary
the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may
devour: {5:9} Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same
afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.
{5:10} But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal
glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you
perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle [you. ]{5:11} To him [be] glory
and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

   {5:12} By Silvanus, a faithful brother unto you, as I suppose, I
have written briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true
grace of God wherein ye stand. {5:13} The [church that is] at Babylon,
elected together with [you,] saluteth you; and [so doth] Marcus my son.
{5:14} Greet ye one another with a kiss of charity. Peace [be] with you
all that are in Christ Jesus. Amen.





The First Book of Samuel Otherwise Called the First Book of the Kings

   {1:1} Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim-zophim, of mount
Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of
Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephrathite: {1:2} 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.
{1:3} 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.

   {1:4} And when the time was that Elkanah offered, he gave to
Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions:
{1:5} But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah:
but the LORD had shut up her womb. {1:6} And her adversary also
provoked her sore, for to make her fret, because the LORD had shut up
her womb. {1:7} And [as] he did so year by year, when she went up to
the house of the LORD, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and did
not eat. {1:8} 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?

   {1:9} 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. {1:10} And she [was] in bitterness of soul, and
prayed unto the LORD, and wept sore. {1:11} And she vowed a vow, and
said, O LORD of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of
thine handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thine handmaid, but
wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child, then I will give him unto
the LORD all the days of his life, and there shall no razor come upon
his head. {1:12} And it came to pass, as she continued praying before
the LORD, that Eli marked her mouth. {1:13} Now Hannah, she spake in
her heart; only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard: therefore
Eli thought she had been drunken. {1:14} And Eli said unto her, How
long wilt thou be drunken? put away thy wine from thee. {1:15} And
Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I [am] a woman of a sorrowful
spirit: I have drunken neither wine nor strong drink, but have poured
out my soul before the LORD. {1:16} Count not thine handmaid for a
daughter of Belial: for out of the abundance of my complaint and grief
have I spoken hitherto. {1:17} Then Eli answered and said, Go in peace:
and the God of Israel grant [thee] thy petition that thou hast asked of
him. {1:18} And she said, Let thine handmaid find grace in thy sight.
So the woman went her way, and did eat, and her countenance was no more
[sad.]

   {1:19} 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. {1:20} 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. {1:21} And the man Elkanah, and all his
house, went up to offer unto the LORD the yearly sacrifice, and his
vow. {1:22} But Hannah went not up; for she said unto her husband, [I
will not go up] until the child be weaned, and [then] I will bring him,
that he may appear before the LORD, and there abide for ever. {1:23}
And Elkanah her husband said unto her, Do what seemeth thee 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.

   {1:24} 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. {1:25} And they slew a bullock, and brought the child to Eli.
{1:26} And she said, Oh my lord, [as] thy soul liveth, my lord, I [am]
the woman that stood by thee here, praying unto the LORD. {1:27} For
this child I prayed; and the LORD hath given me my petition which I
asked of him: {1:28} Therefore also I have lent him to the LORD; as
long as he liveth he shall be lent to the LORD. And he worshipped the
LORD there.

   {2:1} And Hannah prayed, and said, My heart rejoiceth in the LORD,
mine horn is exalted in the LORD: my mouth is enlarged over mine
enemies; because I rejoice in thy salvation. {2:2} [There is] none holy
as the LORD: for [there is] none beside thee: neither [is there] any
rock like our God. {2:3} Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let [not]
arrogancy come out of your mouth: for the LORD is a God of knowledge,
and by him actions are weighed. {2:4} The bows of the mighty men [are]
broken, and they that stumbled are girded with strength. {2:5} [They
that were] full have hired out themselves for bread; and [they that
were] hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven; and she that
hath many children is waxed feeble. {2:6} The LORD killeth, and maketh
alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up. {2:7} The LORD
maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up. {2:8} 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. {2:9} He will keep the feet of his
saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength
shall no man prevail. {2:10} The adversaries of the LORD shall be
broken to pieces; out of 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. {2:11} And Elkanah went to
Ramah to his house. And the child did minister unto the LORD before Eli
the priest.

   {2:12} Now the sons of Eli [were] sons of Belial; they knew not the
LORD. {2:13} 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; {2:14}
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. {2:15} 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. {2:16} 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. {2:17}
Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great before the LORD: for
men abhorred the offering of the LORD.

   {2:18} But Samuel ministered before the LORD, [being] a child,
girded with a linen ephod. {2:19} Moreover his mother made him a little
coat, and brought [it] to him from year to year, when she came up with
her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.

   {2:20} 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. {2:21} And the LORD visited Hannah, so
that she conceived, and bare three sons and two daughters. And the
child Samuel grew before the LORD.

   {2:22} 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. {2:23} And he said unto
them, Why do ye such things? for I hear of your evil dealings by all
this people. {2:24} Nay, my sons; for [it is] no good report that I
hear: ye make the LORD'S people to transgress. {2:25} If one man sin
against another, the judge shall judge him: but if a 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.
{2:26} And the child Samuel grew on, and was in favour both with the
LORD, and also with men.

   {2:27} And there came a man of God unto Eli, and said unto him, Thus
saith the LORD, Did I plainly appear unto the house of thy father, when
they were in Egypt in Pharaoh's house? {2:28} 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? {2:29} Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine
offering, which I have commanded [in my] habitation; and honourest thy
sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the
offerings of Israel my people? {2:30} Wherefore the LORD God of Israel
saith, I said indeed [that] thy 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. {2:31} 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. {2:32} 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. {2:33} 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. {2:34}
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.
{2:35} 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. {2:36} 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.

   {3:1} 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. {3:2} 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; {3:3} 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; ]{3:4}
That the LORD called Samuel: and he answered, Here [am] I. {3:5} 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. {3:6} 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. {3:7} Now Samuel did not yet know the
LORD, neither was the word of the LORD yet revealed unto him. {3:8} And
the LORD called Samuel again the third time. And he arose and went to
Eli, and said, Here [am] I; for thou didst call me. And Eli perceived
that the LORD had called the child. {3:9} 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. {3:10} And the LORD came, and stood, and called as at
other times, Samuel, Samuel. Then Samuel answered, Speak; for thy
servant heareth.

   {3:11} And the LORD said to Samuel, Behold, I will do a thing in
Israel, at which both the ears of every one that heareth it shall
tingle. {3:12} 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. {3:13} 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. {3:14} 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.

   {3:15} And Samuel lay until the morning, and opened the doors of the
house of the LORD. And Samuel feared to shew Eli the vision. {3:16}
Then Eli called Samuel, and said, Samuel, my son. And he answered, Here
[am] I. {3:17} 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. {3:18} And Samuel told him every whit, and hid
nothing from him. And he said, It [is] the LORD: let him do what
seemeth him good.

   {3:19} And Samuel grew, and the LORD was with him, and did let none
of his words fall to the ground. {3:20} And all Israel from Dan even to
Beer-sheba knew that Samuel [was] established [to be] a prophet of the
LORD. {3:21} And the LORD appeared again in Shiloh: for the LORD
revealed himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of the LORD.

   {4:1} And the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out
against the Philistines to battle, and pitched beside Eben-ezer: and
the Philistines pitched in Aphek. {4:2} 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.

   {4:3} 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. {4:4} 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. {4:5}
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. {4:6}
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. {4:7}
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. {4:8} 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. {4:9} 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.

   {4:10} 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. {4:11} And the ark of God
was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain.

   {4:12} And there ran a man of Benjamin out of the army, and came to
Shiloh the same day with his clothes rent, and with earth upon his
head. {4:13} 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. {4:14} 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. {4:15}
Now Eli was ninety and eight years old; and his eyes were dim, that he
could not see. {4:16} And the man said unto Eli, I [am] he that came
out of the army, and I fled to day out of the army. And he said, What
is there done, my son? {4:17} 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. {4:18} 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.

   {4:19} 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. {4:20}
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. ]{4:21} And she named the child I-chabod, saying,
The glory is departed from Israel: because the ark of God was taken,
and because of her father in law and her husband. {4:22} And she said,
The glory is departed from Israel: for the ark of God is taken.

   {5:1} And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it from
Eben-ezer unto Ashdod. {5:2} When the Philistines took the ark of God,
they brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon.

   {5:3} And when they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow, behold,
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. {5:4} 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. {5:5} 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. {5:6} 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.
{5:7} 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. {5:8} 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. ]{5:9} 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.

   {5:10} 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. {5:11} 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. {5:12} And the men that died not
were smitten with the emerods: and the cry of the city went up to
heaven.

   {6:1} And the ark of the LORD was in the country of the Philistines
seven months. {6:2} 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. {6:3} 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. {6:4} 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. {6:5} 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. {6:6} Wherefore then do ye harden your hearts, as the
Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? when he had wrought
wonderfully among them, did they not let the people go, and they
departed? {6:7} Now therefore make a new cart, and take two milch kine,
on which there hath come no yoke, and tie the kine to the cart, and
bring their calves home from them: {6:8} 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. {6:9} And see, if it goeth up by the way
of his own coast to Beth-shemesh, [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.

   {6:10} And the men did so; and took two milch kine, and tied them to
the cart, and shut up their calves at home: {6:11} And they laid the
ark of the LORD upon the cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold and
the images of their emerods. {6:12} And the kine took the straight way
to the way of Beth-shemesh, [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
Beth-shemesh. {6:13} And [they of] Beth-shemesh [were] reaping their
wheat harvest in the valley: and they lifted up their eyes, and saw the
ark, and rejoiced to see [it. ]{6:14} And the cart came into the field
of Joshua, a Beth-shemite, 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. {6:15} 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 Beth-
shemesh offered burnt offerings and sacrificed sacrifices the same day
unto the LORD. {6:16} And when the five lords of the Philistines had
seen [it,] they returned to Ekron the same day. {6:17} And these [are]
the golden emerods which the Philistines returned [for] a trespass
offering unto the LORD; for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Askelon one,
for Gath one, for Ekron one; {6:18} 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
Beth-shemite.

   {6:19} And he smote the men of Beth-shemesh, 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. {6:20} And the
men of Beth-shemesh said, Who is able to stand before this holy LORD
God? and to whom shall he go up from us?

   {6:21} And they sent messengers to the inhabitants of
Kirjath-jearim, saying, The Philistines have brought again the ark of
the LORD; come ye down, [and] fetch it up to you.

   {7:1} And the men of Kirjath-jearim came, and brought 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. {7:2} And it
came to pass, while the ark abode in Kirjath-jearim, that the time was
long; for it was twenty years: and all the house of Israel lamented
after the LORD.

   {7:3} 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. {7:4} Then the children of Israel did put away
Baalim and Ashtaroth, and served the LORD only. {7:5} And Samuel said,
Gather all Israel to Mizpeh, and I will pray for you unto the LORD.
{7:6} And they gathered together to Mizpeh, and drew water, and 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. {7:7} And when the Philistines heard that the children of
Israel were gathered together to Mizpeh, the lords of the Philistines
went up against Israel. And when the children of Israel heard [it,]
they were afraid of the Philistines. {7:8} And the children of Israel
said to Samuel, Cease not to cry unto the LORD our God for us, that he
will save us out of the hand of the Philistines.

   {7:9} 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. {7:10} 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.
{7:11} And the men of Israel went out of Mizpeh, and pursued the
Philistines, and smote them, until [they came] under Beth-car. {7:12}
Then Samuel took a stone, and set [it] between Mizpeh and Shen, and
called the name of it Eben-ezer, saying, Hitherto hath the LORD helped
us.

   {7:13} 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. {7:14} 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. {7:15} And Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.
{7:16} And he went from year to year in circuit to Bethel, and Gilgal,
and Mizpeh, and judged Israel in all those places. {7:17} And his
return [was] to Ramah; for there [was] his house; and there he judged
Israel; and there he built an altar unto the LORD.

   {8:1} And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made his
sons judges over Israel. {8:2} Now the name of his firstborn was Joel;
and the name of his second, Abiah: [they were] judges in Beer-sheba.
{8:3} And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after
lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment. {8:4} Then all the
elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto
Ramah, {8:5} And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk
not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.

   {8:6} But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a
king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the LORD. {8:7} And the LORD
said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the 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. {8:8} 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. {8:9} 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.

   {8:10} And Samuel told all the words of the LORD unto the people
that asked of him a king. {8:11} And he said, This will be the manner
of the king that shall reign 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. {8:12} 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. {8:13} And he will
take your daughters [to be] confectionaries, and [to be] cooks, and [to
be] bakers. {8:14} And he will take your fields, and your vineyards,
and your oliveyards, [even] the best [of them,] and give [them] to his
servants. {8:15} And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your
vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants. {8:16} And he
will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest
young men, and your asses, and put [them] to his work. {8:17} He will
take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants. {8:18} 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.

   {8:19} Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel;
and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us; {8:20} 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. {8:21} And Samuel heard all
the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of the LORD.
{8:22} And the LORD said to Samuel, Hearken unto their voice, and make
them a king. And Samuel said unto the men of Israel, Go ye every man
unto his city.

   {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. {9:2} 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. {9:3}
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. {9:4} 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. {9:5}
[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. {9:6} And he said unto
him, Behold now, [there is] in this city a man of God, and [he is] an
honourable man; all that he saith cometh surely to pass: now let us go
thither; peradventure he can shew us our way that we should go. {9:7}
Then said Saul to his servant, But, behold, [if] we go, what shall we
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? {9:8} 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. {9:9} (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.)
{9:10} Then said Saul to his servant, Well said; come, let us go. So
they went unto the city where the man of God [was.]

   {9:11} [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?
{9:12} 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: {9:13} 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. {9:14} 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.

   {9:15} Now the LORD had told Samuel in his ear a day before Saul
came, saying, {9:16} To morrow about this time I will send thee a man
out of the land of Benjamin, and thou shalt anoint him [to be] captain
over my people Israel, that he may save my people out of the hand of
the Philistines: for I have looked upon my people, because their cry is
come unto me. {9:17} And when Samuel saw Saul, the LORD said unto him,
Behold the man whom I spake to thee of! this same shall reign over my
people. {9:18} Then Saul drew near to Samuel in the gate, and said,
Tell me, I pray thee, where the seer's house [is. ]{9:19} And Samuel
answered Saul, and said, I [am] the seer: go up 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. {9:20} 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? {9:21} 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? {9:22} 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. {9:23} And Samuel said unto the cook, Bring the
portion which I gave thee, of which I said unto thee, Set it by thee.
{9:24} And the cook took up the shoulder, and [that] which [was] upon
it, 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.

   {9:25} And when they were come down from the high place into the
city, [Samuel] communed with Saul upon the top of the house. {9:26} 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. {9:27} [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.

   {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? {10:2} When thou
art departed from me to day, then thou shalt find two men by Rachel's
sepulchre in the border of Benjamin at Zelzah; and they will say unto
thee, The asses which thou wentest to seek are found: and, lo, thy
father hath left the care of the asses, and sorroweth for you, saying,
What shall I do for my son? {10:3} Then shalt thou go on forward from
thence, and thou shalt come 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: {10:4} And they will salute thee, and give thee two [loaves]
of bread; which thou shalt receive of their hands. {10:5} After that
thou shalt come to the hill of God, where [is] the garrison 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: {10:6} And the Spirit of the LORD
will come upon thee, and thou shalt prophesy with them, and shalt be
turned into another man. {10:7} And let it be, when these signs are
come unto thee, [that] thou do as occasion serve thee; for God [is]
with thee. {10:8} And thou shalt go down before me to Gilgal; and,
behold, I will 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.

   {10:9} 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. {10:10} 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. {10:11} 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? {10:12} And one of
the same place answered and said, But who [is] their father? Therefore
it became a proverb, [Is] Saul also among the prophets? {10:13} And
when he had made an end of prophesying, he came to the high place.

   {10:14} 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. {10:15} And Saul's uncle said, Tell
me, I pray thee, what Samuel said unto you. {10:16} 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.

   {10:17} And Samuel called the people together unto the LORD to
Mizpeh; {10:18} 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: {10:19} 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. {10:20} And when Samuel had caused all the tribes of
Israel to come near, the tribe of Benjamin was taken. {10:21} When he
had caused the tribe of Benjamin to come near by their 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. {10:22} 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. {10:23} 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. {10:24}
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. {10:25} 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.

   {10:26} And Saul also went home to Gibeah; and there went with him a
band of men, whose hearts God had touched. {10:27} But the children of
Belial said, How shall this man save us? And they despised him, and
brought him no presents. But he held his peace. {11:1} Then Nahash the
Ammonite came up, and encamped against Jabesh-gilead: and all the men
of Jabesh said unto Nahash, Make a covenant with us, and we will serve
thee. {11:2} And Nahash the Ammonite answered them, On this [condition]
will I make [a covenant] with you, that I may thrust out all your right
eyes, and lay it [for] a reproach upon all Israel. {11:3} 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.

   {11:4} 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. {11:5} 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. {11:6} And the Spirit
of God came upon Saul when he heard those tidings, and his anger was
kindled greatly. {11:7} And he took a yoke of oxen, and hewed them in
pieces, and sent [them] throughout all the coasts of Israel by the
hands of messengers, saying, Whosoever cometh not forth after Saul and
after Samuel, so shall it be done unto his oxen. And the fear of the
LORD fell on the people, and they came out with one consent. {11:8} And
when he numbered them in Bezek, the children of Israel were three
hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand. {11:9} And they
said unto the messengers that came, Thus shall ye say unto the men of
Jabesh-gilead, 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. {11:10} 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. {11:11} 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.

   {11:12} 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.
{11:13} And Saul said, There shall not a man be put to death this day:
for to day the LORD hath wrought salvation in Israel. {11:14} Then said
Samuel to the people, Come, and let us go to Gilgal, and renew the
kingdom there. {11:15} And all the people went to Gilgal; and there
they made Saul king 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.

   {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. {12:2} 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. {12:3} 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. {12:4} And they said,
Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither hast thou taken
ought of any man's hand. {12:5} And he said unto them, The LORD [is]
witness against you, and his anointed [is] witness this day, that ye
have not found ought in my hand. And they answered, [He is] witness.

   {12:6} 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. {12:7} 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. {12:8} 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. {12:9} 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. {12:10} 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. {12:11} 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. {12:12} 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. {12:13} Now therefore behold the king whom ye have
chosen, [and] whom ye have desired! and, behold, the LORD hath set a
king over you. {12:14} 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: {12:15} 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.

   {12:16} Now therefore stand and see this great thing, which the LORD
will do before your eyes. {12:17} [Is it] not wheat harvest to day? I
will call unto the LORD, and he 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. {12:18} 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. {12:19} 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.

   {12:20} 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; {12:21} And turn ye not aside: for [then
should ye go] after vain [things,] which cannot profit nor deliver; for
they [are] vain. {12:22} For the LORD will not forsake his people for
his great name's sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his
people. {12:23} 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: {12:24} Only fear the LORD, and serve him in
truth with all your heart: for consider how great [things] he hath done
for you. {12:25} But if ye shall still do wickedly, ye shall be
consumed, both ye and your king.

   {13:1} Saul reigned one year; and when he had reigned two years over
Israel, {13:2} Saul chose him three thousand [men] of Israel; [whereof]
two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in mount Bethel, and a
thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and the rest of the
people he sent every man to his tent. {13:3} And Jonathan smote the
garrison of the Philistines that [was] in Geba, and the Philistines
heard [of it.] And Saul blew the trumpet throughout all the land,
saying, Let the Hebrews hear. {13:4} 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.

   {13:5} 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 Beth- aven. {13:6} 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. {13:7} 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.

   {13:8} 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. {13:9} And Saul said, Bring hither a burnt
offering to me, and peace offerings. And he offered the burnt offering.
{13:10} And it came to pass, that as soon as he had made an end of
offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came; and Saul went out to
meet him, that he might salute him.

   {13:11} 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; {13:12} 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. {13:13} 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. {13:14} 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. {13:15} 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. {13:16} And Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people [that were]
present with them, abode in Gibeah of Benjamin: but the Philistines
encamped in Michmash.

   {13:17} And the spoilers came out of the camp of the Philistines in
three companies: one company turned unto the way [that leadeth to]
Ophrah, unto the land of Shual: {13:18} And another company turned the
way [to] Beth-horon: and another company turned [to] the way of the
border that looketh to the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.

   {13:19} Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of
Israel: for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make [them] swords
or spears: {13:20} But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines,
to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his
mattock. {13:21} 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. {13:22} 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. {13:23} And the garrison of the Philistines went out
to the passage of Michmash.

   {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. {14:2} 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; {14:3} And Ahiah, the son of
Ahitub, I-chabod'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.

   {14:4} 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. {14:5} The forefront of the one
[was] situate northward over against Michmash, and the other southward
over against Gibeah. {14:6} And Jonathan said to the young man that
bare his armour, Come, and let us go over unto the garrison of these
uncircumcised: it may be that the LORD will work for us: for [there is]
no restraint to the LORD to save by many or by few. {14:7} And his
armourbearer said unto him, Do all that [is] in thine heart: turn thee;
behold, I [am] with thee according to thy heart. {14:8} Then said
Jonathan, Behold, we will pass over unto [these] men, and we will
discover ourselves unto them. {14:9} If they say thus unto us, Tarry
until we come to you; then we will stand still in our place, and will
not go up unto them. {14:10} But if they say thus, Come up unto us;
then we will go up: for the LORD hath delivered them into our hand: and
this [shall be] a sign unto us. {14:11} And both of them discovered
themselves unto the garrison of the Philistines: and the Philistines
said, Behold, the Hebrews come forth out of the holes where they had
hid themselves. {14:12} 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. {14:13} 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. {14:14} 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. ]{14:15}
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. {14:16} And the
watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked; and, behold, the
multitude melted away, and they went on beating down [one another.
]{14:17} 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. ]{14:18} And Saul said
unto Ahiah, Bring hither the ark of God. For the ark of God was at that
time with the children of Israel.

   {14:19} And it came to pass, while Saul talked unto the priest, that
the noise that [was] in the host of the Philistines went on and
increased: and Saul said unto the priest, Withdraw thine hand. {14:20}
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. {14:21} 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. {14:22} 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. {14:23} So
the LORD saved Israel that day: and the battle passed over unto
Beth-aven.

   {14:24} 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. {14:25} And all [they of] the land came to a
wood; and there was honey upon the ground. {14:26} And when the people
were come into the wood, behold, the honey dropped; but no man put his
hand to his mouth: for the people feared the oath. {14:27} 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. {14:28} 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.
{14:29} 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. {14:30} 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?
{14:31} And they smote the Philistines that day from Michmash to
Aijalon: and the people were very faint. {14:32} And the people flew
upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew [them]
on the ground: and the people did eat [them] with the blood.

   {14:33} 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. {14:34} 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. {14:35} And Saul built an altar unto the LORD: the same
was the first altar that he built unto the LORD.

   {14:36} And Saul said, Let us go down after the Philistines by
night, and 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. {14:37} 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.
{14:38} And Saul said, Draw ye near hither, all the chief of the
people: and know and see wherein this sin hath been this day. {14:39}
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. {14:40} 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. {14:41} Therefore Saul said unto the LORD God of Israel, Give a
perfect [lot.] And Saul and Jonathan were taken: but the people
escaped. {14:42} And Saul said, Cast [lots] between me and Jonathan my
son. And Jonathan was taken. {14:43} Then Saul said to Jonathan, Tell
me what thou hast done. 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. {14:44} And Saul answered, God do so and more
also: for thou shalt surely die, Jonathan. {14:45} And the people said
unto Saul, Shall Jonathan die, who hath 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. {14:46} Then Saul went
up from following the Philistines: and the Philistines went to their
own place.

   {14:47} So Saul took the kingdom over Israel, and fought against all
his enemies on every side, against Moab, and against the children of
Ammon, and against Edom, and against the kings of Zobah, and against
the Philistines: and whithersoever he turned himself, he vexed [them.
]{14:48} And he gathered an host, and smote the Amalekites, and
delivered Israel out of the hands of them that spoiled them. {14:49}
Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, and Ishui, and Melchi-shua: and the
names of his two daughters [were these;] the name of the firstborn
Merab, and the name of the younger Michal: {14:50} 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. {14:51}
And Kish [was] the father of Saul; and Ner the father of Abner [was]
the son of Abiel. {14:52} And there was sore war against the
Philistines all the days of Saul: and when Saul saw any strong man, or
any valiant man, he took him unto him.

   {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. {15:2} 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. {15:3} 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. {15:4} And Saul gathered the people together, and numbered them in
Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.
{15:5} And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley.

   {15:6} 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. {15:7} And Saul
smote the Amalekites from Havilah [until] thou comest to Shur, that
[is] over against Egypt. {15:8} And he took Agag the king of the
Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of
the sword. {15:9} But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of
the sheep, 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.

   {15:10} Then came the word of the LORD unto Samuel, saying, {15:11}
It repenteth me that I have set up Saul [to be] king: for he is turned
back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments. And it
grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the LORD all night. {15:12} And when
Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning, it was 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. {15:13} And Samuel
came to Saul: and Saul said unto him, Blessed [be] thou of the LORD: I
have performed the commandment of the LORD. {15:14} And Samuel said,
What [meaneth] then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the
lowing of the oxen which I hear? {15:15} And Saul said, They have
brought them from the Amalekites: for 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. {15:16} 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. {15:17} 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? {15:18} 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.
{15:19} 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?
{15:20} 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.
{15:21} 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. {15:22} 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. {15:23} 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.

   {15:24} And Saul said unto Samuel, I have sinned: for I have
transgressed the commandment of the LORD, and thy words: because I
feared the people, and obeyed their voice. {15:25} Now therefore, I
pray thee, pardon my sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship
the LORD. {15:26} And Samuel said unto Saul, I will not return with
thee: for thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, and the LORD hath
rejected thee from being king over Israel. {15:27} And as Samuel turned
about to go away, he laid hold upon the skirt of his mantle, and it
rent. {15:28} And Samuel said unto him, The LORD hath rent the kingdom
of Israel from thee this day, and hath given it to a neighbour of
thine, [that is] better than thou. {15:29} And also the Strength of
Israel will not lie nor repent: for he [is] not a man, that he should
repent. {15:30} Then he said, I have sinned: [yet] honour me now, I
pray thee, before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn
again with me, that I may worship the LORD thy God. {15:31} So Samuel
turned again after Saul; and Saul worshipped the LORD.

   {15:32} 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. {15:33} And Samuel said, As thy sword
hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among
women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal.

   {15:34} Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to
Gibeah of Saul. {15:35} 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.

   {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. {16:2} 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.
{16:3} 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.
{16:4} 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? {16:5} And he said, Peaceably: I am come to sacrifice
unto the LORD: sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice.
And he sanctified Jesse and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice.

   {16:6} And it came to pass, when they were come, that he looked on
Eliab, and said, Surely the LORD'S anointed [is] before him. {16:7} But
the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or 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. {16:8} Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made
him pass before Samuel. And he said, Neither hath the LORD chosen this.
{16:9} Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by. And he said, Neither hath
the LORD chosen this. {16:10} Again, Jesse made seven of his sons to
pass before Samuel. And Samuel said unto Jesse, The LORD hath not
chosen these. {16:11} And Samuel said unto Jesse, Are here all [thy]
children? And he 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. {16:12} 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. {16:13} 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.

   {16:14} But the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil
spirit from the LORD troubled him. {16:15} And Saul's servants said
unto him, Behold now, an evil spirit from God troubleth thee. {16:16}
Let our lord now command thy servants, [which are] before thee, 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. {16:17} And Saul said unto his
servants, Provide me now a man that can play well, and bring [him] to
me. {16:18} Then answered one of the servants, and said, Behold, I have
seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, [that is] cunning in playing, and
a mighty valiant man, and a man of war, and prudent in matters, and a
comely person, and the LORD [is] with him.

   {16:19} Wherefore Saul sent messengers unto Jesse, and said, Send me
David thy son, which [is] with the sheep. {16:20} And Jesse took an ass
[laden] with bread, and a bottle of wine, and a kid, and sent [them] by
David his son unto Saul. {16:21} And David came to Saul, and stood
before him: and he loved him greatly; and he became his armourbearer.
{16:22} And Saul sent to Jesse, saying, Let David, I pray thee, stand
before me; for he hath found favour in my sight. {16:23} And it came to
pass, when the [evil] spirit from God was upon 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.

   {17:1} Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle,
and were gathered together at Shochoh, which [belongeth] to Judah, and
pitched between Shochoh and Azekah, in Ephes-dammim. {17:2} And Saul
and the men of Israel were gathered together, and pitched by the valley
of Elah, and set the battle in array against the Philistines. {17:3}
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.

   {17:4} 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. {17:5} 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. {17:6} And [he had] greaves of brass upon
his legs, and a target of brass between his shoulders. {17:7} And the
staff of his spear [was] like a weaver's beam; and his spear's head
[weighed] six hundred shekels of iron: and one bearing a shield went
before him. {17:8} 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. {17:9} 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.
{17:10} And the Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day;
give me a man, that we may fight together. {17:11} When Saul and all
Israel heard those words of the Philistine, they were dismayed, and
greatly afraid.

   {17:12} Now David [was] the son of that Ephrathite of
Bethlehemjudah, whose name [was] Jesse; and he had eight sons: and the
man went among men [for] an old man in the days of Saul. {17:13} 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 first born, and next unto him Abinadab, and the third Shammah.
{17:14} And David [was] the youngest: and the three eldest followed
Saul. {17:15} But David went and returned from Saul to feed his
father's sheep at Bethlehem. {17:16} And the Philistine drew near
morning and evening, and presented himself forty days. {17:17} And
Jesse said unto David his son, Take now for thy brethren an ephah of
this parched [corn,] and these ten loaves, and run to the camp to thy
brethren; {17:18} And carry these ten cheeses unto the captain of
[their] thousand, and look how thy brethren fare, and take their
pledge. {17:19} Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel, [were]
in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.

   {17:20} And David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep
with 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. {17:21} For Israel and the Philistines had put
the battle in array, army against army. {17:22} 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. {17:23} 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. ]{17:24} And all
the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were sore
afraid. {17:25} And the men of Israel said, Have ye seen this man that
is come 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. {17:26} 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? {17:27}
And the people answered him after this manner, saying, So shall it be
done to the man that killeth him.

   {17:28} And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake unto the
men; 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.
{17:29} And David said, What have I now done? [Is there] not a cause?

   {17:30} And he turned from him toward another, and spake after the
same manner: and the people answered him again after the former manner.
{17:31} And when the words were heard which David spake, they rehearsed
[them] before Saul: and he sent for him.

   {17:32} And David said to Saul, Let no man's heart fail because of
him; thy servant will go and fight with this Philistine. {17:33} And
Saul said to David, Thou art not able to go against this Philistine to
fight with him: for thou [art but] a youth, and he a man of war from
his youth. {17:34} 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: {17:35} 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. {17:36} Thy servant
slew both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine
shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living
God. {17:37} David said moreover, The LORD that delivered me out of the
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.

   {17:38} 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. {17:39}
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.
{17:40} 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. {17:41} And the Philistine came on and drew near unto
David; and the man that bare the shield [went] before him. {17:42} And
when the Philistine looked about, and saw David, he disdained him: for
he was [but] a youth, and ruddy, and of a fair countenance. {17:43} And
the Philistine said unto David, [Am] I a dog, that thou comest to me
with staves? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods. {17:44} And
the Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give thy flesh
unto the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the field. {17:45} 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.
{17:46} 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. {17:47} 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. {17:48} And it came to pass, when
the Philistine arose, and came and drew nigh to meet David, that David
hasted, and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine. {17:49} 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. {17:50} 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. {17:51} 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. {17:52} 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. {17:53} And the children of Israel returned from chasing after
the Philistines, and they spoiled their tents. {17:54} And David took
the head of the Philistine, and brought it to Jerusalem; but he put his
armour in his tent.

   {17:55} And when Saul saw David go forth against the Philistine, he
said 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.
{17:56} And the king said, Enquire thou whose son the stripling [is.
]{17:57} And as David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine,
Abner took him, and brought him before Saul with the head of the
Philistine in his hand. {17:58} 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.

   {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. {18:2} And Saul took him that day,
and would let him go no more home to his father's house. {18:3} Then
Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own
soul. {18:4} And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that [was] upon
him, and gave it to David, and his garments, even to his sword, and to
his bow, and to his girdle.

   {18:5} 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. {18:6} 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. {18:7} And the
women answered [one another] as they played, and said, Saul hath slain
his thousands, and David his ten thousands. {18:8} 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? {18:9} And Saul eyed David
from that day and forward. {18:10} 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. {18:11} 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.

   {18:12} And Saul was afraid of David, because the LORD was with him,
and was departed from Saul. {18:13} Therefore Saul removed him from
him, and made him his captain over a thousand; and he went out and came
in before the people. {18:14} And David behaved himself wisely in all
his ways; and the LORD [was] with him. {18:15} Wherefore when Saul saw
that he behaved himself very wisely, he was afraid of him. {18:16} But
all Israel and Judah loved David, because he went out and came in
before them.

   {18:17} And Saul said to David, Behold my elder daughter Merab, her
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. {18:18} And David said unto
Saul, Who [am] I? and what [is] my life, [or] my father's family in
Israel, that I should be son in law to the king? {18:19} But it came to
pass at the time when Merab Saul's daughter should have been given to
David, that she was given unto Adriel the Meholathite to wife. {18:20}
And Michal Saul's daughter loved David: and they told Saul, and the
thing pleased him. {18:21} And Saul said, I will give him her, that she
may be a snare to 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.

   {18:22} 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. {18:23}
And Saul's servants spake those words in the ears of David. And David
said, Seemeth it to you [a] light [thing] to be a king's son in law,
seeing that I [am] a poor man, and lightly esteemed? {18:24} And the
servants of Saul told him, saying, On this manner spake David. {18:25}
And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king desireth not any
dowry, but an hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of
the king's enemies. But Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of
the Philistines. {18:26} And when his servants told David these words,
it pleased David well to be the king's son in law: and the days were
not expired. {18:27} 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.

   {18:28} And Saul saw and knew that the LORD [was] with David, and
[that] Michal Saul's daughter loved him. {18:29} And Saul was yet the
more afraid of David; and Saul became David's enemy continually.
{18:30} Then the princes of the Philistines went forth: and it came to
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.

   {19:1} And Saul spake to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants,
that they should kill David. {19:2} But Jonathan Saul's son delighted
much in David: and Jonathan 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: {19:3}
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.

   {19:4} 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: {19:5} 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?
{19:6} And Saul hearkened unto the voice of Jonathan: and Saul sware,
[As] the LORD liveth, he shall not be slain. {19:7} And Jonathan called
David, and Jonathan shewed him all those things. And Jonathan brought
David to Saul, and he was in his presence, as in times past.

   {19:8} 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. {19:9} 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. {19:10} 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. {19:11} 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.

   {19:12} So Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and
fled, and escaped. {19:13} And Michal took an image, and laid [it] in
the bed, and put a pillow of goats [hair] for his bolster, and covered
[it] with a cloth. {19:14} And when Saul sent messengers to take David,
she said, He [is] sick. {19:15} And Saul sent the messengers [again] to
see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may slay him.
{19:16} And when the messengers were come in, behold, [there was] an
image in the bed, with a pillow of goats' [hair] for his bolster.
{19:17} 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?

   {19:18} 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. {19:19} And it was told Saul, saying, Behold, David
[is] at Naioth in Ramah. {19:20} And Saul sent messengers to take
David: and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and
Samuel standing [as] appointed over them, the Spirit of God was upon
the messengers of Saul, and they also prophesied. {19:21} And when it
was told Saul, he sent other messengers, and they prophesied likewise.
And Saul sent messengers again the third time, and they prophesied
also. {19:22} 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. {19:23} 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.
{19:24} And he stript 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?

   {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? {20:2} 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. ]{20:3} 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. {20:4} Then said
Jonathan unto David, Whatsoever thy soul desireth, I will even do [it]
for thee. {20:5} And David said unto Jonathan, Behold, to morrow [is]
the new 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. {20:6} If thy father at all miss me, then say, David earnestly
asked [leave] of me that he might run to Bethlehem his city: for [there
is] a yearly sacrifice there for all the family. {20:7} If he say thus,
[It is] well; thy servant shall have peace: but if he be very wroth,
[then] be sure that evil is determined by him. {20:8} Therefore thou
shalt deal kindly with thy servant; for thou hast brought thy servant
into a covenant of the LORD with thee: notwithstanding, if there be in
me iniquity, slay me thyself; for why shouldest thou bring me to thy
father? {20:9} And Jonathan said, Far be it from thee: for if I knew
certainly that evil were determined by my father to come upon thee,
then would not I tell it thee? {20:10} Then said David to Jonathan, Who
shall tell me? or what [if] thy father answer thee roughly?

   {20:11} And Jonathan said unto David, Come, and let us go out into
the field. And they went out both of them into the field. {20:12} 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; {20:13} 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. {20:14} And thou shalt not only while yet
I live shew me the kindness of the LORD, that I die not: {20:15} But
[also] thou shalt not cut off thy kindness from my house for ever: no,
not when the LORD hath cut off the enemies of David every one from the
face of the earth. {20:16} So Jonathan made [a covenant] with the house
of David, [saying,] Let the LORD even require [it] at the hand of
David's enemies. {20:17} And Jonathan caused David to swear again,
because he loved him: for he loved him as he loved his own soul.
{20:18} Then Jonathan said to David, To morrow [is] the new moon: and
thou shalt be missed, because thy seat will be empty. {20:19} And
[when] thou hast stayed three days, [then] thou shalt go down quickly,
and come to the place where thou didst hide thyself when the business
was [in hand,] and shalt remain by the stone Ezel. {20:20} And I will
shoot three arrows on the side [thereof,] as though I shot at a mark.
{20:21} 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. {20:22} 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. {20:23} And [as touching] the matter which
thou and I have spoken of, behold, the LORD [be] between thee and me
for ever.

   {20:24} So David hid himself in the field: and when the new moon was
come, the king sat him down to eat meat. {20:25} And the king sat upon
his seat, as at other times, [even] upon a seat by the wall: and
Jonathan arose, and Abner sat by Saul's side, and David's place was
empty. {20:26} Nevertheless Saul spake not any thing that day: for he
thought, Something hath befallen him, he is not clean; surely he [is]
not clean. {20:27} And it came to pass on the morrow, [which was] the
second [day] 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? {20:28} And Jonathan answered Saul,
David earnestly asked [leave] of me [to go] to Bethlehem: {20:29} And
he said, Let me go, I pray thee; for our family hath a sacrifice in the
city; and my brother, he hath commanded me [to be there:] and now, if I
have found favour in thine eyes, let me get away, I pray thee, and see
my brethren. Therefore he cometh not unto the king's table. {20:30}
Then Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said 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? {20:31} 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. {20:32} And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said unto him,
Wherefore shall he be slain? what hath he done? {20:33} And Saul cast a
javelin at him to smite him: whereby Jonathan knew that it was
determined of his father to slay David. {20:34} So Jonathan arose from
the table in fierce anger, and did eat no meat the second day of the
month: for he was grieved for David, because his father had done him
shame.

   {20:35} 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. {20:36} And he said unto his lad, Run, find out now the arrows
which I shoot. [And] as the lad ran, he shot an arrow beyond him.
{20:37} And when the lad was come to the place of the arrow which
Jonathan had shot, Jonathan cried after the lad, and said, [Is] not the
arrow beyond thee? {20:38} And Jonathan cried after the lad, Make
speed, haste, stay not. And Jonathan's lad gathered up the arrows, and
came to his master. {20:39} But the lad knew not any thing: only
Jonathan and David knew the matter. {20:40} And Jonathan gave his
artillery unto his lad, and said unto him, Go, carry [them] to the city.

   {20:41} [And] as soon as the lad was gone, David arose out of [a
place] 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. {20:42} 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.

   {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? {21:2} 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. {21:3} Now therefore what is under thine hand? give
[me] five [loaves of] bread in mine hand, or what there is present.
{21:4} And the priest answered David, and said, [There is] no common
bread under mine hand, but there is hallowed bread; if the young men
have kept themselves at least from women. {21:5} 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. {21:6} 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. {21:7} 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.

   {21:8} And David said unto Ahimelech, And is there not here under
thine hand spear or sword? for I have neither brought my sword nor my
weapons with me, because the king's business required haste. {21:9} And
the priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom thou slewest
in the valley of Elah, behold, it [is here] wrapped in a cloth behind
the ephod: if thou wilt take that, take [it:] for [there is] no other
save that here. And David said, [There is] none like that; give it me.

   {21:10} And David arose, and fled that day for fear of Saul, and
went to Achish the king of Gath. {21:11} And the servants of Achish
said unto him, [Is] not this David the 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? {21:12} And David laid up these
words in his heart, and was sore afraid of Achish the king of Gath.
{21:13} And he changed his behaviour before them, and feigned himself
mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his
spittle fall down upon his beard. {21:14} Then said Achish unto his
servants, Lo, ye see the man is mad: wherefore [then] have ye brought
him to me? {21:15} Have I need of mad men, that ye have brought this
[fellow] to play the mad man in my presence? shall this [fellow] come
into my house?

   {22:1} David therefore departed thence, and escaped to the cave
Adullam: and when his brethren and all his father's house heard it,
they went down thither to him. {22:2} 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.

   {22:3} 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. {22:4} And he
brought them before the king of Moab: and they dwelt with him all the
while that David was in the hold.

   {22:5} 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.

   {22:6} 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;) {22:7} 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; {22:8} 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?

   {22:9} 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. {22:10} And he enquired of the LORD for
him, and gave him victuals, and gave him the sword of Goliath the
Philistine. {22:11} Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest,
the son of Ahitub, and all his father's house, the priests that [were]
in Nob: and they came all of them to the king. {22:12} And Saul said,
Hear now, thou son of Ahitub. And he answered, Here I [am,] my lord.
{22:13} And Saul said unto him, Why have ye conspired against me, 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? {22:14} 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? {22:15} 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. {22:16} And the king said, Thou
shalt surely die, Ahimelech, thou, and all thy father's house.

   {22:17} And the king said unto the footmen that stood about him,
Turn, 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. {22:18} 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. {22:19} 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.

   {22:20} And one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named
Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David. {22:21} And Abiathar shewed
David that Saul had slain the LORD'S priests. {22:22} 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. {22:23} Abide thou with me, fear
not: for he that seeketh my life seeketh thy life: but with me thou
[shalt be] in safeguard.

   {23:1} Then they told David, saying, Behold, the Philistines fight
against Keilah, and they rob the threshingfloors. {23:2} 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. {23:3} 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? {23:4} 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. {23:5} 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. {23:6} And it came
to pass, when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David to Keilah,
[that] he came down [with] an ephod in his hand.

   {23:7} And it was told Saul that David was come to Keilah. And Saul
said, God hath delivered him into mine hand; for he is shut in, by
entering into a town that hath gates and bars. {23:8} And Saul called
all the people together to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David
and his men.

   {23:9} And David knew that Saul secretly practised mischief against
him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, Bring hither the ephod.
{23:10} 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. {23:11} 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. {23:12} 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.

   {23:13} 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. {23:14} And David abode in the wilderness in strong holds,
and remained in a mountain in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought
him every day, but God delivered him not into his hand. {23:15} And
David saw that Saul was come out to seek his life: and David [was] in
the wilderness of Ziph in a wood.

   {23:16} And Jonathan Saul's son arose, and went to David into the
wood, and strengthened his hand in God. {23:17} And he said unto him,
Fear not: for the hand of Saul my father 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. {23:18} And they two made a covenant before the
LORD: and David abode in the wood, and Jonathan went to his house.

   {23:19} Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth
not David hide himself with us in strong holds in the wood, in the hill
of Hachilah, which [is] on the south of Jeshimon? {23:20} 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.
{23:21} And Saul said, Blessed [be] ye of the LORD; for ye have
compassion on me. {23:22} 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. {23:23} 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. {23:24} And they arose, and went
to Ziph before Saul: but David and his men [were] in the wilderness of
Maon, in the plain on the south of Jeshimon. {23:25} Saul also and his
men went to seek [him.] And they told David: wherefore he came down
into a rock, and abode in the wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard
[that,] he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon. {23:26} And
Saul went on this side of the mountain, and 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.

   {23:27} But there came a messenger unto Saul, saying, Haste thee,
and come; for the Philistines have invaded the land. {23:28} Wherefore
Saul returned from pursuing after David, and went against the
Philistines: therefore they called that place Sela- hammahlekoth.

   {23:29} And David went up from thence, and dwelt in strong holds at
En-gedi.

   {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 En-gedi. {24:2} 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. {24:3} 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. {24:4} 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. {24:5} And it came to pass afterward, that
David's heart smote him, because he had cut off Saul's skirt. {24:6}
And he said unto his men, The LORD forbid that I should do this thing
unto my master, the LORD'S anointed, to stretch forth mine hand against
him, seeing he is the anointed of the LORD. {24:7} 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. {24:8} 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.

   {24:9} And David said to Saul, Wherefore hearest thou men's words,
saying, Behold, David seeketh thy hurt? {24:10} Behold, this day thine
eyes have seen how that the LORD had delivered thee to day into mine
hand in the cave: and [some] bade [me] kill thee: but [mine eye] spared
thee; and I said, I will not put forth mine hand against my lord; for
he [is] the LORD'S anointed. {24:11} Moreover, my father, see, yea, see
the skirt of thy robe in my 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. {24:12} The LORD judge
between me and thee, and the LORD avenge me of thee: but mine hand
shall not be upon thee. {24:13} As saith the proverb of the ancients,
Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked: but mine hand shall not be upon
thee. {24:14} After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom
dost thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea. {24:15} The LORD
therefore be judge, and judge between me and thee, and see, and plead
my cause, and deliver me out of thine hand.

   {24:16} 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. {24:17} And he said to
David, Thou [art] more righteous than I: for thou hast rewarded me
good, whereas I have rewarded thee evil. {24:18} And thou hast shewed
this day how that thou hast dealt well with me: forasmuch as when the
LORD had delivered me into thine hand, thou killedst me not. {24:19}
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.
{24:20} And now, behold, I know well that thou shalt surely be king,
and that the kingdom of Israel shall be established in thine hand.
{24:21} Swear now therefore unto me by the LORD, that thou wilt not cut
off my seed after me, and that thou wilt not destroy my name out of my
father's house. {24:22} And David sware unto Saul. And Saul went home;
but David and his men gat them up unto the hold.

   {25:1} 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. {25:2} 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. {25:3} Now the name of
the man [was] Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail: and [she was] a
woman of good understanding, and of a beautiful countenance: but the
man [was] churlish and evil in his doings; and he [was] of the house of
Caleb.

   {25:4} And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal did shear his
sheep. {25:5} 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: {25:6} 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. {25:7} 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. {25:8} 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. {25:9} And when David's young men came, they
spake to Nabal according to all those words in the name of David, and
ceased.

   {25:10} 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. {25:11} 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? ]{25:12} So
David's young men turned their way, and went again, and came and told
him all those sayings. {25:13} And David said unto his men, Gird ye on
every man his sword. 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.

   {25:14} But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife, saying,
Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to salute our
master; and he railed on them. {25:15} But the men [were] very good
unto us, and we were not hurt, neither missed we any thing, as long as
we were conversant with them, when we were in the fields: {25:16} They
were a wall unto us both by night and day, all the while we were with
them keeping the sheep. {25:17} Now therefore know and consider what
thou wilt do; for evil is determined against our master, and against
all his household: for he [is such] a son of Belial, that [a man]
cannot speak to him.

   {25:18} 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. {25:19} And she said unto her
servants, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she told not
her husband Nabal. {25:20} And it was [so, as] she rode on the ass,
that she came down by the covert of the hill, and, behold, David and
his men came down against her; and she met them. {25:21} 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. {25:22} 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. {25:23} 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, {25:24} 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. {25:25} 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. {25:26} 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. {25:27}
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. {25:28} 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. {25:29} 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. {25:30} 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; {25:31} 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.

   {25:32} And David said to Abigail, Blessed [be] the LORD God of
Israel, which sent thee this day to meet me: {25:33} And blessed [be]
thy advice, and blessed [be] thou, which hast kept me this day from
coming to [shed] blood, and from avenging myself with mine own hand.
{25:34} 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. {25:35} 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.

   {25:36} 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. {25:37} 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. {25:38} And it came to pass about ten days [after,] that the
LORD smote Nabal, that he died.

   {25:39} And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed
[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. {25:40} 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. {25:41}
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. {25:42} 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. {25:43} David
also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they were also both of them his wives.

   {25:44} But Saul had given Michal his daughter, David's wife, to
Phalti the son of Laish, which [was] of Gallim.

   {26:1} And the Ziphites came unto Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not
David hide himself in the hill of Hachilah, [which is] before Jeshimon?
{26:2} Then Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having
three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the
wilderness of Ziph. {26:3} And Saul pitched in the hill of Hachilah,
which [is] before Jeshimon, by the way. But David abode in the
wilderness, and he saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness.
{26:4} David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul was
come in very deed.

   {26:5} And David arose, and came to the place where Saul had
pitched: 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. {26:6} 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. {26:7} 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. {26:8} 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. {26:9} And David said to Abishai,
Destroy him not: for who can stretch forth his hand against the LORD'S
anointed, and be guiltless? {26:10} David said furthermore, [As] the
LORD liveth, the LORD shall smite him; or his day shall come to die; or
he shall descend into battle, and perish. {26:11} The LORD forbid that
I should stretch forth mine hand against 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. {26:12} 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.

   {26:13} Then David went over to the other side, and stood on the top
of an hill afar off; a great space [being] between them: {26:14} And
David cried to the people, and to Abner the son of Ner, saying,
Answerest thou not, Abner? Then Abner answered and said, Who [art] thou
[that] criest to the king? {26:15} 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. {26:16} 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. {26:17} And Saul knew David's voice, and said, [Is] this thy
voice, my son David? And David said, [It is] my voice, my lord, O king.
{26:18} And he said, Wherefore doth my lord thus pursue after his
servant? for what have I done? or what evil [is] in mine hand? {26:19}
Now therefore, I pray thee, let my lord the king hear the words of 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. {26:20} 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.

   {26:21} 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.
{26:22} And David answered and said, Behold the king's spear! and let
one of the young men come over and fetch it. {26:23} The LORD render to
every man his righteousness and his faithfulness: for the LORD
delivered thee into [my] hand to day, but I would not stretch forth
mine hand against the LORD'S anointed. {26:24} 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.
{26:25} 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.

   {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. {27:2} 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. {27:3} 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.
{27:4} And it was told Saul that David was fled to Gath: and he sought
no more again for him.

   {27:5} And David said unto Achish, If I have now found grace in
thine 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? {27:6} Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day: wherefore
Ziklag pertaineth unto the kings of Judah unto this day. {27:7} And the
time that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines was a full year
and four months.

   {27:8} And David and his men went up, and invaded the Geshurites,
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. {27:9} 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. {27:10}
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. {27:11} 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. {27:12}
And Achish believed David, saying, He hath made his people Israel
utterly to abhor him; therefore he shall be my servant for ever.

   {28:1} 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. {28:2} 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.

   {28:3} 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. {28:4} And
the Philistines gathered themselves together, and came and pitched in
Shunem: and Saul gathered all Israel together, and they pitched in
Gilboa. {28:5} And when Saul saw the host of the Philistines, he was
afraid, and his heart greatly trembled. {28:6} And when Saul enquired
of the LORD, the LORD answered him not, neither by dreams nor by Urim,
nor by prophets.

   {28:7} Then said Saul unto his servants, Seek me a woman that hath a
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. {28:8} 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. {28:9} 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? {28:10} And Saul sware to her by the LORD, saying, [As] the
LORD liveth, there shall no punishment happen to thee for this thing.
{28:11} Then said the woman, Whom shall I bring up unto thee? And he
said, Bring me up Samuel. {28:12} And when the woman saw Samuel, she
cried with a loud voice: and the woman spake to Saul, saying, Why hast
thou deceived me? for thou [art] Saul. {28:13} 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. {28:14} 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.

   {28:15} And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to
bring me up? And Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the
Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me, and
answereth me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I
have called thee, that thou mayest make known unto me what I shall do.
{28:16} Then said Samuel, Wherefore then dost thou ask of me, seeing
the LORD is departed from thee, and is become thine enemy? {28:17} And
the LORD hath done to him, as he spake by me: for the LORD hath rent
the kingdom out of thine hand, and given it to thy neighbour, [even] to
David: {28:18} 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. {28:19} 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. {28:20}
Then Saul fell straightway all along on the earth, and was sore afraid,
because of the words of Samuel: and there was no strength in him; for
he had eaten no bread all the day, nor all the night.

   {28:21} And the woman came unto Saul, and saw that he 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. {28:22} 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. {28:23} 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. {28:24} 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: {28:25} And she brought [it] before Saul, and
before his servants; and they did eat. Then they rose up, and went away
that night.

   {29:1} Now the Philistines gathered together all their armies to
Aphek: and the Israelites pitched by a fountain which [is] in Jezreel.
{29:2} And the lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds, and by
thousands: but David and his men passed on in the rereward with Achish.
{29:3} 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? {29:4} 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? {29:5} [Is] not this David, of whom they sang
one to another in dances, saying, Saul slew his thousands, and David
his ten thousands?

   {29:6} 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. {29:7} Wherefore now return, and go in
peace, that thou displease not the lords of the Philistines.

   {29:8} And David said unto Achish, But what have I done? and what
hast thou found in thy servant so long as I have been with thee unto
this day, that I may not go fight against the enemies of my lord the
king? {29:9} And Achish answered and said to David, I know that thou
[art] good in my sight, as an angel of God: notwithstanding the princes
of the Philistines have said, He shall not go up with us to the battle.
{29:10} Wherefore now rise up early in the morning with thy master's
servants that are come with thee: and as soon as ye be up early in the
morning, and have light, depart. {29:11} 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.

   {30:1} 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; {30:2} 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.

   {30:3} 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. {30:4} Then David and the people that [were] with
him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to
weep. {30:5} And David's two wives were taken captives, Ahinoam the
Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite. {30:6} And
David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning 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. {30:7} 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. {30:8} 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. ]{30:9} 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. {30:10} 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.

   {30:11} 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; {30:12} 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. {30:13} And David said unto him, To whom [belongest]
thou? and whence art thou? And he said, I [am] a young man of Egypt,
servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days
agone I fell sick. {30:14} We made an invasion [upon] the south of the
Cherethites, and upon [the coast] which [belongeth] to Judah, and upon
the south of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire. {30:15} 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.

   {30:16} 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. {30:17} 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. {30:18} And David recovered all that the Amalekites
had carried away: and David rescued his two wives. {30:19} And there
was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor
daughters, neither spoil, nor any [thing] that they had taken to them:
David recovered all. {30:20} And David took all the flocks and the
herds, [which] they drave before those [other] cattle, and said, This
[is] David's spoil.

   {30:21} And David came to the two hundred men, which were so faint
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. {30:22} 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. {30:23} 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. {30:24} 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. {30:25} And it was [so]
from that day forward, that he made it a statute and an ordinance for
Israel unto this day.

   {30:26} And when David came to Ziklag, he sent of the spoil unto the
elders of Judah, [even] to his friends, saying, Behold a present for
you of the spoil of the enemies of the LORD; {30:27} To [them] which
[were] in Bethel, and to [them] which [were] in south Ramoth, and to
[them] which [were] in Jattir, {30:28} And to [them] which [were] in
Aroer, and to [them] which [were] in Siphmoth, and to [them] which
[were] in Eshtemoa, {30:29} And to [them] which [were] in Rachal, and
to [them] which [were] in the cities of the Jerahmeelites, and to
[them] which [were] in the cities of the Kenites, {30:30} And to [them]
which [were] in Hormah, and to [them] which [were] in Chor-ashan, and
to [them] which [were] in Athach, {30:31} And to [them] which [were] in
Hebron, and to all the places where David himself and his men were wont
to haunt.

   {31:1} Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of
Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount
Gilboa. {31:2} And the Philistines followed hard upon Saul and upon his
sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Melchi-shua,
Saul's sons. {31:3} And the battle went sore against Saul, and the
archers hit him; and he was sore wounded of the archers. {31:4} Then
said Saul unto his armourbearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through
therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and
abuse me. But his armourbearer would not; for he was sore afraid.
Therefore Saul took a sword, and fell upon it. {31:5} And when his
armourbearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise upon his sword,
and died with him. {31:6} So Saul died, and his three sons, and his
armourbearer, and all his men, that same day together.

   {31:7} And when the men of Israel that [were] on the other side of
the 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. {31:8} 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. {31:9} 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. {31:10}
And they put his armour in the house of Ashtaroth: and they fastened
his body to the wall of Beth-shan.

   {31:11} And when the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead heard of that
which the Philistines had done to Saul; {31:12} All the valiant men
arose, and went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of
his sons from the wall of Beth-shan, and came to Jabesh, and burnt them
there. {31:13} And they took their bones, and buried [them] under a
tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.





The First Epistle of Paul to the Thessalonians

   {1:1} Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the
Thessalonians [which is] in God the Father and [in] the Lord Jesus
Christ: Grace [be] unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and the
Lord Jesus Christ. {1:2} We give thanks to God always for you all,
making mention of you in our prayers; {1:3} 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; {1:4} Knowing,
brethren beloved, your election of God. {1:5} 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. {1:6} And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having
received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost: {1:7}
So that ye were ensamples to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia.
{1:8} 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. {1:9} 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;
{1:10} And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the
dead, [even] Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.

   {2:1} For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto you, that
it was not in vain: {2:2} But even after that we had suffered before,
and were shamefully entreated, as ye know, at Philippi, we were bold in
our God to speak unto you the gospel of God with much contention. {2:3}
For our exhortation [was] not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in
guile: {2:4} 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. {2:5} For neither at any time used we flattering words, as
ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God [is] witness: {2:6} Nor of
men sought we glory, neither of you, nor [yet] of others, when we might
have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ. {2:7} But we were
gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children: {2:8} 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. {2:9} 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.
{2:10} Ye [are] witnesses, and God [also,] how holily and justly and
unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe: {2:11} As ye
know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a
father [doth] his children, {2:12} That ye would walk worthy of God,
who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.

   {2:13} For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because,
when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received [it]
not [as] the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which
effectually worketh also in you that believe. {2:14} For ye, brethren,
became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ
Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen,
even as they [have] of the Jews: {2:15} Who both killed the Lord Jesus,
and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not
God, and are contrary to all men: {2:16} 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.

   {2:17} But we, brethren, being taken from you for a short time in
presence, not in heart, endeavoured the more abundantly to see your
face with great desire. {2:18} Wherefore we would have come unto you,
even I Paul, once and again; but Satan hindered us. {2:19} For what
[is] our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? [Are] not even ye in the
presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming? {2:20} For ye are our
glory and joy.

   {3:1} Wherefore when we could no longer forbear, we thought it good
to be left at Athens alone; {3:2} And sent Timotheus, our brother, and
minister of God, and our fellowlabourer in the gospel of Christ, to
establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith: {3:3} That no
man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we
are appointed thereunto. {3:4} For verily, when we were with you, we
told you before that we should suffer tribulation; even as it came to
pass, and ye know. {3:5} For this cause, when I could no longer
forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter have
tempted you, and our labour be in vain. {3:6} 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: {3:7} Therefore, brethren,
we were comforted over you in all our affliction and distress by your
faith: {3:8} For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord. {3:9} For
what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy
wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God; {3:10} Night and day
praying exceedingly that we might see your face, and might perfect that
which is lacking in your faith? {3:11} Now God himself and our Father,
and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you. {3:12} And the Lord
make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward
all [men,] even as we [do] toward you: {3:13} To the end he may
stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our
Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.

   {4:1} Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort [you] by
the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and
to please God, [so] ye would abound more and more. {4:2} For ye know
what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus. {4:3} For this is the
will of God, [even] your sanctification, that ye should abstain from
fornication: {4:4} That every one of you should know how to possess his
vessel in sanctification and honour; {4:5} Not in the lust of
concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God: {4:6} That no
[man] go beyond and defraud his brother in [any] matter: because that
the Lord [is] the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you
and testified. {4:7} For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but
unto holiness. {4:8} He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man,
but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit. {4:9} But as
touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye
yourselves are taught of God to love one another. {4:10} And indeed ye
do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia: but we
beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more; {4:11} And that
ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with
your own hands, as we commanded you; {4:12} That ye may walk honestly
toward them that are without, and [that] ye may have lack of nothing.

   {4:13} But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning
them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no
hope. {4:14} For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so
them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. {4:15} For this
we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive [and]
remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are
asleep. {4:16} 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: {4:17} 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. {4:18}
Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

   {5:1} But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need
that I write unto you. {5:2} For yourselves know perfectly that the day
of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. {5:3} For when they
shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them,
as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. {5:4}
But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake
you as a thief. {5:5} Ye are all the children of light, and the
children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. {5:6}
Therefore let us not sleep, as [do] others; but let us watch and be
sober. {5:7} For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be
drunken are drunken in the night. {5:8} But let us, who are of the day,
be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an
helmet, the hope of salvation. {5:9} For God hath not appointed us to
wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, {5:10} Who
died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together
with him. {5:11} Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one
another, even as also ye do.

   {5:12} And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among
you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you; {5:13} And to
esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. [And] be at
peace among yourselves. {5:14} Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them
that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient
toward all [men. ]{5:15} See that none render evil for evil unto any
[man;] but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and
to all [men. ]{5:16} Rejoice evermore. {5:17} Pray without ceasing.
{5:18} In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in
Christ Jesus concerning you. {5:19} Quench not the Spirit. {5:20}
Despise not prophesyings. {5:21} Prove all things; hold fast that which
is good. {5:22} Abstain from all appearance of evil. {5:23} 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. {5:24} Faithful [is] he that calleth you, who also
will do [it.]

   {5:25} Brethren, pray for us.

   {5:26} Greet all the brethren with an holy kiss. {5:27} I charge you
by the Lord that this epistle be read unto all the holy brethren.

   {5:28} The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [be] with you. Amen.





The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Timothy

   {1:1} Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our
Saviour, and Lord Jesus Christ, [which is] our hope; {1:2} Unto
Timothy, [my] own son in the faith: Grace, mercy, [and] peace, from God
our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord.

   {1:3} As I besought thee to abide still at Ephesus, when I went into
Macedonia, that thou mightest charge some that they teach no other
doctrine, {1:4} Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies,
which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith:
[so do. ]{1:5} Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure
heart, and [of] a good conscience, and [of] faith unfeigned: {1:6} From
which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling; {1:7}
Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they
say, nor whereof they affirm. {1:8} But we know that the law [is] good,
if a man use it lawfully; {1:9} 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, {1:10} 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; {1:11} According to the
glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.
{1:12} And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that
he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry; {1:13} Who was
before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained
mercy, because I did [it] ignorantly in unbelief. {1:14} And the grace
of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in
Christ Jesus. {1:15} This [is] a faithful saying, and worthy of all
acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of
whom I am chief. {1:16} Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that
in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a
pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life
everlasting. {1:17} Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the
only wise God, [be] honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen. {1:18}
This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the
prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest war a
good warfare; {1:19} Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some
having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck: {1:20} Of whom is
Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they
may learn not to blaspheme.

   {2:1} I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications,
prayers, intercessions, [and] giving of thanks, be made for all men;
{2:2} For kings, and [for] all that are in authority; that we may lead
a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. {2:3} For this
[is] good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; {2:4} Who
will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the
truth. {2:5} For [there is] one God, and one mediator between God and
men, the man Christ Jesus; {2:6} Who gave himself a ransom for all, to
be testified in due time. {2:7} Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and
an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, [and] lie not;) a teacher of
the Gentiles in faith and verity. {2:8} I will therefore that men pray
every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting. {2:9}
In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel,
with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or
pearls, or costly array; {2:10} But (which becometh women professing
godliness) with good works. {2:11} Let the woman learn in silence with
all subjection. {2:12} But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp
authority over the man, but to be in silence. {2:13} For Adam was first
formed, then Eve. {2:14} And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being
deceived was in the transgression. {2:15} Notwithstanding she shall be
saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and
holiness with sobriety.

   {3:1} This [is] a true saying, If a man desire the office of a
bishop, he desireth a good work. {3:2} A bishop then must be blameless,
the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to
hospitality, apt to teach; {3:3} Not given to wine, no striker, not
greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous; {3:4}
One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection
with all gravity; {3:5} (For if a man know not how to rule his own
house, how shall he take care of the church of God?) {3:6} Not a
novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation
of the devil. {3:7} Moreover he must have a good report of them which
are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
{3:8} Likewise [must] the deacons [be] grave, not doubletongued, not
given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre; {3:9} Holding the
mystery of the faith in a pure conscience. {3:10} And let these also
first be proved; then let them use the office of a deacon, being
[found] blameless. {3:11} Even so [must their] wives be grave, not
slanderers, sober, faithful in all things. {3:12} Let the deacons be
the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses
well. {3:13} For they that have used the office of a deacon well
purchase to themselves a good degree, and great boldness in the faith
which is in Christ Jesus. {3:14} These things write I unto thee, hoping
to come unto thee shortly: {3:15} 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.
{3:16} 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.

   {4:1} 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; {4:2} Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their
conscience seared with a hot iron; {4:3} Forbidding to marry, [and
commanding] to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be
received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
{4:4} For every creature of God [is] good, and nothing to be refused,
if it be received with thanksgiving: {4:5} For it is sanctified by the
word of God and prayer. {4:6} If thou put the brethren in remembrance
of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ,
nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou
hast attained. {4:7} But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and
exercise thyself [rather] unto godliness. {4:8} For bodily exercise
profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having
promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come. {4:9}
This [is] a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation. {4:10} For
therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the
living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that
believe.

   {4:11} These things command and teach. {4:12} Let no man despise thy
youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in
conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity. {4:13} Till I
come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. {4:14}
Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy,
with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery. {4:15} Meditate upon
these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may
appear to all. {4:16} Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine;
continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and
them that hear thee.

   {5:1} Rebuke not an elder, but intreat [him] as a father; [and] the
younger men as brethren; {5:2} The elder women as mothers; the younger
as sisters, with all purity. {5:3} Honour widows that are widows
indeed. {5:4} 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. {5:5} Now she that is a widow indeed,
and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and
prayers night and day. {5:6} But she that liveth in pleasure is dead
while she liveth. {5:7} And these things give in charge, that they may
be blameless. {5:8} 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. {5:9} Let not a widow be taken into the number under
threescore years old, having been the wife of one man, {5:10} Well
reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, 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. {5:11} But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to
wax wanton against Christ, they will marry; {5:12} Having damnation,
because they have cast off their first faith. {5:13} And withal they
learn [to be] idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only
idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they
ought not. {5:14} I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear
children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak
reproachfully. {5:15} For some are already turned aside after Satan.
{5:16} If any man or woman that believeth have widows, let them relieve
them, and let not the church be charged; that it may relieve them that
are widows indeed. {5:17} Let the elders that rule well be counted
worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and
doctrine. {5:18} For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox
that treadeth out the corn. And, The labourer [is] worthy of his
reward. {5:19} Against an elder receive not an accusation, but before
two or three witnesses. {5:20} Them that sin rebuke before all, that
others also may fear. {5:21} 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.
{5:22} Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men's
sins: keep thyself pure. {5:23} Drink no longer water, but use a little
wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities. {5:24} Some
men's sins are open beforehand, going before to judgment; and some
[men] they follow after. {5:25} Likewise also the good works [of some]
are manifest beforehand; and they that are otherwise cannot be hid.

   {6:1} 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. {6:2} 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.

   {6:3} 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; {6:4} He is proud, knowing nothing,
but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy,
strife, railings, evil surmisings, {6:5} Perverse disputings of men of
corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is
godliness: from such withdraw thyself. {6:6} But godliness with
contentment is great gain. {6:7} For we brought nothing into [this]
world, [and it is] certain we can carry nothing out. {6:8} And having
food and raiment let us be therewith content. {6:9} 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. {6:10} 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. {6:11} But thou, O man of God, flee these things;
and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience,
meekness. {6:12} Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal
life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good
profession before many witnesses. {6:13} 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; {6:14} That thou
keep [this] commandment without spot, unrebukeable, until the appearing
of our Lord Jesus Christ: {6:15} Which in his times he shall shew, [who
is] the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of
lords; {6:16} Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no
man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom [be]
honour and power everlasting. Amen. {6:17} 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; {6:18}
That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to
distribute, willing to communicate; {6:19} Laying up in store for
themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may
lay hold on eternal life. {6:20} O Timothy, keep that which is
committed to thy trust, avoiding profane [and] vain babblings, and
oppositions of science falsely so called: {6:21} Which some professing
have erred concerning the faith. Grace [be] with thee. Amen.





The Second Book of the Chronicles

   {1:1} And Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his kingdom,
and the LORD his God [was] with him, and magnified him exceedingly.
{1:2} 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. {1:3} 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. {1:4} But the ark of
God had David brought up from Kirjath-jearim to [the place which] David
had prepared for it: for he had pitched a tent for it at Jerusalem.
{1:5} 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. {1:6} And Solomon went up thither
to the brasen altar before the LORD, which [was] at the tabernacle of
the congregation, and offered a thousand burnt offerings upon it.

   {1:7} In that night did God appear unto Solomon, and said unto him,
Ask what I shall give thee. {1:8} And Solomon said unto God, Thou hast
shewed great mercy unto David my father, and hast made me to reign in
his stead. {1:9} Now, O LORD God, let thy promise unto David my father
be established: for thou hast made me king over a people like the dust
of the earth in multitude. {1:10} 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? {1:11} 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: {1:12}
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.

   {1:13} Then Solomon came [from his journey] to the high place that
[was] at Gibeon to Jerusalem, from before the tabernacle of the
congregation, and reigned over Israel. {1:14} And Solomon gathered
chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots,
and twelve thousand horsemen, which he placed in the chariot cities,
and with the king at Jerusalem. {1:15} And the king made silver and
gold at Jerusalem [as plenteous] as stones, and cedar trees made he as
the sycomore trees that [are] in the vale for abundance. {1:16} And
Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king's
merchants received the linen yarn at a price. {1:17} And they fetched
up, and brought forth out of Egypt a chariot for 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.

   {2:1} And Solomon determined to build an house for the name of the
LORD, and an house for his kingdom. {2:2} And Solomon told out
threescore and ten thousand men to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand
to hew in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee
them.

   {2:3} And Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre, saying, As thou
didst deal with David my father, and didst send him cedars to build him
an house to dwell therein, [even so deal with me. ]{2:4} 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. {2:5} And the house
which I build [is] great: for great [is] our God above all gods. {2:6}
But who is able to build him an house, seeing the heaven and heaven of
heavens cannot contain him? who [am] I then, that I should build him an
house, save only to burn sacrifice before him? {2:7} Send me now
therefore a man cunning to work in gold, and in 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. {2:8} 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, {2:9} Even to prepare me timber in
abundance: for the house which I am about to build [shall be] wonderful
great. {2:10} 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.

   {2:11} 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. {2:12} 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. {2:13} And
now I have sent a cunning man, endued with understanding, of Huram my
father's, {2:14} The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his
father [was] a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in
brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in
fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to
find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men,
and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father. {2:15} Now
therefore the wheat, and the barley, the oil, and the wine, which my
lord hath spoken of, let him send unto his servants: {2:16} And we will
cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as thou shalt need: and we will bring
it to thee in flotes by sea to Joppa; and thou shall carry it up to
Jerusalem.

   {2:17} 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. {2:18} And he set threescore and ten
thousand of them [to be] bearers of burdens, and fourscore thousand [to
be] hewers in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred
overseers to set the people a work.

   {3:1} Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem
in mount Moriah, where [the LORD] appeared unto David his father, in
the place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the
Jebusite. {3:2} And he began to build in the second [day] of the second
month, in the fourth year of his reign.

   {3:3} Now these [are the things wherein] Solomon was instructed for
the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first
measure [was] threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits. {3:4}
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. {3:5} And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he
overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains. {3:6}
And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the
gold [was] gold of Parvaim. {3:7} He overlaid also the house, the
beams, the posts, and the walls thereof, and the doors thereof, with
gold; and graved cherubims on the walls. {3:8} 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. {3:9}
And the weight of the nails [was] fifty shekels of gold. And he
overlaid the upper chambers with gold. {3:10} And in the most holy
house he made two cherubims of image work, and overlaid them with gold.

   {3:11} And the wings of the cherubims [were] twenty cubits long: one
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. {3:12} 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.
{3:13} The wings of these cherubims spread themselves forth twenty
cubits: and they stood on their feet, and their faces [were] inward.

   {3:14} And he made the vail [of] blue, and purple, and crimson, and
fine linen, and wrought cherubims thereon. {3:15} Also he made before
the house two pillars of thirty and five cubits high, and the chapiter
that [was] on the top of each of them [was] five cubits. {3:16} 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. {3:17} 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.

   {4:1} Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length
thereof, and twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and ten cubits the
height thereof.

   {4:2} 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. {4:3} 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. {4:4} 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. {4:5} 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.

   {4:6} 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. {4:7} 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. {4:8} 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.

   {4:9} 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. {4:10} And he set the sea on the right side of the east end,
over against the south. {4:11} 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; {4:12} [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; {4:13} And four
hundred pomegranates on the two wreaths; two rows of pomegranates on
each wreath, to cover the two pommels of the chapiters which [were]
upon the pillars. {4:14} He made also bases, and lavers made he upon
the bases; {4:15} One sea, and twelve oxen under it. {4:16} 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. {4:17} In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in
the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredathah. {4:18} Thus Solomon
made all these vessels in great abundance: for the weight of the brass
could not be found out.

   {4:19} And Solomon made all the vessels that [were for] the house of
God, the golden altar also, and the tables whereon the shewbread [was
set; ]{4:20} Moreover the candlesticks with their lamps, that they
should burn after the manner before the oracle, of pure gold; {4:21}
And the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, [made he of] gold, [and]
that perfect gold; {4:22} And the snuffers, and the basons, and the
spoons, and the 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.

   {5:1} 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.

   {5:2} 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. {5:3} Wherefore all the men of Israel
assembled themselves unto the king in the feast which [was] in the
seventh month. {5:4} And all the elders of Israel came; and the Levites
took up the ark. {5:5} And they brought up the ark, and the tabernacle
of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that [were] in the
tabernacle, these did the priests and the Levites bring up. {5:6} Also
king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel that were assembled
unto him before the ark, sacrificed sheep and oxen, which could not be
told nor numbered for multitude. {5:7} 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: {5:8} For the cherubims spread forth [their] wings over the
place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves
thereof above. {5:9} 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. {5:10}
[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.

   {5:11} 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: {5:12} 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:)
{5:13} 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; {5:14} 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.

   {6:1} Then said Solomon, The LORD hath said that he would dwell in
the thick darkness. {6:2} But I have built an house of habitation for
thee, and a place for thy dwelling for ever. {6:3} And the king turned
his face, and blessed the whole congregation of Israel: and all the
congregation of Israel stood. {6:4} And he said, Blessed [be] the LORD
God of Israel, who hath with his hands fulfilled [that] which he spake
with his mouth to my father David, saying, {6:5} 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:
{6:6} But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and
have chosen David to be over my people Israel. {6:7} Now it was in the
heart of David my father to build an house for the name of the LORD God
of Israel. {6:8} But the LORD said to David my father, Forasmuch as it
was in thine heart to build an house for my name, thou didst well in
that it was in thine heart: {6:9} 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. {6:10} The LORD therefore hath
performed his word that he hath spoken: for I am risen up in the room
of David my father, and am set on the throne of Israel, as the LORD
promised, and have built the house for the name of the LORD God of
Israel. {6:11} And in it have I put the ark, wherein [is] the covenant
of the LORD, that he made with the children of Israel.

   {6:12} And he stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of
all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands: {6:13} For
Solomon had made a brasen scaffold, of five cubits long, and 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,
{6:14} 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:
{6:15} 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. {6:16} 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. {6:17} Now
then, O LORD God of Israel, let thy word be verified, which thou hast
spoken unto thy servant David. {6:18} But will God in very deed dwell
with men on the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot
contain thee; how much less this house which I have built! {6:19} 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: {6:20} 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. {6:21} 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.

   {6:22} 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; {6:23} 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.

   {6:24} 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; {6:25} 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.

   {6:26} 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; {6:27} 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.

   {6:28} If there be dearth in the land, if there be pestilence, if
there be blasting, or mildew, locusts, or caterpillers; if their
enemies besiege them in the cities of their land; whatsoever sore or
whatsoever sickness [there be: ]{6:29} [Then] what prayer [or] what
supplication soever shall be made of 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: {6:30} 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:) {6:31} That they may fear
thee, to walk in thy ways, so long as they live in the land which thou
gavest unto our fathers.

   {6:32} Moreover concerning the stranger, which is not of thy people
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; {6:33} 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. {6:34} 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; {6:35} Then hear thou from the heavens
their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause. {6:36}
If they sin against thee, (for [there is] no man which sinneth not,)
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;
{6:37} 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; {6:38} 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: {6:39} 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. {6:40} 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. {6:41} 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. {6:42} O LORD God, turn not away the face of thine
anointed: remember the mercies of David thy servant.

   {7:1} 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. {7:2} And the priests could
not enter into the house of the LORD, because the glory of the LORD had
filled the LORD'S house. {7:3} 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.

   {7:4} Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the
LORD. {7:5} 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. {7:6} 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. {7:7}
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.

   {7:8} 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. {7:9} 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. {7:10} 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. {7:11} 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.

   {7:12} 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. {7:13} If I shut up heaven that there be no rain,
or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence
among my people; {7:14} If my people, which are called by my name,
shall humble 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. {7:15} Now mine eyes shall be open, and
mine ears attent unto the prayer [that is made] in this place. {7:16}
For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my name may be
there for ever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there
perpetually. {7:17} 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; {7:18} 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. {7:19} 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; {7:20} 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. {7:21} 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? {7:22} 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.

   {8:1} And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein
Solomon had built the house of the LORD, and his own house, {8:2} That
the cities which Huram had restored to Solomon, Solomon built them, and
caused the children of Israel to dwell there. {8:3} And Solomon went to
Hamath-zobah, and prevailed against it. {8:4} And he built Tadmor in
the wilderness, and all the store cities, which he built in Hamath.
{8:5} Also he built Beth- horon the upper, and Beth-horon the nether,
fenced cities, with walls, gates, and bars; {8:6} And Baalath, and all
the store cities that Solomon had, and all the 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.

   {8:7} [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, {8:8} [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. {8:9} 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. {8:10} And these [were] the chief of king
Solomon's officers, [even] two hundred and fifty, that bare rule over
the people.

   {8:11} And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the
city 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.

   {8:12} Then Solomon offered burnt offerings unto the LORD on the
altar of the LORD, which he had built before the porch, {8:13} Even
after a certain rate every day, offering according to the commandment
of Moses, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn
feasts, three times in the year, [even] in the feast of unleavened
bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles.

   {8:14} And he appointed, according to the order of David his father,
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. {8:15} And they departed not
from the commandment of the king unto the priests and Levites
concerning any matter, or concerning the treasures. {8:16} Now all the
work of Solomon was prepared unto the day of the foundation of the
house of the LORD, and until it was finished. So the house of the LORD
was perfected.

   {8:17} Then went Solomon to Ezion-geber, and to Eloth, at the sea
side in the land of Edom. {8:18} And Huram sent him by the hands of his
servants ships, and 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.

   {9:1} And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she
came to prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very
great company, and camels that bare spices, and gold in abundance, and
precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with
him of all that was in her heart. {9:2} And Solomon told her all her
questions: and there was nothing hid from Solomon which he told her
not. {9:3} And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon,
and the house that he had built, {9:4} And the meat of his table, and
the sitting of his servants, and the 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. {9:5} And she said to the king, [It was] a true report
which I heard in mine own land of thine acts, and of thy wisdom: {9:6}
Howbeit I believed not their words, until I came, and mine eyes 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. {9:7} Happy
[are] thy men, and happy [are] these thy servants, which stand
continually before thee, and hear thy wisdom. {9:8} Blessed be the LORD
thy God, which delighted in thee to set 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. {9:9} 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.
{9:10} And the servants also of Huram, and the servants of Solomon,
which brought gold from Ophir, brought algum trees and precious stones.
{9:11} 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.
{9:12} 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.

   {9:13} Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was
six hundred and threescore and six talents of gold; {9:14} Beside [that
which] chapmen and merchants brought. And all the kings of Arabia and
governors of the country brought gold and silver to Solomon.

   {9:15} And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six
hundred [shekels] of beaten gold went to one target. {9:16} And three
hundred shields [made he of] beaten gold: three hundred [shekels] of
gold went to one shield. And the king put them in the house of the
forest of Lebanon. {9:17} Moreover the king made a great throne of
ivory, and overlaid it with pure gold. {9:18} And [there were] six
steps to the throne, with a footstool of gold, [which were] fastened to
the throne, and stays on each side of the sitting place, and two lions
standing by the stays: {9:19} 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.

   {9:20} 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. {9:21} 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.
{9:22} And king Solomon passed all the kings of the earth in riches and
wisdom.

   {9:23} And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of
Solomon, to hear his wisdom, that God had put in his heart. {9:24} And
they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of
gold, and raiment, harness, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year
by year.

   {9:25} And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots,
and twelve thousand horsemen; whom he bestowed in the chariot cities,
and with the king at Jerusalem.

   {9:26} And he reigned over all the kings from the river even unto
the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt. {9:27} And the
king made silver in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar trees made he as the
sycomore trees that [are] in the low plains in abundance. {9:28} And
they brought unto Solomon horses out of Egypt, and out of all lands.

   {9:29} 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? {9:30} And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over
all Israel forty years. {9:31} 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.

   {10:1} And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for to Shechem were all Israel
come to make him king. {10:2} And it came to pass, when Jeroboam the
son of Nebat, who [was] in Egypt, whither he had fled from the presence
of Solomon the king, heard [it,] that Jeroboam returned out of Egypt.
{10:3} And they sent and called him. So Jeroboam and all Israel came
and spake to Rehoboam, saying, {10:4} Thy father made our yoke
grievous: now therefore ease thou somewhat the grievous servitude of
thy father, and his heavy yoke that he put upon us, and we will serve
thee. {10:5} And he said unto them, Come again unto me after three
days. And the people departed.

   {10:6} And king Rehoboam took counsel with the old men that had
stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, What
counsel give ye [me] to return answer to this people? {10:7} 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.
{10:8} 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. {10:9} 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? {10:10} 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. {10:11} 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. {10:12} 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. {10:13} And the king answered them
roughly; and king Rehoboam forsook the counsel of the old men, {10:14}
And answered them after the advice of the young men, saying, My father
made your yoke heavy, but I will add thereto: my father chastised you
with whips, but I [will chastise you] with scorpions. {10:15} 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.

   {10:16} 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. {10:17} But [as for] the children of
Israel that dwelt in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.
{10:18} Then king Rehoboam sent Hadoram that [was] over the tribute;
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. {10:19} And Israel rebelled against the house of David unto
this day.

   {11:1} And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he gathered of the
house of Judah and Benjamin an hundred and fourscore thousand chosen
[men,] which were warriors, to fight against Israel, that he might
bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam. {11:2} But the word of the LORD
came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying, {11:3} Speak unto Rehoboam the
son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin,
saying, {11:4} Thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not go up, nor fight
against your 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.

   {11:5} And Rehoboam dwelt in Jerusalem, and built cities for defence
in Judah. {11:6} He built even Bethlehem, and Etam, and Tekoa, {11:7}
And Beth-zur, and Shoco, and Adullam, {11:8} And Gath, and Mareshah,
and Ziph, {11:9} And Adoraim, and Lachish, and Azekah, {11:10} And
Zorah, and Aijalon, and Hebron, which [are] in Judah and in Benjamin
fenced cities. {11:11} And he fortified the strong holds, and put
captains in them, and store of victual, and of oil and wine. {11:12}
And in every several city [he put] shields and spears, and made them
exceeding strong, having Judah and Benjamin on his side.

   {11:13} And the priests and the Levites that [were] in all Israel
resorted to him out of all their coasts. {11:14} For the Levites left
their suburbs and their possession, and came to Judah and Jerusalem:
for Jeroboam and his sons had cast them off from executing the priest's
office unto the LORD: {11:15} And he ordained him priests for the high
places, and for the devils, and for the calves which he had made.
{11:16} And after them out of all the tribes of Israel such as set
their hearts to seek the LORD God of Israel came to Jerusalem, to
sacrifice unto the LORD God of their fathers. {11:17} So they
strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam the son of Solomon
strong, three years: for three years they walked in the way of David
and Solomon.

   {11:18} 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; {11:19} Which bare him children; Jeush, and Shamariah, and
Zaham. {11:20} And after her he took Maachah the daughter of Absalom;
which bare him Abijah, and Attai, and Ziza, and Shelomith. {11:21} And
Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and
his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, and threescore concubines;
and begat twenty and eight sons, and threescore daughters.) {11:22} And
Rehoboam made Abijah the son of Maachah the chief, to be ruler among
his brethren: for [he thought] to make him king. {11:23} And he dealt
wisely, and dispersed of all his children throughout all the countries
of Judah and Benjamin, unto every fenced city: and he gave them victual
in abundance. And he desired many wives.

   {12:1} And it came to pass, when Rehoboam had established the
kingdom, and had strengthened himself, he forsook the law of the LORD,
and all Israel with him. {12:2} And it came to pass, [that] in the
fifth year of king Rehoboam Shishak king of Egypt came up against
Jerusalem, because they had transgressed against the LORD, {12:3} With
twelve hundred chariots, and threescore thousand horsemen: and the
people [were] without number that came with him out of Egypt; the
Lubim, the Sukkiims, and the Ethiopians. {12:4} And he took the fenced
cities which [pertained] to Judah, and came to Jerusalem.

   {12:5} Then came Shemaiah the prophet to Rehoboam, and [to] the
princes of Judah, that were gathered together to Jerusalem because of
Shishak, and said unto them, Thus saith the LORD, Ye have forsaken me,
and therefore have I also left you in the hand of Shishak. {12:6}
Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and
they said, The LORD [is] righteous. {12:7} And when the LORD saw that
they humbled themselves, the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah, saying,
They have humbled themselves; [therefore] I will not destroy them, but
I will grant them some deliverance; and my wrath shall not be poured
out upon Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak. {12:8} Nevertheless they
shall be his servants; that they may know my service, and the service
of the kingdoms of the countries. {12:9} So Shishak king of Egypt came
up against Jerusalem, and took 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. {12:10} 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. {12:11} 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. {12:12} 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.

   {12:13} 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. {12:14} And he did
evil, because he prepared not his heart to seek the LORD. {12:15} 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. {12:16} And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was
buried in the city of David: and Abijah his son reigned in his stead.

   {13:1} Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began Abijah to
reign over Judah. {13:2} 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. {13:3} 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.

   {13:4} And Abijah stood up upon mount Zemaraim, which [is] in mount
Ephraim, and said, Hear me, thou Jeroboam, and all Israel; {13:5} 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?
{13:6} Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon the son of
David, is risen up, and hath rebelled against his lord. {13:7} And
there are gathered unto him vain men, the children of Belial, and have
strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when
Rehoboam was young and tenderhearted, and could not withstand them.
{13:8} And now ye think to withstand the kingdom of the LORD in the
hand of the sons of David; and ye [be] a great multitude, and [there
are] with you golden calves, which Jeroboam made you for gods. {13:9}
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. {13:10} 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:
{13:11} 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. {13:12} And, behold, God himself is with
us for [our] captain, and his priests with sounding trumpets to cry
alarm against you. O children of Israel, fight ye not against the LORD
God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper.

   {13:13} But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind them:
so they were before Judah, and the ambushment [was] behind them.
{13:14} 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. {13:15} 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. {13:16} And the children of Israel fled before
Judah: and God delivered them into their hand. {13:17} And Abijah and
his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain
of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men. {13:18} 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.
{13:19} And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and took cities from him,
Bethel with the towns thereof, and Jeshanah with the towns thereof, and
Ephrain with the towns thereof. {13:20} Neither did Jeroboam recover
strength again in the days of Abijah: and the LORD struck him, and he
died.

   {13:21} But Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives, and
begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters. {13:22} And the rest
of the acts of Abijah, and his ways, and his sayings, [are] written in
the story of the prophet Iddo.

   {14:1} 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. {14:2} And Asa did [that which was] good and
right in the eyes of the LORD his God: {14:3} For he took away the
altars of the strange [gods,] and the high places, and brake down the
images, and cut down the groves: {14:4} And commanded Judah to seek the
LORD God of their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment.
{14:5} Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places
and the images: and the kingdom was quiet before him.

   {14:6} 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.
{14:7} 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. {14:8} 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.

   {14:9} And there came out against them Zerah the Ethiopian with an
host of a thousand thousand, and three hundred chariots; and came unto
Mareshah. {14:10} Then Asa went out against him, and they set the
battle in array in the valley of Zephathah at Mareshah. {14:11} 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 not man prevail against
thee. {14:12} So the LORD smote the Ethiopians before Asa and before
Judah; and the Ethiopians fled. {14:13} And Asa and the people that
[were] with him pursued them unto 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. {14:14} 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. {14:15} They
smote also the tents of cattle, and carried away sheep and camels in
abundance, and returned to Jerusalem.

   {15:1} And the Spirit of God came upon Azariah the son of Oded:
{15:2} 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. {15:3} Now for a long season Israel [hath
been] without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without
law. {15:4} But when they in their trouble did turn unto the LORD God
of Israel, and sought him, he was found of them. {15:5} And in those
times [there was] no peace to him that went out, nor to him that came
in, but great vexations [were] upon all the inhabitants of the
countries. {15:6} And nation was destroyed of nation, and city of city:
for God did vex them with all adversity. {15:7} Be ye strong therefore,
and let not your hands be weak: for your work shall be rewarded. {15:8}
And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the 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. {15:9} 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. {15:10} So they gathered themselves
together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the
reign of Asa. {15:11} And they offered unto the LORD the same time, of
the spoil [which] they had brought, seven hundred oxen and seven
thousand sheep. {15:12} And they entered into a covenant to seek the
LORD God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul;
{15:13} That whosoever would not seek the LORD God of Israel should be
put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman. {15:14} And
they sware unto the LORD with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with
trumpets, and with cornets. {15:15} And all Judah rejoiced at the oath:
for they had sworn with all their heart, and sought him with their
whole desire; and he was found of them: and the LORD gave them rest
round about.

   {15:16} 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. {15:17} But the high places were not taken away out
of Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.

   {15:18} And he brought into the house of God the things that his
father had dedicated, and that he himself had dedicated, silver, and
gold, and vessels. {15:19} And there was no [more] war unto the five
and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa.

   {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. {16:2} 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 Ben-hadad king of Syria, that
dwelt at Damascus, saying, {16:3} [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. {16:4} And Ben- hadad hearkened
unto king Asa, and sent the captains of his armies against the cities
of Israel; and they smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abel-maim, and all the
store cities of Naphtali. {16:5} And it came to pass, when Baasha heard
[it,] that he left off building of Ramah, and let his work cease.
{16:6} Then Asa the king took all Judah; and they carried away the
stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha was building;
and he built therewith Geba and Mizpah.

   {16:7} And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah,
and 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. {16:8} 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. {16:9}
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. {16:10} 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.

   {16:11} And, behold, the acts of Asa, first and last, lo, they [are]
written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel. {16:12} And Asa
in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet,
until his disease [was] exceeding [great:] yet in his disease he sought
not to the LORD, but to the physicians.

   {16:13} And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and
fortieth year of his reign. {16:14} And they buried him in his own
sepulchres, which he had made 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.

   {17:1} And Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead, and
strengthened himself against Israel. {17:2} And he placed forces in all
the fenced cities of Judah, and set garrisons in the land of Judah, and
in the cities of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken. {17:3} And
the LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of
his father David, and sought not unto Baalim; {17:4} But sought to the
[LORD] God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not after
the doings of Israel. {17:5} Therefore the LORD stablished the kingdom
in his hand; and all Judah brought to Jehoshaphat presents; and he had
riches and honour in abundance. {17:6} And his heart was lifted up in
the ways of the LORD: moreover he took away the high places and groves
out of Judah.

   {17:7} Also in the third year of his reign he sent to his princes,
[even] to Ben-hail, and to Obadiah, and to Zechariah, and to Nethaneel,
and to Michaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah. {17:8} And with them
[he sent] Levites, [even] Shemaiah, and Nethaniah, and Zebadiah, and
Asahel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehonathan, and Adonijah, and Tobijah, and
Tob-adonijah, Levites; and with them Elishama and Jehoram, priests.
{17:9} And they taught in Judah, and [had] the book of the law of the
LORD with them, and went about throughout all the cities of Judah, and
taught the people.

   {17:10} 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. {17:11} 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.

   {17:12} And Jehoshaphat waxed great exceedingly; and he built in
Judah castles, and cities of store. {17:13} And he had much business in
the cities of Judah: and the men of war, mighty men of valour, [were]
in Jerusalem. {17:14} And these [are] the numbers of them according to
the house of their fathers: Of Judah, the captains of thousands; Adnah
the chief, and with him mighty men of valour three hundred thousand.
{17:15} And next to him [was] Jehohanan the captain, and with him two
hundred and fourscore thousand. {17:16} And next him [was] Amasiah the
son of Zichri, who willingly offered himself unto the LORD; and with
him two hundred thousand mighty men of valour. {17:17} And of Benjamin;
Eliada a mighty man of valour, and with him armed men with bow and
shield two hundred thousand. {17:18} And next him [was] Jehozabad, and
with him an hundred and fourscore thousand ready prepared for the war.
{17:19} These waited on the king, beside [those] whom the king put in
the fenced cities throughout all Judah.

   {18:1} Now Jehoshaphat had riches and honour in abundance, and
joined affinity with Ahab. {18:2} And after [certain] years he went
down to Ahab to Samaria. And 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 Ramoth-gilead. {18:3} And Ahab king of Israel
said unto Jehoshaphat king of Judah, Wilt thou go with me to
Ramoth-gilead? And he answered him, I [am] as thou [art,] and my people
as thy people; and [we will be] with thee in the war.

   {18:4} And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel, Enquire, I pray
thee, at the word of the LORD to day. {18:5} Therefore the king of
Israel gathered together of prophets four hundred men, and said unto
them, Shall we go to Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And
they said, Go up; for God will deliver [it] into the king's hand.
{18:6} But Jehoshaphat said, [Is there] not here a prophet of the LORD
besides, that we might enquire of him? {18:7} And the king of Israel
said unto Jehoshaphat, [There is] yet one 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. {18:8} And the king of Israel called for one
[of his] officers, and said, Fetch quickly Micaiah the son of Imla.
{18:9} And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah sat either
of 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. {18:10} 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. {18:11} And all the prophets
prophesied so, saying, Go up to Ramoth-gilead, and prosper: for the
LORD shall deliver [it] into the hand of the king. {18:12} 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 theirs, and speak thou
good. {18:13} And Micaiah said, [As] the LORD liveth, even what my God
saith, that will I speak. {18:14} And when he was come to the king, the
king said unto him, Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth-gilead to battle, or
shall I forbear? And he said, Go ye up, and prosper, and they shall be
delivered into your hand. {18:15} And the king said to him, How many
times shall I adjure thee that thou say nothing but the truth to me in
the name of the LORD? {18:16} 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. {18:17} And the king of Israel said to
Jehoshaphat, Did I not tell thee [that] he would not prophesy good unto
me, but evil? {18:18} Again he said, Therefore hear the word of the
LORD; I saw the LORD sitting upon his throne, and all the host of
heaven standing on his right hand and [on] his left. {18:19} And the
LORD said, Who shall entice Ahab king of Israel, that he may go up and
fall at Ramoth-gilead? And one spake saying after this manner, and
another saying after that manner. {18:20} Then there came out a spirit,
and stood before the LORD, and said, I will entice him. And the LORD
said unto him, Wherewith? {18:21} 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. {18:22} 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. {18:23} 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? {18:24} And Micaiah
said, Behold, thou shalt see on that day when thou shalt go into an
inner chamber to hide thyself. {18:25} Then the king of Israel said,
Take ye Micaiah, and carry him back to Amon the governor of the city,
and to Joash the king's son; {18:26} 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. {18:27} And Micaiah
said, If thou certainly return in peace, [then] hath not the LORD
spoken by me. And he said, Hearken, all ye people. {18:28} So the king
of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth-gilead.
{18:29} And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, I will disguise
myself, and will go to the battle; but put thou on thy robes. So the
king of Israel disguised himself; and they went to the battle. {18:30}
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. {18:31} 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. {18:32} 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. {18:33} 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. {18:34} 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.

   {19:1} And Jehoshaphat the king of Judah returned to his house in
peace to Jerusalem. {19:2} 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. {19:3} 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. {19:4} And Jehoshaphat dwelt at
Jerusalem: and he went out again through the people from Beer-sheba to
mount Ephraim, and brought them back unto the LORD God of their fathers.

   {19:5} And he set judges in the land throughout all the fenced
cities of Judah, city by city, {19:6} And said to the judges, Take heed
what ye do: for ye judge not for man, but for the LORD, who is with you
in the judgment. {19:7} 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.

   {19:8} 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. {19:9} And he charged them, saying, Thus shall ye do in the
fear of the LORD, faithfully, and with a perfect heart. {19:10} And
what cause soever shall come to you of your brethren that dwell in
their 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. {19:11} 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.

   {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. {20:2} 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]
Hazazon-tamar, which [is] En-gedi. {20:3} And Jehoshaphat feared, and
set himself to seek the LORD, and proclaimed a fast throughout all
Judah. {20:4} And Judah gathered themselves together, to ask [help] of
the LORD: even out of all the cities of Judah they came to seek the
LORD.

   {20:5} And Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation of Judah and
Jerusalem, in the house of the LORD, before the new court, {20:6} And
said, O LORD God of our fathers, [art] not thou God in 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? {20:7} [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? {20:8} And they dwelt therein, and
have built thee a sanctuary therein for thy name, saying, {20:9} If,
[when] evil cometh upon us, [as] the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or
famine, we stand before this house, and in thy presence, (for thy name
[is] in this house,) and cry unto thee in our affliction, then thou
wilt hear and help. {20:10} And now, behold, the children of Ammon and
Moab and mount Seir, whom thou wouldest not let Israel invade, when
they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned from them, and
destroyed them not; {20:11} Behold, [I say, how] they reward us, to
come to cast us out of thy possession, which thou hast given us to
inherit. {20:12} O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no
might against this great company that cometh against us; neither know
we what to do: but our eyes [are] upon thee. {20:13} And all Judah
stood before the LORD, with their little ones, their wives, and their
children.

   {20:14} Then upon Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah,
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; {20:15}
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. {20:16} 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. {20:17} 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. {20:18} 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. {20:19} 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.

   {20:20} 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. {20:21} 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.

   {20:22} And when they began to sing and to praise, the LORD set
ambushments against the children of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, which
were come against Judah; and they were smitten. {20:23} For the
children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the 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.
{20:24} 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. {20:25} 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.

   {20:26} 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.
{20:27} Then they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem, and
Jehoshaphat in the forefront of them, to go again to Jerusalem with
joy; for the LORD had made them to rejoice over their enemies. {20:28}
And they came to Jerusalem with psalteries and harps and trumpets unto
the house of the LORD. {20:29} And the fear of God was on all the
kingdoms of [those] countries, when they had heard that the LORD fought
against the enemies of Israel. {20:30} So the realm of Jehoshaphat was
quiet: for his God gave him rest round about.

   {20:31} And Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah: [he was] thirty and five
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. {20:32} 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. {20:33} Howbeit the high places were not taken away: for as yet
the people had not prepared their hearts unto the God of their fathers.
{20:34} 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.

   {20:35} And after this did Jehoshaphat king of Judah join himself
with Ahaziah king of Israel, who did very wickedly: {20:36} And he
joined himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish: and they made
the ships in Ezion-gaber. {20:37} Then Eliezer the son of Dodavah of
Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, Because thou hast
joined thyself with Ahaziah, the LORD hath broken thy works. And the
ships were broken, that they were not able to go to Tarshish.

   {21:1} 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. {21:2} 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. {21:3} 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. {21:4} 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.

   {21:5} Jehoram [was] thirty and two years old when he began to
reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. {21:6} And he walked in
the way of the kings of Israel, like as did the 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. {21:7} Howbeit the LORD would not destroy the
house of David, because of the covenant that he had made with David,
and as he promised to give a light to him and to his sons for ever.

   {21:8} In his days the Edomites revolted from under the dominion of
Judah, and made themselves a king. {21:9} Then Jehoram went forth with
his princes, and all his chariots with him: and he rose up by night,
and smote the Edomites which compassed him in, and the captains of the
chariots. {21:10} 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. {21:11}
Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and caused the
inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, and compelled Judah
[thereto.]

   {21:12} And there came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet,
saying, 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, {21:13} But hast walked in the way of the kings of
Israel, and hast made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go a
whoring, like to the whoredoms of the house of Ahab, and also hast
slain thy brethren of thy father's house, [which were] better than
thyself: {21:14} Behold, with a great plague will the LORD smite thy
people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy goods: {21:15} And
thou [shalt have] great sickness by disease of thy bowels, until thy
bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by day.

   {21:16} Moreover the LORD stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of
the Philistines, and of the Arabians, that [were] near the Ethiopians:
{21:17} And they came up into Judah, and brake into it, and carried
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.

   {21:18} And after all this the LORD smote him in his bowels with an
incurable disease. {21:19} 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. {21:20} 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.

   {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. {22:2} 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. {22:3} He also
walked in the ways of the house of Ahab: for his mother was his
counsellor to do wickedly. {22:4} Wherefore he did evil in the sight of
the LORD like the house of Ahab: for they were his counsellors after
the death of his father to his destruction.

   {22:5} He walked also after their counsel, and went with Jehoram the
son of Ahab king of Israel to war against Hazael king of Syria at
Ramoth-gilead: and the Syrians smote Joram. {22:6} And he returned to
be healed in Jezreel because of the wounds 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. {22:7} 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. {22:8} 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. {22:9} 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.

   {22:10} 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.
{22:11} 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. {22:12} And he was with them hid in the house of God six years:
and Athaliah reigned over the land.

   {23:1} 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.
{23:2} 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. {23:3} 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.
{23:4} 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; {23:5} 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. {23:6} 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. {23:7} 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. {23:8} 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. {23:9} 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. {23:10} 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. {23:11} 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.

   {23:12} 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:
{23:13} 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. {23:14}
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. {23:15} 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.

   {23:16} And Jehoiada made a covenant between him, and between all
the people, and between the king, that they should be the LORD'S
people. {23:17} 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. {23:18} 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. {23:19} 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.
{23:20} 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. {23:21} And all the people of the land rejoiced: and the
city was quiet, after that they had slain Athaliah with the sword.

   {24:1} Joash [was] seven years old when he began to reign, and he
reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also [was] Zibiah
of Beer-sheba. {24:2} And Joash did [that which was] right in the sight
of the LORD all the days of Jehoiada the priest. {24:3} And Jehoiada
took for him two wives; and he begat sons and daughters.

   {24:4} And it came to pass after this, [that] Joash was minded to
repair the house of the LORD. {24:5} And he gathered together the
priests and the Levites, and said to 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. {24:6} 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? {24:7} 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. {24:8} And at the king's commandment they made a
chest, and set it without at the gate of the house of the LORD. {24:9}
And they made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem, to bring in
to the LORD the collection [that] Moses the servant of God [laid] upon
Israel in the wilderness. {24:10} And all the princes and all the
people rejoiced, and brought in, and cast into the chest, until they
had made an end. {24:11} 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. {24:12} 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. {24:13} So the
workmen wrought, and the work was perfected by them, and they set the
house of God in his state, and strengthened it. {24:14} 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.

   {24:15} But Jehoiada waxed old, and was full of days when he died;
an hundred and thirty years old [was he] when he died. {24:16} And they
buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done
good in Israel, both toward God, and toward his house. {24:17} Now
after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of Judah, and made
obeisance to the king. Then the king hearkened unto them. {24:18} 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. {24:19} Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again
unto the LORD; and they testified against them: but they would not give
ear. {24:20} 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. {24:21} 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. {24:22} 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.]

   {24:23} 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. {24:24} 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. {24:25}
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. {24:26} And these are they that conspired
against him; Zabad the son of Shimeath an Ammonitess, and Jehozabad the
son of Shimrith a Moabitess.

   {24:27} Now [concerning] his sons, and the greatness of the burdens
[laid] 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.

   {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. {25:2} And he did [that
which was] right in the sight of the LORD, but not with a perfect heart.

   {25:3} Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was established to him,
that he slew his servants that had killed the king his father. {25:4}
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.

   {25:5} Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and made them
captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, according to the
houses of [their] fathers, throughout all Judah and Benjamin: and he
numbered them from twenty years old and above, and found them three
hundred thousand choice [men, able] to go forth to war, that could
handle spear and shield. {25:6} He hired also an hundred thousand
mighty men of valour out of Israel for an hundred talents of silver.
{25:7} But there came a man of God to him, saying, O king, let not the
army of Israel go with thee; for the LORD [is] not with Israel, [to
wit, with] all the children of Ephraim. {25:8} 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. {25:9} 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. {25:10} Then Amaziah
separated them, [to wit,] the army that was come to him out of Ephraim,
to go home again: wherefore their anger was greatly kindled against
Judah, and they returned home in great anger.

   {25:11} And Amaziah strengthened himself, and led forth his people,
and went to the valley of salt, and smote of the children of Seir ten
thousand. {25:12} 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.

   {25:13} 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 Beth-horon, and smote three thousand of them,
and took much spoil.

   {25:14} Now it came to pass, after that Amaziah was come from the
slaughter of the Edomites, that he brought the gods of the children of
Seir, and set them up [to be] his gods, and bowed down himself before
them, and burned incense unto them. {25:15} Wherefore the anger of the
LORD was kindled against Amaziah, 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? {25:16} 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.

   {25:17} 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. {25:18} 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. {25:19} 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? {25:20} 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. {25:21}
So Joash the king of Israel went up; and they saw one another in the
face, [both] he and Amaziah king of Judah, at Beth- shemesh, which
[belongeth] to Judah. {25:22} And Judah was put to the worse before
Israel, and they fled every man to his tent. {25:23} And Joash the king
of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of
Jehoahaz, at Beth-shemesh, and brought him to Jerusalem, and brake down
the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four
hundred cubits. {25:24} And [he took] all the gold and the silver, and
all the vessels that were found in the house of God with Obed-edom, and
the treasures of the king's house, the hostages also, and returned to
Samaria.

   {25:25} And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the
death of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years. {25:26}
Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, first and last, behold, [are] they
not written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel?

   {25:27} Now after the time that Amaziah did turn away from following
the LORD they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem; and he fled
to Lachish: but they sent to Lachish after him, and slew him there.
{25:28} And they brought him upon horses, and buried him with his
fathers in the city of Judah.

   {26:1} Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who [was] sixteen
years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah. {26:2}
He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept
with his fathers. {26:3} Sixteen years old [was] Uzziah when he began
to reign, and he reigned fifty and two years in Jerusalem. His mother's
name also was Jecoliah of Jerusalem. {26:4} And he did [that which was]
right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father
Amaziah did. {26:5} And he sought God in the days of Zechariah, who had
understanding in the visions of God: and as long as he sought the LORD,
God made him to prosper. {26:6} And he went forth and warred against
the Philistines, and brake down the wall of Gath, and the wall of
Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod, and built cities about Ashdod, and
among the Philistines. {26:7} And God helped him against the
Philistines, and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gur-baal, and the
Mehunims. {26:8} And the Ammonites gave gifts to Uzziah: and his name
spread abroad [even] to the entering in of Egypt; for he strengthened
[himself] exceedingly. {26:9} Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem
at the corner gate, and at the valley gate, and at the turning [of the
wall,] and fortified them. {26:10} 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. {26:11} Moreover
Uzziah had an host of fighting men, that went out to war by bands,
according to the number of their account by the hand of Jeiel the
scribe and Maaseiah the ruler, under the hand of Hananiah, [one] of the
king's captains. {26:12} The whole number of the chief of the fathers
of the mighty men of valour [were] two thousand and six hundred.
{26:13} And under their hand [was] an army, three hundred thousand and
seven thousand and five hundred, that made war with mighty power, to
help the king against the enemy. {26:14} And Uzziah prepared for them
throughout all the host shields, and spears, and helmets, and
habergeons, and bows, and slings [to cast] stones. {26:15} 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.

   {26:16} 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.
{26:17} And Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him
fourscore priests of the LORD, [that were] valiant men: {26:18} And
they withstood Uzziah the king, and said unto him, [It 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. {26:19} 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.
{26:20} 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. {26:21} 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.

   {26:22} Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last, did
Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, write. {26:23} So Uzziah slept
with his fathers, and they buried him with his 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.

   {27:1} Jotham [was] twenty and five years old when he began to
reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother's name
also [was] Jerushah, the daughter of Zadok. {27:2} And he did [that
which was] right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his
father Uzziah did: howbeit he entered not into the temple of the LORD.
And the people did yet corruptly. {27:3} He built the high gate of the
house of the LORD, and on the wall of Ophel he built much. {27:4}
Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests
he built castles and towers.

   {27:5} He fought also with the king of the Ammonites, and prevailed
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. {27:6} So Jotham became mighty,
because he prepared his ways before the LORD his God.

   {27:7} Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars, and his
ways, lo, they [are] written in the book of the kings of Israel and
Judah. {27:8} He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign,
and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.

   {27:9} And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the
city of David: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.

   {28:1} 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: {28:2} For he
walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also molten images
for Baalim. {28:3} Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son
of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, after the abominations
of the heathen whom the LORD had cast out before the children of
Israel. {28:4} He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places,
and on the hills, and under every green tree. {28:5} Wherefore the LORD
his God delivered him into the hand of the 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.

   {28:6} 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. {28:7} 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. {28:8} 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. {28:9} 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. {28:10} 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? {28:11} 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. {28:12} Then certain of the heads of the children of Ephraim,
Azariah the son of Johanan, Berechiah the son of Meshillemoth, and
Jehizkiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai, stood up
against them that came from the war, {28:13} And said unto them, Ye
shall not bring in the captives hither: for whereas we have offended
against the LORD [already,] ye intend to add [more] to our sins and to
our trespass: for our trespass is great, and [there is] fierce wrath
against Israel. {28:14} So the armed men left the captives and the
spoil before the princes and all the congregation. {28:15} And the men
which were expressed by name rose up, and took 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.

   {28:16} At that time did king Ahaz send unto the kings of Assyria to
help him. {28:17} For again the Edomites had come and smitten Judah,
and carried away captives. {28:18} The Philistines also had invaded the
cities of the low country, and of the south of Judah, and had taken
Beth-shemesh, 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. {28:19} For the LORD brought
Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel; for he made Judah naked, and
transgressed sore against the LORD. {28:20} And Tilgath- pilneser king
of Assyria came unto him, and distressed him, but strengthened him not.
{28:21} For Ahaz took away a portion [out] of the house of the LORD,
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.

   {28:22} And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more
against the LORD: this [is that] king Ahaz. {28:23} For he sacrificed
unto the gods of Damascus, which smote him: 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. {28:24} 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. {28:25} 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.

   {28:26} 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. {28:27} 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.

   {29:1} 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. {29:2} And he
did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD, according to all
that David his father had done.

   {29:3} He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened
the doors of the house of the LORD, and repaired them. {29:4} And he
brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into
the east street, {29:5} And said unto them, Hear me, ye Levites,
sanctify now yourselves, and sanctify the house of the LORD God of your
fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy [place. ]{29:6}
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.
{29:7} 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. {29:8} Wherefore the wrath of the
LORD was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to
trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes.
{29:9} For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and
our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this. {29:10} Now [it
is] in mine heart to make a covenant with the LORD God of Israel, that
his fierce wrath may turn away from us. {29:11} 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.

   {29:12} 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:
{29:13} And of the sons of Elizaphan; Shimri, and Jeiel: and of the
sons of Asaph; Zechariah, and Mattaniah: {29:14} And of the sons of
Heman; Jehiel, and Shimei: and of the sons of Jeduthun; Shemaiah, and
Uzziel. {29:15} And they gathered their brethren, and sanctified
themselves, and came, according to the commandment of the king, by the
words of the LORD, to cleanse the house of the LORD. {29:16} And the
priests went into the inner part of the house of the 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. {29:17} 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. {29:18} 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. {29:19} Moreover
all the vessels, which king Ahaz in his reign did cast away in his
transgression, have we prepared and sanctified, and, behold, they [are]
before the altar of the LORD.

   {29:20} Then Hezekiah the king rose early, and gathered the rulers
of the city, and went up to the house of the LORD. {29:21} And they
brought seven bullocks, and seven rams, and seven 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. {29:22} 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. {29:23} And they brought forth the he goats [for] the
sin offering before the king and the congregation; and they laid their
hands upon them: {29:24} 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. {29:25} And he set
the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, with psalteries, and
with harps, according to the commandment of David, and of Gad the
king's seer, and Nathan the prophet: for [so was] the commandment of
the LORD by his prophets. {29:26} And the Levites stood with the
instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets. {29:27} And
Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt offering upon the 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.
{29:28} And all the congregation worshipped, and the singers sang, and
the trumpeters sounded: [and] all [this continued] until the burnt
offering was finished. {29:29} And when they had made an end of
offering, the king and all that were present with him bowed themselves,
and worshipped. {29:30} 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. {29:31} 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. {29:32} 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. {29:33} And the consecrated
things [were] six hundred oxen and three thousand sheep. {29:34} 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. {29:35} 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. {29:36} And Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the
people, that God had prepared the people: for the thing was [done]
suddenly.

   {30:1} 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.
{30:2} For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the
congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month.
{30:3} For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had
not sanctified themselves sufficiently, neither had the people gathered
themselves together to Jerusalem. {30:4} And the thing pleased the king
and all the congregation. {30:5} So they established a decree to make
proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beer-sheba 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. {30:6} So the posts went with the letters from the king
and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the
commandment of the king, saying, Ye children of Israel, turn again unto
the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and he will return to the
remnant of you, that are escaped out of the hand of the kings of
Assyria. {30:7} And be not ye like your fathers, and like your
brethren, which trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, [who]
therefore gave them up to desolation, as ye see. {30:8} 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. {30:9} 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. {30:10} 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. {30:11} Nevertheless
divers of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled themselves, and
came to Jerusalem. {30:12} Also in Judah the hand of God was to give
them one heart to do the commandment of the king and of the princes, by
the word of the LORD.

   {30:13} And there assembled at Jerusalem much people to keep the
feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great
congregation. {30:14} And they arose and took away the altars that
[were] in Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense took they away, and
cast [them] into the brook Kidron. {30:15} 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. {30:16} 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. {30:17} 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. {30:18} 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 {30:19} [That] prepareth his heart to seek God,
the LORD God of his fathers, though [he be] not [cleansed] according to
the purification of the sanctuary. {30:20} And the LORD hearkened to
Hezekiah, and healed the people. {30:21} And the children of Israel
that were present at Jerusalem kept 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. {30:22}
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. {30:23} And the whole assembly took counsel to keep
other seven days: and they kept [other] seven days with gladness.
{30:24} For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the congregation a
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. {30:25} 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. {30:26} 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.

   {30:27} 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.

   {31:1} 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.

   {31:2} 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. {31:3} [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. {31:4} 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.

   {31:5} 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. {31:6} 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. {31:7} In the third month they began to lay the foundation of
the heaps, and finished [them] in the seventh month. {31:8} And when
Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, they blessed the LORD,
and his people Israel. {31:9} Then Hezekiah questioned with the priests
and the Levites concerning the heaps. {31:10} And Azariah the chief
priest of the house of Zadok answered 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.

   {31:11} Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of
the LORD; and they prepared [them, ]{31:12} And brought in the
offerings and the tithes and the dedicated [things] faithfully: over
which Cononiah the Levite [was] ruler, and Shimei his brother [was] the
next. {31:13} 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. {31:14} 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. {31:15}
And next him [were] Eden, and Miniamin, and Jeshua, and Shemaiah,
Amariah, and Shecaniah, in the cities of the priests, in [their] set
office, to give to their brethren by courses, as well to the great as
to the small: {31:16} Beside their genealogy of males, from three years
old 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; {31:17} 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; {31:18} 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: {31:19} 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.

   {31:20} And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah, and wrought
[that which was] good and right and truth before the LORD his God.
{31:21} 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.

   {32:1} After these things, and the establishment thereof,
Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and encamped
against the fenced cities, and thought to win them for himself. {32:2}
And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib was come, and that he was
purposed to fight against Jerusalem, {32:3} He took counsel with his
princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the fountains which
[were] without the city: and they did help him. {32:4} 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? {32:5} 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. {32:6} 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, {32:7} 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: {32:8} 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.

   {32:9} 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, {32:10} Thus saith Sennacherib king of
Assyria, Whereon do ye trust, that ye abide in the siege in Jerusalem?
{32:11} Doth not Hezekiah persuade you to give over yourselves to die
by famine and by thirst, saying, The LORD our God shall deliver us out
of the hand of the king of Assyria? {32:12} Hath not the same Hezekiah
taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and
Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall worship before one altar, and burn incense
upon it? {32:13} Know ye not what I and my fathers have done unto all
the people of [other] lands? were the gods of the nations of those
lands any ways able to deliver their lands out of mine hand? {32:14}
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? {32:15} 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?
{32:16} And his servants spake yet [more] against the LORD God, and
against his servant Hezekiah. {32:17} He wrote also letters to rail on
the LORD God of Israel, and to 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. {32:18} 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.
{32:19} 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. {32:20} And for this [cause] Hezekiah the king, and the prophet
Isaiah the son of Amoz, prayed and cried to heaven.

   {32:21} And the LORD sent an angel, which cut off all the mighty men
of 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. {32:22} 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. {32:23} And many brought gifts unto the LORD to
Jerusalem, and presents to Hezekiah king of Judah: so that he was
magnified in the sight of all nations from thenceforth.

   {32:24} In those days Hezekiah was sick to the death, and prayed
unto the LORD: and he spake unto him, and he gave him a sign. {32:25}
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. {32:26} 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.

   {32:27} 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; {32:28} Storehouses also for the increase of corn, and wine,
and oil; and stalls for all manner of beasts, and cotes for flocks.
{32:29} Moreover he provided him cities, and possessions of flocks and
herds in abundance: for God had given him substance very much. {32:30}
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.

   {32:31} 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.

   {32:32} 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. {32:33}
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.

   {33:1} Manasseh [was] twelve years old when he began to reign, and
he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem: {33:2} But did [that
which was] evil in the sight of the LORD, like unto the abominations of
the heathen, whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.

   {33:3} 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. {33:4} Also he
built altars in the house of the LORD, whereof the LORD had said, In
Jerusalem shall my name be for ever. {33:5} And he built altars for all
the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD. {33:6}
And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of
the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and
used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he
wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
{33:7} And he set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the
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: {33:8} 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. {33:9} 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. {33:10} And
the LORD spake to Manasseh, and to his people: but they would not
hearken.

   {33:11} Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the
host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and
bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon. {33:12} And when he
was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself
greatly before the God of his fathers, {33:13} And prayed unto him: and
he was intreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him
again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD
he [was] God. {33:14} 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. {33:15} 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. {33:16} 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. {33:17} Nevertheless
the people did sacrifice still in the high places, yet unto the LORD
their God only.

   {33:18} Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer unto
his 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. {33:19} His prayer also, and [how God] was intreated
of him, and all his sin, 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.

   {33:20} So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in
his own house: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.

   {33:21} Amon [was] two and twenty years old when he began to reign,
and reigned two years in Jerusalem. {33:22} But he did [that which was]
evil in the sight of the LORD, as did Manasseh his father: for Amon
sacrificed unto all the carved images which Manasseh his father had
made, and served them; {33:23} And humbled not himself before the LORD,
as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but Amon trespassed more
and more. {33:24} And his servants conspired against him, and slew him
in his own house.

   {33:25} 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.

   {34:1} Josiah [was] eight years old when he began to reign, and he
reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years. {34:2} And he did [that
which was] right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the ways of
David his father, and declined [neither] to the right hand, nor to the
left.

   {34:3} 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. {34:4} 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. {34:5} And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their
altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem. {34:6} And [so did he] in the
cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, with
their mattocks round about. {34:7} And when he had broken down the
altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven images into powder,
and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he
returned to Jerusalem.

   {34:8} 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. {34:9} 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. {34:10} 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: {34:11} 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. {34:12} 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. {34:13} 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.

   {34:14} 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. {34:15} 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. {34:16} 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.
]{34:17} 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. {34:18} Then Shaphan the
scribe told the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath given me a book.
And Shaphan read it before the king. {34:19} And it came to pass, when
the king had heard the words of the law, that he rent his clothes.
{34:20} And the king commanded Hilkiah, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan,
and Abdon the son of Micah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah a
servant of the king's, saying, {34:21} Go, enquire of the LORD for me,
and for them that are left in 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. {34:22} 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.]

   {34:23} And she answered them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel,
Tell ye the man that sent you to me, {34:24} Thus saith the LORD,
Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants
thereof, [even] all the curses that are written in the book which they
have read before the king of Judah: {34:25} 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. {34:26} 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; {34:27} 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. {34:28} 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.

   {34:29} Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of
Judah and Jerusalem. {34:30} 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. {34:31} 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. {34:32} And he caused all that
were present in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand [to it.] And the
inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God
of their fathers. {34:33} And Josiah took away all the abominations out
of all the 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.

   {35:1} Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto the LORD in Jerusalem:
and they killed the passover on the fourteenth [day] of the first
month. {35:2} And he set the priests in their charges, and encouraged
them to the service of the house of the LORD, {35:3} And said unto the
Levites that taught all Israel, which were holy 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, {35:4} And prepare
[yourselves] by the houses of your fathers, after your courses,
according to the writing of David king of Israel, and according to the
writing of Solomon his son. {35:5} And stand in the holy [place]
according to the divisions of the families of the fathers of your
brethren the people, and [after] the division of the families of the
Levites. {35:6} 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. {35:7} 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. {35:8} 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. {35:9} 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. {35:10}
So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and
the Levites in their courses, according to the king's commandment.
{35:11} And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled [the
blood] from their hands, and the Levites flayed [them. ]{35:12} And
they removed the burnt offerings, that they might give 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.
{35:13} 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. {35:14} 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.
{35:15} And the singers the sons of Asaph [were] in their place,
according to the commandment of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and
Jeduthun the king's seer; and the porters [waited] at every gate; they
might not depart from their service; for their brethren the Levites
prepared for them. {35:16} So all the service of the LORD was prepared
the same day, to keep the passover, and to offer burnt offerings upon
the altar of the LORD, according to the commandment of king Josiah.
{35:17} And the children of Israel that were present kept the passover
at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days. {35:18} And
there was no passover like to that kept in Israel from the days of
Samuel the prophet; neither did all the kings of Israel keep such a
passover as Josiah kept, and the priests, and the Levites, and all
Judah and Israel that were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
{35:19} In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this passover
kept.

   {35:20} After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Necho
king of Egypt came up to fight against Charchemish by Euphrates: and
Josiah went out against him. {35:21} But he sent ambassadors to him,
saying, What have I to do with 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. {35:22} 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. {35:23} And
the archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to his servants,
Have me away; for I am sore wounded. {35:24} His servants therefore
took him out of that chariot, and put him 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.

   {35:25} 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. {35:26} Now the rest of the acts of
Josiah, and his goodness, according to [that which was] written in the
law of the LORD, {35:27} And his deeds, first and last, behold, they
[are] written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.

   {36:1} Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah,
and made him king in his father's stead in Jerusalem. {36:2} Jehoahaz
[was] twenty and three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned
three months in Jerusalem. {36:3} And the king of Egypt put him down at
Jerusalem, and condemned the land in an hundred talents of silver and a
talent of gold.

   {36:4} And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over
Judah and Jerusalem, and turned his name to Jehoiakim. And Necho took
Jehoahaz his brother, and carried him to Egypt. {36:5} 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. {36:6} Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of
Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon. {36:7}
Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the house of the LORD to
Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon. {36:8} Now the rest of
the acts of Jehoiakim, and his abominations 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.
{36:9} 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. {36:10} 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.

   {36:11} Zedekiah [was] one and twenty years old when he began to
reign, and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. {36:12} And he did [that
which was] evil in the sight of the LORD his God, [and] humbled not
himself before Jeremiah the prophet [speaking] from the mouth of the
LORD. {36:13} 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.

   {36:14} 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.
{36:15} And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his
messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion
on his people, and on his dwelling place: {36:16} But they mocked the
messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets,
until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till [there was]
no remedy. {36:17} 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. {36:18} 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. {36:19} 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. {36:20} 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: {36:21} 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.

   {36:22} Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word
of the LORD [spoken] by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished,
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, {36:23} Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of
the earth 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.





The Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians

   {1:1} 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: {1:2} Grace be to you and peace
from God our Father, and [from] the Lord Jesus Christ. {1:3} Blessed
[be] God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of
mercies, and the God of all comfort; {1:4} Who comforteth us in all our
tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any
trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.
{1:5} For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation
also aboundeth by Christ. {1:6} And whether we be afflicted, [it is]
for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring
of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be
comforted, [it is] for your consolation and salvation. {1:7} And our
hope of you [is] stedfast, knowing, that as ye are partakers of the
sufferings, so [shall ye be] also of the consolation. {1:8} For we
would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us
in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch
that we despaired even of life: {1:9} But we had the sentence of death
in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which
raiseth the dead: {1:10} Who delivered us from so great a death, and
doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver [us; ]{1:11} Ye
also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift [bestowed]
upon us by the means of many persons thanks may be given by many on our
behalf.

   {1:12} For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience,
that in 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. {1:13} For we write none other things unto you,
than what ye read or acknowledge; and I trust ye shall acknowledge even
to the end; {1:14} As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are
your rejoicing, even as ye also [are] ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.

   {1:15} And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before,
that ye might have a second benefit; {1:16} And to pass by you into
Macedonia, and to come again out of Macedonia unto you, and of you to
be brought on my way toward Judaea. {1:17} When I therefore was thus
minded, did I use lightness? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose
according to the flesh, that with me there should be yea yea, and nay
nay? {1:18} But [as] God [is] true, our word toward you was not yea and
nay. {1:19} 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. {1:20} For all the promises of God in him
[are] yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us. {1:21} Now he
which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, [is]
God; {1:22} Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the
Spirit in our hearts. {1:23} Moreover I call God for a record upon my
soul, that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth. {1:24} Not for
that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for
by faith ye stand.

   {2:1} But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again
to you in heaviness. {2:2} For if I make you sorry, who is he then that
maketh me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me? {2:3} And I
wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from
them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my
joy is [the joy] of you all. {2:4} For out of much affliction and
anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should
be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more
abundantly unto you. {2:5} But if any have caused grief, he hath not
grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all. {2:6}
Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which [was inflicted] of
many. {2:7} So that contrariwise ye [ought] rather to forgive [him,]
and comfort [him,] lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with
overmuch sorrow. {2:8} Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm
[your] love toward him. {2:9} For to this end also did I write, that I
might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things.
{2:10} To whom ye forgive any thing, I [forgive] also: for if I forgave
any thing, to whom I forgave [it,] for your sakes [forgave I it] in the
person of Christ; {2:11} Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for
we are not ignorant of his devices. {2:12} Furthermore, when I came to
Troas to [preach] Christ's gospel, and a door was opened unto me of the
Lord, {2:13} I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my
brother: but taking my leave of them, I went from thence into
Macedonia. {2:14} Now thanks [be] unto God, which always causeth us to
triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by
us in every place. {2:15} For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ,
in them that are saved, and in them that perish: {2:16} To the one [we
are] the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of
life unto life. And who [is] sufficient for these things? {2:17} For we
are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity,
but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.

   {3:1} Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some
[others,] epistles of commendation to you, or [letters] of commendation
from you? {3:2} Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and
read of all men: {3:3} [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.

   {3:4} And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward: {3:5} Not
that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves;
but our sufficiency [is] of God; {3:6} Who also hath made us able
ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit:
for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. {3:7} 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: {3:8} How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather
glorious? {3:9} For if the ministration of condemnation [be] glory,
much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
{3:10} For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this
respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth. {3:11} For if that
which is done away [was] glorious, much more that which remaineth [is]
glorious. {3:12} Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great
plainness of speech: {3:13} 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: {3:14} 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. {3:15} But
even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.
{3:16} Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be
taken away. {3:17} Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of
the Lord [is,] there [is] liberty. {3:18} 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.

   {4:1} Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received
mercy, we faint not; {4:2} But have renounced the hidden things of
dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God
deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to
every man's conscience in the sight of God. {4:3} But if our gospel be
hid, it is hid to them that are lost: {4:4} 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. {4:5} For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the
Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake. {4:6} For God, who
commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our
hearts, to [give] the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the
face of Jesus Christ.

   {4:7} But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the
excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us. {4:8} [We are]
troubled on every side, yet not distressed; [we are] perplexed, but not
in despair; {4:9} Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not
destroyed; {4:10} 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. {4:11} 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. {4:12} So then death worketh in us, but life in you.
{4:13} We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written,
I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore
speak; {4:14} Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall
raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present [us] with you. {4:15} For
all things [are] for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through
the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God. {4:16} For which
cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward
[man] is renewed day by day. {4:17} For our light affliction, which is
but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding [and] eternal
weight of glory; {4:18} While we look not at the things which are seen,
but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen
[are] temporal; but the things which are not seen [are] eternal.

   {5:1} 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. {5:2} For in this we groan, earnestly
desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven: {5:3}
If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked. {5:4} For we
that are in [this] tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we
would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed
up of life. {5:5} Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing
[is] God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit. {5:6}
Therefore [we are] always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at
home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: {5:7} (For we walk by
faith, not by sight:) {5:8} We are confident, [I say,] and willing
rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
{5:9} Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be
accepted of him. {5:10} 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.

   {5:11} 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. {5:12} For we commend not ourselves again unto
you, but give you occasion to glory on our behalf, that ye may have
somewhat to [answer] them which glory in appearance, and not in heart.
{5:13} For whether we be beside ourselves, [it is] to God: or whether
we be sober, [it is] for your cause. {5:14} For the love of Christ
constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then
were all dead: {5:15} And [that] he died for all, that they which live
should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for
them, and rose again. {5:16} 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. {5:17} Therefore if any man [be] in
Christ, [he is] a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all
things are become new. {5:18} And all things [are] of God, who hath
reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the
ministry of reconciliation; {5:19} To wit, that God was in Christ,
reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto
them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. {5:20} Now
then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech [you] by
us: we pray [you] in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God. {5:21}
For he hath made him [to be] sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might
be made the righteousness of God in him.

   {6:1} We then, [as] workers together [with him,] beseech [you] also
that ye receive not the grace of God in vain. {6:2} (For he saith, I
have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I
succoured thee: behold, now [is] the accepted time; behold, now [is]
the day of salvation.) {6:3} Giving no offence in any thing, that the
ministry be not blamed: {6:4} But in all [things] approving ourselves
as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in
necessities, in distresses, {6:5} In stripes, in imprisonments, in
tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings; {6:6} By pureness, by
knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love
unfeigned, {6:7} By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the
armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, {6:8} By
honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and
[yet] true; {6:9} As unknown, and [yet] well known; as dying, and,
behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; {6:10} As sorrowful, yet
alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and
[yet] possessing all things.

   {6:11} O [ye] Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is
enlarged. {6:12} Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in
your own bowels. {6:13} Now for a recompence in the same, (I speak as
unto [my] children,) be ye also enlarged. {6:14} Be ye not unequally
yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness
with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
{6:15} And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he
that believeth with an infidel? {6:16} 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. {6:17} Wherefore come out from
among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the
unclean [thing;] and I will receive you, {6:18} And will be a Father
unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord
Almighty.

   {7:1} Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us
cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit,
perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

   {7:2} Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man,
we have defrauded no man. {7:3} I speak not [this] to condemn [you:]
for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die and live with
[you. ]{7:4} Great [is] my boldness of speech toward you, great [is] my
glorying of you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all
our tribulation. {7:5} For, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh
had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; without [were]
fightings, within [were] fears. {7:6} Nevertheless God, that comforteth
those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus; {7:7}
And not by his coming only, but by the consolation wherewith he was
comforted in you, when he told us your earnest desire, your mourning,
your fervent mind toward me; so that I rejoiced the more. {7:8} For
though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did
repent: for I perceive that the same epistle hath made you sorry,
though [it were] but for a season. {7:9} Now I rejoice, not that ye
were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made
sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in
nothing. {7:10} For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to
be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death. {7:11} For
behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what
carefulness it wrought in you, yea, [what] clearing of yourselves, yea,
[what] indignation, yea, [what] fear, yea, [what] vehement desire, yea,
[what] zeal, yea, [what] revenge! In all [things] ye have approved
yourselves to be clear in this matter. {7:12} Wherefore, though I wrote
unto you, [I did it] not for his cause that 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. {7:13} 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. {7:14} 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. {7:15} 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. {7:16} I rejoice therefore
that I have confidence in you in all [things.]

   {8:1} Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God
bestowed on the churches of Macedonia; {8:2} How that in a great trial
of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty
abounded unto the riches of their liberality. {8:3} For to [their]
power, I bear record, yea, and beyond [their] power [they were] willing
of themselves; {8:4} Praying us with much intreaty that we would
receive the gift, and [take upon us] the fellowship of the ministering
to the saints. {8:5} And [this they did,] not as we hoped, but first
gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God.
{8:6} Insomuch that we desired Titus, that as he had begun, so he would
also finish in you the same grace also. {8:7} Therefore, as ye abound
in every [thing, in] faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and [in] all
diligence, and [in] your love to us, [see] that ye abound in this grace
also. {8:8} I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the
forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love. {8:9}
For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was
rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty
might be rich. {8:10} 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. {8:11} Now therefore perform the doing [of it;]
that as [there was] a readiness to will, so [there may be] a
performance also out of that which ye have. {8:12} For if there be
first a willing mind, [it is] accepted according to that a man hath,
[and] not according to that he hath not. {8:13} For [I mean] not that
other men be eased, and ye burdened: {8:14} But by an equality, [that]
now at this time your abundance [may be a supply] for their want, that
their abundance also may be [a supply] for your want: that there may be
equality: {8:15} As it is written, He that [had gathered] much had
nothing over; and he that [had gathered] little had no lack. {8:16} But
thanks [be] to God, which put the same earnest care into the heart of
Titus for you. {8:17} For indeed he accepted the exhortation; but being
more forward, of his own accord he went unto you. {8:18} And we have
sent with him the brother, whose praise is in the gospel throughout all
the churches; {8:19} And not [that] only, but who was also chosen of
the churches to travel with us with this grace, which is administered
by us to the glory of the same Lord, and [declaration of] your ready
mind: {8:20} Avoiding this, that no man should blame us in this
abundance which is administered by us: {8:21} Providing for honest
things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of
men. {8:22} And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have
oftentimes proved diligent in many things, but now much more diligent,
upon the great confidence which [I have] in you. {8:23} 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. {8:24} Wherefore shew ye to them,
and before the churches, the proof of your love, and of our boasting on
your behalf.

   {9:1} For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is
superfluous for me to write to you: {9:2} 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. {9:3} Yet
have I sent the brethren, lest our boasting of you should be in vain in
this behalf; that, as I said, ye may be ready: {9:4} Lest haply if they
of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared, we (that we say
not, ye) should be ashamed in this same confident boasting. {9:5}
Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they
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. {9:6} But this [I say,] He which
soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth
bountifully shall reap also bountifully. {9:7} Every man according as
he purposeth in his heart, [so let him give;] not grudgingly, or of
necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver. {9:8} And God [is] able to
make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all
sufficiency in all [things,] may abound to every good work: {9:9} (As
it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to the poor: his
righteousness remaineth for ever. {9:10} Now he that ministereth seed
to the sower both minister bread for [your] food, and multiply your
seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;) {9:11} Being
enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causeth through us
thanksgiving to God. {9:12} For the administration of this service not
only supplieth the want of the saints, but is abundant also by many
thanksgivings unto God; {9:13} Whiles by the experiment of this
ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection into the
gospel of Christ, and for [your] liberal distribution unto them, and
unto all [men; ]{9:14} And by their prayer for you, which long after
you for the exceeding grace of God in you. {9:15} Thanks [be] unto God
for his unspeakable gift.

   {10:1} Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness
of Christ, who in presence [am] base among you, but being absent am
bold toward you: {10:2} But I beseech [you,] that I may not be bold
when I am present with that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold
against some, which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.
{10:3} For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:
{10:4} (For the weapons of our warfare [are] not carnal, but mighty
through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) {10:5} 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; {10:6} And having in a readiness to revenge all
disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled. {10:7} Do ye look on
things after the outward appearance? If any man 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. {10:8} 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:
{10:9} That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.
{10:10} For [his] letters, say they, [are] weighty and powerful; but
[his] bodily presence [is] weak, and [his] speech contemptible. {10:11}
Let such an one think this, that, such as we are in word by letters
when we are absent, such [will we be] also in deed when we are present.
{10:12} 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. {10:13} 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. {10:14} 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: {10:15} 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, {10:16} To preach the gospel in the [regions] beyond you,
[and] not to boast in another man's line of things made ready to our
hand. {10:17} But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. {10:18}
For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord
commendeth.

   {11:1} Would to God ye could bear with me a little in [my] folly:
and indeed bear with me. {11:2} 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. {11:3} 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. {11:4} For
if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached,
or [if] ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or
another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with
[him. ]{11:5} For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest
apostles. {11:6} But though [I be] rude in speech, yet not in
knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all
things. {11:7} Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye
might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God
freely? {11:8} I robbed other churches, taking wages [of them,] to do
you service. {11:9} 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.
]{11:10} As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this
boasting in the regions of Achaia. {11:11} Wherefore? because I love
you not? God knoweth. {11:12} 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. {11:13} For such [are] false
apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles
of Christ. {11:14} And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into
an angel of light. {11:15} Therefore [it is] no great thing if his
ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose
end shall be according to their works.

   {11:16} I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet
as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little. {11:17} That
which I speak, I speak [it] not after the Lord, but as it were
foolishly, in this confidence of boasting. {11:18} Seeing that many
glory after the flesh, I will glory also. {11:19} For ye suffer fools
gladly, seeing ye [yourselves] are wise. {11:20} For ye suffer, if a
man bring you into bondage, if a man devour [you,] if a man take [of
you,] if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face. {11:21} I
speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit
whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also. {11:22}
Are they Hebrews? so [am] I. Are they Israelites? so [am] I. Are they
the seed of Abraham? so [am] I. {11:23} Are they ministers of Christ?
(I speak as a fool) I [am] more; in labours more abundant, in stripes
above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft. {11:24} Of the
Jews five times received I forty [stripes] save one. {11:25} Thrice was
I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a
night and a day I have been in the deep; {11:26} [In] journeyings
often, [in] perils of waters, [in] perils of robbers, [in] perils by
[mine own] countrymen, [in] perils by the heathen, [in] perils in the
city, [in] perils in the wilderness, [in] perils in the sea, [in]
perils among false brethren; {11:27} In weariness and painfulness, in
watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and
nakedness. {11:28} Beside those things that are without, that which
cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches. {11:29} Who is
weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not? {11:30} If I
must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine
infirmities. {11:31} The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which
is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not. {11:32} In Damascus
the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with
a garrison, desirous to apprehend me: {11:33} And through a window in a
basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.

   {12:1} It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to
visions and revelations of the Lord. {12:2} I knew a man in Christ
above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or
whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one
caught up to the third heaven. {12:3} And I knew such a man, (whether
in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) {12:4}
How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words,
which it is not lawful for a man to utter. {12:5} Of such an one will I
glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but in mine infirmities. {12:6}
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.
{12:7} And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance
of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the
messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above
measure. {12:8} For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it
might depart from me. {12:9} 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. {12:10} Therefore I take pleasure in
infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in
distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.

   {12:11} I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I
ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the
very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing. {12:12} Truly the signs of
an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and
wonders, and mighty deeds. {12:13} For what is it wherein ye were
inferior to other churches, except [it be] that I myself was not
burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong. {12:14} Behold, the third
time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you:
for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for
the parents, but the parents for the children. {12:15} And I will very
gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love
you, the less I be loved. {12:16} But be it so, I did not burden you:
nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile. {12:17} Did I make
a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you? {12:18} 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?
{12:19} 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. {12:20} 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: {12:21} [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.

   {13:1} This [is] the third [time] I am coming to you. In the mouth
of two or three witnesses shall every word be established. {13:2} I
told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second
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:
{13:3} Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to
you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you. {13:4} For though he was
crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we
also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God
toward you. {13:5} 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? {13:6} But I trust that ye
shall know that we are not reprobates. {13:7} Now I pray to God that ye
do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do
that which is honest, though we be as reprobates. {13:8} For we can do
nothing against the truth, but for the truth. {13:9} For we are glad,
when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, [even] your
perfection. {13:10} Therefore I write these things being absent, lest
being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the
Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction.

   {13:11} 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. {13:12} Greet one another with an holy kiss.

   {13:13} All the saints salute you. {13:14} The grace of the Lord
Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost,
[be] with you all. Amen.





The Second Book of Esdras

   {1:1} The second book of the prophet Esdras, the son of Saraias, the
son of Azarias, the son of Helchias, the son of Sadamias, the sou of
Sadoc, the son of Achitob,

   {1:2} The son of Achias, the son of Phinees, the son of Heli, the
son of Amarias, the son of Aziei, the son of Marimoth, the son of And
he spake unto the of Borith, the son of Abisei, the son of Phinees, the
son of Eleazar,

   {1:3} The son of Aaron, of the tribe of Levi; which was captive in
the land of the Medes, in the reign of Artexerxes king of the Persians.

   {1:4} And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,

   {1:5} Go thy way, and shew my people their sinful deeds, and their
children their wickedness which they have done against me; that they
may tell their children's children:

   {1:6} Because the sins of their fathers are increased in them: for
they have forgotten me, and have offered unto strange gods.

   {1:7} Am not I even he that brought them out of the land of Egypt,
from the house of bondage? but they have provoked me unto wrath, and
despised my counsels.

   {1:8} Pull thou off then the hair of thy head, and cast all evil
upon them, for they have not been obedient unto my law, but it is a
rebellious people.

   {1:9} How long shall I forbear them, into whom I have done so much
good?

   {1:10} Many kings have I destroyed for their sakes; Pharaoh with his
servants and all his power have I smitten down.

   {1:11} All the nations have I destroyed before them, and in the east
I have scattered the people of two provinces, even of Tyrus and Sidon,
and have slain all their enemies.

   {1:12} Speak thou therefore unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord,

   {1:13} I led you through the sea and in the beginning gave you  a
large and safe passage; I gave you Moses for a leader,  and Aaron for a
priest.

   {1:14} I gave you light in a pillar of fire, and great wonders have
I done among you; yet have ye forgotten me, saith the Lord.

   {1:15} Thus saith the Almighty Lord, The quails were as a token to
you;  I gave you tents for your safeguard: nevertheless ye murmured
there,

   {1:16} And triumphed not in my name for the destruction of your
enemies,  but ever to this day do ye yet murmur.

   {1:17} Where are the benefits that I have done for you? when ye were
hungry and thirsty in the wilderness, did ye not cry unto me,

   {1:18} Saying, Why hast thou brought us into this wilderness to kill
us?  it had been better for us to have served the Egyptians,  than to
die in this wilderness.

   {1:19} Then had I pity upon your mournings, and gave you manna to
eat;  so ye did eat angels' bread.

   {1:20} When ye were thirsty, did I not cleave the rock, and waters
flowed out to your fill? for the heat I covered you with the leaves of
the trees.

   {1:21} I divided among you a fruitful land, I cast out the
Canaanites, the Pherezites, and the Philistines, before you: what shall
I yet do more for you? saith the Lord.

   {1:22} Thus saith the Almighty Lord, When ye were in the wilderness,
in the river of the Amorites, being athirst, and blaspheming my name,

   {1:23} I gave you not fire for your blasphemies, but cast a tree in
the water, and made the river sweet.

   {1:24} What shall I do unto thee, O Jacob? thou, Juda, wouldest not
obey me: I will turn me to other nations, and unto those will  I give
my name, that they may keep my statutes.

   {1:25} Seeing ye have forsaken me, I will forsake you also; when ye
desire me to be gracious unto you, I shall have no mercy upon you.

   {1:26} Whensoever ye shall call upon me, I will not hear you:  for
ye have defiled your hands with blood, and your feet are swift  to
commit manslaughter.

   {1:27} Ye have not as it were forsaken me, but your own selves,
saith the Lord.

   {1:28} Thus saith the Almighty Lord, Have I not prayed you as a
father his sons, as a mother her daughters, and a nurse her young babes,

   {1:29} That ye would be my people, and I should be your God; that ye
would be my children, and I should be your father?

   {1:30} I gathered you together, as a hen gathereth her chickens
under her wings: but now, what shall I do unto you? I will cast you out
from my face.

   {1:31} When ye offer unto me, I will turn my face from you: for your
solemn feastdays, your new moons, and your circumcisions, have I
forsaken.

   {1:32} I sent unto you my servants the prophets, whom ye have taken
and slain, and torn their bodies in pieces, whose blood I will require
of your hands, saith the Lord.

   {1:33} Thus saith the Almighty Lord, Your house is desolate, I will
cast you out as the wind doth stubble.

   {1:34} And your children shall not be fruitful; for they have
despised my commandment, and done the thing that is an evil before me.

   {1:35} Your houses will I give to a people that shall come; which
not having heard of me yet shall believe me; to whom I have shewed no
signs, yet they shall do that I have commanded them.

   {1:36} They have seen no prophets, yet they shall call their sins to
remembrance, and acknowledge them.

   {1:37} I take to witness the grace of the people to come, whose
little ones rejoice in gladness: and though they have not seen me with
bodily eyes, yet in spirit they believe the thing that I say.

   {1:38} And now, brother, behold what glory; and see the people that
come from the east:

   {1:39} Unto whom I will give for leaders, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,
Oseas, Amos, and Micheas, Joel, Abdias, and Jonas,

   {1:40} Nahum, and Abacuc, Sophonias, Aggeus, Zachary, and Malachy,
which is called also an angel of the Lord.

   {2:1} Thus saith the Lord, I brought this people out of bondage, and
I gave them my commandments by menservants the prophets; whom they
would not hear, but despised my counsels.

   {2:2} The mother that bare them saith unto them, Go your way, ye
children; for I am a widow and forsaken.

   {2:3} I brought you up with gladness; but with sorrow and heaviness
have I lost you: for ye have sinned before the Lord your God, and done
that thing that is evil before him.

   {2:4} But what shall I now do unto you? I am a widow and forsaken:
go your way, O my children, and ask mercy of the Lord.

   {2:5} As for me, O father, I call upon thee for a witness over the
mother of these children, which would not keep my covenant,

   {2:6} That thou bring them to confusion, and their mother to a
spoil, that there may be no offspring of them.

   {2:7} Let them be scattered abroad among the heathen, let their
names be put out of the earth: for they have despised my covenant.

   {2:8} Woe be unto thee, Assur, thou that hidest the unrighteous in
thee! O thou wicked people, remember what I did unto Sodom and Gomorrha;

   {2:9} Whose land lieth in clods of pitch and heaps of ashes: even so
also will I do unto them that hear me not, saith the Almighty Lord.

   {2:10} Thus saith the Lord unto Esdras, Tell my people that I will
give them the kingdom of Jerusalem, which I would have given unto
Israel.

   {2:11} Their glory also will I take unto me, and give these the
everlasting tabernacles, which I had prepared for them.

   {2:12} They shall have the tree of life for an ointment of sweet
savour; they shall neither labour, nor be weary.

   {2:13} Go, and ye shall receive: pray for few days unto you, that
they may be shortened: the kingdom is already prepared for you: watch.

   {2:14} Take heaven and earth to witness; for I have broken the evil
in pieces, and created the good: for I live, saith the Lord.

   {2:15} Mother, embrace thy children, and bring them up with
gladness, make their feet as fast as a pillar: for I have chosen thee,
saith the Lord.

   {2:16} And those that be dead will I raise up again from their
places, and bring them out of the graves: for I have known my name in
Israel.

   {2:17} Fear not, thou mother of the children: for I have chosen
thee, saith the Lord.

   {2:18} For thy help will I send my servants Esau and Jeremy, after
whose counsel I have sanctified and prepared for thee twelve trees
laden with divers fruits,

   {2:19} And as many fountains flowing with milk and honey, and seven
mighty mountains, whereupon there grow roses and lilies, whereby I will
fill thy children with joy.

   {2:20} Do right to the widow, judge for the fatherless, give to the
poor, defend the orphan, clothe the naked,

   {2:21} Heal the broken and the weak, laugh not a lame man to scorn,
defend the maimed, and let the blind man come into the sight of my
clearness.

   {2:22} Keep the old and young within thy walls.

   {2:23} Wheresoever thou findest the dead, take them and bury them,
and I will give thee the first place in my resurrection.

   {2:24} Abide still, O my people, and take thy rest, for thy
quietness still come.

   {2:25} Nourish thy children, O thou good nurse; stablish their feet.

   {2:26} As for the servants whom I have given thee, there shall not
one of them perish; for I will require them from among thy number.

   {2:27} Be not weary: for when the day of trouble and heaviness
cometh, others shall weep and be sorrowful, but thou shalt be merry and
have abundance.

   {2:28} The heathen shall envy thee, but they shall be able to do
nothing against thee, saith the Lord.

   {2:29} My hands shall cover thee, so that thy children shall not see
hell.

   {2:30} Be joyful, O thou mother, with thy children; for I will
deliver thee, saith the Lord.

   {2:31} Remember thy children that sleep, for I shall bring them out
of the sides of the earth, and shew mercy unto them: for I am merciful,
saith the Lord Almighty.

   {2:32} Embrace thy children until I come and shew mercy unto them:
for my wells run over, and my grace shall not fail.

   {2:33} I Esdras received a charge of the Lord upon the mount Oreb,
that I should go unto Israel; but when I came unto them, they set me at
nought, and despised the commandment of the Lord.

   {2:34} And therefore I say unto you, O ye heathen, that hear and
understand, look for your Shepherd, he shall give you everlasting rest;
for he is nigh at hand, that shall come in the end of the world.

   {2:35} Be ready to the reward of the kingdom, for the everlasting
light shall shine upon you for evermore.

   {2:36} Flee the shadow of this world, receive the joyfulness of your
glory: I testify my Saviour openly.

   {2:37} O receive the gift that is given you, and be glad, giving
thanks unto him that hath led you to the heavenly kingdom.

   {2:38} Arise up and stand, behold the number of those that be sealed
in the feast of the Lord;

   {2:39} Which are departed from the shadow of the world, and have
received glorious garments of the Lord.

   {2:40} Take thy number, O Sion, and shut up those of thine that are
clothed in white, which have fulfilled the law of the Lord.

   {2:41} The number of thy children, whom thou longedst for, is
fulfilled: beseech the power of the Lord, that thy people, which have
been called from the beginning, may be hallowed.

   {2:42} I Esdras saw upon the mount Sion a great people, whom I could
not number, and they all praised the Lord with songs.

   {2:43} And in the midst of them there was a young man of a high
stature, taller than all the rest, and upon every one of their heads he
set crowns, and was more exalted; which I marvelled at greatly.

   {2:44} So I asked the angel, and said, Sir, what are these?

   {2:45} He answered and said unto me, These be they that have put off
the mortal clothing, and put on the immortal, and have confessed the
name of God: now are they crowned, and receive palms.

   {2:46} Then said I unto the angel, What young person is it that
crowneth them, and giveth them palms in their hands?

   {2:47} So he answered and said unto me, It is the Son of God, whom
they have confessed in the world. Then began I greatly to commend them
that stood so stiffly for the name of the Lord.

   {2:48} Then the angel said unto me, Go thy way, and tell my people
what manner of things, and how great wonders of the Lord thy God, thou
hast seen.

   {3:1} In the thirtieth year after the ruin of the city I was in
Babylon, and lay troubled upon my bed, and my thoughts came up over my
heart:

   {3:2} For I saw the desolation of Sion, and the wealth of them that
dwelt at Babylon.

   {3:3} And my spirit was sore moved, so that I began to speak words
full of fear to the most High, and said,

   {3:4} O Lord, who bearest rule, thou spakest at the beginning, when
thou didst plant the earth, and that thyself alone, and commandedst the
people,

   {3:5} And gavest a body unto Adam without soul, which was the
workmanship of thine hands, and didst breathe into him the breath of
life, and he was made living before thee.

   {3:6} And thou leadest him into paradise, which thy right hand had
planted, before ever the earth came forward.

   {3:7} And unto him thou gavest commandment to love thy way: which he
transgressed, and immediately thou appointedst death in him and in his
generations, of whom came nations, tribes, people, and kindreds, out of
number.

   {3:8} And every people walked after their own will, and did
wonderful things before thee, and despised thy commandments.

   {3:9} And again in process of time thou broughtest the flood upon
those that dwelt in the world, and destroyedst them.

   {3:10} And it came to pass in every of them, that as death was to
Adam, so was the flood to these.

   {3:11} Nevertheless one of them thou leftest, namely, Noah with his
household, of whom came all righteous men.

   {3:12} And it happened, that when they that dwelt upon the earth
began to multiply, and had gotten them many children, and were a great
people, they began again to be more ungodly than the first.

   {3:13} Now when they lived so wickedly before thee, thou didst
choose thee a man from among them, whose name was Abraham.

   {3:14} Him thou lovedst, and unto him only thou shewedst thy will:

   {3:15} And madest an everlasting covenant with him, promising him
that thou wouldest never forsake his seed.

   {3:16} And unto him thou gavest Isaac, and unto Isaac also thou
gavest Jacob and Esau. As for Jacob, thou didst choose him to thee, and
put by Esau: and so Jacob became a great multitude.

   {3:17} And it came to pass, that when thou leadest his seed out of
Egypt, thou broughtest them up to the mount Sinai.

   {3:18} And bowing the heavens, thou didst set fast the earth,
movedst the whole world, and madest the depths to tremble, and
troubledst the men of that age.

   {3:19} And thy glory went through four gates, of fire, and of
earthquake, and of wind, and of cold; that thou mightest give the law
unto the seed of Jacob, and diligence unto the generation of Israel.

   {3:20} And yet tookest thou not away from them a wicked heart, that
thy law might bring forth fruit in them.

   {3:21} For the first Adam bearing a wicked heart transgressed, and
was overcome; and so be all they that are born of him.

   {3:22} Thus infirmity was made permanent; and the law (also) in the
heart of the people with the malignity of the root; so that the good
departed away, and the evil abode still.

   {3:23} So the times passed away, and the years were brought to an
end: then didst thou raise thee up a servant, called David:

   {3:24} Whom thou commandedst to build a city unto thy name, and to
offer incense and oblations unto thee therein.

   {3:25} When this was done many years, then they that inhabited the
city forsook thee,

   {3:26} And in all things did even as Adam and all his generations
had done: for they also had a wicked heart:

   {3:27} And so thou gavest thy city over into the hands of thine
enemies.

   {3:28} Are their deeds then any better that inhabit Babylon, that
they should therefore have the dominion over Sion?

   {3:29} For when I came thither, and had seen impieties without
number, then my soul saw many evildoers in this thirtieth year, so that
my heart failed me.

   {3:30} For I have seen how thou sufferest them sinning, and hast
spared wicked doers: and hast destroyed thy people, and hast preserved
thine enemies, and hast not signified it.

   {3:31} I do not remember how this way may be left: Are they then of
Babylon better than they of Sion?

   {3:32} Or is there any other people that knoweth thee beside Israel?
or what generation hath so believed thy covenants as Jacob?

   {3:33} And yet their reward appeareth not, and their labour hath no
fruit: for I have gone here and there through the heathen, and I see
that they flow in wealth, and think not upon thy commandments.

   {3:34} Weigh thou therefore our wickedness now in the balance, and
their's also that dwell the world; and so shall thy name no where be
found but in Israel.

   {3:35} Or when was it that they which dwell upon the earth have not
sinned in thy sight? or what people have so kept thy commandments?

   {3:36} Thou shalt find that Israel by name hath kept thy precepts;
but not the heathen.

   {4:1} And the angel that was sent unto me, whose name was Uriel,
gave me an answer,

   {4:2} And said, Thy heart hath gone to far in this world, and
thinkest thou to comprehend the way of the most High?

   {4:3} Then said I, Yea, my lord. And he answered me, and said, I am
sent to shew thee three ways, and to set forth three similitudes before
thee:

   {4:4} Whereof if thou canst declare me one, I will shew thee also
the way that thou desirest to see, and I shall shew thee from whence
the wicked heart cometh.

   {4:5} And I said, Tell on, my lord. Then said he unto me, Go thy
way, weigh me the weight of the fire, or measure me the blast of the
wind, or call me again the day that is past.

   {4:6} Then answered I and said, What man is able to do that, that
thou shouldest ask such things of me?

   {4:7} And he said unto me, If I should ask thee how great dwellings
are in the midst of the sea, or how many springs are in the beginning
of the deep, or how many springs are above the firmament, or which are
the outgoings of paradise:

   {4:8} Peradventure thou wouldest say unto me, I never went down into
the deep, nor as yet into hell, neither did I ever climb up into heaven.

   {4:9} Nevertheless now have I asked thee but only of the fire and
wind, and of the day wherethrough thou hast passed, and of things from
which thou canst not be separated, and yet canst thou give me no answer
of them.

   {4:10} He said moreover unto me, Thine own things, and such as are
grown up with thee, canst thou not know;

   {4:11} How should thy vessel then be able to comprehend the way of
the Highest, and, the world being now outwardly corrupted to understand
the corruption that is evident in my sight?

   {4:12} Then said I unto him, It were better that we were not at all,
than that we should live still in wickedness, and to suffer, and not to
know wherefore.

   {4:13} He answered me, and said, I went into a forest into a plain,
and the trees took counsel,

   {4:14} And said, Come, let us go and make war against the sea that
it may depart away before us, and that we may make us more woods.

   {4:15} The floods of the sea also in like manner took counsel, and
said, Come, let us go up and subdue the woods of the plain, that there
also we may make us another country.

   {4:16} The thought of the wood was in vain, for the fire came and
consumed it.

   {4:17} The thought of the floods of the sea came likewise to nought,
for the sand stood up and stopped them.

   {4:18} If thou wert judge now betwixt these two, whom wouldest thou
begin to justify? or whom wouldest thou condemn?

   {4:19} I answered and said, Verily it is a foolish thought that they
both have devised, for the ground is given unto the wood, and the sea
also hath his place to bear his floods.

   {4:20} Then answered he me, and said, Thou hast given a right
judgment, but why judgest thou not thyself also?

   {4:21} For like as the ground is given unto the wood, and the sea to
his floods: even so they that dwell upon the earth may understand
nothing but that which is upon the earth: and he that dwelleth above
the heavens may only understand the things that are above the height of
the heavens.

   {4:22} Then answered I and said, I beseech thee, O Lord, let me have
understanding:

   {4:23} For it was not my mind to be curious of the high things, but
of such as pass by us daily, namely, wherefore Israel is given up as a
reproach to the heathen, and for what cause the people whom thou hast
loved is given over unto ungodly nations, and why the law of our
forefathers is brought to nought, and the written covenants come to
none effect,

   {4:24} And we pass away out of the world as grasshoppers, and our
life is astonishment and fear, and we are not worthy to obtain mercy.

   {4:25} What will he then do unto his name whereby we are called? of
these things have I asked.

   {4:26} Then answered he me, and said, The more thou searchest, the
more thou shalt marvel; for the world hasteth fast to pass away,

   {4:27} And cannot comprehend the things that are promised to the
righteous in time to come: for this world is full of unrighteousness
and infirmities.

   {4:28} But as concerning the things whereof thou askest me, I will
tell thee; for the evil is sown, but the destruction thereof is not yet
come.

   {4:29} If therefore that which is sown be not turned upside down,
and if the place where the evil is sown pass not away, then cannot it
come that is sown with good.

   {4:30} For the grain of evil seed hath been sown in the heart of
Adam from the beginning, and how much ungodliness hath it brought up
unto this time? and how much shall it yet bring forth until the time of
threshing come?

   {4:31} Ponder now by thyself, how great fruit of wickedness the
grain of evil seed hath brought forth.

   {4:32} And when the ears shall be cut down, which are without
number, how great a floor shall they fill?

   {4:33} Then I answered and said, How, and when shall these things
come to pass? wherefore are our years few and evil?

   {4:34} And he answered me, saying, Do not thou hasten above the most
Highest: for thy haste is in vain to be above him, for thou hast much
exceeded.

   {4:35} Did not the souls also of the righteous ask question of these
things in their chambers, saying, How long shall I hope on this
fashion? when cometh the fruit of the floor of our reward?

   {4:36} And unto these things Uriel the archangel gave them answer,
and said, Even when the number of seeds is filled in you: for he hath
weighed the world in the balance.

   {4:37} By measure hath he measured the times; and by number hath he
numbered the times; and he doth not move nor stir them, until the said
measure be fulfilled.

   {4:38} Then answered I and said, O Lord that bearest rule, even we
all are full of impiety.

   {4:39} And for our sakes peradventure it is that the floors of the
righteous are not filled, because of the sins of them that dwell upon
the earth.

   {4:40} So he answered me, and said, Go thy way to a woman with
child, and ask of her when she hath fulfilled her nine months, if her
womb may keep the birth any longer within her.

   {4:41} Then said I, No, Lord, that can she not. And he said unto me,
In the grave the chambers of souls are like the womb of a woman:

   {4:42} For like as a woman that travaileth maketh haste to escape
the necessity of the travail: even so do these places haste to deliver
those things that are committed unto them.

   {4:43} From the beginning, look, what thou desirest to see, it shall
be shewed thee.

   {4:44} Then answered I and said, If I have found favour in thy
sight, and if it be possible, and if I be meet therefore,

   {4:45} Shew me then whether there be more to come than is past, or
more past than is to come.

   {4:46} What is past I know, but what is for to come I know not.

   {4:47} And he said unto me, Stand up upon the right side, and I
shall expound the similitude unto thee.

   {4:48} So I stood, and saw, and, behold, an hot burning oven passed
by before me: and it happened that when the flame was gone by I looked,
and, behold, the smoke remained still.

   {4:49} After this there passed by before me a watery cloud, and sent
down much rain with a storm; and when the stormy rain was past, the
drops remained still.

   {4:50} Then said he unto me, Consider with thyself; as the rain is
more than the drops, and as the fire is greater than the smoke; but the
drops and the smoke remain behind: so the quantity which is past did
more exceed.

   {4:51} Then I prayed, and said, May I live, thinkest thou, until
that time? or what shall happen in those days?

   {4:52} He answered me, and said, As for the tokens whereof thou
askest me, I may tell thee of them in part: but as touching thy life, I
am not sent to shew thee; for I do not know it.

   {5:1} Nevertheless as coming the tokens, behold, the days shall
come, that they which dwell upon earth shall be taken in a great
number, and the way of truth shall be hidden, and the land shall be
barren of faith.

   {5:2} But iniquity shall be increased above that which now thou
seest, or that thou hast heard long ago.

   {5:3} And the land, that thou seest now to have root, shalt thou see
wasted suddenly.

   {5:4} But if the most High grant thee to live, thou shalt see after
the third trumpet that the sun shall suddenly shine again in the night,
and the moon thrice in the day:

   {5:5} And blood shall drop out of wood, and the stone shall give his
voice, and the people shall be troubled:

   {5:6} And even he shall rule, whom they look not for that dwell upon
the earth, and the fowls shall take their flight away together:

   {5:7} And the Sodomitish sea shall cast out fish, and make a noise
in the night, which many have not known: but they shall all hear the
voice thereof.

   {5:8} There shall be a confusion also in many places, and the fire
shall be oft sent out again, and the wild beasts shall change their
places, and menstruous women shall bring forth monsters:

   {5:9} And salt waters shall be found in the sweet, and all friends
shall destroy one another; then shall wit hide itself, and
understanding withdraw itself into his secret chamber,

   {5:10} And shall be sought of many, and yet not be found: then shall
unrighteousness and incontinency be multiplied upon earth.

   {5:11} One land also shall ask another, and say, Is righteousness
that maketh a man righteous gone through thee? And it shall say, No.

   {5:12} At the same time shall men hope, but nothing obtain: they
shall labour, but their ways shall not prosper.

   {5:13} To shew thee such tokens I have leave; and if thou wilt pray
again, and weep as now, and fast even days, thou shalt hear yet greater
things.

   {5:14} Then I awaked, and an extreme fearfulness went through all my
body, and my mind was troubled, so that it fainted.

   {5:15} So the angel that was come to talk with me held me, comforted
me, and set me up upon my feet.

   {5:16} And in the second night it came to pass, that Salathiel the
captain of the people came unto me, saying, Where hast thou been? and
why is thy countenance so heavy?

   {5:17} Knowest thou not that Israel is committed unto thee in the
land of their captivity?

   {5:18} Up then, and eat bread, and forsake us not, as the shepherd
that leaveth his flock in the hands of cruel wolves.

   {5:19} Then said I unto him, Go thy ways from me, and come not nigh
me. And he heard what I said, and went from me.

   {5:20} And so I fasted seven days, mourning and weeping, like as
Uriel the angel commanded me.

   {5:21} And after seven days so it was, that the thoughts of my heart
were very grievous unto me again,

   {5:22} And my soul recovered the spirit of understanding, and I
began to talk with the most High again,

   {5:23} And said, O Lord that bearest rule, of every wood of the
earth, and of all the trees thereof, thou hast chosen thee one only
vine:

   {5:24} And of all lands of the whole world thou hast chosen thee one
pit: and of all the flowers thereof one lily:

   {5:25} And of all the depths of the sea thou hast filled thee one
river: and of all builded cities thou hast hallowed Sion unto thyself:

   {5:26} And of all the fowls that are created thou hast named thee
one dove: and of all the cattle that are made thou hast provided thee
one sheep:

   {5:27} And among all the multitudes of people thou hast gotten thee
one people: and unto this people, whom thou lovedst, thou gavest a law
that is approved of all.

   {5:28} And now, O Lord, why hast thou given this one people over
unto many? and upon the one root hast thou prepared others, and why
hast thou scattered thy only one people among many?

   {5:29} And they which did gainsay thy promises, and believed not thy
covenants, have trodden them down.

   {5:30} If thou didst so much hate thy people, yet shouldest thou
punish them with thine own hands.

   {5:31} Now when I had spoken these words, the angel that came to me
the night afore was sent unto me,

   {5:32} And said unto me, Hear me, and I will instruct thee; hearken
to the thing that I say, and I shall tell thee more.

   {5:33} And I said, Speak on, my Lord. Then said he unto me, Thou art
sore troubled in mind for Israel's sake: lovest thou that people better
than he that made them?

   {5:34} And I said, No, Lord: but of very grief have I spoken: for my
reins pain me every hour, while I labour to comprehend the way of the
most High, and to seek out part of his judgment.

   {5:35} And he said unto me, Thou canst not. And I said, Wherefore,
Lord? whereunto was I born then? or why was not my mother's womb then
my grave, that I might not have seen the travail of Jacob, and the
wearisome toil of the stock of Israel?

   {5:36} And he said unto me, Number me the things that are not yet
come, gather me together the dross that are scattered abroad, make me
the flowers green again that are withered,

   {5:37} Open me the places that are closed, and bring me forth the
winds that in them are shut up, shew me the image of a voice: and then
I will declare to thee the thing that thou labourest to know.

   {5:38} And I said, O Lord that bearest rule, who may know these
things, but he that hath not his dwelling with men?

   {5:39} As for me, I am unwise: how may I then speak of these things
whereof thou askest me?

   {5:40} Then said he unto me, Like as thou canst do none of these
things that I have spoken of, even so canst thou not find out my
judgment, or in the end the love that I have promised unto my people.

   {5:41} And I said, Behold, O Lord, yet art thou nigh unto them that
be reserved till the end: and what shall they do that have been before
me, or we that be now, or they that shall come after us?

   {5:42} And he said unto me, I will liken my judgment unto a ring:
like as there is no slackness of the last, even so there is no
swiftness of the first.

   {5:43} So I answered and said, Couldest thou not make those that
have been made, and be now, and that are for to come, at once; that
thou mightest shew thy judgment the sooner?

   {5:44} Then answered he me, and said, The creature may not haste
above the maker; neither may the world hold them at once that shall be
created therein.

   {5:45} And I said, As thou hast said unto thy servant, that thou,
which givest life to all, hast given life at once to the creature that
thou hast created, and the creature bare it: even so it might now also
bear them that now be present at once.

   {5:46} And he said unto me, Ask the womb of a woman, and say unto
her, If thou bringest forth children, why dost thou it not together,
but one after another? pray her therefore to bring forth ten children
at once.

   {5:47} And I said, She cannot: but must do it by distance of time.

   {5:48} Then said he unto me, Even so have I given the womb of the
earth to those that be sown in it in their times.

   {5:49} For like as a young child may not bring forth the things that
belong to the aged, even so have I disposed the world which I created.

   {5:50} And I asked, and said, Seeing thou hast now given me the way,
I will proceed to speak before thee: for our mother, of whom thou hast
told me that she is young, draweth now nigh unto age.

   {5:51} He answered me, and said, Ask a woman that beareth children,
and she shall tell thee.

   {5:52} Say unto her, Wherefore are unto they whom thou hast now
brought forth like those that were before, but less of stature?

   {5:53} And she shall answer thee, They that be born in the the
strength of youth are of one fashion, and they that are born in the
time of age, when the womb faileth, are otherwise.

   {5:54} Consider thou therefore also, how that ye are less of stature
than those that were before you.

   {5:55} And so are they that come after you less than ye, as the
creatures which now begin to be old, and have passed over the strength
of youth.

   {5:56} Then said I, Lord, I beseech thee, if I have found favour in
thy sight, shew thy servant by whom thou visitest thy creature.

   {6:1} And he said unto me, In the beginning, when the earth was
made, before the borders of the world stood, or ever the winds blew,

   {6:2} Before it thundered and lightened, or ever the foundations of
paradise were laid,

   {6:3} Before the fair flowers were seen, or ever the moveable powers
were established, before the innumerable multitude of angels were
gathered together,

   {6:4} Or ever the heights of the air were lifted up, before the
measures of the firmament were named, or ever the chimneys in Sion were
hot,

   {6:5} And ere the present years were sought out, and or ever the
inventions of them that now sin were turned, before they were sealed
that have gathered faith for a treasure:

   {6:6} Then did I consider these things, and they all were made
through me alone, and through none other: by me also they shall be
ended, and by none other.

   {6:7} Then answered I and said, What shall be the parting asunder of
the times? or when shall be the end of the first, and the beginning of
it that followeth?

   {6:8} And he said unto me, From Abraham unto Isaac, when Jacob and
Esau were born of him, Jacob's hand held first the heel of Esau.

   {6:9} For Esau is the end of the world, and Jacob is the beginning
of it that followeth.

   {6:10} The hand of man is betwixt the heel and the hand: other
question, Esdras, ask thou not.

   {6:11} I answered then and said, O Lord that bearest rule, if I have
found favour in thy sight,

   {6:12} I beseech thee, shew thy servant the end of thy tokens,
whereof thou shewedst me part the last night.

   {6:13} So he answered and said unto me, Stand up upon thy feet, and
hear a mighty sounding voice.

   {6:14} And it shall be as it were a great motion; but the place
where thou standest shall not be moved.

   {6:15} And therefore when it speaketh be not afraid: for the word is
of the end, and the foundation of the earth is understood.

   {6:16} And why? because the speech of these things trembleth and is
moved: for it knoweth that the end of these things must be changed.

   {6:17} And it happened, that when I had heard it I stood up upon my
feet, and hearkened, and, behold, there was a voice that spake, and the
sound of it was like the sound of many waters.

   {6:18} And it said, Behold, the days come, that I will begin to draw
nigh, and to visit them that dwell upon the earth,

   {6:19} And will begin to make inquisition of them, what they be that
have hurt unjustly with their unrighteousness, and when the affliction
of Sion shall be fulfilled;

   {6:20} And when the world, that shall begin to vanish away, shall be
finished, then will I shew these tokens: the books shall be opened
before the firmament, and they shall see all together:

   {6:21} And the children of a year old shall speak with their voices,
the women with child shall bring forth untimely children of three or
four months old, and they shall live, and be raised up.

   {6:22} And suddenly shall the sown places appear unsown, the full
storehouses shall suddenly be found empty:

   {6:23} And tha trumpet shall give a sound, which when every man
heareth, they shall be suddenly afraid.

   {6:24} At that time shall friends fight one against another like
enemies, and the earth shall stand in fear with those that dwell
therein, the springs of the fountains shall stand still, and in three
hours they shall not run.

   {6:25} Whosoever remaineth from all these that I have told thee
shall escape, and see my salvation, and the end of your world.

   {6:26} And the men that are received shall see it, who have not
tasted death from their birth: and the heart of the inhabitants shall
be changed, and turned into another meaning.

   {6:27} For evil shall be put out, and deceit shall be quenched.

   {6:28} As for faith, it shall flourish, corruption shall be
overcome, and the truth, which hath been so long without fruit, shall
be declared.

   {6:29} And when he talked with me, behold, I looked by little and
little upon him before whom I stood.

   {6:30} And these words said he unto me; I am come to shew thee the
time of the night to come.

   {6:31} If thou wilt pray yet more, and fast seven days again, I
shall tell thee greater things by day than I have heard.

   {6:32} For thy voice is heard before the most High: for the Mighty
hath seen thy righteous dealing, he hath seen also thy chastity, which
thou hast had ever since thy youth.

   {6:33} And therefore hath he sent me to shew thee all these things,
and to say unto thee, Be of good comfort and fear not

   {6:34} And hasten not with the times that are past, to think vain
things, that thou mayest not hasten from the latter times.

   {6:35} And it came to pass after this, that I wept again, and fasted
seven days in like manner, that I might fulfil the three weeks which he
told me.

   {6:36} And in the eighth night was my heart vexed within me again,
and I began to speak before the most High.

   {6:37} For my spirit was greatly set on fire, and my soul was in
distress.

   {6:38} And I said, O Lord, thou spakest from the beginning of the
creation, even the first day, and saidst thus; Let heaven and earth be
made; and thy word was a perfect work.

   {6:39} And then was the spirit, and darkness and silence were on
every side; the sound of man's voice was not yet formed.

   {6:40} Then commandedst thou a fair light to come forth of thy
treasures, that thy work might appear.

   {6:41} Upon the second day thou madest the spirit of the firmament,
and commandedst it to part asunder, and to make a division betwixt the
waters, that the one part might go up, and the other remain beneath.

   {6:42} Upon the third day thou didst command that the waters should
be gathered in the seventh part of the earth: six pats hast thou dried
up, and kept them, to the intent that of these some being planted of
God and tilled might serve thee.

   {6:43} For as soon as thy word went forth the work was made.

   {6:44} For immediately there was great and innumerable fruit, and
many and divers pleasures for the taste, and flowers of unchangeable
colour, and odours of wonderful smell: and this was done the third day.

   {6:45} Upon the fourth day thou commandedst that the sun should
shine, and the moon give her light, and the stars should be in order:

   {6:46} And gavest them a charge to do service unto man, that was to
be made.

   {6:47} Upon the fifth day thou saidst unto the seventh part, where
the waters were gathered that it should bring forth living creatures,
fowls and fishes: and so it came to pass.

   {6:48} For the dumb water and without life brought forth living
things at the commandment of God, that all people might praise thy
wondrous works.

   {6:49} Then didst thou ordain two living creatures, the one thou
calledst Enoch, and the other Leviathan;

   {6:50} And didst separate the one from the other: for the seventh
part, namely, where the water was gathered together, might not hold
them both.

   {6:51} Unto Enoch thou gavest one part, which was dried up the third
day, that he should dwell in the same part, wherein are a thousand
hills:

   {6:52} But unto Leviathan thou gavest the seventh part, namely, the
moist; and hast kept him to be devoured of whom thou wilt, and when.

   {6:53} Upon the sixth day thou gavest commandment unto the earth,
that before thee it should bring forth beasts, cattle, and creeping
things:

   {6:54} And after these, Adam also, whom thou madest lord of all thy
creatures: of him come we all, and the people also whom thou hast
chosen.

   {6:55} All this have I spoken before thee, O Lord, because thou
madest the world for our sakes

   {6:56} As for the other people, which also come of Adam, thou hast
said that they are nothing, but be like unto spittle: and hast likened
the abundance of them unto a drop that falleth from a vessel.

   {6:57} And now, O Lord, behold, these heathen, which have ever been
reputed as nothing, have begun to be lords over us, and to devour us.

   {6:58} But we thy people, whom thou hast called thy firstborn, thy
only begotten, and thy fervent lover, are given into their hands.

   {6:59} If the world now be made for our sakes, why do we not possess
an inheritance with the world? how long shall this endure?

   {7:1} And when I had made an end of speaking these words, there was
sent unto me the angel which had been sent unto me the nights afore:

   {7:2} And he said unto me, Up, Esdras, and hear the words that I am
come to tell thee.

   {7:3} And I said, Speak on, my God. Then said he unto me, The sea is
set in a wide place, that it might be deep and great.

   {7:4} But put the case the entrance were narrow, and like a river;

   {7:5} Who then could go into the sea to look upon it, and to rule
it? if he went not through the narrow, how could he come into the broad?

   {7:6} There is also another thing; A city is builded, and set upon a
broad field, and is full of all good things:

   {7:7} The entrance thereof is narrow, and is set in a dangerous
place to fall, like as if there were a fire on the right hand, and on
the left a deep water:

   {7:8} And one only path between them both, even between the fire and
the water, so small that there could but one man go there at once.

   {7:9} If this city now were given unto a man for an inheritance, if
he never shall pass the danger set before it, how shall he receive this
inheritance?

   {7:10} And I said, It is so, Lord. Then said he unto me, Even so
also is Israel's portion.

   {7:11} Because for their sakes I made the world: and when Adam
transgressed my statutes, then was decreed that now is done.

   {7:12} Then were the entrances of this world made narrow, full of
sorrow and travail: they are but few and evil, full of perils,: and
very painful.

   {7:13} For the entrances of the elder world were wide and sure, and
brought immortal fruit.

   {7:14} If then they that live labour not to enter these strait and
vain things, they can never receive those that are laid up for them.

   {7:15} Now therefore why disquietest thou thyself, seeing thou art
but a corruptible man? and why art thou moved, whereas thou art but
mortal?

   {7:16} Why hast thou not considered in thy mind this thing that is
to come, rather than that which is present?

   {7:17} Then answered I and said, O Lord that bearest rule, thou hast
ordained in thy law, that the righteous should inherit these things,
but that the ungodly should perish.

   {7:18} Nevertheless the righteous shall suffer strait things, and
hope for wide: for they that have done wickedly have suffered the
strait things, and yet shall not see the wide.

   {7:19} And he said unto me. There is no judge above God, and none
that hath understanding above the Highest.

   {7:20} For there be many that perish in this life, because they
despise the law of God that is set before them.

   {7:21} For God hath given strait commandment to such as came, what
they should do to live, even as they came, and what they should observe
to avoid punishment.

   {7:22} Nevertheless they were not obedient unto him; but spake
against him, and imagined vain things;

   {7:23} And deceived themselves by their wicked deeds; and said of
the most High, that he is not; and knew not his ways:

   {7:24} But his law have they despised, and denied his covenants; in
his statutes have they not been faithful, and have not performed his
works.

   {7:25} And therefore, Esdras, for the empty are empty things, and
for the full are the full things.

   {7:26} Behold, the time shall come, that these tokens which I have
told thee shall come to pass, and the bride shall appear, and she
coming forth shall be seen, that now is withdrawn from the earth.

   {7:27} And whosoever is delivered from the foresaid evils shall see
my wonders.

   {7:28} For my son Jesus shall be revealed with those that be with
him, and they that remain shall rejoice within four hundred years.

   {7:29} After these years shall my son Christ die, and all men that
have life.

   {7:30} And the world shall be turned into the old silence seven
days, like as in the former judgments: so that no man shall remain.

   {7:31} And after seven days the world, that yet awaketh not, shall
be raised up, and that shall die that is corrupt

   {7:32} And the earth shall restore those that are asleep in her, and
so shall the dust those that dwell in silence, and the secret places
shall deliver those souls that were committed unto them.

   {7:33} And the most High shall appear upon the seat of judgment, and
misery shall pass away, and the long suffering shall have an end:

   {7:34} But judgment only shall remain, truth shall stand, and faith
shall wax strong:

   {7:35} And the work shall follow, and the reward shall be shewed,
and the good deeds shall be of force, and wicked deeds shall bear no
rule.

   {7:36} Then said I, Abraham prayed first for the Sodomites, and
Moses for the fathers that sinned in the wilderness:

   {7:37} And Jesus after him for Israel in the time of Achan:

   {7:38} And Samuel and David for the destruction: and Solomon for
them that should come to the sanctuary:

   {7:39} And Helias for those that received rain; and for the dead,
that he might live:

   {7:40} And Ezechias for the people in the time of Sennacherib: and
many for many.

   {7:41} Even so now, seeing corruption is grown up, and wickedness
increased, and the righteous have prayed for the ungodly: wherefore
shall it not be so now also?

   {7:42} He answered me, and said, This present life is not the end
where much glory doth abide; therefore have they prayed for the weak.

   {7:43} But the day of doom shall be the end of this time, and the
beginning of the immortality for to come, wherein corruption is past,

   {7:44} Intemperance is at an end, infidelity is cut off,
righteousness is grown, and truth is sprung up.

   {7:45} Then shall no man be able to save him that is destroyed, nor
to oppress him that hath gotten the victory.

   {7:46} I answered then and said, This is my first and last saying,
that it had been better not to have given the earth unto Adam: or else,
when it was given him, to have restrained him from sinning.

   {7:47} For what profit is it for men now in this present time to
live in heaviness, and after death to look for punishment?

   {7:48} O thou Adam, what hast thou done? for though it was thou that
sinned, thou art not fallen alone, but we all that come of thee.

   {7:49} For what profit is it unto us, if there be promised us an
immortal time, whereas we have done the works that bring death?

   {7:50} And that there is promised us an everlasting hope, whereas
ourselves being most wicked are made vain?

   {7:51} And that there are laid up for us dwellings of health and
safety, whereas we have lived wickedly?

   {7:52} And that the glory of the most High is kept to defend them
which have led a wary life, whereas we have walked in the most wicked
ways of all?

   {7:53} And that there should be shewed a paradise, whose fruit
endureth for ever, wherein is security and medicine, since we shall not
enter into it?

   {7:54} (For we have walked in unpleasant places.)

   {7:55} And that the faces of them which have used abstinence shall
shine above the stars, whereas our faces shall be blacker than darkness?

   {7:56} For while we lived and committed iniquity, we considered not
that we should begin to suffer for it after death.

   {7:57} Then answered he me, and said, This is the condition of the
battle, which man that is born upon the earth shall fight;

   {7:58} That, if he be overcome, he shall suffer as thou hast said:
but if he get the victory, he shall receive the thing that I say.

   {7:59} For this is the life whereof Moses spake unto the people
while he lived, saying, Choose thee life, that thou mayest live.

   {7:60} Nevertheless they believed not him, nor yet the prophets
after him, no nor me which have spoken unto them,

   {7:61} That there should not be such heaviness in their destruction,
as shall be joy over them that are persuaded to salvation.

   {7:62} I answered then, and said, I know, Lord, that the most High
is called merciful, in that he hath mercy upon them which are not yet
come into the world,

   {7:63} And upon those also that turn to his law;

   {7:64} And that he is patient, and long suffereth those that have
sinned, as his creatures;

   {7:65} And that he is bountiful, for he is ready to give where it
needeth;

   {7:66} And that he is of great mercy, for he multiplieth more and
more mercies to them that are present, and that are past, and also to
them which are to come.

   {7:67} For if he shall not multiply his mercies, the world would not
continue with them that inherit therein.

   {7:68} And he pardoneth; for if he did not so of his goodness, that
they which have committed iniquities might be eased of them, the ten
thousandth part of men should not remain living.

   {7:69} And being judge, if he should not forgive them that are cured
with his word, and put out the multitude of contentions,

   {7:70} There should be very few left peradventure in an innumerable
multitude.

   {8:1} And he answered me, saying, The most High hath made this world
for many, but the world to come for few.

   {8:2} I will tell thee a similitude, Esdras; As when thou askest the
earth, it shall say unto thee, that it giveth much mould whereof
earthen vessels are made, but little dust that gold cometh of: even so
is the course of this present world.

   {8:3} There be many created, but few shall be saved.

   {8:4} So answered I and said, Swallow then down, O my soul,
understanding, and devour wisdom.

   {8:5} For thou hast agreed to give ear, and art willing to prophesy:
for thou hast no longer space than only to live.

   {8:6} O Lord, if thou suffer not thy servant, that we may pray
before thee, and thou give us seed unto our heart, and culture to our
understanding, that there may come fruit of it; how shall each man live
that is corrupt, who beareth the place of a man?

   {8:7} For thou art alone, and we all one workmanship of thine hands,
like as thou hast said.

   {8:8} For when the body is fashioned now in the mother's womb, and
thou givest it members, thy creature is preserved in fire and water,
and nine months doth thy workmanship endure thy creature which is
created in her.

   {8:9} But that which keepeth and is kept shall both be preserved:
and when the time cometh, the womb preserved delivereth up the things
that grew in it.

   {8:10} For thou hast commanded out of the parts of the body, that is
to say, out of the breasts, milk to be given, which is the fruit of the
breasts,

   {8:11} That the thing which is fashioned may be nourished for a
time, till thou disposest it to thy mercy.

   {8:12} Thou broughtest it up with thy righteousness, and nurturedst
it in thy law, and reformedst it with thy judgment.

   {8:13} And thou shalt mortify it as thy creature, and quicken it as
thy work.

   {8:14} If therefore thou shalt destroy him which with so great
labour was fashioned, it is an easy thing to be ordained by thy
commandment, that the thing which was made might be preserved.

   {8:15} Now therefore, Lord, I will speak; touching man in general,
thou knowest best; but touching thy people, for whose sake I am sorry;

   {8:16} And for thine inheritance, for whose cause I mourn; and for
Israel, for whom I am heavy; and for Jacob, for whose sake I am
troubled;

   {8:17} Therefore will I begin to pray before thee for myself and for
them: for I see the falls of us that dwell in the land.

   {8:18} But I have heard the swiftness of the judge which is to come.

   {8:19} Therefore hear my voice, and understand my words, and I shall
speak before thee. This is the beginning of the words of Esdras, before
he was taken up: and I said,

   {8:20} O Lord, thou that dwellest in everlastingness which beholdest
from above things in the heaven and in the air;

   {8:21} Whose throne is inestimable; whose glory may not be
comprehended; before whom the hosts of angels stand with trembling,

   {8:22} Whose service is conversant in wind and fire; whose word is
true, and sayings constant; whose commandment is strong, and ordinance
fearful;

   {8:23} Whose look drieth up the depths, and indignation maketh the
mountains to melt away; which the truth witnesseth:

   {8:24} O hear the prayer of thy servant, and give ear to the
petition of thy creature.

   {8:25} For while I live I will speak, and so long as I have
understanding I will answer.

   {8:26} O look not upon the sins of thy people; but on them which
serve thee in truth.

   {8:27} Regard not the wicked inventions of the heathen, but the
desire of those that keep thy testimonies in afflictions.

   {8:28} Think not upon those that have walked feignedly before thee:
but remember them, which according to thy will have known thy fear.

   {8:29} Let it not be thy will to destroy them which have lived like
beasts; but to look upon them that have clearly taught thy law.

   {8:30} Take thou no indignation at them which are deemed worse than
beasts; but love them that always put their trust in thy righteousness
and glory.

   {8:31} For we and our fathers do languish of such diseases: but
because of us sinners thou shalt be called merciful.

   {8:32} For if thou hast a desire to have mercy upon us, thou shalt
be called merciful, to us namely, that have no works of righteousness.

   {8:33} For the just, which have many good works laid up with thee,
shall out of their own deeds receive reward.

   {8:34} For what is man, that thou shouldest take displeasure at him?
or what is a corruptible generation, that thou shouldest be so bitter
toward it?

   {8:35} For in truth them is no man among them that be born, but he
hath dealt wickedly; and among the faithful there is none which hath
not done amiss.

   {8:36} For in this, O Lord, thy righteousness and thy goodness shall
be declared, if thou be merciful unto them which have not the
confidence of good works.

   {8:37} Then answered he me, and said, Some things hast thou spoken
aright, and according unto thy words it shall be.

   {8:38} For indeed I will not think on the disposition of them which
have sinned before death, before judgment, before destruction:

   {8:39} But I will rejoice over the disposition of the righteous, and
I will remember also their pilgrimage, and the salvation, and the
reward, that they shall have.

   {8:40} Like as I have spoken now, so shall it come to pass.

   {8:41} For as the husbandman soweth much seed upon the ground, and
planteth many trees, and yet the thing that is sown good in his season
cometh not up, neither doth all that is planted take root: even so is
it of them that are sown in the world; they shall not all be saved.

   {8:42} I answered then and said, If I have found grace, let me speak.

   {8:43} Like as the husbandman's seed perisheth, if it come not up,
and receive not thy rain in due season; or if there come too much rain,
and corrupt it:

   {8:44} Even so perisheth man also, which is formed with thy hands,
and is called thine own image, because thou art like unto him, for
whose sake thou hast made all things, and likened him unto the
husbandman's seed.

   {8:45} Be not wroth with us but spare thy people, and have mercy
upon thine own inheritance: for thou art merciful unto thy creature.

   {8:46} Then answered he me, and said, Things present are for the
present, and things to cometh for such as be to come.

   {8:47} For thou comest far short that thou shouldest be able to love
my creature more than I: but I have ofttimes drawn nigh unto thee, and
unto it, but never to the unrighteous.

   {8:48} In this also thou art marvellous before the most High:

   {8:49} In that thou hast humbled thyself, as it becometh thee, and
hast not judged thyself worthy to be much glorified among the righteous.

   {8:50} For many great miseries shall be done to them that in the
latter time shall dwell in the world, because they have walked in great
pride.

   {8:51} But understand thou for thyself, and seek out the glory for
such as be like thee.

   {8:52} For unto you is paradise opened, the tree of life is planted,
the time to come is prepared, plenteousness is made ready, a city is
builded, and rest is allowed, yea, perfect goodness and wisdom.

   {8:53} The root of evil is sealed up from you, weakness and the moth
is hid from you, and corruption is fled into hell to be forgotten:

   {8:54} Sorrows are passed, and in the end is shewed the treasure of
immortality.

   {8:55} And therefore ask thou no more questions concerning the
multitude of them that perish.

   {8:56} For when they had taken liberty, they despised the most High,
thought scorn of his law, and forsook his ways.

   {8:57} Moreover they have trodden down his righteous,

   {8:58} And said in their heart, that there is no God; yea, and that
knowing they must die.

   {8:59} For as the things aforesaid shalt receive you, so thirst and
pain are prepared for them: for it was not his will that men should
come to nought:

   {8:60} But they which be created have defiled the name of him that
made them, and were unthankful unto him which prepared life for them.

   {8:61} And therefore is my judgment now at hand.

   {8:62} These things have I not shewed unto all men, but unto thee,
and a few like thee. Then answered I and said,

   {8:63} Behold, O Lord, now hast thou shewed me the multitude of the
wonders, which thou wilt begin to do in the last times: but at what
time, thou hast not shewed me.

   {9:1} He answered me then, and said, Measure thou the time
diligently in itself: and when thou seest part of the signs past, which
I have told thee before,

   {9:2} Then shalt thou understand, that it is the very same time,
wherein the Highest will begin to visit the world which he made.

   {9:3} Therefore when there shall be seen earthquakes and uproars of
the people in the world:

   {9:4} Then shalt thou well understand, that the most High spake of
those things from the days that were before thee, even from the
beginning.

   {9:5} For like as all that is made in the world hath a beginning and
an end, and the end is manifest:

   {9:6} Even so the times also of the Highest have plain beginnings in
wonder and powerful works, and endings in effects and signs.

   {9:7} And every one that shall be saved, and shall be able to escape
by his works, and by faith, whereby ye have believed,

   {9:8} Shall be preserved from the said perils, and shall see my
salvation in my land, and within my borders: for I have sanctified them
for me from the beginning.

   {9:9} Then shall they be in pitiful case, which now have abused my
ways: and they that have cast them away despitefully shall dwell in
torments.

   {9:10} For such as in their life have received benefits, and have
not known me;

   {9:11} And they that have loathed my law, while they had yet
liberty, and, when as yet place of repentance was open unto them,
understood not, but despised it;

   {9:12} The same must know it after death by pain.

   {9:13} And therefore be thou not curious how the ungodly shall be
punished, and when: but enquire how the righteous shall be saved, whose
the world is, and for whom the world is created.

   {9:14} Then answered I and said,

   {9:15} I have said before, and now do speak, and will speak it also
hereafter, that there be many more of them which perish, than of them
which shall be saved:

   {9:16} Like as a wave is greater than a drop.

   {9:17} And he answered me, saying, Like as the field is, so is also
the seed; as the flowers be, such are the colours also; such as the
workman is, such also is the work; and as the husbandman ls himself, so
is his husbandry also: for it was the time of the world.

   {9:18} And now when I prepared the world, which was not yet made,
even for them to dwell in that now live, no man spake against me.

   {9:19} For then every one obeyed: but now the manners of them which
are created in this world that is made are corrupted by a perpetual
seed, and by a law which is unsearchable rid themselves.

   {9:20} So I considered the world, and, behold, there was peril
because of the devices that were come into it.

   {9:21} And I saw, and spared it greatly, and have kept me a grape of
the cluster, and a plant of a great people.

   {9:22} Let the multitude perish then, which was born in vain; and
let my grape be kept, and my plant; for with great labour have I made
it perfect.

   {9:23} Nevertheless, if thou wilt cease yet seven days more, (but
thou shalt not fast in them,

   {9:24} But go into a field of flowers, where no house is builded,
and eat only the flowers of the field; taste no flesh, drink no wine,
but eat flowers only;)

   {9:25} And pray unto the Highest continually, then will I come and
talk with thee.

   {9:26} So I went my way into the field which is called Ardath, like
as he commanded me; and there I sat among the flowers, and did eat of
the herbs of the field, and the meat of the same satisfied me.

   {9:27} After seven days I sat upon the grass, and my heart was vexed
within me, like as before:

   {9:28} And I opened my mouth, and began to talk before the most
High, and said,

   {9:29} O Lord, thou that shewest thyself unto us, thou wast shewed
unto our fathers in the wilderness, in a place where no man treadeth,
in a barren place, when they came out of Egypt.

   {9:30} And thou spakest saying, Hear me, O Israel; and mark my
words, thou seed of Jacob.

   {9:31} For, behold, I sow my law in you, and it shall bring fruit in
you, and ye shall be honoured in it for ever.

   {9:32} But our fathers, which received the law, kept it not, and
observed not thy ordinances: and though the fruit of thy law did not
perish, neither could it, for it was thine;

   {9:33} Yet they that received it perished, because they kept not the
thing that was sown in them.

   {9:34} And, lo, it ls a custom, when the ground hath received seed,
or the sea a ship, or any vessel meat or drink, that, that being
perished wherein it was sown or cast into,

   {9:35} That thing also which was sown, or cast therein, or received,
doth perish, and remaineth not with us: but with us it hath not
happened so.

   {9:36} For we that have received the law perish by sin, and our
heart also which received it

   {9:37} Notwithstanding the law perisheth not, but remaineth in his
force.

   {9:38} And when I spake these things in my heart, I looked back with
mine eyes, and upon the right side I saw a woman, and, behold, she
mourned and wept with a loud voice, and was much grieved in heart, and
her clothes were rent, and she had ashes upon her head.

   {9:39} Then let I my thoughts go that I was in, and turned me unto
her,

   {9:40} And said unto her, Wherefore weepest thou? why art thou so
grieved in thy mind?

   {9:41} And she said unto me, Sir, let me alone, that I may bewail
myself, and add unto my sorrow, for I am sore vexed in my mind, and
brought very low.

   {9:42} And I said unto her, What aileth thee? tell me.

   {9:43} She said unto me, I thy servant have been barren, and had no
child, though I had an husband thirty years,

   {9:44} And those thirty years I did nothing else day and night, and
every hour, but make my, prayer to the Highest.

   {9:45} After thirty years God heard me thine handmaid, looked upon
my misery, considered my trouble, and gave me a son: and I was very
glad of him, so was my husband also, and all my neighbours: and we gave
great honour unto the Almighty.

   {9:46} And I nourished him with great travail.

   {9:47} So when he grew up, and came to the time that he should have
a wife, I made a feast.

   {10:1} And it so came to pass, that when my son was entered into his
wedding chamber, he fell down, and died.

   {10:2} Then we all overthrew the lights, and all my neighbours rose
up to comfort me: so I took my rest unto the second day at night.

   {10:3} And it came to pass, when they had all left off to comfort
me, to the end I might be quiet; then rose I up by night and fled, and
came hither into this field, as thou seest.

   {10:4} And I do now purpose not to return into the city, but here to
stay, and neither to eat nor drink, but continually to mourn and to
fast until I die.

   {10:5} Then left I the meditations wherein I was, and spake to her
in anger, saying,

   {10:6} Thou foolish woman above all other, seest thou not our
mourning, and what happeneth unto us?

   {10:7} How that Sion our mother is full of all heaviness, and much
humbled, mourning very sore?

   {10:8} And now, seeing we all mourn and are sad, for we are all in
heaviness, art thou grieved for one son?

   {10:9} For ask the earth, and she shall tell thee, that it is she
which ought to mourn for the fall of so many that grow upon her.

   {10:10} For out of her came all at the first, and out of her shall
all others come, and, behold, they walk almost all into destruction,
and a multitude of them is utterly rooted out.

   {10:11} Who then should make more mourning than she, that hath lost
so great a multitude; and not thou, which art sorry but for one?

   {10:12} But if thou sayest unto me, My lamentation is not like the
earth's, because I have lost the fruit of my womb, which I brought
forth with pains, and bare with sorrows;

   {10:13} But the earth not so: for the multitude present in it
according to the course of the earth is gone, as it came:

   {10:14} Then say I unto thee, Like as thou hast brought forth with
labour; even so the earth also hath given her fruit, namely, man, ever
since the beginning unto him that made her.

   {10:15} Now therefore keep thy sorrow to thyself, and bear with a
good courage that which hath befallen thee.

   {10:16} For if thou shalt acknowledge the determination of God to be
just, thou shalt both receive thy son in time, and shalt be commended
among women.

   {10:17} Go thy way then into the city to thine husband.

   {10:18} And she said unto me, That will I not do: I will not go into
the city, but here will I die.

   {10:19} So I proceeded to speak further unto her, and said,

   {10:20} Do not so, but be counselled. by me: for how many are the
adversities of Sion? be comforted in regard of the sorrow of Jerusalem.

   {10:21} For thou seest that our sanctuary is laid waste, our altar
broken down, our temple destroyed;

   {10:22} Our psaltery is laid on the ground, our song is put to
silence, our rejoicing is at an end, the light of our candlestick is
put out, the ark of our covenant is spoiled, our holy things are
defiled, and the name that is called upon us is almost profaned: our
children are put to shame, our priests are burnt, our Levites are gone
into captivity, our virgins are defiled, and our wives ravished; our
righteous men carried away, our little ones destroyed, our young men
are brought in bondage, and our strong men are become weak;

   {10:23} And, which is the greatest of all, the seal of Sion hath now
lost her honour; for she is delivered into the hands of them that hate
us.

   {10:24} And therefore shake off thy great heaviness, and put away
the multitude of sorrows, that the Mighty may be merciful unto thee
again, and the Highest shall give thee rest and ease from thy labour.

   {10:25} And it came to pass while I was talking with her, behold,
her face upon a sudden shined exceedingly, and her countenance
glistered, so that I was afraid of her, and mused what it might be.

   {10:26} And, behold, suddenly she made a great cry very fearful: so
that the earth shook at the noise of the woman.

   {10:27} And I looked, and, behold, the woman appeared unto me no
more, but there was a city builded, and a large place shewed itself
from the foundations: then was I afraid, and cried with a loud voice,
and said,

   {10:28} Where is Uriel the angel, who came unto me at the first? for
he hath caused me to fall into many trances, and mine end is turned
into corruption, and my prayer to rebuke.

   {10:29} And as I was speaking these words behold, he came unto me,
and looked upon me.

   {10:30} And, lo, I lay as one that had been dead, and mine
understanding was taken from me: and he took me by the right hand, and
comforted me, and set me upon my feet, and said unto me,

   {10:31} What aileth thee? and why art thou so disquieted? and why is
thine understanding troubled, and the thoughts of thine heart?

   {10:32} And I said, Because thou hast forsaken me, and yet I did
according to thy words, and I went into the field, and, lo, I have
seen, and yet see, that I am not able to express.

   {10:33} And he said unto me, Stand up manfully, and I will advise
thee.

   {10:34} Then said I, Speak on, my lord, in me; only forsake me not,
lest I die frustrate of my hope.

   {10:35} For I have seen that I knew not, and hear that I do not know.

   {10:36} Or is my sense deceived, or my soul in a dream?

   {10:37} Now therefore I beseech thee that thou wilt shew thy servant
of this vision.

   {10:38} He answered me then, and said, Hear me, and I shall inform
thee, and tell thee wherefore thou art afraid: for the Highest will
reveal many secret things unto thee.

   {10:39} He hath seen that thy way is right: for that thou sorrowest
continually for thy people, and makest great lamentation for Sion.

   {10:40} This therefore is the meaning of the vision which thou
lately sawest:

   {10:41} Thou sawest a woman mourning, and thou begannest to comfort
her:

   {10:42} But now seest thou the likeness of the woman no more, but
there appeared unto thee a city builded.

   {10:43} And whereas she told thee of the death of her son, this is
the solution:

   {10:44} This woman, whom thou sawest is Sion: and whereas she said
unto thee, even she whom thou seest as a city builded,

   {10:45} Whereas, I say, she said unto thee, that she hath been
thirty years barren: those are the thirty years wherein there was no
offering made in her.

   {10:46} But after thirty years Solomon builded the city and offered
offerings: and then bare the barren a son.

   {10:47} And whereas she told thee that she nourished him with
labour: that was the dwelling in Jerusalem.

   {10:48} But whereas she said unto thee, That my son coming into his
marriage chamber happened to have a fail, and died: this was the
destruction that came to Jerusalem.

   {10:49} And, behold, thou sawest her likeness, and because she
mourned for her son, thou begannest to comfort her: and of these things
which have chanced, these are to be opened unto thee.

   {10:50} For now the most High seeth that thou art grieved
unfeignedly, and sufferest from thy whole heart for her, so hath he
shewed thee the brightness of her glory, and the comeliness of her
beauty:

   {10:51} And therefore I bade thee remain in the field where no house
was builded:

   {10:52} For I knew that the Highest would shew this unto thee.

   {10:53} Therefore I commanded thee to go into the field, where no
foundation of any building was.

   {10:54} For in the place wherein the Highest beginneth to shew his
city, there can no man's building be able to stand.

   {10:55} And therefore fear not, let not thine heart be affrighted,
but go thy way in, and see the beauty and greatness of the building, as
much as thine eyes be able to see:

   {10:56} And then shalt thou hear as much as thine ears may
comprehend.

   {10:57} For thou art blessed above many other, and art called with
the Highest; and so are but few.

   {10:58} But to morrow at night thou shalt remain here;

   {10:59} And so shall the Highest shew thee visions of the high
things, which the most High will do unto them that dwell upon the earth
in the last days. So I slept that night and another, like as he
commanded me.

   {11:1} Then saw I a dream, and, behold, there came up from the sea
an eagle, which had twelve feathered wings, and three heads.

   {11:2} And I saw, and, behold, she spread her wings over all the
earth, and all the winds of the air blew on her, and were gathered
together.

   {11:3} And I beheld, and out of her feathers there grew other
contrary feathers; and they became little feathers and small.

   {11:4} But her heads were at rest: the head in the midst was greater
than the other, yet rested it with the residue.

   {11:5} Moreover I beheld, and, lo, the eagle flew with her feathers,
and reigned upon earth, and over them that dwelt therein.

   {11:6} And I saw that all things under heaven were subject unto her,
and no man spake against her, no, not one creature upon earth.

   {11:7} And I beheld, and, lo, the eagle rose upon her talons, and
spake to her feathers, saying,

   {11:8} Watch not all at once: sleep every one in his own place, and
watch by course:

   {11:9} But let the heads be preserved for the last.

   {11:10} And I beheld, and, lo, the voice went not out of her heads,
but from the midst of her body.

   {11:11} And I numbered her contrary feathers, and, behold, there
were eight of them.

   {11:12} And I looked, and, behold, on the right side there arose one
feather, and reigned over all the earth;

   {11:13} And so it was, that when it reigned, the end of it came, and
the place thereof appeared no more: so the next following stood up. and
reigned, and had a great time;

   {11:14} And it happened, that when it reigned, the end of it came
also, like as the first, so that it appeared no more.

   {11:15} Then came there a voice unto it, and said,

   {11:16} Hear thou that hast borne rule over the earth so long: this
I say unto thee, before thou beginnest to appear no more,

   {11:17} There shall none after thee attain unto thy time, neither
unto the half thereof.

   {11:18} Then arose the third, and reigned as the other before, and
appeared no more also.

   {11:19} So went it with all the residue one after another, as that
every one reigned, and then appeared no more.

   {11:20} Then I beheld, and, lo, in process of time the feathers that
followed stood up upon the right side, that they might rule also; and
some of them ruled, but within a while they appeared no more:

   {11:21} For some of them were set up, but ruled not.

   {11:22} After this I looked, and, behold, the twelve feathers
appeared no more, nor the two little feathers:

   {11:23} And there was no more upon the eagle's body, but three heads
that rested, and six little wings.

   {11:24} Then saw I also that two little feathers divided themselves
from the six, and remained under the head that was upon the right side:
for the four continued in their place.

   {11:25} And I beheld, and, lo, the feathers that were under the wing
thought to set up themselves and to have the rule.

   {11:26} And I beheld, and, lo, there was one set up, but shortly it
appeared no more.

   {11:27} And the second was sooner away than the first.

   {11:28} And I beheld, and, lo, the two that remained thought also in
themselves to reign:

   {11:29} And when they so thought, behold, there awaked one of the
heads that were at rest, namely, it that was in the midst; for that was
greater than the two other heads.

   {11:30} And then I saw that the two other heads were joined with it.

   {11:31} And, behold, the head was turned with them that were with
it, and did eat up the two feathers under the wing that would have
reigned.

   {11:32} But this head put the whole earth in fear, and bare rule in
it over all those that dwelt upon the earth with much oppression; and
it had the governance of the world more than all the wings that had
been.

   {11:33} And after this I beheld, and, lo, the head that was in the
midst suddenly appeared no more, like as the wings.

   {11:34} But there remained the two heads, which also in like sort
ruled upon the earth, and over those that dwelt therein.

   {11:35} And I beheld, and, lo, the head upon the right side devoured
it that was upon the left side.

   {11:36} Then I head a voice, which said unto me, Look before thee,
and consider the thing that thou seest.

   {11:37} And I beheld, and lo, as it were a roaring lion chased out
of the wood: and I saw that he sent out a man's voice unto the eagle,
and said,

   {11:38} Hear thou, I will talk with thee, and the Highest shall say
unto thee,

   {11:39} Art not thou it that remainest of the four beasts, whom I
made to reign in my world, that the end of their times might come
through them?

   {11:40} And the fourth came, and overcame all the beasts that were
past, and had power over the world with great fearfulness, and over the
whole compass of the earth with much wicked oppression; and so long
time dwelt he upon the earth with deceit.

   {11:41} For the earth hast thou not judged with truth.

   {11:42} For thou hast afflicted the meek, thou hast hurt the
peaceable, thou hast loved liars, and destroyed the dwellings of them
that brought forth fruit, and hast cast down the walls of such as did
thee no harm.

   {11:43} Therefore is thy wrongful dealing come up unto the Highest,
and thy pride unto the Mighty.

   {11:44} The Highest also hath looked upon the proud times, and,
behold, they are ended, and his abominations are fulfilled.

   {11:45} And therefore appear no more, thou eagle, nor thy horrible
wings, nor thy wicked feathers nor thy malicious heads, nor thy hurtful
claws, nor all thy vain body:

   {11:46} That all the earth may be refreshed, and may return, being
delivered from thy violence, and that she may hope for the judgment and
mercy of him that made her.

   {12:1} And it came to pass, whiles the lion spake these words unto
the eagle, I saw,

   {12:2} And, behold, the head that remained and the four wings
appeared no more, and the two went unto it and set themselves up to
reign, and their kingdom was small, and fill of uproar.

   {12:3} And I saw, and, behold, they appeared no more, and the whole
body of the eagle was burnt so that the earth was in great fear: then
awaked I out of the trouble and trance of my mind, and from great fear,
and said unto my spirit,

   {12:4} Lo, this hast thou done unto me, in that thou searchest out
the ways of the Highest.

   {12:5} Lo, yet am I weary in my mind, and very weak in my spirit;
and little strength is there in me, for the great fear wherewith I was
afflicted this night.

   {12:6} Therefore will I now beseech the Highest, that he will
comfort me unto the end.

   {12:7} And I said, Lord that bearest rule, if I have found grace
before thy sight, and if I am justified with thee before many others,
and if my prayer indeed be come up before thy face;

   {12:8} Comfort me then, and shew me thy servant the interpretation
and plain difference of this fearful vision, that thou mayest perfectly
comfort my soul.

   {12:9} For thou hast judged me worthy to shew me the last times.

   {12:10} And he said unto me, This is the interpretation of the
vision:

   {12:11} The eagle, whom thou sawest come up from the sea, is the
kingdom which was seen in the vision of thy brother Daniel.

   {12:12} But it was not expounded unto him, therefore now I declare
it unto thee.

   {12:13} Behold, the days will come, that there shall rise up a
kingdom upon earth, and it shall be feared above all the kingdoms that
were before it.

   {12:14} In the same shall twelve kings reign, one after another:

   {12:15} Whereof the second shall begin to reign, and shall have more
time than any of the twelve.

   {12:16} And this do the twelve wings signify, which thou sawest.

   {12:17} As for the voice which thou heardest speak, and that thou
sawest not to go out from the heads but from the midst of the body
thereof, this is the interpretation:

   {12:18} That after the time of that kingdom there shall arise great
strivings, and it shall stand in peril of failing: nevertheless it
shall not then fall, but shall be restored again to his beginning.

   {12:19} And whereas thou sawest the eight small under feathers
sticking to her wings, this is the interpretation:

   {12:20} That in him there shall arise eight kings, whose times shall
be but small, and their years swift.

   {12:21} And two of them shall perish, the middle time approaching:
four shall be kept until their end begin to approach: but two shall be
kept unto the end.

   {12:22} And whereas thou sawest three heads resting, this is the
interpretation:

   {12:23} In his last days shall the most High raise up three
kingdoms, and renew many things therein, and they shall have the
dominion of the earth,

   {12:24} And of those that dwell therein, with much oppression, above
all those that were before them: therefore are they called the heads of
the eagle.

   {12:25} For these are they that shall accomplish his wickedness, and
that shall finish his last end.

   {12:26} And whereas thou sawest that the great head appeared no
more, it signifieth that one of them shall die upon his bed, and yet
with pain.

   {12:27} For the two that remain shall be slain with the sword.

   {12:28} For the sword of the one shall devour the other: but at the
last shall he fall through the sword himself.

   {12:29} And whereas thou sawest two feathers under the wings passing
over the head that is on the right side;

   {12:30} It signifieth that these are they, whom the Highest hath
kept unto their end: this is the small kingdom and full of trouble, as
thou sawest.

   {12:31} And the lion, whom thou sawest rising up out of the wood,
and roaring, and speaking to the eagle, and rebuking her for her
unrighteousness with all the words which thou hast heard;

   {12:32} This is the anointed, which the Highest hath kept for them
and for their wickedness unto the end: he shall reprove them, and shall
upbraid them with their cruelty.

   {12:33} For he shall set them before him alive in judgment, and
shall rebuke them, and correct them.

   {12:34} For the rest of my people shall he deliver with mercy, those
that have been pressed upon my borders, and he shall make them joyful
until the coming of the day of judgment, whereof I have spoken unto
thee from the the beginning.

   {12:35} This is the dream that thou sawest, and these are the
interpretations.

   {12:36} Thou only hast been meet to know this secret of the Highest.

   {12:37} Therefore write all these things that thou hast seen in a
book, and hide them:

   {12:38} And teach them to the wise of the people, whose hearts thou
knowest may comprehend and keep these secrets.

   {12:39} But wait thou here thyself yet seven days more, that it may
be shewed thee, whatsoever it pleaseth the Highest to declare unto
thee. And with that he went his way.

   {12:40} And it came to pass, when all the people saw that the seven
days were past, and I not come again into the city, they gathered them
all together, from the least unto the greatest, and came unto me, and
said,

   {12:41} What have we offended thee? and what evil have we done
against thee, that thou forsakest us, and sittest here in this place?

   {12:42} For of all the prophets thou only art left us, as a cluster
of the vintage, and as a candle in a dark place, and as a haven or ship
preserved from the tempest.

   {12:43} Are not the evils which are come to us sufficient?

   {12:44} If thou shalt forsake us, how much better had it been for
us, if we also had been burned in the midst of Sion?

   {12:45} For we are not better than they that died there. And they
wept with a loud voice. Then answered I them, and said,

   {12:46} Be of good comfort, O Israel; and be not heavy, thou house
of Jacob:

   {12:47} For the Highest hath you in remembrance, and the Mighty hath
not forgotten you in temptation.

   {12:48} As for me, I have not forsaken you, neither am I departed
from you: but am come into this place, to pray for the desolation of
Sion, and that I might seek mercy for the low estate of your sanctuary.

   {12:49} And now go your way home every man, and after these days
will I come unto you.

   {12:50} So the people went their way into the city, like as I
commanded them:

   {12:51} But I remained still in the field seven days, as the angel
commanded me; and did eat only in those days of the flowers of the
field, and had my meat of the herbs

   {13:1} And it came to pass after seven days, I dreamed a dream by
night:

   {13:2} And, lo, there arose a wind from the sea, that it moved all
the waves thereof.

   {13:3} And I beheld, and, lo, that man waxed strong with the
thousands of heaven: and when he turned his countenance to look, all
the things trembled that were seen under him.

   {13:4} And whensoever the voice went out of his mouth, all they
burned that heard his voice, like as the earth faileth when it feeleth
the fire.

   {13:5} And after this I beheld, and, lo, there was gathered together
a multitude of men, out of number, from the four winds of the heaven,
to subdue the man that came out of the sea

   {13:6} But I beheld, and, lo, he had graved himself a great
mountain, and flew up upon it.

   {13:7} But I would have seen the region or place whereout the hill
was graven, and I could not.

   {13:8} And after this I beheld, and, lo, all they which were
gathered together to subdue him were sore afraid, and yet durst fight.

   {13:9} And, lo, as he saw the violence of the multitude that came,
he neither lifted up his hand, nor held sword, nor any instrument of
war:

   {13:10} But only I saw that he sent out of his mouth as it had been
a blast of fire, and out of his lips a flaming breath, and out of his
tongue he cast out sparks and tempests.

   {13:11} And they were all mixed together; the blast of fire, the
flaming breath, and the great tempest; and fell with violence upon the
multitude which was prepared to fight, and burned them up every one, so
that upon a sudden of an innumerable multitude nothing was to be
perceived, but only dust and smell of smoke: when I saw this I was
afraid.

   {13:12} Afterward saw I the same man come down from the mountain,
and call unto him another peaceable Multitude.

   {13:13} And there came much people unto him, whereof some were glad,
some were sorry, and some of them were bound, and other some brought of
them that were offered: then was I sick through great fear, and I
awaked, and said,

   {13:14} Thou hast shewed thy servant these wonders from the
beginning, and hast counted me worthy that thou shouldest receive my
prayer:

   {13:15} Shew me now yet the interpretation of this dream.

   {13:16} For as I conceive in mine understanding, woe unto them that
shall be left in those days and much more woe unto them that are not
left behind!

   {13:17} For they that were not left were in heaviness.

   {13:18} Now understand I the things that are laid up in the latter
days, which shall happen unto them, and to those that are left behind.

   {13:19} Therefore are they come into great perils and many
necessities, like as these dreams declare.

   {13:20} Yet is it easier for him that is in danger to come into
these things, than to pass away as a cloud out of the world, and not to
see the things that happen in the last days. And he answered unto me,
and said,

   {13:21} The interpretation of the vision shall I shew thee, and I
will open unto thee the thing that thou hast required.

   {13:22} Whereas thou hast spoken of them that are left behind, this
is the interpretation:

   {13:23} He that shall endure the peril in that time hath kept
himself: they that be fallen into danger are such as have works, and
faith toward the Almighty.

   {13:24} Know this therefore, that they which be left behind are more
blessed than they that be dead.

   {13:25} This is the meaning of the vision: Whereas thou sawest a man
coming up from the midst of the sea:

   {13:26} The same is he whom God the Highest hath kept a great
season, which by his own self shall deliver his creature: and he shall
order them that are left behind.

   {13:27} And whereas thou sawest, that out of his mouth there came as
a blast of wind, and fire, and storm;

   {13:28} And that he held neither sword, nor any instrument of war,
but that the rushing in of him destroyed the whole multitude that came
to subdue him; this is the interpretation:

   {13:29} Behold, the days come, when the most High will begin to
deliver them that are upon the earth.

   {13:30} And he shall come to the astonishment of them that dwell on
the earth.

   {13:31} And one shall undertake to fight against another, one city
against another, one place against another, one people against another,
and one realm against another.

   {13:32} And the time shall be when these things shall come to pass,
and the signs shall happen which I shewed thee before, and then shall
my Son be declared, whom thou sawest as a man ascending.

   {13:33} And when all the people hear his voice, every man shall in
their own land leave the battle they have one against another.

   {13:34} And an innumerable multitude shall be gathered together, as
thou sawest them, willing to come, and to overcome him by fighting.

   {13:35} But he shall stand upon the top of the mount Sion.

   {13:36} And Sion shall come, and shall be shewed to all men, being
prepared and builded, like as thou sawest the hill graven without hands.

   {13:37} And this my Son shall rebuke the wicked inventions of those
nations, which for their wicked life are fallen into the tempest;

   {13:38} And shall lay before them their evil thoughts, and the
torments wherewith they shall begin to be tormented, which are like
unto a flame: and he shall destroy them without labour by the law which
is like unto me.

   {13:39} And whereas thou sawest that he gathered another peaceable
multitude unto him;

   {13:40} Those are the ten tribes, which were carried away prisoners
out of their own land in the time of Osea the king, whom Salmanasar the
king of Assyria led away captive, and he carried them over the waters,
and so came they into another land.

   {13:41} But they took this counsel among themselves, that they would
leave the multitude of the heathen, and go forth into a further
country, where never mankind dwelt,

   {13:42} That they might there keep their statutes, which they never
kept in their own land.

   {13:43} And they entered into Euphrates by the narrow places of the
river.

   {13:44} For the most High then shewed signs for them, and held still
the flood, till they were passed over.

   {13:45} For through that country there was a great way to go,
namely, of a year and a half: and the same region is called Arsareth.

   {13:46} Then dwelt they there until the latter time; and now when
they shall begin to come,

   {13:47} The Highest shall stay the springs of the stream again, that
they may go through: therefore sawest thou the multitude with peace.

   {13:48} But those that be left behind of thy people are they that
are found within my borders.

   {13:49} Now when he destroyeth the multitude of the nations that are
gathered together, he shall defend his people that remain.

   {13:50} And then shall he shew them great wonders.

   {13:51} Then said I, O Lord that bearest rule, shew me this:
Wherefore have I seen the man coming up from the midst of the sea?

   {13:52} And he said unto me, Like as thou canst neither seek out nor
know the things that are in the deep of the sea: even so can no man
upon earth see my Son, or those that be with him, but in the day time.

   {13:53} This is the interpretation of the dream which thou sawest,
and whereby thou only art here lightened.

   {13:54} For thou hast forsaken thine own way, and applied thy
diligence unto my law, and sought it.

   {13:55} Thy life hast thou ordered in wisdom, and hast called
understanding thy mother.

   {13:56} And therefore have I shewed thee the treasures of the
Highest: after other three days I will speak other things unto thee,
and declare unto thee mighty and wondrous things.

   {13:57} Then went I forth into the field, giving praise and thanks
greatly unto the most High because of his wonders which he did in time;

   {13:58} And because he governeth the same, and such things as fall
in their seasons: and there I sat three days.

   {14:1} And it came to pass upon the third day, I sat under an oak,
and, behold, there came a voice out of a bush over against me, and
said, Esdras, Esdras.

   {14:2} And I said, Here am I, Lord And I stood up upon my feet.

   {14:3} Then said he unto me, In the bush I did manifestly reveal
myself unto Moses, and talked with him, when my people served in Egypt:

   {14:4} And I sent him and led my people out of Egypt, and brought
him up to the mount of where I held him by me a long season,

   {14:5} And told him many wondrous things, and shewed him the secrets
of the times, and the end; and commanded him, saying,

   {14:6} These words shalt thou declare, and these shalt thou hide.

   {14:7} And now I say unto thee,

   {14:8} That thou lay up in thy heart the signs that I have shewed,
and the dreams that thou hast seen, and the interpretations which thou
hast heard:

   {14:9} For thou shalt be taken away from all, and from henceforth
thou shalt remain with my Son, and with such as be like thee, until the
times be ended.

   {14:10} For the world hath lost his youth, and the times begin to
wax old.

   {14:11} For the world is divided into twelve parts, and the ten
parts of it are gone already, and half of a tenth part:

   {14:12} And there remaineth that which is after the half of the
tenth part.

   {14:13} Now therefore set thine house in order, and reprove thy
people, comfort such of them as be in trouble, and now renounce
corruption,

   {14:14} Let go from thee mortal thoughts, cast away the burdens of
man, put off now the weak nature,

   {14:15} And set aside the thoughts that are most heavy unto thee,
and haste thee to flee from these times.

   {14:16} For yet greater evils than those which thou hast seen happen
shall be done hereafter.

   {14:17} For look how much the world shall be weaker through age, so
much the more shall evils increase upon them that dwell therein.

   {14:18} For the time is fled far away, and leasing is hard at hand:
for now hasteth the vision to come, which thou hast seen.

   {14:19} Then answered I before thee, and said,

   {14:20} Behold, Lord, I will go, as thou hast commanded me, and
reprove the people which are present: but they that shall be born
afterward, who shall admonish them? thus the world is set in darkness,
and they that dwell therein are without light.

   {14:21} For thy law is burnt, therefore no man knoweth the things
that are done of thee, or the work that shall begin.

   {14:22} But if I have found grace before thee, send the Holy Ghost
into me, and I shall write all that hath been done in the world since
the beginning, which were written in thy law, that men may find thy
path, and that they which will live in the latter days may live.

   {14:23} And he answered me, saying, Go thy way, gather the people
together, and say unto them, that they seek thee not for forty days.

   {14:24} But look thou prepare thee many box trees, and take with
thee Sarea, Dabria, Selemia, Ecanus, and Asiel, these five which are
ready to write swiftly;

   {14:25} And come hither, and I shall light a candle of understanding
in thine heart, which shall not be put out, till the things be
performed which thou shalt begin to write.

   {14:26} And when thou hast done, some things shalt thou publish, and
some things shalt thou shew secretly to the wise: to morrow this hour
shalt thou begin to write.

   {14:27} Then went I forth, as he commanded, and gathered all the
people together, and said,

   {14:28} Hear these words, O Israel.

   {14:29} Our fathers at the beginning were strangers in Egypt, from
whence they were delivered:

   {14:30} And received the law of life, which they kept not, which ye
also have transgressed after them.

   {14:31} Then was the land, even the land of Sion, parted among you
by lot: but your fathers, and ye yourselves, have done unrighteousness,
and have not kept the ways which the Highest commanded you.

   {14:32} And forasmuch as he is a righteous judge, he took from you
in time the thing that he had given you.

   {14:33} And now are ye here, and your brethren among you.

   {14:34} Therefore if so be that ye will subdue your own
understanding, and reform your hearts, ye shall be kept alive and after
death ye shall obtain mercy.

   {14:35} For after death shall the judgment come, when we shall live
again: and then shall the names of the righteous be manifest, and the
works of the ungodly shall be declared.

   {14:36} Let no man therefore come unto me now, nor seek after me
these forty days.

   {14:37} So I took the five men, as he commanded me, and we went into
the field, and remained there.

   {14:38} And the next day, behold, a voice called me, saying, Esdras,
open thy mouth, and drink that I give thee to drink.

   {14:39} Then opened I my mouth, and, behold, he reached me a full
cup, which was full as it were with water, but the colour of it was
like fire.

   {14:40} And I took it, and drank: and when I had drunk of it, my
heart uttered understanding, and wisdom grew in my breast, for my
spirit strengthened my memory:

   {14:41} And my mouth was opened, and shut no more.

   {14:42} The Highest gave understanding unto the five men, and they
wrote the wonderful visions of the night that were told, which they
knew not: and they sat forty days, and they wrote in the day, and at
night they ate bread.

   {14:43} As for me. I spake in the day, and I held not my tongue by
night.

   {14:44} In forty days they wrote two hundred and four books.

   {14:45} And it came to pass, when the forty days were filled, that
the Highest spake, saying, The first that thou hast written publish
openly, that the worthy and unworthy may read it:

   {14:46} But keep the seventy last, that thou mayest deliver them
only to such as be wise among the people:

   {14:47} For in them is the spring of understanding, the fountain of
wisdom, and the stream of knowledge.

   {14:48} And I did so.

   {15:1} Behold, speak thou in the ears of my people the words of
prophecy, which I will put in thy mouth, saith the Lord:

   {15:2} And cause them to be written in paper: for they are faithful
and true.

   {15:3} Fear not the imaginations against thee, let not the
incredulity of them trouble thee, that speak against thee.

   {15:4} For all the unfaithful shall die in their unfaithfulness.

   {15:5} Behold, saith the Lord, I will bring plagues upon the world;
the sword, famine, death, and destruction.

   {15:6} For wickedness hath exceedingly polluted the whole earth, and
their hurtful works are fulfilled.

   {15:7} Therefore saith the Lord,

   {15:8} I will hold my tongue no more as touching their wickedness,
which they profanely commit, neither will I suffer them in those
things, in which they wickedly exercise themselves: behold, the
innocent and righteous blood crieth unto me, and the souls of the just
complain continually.

   {15:9} And therefore, saith the Lord, I will surely avenge them, and
receive unto me all the innocent blood from among them.

   {15:10} Behold, my people is led as a flock to the slaughter: I will
not suffer them now to dwell in the land of Egypt:

   {15:11} But I will bring them with a mighty hand and a stretched out
arm, and smite Egypt with plagues, as before, and will destroy all the
land thereof.

   {15:12} Egypt shall mourn, and the foundation of it shall be smitten
with the plague and punishment that God shall bring upon it.

   {15:13} They that till the ground shall mourn: for their seeds shall
fail through the blasting and hail, and with a fearful constellation.

   {15:14} Woe to the world and them that dwell therein!

   {15:15} For the sword and their destruction draweth nigh, and one
people shall stand up and fight against another, and swords in their
hands.

   {15:16} For there shall be sedition among men, and invading one
another; they shall not regard their kings nor princes, and the course
of their actions shall stand in their power.

   {15:17} A man shall desire to go into a city, and shall not be able.

   {15:18} For because of their pride the cities shall be troubled, the
houses shall be destroyed, and men shall be afraid.

   {15:19} A man shall have no pity upon his neighbour, but shall
destroy their houses with the sword, and spoil their goods, because of
the lack of bread, and for great tribulation.

   {15:20} Behold, saith God, I will call together all the kings of the
earth to reverence me, which are from the rising of the sun, from the
south, from the east, and Libanus; to turn themselves one against
another, and repay the things that they have done to them.

   {15:21} Like as they do yet this day unto my chosen, so will I do
also, and recompense in their bosom. Thus saith the Lord God;

   {15:22} My right hand shall not spare the sinners, and my sword
shall not cease over them that shed innocent blood upon the earth.

   {15:23} The fire is gone forth from his wrath, and hath consumed the
foundations of the earth, and the sinners, like the straw that is
kindled.

   {15:24} Woe to them that sin, and keep not my commandments! saith
the Lord.

   {15:25} I will not spare them: go your way, ye children, from the
power, defile not my sanctuary.

   {15:26} For the Lord knoweth all them that sin against him, and
therefore delivereth he them unto death and destruction.

   {15:27} For now are the plagues come upon the whole earth and ye
shall remain in them: for God shall not deliver you, because ye have
sinned against him.

   {15:28} Behold an horrible vision, and the appearance thereof from
the east:

   {15:29} Where the nations of the dragons of Arabia shall come out
with many chariots, and the multitude of them shall be carried as the
wind upon earth, that all they which hear them may fear and tremble.

   {15:30} Also the Carmanians raging in wrath shall go forth as the
wild boars of the wood, and with great power shall they come, and join
battle with them, and shall waste a portion of the land of the
Assyrians.

   {15:31} And then shall the dragons have the upper hand, remembering
their nature; and if they shall turn themselves, conspiring together in
great power to persecute them,

   {15:32} Then these shall be troubled bled, and keep silence through
their power, and shall flee.

   {15:33} And from the land of the Assyrians shall the enemy besiege
them, and consume some of them, and in their host shall be fear and
dread, and strife among their kings.

   {15:34} Behold clouds from the east and from the north unto the
south, and they are very horrible to look upon, full of wrath and storm.

   {15:35} They shall smite one upon another, and they shall smite down
a great multitude of stars upon the earth, even their own star; and
blood shall be from the sword unto the belly,

   {15:36} And dung of men unto the camel's hough.

   {15:37} And there shall be great fearfulness and trembling upon
earth: and they that see the wrath shall be afraid, and trembling shall
come upon them.

   {15:38} And then shall there come great storms from the south, and
from the north, and another part from the west.

   {15:39} And strong winds shall arise from the east, and shall open
it; and the cloud which he raised up in wrath, and the star stirred to
cause fear toward the east and west wind, shall be destroyed.

   {15:40} The great and mighty clouds shall be puffed up full of
wrath, and the star, that they may make all the earth afraid, and them
that dwell therein; and they shall pour out over every high and eminent
place an horrible star,

   {15:41} Fire, and hail, and flying swords, and many waters, that all
fields may be full, and all rivers, with the abundance of great waters.

   {15:42} And they shall break down the cities and walls, mountains
and hills, trees of the wood, and grass of the meadows, and their corn.

   {15:43} And they shall go stedfastly unto Babylon, and make her
afraid.

   {15:44} They shall come to her, and besiege her, the star and all
wrath shall they pour out upon her: then shall the dust and smoke go up
unto the heaven, and all they that be about her shall bewail her.

   {15:45} And they that remain under her shall do service unto them
that have put her in fear.

   {15:46} And thou, Asia, that art partaker of the hope of Babylon,
and art the glory of her person:

   {15:47} Woe be unto thee, thou wretch, because thou hast made
thyself like unto her; and hast decked thy daughters in whoredom, that
they might please and glory in thy lovers, which have always desired to
commit whoredom with thee.

   {15:48} Thou hast followed her that is hated in all her works and
inventions: therefore saith God,

   {15:49} I will send plagues upon thee; widowhood, poverty, famine,
sword, and pestilence, to waste thy houses with destruction and death.

   {15:50} And the glory of thy Power shall be dried up as a flower,
the heat shall arise that is sent over thee.

   {15:51} Thou shalt be weakened as a poor woman with stripes, and as
one chastised with wounds, so that the mighty and lovers shall not be
able to receive thee.

   {15:52} Would I with jealousy have so proceeded against thee, saith
the Lord,

   {15:53} If thou hadst not always slain my chosen, exalting the
stroke of thine hands, and saying over their dead, when thou wast
drunken,

   {15:54} Set forth the beauty of thy countenance?

   {15:55} The reward of thy whoredom shall be in thy bosom, therefore
shalt thou receive recompence.

   {15:56} Like as thou hast done unto my chosen, saith the Lord, even
so shall God do unto thee, and shall deliver thee into mischief

   {15:57} Thy children shall die of hunger, and thou shalt fall
through the sword: thy cities shall be broken down, and all thine shall
perish with the sword in the field.

   {15:58} They that be in the mountains shall die of hunger, and eat
their own flesh, and drink their own blood, for very hunger of bread,
and thirst of water.

   {15:59} Thou as unhappy shalt come through the sea, and receive
plagues again.

   {15:60} And in the passage they shall rush on the idle city, and
shall destroy some portion of thy land, and consume part of thy glory,
and shall return to Babylon that was destroyed.

   {15:61} And thou shalt be cast down by them as stubble, and they
shall be unto thee as fire;

   {15:62} And shall consume thee, and thy cities, thy land, and thy
mountains; all thy woods and thy fruitful trees shall they burn up with
fire.

   {15:63} Thy children shall they carry away captive, and, look, what
thou hast, they shall spoil it, and mar the beauty of thy face.

   {16:1} Woe be unto thee, Babylon, and Asia! woe be unto thee, Egypt
and Syria!

   {16:2} Gird up yourselves with cloths of sack and hair, bewail your
children, and be sorry; for your destruction is at hand.

   {16:3} A sword is sent upon you, and who may turn it back?

   {16:4} A fire is sent among you, and who may quench it?

   {16:5} Plagues are sent unto you, and what is he that may drive them
away?

   {16:6} May any man drive away an hungry lion in the wood? or may any
one quench the fire in stubble, when it hath begun to burn?

   {16:7} May one turn again the arrow that is shot of a strong archer?

   {16:8} The mighty Lord sendeth the plagues and who is he that can
drive them away?

   {16:9} A fire shall go forth from his wrath, and who is he that may
quench it?

   {16:10} He shall cast lightnings, and who shall not fear? he shall
thunder, and who shall not be afraid?

   {16:11} The Lord shall threaten, and who shall not be utterly beaten
to powder at his presence?

   {16:12} The earth quaketh, and the foundations thereof; the sea
ariseth up with waves from the deep, and the waves of it are troubled,
and the fishes thereof also, before the Lord, and before the glory of
his power:

   {16:13} For strong is his right hand that bendeth the bow, his
arrows that he shooteth are sharp, and shall not miss, when they begin
to be shot into the ends of the world.

   {16:14} Behold, the plagues are sent, and shall not return again,
until they come upon the earth.

   {16:15} The fire is kindled, and shall not be put out, till it
consume the foundation of the earth.

   {16:16} Like as an arrow which is shot of a mighty archer returneth
not backward: even so the plagues that shall be sent upon earth shall
not return again.

   {16:17} Woe is me! woe is me! who will deliver me in those days?

   {16:18} The beginning of sorrows and great mournings; the beginning
of famine and great death; the beginning of wars, and the powers shall
stand in fear; the beginning of evils! what shall I do when these evils
shall come?

   {16:19} Behold, famine and plague, tribulation and anguish, are sent
as scourges for amendment.

   {16:20} But for all these things they shall not turn from their
wickedness, nor be always mindful of the scourges.

   {16:21} Behold, victuals shall be so good cheap upon earth, that
they shall think themselves to be in good case, and even then shall
evils grow upon earth, sword, famine, and great confusion.

   {16:22} For many of them that dwell upon earth shall perish of
famine; and the other, that escape the hunger, shall the sword destroy.

   {16:23} And the dead shall be cast out as dung, and there shall be
no man to comfort them: for the earth shall be wasted, and the cities
shall be cast down.

   {16:24} There shall be no man left to till the earth, and to sow it

   {16:25} The trees shall give fruit, and who shall gather them?

   {16:26} The grapes shall ripen, and who shall tread them? for all
places shall be desolate of men:

   {16:27} So that one man shall desire to see another, and to hear his
voice.

   {16:28} For of a city there shall be ten left, and two of the field,
which shall hide themselves in the thick groves, and in the clefts of
the rocks.

   {16:29} As in an orchard of Olives upon every tree there are left
three or four olives;

   {16:30} Or as when a vineyard is gathered, there are left some
clusters of them that diligently seek through the vineyard:

   {16:31} Even so in those days there shall be three or four left by
them that search their houses with the sword.

   {16:32} And the earth shall be laid waste, and the fields thereof
shall wax old, and her ways and all her paths shall grow full of
thorns, because no man shall travel therethrough.

   {16:33} The virgins shall mourn, having no bridegrooms; the women
shall mourn, having no husbands; their daughters shall mourn, having no
helpers.

   {16:34} In the wars shall their bridegrooms be destroyed, and their
husbands shall perish of famine.

   {16:35} Hear now these things and understand them, ye servants of
the Lord.

   {16:36} Behold, the word of the Lord, receive it: believe not the
gods of whom the Lord spake.

   {16:37} Behold, the plagues draw nigh, and are not slack.

   {16:38} As when a woman with child in the ninth month bringeth forth
her son, with two or three hours of her birth great pains compass her
womb, which pains, when the child cometh forth, they slack not a moment:

   {16:39} Even so shall not the plagues be slack to come upon the
earth, and the world shall mourn, and sorrows shall come upon it on
every side.

   {16:40} O my people, hear my word: make you ready to thy battle, and
in those evils be even as pilgrims upon the earth.

   {16:41} He that selleth, let him be as he that fleeth away: and he
that buyeth, as one that will lose:

   {16:42} He that occupieth merchandise, as he that hath no profit by
it: and he that buildeth, as he that shall not dwell therein:

   {16:43} He that soweth, as if he should not reap: so also he that
planteth the vineyard, as he that shall not gather the grapes:

   {16:44} They that marry, as they that shall get no children; and
they that marry not, as the widowers.

   {16:45} And therefore they that labour labour in vain:

   {16:46} For strangers shall reap their fruits, and spoil their
goods, overthrow their houses, and take their children captives, for in
captivity and famine shall they get children.

   {16:47} And they that occupy their merchandise with robbery, the
more they deck their cities, their houses, their possessions, and their
own persons:

   {16:48} The more will I be angry with them for their sin, saith the
Lord.

   {16:49} Like as a whore envieth a right honest and virtuous woman:

   {16:50} So shall righteousness hate iniquity, when she decketh
herself, and shall accuse her to her face, when he cometh that shall
defend him that diligently searcheth out every sin upon earth.

   {16:51} And therefore be ye not like thereunto, nor to the works
thereof.

   {16:52} For yet a little, and iniquity shall be taken away out of
the earth, and righteousness shall reign among you.

   {16:53} Let not the sinner say that he hath not sinned: for God
shall burn coals of fire upon his head, which saith before the Lord God
and his glory, I have not sinned.

   {16:54} Behold, the Lord knoweth all the works of men, their
imaginations, their thoughts, and their hearts:

   {16:55} Which spake but the word, Let the earth be made; and it was
made: Let the heaven be made; and it was created.

   {16:56} In his word were the stars made, and he knoweth the number
of them.

   {16:57} He searcheth the deep, and the treasures thereof; he hath
measured the sea, and what it containeth.

   {16:58} He hath shut the sea in the midst of the waters, and with
his word hath he hanged the earth upon the waters.

   {16:59} He spreadeth out the heavens like a vault; upon the waters
hath he founded it.

   {16:60} In the desert hath he made springs of water, and pools upon
the tops of the mountains, that the floods might pour down from the
high rocks to water the earth.

   {16:61} He made man, and put his heart in the midst of the body, and
gave him breath, life, and understanding.

   {16:62} Yea and the Spirit of Almighty God, which made all things,
and searcheth out all hidden things in the secrets of the earth,

   {16:63} Surely he knoweth your inventions, and what ye think in your
hearts, even them that sin, and would hide their sin.

   {16:64} Therefore hath the Lord exactly searched out all your works,
and he will put you all to shame.

   {16:65} And when your sins are brought forth, ye shall be ashamed
before men, and your own sins shall be your accusers in that day.

   {16:66} What will ye do? or how will ye hide your sins before God
and his angels?

   {16:67} Behold, God himself is the judge, fear him: leave off from
your sins, and forget your iniquities, to meddle no more with them for
ever: so shall God lead you forth, and deliver you from all trouble.

   {16:68} For, behold, the burning wrath of a great multitude is
kindled over you, and they shall take away certain of you, and feed
you, being idle, with things offered unto idols.

   {16:69} And they that consent unto them shall be had in derision and
in reproach, and trodden under foot.

   {16:70} For there shall be in every place, and in the next cities, a
great insurrection upon those that fear the Lord.

   {16:71} They shall be like mad men, sparing none, but still spoiling
and destroying those that fear the Lord.

   {16:72} For they shall waste and take away their goods, and cast
them out of their houses.

   {16:73} Then shall they be known, who are my chosen; and they shall
be tried as the gold in the fire.

   {16:74} Hear, O ye my beloved, saith the Lord: behold, the days of
trouble are at hand, but I will deliver you from the same.

   {16:75} Be ye not afraid neither doubt; for God is your guide,

   {16:76} And the guide of them who keep my commandments and precepts,
saith the Lord God: let not your sins weigh you down, and let not your
iniquities lift up themselves.

   {16:77} Woe be unto them that are bound with their sins, and covered
with their iniquities like as a field is covered over with bushes, and
the path thereof covered with thorns, that no man may travel through!

   {16:78} It is left undressed, and is cast into the fire to be
consumed therewith.





The Second Epistle of John

   {1:1} 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;
{1:2} For the truth's sake, which dwelleth in us, and shall be with us
for ever. {1:3} 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.

   {1:4} I rejoiced greatly that I found of thy children walking in
truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father. {1:5} And now
I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto
thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one
another. {1:6} And this is love, that we walk after his commandments.
This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye
should walk in it. {1:7} For many deceivers are entered into the world,
who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a
deceiver and an antichrist. {1:8} Look to yourselves, that we lose not
those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.
{1:9} Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of
Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he
hath both the Father and the Son. {1:10} If there come any unto you,
and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into [your] house, neither
bid him God speed: {1:11} For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker
of his evil deeds.

   {1:12} 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. {1:13} The children of thy elect sister
greet thee. Amen.





The Second Book of the KingsCommonly Called the Fourth Book of the Kings

   {1:1} Then Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.
{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 Baal-zebub the god of Ekron whether I shall
recover of this disease. {1:3} 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 Baal-zebub the god of Ekron? {1:4}
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.

   {1:5} And when the messengers turned back unto him, he said unto
them, Why are ye now turned back? {1:6} And they said unto him, There
came a man up to meet us, and 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 Baal-zebub the god of Ekron? therefore thou shalt not come down from
that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die. {1:7} And he
said unto them, What manner of man [was he] which came up to meet you,
and told you these words? {1:8} And they answered him, [He was] an
hairy man, and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he
said, It [is] Elijah the Tishbite. {1:9} 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. {1:10} 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. {1:11} 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.
{1:12} 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.

   {1:13} 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. {1:14} 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. {1:15} 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. {1:16} And he
said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Forasmuch as thou hast sent
messengers to enquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron, [is it] not
because [there is] no God in Israel to enquire of his word? therefore
thou shalt not come down off that bed on which thou art gone up, but
shalt surely die.

   {1:17} So he died according to the word of the LORD which Elijah had
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. {1:18} Now
the rest of the acts of Ahaziah which he did, [are] they not written in
the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

   {2:1} And it came to pass, when the LORD would take up Elijah into
heaven by a whirlwind, that Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal. {2:2}
And Elijah said unto Elisha, Tarry here, I pray thee; for the LORD 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.
{2:3} 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. {2:4} 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. {2:5} 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. {2:6} 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. {2:7} And fifty men of the sons of the prophets went, and
stood to view afar off: and they two stood by Jordan. {2:8} And Elijah
took his mantle, and wrapped [it] together, and smote the waters, and
they were divided hither and thither, so that they two went over on dry
ground.

   {2:9} 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. {2:10} 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. {2:11} 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.

   {2:12} 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.
{2:13} He took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and
went back, and stood by the bank of Jordan; {2:14} And he took the
mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and smote 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. {2:15}
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.

   {2:16} 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. {2:17} 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. {2:18} And when they came again to him, (for he tarried
at Jericho,) he said unto them, Did I not say unto you, Go not?

   {2:19} And the men of the city said unto Elisha, Behold, I pray
thee, the situation of this city [is] pleasant, as my lord seeth: but
the water [is] naught, and the ground barren. {2:20} And he said, Bring
me a new cruse, and put salt therein. And they bring [it] to him.
{2:21} And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast the
salt 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.
]{2:22} So the waters were healed unto this day, according to the
saying of Elisha which he spake.

   {2:23} And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going
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. {2:24} 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. {2:25} And he went from
thence to mount Carmel, and from thence he returned to Samaria.

   {3:1} Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in
Samaria the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned
twelve years. {3:2} And he wrought evil in the sight of the LORD; but
not like his father, and like his mother: for he put away the image of
Baal that his father had made. {3:3} Nevertheless he cleaved unto the
sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which made Israel to sin; he
departed not therefrom.

   {3:4} And Mesha king of Moab was a sheepmaster, and rendered unto
the king of Israel an hundred thousand lambs, and an hundred thousand
rams, with the wool. {3:5} But it came to pass, when Ahab was dead,
that the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.

   {3:6} And king Jehoram went out of Samaria the same time, and
numbered all Israel. {3:7} And he went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king
of Judah, saying, 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.
{3:8} And he said, Which way shall we go up? And he answered, The way
through the wilderness of Edom. {3:9} So the king of Israel went, and
the king of Judah, and the king of 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. {3:10} And the king of Israel said, Alas!
that the LORD hath called these three kings together, to deliver them
into the hand of Moab! {3:11} 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. {3:12}
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. {3:13}
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. {3:14} 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. {3:15} But now bring me a minstrel. And it came to pass, when the
minstrel played, that the hand of the LORD came upon him. {3:16} And he
said, Thus saith the LORD, Make this valley full of ditches. {3:17} 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. {3:18} And this is [but] a light
thing in the sight of the LORD: he will deliver the Moabites also into
your hand. {3:19} And ye shall smite every fenced city, and every
choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all wells of
water, and mar every good piece of land with stones. {3:20} 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.

   {3:21} 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. {3:22} 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: {3:23} And
they said, This [is] blood: the kings are surely slain, and they have
smitten one another: now therefore, Moab, to the spoil. {3:24} And when
they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose up and smote the
Moabites, so that they fled before them: but they went forward smiting
the Moabites, even in [their] country. {3:25} 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 Kir-haraseth left they the stones thereof; howbeit
the slingers went about [it,] and smote it.

   {3:26} 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. {3:27} 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.

   {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. {4:2} 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. {4:3} Then he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad
of all thy neighbours, [even] empty vessels; borrow not a few. {4:4}
And when thou art come in, thou shalt shut the door upon thee and upon
thy sons, and shalt pour out into all those vessels, and thou shalt set
aside that which is full. {4:5} 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. {4:6} 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. {4:7} 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.

   {4:8} 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.
{4:9} And she said unto her husband, Behold now, I perceive that this
[is] an holy man of God, which passeth by us continually. {4:10} Let us
make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall; and let us 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. {4:11} And it
fell on a day, that he came thither, and he turned into the chamber,
and lay there. {4:12} And he said to Gehazi his servant, Call this
Shunammite. And when he had called her, she stood before him. {4:13}
And he said unto him, Say now unto her, Behold, thou hast been 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. {4:14} And he said, What then
[is] to be done for her? And Gehazi answered, Verily she hath no child,
and her husband is old. {4:15} And he said, Call her. And when he had
called her, she stood in the door. {4:16} 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. {4:17} And the woman conceived, and bare a son at that season
that Elisha had said unto her, according to the time of life.

   {4:18} And when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went
out to his father to the reapers. {4:19} And he said unto his father,
My head, my head. And he said to a lad, Carry him to his mother. {4:20}
And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her
knees till noon, and [then] died. {4:21} And she went up, and laid him
on the bed of the man of God, and shut [the door] upon him, and went
out. {4:22} And she called unto her husband, and said, Send me, I pray
thee, one of the young men, and one of the asses, that I may run to the
man of God, and come again. {4:23} And he said, Wherefore wilt thou go
to him to day? [it is] neither new moon, nor sabbath. And she said, [It
shall be] well. {4:24} Then she saddled an ass, and said to her
servant, Drive, and go forward; slack not [thy] riding for me, except I
bid thee. {4:25} 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:
{4:26} 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. {4:27} 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. {4:28} Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord?
did I not say, Do not deceive me? {4:29} Then he said to Gehazi, Gird
up thy loins, and take my staff in 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. {4:30} 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. {4:31}
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.
{4:32} And when Elisha was come into the house, behold, the child was
dead, [and] laid upon his bed. {4:33} He went in therefore, and shut
the door upon them twain, and prayed unto the LORD. {4:34} And he went
up, and lay upon the child, and put his mouth upon his mouth, and his
eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands: and he stretched
himself upon the child; and the flesh of the child waxed warm. {4:35}
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. {4:36} 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. {4:37} Then she went in, and fell at his feet,
and bowed herself to the ground, and took up her son, and went out.

   {4:38} And Elisha came again to Gilgal: and [there was] a dearth in
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. {4:39} 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. {4:40} 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. ]{4:41} 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.

   {4:42} And there came a man from Baal-shalisha, 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. {4:43} 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.
]{4:44} So he set [it] before them, and they did eat, and left
[thereof,] according to the word of the LORD.

   {5:1} 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. {5:2} 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. {5:3} And she said unto her mistress,
Would God my lord [were] with the prophet that [is] in Samaria! for he
would recover him of his leprosy. {5:4} And [one] went in, and told his
lord, saying, Thus and thus said the maid that [is] of the land of
Israel. {5:5} And the king of Syria said, Go to, go, and I will send a
letter unto 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. {5:6} 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. {5:7} 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.

   {5:8} 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. {5:9} So Naaman came with
his horses and with his chariot, and stood at the door of the house of
Elisha. {5:10} And Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying, Go and
wash in the Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee,
and thou shalt be clean. {5:11} 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. {5:12} [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.
{5:13} 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? {5:14} 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.

   {5:15} 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 earth, but in Israel: now therefore, I pray
thee, take a blessing of thy servant. {5:16} But he said, [As] the LORD
liveth, before whom I stand, I will receive none. And he urged him to
take [it;] but he refused. {5:17} And Naaman said, Shall there not
then, I pray thee, be given to 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. {5:18} 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. {5:19} And he said unto him, Go
in peace. So he departed from him a little way.

   {5:20} 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. {5:21} 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? {5:22} 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. {5:23} 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. {5:24} 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. {5:25} 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. {5:26} 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? {5:27} 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.

   {6:1} And the sons of the prophets said unto Elisha, Behold now, the
place where we dwell with thee is too strait for us. {6:2} Let us go,
we pray thee, unto Jordan, and take thence every man a beam, and let us
make us a place there, where we may dwell. And he answered, Go ye.
{6:3} And one said, Be content, I pray thee, and go with thy servants.
And he answered, I will go. {6:4} So he went with them. And when they
came to Jordan, they cut down wood. {6:5} But as one was felling a
beam, the axe head fell into the water: and he cried, and said, Alas,
master! for it was borrowed. {6:6} And the man of God said, Where fell
it? And he shewed him the place. And he cut down a stick, and cast [it]
in thither; and the iron did swim. {6:7} Therefore said he, Take [it]
up to thee. And he put out his hand, and took it.

   {6:8} Then the king of Syria warred against Israel, and took counsel
with his servants, saying, In such and such a place [shall be] my camp.
{6:9} 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.
{6:10} 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. {6:11} 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?
{6:12} 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.

   {6:13} And he said, Go and spy where he [is,] that I may send and
fetch him. And it was told him, saying, Behold, [he is] in Dothan.
{6:14} Therefore sent he thither horses, and chariots, and a great
host: and they came by night, and compassed the city about. {6:15} And
when the servant of the man of God was risen early, and 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? {6:16} And
he answered, Fear not: for they that [be] with us [are] more than they
that [be] with them. {6:17} And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray
thee, open his eyes, 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. {6:18} 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.

   {6:19} 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. {6:20} 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. {6:21} And the king
of Israel said unto Elisha, when he saw them, My father, shall I smite
[them?] shall I smite [them? ]{6:22} And he answered, Thou shalt not
smite [them:] wouldest thou smite those whom thou hast taken captive
with thy sword and with thy bow? set bread and water before them, that
they may eat and drink, and go to their master. {6:23} And he prepared
great provision for them: and when they had 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.

   {6:24} And it came to pass after this, that Ben-hadad king of Syria
gathered all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria. {6:25} 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.
{6:26} And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there
cried a woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O king. {6:27} And he
said, If the LORD do not help thee, whence shall I help thee? out of
the barnfloor, or out of the winepress? {6:28} And the king said unto
her, What aileth thee? And she answered, This woman said unto me, Give
thy son, that we may eat him to day, and we will eat my son to morrow.
{6:29} 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.

   {6:30} 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. {6:31} Then he said, God do so and more also to me, if the head
of Elisha the son of Shaphat shall stand on him this day. {6:32} But
Elisha sat in his house, and the elders sat with him; and [the 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?
{6:33} 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?

   {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. {7:2} 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.

   {7:3} 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? {7:4}
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. {7:5} 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. {7:6} 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. {7:7} 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.
{7:8} 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. ]{7:9} 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. {7:10} 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. ]{7:11} And he called the porters; and they told [it] to
the king's house within.

   {7:12} 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. {7:13} 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. {7:14} They took therefore two chariot horses; and the
king sent after the host of the Syrians, saying, Go and see. {7:15} And
they went after them unto Jordan: and, lo, all the way [was] full of
garments and vessels, which the Syrians had cast away in their haste.
And the messengers returned, and told the king. {7:16} 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.

   {7:17} 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. {7:18} 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: {7:19} 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. {7:20} And so it fell out unto him: for the
people trode upon him in the gate, and he died.

   {8:1} Then spake Elisha unto the woman, whose son he had restored to
life, saying, Arise, and go thou and thine household, and sojourn
wheresoever thou canst sojourn: for the LORD hath called for a famine;
and it shall also come upon the land seven years. {8:2} And the woman
arose, and did after the saying of the man of God: and she went with
her household, and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven
years. {8:3} 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. {8:4} 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. {8:5} 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. {8:6} 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.

   {8:7} And Elisha came to Damascus; and Ben-hadad the king of Syria
was sick; and it was told him, saying, The man of God is come hither.
{8:8} 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? {8:9} 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 Ben-hadad king
of Syria hath sent me to thee, saying, Shall I recover of this disease?
{8:10} And Elisha said unto him, Go, say unto him, Thou mayest
certainly recover: howbeit the LORD hath shewed me that he shall surely
die. {8:11} And he settled his countenance stedfastly, until he was
ashamed: and the man of God wept. {8:12} And Hazael said, Why weepeth
my lord? And he answered, 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. {8:13} 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. {8:14} 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. {8:15} 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.

   {8:16} And in the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of
Israel, Jehoshaphat [being] then king of Judah, Jehoram the son of
Jehoshaphat king of Judah began to reign. {8:17} Thirty and two years
old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned eight years in
Jerusalem. {8:18} And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as
did the house of Ahab: for the daughter of Ahab was his wife: and he
did evil in the sight of the LORD. {8:19} 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.

   {8:20} In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and
made a king over themselves. {8:21} So Joram went over to Zair, and all
the chariots with him: and he rose by night, and smote the Edomites
which compassed him about, and the captains of the chariots: and the
people fled into their tents. {8:22} Yet Edom revolted from under the
hand of Judah unto this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time.
{8:23} And the rest of the acts of Joram, and all that he did, [are]
they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
{8:24} And Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried with his
fathers in the city of David: and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead.

   {8:25} In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel
did Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah begin to reign. {8:26} Two
and twenty years old [was] Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he
reigned one year in Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was] Athaliah,
the daughter of Omri king of Israel. {8:27} 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.

   {8:28} And he went with Joram the son of Ahab to the war against
Hazael king of Syria in Ramoth-gilead; and the Syrians wounded Joram.
{8:29} And king Joram went back to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds
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.

   {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 Ramoth-gilead: {9:2} 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; {9:3} 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.

   {9:4} So the young man, [even] the young man the prophet, went to
Ramoth-gilead. {9:5} 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. {9:6}
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.
{9:7} 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. {9:8} 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: {9:9} 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: {9:10} 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.

   {9:11} 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. {9:12}
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. {9:13} 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. {9:14} So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat
the son of Nimshi conspired against Joram. (Now Joram had kept
Ramoth-gilead, he and all Israel, because of Hazael king of Syria.
{9:15} 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. {9:16} 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. {9:17} 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? {9:18}
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. {9:19} 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. {9:20} 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. {9:21} 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.
{9:22} And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, [Is it]
peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peace, so long as the whoredoms of
thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts [are so] many? {9:23} And Joram
turned his hands, and fled, and said to Ahaziah, [There is] treachery,
O Ahaziah. {9:24} And Jehu drew a bow with his full strength, and smote
Jehoram between his arms, and the arrow went out at his heart, and he
sunk down in his chariot. {9:25} 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; {9:26}
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.

   {9:27} 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. {9:28}
And his servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him
in his sepulchre with his fathers in the city of David. {9:29} And in
the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah to reign over
Judah.

   {9:30} 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.
{9:31} And as Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, [Had] Zimri peace,
who slew his master? {9:32} And he lifted up his face to the window,
and said, Who [is] on my side? who? And there looked out to him two
[or] three eunuchs. {9:33} 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. {9:34} 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. {9:35} 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. {9:36} 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: {9:37} 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.

   {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, {10:2} 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; {10:3} 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. {10:4} But they were exceedingly afraid, and said, Behold, two
kings stood not before him: how then shall we stand? {10:5} And he that
[was] over the house, and he that [was] over the city, 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. {10:6} 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. {10:7} 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.

   {10:8} 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. {10:9} 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? {10:10} 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. {10:11} 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.

   {10:12} And he arose and departed, and came to Samaria. [And] as he
[was] at the shearing house in the way, {10:13} Jehu met with the
brethren of Ahaziah king of Judah, and said, 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. {10:14} 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.

   {10:15} 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. {10:16} And
he said, Come with me, and see my zeal for the LORD. So they made him
ride in his chariot. {10:17} And when he came to Samaria, he slew all
that remained unto Ahab in Samaria, till he had destroyed him,
according to the saying of the LORD, which he spake to Elijah.

   {10:18} And Jehu gathered all the people together, and said unto
them, Ahab served Baal a little; [but] Jehu shall serve him much.
{10:19} 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. {10:20} And Jehu said, Proclaim a
solemn assembly for Baal. And they proclaimed [it. ]{10:21} 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. {10:22}
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.
{10:23} 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. {10:24} 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. {10:25} 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. {10:26} And they
brought forth the images out of the house of Baal, and burned them.
{10:27} And they brake down the image of Baal, and brake down the house
of Baal, and made it a draught house unto this day. {10:28} Thus Jehu
destroyed Baal out of Israel.

   {10:29} 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. {10:30}
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. {10:31} 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.

   {10:32} In those days the LORD began to cut Israel short: and Hazael
smote them in all the coasts of Israel; {10:33} From Jordan eastward,
all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the
Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, even Gilead and
Bashan. {10:34} 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? {10:35} And Jehu slept with his fathers: and
they buried him in Samaria. And Jehoahaz his son reigned in his stead.
{10:36} And the time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria [was]
twenty and eight years.

   {11:1} And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was
dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal. {11:2} But Jehosheba,
the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, 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. {11:3} And he was with her hid in
the house of the LORD six years. And Athaliah did reign over the land.

   {11:4} And the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the rulers
over 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.
{11:5} 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; {11:6} 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. {11:7} 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.
{11:8} 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.
{11:9} 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. {11:10} And to the
captains over hundreds did the priest give king David's spears and
shields, that [were] in the temple of the LORD. {11:11} 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. {11:12} 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.

   {11:13} And when Athaliah heard the noise of the guard [and] of the
people, she came to the people into the temple of the LORD. {11:14} 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. {11:15} 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. {11:16} 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.

   {11:17} 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. {11:18} 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. {11:19} 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.
{11:20} 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.
{11:21} Seven years old [was] Jehoash when he began to reign.

   {12:1} In the seventh year of Jehu Jehoash began to reign; and forty
years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was] Zibiah of
Beer-sheba. {12:2} And Jehoash did [that which was] right in the sight
of the LORD all his days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
{12:3} But the high places were not taken away: the people still
sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

   {12:4} And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the
dedicated 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, {12:5} 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. {12:6} But it was
[so, that] in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash the priests
had not repaired the breaches of the house. {12:7} Then king Jehoash
called for Jehoiada the priest, and the [other] 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. {12:8} And the priests consented to receive no
[more] money of the people, neither to repair the breaches of the
house. {12:9} But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in
the lid of 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. {12:10} 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. {12:11} 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, {12:12} 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. ]{12:13} Howbeit there were not made for the house of the
LORD bowls of silver, snuffers, basons, trumpets, any vessels of gold,
or vessels of silver, of the money [that was] brought into the house of
the LORD: {12:14} But they gave that to the workmen, and repaired
therewith the house of the LORD. {12:15} Moreover they reckoned not
with the men, into whose hand they delivered the money to be bestowed
on workmen: for they dealt faithfully. {12:16} The trespass money and
sin money was not brought into the house of the LORD: it was the
priests'.

   {12:17} Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against Gath,
and took it: and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem. {12:18} And
Jehoash king of Judah took all the hallowed things that Jehoshaphat,
and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated,
and his own hallowed things, and all the gold [that was] found in the
treasures of the house of the LORD, and in the king's house, and sent
[it] to Hazael king of Syria: and he went away from Jerusalem.

   {12:19} And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did,
[are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Judah? {12:20} And his servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and slew
Joash in the house of Millo, which goeth down to Silla. {12:21} For
Jozachar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of 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.

   {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. {13:2} 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.

   {13:3} 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 Ben-hadad the son of Hazael, all [their] days. {13:4} 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. {13:5}
(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. {13:6} 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.) {13:7} 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.

   {13:8} 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? {13:9} And Jehoahaz slept with his fathers; and
they buried him in Samaria: and Joash his son reigned in his stead.

   {13:10} In the thirty and seventh year of Joash king of Judah began
Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz to reign over Israel in Samaria, [and
reigned] sixteen years. {13:11} 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. {13:12} 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? {13:13}
And Joash slept with his fathers; and Jeroboam sat upon his throne: and
Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel.

   {13:14} 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. {13:15} And Elisha said unto him, Take bow and
arrows. And he took unto him bow and arrows. {13:16} And he said to the
king of Israel, Put thine hand upon the bow. And he put his hand [upon
it:] and Elisha put his hands upon the king's hands. {13:17} 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. ]{13:18} 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. {13:19}
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.

   {13:20} And Elisha died, and they buried him. And the bands of the
Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the year. {13:21} And it
came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, 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.

   {13:22} But Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days of
Jehoahaz. {13:23} 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. {13:24} So Hazael king of Syria
died; and Ben- hadad his son reigned in his stead. {13:25} And Jehoash
the son of Jehoahaz took again out of the hand of Ben-hadad 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.

   {14:1} In the second year of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel
reigned Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah. {14:2} He was twenty
and five years old when he began to reign, and reigned twenty and nine
years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was] Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.
{14:3} 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. {14:4} Howbeit the high places were not taken away: as yet
the people did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places.

   {14:5} And it came to pass, as soon as the kingdom was confirmed in
his hand, that he slew his servants which had slain the king his
father. {14:6} 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. {14:7} 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.

   {14:8} 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. {14:9} 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. {14:10} 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? {14:11} 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 Beth-shemesh, which [belongeth] to Judah.
{14:12} And Judah was put to the worse before Israel; and they fled
every man to their tents. {14:13} And Jehoash king of Israel took
Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Beth-
shemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem
from the gate of Ephraim unto the corner gate, four hundred cubits.
{14:14} And he took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that
were found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's
house, and hostages, and returned to Samaria.

   {14:15} 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? {14:16}
And Jehoash slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria with the
kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned in his stead.

   {14:17} And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the
death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years. {14:18}
And the rest of the acts of Amaziah, [are] they not written in the book
of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? {14:19} Now they made a
conspiracy against him in Jerusalem: and he fled to Lachish; but they
sent after him to Lachish, and slew him there. {14:20} And they brought
him on horses: and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in the
city of David.

   {14:21} And all the people of Judah took Azariah, which [was]
sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.
{14:22} He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king
slept with his fathers.

   {14:23} In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of
Judah Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel began to reign in
Samaria, [and reigned] forty and one years. {14:24} 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. {14:25} 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 Gath-hepher. {14:26} 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. {14:27} 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.

   {14:28} Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did,
and his might, how he warred, and how he recovered Damascus, and
Hamath, [which belonged] to Judah, for Israel, are they not written in
the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? {14:29} And Jeroboam
slept with his fathers, [even] with the kings of Israel; and Zachariah
his son reigned in his stead.

   {15:1} In the twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel
began Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah to reign. {15:2} Sixteen
years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned two and fifty
years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was] Jecholiah of Jerusalem.
{15:3} And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD,
according to all that his father Amaziah had done; {15:4} Save that the
high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense
still on the high places.

   {15:5} And the LORD smote the king, so that he was a leper unto the
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. {15:6} And
the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, [are] they not
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? {15:7} So
Azariah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his fathers in
the city of David: and Jotham his son reigned in his stead.

   {15:8} In the thirty and eighth year of Azariah king of Judah did
Zachariah the son of Jeroboam reign over Israel in Samaria six months.
{15:9} 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. {15:10} And Shallum the son of Jabesh
conspired against him, and smote him before the people, and slew him,
and reigned in his stead. {15:11} And the rest of the acts of
Zachariah, behold, they [are] written in the book of the chronicles of
the kings of Israel. {15:12} This [was] the word of the LORD which he
spake unto Jehu, saying, Thy sons shall sit on the throne of Israel
unto the fourth [generation.] And so it came to pass.

   {15:13} Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the nine and
thirtieth year of Uzziah king of Judah; and he reigned a full month in
Samaria. {15:14} For Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah, and
came to Samaria, and smote Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria, and
slew him, and reigned in his stead. {15:15} 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.

   {15:16} 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. {15:17} 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. {15:18} 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. {15:19} [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. {15:20} 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.

   {15:21} 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? {15:22} And Menahem slept with his fathers; and Pekahiah his
son reigned in his stead.

   {15:23} 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. {15:24} 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. {15:25} 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. {15:26} 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.

   {15:27} In the two and fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekah
the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, [and
reigned] twenty years. {15:28} 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. {15:29} In the days of Pekah king of
Israel came Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and
Abel-beth-maachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and
Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria.
{15:30} 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. {15:31} 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.

   {15:32} In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of
Israel began Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah to reign. {15:33}
Five and twenty years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned
sixteen years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was] Jerusha, the
daughter of Zadok. {15:34} And he did [that which was] right in the
sight of the LORD: he did according to all that his father Uzziah had
done.

   {15:35} Howbeit the high places were not removed: the people
sacrificed and burned incense still in the high places. He built the
higher gate of the house of the LORD.

   {15:36} Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that he did,
[are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Judah? {15:37} In those days the LORD began to send against Judah Rezin
the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah. {15:38} And Jotham
slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of
David his father: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.

   {16:1} In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the
son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign. {16:2} Twenty years old
[was] Ahaz when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in
Jerusalem, and did not [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD
his God, like David his father. {16:3} But he walked in the way of the
kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire,
according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out
from before the children of Israel. {16:4} And he sacrificed and burnt
incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green
tree.

   {16:5} Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of
Israel came up to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged Ahaz, but could
not overcome [him. ]{16:6} 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. {16:7} So Ahaz sent messengers to
Tiglath-pileser 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. {16:8} 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. {16:9} 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.

   {16:10} And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser 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. {16:11} 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.
{16:12} And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the
altar: and the king approached to the altar, and offered thereon.
{16:13} 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. {16:14} 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. {16:15} 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.
]{16:16} Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that king Ahaz
commanded.

   {16:17} 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 a pavement of stones. {16:18} 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.

   {16:19} Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did, [are] they
not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
{16:20} And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his
fathers in the city of David: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.

   {17:1} In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea the
son of Elah to reign in Samaria over Israel nine years. {17:2} And he
did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD, but not as the
kings of Israel that were before him.

   {17:3} Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea
became his servant, and gave him presents. {17:4} And the king of
Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea: for he had sent messengers to So
king of Egypt, and brought no present to the king of Assyria, as [he
had done] year by year: therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and
bound him in prison.

   {17:5} Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and
went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.

   {17:6} In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria,
and 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. {17:7}
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, {17:8} 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. {17:9} 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. {17:10} And they set them up
images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree:
{17:11} 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: {17:12} For they served idols,
whereof the LORD had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.
{17:13} Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by
all 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. {17:14} 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. {17:15} 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. {17:16} 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. {17:17} 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. {17:18} 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. {17:19} Also Judah
kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the
statutes of Israel which they made. {17:20} And the LORD rejected all
the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the
hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight. {17:21} 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. {17:22} For the children of Israel walked in
all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they departed not from them;
{17:23} Until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he had said
by all his servants the prophets. So was Israel carried away out of
their own land to Assyria unto this day.

   {17:24} 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. {17:25} 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. {17:26} 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. {17:27} 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. {17:28} 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. {17:29} 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. {17:30} And the men of Babylon made
Succoth-benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath
made Ashima, {17:31} And the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the
Sepharvites burnt their children in fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech,
the gods of Sepharvaim. {17:32} So they feared the LORD, and made unto
themselves of the lowest of them priests of the high places, which
sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places. {17:33} They
feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner of the
nations whom they carried away from thence. {17:34} Unto this day they
do after the former manners: they fear not the LORD, neither do they
after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law and
commandment which the LORD commanded the children of Jacob, whom he
named Israel; {17:35} With whom the LORD had made a covenant, and
charged them saying, Ye shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves
to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them: {17:36} 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. {17:37} And the statutes, and the
ordinances, and the law, and the commandment, which he wrote for you,
ye shall observe to do for evermore; and ye shall not fear other gods.
{17:38} And the covenant that I have made with you ye shall not forget;
neither shall ye fear other gods. {17:39} But the LORD your God ye
shall fear; and he shall deliver you out of the hand of all your
enemies. {17:40} Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their
former manner. {17:41} 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.

   {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. {18:2} 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. {18:3} And he did [that
which was] right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David
his father did.

   {18:4} He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut
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. {18:5} 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. {18:6} For he clave to the LORD,
[and] departed not from following him, but kept his commandments, which
the LORD commanded Moses. {18:7} And the LORD was with him; [and] he
prospered whithersoever he went forth: and he rebelled against the king
of Assyria, and served him not. {18:8} He smote the Philistines, [even]
unto Gaza, and the borders thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to
the fenced city.

   {18:9} And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah,
which [was] the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel,
[that] Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and
besieged it. {18:10} And at the end of three years they took it: [even]
in the sixth year of Hezekiah, that [is] the ninth year of Hoshea king
of Israel, Samaria was taken. {18:11} And the king of Assyria did carry
away Israel unto Assyria, and put them in Halah and in Habor [by] the
river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes: {18:12} 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. ]{18:13} 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. {18:14} 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. {18:15} And
Hezekiah gave [him] all the silver that was found in the house of the
LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house. {18:16} At that time
did Hezekiah cut off [the gold from] the doors of the temple of the
LORD, and [from] the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid,
and gave it to the king of Assyria.

   {18:17} And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and
Rab-shakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against
Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were
come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is
in the highway of the fuller's field. {18:18} And when they had called
to the king, there came out to them Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which
[was] over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of
Asaph the recorder. {18:19} And Rab- shakeh said unto them, Speak ye
now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What
confidence is this wherein thou trustest? {18:20} 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? {18:21}
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.
{18:22} 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? {18:23} 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. {18:24}
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? {18:25} 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. {18:26} Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna,
and Joah, unto Rab-shakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the
Syrian language; for we understand [it:] and talk not with us in the
Jews' language in the ears of the people that [are] on the wall.
{18:27} But Rab-shakeh said unto them, Hath my master sent me to thy
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. {18:28} Then Rab-shakeh 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: {18:29} Thus saith the
king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver
you out of his hand: {18:30} Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the
LORD, saying, The LORD will surely deliver us, and this city shall not
be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria. {18:31} 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: {18:32} 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. {18:33} Hath any of the gods of the nations
delivered at all his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
{18:34} Where [are] the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? where [are] the
gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? have they delivered Samaria out of
mine hand? {18:35} 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? {18:36} But the people held
their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's commandment
was, saying, Answer him not. {18:37} Then came Eliakim the son of
Hilkiah, which [was] over 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 Rab-shakeh.

   {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. {19:2} 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. {19:3}
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. {19:4} It may be the
LORD thy God will hear all the words of Rab-shakeh, 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. {19:5} So the servants of
king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.

   {19:6} 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.
{19:7} 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.

   {19:8} So Rab-shakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring
against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.
{19:9} And when he heard say of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, Behold, he
is come out to fight against thee: he sent messengers again unto
Hezekiah, saying, {19:10} 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 delivered into the hand of the king of
Assyria. {19:11} Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have
done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shalt thou be
delivered? {19:12} Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my
fathers have destroyed; [as] Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the
children of Eden which [were] in Thelasar? {19:13} Where [is] the king
of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of
Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivah?

   {19:14} And Hezekiah received the letter of the hand of the
messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up into the house of the
LORD, and spread it before the LORD. {19:15} 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. {19:16} 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.
{19:17} Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the
nations and their lands, {19:18} And have cast their gods into the
fire: for they [were] no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and
stone: therefore they have destroyed them. {19:19} 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.

   {19:20} 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. {19:21} 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. {19:22} 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. {19:23} By the messengers thou hast reproached the Lord, and
hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height
of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall
cedar trees thereof, [and] the choice fir trees thereof: and I will
enter into the lodgings of his borders, [and into] the forest of his
Carmel. {19:24} I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the
sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.
{19:25} Hast thou not heard long ago [how] I have done it, [and] of
ancient 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.
{19:26} 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. {19:27} But I know thy abode, and thy
going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me. {19:28} Because
thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into 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. {19:29} And this [shall
be] a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such things as grow of
themselves, and in the second year that which springeth of the same;
and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat
the fruits thereof. {19:30} And the remnant that is escaped of the
house of Judah shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit
upward. {19:31} For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they
that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD [of hosts] shall do
this. {19:32} 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. {19:33} By
the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come
into this city, saith the LORD. {19:34} For I will defend this city, to
save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.

   {19:35} And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD
went 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. {19:36} So Sennacherib king of Assyria
departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh. {19:37} And it
came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god,
that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword: and
they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esar- haddon his son reigned
in his stead.

   {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.
{20:2} Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto the LORD,
saying, {20:3} 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. {20:4} And it came
to pass, afore Isaiah was gone out into the middle court, that the word
of the LORD came to him, saying, {20:5} Turn again, and tell Hezekiah
the captain of my people, Thus 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. {20:6} 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. {20:7} And Isaiah said, Take a lump of figs. And they took and
laid [it] on the boil, and he recovered.

   {20:8} And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah, What [shall be] the sign that
the LORD will heal me, and that I shall go up into the house of the
LORD the third day? {20:9} 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? {20:10} 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. {20:11}
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.

   {20:12} At that time Berodach-baladan, the son of Baladan, king of
Babylon, sent letters and a present unto Hezekiah: for he had heard
that Hezekiah had been sick. {20:13} 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.

   {20:14} 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.
{20:15} 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.
{20:16} And Isaiah said unto Hezekiah, Hear the word of the LORD.
{20:17} 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. {20:18}
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. {20:19} 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?

   {20:20} 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? {20:21} And Hezekiah slept with his fathers: and Manasseh his
son reigned in his stead.

   {21:1} Manasseh [was] twelve years old when he began to reign, and
reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was]
Hephzi-bah. {21:2} 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. {21:3} 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. {21:4} And he built altars in
the house of the LORD, of which the LORD said, In Jerusalem will I put
my name. {21:5} And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the
two courts of the house of the LORD. {21:6} And he made his son pass
through the fire, and observed times, 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. {21:7} 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: {21:8} 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. {21:9}
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.

   {21:10} And the LORD spake by his servants the prophets, saying,
{21:11} Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations,
[and] hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, which [were]
before him, and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols: {21:12}
Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Behold, I [am] bringing
[such] evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever heareth of it,
both his ears shall tingle. {21:13} And I will stretch over Jerusalem
the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will
wipe Jerusalem as [a man] wipeth a dish, wiping [it,] and turning [it]
upside down. {21:14} And I will forsake the remnant of mine
inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they
shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies; {21:15} 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. {21:16} 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.

   {21:17} 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? {21:18} 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.

   {21:19} 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. {21:20} And he did [that
which was] evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh did.
{21:21} And he walked in all the way that his father walked in, and
served the idols that his father served, and worshipped them: {21:22}
And he forsook the LORD God of his fathers, and walked not in the way
of the LORD.

   {21:23} And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and slew the
king in his own house. {21:24} And 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. {21:25} Now the rest of the acts of
Amon which he did, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles
of the kings of Judah? {21:26} And he was buried in his sepulchre in
the garden of Uzza: and Josiah his son reigned in his stead.

   {22:1} 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. {22:2} 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.

   {22:3} 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, {22:4} 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: {22:5} 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, {22:6} Unto carpenters, and
builders, and masons, and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the
house. {22:7} Howbeit there was no reckoning made with them of the
money that was delivered into their hand, because they dealt faithfully.

   {22:8} 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. {22:9} 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. {22:10} And Shaphan the scribe
shewed the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath delivered me a book.
And Shaphan read it before the king. {22:11} And it came to pass, when
the king had heard the words of the book of the law, that he rent his
clothes. {22:12} And the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam
the son of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Michaiah, and Shaphan the
scribe, and Asahiah a servant of the king's, saying, {22:13} 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. {22:14} 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.

   {22:15} And she said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel,
Tell the man that sent you to me, {22:16} Thus saith the LORD, Behold,
I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof,
[even] all the words of the book which the king of Judah hath read:
{22:17} 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. {22:18} 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;
{22:19} 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. {22:20} 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.

   {23:1} And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders
of Judah and of Jerusalem. {23:2} 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.

   {23:3} 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. {23:4} 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. {23:5} 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. {23:6} 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. {23:7} 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. {23:8} 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
Beer-sheba, 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. {23:9}
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. {23:10} 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. {23:11} 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 Nathan- melech
the chamberlain, which [was] in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of
the sun with fire. {23:12} 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. {23:13} 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. {23:14} And he brake in pieces
the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the
bones of men.

   {23:15} 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.
{23:16} 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. {23:17} 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. {23:18} 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. {23:19} 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. {23:20} 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.

   {23:21} 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. {23:22} 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; {23:23} But in the eighteenth
year of king Josiah, [wherein] this passover was holden to the LORD in
Jerusalem.

   {23:24} Moreover the [workers with] familiar spirits, and the
wizards, and 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. {23:25}
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.

   {23:26} 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. {23:27}
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. {23:28}
Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did, [are] they not
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

   {23:29} In his days Pharaoh-nechoh king of Egypt went up against the
king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah went against
him; and he slew him at Megiddo, when he had seen him. {23:30} 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.

   {23:31} 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. {23:32} And he did
[that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that
his fathers had done. {23:33} And Pharaoh-nechoh 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. {23:34} And Pharaoh- nechoh 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. {23:35} And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh;
but he taxed the land to give the money according to the commandment of
Pharaoh: he exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land,
of every one according to his taxation, to give [it] unto
Pharaoh-nechoh.

   {23:36} Jehoiakim [was] twenty and five years old when he began to
reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name
[was] Zebudah, the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah. {23:37} And he did
[that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that
his fathers had done.

   {24:1} In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and
Jehoiakim became his servant three years: then he turned and rebelled
against him. {24:2} 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. {24:3} 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; {24:4} And also for the
innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem with innocent
blood; which the LORD would not pardon.

   {24:5} Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all that he did,
[are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Judah? {24:6} So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers: and Jehoiachin his
son reigned in his stead. {24:7} And the king of Egypt came not again
any more out of his land: for the king of Babylon had taken from the
river of Egypt unto the river Euphrates all that pertained to the king
of Egypt.

   {24:8} Jehoiachin [was] eighteen years old when he began to reign,
and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. And his mother's name [was]
Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem. {24:9} And he did
[that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that
his father had done.

   {24:10} At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon
came up against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged. {24:11} And
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, and his servants
did besiege it. {24:12} And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to
the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his
princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in the
eighth year of his reign. {24:13} And he carried out thence all the
treasures of the house of the 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.
{24:14} 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. {24:15} 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. {24:16} 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.

   {24:17} And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his father's brother
king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah. {24:18} Zedekiah
[was] twenty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned
eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was] Hamutal, the
daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. {24:19} And he did [that which was]
evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had
done. {24:20} For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in
Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence, that
Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

   {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. {25:2}
And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
{25:3} 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.

   {25:4} 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. {25:5} 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. {25:6} So they took
the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they
gave judgment upon him. {25:7} And they slew the sons of Zedekiah
before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with
fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon.

   {25:8} And in the fifth month, on the seventh [day] of the month,
which [is] the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon,
came Nebuzar-adan, captain of the guard, a servant of the king of
Babylon, unto Jerusalem: {25:9} And he burnt the house of the LORD, and
the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great
[man's] house burnt he with fire. {25:10} And all the army of the
Chaldees, that [were with] the captain of the guard, brake down the
walls of Jerusalem round about. {25:11} Now the rest of the people
[that were] left in the city, and the fugitives that fell away to the
king of Babylon, with the remnant of the multitude, did Nebuzar-adan
the captain of the guard carry away. {25:12} But the captain of the
guard left of the poor of the land [to be] vinedressers and husbandmen.
{25:13} And the pillars of brass that [were] in the house of the LORD,
and 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. {25:14} And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and
the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered,
took they away. {25:15} 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. {25:16} 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. {25:17} 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.

   {25:18} And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest,
and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door:
{25:19} 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: {25:20} And Nebuzar-adan
captain of the guard took these, and brought them to the king of
Babylon to Riblah: {25:21} And the king of Babylon smote them, and slew
them at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away out of
their land.

   {25:22} And [as for] the people that remained in the land of Judah,
whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, even over them he made
Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, ruler. {25:23} And when
all the captains of the armies, they and their men, 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. {25:24} 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. {25:25} 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. {25:26} 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.

   {25:27} And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the
captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the
seven and twentieth [day] of the month, [that] Evil-merodach king of
Babylon in the year that he began to reign did lift up the head of
Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison; {25:28} And he spake kindly to
him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that [were] with
him in Babylon; {25:29} And changed his prison garments: and he did eat
bread continually before him all the days of his life. {25:30} And his
allowance [was] a continual allowance given him of the king, a daily
rate for every day, all the days of his life.





The Second Book of the Maccabees

   {1:1} The brethren, the Jews that be at Jerusalem and in the land of
Judea, wish unto the brethren, the Jews that are throughout Egypt
health and peace:

   {1:2} God be gracious unto you, and remember his covenant that he
made with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, his faithful servants;

   {1:3} And give you all an heart to serve him, and to do his will,
with a good courage and a willing mind;

   {1:4} And open your hearts in his law and commandments, and send you
peace,

   {1:5} And hear your prayers, and be at one with you, and never
forsake you in time of trouble.

   {1:6} And now we be here praying for you.

   {1:7} What time as Demetrius reigned, in the hundred threescore and
ninth year, we the Jews wrote unto you in the extremity of trouble that
came upon us in those years, from the time that Jason and his company
revolted from the holy land and kingdom,

   {1:8} And burned the porch, and shed innocent blood: then we prayed
unto the Lord, and were heard; we offered also sacrifices and fine
flour, and lighted the lamps, and set forth the loaves.

   {1:9} And now see that ye keep the feast of tabernacles in the month
Casleu.

   {1:10} In the hundred fourscore and eighth year, the people that
were at Jerusalem and in Judea, and the council, and Judas, sent
greeting and health unto Aristobulus, king Ptolemeus' master, who was
of the stock of the anointed priests, and to the Jews that were in
Egypt:

   {1:11} Insomuch as God hath delivered us from great perils, we thank
him highly, as having been in battle against a king.

   {1:12} For he cast them out that fought within the holy city.

   {1:13} For when the leader was come into Persia, and the army with
him that seemed invincible, they were slain in the temple of Nanea by
the deceit of Nanea's priests.

   {1:14} For Antiochus, as though he would marry her, came into the
place, and his friends that were with him, to receive money in name of
a dowry.

   {1:15} Which when the priests of Nanea had set forth, and he was
entered with a small company into the compass of the temple, they shut
the temple as soon as Antiochus was come in:

   {1:16} And opening a privy door of the roof, they threw stones like
thunderbolts, and struck down the captain, hewed them in pieces, smote
off their heads and cast them to those that were without.

   {1:17} Blessed be our God in all things, who hath delivered up the
ungodly.

   {1:18} Therefore whereas we are now purposed to keep the
purification of the temple upon the five and twentieth day of the month
Casleu, we thought it necessary to certify you thereof, that ye also
might keep it, as the feast of the tabernacles, and of the fire, which
was given us when Neemias offered sacrifice, after that he had builded
the temple and the altar.

   {1:19} For when our fathers were led into Persia, the priests that
were then devout took the fire of the altar privily, and hid it in an
hollow place of a pit without water, where they kept it sure, so that
the place was unknown to all men.

   {1:20} Now after many years, when it pleased God, Neemias, being
sent from the king of Persia, did send of the posterity of those
priests that had hid it to the fire: but when they told us they found
no fire, but thick water;

   {1:21} Then commanded he them to draw it up, and to bring it; and
when the sacrifices were laid on, Neemias commanded the priests to
sprinkle the wood and the things laid thereupon with the water.

   {1:22} When this was done, and the time came that the sun shone,
which afore was hid in the cloud, there was a great fire kindled, so
that every man marvelled.

   {1:23} And the priests made a prayer whilst the sacrifice was
consuming, I say, both the priests, and all the rest, Jonathan
beginning, and the rest answering thereunto, as Neemias did.

   {1:24} And the prayer was after this manner; O Lord, Lord God,
Creator of all things, who art fearful and strong, and righteous, and
merciful, and the only and gracious King,

   {1:25} The only giver of all things, the only just, almighty, and
everlasting, thou that deliverest Israel from all trouble, and didst
choose the fathers, and sanctify them:

   {1:26} Receive the sacrifice for thy whole people Israel, and
preserve thine own portion, and sanctify it.

   {1:27} Gather those together that are scattered from us, deliver
them that serve among the heathen, look upon them that are despised and
abhorred, and let the heathen know that thou art our God.

   {1:28} Punish them that oppress us, and with pride do us wrong.

   {1:29} Plant thy people again in thy holy place, as Moses hath
spoken.

   {1:30} And the priests sung psalms of thanksgiving.

   {1:31} Now when the sacrifice was consumed, Neemias commanded the
water that was left to be poured on the great stones.

   {1:32} When this was done, there was kindled a flame: but it was
consumed by the light that shined from the altar.

   {1:33} So when this matter was known, it was told the king of
Persia, that in the place, where the priests that were led away had hid
the fire, there appeared water, and that Neemias had purified the
sacrifices therewith.

   {1:34} Then the king, inclosing the place, made it holy, after he
had tried the matter.

   {1:35} And the king took many gifts, and bestowed thereof on those
whom he would gratify.

   {1:36} And Neemias called this thing Naphthar, which is as much as
to say, a cleansing: but many men call it Nephi.

   {2:1} It is also found in the records, that Jeremy the prophet
commanded them that were carried away to take of the fire, as it hath
been signified:

   {2:2} And how that the prophet, having given them the law, charged
them not to forget the commandments of the Lord, and that they should
not err in their minds, when they see images of silver and gold, with
their ornaments.

   {2:3} And with other such speeches exhorted he them, that the law
should not depart from their hearts.

   {2:4} It was also contained in the same writing, that the prophet,
being warned of God, commanded the tabernacle and the ark to go with
him, as he went forth into the mountain, where Moses climbed up, and
saw the heritage of God.

   {2:5} And when Jeremy came thither, he found an hollow cave, wherein
he laid the tabernacle, and the ark, and the altar of incense, and so
stopped the door.

   {2:6} And some of those that followed him came to mark the way, but
they could not find it.

   {2:7} Which when Jeremy perceived, he blamed them, saying, As for
that place, it shall be unknown until the time that God gather his
people again together, and receive them unto mercy.

   {2:8} Then shall the Lord shew them these things, and the glory of
the Lord shall appear, and the cloud also, as it was shewed under
Moses, and as when Solomon desired that the place might be honourably
sanctified.

   {2:9} It was also declared, that he being wise offered the sacrifice
of dedication, and of the finishing of the temple.

   {2:10} And as when Moses prayed unto the Lord, the fire came down
from heaven, and consumed the sacrifices: even so prayed Solomon also,
and the fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offerings.

   {2:11} And Moses said, Because the sin offering was not to be eaten,
it was consumed.

   {2:12} So Solomon kept those eight days.

   {2:13} The same things also were reported in the writings and
commentaries of Neemias; and how he founding a library gathered
together the acts of the kings, and the prophets, and of David, and the
epistles of the kings concerning the holy gifts.

   {2:14} In like manner also Judas gathered together all those things
that were lost by reason of the war we had, and they remain with us,

   {2:15} Wherefore if ye have need thereof, send some to fetch them
unto you.

   {2:16} Whereas we then are about to celebrate the purification, we
have written unto you, and ye shall do well, if ye keep the same days.

   {2:17} We hope also, that the God, that delivered all his people,
and gave them all an heritage, and the kingdom, and the priesthood, and
the sanctuary,

   {2:18} As he promised in the law, will shortly have mercy upon us,
and gather us together out of every land under heaven into the holy
place: for he hath delivered us out of great troubles, and hath
purified the place.

   {2:19} Now as concerning Judas Maccabeus, and his brethren, and the
purification of the great temple, and the dedication of the altar,

   {2:20} And the wars against Antiochus Epiphanes, and Eupator his son,

   {2:21} And the manifest signs that came from heaven unto those that
behaved themselves manfully to their honour for Judaism: so that, being
but a few, they overcame the whole country, and chased barbarous
multitudes,

   {2:22} And recovered again the temple renowned all the world over,
and freed the city, and upheld the laws which were going down, the Lord
being gracious unto them with all favour:

   {2:23} All these things, I say, being declared by Jason of Cyrene in
five books, we will assay to abridge in one volume.

   {2:24} For considering the infinite number, and the difficulty which
they find that desire to look into the narrations of the story, for the
variety of the matter,

   {2:25} We have been careful, that they that will read may have
delight, and that they that are desirous to commit to memory might have
ease, and that all into whose hands it comes might have profit.

   {2:26} Therefore to us, that have taken upon us this painful labour
of abridging, it was not easy, but a matter of sweat and watching;

   {2:27} Even as it is no ease unto him that prepareth a banquet, and
seeketh the benefit of others: yet for the pleasuring of many we will
undertake gladly this great pains;

   {2:28} Leaving to the author the exact handling of every particular,
and labouring to follow the rules of an abridgement.

   {2:29} For as the master builder of a new house must care for the
whole building; but he that undertaketh to set it out, and paint it,
must seek out fit things for the adorning thereof: even so I think it
is with us.

   {2:30} To stand upon every point, and go over things at large, and
to be curious in particulars, belongeth to the first author of the
story:

   {2:31} But to use brevity, and avoid much labouring of the work, is
to be granted to him that will make an abridgment.

   {2:32} Here then will we begin the story: only adding thus much to
that which hath been said, that it is a foolish thing to make a long
prologue, and to be short in the story itself.

   {3:1} Now when the holy city was inhabited with all peace, and the
laws were kept very well, because of the godliness of Onias the high
priest, and his hatred of wickedness,

   {3:2} It came to pass that even the kings themselves did honour the
place, and magnify the temple with their best gifts;

   {3:3} Insomuch that Seleucus of Asia of his own revenues bare all
the costs belonging to the service of the sacrifices.

   {3:4} But one Simon of the tribe of Benjamin, who was made governor
of the temple, fell out with the high priest about disorder in the city.

   {3:5} And when he could not overcome Onias, he gat him to Apollonius
the son of Thraseas, who then was governor of Celosyria and Phenice,

   {3:6} And told him that the treasury in Jerusalem was full of
infinite sums of money, so that the multitude of their riches, which
did not pertain to the account of the sacrifices, was innumerable, and
that it was possible to bring all into the king's hand.

   {3:7} Now when Apollonius came to the king, and had shewed him of
the money whereof he was told, the king chose out Heliodorus his
treasurer, and sent him with a commandment to bring him the foresaid
money.

   {3:8} So forthwith Heliodorus took his journey; under a colour of
visiting the cities of Celosyria and Phenice, but indeed to fulfil the
king's purpose.

   {3:9} And when he was come to Jerusalem, and had been courteously
received of the high priest of the city, he told him what intelligence
was given of the money, and declared wherefore he came, and asked if
these things were so indeed.

   {3:10} Then the high priest told him that there was such money laid
up for the relief of widows and fatherless children:

   {3:11} And that some of it belonged to Hircanus son of Tobias, a man
of great dignity, and not as that wicked Simon had misinformed: the sum
whereof in all was four hundred talents of silver, and two hundred of
gold:

   {3:12} And that it was altogether impossible that such wrongs should
be done unto them, that had committed it to the holiness of the place,
and to the majesty and inviolable sanctity of the temple, honoured over
all the world.

   {3:13} But Heliodorus, because of the king's commandment given him,
said, That in any wise it must be brought into the king's treasury.

   {3:14} So at the day which he appointed he entered in to order this
matter: wherefore there was no small agony throughout the whole city.

   {3:15} But the priests, prostrating themselves before the altar in
their priests' vestments, called unto heaven upon him that made a law
concerning things given to he kept, that they should safely be
preserved for such as had committed them to be kept.

   {3:16} Then whoso had looked the high priest in the face, it would
have wounded his heart: for his countenance and the changing of his
colour declared the inward agony of his mind.

   {3:17} For the man was so compassed with fear and horror of the
body, that it was manifest to them that looked upon him, what sorrow he
had now in his heart.

   {3:18} Others ran flocking out of their houses to the general
supplication, because the place was like to come into contempt.

   {3:19} And the women, girt with sackcloth under their breasts,
abounded in the streets, and the virgins that were kept in ran, some to
the gates, and some to the walls, and others looked out of the windows.

   {3:20} And all, holding their hands toward heaven, made supplication.

   {3:21} Then it would have pitied a man to see the falling down of
the multitude of all sorts, and the fear of the high priest being in
such an agony.

   {3:22} They then called upon the Almighty Lord to keep the things
committed of trust safe and sure for those that had committed them.

   {3:23} Nevertheless Heliodorus executed that which was decreed.

   {3:24} Now as he was there present himself with his guard about the
treasury, the Lord of spirits, and the Prince of all power, caused a
great apparition, so that all that presumed to come in with him were
astonished at the power of God, and fainted, and were sore afraid.

   {3:25} For there appeared unto them an horse with a terrible rider
upon him, and adorned with a very fair covering, and he ran fiercely,
and smote at Heliodorus with his forefeet, and it seemed that he that
sat upon the horse had complete harness of gold.

   {3:26} Moreover two other young men appeared before him, notable in
strength, excellent in beauty, and comely in apparel, who stood by him
on either side; and scourged him continually, and gave him many sore
stripes.

   {3:27} And Heliodorus fell suddenly unto the ground, and was
compassed with great darkness: but they that were with him took him up,
and put him into a litter.

   {3:28} Thus him, that lately came with a great train and with all
his guard into the said treasury, they carried out, being unable to
help himself with his weapons: and manifestly they acknowledged the
power of God.

   {3:29} For he by the hand of God was cast down, and lay speechless
without all hope of life.

   {3:30} But they praised the Lord, that had miraculously honoured his
own place: for the temple; which a little afore was full of fear and
trouble, when the Almighty Lord appeared, was filled with joy and
gladness.

   {3:31} Then straightways certain of Heliodorus' friends prayed
Onias, that he would call upon the most High to grant him his life, who
lay ready to give up the ghost.

   {3:32} So the high priest, suspecting lest the king should
misconceive that some treachery had been done to Heliodorus by the
Jews, offered a sacrifice for the health of the man.

   {3:33} Now as the high priest was making an atonement, the same
young men in the same clothing appeared and stood beside Heliodorus,
saying, Give Onias the high priest great thanks, insomuch as for his
sake the Lord hath granted thee life:

   {3:34} And seeing that thou hast been scourged from heaven, declare
unto all men the mighty power of God. And when they had spoken these
words, they appeared no more.

   {3:35} So Heliodorus, after he had offered sacrifice unto the Lord,
and made great vows unto him that had saved his life, and saluted
Onias, returned with his host to the king.

   {3:36} Then testified he to all men the works of the great God,
which he had seen with his eyes.

   {3:37} And when the king Heliodorus, who might be a fit man to be
sent yet once again to Jerusalem, he said,

   {3:38} If thou hast any enemy or traitor, send him thither, and thou
shalt receive him well scourged, if he escape with his life: for in
that place, no doubt; there is an especial power of God.

   {3:39} For he that dwelleth in heaven hath his eye on that place,
and defendeth it; and he beateth and destroyeth them that come to hurt
it.

   {3:40} And the things concerning Heliodorus, and the keeping of the
treasury, fell out on this sort.

   {4:1} This Simon now, of whom we spake afore, having been a betrayer
of the money, and of his country, slandered Onias, as if he ha
terrified Heliodorus, and been the worker of these evils.

   {4:2} Thus was he bold to call him a traitor, that had deserved well
of the city, and tendered his own nation, and was so zealous of the
laws.

   {4:3} But when their hatred went so far, that by one of Simon's
faction murders were committed,

   {4:4} Onias seeing the danger of this contention, and that
Apollonius, as being the governor of Celosyria and Phenice, did rage,
and increase Simon's malice,

   {4:5} He went to the king, not to be an accuser of his countrymen,
but seeking the good of all, both publick and private:

   {4:6} For he saw that it was impossible that the state should
continue quiet, and Simon leave his folly, unless the king did look
thereunto.

   {4:7} But after the death of Seleucus, when Antiochus, called
Epiphanes, took the kingdom, Jason the brother of Onias laboured
underhand to be high priest,

   {4:8} Promising unto the king by intercession three hundred and
threescore talents of silver, and of another revenue eighty talents:

   {4:9} Beside this, he promised to assign an hundred and fifty more,
if he might have licence to set him up a place for exercise, and for
the training up of youth in the fashions of the heathen, and to write
them of Jerusalem by the name of Antiochians.

   {4:10} Which when the king had granted, and he had gotten into his
hand the rule he forthwith brought his own nation to Greekish fashion.

   {4:11} And the royal privileges granted of special favour to the
Jews by the means of John the father of Eupolemus, who went ambassador
to Rome for amity and aid, he took away; and putting down the
governments which were according to the law, he brought up new customs
against the law:

   {4:12} For he built gladly a place of exercise under the tower
itself, and brought the chief young men under his subjection, and made
them wear a hat.

   {4:13} Now such was the height of Greek fashions, and increase of
heathenish manners, through the exceeding profaneness of Jason, that
ungodly wretch, and no high priest;

   {4:14} That the priests had no courage to serve any more at the
altar, but despising the temple, and neglecting the sacrifices,
hastened to be partakers of the unlawful allowance in the place of
exercise, after the game of Discus called them forth;

   {4:15} Not setting by the honours of their fathers, but liking the
glory of the Grecians best of all.

   {4:16} By reason whereof sore calamity came upon them: for they had
them to be their enemies and avengers, whose custom they followed so
earnestly, and unto whom they desired to be like in all things.

   {4:17} For it is not a light thing to do wickedly against the laws
of God: but the time following shall declare these things.

   {4:18} Now when the game that was used every faith year was kept at
Tyrus, the king being present,

   {4:19} This ungracious Jason sent special messengers from Jerusalem,
who were Antiochians, to carry three hundred drachms of silver to the
sacrifice of Hercules, which even the bearers thereof thought fit not
to bestow upon the sacrifice, because it was not convenient, but to be
reserved for other charges.

   {4:20} This money then, in regard of the sender, was appointed to
Hercules' sacrifice; but because of the bearers thereof, it was
employed to the making of gallies.

   {4:21} Now when Apollonius the son of Menestheus was sent into Egypt
for the coronation of king Ptolemeus Philometor, Antiochus,
understanding him not to be well affected to his affairs, provided for
his own safety: whereupon he came to Joppa, and from thence to
Jerusalem:

   {4:22} Where he was honourably received of Jason, and of the city,
and was brought in with torch alight, and with great shoutings: and so
afterward went with his host unto Phenice.

   {4:23} Three years afterward Jason sent Menelaus, the aforesaid
Simon's brother, to bear the money unto the king, and to put him in
mind of certain necessary matters.

   {4:24} But he being brought to the presence of the king, when he had
magnified him for the glorious appearance of his power, got the
priesthood to himself, offering more than Jason by three hundred
talents of silver.

   {4:25} So he came with the king's mandate, bringing nothing worthy
the high priesthood, but having the fury of a cruel tyrant, and the
rage of a savage beast.

   {4:26} Then Jason, who had undermined his own brother, being
undermined by another, was compelled to flee into the country of the
Ammonites.

   {4:27} So Menelaus got the principality: but as for the money that
he had promised unto the king, he took no good order for it, albeit
Sostratis the ruler of the castle required it:

   {4:28} For unto him appertained the gathering of the customs.
Wherefore they were both called before the king.

   {4:29} Now Menelaus left his brother Lysimachus in his stead in the
priesthood; and Sostratus left Crates, who was governor of the Cyprians.

   {4:30} While those things were in doing, they of Tarsus and Mallos
made insurrection, because they were given to the king's concubine,
called Antiochus.

   {4:31} Then came the king in all haste to appease matters, leaving
Andronicus, a man in authority, for his deputy.

   {4:32} Now Menelaus, supposing that he had gotten a convenient time,
stole certain vessels of gold out of the temple, and gave some of them
to Andronicus, and some he sold into Tyrus and the cities round about.

   {4:33} Which when Onias knew of a surety, he reproved him, and
withdrew himself into a sanctuary at Daphne, that lieth by Antiochia.

   {4:34} Wherefore Menelaus, taking Andronicus apart, prayed, him to
get Onias into his hands; who being persuaded thereunto, and coming to
Onias in deceit, gave him his right hand with oaths; and though he were
suspected by him, yet persuaded he him to come forth of the sanctuary:
whom forthwith he shut up without regard of justice.

   {4:35} For the which cause not only the Jews, but many also of other
nations, took great indignation, and were much grieved for the unjust
murder of the man.

   {4:36} And when the king was come again from the places about
Cilicia, the Jews that were in the city, and certain of the Greeks that
abhorred the fact also, complained because Onias was slain without
cause.

   {4:37} Therefore Antiochus was heartily sorry, and moved to pity,
and wept, because of the sober and modest behaviour of him that was
dead.

   {4:38} And being kindled with anger, forthwith he took away
Andronicus his purple, and rent off his clothes, and leading him
through the whole city unto that very place, where he had committed
impiety against Onias, there slew he the cursed murderer. Thus the Lord
rewarded him his punishment, as he had deserved.

   {4:39} Now when many sacrileges had been committed in the city by
Lysimachus with the consent of Menelaus, and the fruit thereof was
spread abroad, the multitude gathered themselves together against
Lysimachus, many vessels of gold being already carried away.

   {4:40} Whereupon the common people rising, and being filled with
rage, Lysimachus armed about three thousand men, and began first to
offer violence; one Auranus being the leader, a man far gone in years,
and no less in folly.

   {4:41} They then seeing the attempt of Lysimachus, some of them
caught stones, some clubs, others taking handfuls of dust, that was
next at hand, cast them all together upon Lysimachus, and those that
set upon them.

   {4:42} Thus many of them they wounded, and some they struck to the
ground, and all of them they forced to flee: but as for the
churchrobber himself, him they killed beside the treasury.

   {4:43} Of these matters therefore there was an accusation laid
against Menelaus.

   {4:44} Now when the king came to Tyrus, three men that were sent
from the senate pleaded the cause before him:

   {4:45} But Menelaus, being now convicted, promised Ptolemee the son
of Dorymenes to give him much money, if he would pacify the king toward
him.

   {4:46} Whereupon Ptolemee taking the king aside into a certain
gallery, as it were to take the air, brought him to be of another mind:

   {4:47} Insomuch that he discharged Menelaus from the accusations,
who notwithstanding was cause of all the mischief: and those poor men,
who, if they had told their cause, yea, before the Scythians, should
have been judged innocent, them he condemned to death.

   {4:48} Thus they that followed the matter for the city, and for the
people, and for the holy vessels, did soon suffer unjust punishment.

   {4:49} Wherefore even they of Tyrus, moved with hatred of that
wicked deed, caused them to be honourably buried.

   {4:50} And so through the covetousness of them that were of power
Menelaus remained still in authority, increasing in malice, and being a
great traitor to the citizens.

   {5:1} About the same time Antiochus prepared his second voyage into
Egypt:

   {5:2} And then it happened, that through all the city, for the space
almost of forty days, there were seen horsemen running in the air, in
cloth of gold, and armed with lances, like a band of soldiers,

   {5:3} And troops of horsemen in array, encountering and running one
against another, with shaking of shields, and multitude of pikes, and
drawing of swords, and casting of darts, and glittering of golden
ornaments, and harness of all sorts.

   {5:4} Wherefore every man prayed that that apparition might turn to
good.

   {5:5} Now when there was gone forth a false rumour, as though
Antiochus had been dead, Jason took at the least a thousand men, and
suddenly made an assault upon the city; and they that were upon the
walls being put back, and the city at length taken, Menelaus fled into
the castle:

   {5:6} But Jason slew his own citizens without mercy, not considering
that to get the day of them of his own nation would be a most unhappy
day for him; but thinking they had been his enemies, and not his
countrymen, whom he conquered.

   {5:7} Howbeit for all this he obtained not the principality, but at
the last received shame for the reward of his treason, and fled again
into the country of the Ammonites.

   {5:8} In the end therefore he had an unhappy return, being accused
before Aretas the king of the Arabians, fleeing from city to city,
pursued of all men, hated as a forsaker of the laws, and being had in
abomination as an open enemy of his country and countrymen, he was cast
out into Egypt.

   {5:9} Thus he that had driven many out of their country perished in
a strange land, retiring to the Lacedemonians, and thinking there to
find succour by reason of his kindred:

   {5:10} And he that had cast out many unburied had none to mourn for
him, nor any solemn funerals at all, nor sepulchre with his fathers.

   {5:11} Now when this that was done came to the king's car, he
thought that Judea had revolted: whereupon removing out of Egypt in a
furious mind, he took the city by force of arms,

   {5:12} And commanded his men of war not to spare such as they met,
and to slay such as went up upon the houses.

   {5:13} Thus there was killing of young and old, making away of men,
women, and children, slaying of virgins and infants.

   {5:14} And there were destroyed within the space of three whole days
fourscore thousand, whereof forty thousand were slain in the conflict;
and no fewer sold than slain.

   {5:15} Yet was he not content with this, but presumed to go into the
most holy temple of all the world; Menelaus, that traitor to the laws,
and to his own country, being his guide:

   {5:16} And taking the holy vessels with polluted hands, and with
profane hands pulling down the things that were dedicated by other
kings to the augmentation and glory and honour of the place, he gave
them away.

   {5:17} And so haughty was Antiochus in mind, that he considered not
that the Lord was angry for a while for the sins of them that dwelt in
the city, and therefore his eye was not upon the place.

   {5:18} For had they not been formerly wrapped in many sins, this
man, as soon as he had come, had forthwith been scourged, and put back
from his presumption, as Heliodorus was, whom Seleucus the king sent to
view the treasury.

   {5:19} Nevertheless God did not choose the people for the place's
sake, but the place far the people's sake.

   {5:20} And therefore the place itself, that was partaker with them
of the adversity that happened to the nation, did afterward communicate
in the benefits sent from the Lord: and as it was forsaken in the wrath
of the Almighty, so again, the great Lord being reconciled, it was set
up with all glory.

   {5:21} So when Antiochus had carried out of the temple a thousand
and eight hundred talents, he departed in all haste unto Antiochia,
weening in his pride to make the land navigable, and the sea passable
by foot: such was the haughtiness of his mind.

   {5:22} And he left governors to vex the nation: at Jerusalem,
Philip, for his country a Phrygian, and for manners more barbarous than
he that set him there;

   {5:23} And at Garizim, Andronicus; and besides, Menelaus, who worse
than all the rest bare an heavy hand over the citizens, having a
malicious mind against his countrymen the Jews.

   {5:24} He sent also that detestable ringleader Apollonius with an
army of two and twenty thousand, commanding him to slay all those that
were in their best age, and to sell the women and the younger sort:

   {5:25} Who coming to Jerusalem, and pretending peace, did forbear
till the holy day of the sabbath, when taking the Jews keeping holy
day, he commanded his men to arm themselves.

   {5:26} And so he slew all them that were gone to the celebrating of
the sabbath, and running through the city with weapons slew great
multitudes.

   {5:27} But Judas Maccabeus with nine others, or thereabout, withdrew
himself into the wilderness, and lived in the mountains after the
manner of beasts, with his company, who fed on herbs continually, lest
they should be partakers of the pollution.

   {6:1} Not long after this the king sent an old man of Athens to
compel the Jews to depart from the laws of their fathers, and not to
live after the laws of God:

   {6:2} And to pollute also the temple in Jerusalem, and to call it
the temple of Jupiter Olympius; and that in Garizim, of Jupiter the
Defender of strangers, as they did desire that dwelt in the place.

   {6:3} The coming in of this mischief was sore and grievous to the
people:

   {6:4} For the temple was filled with riot and revelling by the
Gentiles, who dallied with harlots, and had to do with women within the
circuit of the holy places, and besides that brought in things that
were not lawful.

   {6:5} The altar also was filled with profane things, which the law
forbiddeth.

   {6:6} Neither was it lawful for a man to keep sabbath days or
ancient fasts, or to profess himself at all to be a Jew.

   {6:7} And in the day of the king's birth every month they were
brought by bitter constraint to eat of the sacrifices; and when the
fast of Bacchus was kept, the Jews were compelled to go in procession
to Bacchus, carrying ivy.

   {6:8} Moreover there went out a decree to the neighbour cities of
the heathen, by the suggestion of Ptolemee, against the Jews, that they
should observe the same fashions, and be partakers of their sacrifices:

   {6:9} And whoso would not conform themselves to the manners of the
Gentiles should be put to death. Then might a man have seen the present
misery.

   {6:10} For there were two women brought, who had circumcised their
children; whom when they had openly led round about the city, the babes
handing at their breasts, they cast them down headlong from the wall.

   {6:11} And others, that had run together into caves near by, to keep
the sabbath day secretly, being discovered by Philip, were all burnt
together, because they made a conscience to help themselves for the
honour of the most sacred day.

   {6:12} Now I beseech those that read this book, that they be not
discouraged for these calamities, but that they judge those punishments
not to be for destruction, but for a chastening of our nation.

   {6:13} For it is a token of his great goodness, when wicked doers
are not suffered any long time, but forthwith punished.

   {6:14} For not as with other nations, whom the Lord patiently
forbeareth to punish, till they be come to the fulness of their sins,
so dealeth he with us,

   {6:15} Lest that, being come to the height of sin, afterwards he
should take vengeance of us.

   {6:16} And therefore he never withdraweth his mercy from us: and
though he punish with adversity, yet doth he never forsake his people.

   {6:17} But let this that we at spoken be for a warning unto us. And
now will we come to the declaring of the matter in a few words.

   {6:18} Eleazar, one of the principal scribes, an aged man, and of a
well favoured countenance, was constrained to open his mouth, and to
eat swine's flesh.

   {6:19} But he, choosing rather to die gloriously, than to live
stained with such an abomination, spit it forth, and came of his own
accord to the torment,

   {6:20} As it behoved them to come, that are resolute to stand out
against such things, as are not lawful for love of life to be tasted.

   {6:21} But they that had the charge of that wicked feast, for the
old acquaintance they had with the man, taking him aside, besought him
to bring flesh of his own provision, such as was lawful for him to use,
and make as if he did eat of the flesh taken from the sacrifice
commanded by the king;

   {6:22} That in so doing he might be delivered from death, and for
the old friendship with them find favour.

   {6:23} But he began to consider discreetly, and as became his age,
and the excellency of his ancient years, and the honour of his gray
head, whereon was come, and his most honest education from a child, or
rather the holy law made and given by God: therefore he answered
accordingly, and willed them straightways to send him to the grave.

   {6:24} For it becometh not our age, said he, in any wise to
dissemble, whereby many young persons might think that Eleazar, being
fourscore years old and ten, were now gone to a strange religion;

   {6:25} And so they through mine hypocrisy, and desire to live a
little time and a moment longer, should be deceived by me, and I get a
stain to mine old age, and make it abominable.

   {6:26} For though for the present time I should be delivered from
the punishment of men: yet should I not escape the hand of the
Almighty, neither alive, nor dead.

   {6:27} Wherefore now, manfully changing this life, I will shew
myself such an one as mine age requireth,

   {6:28} And leave a notable example to such as be young to die
willingly and courageously for the honourable and holy laws. And when
he had said these words, immediately he went to the torment:

   {6:29} They that led him changing the good will they bare him a
little before into hatred, because the foresaid speeches proceeded, as
they thought, from a desperate mind.

   {6:30} But when he was ready to die with stripes, he groaned, and
said, It is manifest unto the Lord, that hath the holy knowledge, that
whereas I might have been delivered from death, I now endure sore pains
in body by being beaten: but in soul am well content to suffer these
things, because I fear him.

   {6:31} And thus this man died, leaving his death for an example of a
noble courage, and a memorial of virtue, not only unto young men, but
unto all his nation.

   {7:1} It came to pass also, that seven brethren with their mother
were taken, and compelled by the king against the law to taste swine's
flesh, and were tormented with scourges and whips.

   {7:2} But one of them that spake first said thus, What wouldest thou
ask or learn of us? we are ready to die, rather than to transgress the
laws of our fathers.

   {7:3} Then the king, being in a rage, commanded pans and caldrons to
be made hot:

   {7:4} Which forthwith being heated, he commanded to cut out the
tongue of him that spake first, and to cut off the utmost parts of his
body, the rest of his brethren and his mother looking on.

   {7:5} Now when he was thus maimed in all his members, he commanded
him being yet alive to be brought to the fire, and to be fried in the
pan: and as the vapour of the pan was for a good space dispersed, they
exhorted one another with the mother to die manfully, saying thus,

   {7:6} The Lord God looketh upon us, and in truth hath comfort in us,
as Moses in his song, which witnessed to their faces, declared, saying,
And he shall be comforted in his servants.

   {7:7} So when the first was dead after this number, they brought the
second to make him a mocking stock: and when they had pulled off the
skin of his head with the hair, they asked him, Wilt thou eat, before
thou be punished throughout every member of thy body?

   {7:8} But he answered in his own language, and said, No. Wherefore
he also received the next torment in order, as the former did.

   {7:9} And when he was at the last gasp, he said, Thou like a fury
takest us out of this present life, but the King of the world shall
raise us up, who have died for his laws, unto everlasting life.

   {7:10} After him was the third made a mocking stock: and when he was
required, he put out his tongue, and that right soon, holding forth his
hands manfully.

   {7:11} And said courageously, These I had from heaven; and for his
laws I despise them; and from him I hope to receive them again.

   {7:12} Insomuch that the king, and they that were with him,
marvelled at the young man's courage, for that he nothing regarded the
pains.

   {7:13} Now when this man was dead also, they tormented and mangled
the fourth in like manner.

   {7:14} So when he was ready to die he said thus, It is good, being
put to death by men, to look for hope from God to be raised up again by
him: as for thee, thou shalt have no resurrection to life.

   {7:15} Afterward they brought the fifth also, and mangled him.

   {7:16} Then looked he unto the king, and said, Thou hast power over
men, thou art corruptible, thou doest what thou wilt; yet think not
that our nation is forsaken of God;

   {7:17} But abide a while, and behold his great power, how he will
torment thee and thy seed.

   {7:18} After him also they brought the sixth, who being ready to die
said, Be not deceived without cause: for we suffer these things for
ourselves, having sinned against our God: therefore marvellous things
are done unto us.

   {7:19} But think not thou, that takest in hand to strive against
God, that thou shalt escape unpunished.

   {7:20} But the mother was marvellous above all, and worthy of
honourable memory: for when she saw her seven sons slain within the
space of one day, she bare it with a good courage, because of the hope
that she had in the Lord.

   {7:21} Yea, she exhorted every one of them in her own language,
filled with courageous spirits; and stirring up her womanish thoughts
with a manly stomach, she said unto them,

   {7:22} I cannot tell how ye came into my womb: for I neither gave
you breath nor life, neither was it I that formed the members of every
one of you;

   {7:23} But doubtless the Creator of the world, who formed the
generation of man, and found out the beginning of all things, will also
of his own mercy give you breath and life again, as ye now regard not
your own selves for his laws' sake.

   {7:24} Now Antiochus, thinking himself despised, and suspecting it
to be a reproachful speech, whilst the youngest was yet alive, did not
only exhort him by words, but also assured him with oaths, that he
would make him both a rich and a happy man, if he would turn from the
laws of his fathers; and that also he would take him for his friend,
and trust him with affairs.

   {7:25} But when the young man would in no case hearken unto him, the
king called his mother, and exhorted her that she would counsel the
young man to save his life.

   {7:26} And when he had exhorted her with many words, she promised
him that she would counsel her son.

   {7:27} But she bowing herself toward him, laughing the cruel tyrant
to scorn, spake in her country language on this manner; O my son, have
pity upon me that bare thee nine months in my womb, and gave thee such
three years, and nourished thee, and brought thee up unto this age, and
endured the troubles of education.

   {7:28} I beseech thee, my son, look upon the heaven and the earth,
and all that is therein, and consider that God made them of things that
were not; and so was mankind made likewise.

   {7:29} Fear not this tormentor, but, being worthy of thy brethren,
take thy death that I may receive thee again in mercy with thy brethren.

   {7:30} Whiles she was yet speaking these words, the young man said,
Whom wait ye for? I will not obey the king's commandment: but I will
obey the commandment of the law that was given unto our fathers by
Moses.

   {7:31} And thou, that hast been the author of all mischief against
the Hebrews, shalt not escape the hands of God.

   {7:32} For we suffer because of our sins.

   {7:33} And though the living Lord be angry with us a little while
for our chastening and correction, yet shall he be at one again with
his servants.

   {7:34} But thou, O godless man, and of all other most wicked, be not
lifted up without a cause, nor puffed up with uncertain hopes, lifting
up thy hand against the servants of God:

   {7:35} For thou hast not yet escaped the judgment of Almighty God,
who seeth all things.

   {7:36} For our brethren, who now have suffered a short pain, are
dead under God's covenant of everlasting life: but thou, through the
judgment of God, shalt receive just punishment for thy pride.

   {7:37} But I, as my brethren, offer up my body and life for the laws
of our fathers, beseeching God that he would speedily be merciful unto
our nation; and that thou by torments and plagues mayest confess, that
he alone is God;

   {7:38} And that in me and my brethren the wrath of the Almighty,
which is justly brought upon our nation, may cease.

   {7:39} Than the king' being in a rage, handed him worse than all the
rest, and took it grievously that he was mocked.

   {7:40} So this man died undefiled, and put his whole trust in the
Lord.

   {7:41} Last of all after the sons the mother died.

   {7:42} Let this be enough now to have spoken concerning the
idolatrous feasts, and the extreme tortures.

   {8:1} Then Judas Maccabeus, and they that were with him, went
privily into the towns, and called their kinsfolks together, and took
unto them all such as continued in the Jews' religion, and assembled
about six thousand men.

   {8:2} And they called upon the Lord, that he would look upon the
people that was trodden down of all; and also pity the temple profaned
of ungodly men;

   {8:3} And that he would have compassion upon the city, sore defaced,
and ready to be made even with the ground; and hear the blood that
cried unto him,

   {8:4} And remember the wicked slaughter of harmless infants, and the
blasphemies committed against his name; and that he would shew his
hatred against the wicked.

   {8:5} Now when Maccabeus had his company about him, he could not be
withstood by the heathen: for the wrath of the Lord was turned into
mercy.

   {8:6} Therefore he came at unawares, and burnt up towns and cities,
and got into his hands the most commodious places, and overcame and put
to flight no small number of his enemies.

   {8:7} But specially took he advantage of the night for such privy
attempts, insomuch that the fruit of his holiness was spread every
where.

   {8:8} So when Philip saw that this man increased by little and
little, and that things prospered with him still more and more, he
wrote unto Ptolemeus, the governor of Celosyria and Phenice, to yield
more aid to the king's affairs.

   {8:9} Then forthwith choosing Nicanor the son of Patroclus, one of
his special friends, he sent him with no fewer than twenty thousand of
all nations under him, to root out the whole generation of the Jews;
and with him he joined also Gorgias a captain, who in matters of war
had great experience.

   {8:10} So Nicanor undertook to make so much money of the captive
Jews, as should defray the tribute of two thousand talents, which the
king was to pay to the Romans.

   {8:11} Wherefore immediately he sent to the cities upon the sea
coast, proclaiming a sale of the captive Jews, and promising that they
should have fourscore and ten bodies for one talent, not expecting the
vengeance that was to follow upon him from the Almighty God.

   {8:12} Now when word was brought unto Judas of Nicanor's coming, and
he had imparted unto those that were with him that the army was at hand,

   {8:13} They that were fearful, and distrusted the justice of God,
fled, and conveyed themselves away.

   {8:14} Others sold all that they had left, and withal besought the
Lord to deliver them, sold by the wicked Nicanor before they met
together:

   {8:15} And if not for their own sakes, yet for the covenants he had
made with their fathers, and for his holy and glorious name's sake, by
which they were called.

   {8:16} So Maccabeus called his men together unto the number of six
thousand, and exhorted them not to be stricken with terror of the
enemy, nor to fear the great multitude of the heathen, who came wrongly
against them; but to fight manfully,

   {8:17} And to set before their eyes the injury that they had
unjustly done to the holy place, and the cruel handling of the city,
whereof they made a mockery, and also the taking away of the government
of their forefathers:

   {8:18} For they, said he, trust in their weapons and boldness; but
our confidence is in the Almighty who at a beck can cast down both them
that come against us, and also all the world.

   {8:19} Moreover, he recounted unto them what helps their forefathers
had found, and how they were delivered, when under Sennacherib an
hundred fourscore and five thousand perished.

   {8:20} And he told them of the battle that they had in Babylon with
the Galatians, how they came but eight thousand in all to the business,
with four thousand Macedonians, and that the Macedonians being
perplexed, the eight thousand destroyed an hundred and twenty thousand
because of the help that they had from heaven, and so received a great
booty.

   {8:21} Thus when he had made them bold with these words, and ready
to die for the law and the country, he divided his army into four parts;

   {8:22} And joined with himself his own brethren, leaders of each
band, to wit Simon, and Joseph, and Jonathan, giving each one fifteen
hundred men.

   {8:23} Also he appointed Eleazar to read the holy book: and when he
had given them this watchword, The help of God; himself leading the
first band,

   {8:24} And by the help of the Almighty they slew above nine thousand
of their enemies, and wounded and maimed the most part of Nicanor's
host, and so put all to flight;

   {8:25} And took their money that came to buy them, and pursued them
far: but lacking time they returned:

   {8:26} For it was the day before the sabbath, and therefore they
would no longer pursue them.

   {8:27} So when they had gathered their armour together, and spoiled
their enemies, they occupied themselves about the sabbath, yielding
exceeding praise and thanks to the Lord, who had preserved them unto
that day, which was the beginning of mercy distilling upon them.

   {8:28} And after the sabbath, when they had given part of the spoils
to the maimed, and the widows, and orphans, the residue they divided
among themselves and their servants.

   {8:29} When this was done, and they had made a common supplication,
they besought the merciful Lord to be reconciled with his servants for
ever.

   {8:30} Moreover of those that were with Timotheus and Bacchides, who
fought against them, they slew above twenty thousand, and very easily
got high and strong holds, and divided among themselves many spoils
more, and made the maimed, orphans, widows, yea, and the aged also,
equal in spoils with themselves.

   {8:31} And when they had gathered their armour together, they laid
them up all carefully in convenient places, and the remnant of the
spoils they brought to Jerusalem.

   {8:32} They slew also Philarches, that wicked person, who was with
Timotheus, and had annoyed the Jews many ways.

   {8:33} Furthermore at such time as they kept the feast for the
victory in their country they burnt Callisthenes, that had set fire
upon the holy gates, who had fled into a little house; and so he
received a reward meet for his wickedness.

   {8:34} As for that most ungracious Nicanor, who had brought a
thousand merchants to buy the Jews,

   {8:35} He was through the help of the Lord brought down by them, of
whom he made least account; and putting off his glorious apparel, and
discharging his company, he came like a fugitive servant through the
midland unto Antioch having very great dishonour, for that his host was
destroyed.

   {8:36} Thus he, that took upon him to make good to the Romans their
tribute by means of captives in Jerusalem, told abroad, that the Jews
had God to fight for them, and therefore they could not be hurt,
because they followed the laws that he gave them.

   {9:1} About that time came Antiochus with dishonour out of the
country of Persia

   {9:2} For he had entered the city called Persepolis, and went about
to rob the temple, and to hold the city; whereupon the multitude
running to defend themselves with their weapons put them to flight; and
so it happened, that Antiochus being put to flight of the inhabitants
returned with shame.

   {9:3} Now when he came to Ecbatane, news was brought him what had
happened unto Nicanor and Timotheus.

   {9:4} Then swelling with anger. he thought to avenge upon the Jews
the disgrace done unto him by those that made him flee. Therefore
commanded he his chariotman to drive without ceasing, and to dispatch
the journey, the judgment of God now following him. For he had spoken
proudly in this sort, That he would come to Jerusalem and make it a
common burying place of the Jews.

   {9:5} But the Lord Almighty, the God of Isreal, smote him with an
incurable and invisible plague: or as soon as he had spoken these
words, a pain of the bowels that was remediless came upon him, and sore
torments of the inner parts;

   {9:6} And that most justly: for he had tormented other men's bowels
with many and strange torments.

   {9:7} Howbeit he nothing at all ceased from his bragging, but still
was filled with pride, breathing out fire in his rage against the Jews,
and commanding to haste the journey: but it came to pass that he fell
down from his chariot, carried violently; so that having a sore fall,
all the members of his body were much pained.

   {9:8} And thus he that a little afore thought he might command the
waves of the sea, (so proud was he beyond the condition of man) and
weigh the high mountains in a balance, was now cast on the ground, and
carried in an horselitter, shewing forth unto all the manifest power of
God.

   {9:9} So that the worms rose up out of the body of this wicked man,
and whiles he lived in sorrow and pain, his flesh fell away, and the
filthiness of his smell was noisome to all his army.

   {9:10} And the man, that thought a little afore he could reach to
the stars of heaven, no man could endure to carry for his intolerable
stink.

   {9:11} Here therefore, being plagued, he began to leave off his
great pride, and to come to the knowledge of himself by the scourge of
God, his pain increasing every moment.

   {9:12} And when he himself could not abide his own smell, he said
these words, It is meet to be subject unto God, and that a man that is
mortal should not proudly think of himself if he were God.

   {9:13} This wicked person vowed also unto the Lord, who now no more
would have mercy upon him, saying thus,

   {9:14} That the holy city (to the which he was going in haste to lay
it even with the ground, and to make it a common buryingplace,) he
would set at liberty:

   {9:15} And as touching the Jews, whom he had judged not worthy so
much as to be buried, but to be cast out with their children to be
devoured of the fowls and wild beasts, he would make them all equals to
the citizens of Athens:

   {9:16} And the holy temple, which before he had spoiled, he would
garnish with goodly gifts, and restore all the holy vessels with many
more, and out of his own revenue defray the charges belonging to the
sacrifices:

   {9:17} Yea, and that also he would become a Jew himself, and go
through all the world that was inhabited, and declare the power of God.

   {9:18} But for all this his pains would not cease: for the just
judgment of God was come upon him: therefore despairing of his health,
he wrote unto the Jews the letter underwritten, containing the form of
a supplication, after this manner:

   {9:19} Antiochus, king and governor, to the good Jews his citizens
wisheth much joy, health, and prosperity:

   {9:20} If ye and your children fare well, and your affairs be to
your contentment, I give very great thanks to God, having my hope in
heaven.

   {9:21} As for me, I was weak, or else I would have remembered kindly
your honour and good will returning out of Persia, and being taken with
a grievous disease, I thought it necessary to care for the common
safety of all:

   {9:22} Not distrusting mine health, but having great hope to escape
this sickness.

   {9:23} But considering that even my father, at what time he led an
army into the high countries. appointed a successor,

   {9:24} To the end that, if any thing fell out contrary to
expectation, or if any tidings were brought that were grievous, they of
the land, knowing to whom the state was left, might not be troubled:

   {9:25} Again, considering how that the princes that are borderers
and neighbours unto my kingdom wait for opportunities, and expect what
shall be the event. I have appointed my son Antiochus king, whom I
often committed and commended unto many of you, when I went up into the
high provinces; to whom I have written as followeth:

   {9:26} Therefore I pray and request you to remember the benefits
that I have done unto you generally, and in special, and that every man
will be still faithful to me and my son.

   {9:27} For I am persuaded that he understanding my mind will
favourably and graciously yield to your desires.

   {9:28} Thus the murderer and blasphemer having suffered most
grievously, as he entreated other men, so died he a miserable death in
a strange country in the mountains.

   {9:29} And Philip, that was brought up with him, carried away his
body, who also fearing the son of Antiochus went into Egypt to
Ptolemeus Philometor.

   {10:1} Now Maccabeus and his company, the Lord guiding them,
recovered the temple and the city:

   {10:2} But the altars which the heathen had built in the open
street, and also the chapels, they pulled down.

   {10:3} And having cleansed the temple they made another altar, and
striking stones they took fire out of them, and offered a sacrifice
after two years, and set forth incense, and lights, and shewbread.

   {10:4} When that was done, they fell flat down, and besought the
Lord that they might come no more into such troubles; but if they
sinned any more against him, that he himself would chasten them with
mercy, and that they might not be delivered unto the blasphemous and
barbarous nations.

   {10:5} Now upon the same day that the strangers profaned the temple,
on the very same day it was cleansed again, even the five and twentieth
day of the same month, which is Casleu.

   {10:6} And they kept the eight days with gladness, as in the feast
of the tabernacles, remembering that not long afore they had held the
feast of the tabernacles, when as they wandered in the mountains and
dens like beasts.

   {10:7} Therefore they bare branches, and fair boughs, and palms
also, and sang psalms unto him that had given them good success in
cleansing his place.

   {10:8} They ordained also by a common statute and decree, That every
year those days should be kept of the whole nation of the Jews.

   {10:9} And this was the end of Antiochus, called Epiphanes.

   {10:10} Now will we declare the acts of Antiochus Eupator, who was
the son of this wicked man, gathering briefly the calamities of the
wars.

   {10:11} So when he was come to the crown, he set one Lysias over the
affairs of his realm, and appointed him his chief governor of Celosyria
and Phenice.

   {10:12} For Ptolemeus, that was called Macron, choosing rather to do
justice unto the Jews for the wrong that had been done unto them,
endeavoured to continue peace with them.

   {10:13} Whereupon being accused of the king's friends before
Eupator, and called traitor at every word because he had left Cyprus,
that Philometor had committed unto him, and departed to Antiochus
Epiphanes, and seeing that he was in no honourable place, he was so
discouraged, that he poisoned himself and died.

   {10:14} But when Gorgias was governor of the holds, he hired
soldiers, and nourished war continually with the Jews:

   {10:15} And therewithall the Idumeans, having gotten into their
hands the most commodious holds, kept the Jews occupied, and receiving
those that were banished from Jerusalem, they went about to nourish war.

   {10:16} Then they that were with Maccabeus made supplication, and
besought God that he would be their helper; and so they ran with
violence upon the strong holds of the Idumeans,

   {10:17} And assaulting them strongly, they won the holds, and kept
off all that fought upon the wall, and slew all that fell into their
hands, and killed no fewer than twenty thousand.

   {10:18} And because certain, who were no less than nine thousand,
were fled together into two very strong castles, having all manner of
things convenient to sustain the siege,

   {10:19} Maccabeus left Simon and Joseph, and Zaccheus also, and them
that were with him, who were enough to besiege them, and departed
himself unto those places which more needed his help.

   {10:20} Now they that were with Simon, being led with covetousness,
were persuaded for money through certain of those that were in the
castle, and took seventy thousand drachms, and let some of them escape.

   {10:21} But when it was told Maccabeus what was done, he called the
governors of the people together, and accused those men, that they had
sold their brethren for money, and set their enemies free to fight
against them.

   {10:22} So he slew those that were found traitors, and immediately
took the two castles.

   {10:23} And having good success with his weapons in all things he
took in hand, he slew in the two holds more than twenty thousand.

   {10:24} Now Timotheus, whom the Jews had overcome before, when he
had gathered a great multitude of foreign forces, and horses out of
Asia not a few, came as though he would take Jewry by force of arms.

   {10:25} But when he drew near, they that were with Maccabeus turned
themselves to pray unto God, and sprinkled earth upon their heads, and
girded their loins with sackcloth,

   {10:26} And fell down at the foot of the altar, and besought him to
be merciful to them, and to be an enemy to their enemies, and an
adversary to their adversaries, as the law declareth.

   {10:27} So after the prayer they took their weapons, and went on
further from the city: and when they drew near to their enemies, they
kept by themselves.

   {10:28} Now the sun being newly risen, they joined both together;
the one part having together with their virtue their refuge also unto
the Lord for a pledge of their success and victory: the other side
making their rage leader of their battle

   {10:29} But when the battle waxed strong, there appeared unto the
enemies from heaven five comely men upon horses, with bridles of gold,
and two of them led the Jews,

   {10:30} And took Maccabeus betwixt them, and covered him on every
side weapons, and kept him safe, but shot arrows and lightnings against
the enemies: so that being confounded with blindness, and full of
trouble, they were killed.

   {10:31} And there were slain of footmen twenty thousand and five
hundred, and six hundred horsemen.

   {10:32} As for Timotheus himself, he fled into a very strong hold,
called Gawra, where Chereas was governor.

   {10:33} But they that were with Maccabeus laid siege against the
fortress courageously four days.

   {10:34} And they that were within, trusting to the strength of the
place, blasphemed exceedingly, and uttered wicked words.

   {10:35} Nevertheless upon the fifth day early twenty young men of
Maccabeus' company, inflamed with anger because of the blasphemies,
assaulted the wall manly, and with a fierce courage killed all that
they met withal.

   {10:36} Others likewise ascending after them, whiles they were
busied with them that were within, burnt the towers, and kindling fires
burnt the blasphemers alive; and others broke open the gates, and,
having received in the rest of the army, took the city,

   {10:37} And killed Timotheus, that was hid in a certain pit, and
Chereas his brother, with Apollophanes.

   {10:38} When this was done, they praised the Lord with psalms and
thanksgiving, who had done so great things for Israel, and given them
the victory.

   {11:1} Not long after the, Lysias the king's protector and cousin,
who also managed the affairs, took sore displeasure for the things that
were done.

   {11:2} And when he had gathered about fourscore thousand with all
the horsemen, he came against the Jews, thinking to make the city an
habitation of the Gentiles,

   {11:3} And to make a gain of the temple, as of the other chapels of
the heathen, and to set the high priesthood to sale every year:

   {11:4} Not at all considering the power of God but puffed up with
his ten thousands of footmen, and his thousands of horsemen, and his
fourscore elephants.

   {11:5} So he came to Judea, and drew near to Bethsura, which was a
strong town, but distant from Jerusalem about five furlongs, and he
laid sore siege unto it.

   {11:6} Now when they that were with Maccabeus heard that he besieged
the holds, they and all the people with lamentation and tears besought
the Lord that he would send a good angel to deliver Israel.

   {11:7} Then Maccabeus himself first of all took weapons, exhorting
the other that they would jeopard themselves together with him to help
their brethren: so they went forth together with a willing mind.

   {11:8} And as they were at Jerusalem, there appeared before them on
horseback one in white clothing, shaking his armour of gold.

   {11:9} Then they praised the merciful God all together, and took
heart, insomuch that they were ready not only to fight with men, but
with most cruel beasts, and to pierce through walls of iron.

   {11:10} Thus they marched forward in their armour, having an helper
from heaven: for the Lord was merciful unto them

   {11:11} And giving a charge upon their enemies like lions, they slew
eleven thousand footmen, and sixteen hundred horsemen, and put all the
other to flight.

   {11:12} Many of them also being wounded escaped naked; and Lysias
himself fled away shamefully, and so escaped.

   {11:13} Who, as he was a man of understanding, casting with himself
what loss he had had, and considering that the Hebrews could not be
overcome, because the Almighty God helped them, he sent unto them,

   {11:14} And persuaded them to agree to all reasonable conditions,
and promised that he would persuade the king that he must needs be a
friend unto them.

   {11:15} Then Maccabeus consented to all that Lysias desired, being
careful of the common good; and whatsoever Maccabeus wrote unto Lysias
concerning the Jews, the king granted it.

   {11:16} For there were letters written unto the Jews from Lysias to
this effect: Lysias unto the people of the Jews sendeth greeting:

   {11:17} John and Absolom, who were sent from you, delivered me the
petition subscribed, and made request for the performance of the
contents thereof.

   {11:18} Therefore what things soever were meet to be reported to the
king, I have declared them, and he hath granted as much as might be.

   {11:19} And if then ye will keep yourselves loyal to the state,
hereafter also will I endeavour to be a means of your good.

   {11:20} But of the particulars I have given order both to these and
the other that came from me, to commune with you.

   {11:21} Fare ye well. The hundred and eight and fortieth year, the
four and twentieth day of the month Dioscorinthius.

   {11:22} Now the king's letter contained these words: King Antiochus
unto his brother Lysias sendeth greeting:

   {11:23} Since our father is translated unto the gods, our will is,
that they that are in our realm live quietly, that every one may attend
upon his own affairs.

   {11:24} We understand also that the Jews would not consent to our
father, for to be brought unto the custom of the Gentiles, but had
rather keep their own manner of living: for the which cause they
require of us, that we should suffer them to live after their own laws.

   {11:25} Wherefore our mind is, that this nation shall be in rest,
and we have determined to restore them their temple, that they may live
according to the customs of their forefathers.

   {11:26} Thou shalt do well therefore to send unto them, and grant
them peace, that when they are certified of our mind, they may be of
good comfort, and ever go cheerfully about their own affairs.

   {11:27} And the letter of the king unto the nation of the Jews was
after this manner: King Antiochus sendeth greeting unto the council,
and the rest of the Jews:

   {11:28} If ye fare well, we have our desire; we are also in good
health.

   {11:29} Menelaus declared unto us, that your desire was to return
home, and to follow your own business:

   {11:30} Wherefore they that will depart shall have safe conduct till
the thirtieth day of Xanthicus with security.

   {11:31} And the Jews shall use their own kind of meats and laws, as
before; and none of them any manner of ways shall be molested for
things ignorantly done.

   {11:32} I have sent also Menelaus, that he may comfort you.

   {11:33} Fare ye well. In the hundred forty and eighth year, and the
fifteenth day of the month Xanthicus.

   {11:34} The Romans also sent unto them a letter containing these
words: Quintus Memmius and Titus Manlius, ambassadors of the Romans,
send greeting unto the people of the Jews.

   {11:35} Whatsoever Lysias the king's cousin hath granted, therewith
we also are well pleased.

   {11:36} But touching such things as he judged to be referred to the
king, after ye have advised thereof, send one forthwith, that we may
declare as it is convenient for you: for we are now going to Antioch.

   {11:37} Therefore send some with speed, that we may know what is
your mind.

   {11:38} Farewell. This hundred and eight and fortieth year, the
fifteenth day of the month Xanthicus.

   {12:1} When these covenants were made, Lysias went unto the king,
and the Jews were about their husbandry.

   {12:2} But of the governours of several places, Timotheus, and
Apollonius the son of Genneus, also Hieronymus, and Demophon, and
beside them Nicanor the governor of Cyprus, would not suffer them to be
quiet and live in peace.

   {12:3} The men of Joppa also did such an ungodly deed: they prayed
the Jews that dwelt among them to go with their wives and children into
the boats which they had prepared, as though they had meant them no
hurt.

   {12:4} Who accepted of it according to the common decree of the
city, as being desirous to live in peace, and suspecting nothing: but
when they were gone forth into the deep, they drowned no less than two
hundred of them.

   {12:5} When Judas heard of this cruelty done unto his countrymen, he
commanded those that were with him to make them ready.

   {12:6} And calling upon God the righteous Judge, he came against
those murderers of his brethren, and burnt the haven by night, and set
the boats on fire, and those that fled thither he slew.

   {12:7} And when the town was shut up, he went backward, as if he
would return to root out all them of the city of Joppa.

   {12:8} But when he heard that the Jamnites were minded to do in like
manner unto the Jews that dwelt among them,

   {12:9} He came upon the Jamnites also by night, and set fire on the
haven and the navy, so that the light of the fire was seen at Jerusalem
two hundred and forty furlongs off.

   {12:10} Now when they were gone from thence nine furlongs in their
journey toward Timotheus, no fewer than five thousand men on foot and
five hundred horsemen of the Arabians set upon him.

   {12:11} Whereupon there was a very sore battle; but Judas' side by
the help of God got the victory; so that the Nomades of Arabia, being
overcome, besought Judas for peace, promising both to give him cattle,
and to pleasure him otherwise.

   {12:12} Then Judas, thinking indeed that they would be profitable in
many things, granted them peace: whereupon they shook hands, and so
they departed to their tents.

   {12:13} He went also about to make a bridge to a certain strong
city, which was fenced about with walls, and inhabited by people of
divers countries; and the name of it was Caspis.

   {12:14} But they that were within it put such trust in the strength
of the walls and provision of victuals, that they behaved themselves
rudely toward them that were with Judas, railing and blaspheming, and
uttering such words as were not to be spoken.

   {12:15} Wherefore Judas with his company, calling upon the great
Lord of the world, who without rams or engines of war did cast down
Jericho in the time of Joshua, gave a fierce assault against the walls,

   {12:16} And took the city by the will of God, and made unspeakable
slaughters, insomuch that a lake two furlongs broad near adjoining
thereunto, being filled full, was seen running with blood.

   {12:17} Then departed they from thence seven hundred and fifty
furlongs, and came to Characa unto the Jews that are called Tubieni.

   {12:18} But as for Timotheus, they found him not in the places: for
before he had dispatched any thing, he departed from thence, having
left a very strong garrison in a certain hold.

   {12:19} Howbeit Dositheus and Sosipater, who were of Maccabeus'
captains, went forth, and slew those that Timotheus had left in the
fortress, above ten thousand men.

   {12:20} And Maccabeus ranged his army by bands, and set them over
the bands, and went against Timotheus, who had about him an hundred and
twenty thousand men of foot, and two thousand and five hundred horsemen.

   {12:21} Now when Timotheus had knowledge of Judas' coming, he sent
the women and children and the other baggage unto a fortress called
Carnion: for the town was hard to besiege, and uneasy to come unto, by
reason of the straitness of all the places.

   {12:22} But when Judas his first band came in sight, the enemies,
being smitten with fear and terror through the appearing of him who
seeth all things, fled amain, one running into this way, another that
way, so as that they were often hurt of their own men, and wounded with
the points of their own swords.

   {12:23} Judas also was very earnest in pursuing them, killing those
wicked wretches, of whom he slew about thirty thousand men.

   {12:24} Moreover Timotheus himself fell into the hands of Dositheus
and Sosipater, whom he besought with much craft to let him go with his
life, because he had many of the Jews' parents, and the brethren of
some of them, who, if they put him to death, should not be regarded.

   {12:25} So when he had assured them with many words that he would
restore them without hurt, according to the agreement, they let him go
for the saving of their brethren.

   {12:26} Then Maccabeus marched forth to Carnion, and to the temple
of Atargatis, and there he slew five and twenty thousand persons.

   {12:27} And after he had put to flight and destroyed them, Judas
removed the host toward Ephron, a strong city, wherein Lysias abode,
and a great multitude of divers nations, and the strong young men kept
the walls, and defended them mightily: wherein also was great provision
of engines and darts.

   {12:28} But when Judas and his company had called upon Almighty God,
who with his power breaketh the strength of his enemies, they won the
city, and slew twenty and five thousand of them that were within,

   {12:29} From thence they departed to Scythopolis, which lieth six
hundred furlongs from Jerusalem,

   {12:30} But when the Jews that dwelt there had testified that the
Scythopolitans dealt lovingly with them, and entreated them kindly in
the time of their adversity;

   {12:31} They gave them thanks, desiring them to be friendly still
unto them: and so they came to Jerusalem, the feast of the weeks
approaching.

   {12:32} And after the feast, called Pentecost, they went forth
against Gorgias the governor of Idumea,

   {12:33} Who came out with three thousand men of foot and four
hundred horsemen.

   {12:34} And it happened that in their fighting together a few of the
Jews were slain.

   {12:35} At which time Dositheus, one of Bacenor's company, who was
on horseback, and a strong man, was still upon Gorgias, and taking hold
of his coat drew him by force; and when he would have taken that cursed
man alive, a horseman of Thracia coming upon him smote off his
shoulder, so that Gorgias fled unto Marisa.

   {12:36} Now when they that were with Gorgias had fought long, and
were weary, Judas called upon the Lord, that he would shew himself to
be their helper and leader of the battle.

   {12:37} And with that he began in his own language, and sung psalms
with a loud voice, and rushing unawares upon Gorgias' men, he put them
to flight.

   {12:38} So Judas gathered his host, and came into the city of
Odollam, And when the seventh day came, they purified themselves, as
the custom was, and kept the sabbath in the same place.

   {12:39} And upon the day following, as the use had been, Judas and
his company came to take up the bodies of them that were slain, and to
bury them with their kinsmen in their fathers' graves.

   {12:40} Now under the coats of every one that was slain they found
things consecrated to the idols of the Jamnites, which is forbidden the
Jews by the law. Then every man saw that this was the cause wherefore
they were slain.

   {12:41} All men therefore praising the Lord, the righteous Judge,
who had opened the things that were hid,

   {12:42} Betook themselves unto prayer, and besought him that the sin
committed might wholly be put out of remembrance. Besides, that noble
Judas exhorted the people to keep themselves from sin, forsomuch as
they saw before their eyes the things that came to pass for the sins of
those that were slain.

   {12:43} And when he had made a gathering throughout the company to
the sum of two thousand drachms of silver, he sent it to Jerusalem to
offer a sin offering, doing therein very well and honestly, in that he
was mindful of the resurrection:

   {12:44} For if he had not hoped that they that were slain should
have risen again, it had been superfluous and vain to pray for the dead.

   {12:45} And also in that he perceived that there was great favour
laid up for those that died godly, it was an holy and good thought.
Whereupon he made a reconciliation for the dead, that they might be
delivered from sin.

   {13:1} In the hundred forty and ninth year it was told Judas, that
Antiochus Eupator was coming with a great power into Judea,

   {13:2} And with him Lysias his protector, and ruler of his affairs,
having either of them a Grecian power of footmen, an hundred and ten
thousand, and horsemen five thousand and three hundred, and elephants
two and twenty, and three hundred chariots armed with hooks.

   {13:3} Menelaus also joined himself with them, and with great
dissimulation encouraged Antiochus, not for the safeguard of the
country, but because he thought to have been made governor.

   {13:4} But the King of kings moved Antiochus' mind against this
wicked wretch, and Lysias informed the king that this man was the cause
of all mischief, so that the king commanded to bring him unto Berea,
and to put him to death, as the manner is in that place.

   {13:5} Now there was in that place a tower of fifty cubits high,
full of ashes, and it had a round instrument which on every side hanged
down into the ashes.

   {13:6} And whosoever was condemned of sacrilege, or had committed
any other grievous crime, there did all men thrust him unto death.

   {13:7} Such a death it happened that wicked man to die, not having
so much as burial in the earth; and that most justly:

   {13:8} For inasmuch as he had committed many sins about the altar,
whose fire and ashes were holy, he received his death in ashes.

   {13:9} Now the king came with a barbarous and haughty mind to do far
worse to the Jews, than had been done in his father's time.

   {13:10} Which things when Judas perceived, he commanded the
multitude to call upon the Lord night and day, that if ever at any
other time, he would now also help them, being at the point to be put
from their law, from their country, and from the holy temple:

   {13:11} And that he would not suffer the people, that had even now
been but a little refreshed, to be in subjection to the blasphemous
nations.

   {13:12} So when they had all done this together, and besought the
merciful Lord with weeping and fasting, and lying flat upon the ground
three days long, Judas, having exhorted them, commanded they should be
in a readiness.

   {13:13} And Judas, being apart with the elders, determined, before
the king's host should enter into Judea, and get the city, to go forth
and try the matter in fight by the help of the Lord.

   {13:14} So when he had committed all to the Creator of the world,
and exhorted his soldiers to fight manfully, even unto death, for the
laws, the temple, the city, the country, and the commonwealth, he
camped by Modin:

   {13:15} And having given the watchword to them that were about him,
Victory is of God; with the most valiant and choice young men he went
in into the king's tent by night, and slew in the camp about four
thousand men, and the chiefest of the elephants, with all that were
upon him.

   {13:16} And at last they filled the camp with fear and tumult, and
departed with good success.

   {13:17} This was done in the break of the day, because the
protection of the Lord did help him.

   {13:18} Now when the king had taken a taste of the manliness of the
Jews, he went about to take the holds by policy,

   {13:19} And marched toward Bethsura, which was a strong hold of the
Jews: but he was put to flight, failed, and lost of his men:

   {13:20} For Judas had conveyed unto them that were in it such things
as were necessary.

   {13:21} But Rhodocus, who was in the Jews' host, disclosed the
secrets to the enemies; therefore he was sought out, and when they had
gotten him, they put him in prison.

   {13:22} The king treated with them in Bethsum the second time, gave
his hand, took their's, departed, fought with Judas, was overcome;

   {13:23} Heard that Philip, who was left over the affairs in Antioch,
was desperately bent, confounded, intreated the Jews, submitted
himself, and sware to all equal conditions, agreed with them, and
offered sacrifice, honoured the temple, and dealt kindly with the place,

   {13:24} And accepted well of Maccabeus, made him principal governor
from Ptolemais unto the Gerrhenians;

   {13:25} Came to Ptolemais: the people there were grieved for the
covenants; for they stormed, because they would make their covenants
void:

   {13:26} Lysias went up to the judgment seat, said as much as could
be in defence of the cause, persuaded, pacified, made them well
affected, returned to Antioch. Thus it went touching the king's coming
and departing.

   {14:1} After three years was Judas informed, that Demetrius the son
of Seleucus, having entered by the haven of Tripolis with a great power
and navy,

   {14:2} Had taken the country, and killed Antiochus, and Lysias his
protector.

   {14:3} Now one Alcimus, who had been high priest, and had defiled
himself wilfully in the times of their mingling with the Gentiles,
seeing that by no means he could save himself, nor have any more access
to the holy altar,

   {14:4} Came to king Demetrius in the hundred and one and fiftieth
year, presenting unto him a crown of gold, and a palm, and also of the
boughs which were used solemnly in the temple: and so that day he held
his peace.

   {14:5} Howbeit having gotten opportunity to further his foolish
enterprize, and being called into counsel by Demetrius, and asked how
the Jews stood affected, and what they intended, he answered thereunto:

   {14:6} Those of the Jews that he called Assideans, whose captain is
Judas Maccabeus, nourish war and are seditious, and will not let the
rest be in peace.

   {14:7} Therefore I, being deprived of mine ancestors' honour, I mean
the high priesthood, am now come hither:

   {14:8} First, verily for the unfeigned care I have of things
pertaining to the king; and secondly, even for that I intend the good
of mine own countrymen: for all our nation is in no small misery
through the unadvised dealing of them aforersaid.

   {14:9} Wherefore, O king, seeing knowest all these things, be
careful for the country, and our nation, which is pressed on every
side, according to the clemency that thou readily shewest unto all.

   {14:10} For as long as Judas liveth, it is not possible that the
state should be quiet.

   {14:11} This was no sooner spoken of him, but others of the king's
friends, being maliciously set against Judas, did more incense
Demetrius.

   {14:12} And forthwith calling Nicanor, who had been master of the
elephants, and making him governor over Judea, he sent him forth,

   {14:13} Commanding him to slay Judas, and to scatter them that were
with him, and to make Alcimus high priest of the great temple.

   {14:14} Then the heathen, that had fled out of Judea from Judas,
came to Nicanor by flocks, thinking the harm and calamities ot the Jews
to be their welfare.

   {14:15} Now when the Jews heard of Nicanor's coming, and that the
heathen were up against them, they cast earth upon their heads, and
made supplication to him that had established his people for ever, and
who always helpeth his portion with manifestation of his presence.

   {14:16} So at the commandment of the captain they removed
straightways from thence, and came near unto them at the town of Dessau.

   {14:17} Now Simon, Judas' brother, had joined battle with Nicanor,
but was somewhat discomfited through the sudden silence of his enemies.

   {14:18} Nevertheless Nicanor, hearing of the manliness of them that
were with Judas, and the courageousness that they had to fight for
their country, durst not try the matter by the sword.

   {14:19} Wherefore he sent Posidonius, and Theodotus, and Mattathias,
to make peace.

   {14:20} So when they had taken long advisement thereupon, and the
captain had made the multitude acquainted therewith, and it appeared
that they were all of one mind, they consented to the covenants,

   {14:21} And appointed a day to meet in together by themselves: and
when the day came, and stools were set for either of them,

   {14:22} Ludas placed armed men ready in convenient places, lest some
treachery should be suddenly practised by the enemies: so they made a
peaceable conference.

   {14:23} Now Nicanor abode in Jerusalem, and did no hurt, but sent
away the people that came flocking unto him.

   {14:24} And he would not willingly have Judas out of his sight: for
he love the man from his heart

   {14:25} He prayed him also to take a wife, and to beget children: so
he married, was quiet, and took part of this life.

   {14:26} But Alcimus, perceiving the love that was betwixt them, and
considering the covenants that were made, came to Demetrius, and told
him that Nicanor was not well affected toward the state; for that he
had ordained Judas, a traitor to his realm, to be the king's successor.

   {14:27} Then the king being in a rage, and provoked with the
accusations of the most wicked man, wrote to Nicanor, signifying that
he was much displeased with the covenants, and commanding him that he
should send Maccabeus prisoner in all haste unto Antioch.

   {14:28} When this came to Nicanor's hearing, he was much confounded
in himself, and took it grievously that he should make void the
articles which were agreed upon, the man being in no fault.

   {14:29} But because there was no dealing against the king, he
watched his time to accomplish this thing by policy.

   {14:30} Notwithstanding, when Maccabeus saw that Nicanor began to be
churlish unto him, and that he entreated him more roughly than he was
wont, perceiving that such sour behaviour came not of good, he gathered
together not a few of his men, and withdrew himself from Nicanor.

   {14:31} But the other, knowing that he was notably prevented by
Judas' policy, came into the great and holy temple, and commanded the
priests, that were offering their usual sacrifices, to deliver him the
man.

   {14:32} And when they sware that they could not tell where the man
was whom he sought,

   {14:33} He stretched out his right hand toward the temple, and made
an oath in this manner: If ye will not deliver me Judas as a prisoner,
I will lay this temple of God even with the ground, and I will break
down the altar, and erect a notable temple unto Bacchus.

   {14:34} After these words he departed. Then the priests lifted up
their hands toward heaven, and besought him that was ever a defender of
their nation, saying in this manner;

   {14:35} Thou, O Lord of all things, who hast need of nothing, wast
pleased that the temple of thine habitation should be among us:

   {14:36} Therefore now, O holy Lord of all holiness, keep this house
ever undefiled, which lately was cleansed, and stop every unrighteous
mouth.

   {14:37} Now was there accused unto Nicanor one Razis, one of the
elders of Jerusalem, a lover of his countrymen, and a man of very good
report, who for his kindness was called a father of the Jews.

   {14:38} For in the former times, when they mingled not themselves
with the Gentiles, he had been accused of Judaism, and did boldly
jeopard his body and life with all vehemency for the religion of the
Jews.

   {14:39} So Nicanor, willing to declare the hate that he bare unto
the Jews, sent above five hundred men of war to take him:

   {14:40} For he thought by taking him to do the Jews much hurt.

   {14:41} Now when the multitude would have taken the tower, and
violently broken into the outer door, and bade that fire should be
brought to burn it, he being ready to be taken on every side fell upon
his sword;

   {14:42} Choosing rather to die manfully, than to come into the hands
of the wicked, to be abused otherwise than beseemed his noble birth:

   {14:43} But missing his stroke through haste, the multitude also
rushing within the doors, he ran boldly up to the wall, and cast
himself down manfully among the thickest of them.

   {14:44} But they quickly giving back, and a space being made, he
fell down into the midst of the void place.

   {14:45} Nevertheless, while there was yet breath within him, being
inflamed with anger, he rose up; and though his blood gushed out like
spouts of water, and his wounds were grievous, yet he ran through the
midst of the throng; and standing upon a steep rock,

   {14:46} When as his blood was now quite gone, he plucked out his
bowels, and taking them in both his hands, he cast them upon the
throng, and calling upon the Lord of life and spirit to restore him
those again, he thus died.

   {15:1} But Nicanor, hearing that Judas and his company were in the
strong places about Samaria, resolved without any danger to set upon
them on the sabbath day.

   {15:2} Nevertheless the Jews that were compelled to go with him
said, O destroy not so cruelly and barbarously, but give honour to that
day, which he, that seeth all things, hath honoured with holiness above
all other days.

   {15:3} Then the most ungracious wretch demanded, if there were a
Mighty one in heaven, that had commanded the sabbath day to be kept.

   {15:4} And when they said, There is in heaven a living Lord, and
mighty, who commanded the seventh day to be kept:

   {15:5} Then said the other, And I also am mighty upon earth, and I
command to take arms, and to do the king's business. Yet he obtained
not to have his wicked will done.

   {15:6} So Nicanor in exceeding pride and haughtiness determined to
set up a publick monument of his victory over Judas and them that were
with him.

   {15:7} But Maccabeus had ever sure confidence that the Lord would
help him:

   {15:8} Wherefore he exhorted his people not to fear the coming of
the heathen against them, but to remember the help which in former
times they had received from heaven, and now to expect the victory and
aid, which should come unto them from the Almighty.

   {15:9} And so comforting them out of the law and the prophets, and
withal putting them in mind of the battles that they won afore, he made
them more cheerful.

   {15:10} And when he had stirred up their minds, he gave them their
charge, shewing them therewithall the falsehood of the heathen, and the
breach of oaths.

   {15:11} Thus he armed every one of them, not so much with defence of
shields and spears, as with comfortable and good words: and beside
that, he told them a dream worthy to be believed, as if it had been so
indeed, which did not a little rejoice them.

   {15:12} And this was his vision: That Onias, who had been high
priest, a virtuous and a good man, reverend in conversation, gentle in
condition, well spoken also, and exercised from a child in all points
of virtue, holding up his hands prayed for the whole body of the Jews.

   {15:13} This done, in like manner there appeared a man with gray
hairs, and exceeding glorious, who was of a wonderful and excellent
majesty.

   {15:14} Then Onias answered, saying, This is a lover of the
brethren, who prayeth much for the people, and for the holy city, to
wit, Jeremias the prophet of God.

   {15:15} Whereupon Jeremias holding forth his right hand gave to
Judas a sword of gold, and in giving it spake thus,

   {15:16} Take this holy sword, a gift from God, with the which thou
shalt wound the adversaries.

   {15:17} Thus being well comforted by the words of Judas, which were
very good, and able to stir them up to valour, and to encourage the
hearts of the young men, they determined not to pitch camp, but
courageously to set upon them, and manfully to try the matter by
conflict, because the city and the sanctuary and the temple were in
danger.

   {15:18} For the care that they took for their wives, and their
children, their brethren, and folks, was in least account with them:
but the greatest and principal fear was for the holy temple.

   {15:19} Also they that were in the city took not the least care,
being troubled for the conflict abroad.

   {15:20} And now, when as all looked what should be the trial, and
the enemies were already come near, and the army was set in array, and
the beasts conveniently placed, and the horsemen set in wings,

   {15:21} Maccabeus seeing the coming of the multitude, and the divers
preparations of armour, and the fierceness of the beasts, stretched out
his hands toward heaven, and called upon the Lord that worketh wonders,
knowing that victory cometh not by arms, but even as it seemeth good to
him, he giveth it to such as are worthy:

   {15:22} Therefore in his prayer he said after this manner; O Lord,
thou didst send thine angel in the time of Ezekias king of Judea, and
didst slay in the host of Sennacherib an hundred fourscore and five
thousand:

   {15:23} Wherefore now also, O Lord of heaven, send a good angel
before us for a fear and dread unto them;

   {15:24} And through the might of thine arm let those be stricken
with terror, that come against thy holy people to blaspheme. And he
ended thus.

   {15:25} Then Nicanor and they that were with him came forward with
trumpets and songs.

   {15:26} But Judas and his company encountered the enemies with
invocation and prayer.

   {15:27} So that fighting with their hands, and praying unto God with
their hearts, they slew no less than thirty and five thousand men: for
through the appearance of God they were greatly cheered.

   {15:28} Now when the battle was done, returning again with joy, they
knew that Nicanor lay dead in his harness.

   {15:29} Then they made a great shout and a noise, praising the
Almighty in their own language.

   {15:30} And Judas, who was ever the chief defender of the citizens
both in body and mind, and who continued his love toward his countrymen
all his life, commanded to strike off Nicanor's head, and his hand with
his shoulder, and bring them to Jerusalem.

   {15:31} So when he was there, and called them of his nation
together, and set the priests before the altar, he sent for them that
were of the tower,

   {15:32} And shewed them vile Nicanor's head, and the hand of that
blasphemer, which with proud brags he had stretched out against the
holy temple of the Almighty.

   {15:33} And when he had cut out the tongue of that ungodly Nicanor,
he commanded that they should give it by pieces unto the fowls, and
hang up the reward of his madness before the temple.

   {15:34} So every man praised toward the heaven the glorious Lord,
saying, Blessed be he that hath kept his own place undefiled.

   {15:35} He hanged also Nicanor's head upon the tower, an evident and
manifest sign unto all of the help of the Lord.

   {15:36} And they ordained all with a common decree in no case to let
that day pass without solemnity, but to celebrate the thirtieth day of
the twelfth month, which in the Syrian tongue is called Adar, the day
before Mardocheus' day.

   {15:37} Thus went it with Nicanor: and from that time forth the
Hebrews had the city in their power. And here will I make an end.

   {15:38} And if I have done well, and as is fitting the story, it is
that which I desired: but if slenderly and meanly, it is that which I
could attain unto.

   {15:39} For as it is hurtful to drink wine or water alone; and as
wine mingled with water is pleasant, and delighteth the taste: even so
speech finely framed delighteth the ears of them that read the story.
And here shall be an end.





The Second Epistle General of Peter

   {1:1} Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them
that have obtained like precious faith with us through the
righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ: {1:2} Grace and
peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus
our Lord, {1:3} According as his divine power hath given unto us all
things that [pertain] unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of
him that hath called us to glory and virtue: {1:4} Whereby are given
unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might
be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that
is in the world through lust. {1:5} And beside this, giving all
diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; {1:6} And
to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience
godliness; {1:7} And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly
kindness charity. {1:8} 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. {1:9} But he that lacketh these
things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he
was purged from his old sins. {1:10} Wherefore the rather, brethren,
give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do
these things, ye shall never fall: {1:11} For so an entrance shall be
ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord
and Saviour Jesus Christ.

   {1:12} Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in
remembrance of these things, though ye know [them,] and be established
in the present truth. {1:13} Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in
this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting [you] in remembrance; {1:14}
Knowing that shortly I must put off [this] my tabernacle, even as our
Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me. {1:15} Moreover I will endeavour that
ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in
remembrance. {1:16} For we have not followed cunningly devised fables,
when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus
Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty. {1:17} 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. {1:18} And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we
were with him in the holy mount. {1:19} We have also a more sure word
of prophecy; whereunto ye do 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: {1:20} Knowing this first, that no prophecy of
the scripture is of any private interpretation. {1:21} 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.

   {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. {2:2} And many shall follow their
pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil
spoken of. {2:3} And through covetousness shall they with feigned words
make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth
not, and their damnation slumbereth not. {2:4} For if God spared not
the angels that sinned, but cast [them] down to hell, and delivered
[them] into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; {2:5} And
spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth [person,] a
preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the
ungodly; {2:6} And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes
condemned [them] with an overthrow, making [them] an ensample unto
those that after should live ungodly; {2:7} And delivered just Lot,
vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked: {2:8} (For that
righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed [his]
righteous soul from day to day with [their] unlawful deeds;) {2:9} The
Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to
reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished: {2:10} But
chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and
despise government. Presumptuous [are they,] selfwilled, they are not
afraid to speak evil of dignities. {2:11} Whereas angels, which are
greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them
before the Lord. {2:12} But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be
taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not;
and shall utterly perish in their own corruption; {2:13} And shall
receive the reward of unrighteousness, [as] they that count it pleasure
to riot in the daytime. Spots [they are] and blemishes, sporting
themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you; {2:14}
Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling
unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices;
cursed children: {2:15} Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone
astray, following the way of Balaam [the son] of Bosor, who loved the
wages of unrighteousness; {2:16} But was rebuked for his iniquity: the
dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet.
{2:17} These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a
tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever. {2:18} For
when they speak great swelling [words] of vanity, they allure through
the lusts of the flesh, [through much] wantonness, those that were
clean escaped from them who live in error. {2:19} While they promise
them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of
whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage. {2:20}
For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through 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. {2:21} 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. {2:22} 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.

   {3:1} This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in [both]
which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance: {3:2} That ye
may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy
prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and
Saviour: {3:3} Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last
days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, {3:4} And saying, Where
is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all
things continue as [they were] from the beginning of the creation.
{3:5} 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: {3:6} Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with
water, perished: {3:7} 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. {3:8} 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. {3:9} The Lord is not
slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is
longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that
all should come to repentance. {3:10} But the day of the Lord will come
as a thief in the night; in the 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. {3:11} [Seeing]
then [that] all these things shall be dissolved, what manner [of
persons] ought ye to be in [all] holy conversation and godliness,
{3:12} 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? {3:13} Nevertheless we, according to his
promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth
righteousness. {3:14} Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such
things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot,
and blameless. {3:15} And account [that] the longsuffering of our Lord
[is] salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the
wisdom given unto him hath written unto you; {3:16} 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. {3:17} 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. {3:18} 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.





The Second Book of Samuel Otherwise Called the Second Book of the Kings

   {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; {1:2} 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. {1:3} And David said unto him,
From whence comest thou? And he said unto him, Out of the camp of
Israel am I escaped. {1:4} And David said unto him, How went the
matter? I pray thee, tell 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. {1:5} And David said unto the
young man that told him, How knowest thou that Saul and Jonathan his
son be dead? {1:6} And the young man that told him said, As I happened
by chance upon mount Gilboa, behold, Saul leaned upon his spear; and,
lo, the chariots and horsemen followed hard after him. {1:7} And when
he looked behind him, he saw me, and called unto me. And I answered,
Here [am] I. {1:8} And he said unto me, Who [art] thou? And I answered
him, I [am] an Amalekite. {1:9} And 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. {1:10} 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. {1:11} Then
David took hold on his clothes, and rent them; and likewise all the men
that [were] with him: {1:12} And they mourned, and wept, and fasted
until even, for Saul, 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.

   {1:13} And David said unto the young man that told him, Whence [art]
thou? And he answered, I [am] the son of a stranger, an Amalekite.
{1:14} And David said unto him, How wast thou not afraid to stretch
forth thine hand to destroy the LORD'S anointed? {1:15} And David
called one of the young men, and said, Go near, [and] fall upon him.
And he smote him that he died. {1:16} And David said unto him, Thy
blood [be] upon thy head; for thy mouth hath testified against thee,
saying, I have slain the LORD'S anointed.

   {1:17} And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over
Jonathan his son: {1:18} (Also he bade them teach the children of Judah
[the use of] the bow: behold, it is written in the book of Jasher.)
{1:19} The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the
mighty fallen! {1:20} Tell [it] not in Gath, publish [it] not in the
streets of Askelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest
the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph. {1:21} Ye mountains of
Gilboa, [let there be] no dew, neither [let there be] 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. {1:22} 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. {1:23} 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. {1:24} Ye daughters
of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet, with [other]
delights, who put on ornaments of gold upon your apparel. {1:25} How
are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! O Jonathan, [thou
wast] slain in thine high places. {1:26} I am distressed for thee, my
brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me
was wonderful, passing the love of women. {1:27} How are the mighty
fallen, and the weapons of war perished!

   {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. {2:2} So David went up thither, and his two wives
also, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail Nabal's wife the Carmelite.
{2:3} And his men that [were] with him did David bring up, every man
with his household: and they dwelt in the cities of Hebron. {2:4} And
the men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the
house of Judah. And they told David, saying, [That] the men of
Jabesh-gilead [were they] that buried Saul.

   {2:5} And David sent messengers unto the men of Jabesh-gilead, 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. {2:6}
And now the LORD shew kindness and truth unto you: and I also will
requite you this kindness, because ye have done this thing. {2:7}
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.

   {2:8} But Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul's host, took
Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim; {2:9}
And made him king over Gilead, and over the Ashurites, and over
Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all Israel.
{2:10} Ish-bosheth 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. {2:11} And the time that David was king in Hebron over
the house of Judah was seven years and six months.

   {2:12} And Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ish-bosheth the
son of Saul, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon. {2:13} And Joab the son
of Zeruiah, and the servants of David, went 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. {2:14} And Abner
said to Joab, Let the young men now arise, and play before us. And Joab
said, Let them arise. {2:15} Then there arose and went over by number
twelve of Benjamin, which [pertained] to Ish-bosheth the son of Saul,
and twelve of the servants of David. {2:16} 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
Helkath-hazzurim, which [is] in Gibeon. {2:17} And there was a very
sore battle that day; and Abner was beaten, and the men of Israel,
before the servants of David.

   {2:18} And there were three sons of Zeruiah there, Joab, and
Abishai, and Asahel: and Asahel [was as] light of foot as a wild roe.
{2:19} And Asahel pursued after Abner; and in going he turned not to
the right hand nor to the left from following Abner. {2:20} Then Abner
looked behind him, and said, [Art] thou Asahel? And he answered, I [am.
]{2:21} 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. {2:22}
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? {2:23} 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.
{2:24} 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.

   {2:25} And the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together
after Abner, and became one troop, and stood on the top of an hill.
{2:26} 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? {2:27} 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. {2:28} So Joab blew a trumpet,
and all the people stood still, and pursued after Israel no more,
neither fought they any more. {2:29} And Abner and his men walked all
that night through the plain, and passed over Jordan, and went through
all Bithron, and they came to Mahanaim. {2:30} And Joab returned from
following Abner: and when he had gathered all the people together,
there lacked of David's servants nineteen men and Asahel. {2:31} But
the servants of David had smitten of Benjamin, and of Abner's men, [so
that] three hundred and threescore men died.

   {2:32} And they took up Asahel, and buried him in the sepulchre of
his father, which [was in] Bethlehem. And Joab and his men went all
night, and they came to Hebron at break of day.

   {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.

   {3:2} And unto David were sons born in Hebron: and his firstborn was
Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess; {3:3} And his second, Chileab, of
Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; and the third, Absalom the son
of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur; {3:4} And the fourth,
Adonijah the son of Haggith; and the fifth, Shephatiah the son of
Abital; {3:5} And the sixth, Ithream, by Eglah David's wife. These were
born to David in Hebron.

   {3:6} 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. {3:7} And Saul had a concubine, whose name [was] Rizpah,
the daughter of Aiah: and [Ish-bosheth] said to Abner, Wherefore hast
thou gone in unto my father's concubine? {3:8} Then was Abner very
wroth for the words of Ish-bosheth, and 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? {3:9} So do God to Abner, and more also, except,
as the LORD hath sworn to David, even so I do to him; {3:10} To
translate the kingdom from the house of Saul, and to set up the throne
of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan even to Beer-sheba.
{3:11} And he could not answer Abner a word again, because he feared
him.

   {3:12} 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.

   {3:13} 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. {3:14} And David sent messengers to Ish-bosheth Saul's son,
saying, Deliver [me] my wife Michal, which I espoused to me for an
hundred foreskins of the Philistines. {3:15} And Ish-bosheth sent, and
took her from [her] husband, [even] from Phaltiel the son of Laish.
{3:16} And her husband went with her along weeping behind her to
Bahurim. Then said Abner unto him, Go, return. And he returned.

   {3:17} And Abner had communication with the elders of Israel,
saying, Ye sought for David in times past [to be] king over you: {3:18}
Now then do [it:] for the LORD hath spoken of David, saying, By 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. {3:19}
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. {3:20} 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. {3:21} 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.

   {3:22} 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. {3:23} 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. {3:24} 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? {3:25} 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. {3:26} 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. {3:27} 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.

   {3:28} 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: {3:29} 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. {3:30} So Joab and
Abishai his brother slew Abner, because he had slain their brother
Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.

   {3:31} 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. {3:32} 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. {3:33} And the king
lamented over Abner, and said, Died Abner as a fool dieth? {3:34} 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. {3:35} 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.
{3:36} And all the people took notice [of it,] and it pleased them: as
whatsoever the king did pleased all the people. {3:37} For all the
people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king
to slay Abner the son of Ner. {3:38} And the king said unto his
servants, Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen
this day in Israel? {3:39} And I [am] this day weak, though anointed
king; and these men the sons of Zeruiah [be] too hard for me: the LORD
shall reward the doer of evil according to his wickedness.

   {4:1} And when Saul's son heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his
hands were feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled. {4:2} And
Saul's son had two men [that were] captains of bands: the 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: {4:3} And the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and
were sojourners there until this day.) {4:4} And Jonathan, Saul's son,
had a son [that was] lame of [his] feet. 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. {4:5} And
the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, went, and came
about the heat of the day to the house of Ish-bosheth, who lay on a bed
at noon. {4:6} 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. {4:7} 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. {4:8} And they brought the head
of Ish-bosheth unto David to Hebron, and said to the king, Behold the
head of Ish-bosheth 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.

   {4:9} 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, {4:10} 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: {4:11} 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? {4:12} 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 Ish-bosheth, and buried
[it] in the sepulchre of Abner in Hebron.

   {5:1} Then came all the tribes of Israel to David unto Hebron, and
spake, saying, Behold, we [are] thy bone and thy flesh. {5:2} Also in
time past, when Saul was king over us, thou wast he that 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. {5:3} 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.

   {5:4} David [was] thirty years old when he began to reign, [and] he
reigned forty years. {5:5} In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years
and six months: and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years over
all Israel and Judah.

   {5:6} 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. {5:7} Nevertheless David took
the strong hold of Zion: the same [is] the city of David. {5:8} 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. {5:9} So David dwelt in the
fort, and called it the city of David. And David built round about from
Millo and inward. {5:10} And David went on, and grew great, and the
LORD God of hosts [was] with him.

   {5:11} And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar
trees, and carpenters, and masons: and they built David an house.
{5:12} 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.

   {5:13} 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. {5:14} And these [be] the names of those that
were born unto him in Jerusalem; Shammuah, and Shobab, and Nathan, and
Solomon, {5:15} Ibhar also, and Elishua, and Nepheg, and Japhia, {5:16}
And Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphalet.

   {5:17} 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. {5:18} The Philistines also
came and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim. {5:19} 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. {5:20}
And David came to Baal-perazim, 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 Baal-perazim.
{5:21} And there they left their images, and David and his men burned
them.

   {5:22} And the Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves
in the valley of Rephaim. {5:23} 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. {5:24} 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. {5:25} And David
did so, as the LORD had commanded him; and smote the Philistines from
Geba until thou come to Gazer.

   {6:1} Again, David gathered together all [the] chosen [men] of
Israel, thirty thousand. {6:2} 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. {6:3} 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. {6:4} 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. {6:5} And David and all the house of Israel played
before the LORD on all manner of [instruments made of] fir wood, even
on harps, and on psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on
cymbals.

   {6:6} And when they came to Nachon's threshingfloor, Uzzah put forth
[his hand] to the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the oxen shook
[it. ]{6:7} 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. {6:8} And David was displeased, because the LORD had made a breach
upon Uzzah: and he called the name of the place Perez-uzzah to this
day. {6:9} And David was afraid of the LORD that day, and said, How
shall the ark of the LORD come to me? {6:10} So David would not remove
the ark of the LORD unto him into the city of David: but David carried
it aside into the house of Obed-edom the Gittite. {6:11} And the ark of
the LORD continued in the house of Obed-edom the Gittite three months:
and the LORD blessed Obed-edom, and all his household.

   {6:12} And it was told king David, saying, The LORD hath blessed the
house of Obed- edom, 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 Obed-edom into the city of David with gladness. {6:13} And it was
[so,] that when they that bare the ark of the LORD had gone six paces,
he sacrificed oxen and fatlings. {6:14} And David danced before the
LORD with all [his] might; and David [was] girded with a linen ephod.
{6:15} So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the
LORD with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet. {6:16} And as
the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal Saul's daughter
looked through a window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before
the LORD; and she despised him in her heart.

   {6:17} 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.
{6:18} 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. {6:19} And he dealt among all the people, [even] among the whole
multitude of Israel, as well to the women as men, to every one a cake
of bread, and a good piece [of flesh,] and a flagon [of wine.] So all
the people departed every one to his house.

   {6:20} Then David returned to bless his household. And Michal the
daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, How glorious was the
king of Israel today, who uncovered himself to day in the eyes of the
handmaids of his servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly
uncovereth himself! {6:21} 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. {6:22} 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. {6:23} Therefore
Michal the daughter of Saul had no child unto the day of her death.

   {7:1} And it came to pass, when the king sat in his house, and the
LORD had given him rest round about from all his enemies; {7:2} That
the king said unto Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in an house of
cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth within curtains. {7:3} And Nathan
said to the king, Go, do all that [is] in thine heart; for the LORD
[is] with thee.

   {7:4} And it came to pass that night, that the word of the LORD came
unto Nathan, saying, {7:5} Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the
LORD, Shalt thou build me an house for me to dwell in? {7:6} Whereas I
have not dwelt in [any] house since the time that I brought up the
children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have walked in a
tent and in a tabernacle. {7:7} 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? {7:8} 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: {7:9} 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. {7:10} 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, {7:11} 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.

   {7:12} 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. {7:13} He shall build an
house for my name, and I will stablish the throne of his kingdom for
ever. {7:14} I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit
iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes
of the children of men: {7:15} But my mercy shall not depart away from
him, as I took [it] from Saul, whom I put away before thee. {7:16} And
thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee:
thy throne shall be established for ever. {7:17} According to all these
words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak unto David.

   {7:18} Then went king David in, and sat before the LORD, and he
said, Who [am] I, O Lord GOD? and what [is] my house, that thou hast
brought me hitherto? {7:19} 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?
{7:20} And what can David say more unto thee? for thou, Lord GOD,
knowest thy servant. {7:21} For thy word's sake, and according to thine
own heart, hast thou done all these great things, to make thy servant
know [them. ]{7:22} 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. {7:23} 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?
{7:24} For thou hast confirmed to thyself thy people Israel [to be] a
people unto thee for ever: and thou, LORD, art become their God. {7:25}
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. {7:26} 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. {7:27} 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. {7:28} And now, O Lord GOD, thou [art] that
God, and thy words be true, and thou hast promised this goodness unto
thy servant: {7:29} Therefore now let it please thee to bless the house
of thy 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.

   {8:1} And after this it came to pass, that David smote the
Philistines, and subdued them: and David took Metheg-ammah out of the
hand of the Philistines. {8:2} 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.

   {8:3} David smote also Hadadezer, the son of Rehob, king of Zobah,
as he went to recover his border at the river Euphrates. {8:4} And
David took from him a thousand [chariots,] and seven hundred horsemen,
and twenty thousand footmen: and David houghed all the chariot
[horses,] but reserved of them [for] an hundred chariots. {8:5} And
when the Syrians of Damascus came to succour Hadadezer king of Zobah,
David slew of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men. {8:6} 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. {8:7} And David took the shields of gold that were on the
servants of Hadadezer, and brought them to Jerusalem. {8:8} And from
Betah, and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, king David took
exceeding much brass.

   {8:9} When Toi king of Hamath heard that David had smitten all the
host of Hadadezer, {8:10} Then Toi sent Joram his son unto king David,
to salute him, and to bless him, because he had fought against
Hadadezer, and smitten him: for Hadadezer had wars with Toi. And
[Joram] brought with him vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and
vessels of brass: {8:11} Which also king David did dedicate unto the
LORD, with the silver and gold that he had dedicated of all nations
which he subdued; {8:12} Of Syria, and of Moab, and of the children of
Ammon, and of the Philistines, and of Amalek, and of the spoil of
Hadadezer, son of Rehob, king of Zobah. {8:13} And David gat [him] a
name when he returned from smiting of the Syrians in the valley of
salt, [being] eighteen thousand [men.]

   {8:14} And he put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom put he
garrisons, and all they of Edom became David's servants. And the LORD
preserved David whithersoever he went. {8:15} And David reigned over
all Israel; and David executed judgment and justice unto all his
people. {8:16} And Joab the son of Zeruiah [was] over the host; and
Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud [was] recorder; {8:17} And Zadok the son
of Ahitub, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, [were] the priests; and
Seraiah [was] the scribe; {8:18} And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada [was
over] both the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David's sons were
chief rulers.

   {9:1} And David said, Is there yet any that is left of the house of
Saul, that I may shew him kindness for Jonathan's sake? {9:2} And
[there was] of the house of Saul a servant whose name [was] Ziba. And
when they had called him unto David, the king said unto him, [Art] thou
Ziba? And he said, Thy servant [is he. ]{9:3} 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. {9:4} And the king said unto him, Where
[is] he? And Ziba said unto the king, Behold, he [is] in the house of
Machir, the son of Ammiel, in Lo-debar.

   {9:5} Then king David sent, and fetched him out of the house of
Machir, the son of Ammiel, from Lo-debar. {9:6} Now when Mephibosheth,
the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, was come unto David, he fell on
his face, and did reverence. And David said, Mephibosheth. And he
answered, Behold thy servant!

   {9:7} 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. {9:8} And he bowed himself, and said, What is thy servant,
that thou shouldest look upon such a dead dog as I [am?]

   {9:9} Then the king called to Ziba, Saul's servant, and said unto
him, I have given unto thy master's son all that pertained to Saul and
to all his house. {9:10} 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. {9:11} 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. {9:12} And Mephibosheth had
a young son, whose name [was] Micha. And all that dwelt in the house of
Ziba [were] servants unto Mephibosheth. {9:13} So Mephibosheth dwelt in
Jerusalem: for he did eat continually at the king's table; and was lame
on both his feet.

   {10:1} And it came to pass after this, that the king of the children
of Ammon died, and Hanun his son reigned in his stead. {10:2} Then said
David, I will shew kindness unto Hanun the son of 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. {10:3} 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? {10:4} 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. {10:5} 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.

   {10:6} And when the children of Ammon saw that they stank before
David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Beth-rehob,
and the Syrians of Zoba, twenty thousand footmen, and of king Maacah a
thousand men, and of Ish-tob twelve thousand men. {10:7} And when David
heard of [it,] he sent Joab, and all the host of the mighty men. {10:8}
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
Ish-tob, and Maacah, [were] by themselves in the field. {10:9} 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: {10:10} 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. {10:11} 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. {10:12} 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. {10:13} And Joab drew nigh, and the people that
[were] with him, unto the battle against the Syrians: and they fled
before him. {10:14} And when the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians
were fled, then fled they also before Abishai, and entered into the
city. So Joab returned from the children of Ammon, and came to
Jerusalem.

   {10:15} And when the Syrians saw that they were smitten before
Israel, they gathered themselves together. {10:16} And Hadarezer sent,
and brought out the Syrians that [were] beyond the river: and they came
to Helam; and Shobach the captain of the host of Hadarezer [went]
before them. {10:17} 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. {10:18} And
the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew [the men of] seven
hundred chariots of the Syrians, and forty thousand horsemen, and smote
Shobach the captain of their host, who died there. {10:19} And when all
the kings [that were] servants to Hadarezer saw that 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.

   {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.

   {11:2} 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. {11:3} And David sent and enquired after the woman. And
[one] said, [Is] not this Bath-sheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife
of Uriah the Hittite? {11:4} 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. {11:5} And the
woman conceived, and sent and told David, and said, I [am] with child.

   {11:6} And David sent to Joab, [saying,] Send me Uriah the Hittite.
And Joab sent Uriah to David. {11:7} And when Uriah was come unto him,
David demanded [of him] how Joab did, and how the people did, and how
the war prospered. {11:8} 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. {11:9} But Uriah
slept at the door of the king's house with all the servants of his
lord, and went not down to his house. {11:10} And when they had told
David, saying, Uriah went not down unto his house, David said unto
Uriah, Camest thou not from [thy] journey? why [then] didst thou not go
down unto thine house? {11:11} 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. {11:12} 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. {11:13}
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.

   {11:14} And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a
letter to Joab, and sent [it] by the hand of Uriah. {11:15} And he
wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the
hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and
die. {11:16} And it came to pass, when Joab observed the city, that he
assigned Uriah unto a place where he knew that valiant men [were.
]{11:17} 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.

   {11:18} Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the
war; {11:19} And charged the messenger, saying, When thou hast made an
end of telling the matters of the war unto the king, {11:20} And if so
be that the king's wrath arise, and he say unto thee, Wherefore
approached ye so nigh unto the city when ye did fight? knew ye not that
they would shoot from the wall? {11:21} 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.

   {11:22} So the messenger went, and came and shewed David all that
Joab had sent him for. {11:23} And the messenger said unto David,
Surely the men prevailed against us, and came out unto us into the
field, and we were upon them even unto the entering of the gate.
{11:24} 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. {11:25} 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.

   {11:26} And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was
dead, she mourned for her husband. {11:27} And when the mourning was
past, David sent and fetched her to his house, and she became his wife,
and bare him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the
LORD.

   {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. {12:2} The rich [man] had exceeding many flocks and
herds: {12:3} 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. {12:4} 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. {12:5} 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: {12:6} And he shall
restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he
had no pity.

   {12:7} And Nathan said to David, Thou [art] the man. Thus saith the
LORD God of Israel, I anointed thee king over Israel, and I delivered
thee out of the hand of Saul; {12:8} 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. {12:9} 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. {12:10} 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. {12:11} 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.
{12:12} For thou didst [it] secretly: but I will do this thing before
all Israel, and before the sun. {12:13} And David said unto Nathan, I
have sinned against the LORD. And Nathan said unto David, The LORD also
hath put away thy sin; thou shalt not die. {12:14} 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.

   {12:15} And Nathan departed unto his house. And the LORD struck the
child that Uriah's wife bare unto David, and it was very sick. {12:16}
David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went
in, and lay all night upon the earth. {12:17} 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. {12:18} 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? {12:19} 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.
{12:20} 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. {12:21} 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. {12:22} 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?
{12:23} But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him
back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.

   {12:24} And David comforted Bath-sheba his wife, and went in unto
her, and lay with her: and she bare a son, and he called his name
Solomon: and the LORD loved him. {12:25} And he sent by the hand of
Nathan the prophet; and he called his name Jedidiah, because of the
LORD.

   {12:26} And Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and
took the royal city. {12:27} And Joab sent messengers to David, and
said, I have fought against Rabbah, and have taken the city of waters.
{12:28} Now therefore gather the rest of the people together, and
encamp against the city, and take it: lest I take the city, and it be
called after my name. {12:29} And David gathered all the people
together, and went to Rabbah, and fought against it, and took it.
{12:30} And he took their king's crown from off his head, the weight
whereof [was] a talent of gold with the precious stones: and it was
[set] on David's head. And he brought forth the spoil of the city in
great abundance. {12:31} And he brought forth the people that [were]
therein, and put [them] under saws, and under harrows of iron, and
under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brickkiln: and thus
did he unto all the cities of the children of Ammon. So David and all
the people returned unto Jerusalem.

   {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. {13:2} 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 any thing to her. {13:3} But Amnon had a friend, whose name [was]
Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David's brother: and Jonadab [was] a very
subtil man. {13:4} And he said unto him, Why [art] thou, [being] the
king's son, lean from day to day? wilt thou not tell me? And Amnon said
unto him, I love Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister. {13:5} 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.

   {13:6} 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. {13:7} Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, Go now
to thy brother Amnon's house, and dress him meat. {13:8} So Tamar went
to her brother Amnon's house; and he was laid down. And she took flour,
and kneaded [it,] and made cakes in his sight, and did bake the cakes.
{13:9} 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. {13:10} 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. {13:11} 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.
{13:12} And she answered him, Nay, my brother, do not force me; for no
such thing ought to be done in Israel: do not thou this folly. {13:13}
And I, whither shall I cause my shame to go? and as for thee, 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. {13:14}
Howbeit he would not hearken unto her voice: but, being stronger than
she, forced her, and lay with her.

   {13:15} Then Amnon hated her exceedingly; so that the hatred
wherewith he hated her [was] greater than the love wherewith he had
loved her. And Amnon said unto her, Arise, be gone. {13:16} 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. {13:17} Then he called his servant that ministered
unto him, and said, Put now this [woman] out from me, and bolt the door
after her. {13:18} 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.

   {13:19} 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. {13:20} 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.

   {13:21} But when king David heard of all these things, he was very
wroth. {13:22} And Absalom spake unto his brother Amnon neither good
nor bad: for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had forced his sister
Tamar.

   {13:23} And it came to pass after two full years, that Absalom had
sheepshearers in Baal- hazor, which [is] beside Ephraim: and Absalom
invited all the king's sons. {13:24} And Absalom came to the king, and
said, Behold now, thy servant hath sheepshearers; let the king, I
beseech thee, and his servants go with thy servant. {13:25} And the
king said to Absalom, Nay, my son, let us not all now go, lest we be
chargeable unto thee. And he pressed him: howbeit he would not go, but
blessed him. {13:26} Then said Absalom, If not, I pray thee, let my
brother Amnon go with us. And the king said unto him, Why should he go
with thee? {13:27} But Absalom pressed him, that he let Amnon and all
the king's sons go with him.

   {13:28} Now Absalom had commanded his servants, saying, Mark ye 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. {13:29} 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.

   {13:30} 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. {13:31} Then the king arose, and
tare his garments, and lay on the earth; and all his servants stood by
with their clothes rent. {13:32} 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. {13:33} 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. {13:34} 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.
{13:35} And Jonadab said unto the king, Behold, the king's sons come:
as thy servant said, so it is. {13:36} And it came to pass, as soon as
he had made an end of 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.

   {13:37} But Absalom fled, and went to Talmai, the son of Ammihud,
king of Geshur. And [David] mourned for his son every day. {13:38} So
Absalom fled, and went to Geshur, and was there three years. {13:39}
And [the soul of] king David longed to go forth unto Absalom: for he
was comforted concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead.

   {14:1} Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king's heart
[was] toward Absalom. {14:2} 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:
{14:3} And come to the king, and speak on this manner unto him. So Joab
put the words in her mouth.

   {14:4} And when the woman of Tekoah spake to the king, she fell on
her face to the ground, and did obeisance, and said, Help, O king.
{14:5} And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered,
I [am] indeed a widow woman, and mine husband is dead. {14:6} And thy
handmaid had two sons, and they two strove together in the field, and
[there was] none to part them, but the one smote the other, and slew
him. {14:7} 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. {14:8} And the king said unto the woman, Go to thine house, and
I will give charge concerning thee. {14:9} And the woman of Tekoah said
unto the king, My lord, O king, the iniquity [be] on me, and on my
father's house: and the king and his throne [be] guiltless. {14:10} And
the king said, Whosoever saith [ought] unto thee, bring him to me, and
he shall not touch thee any more. {14:11} 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. {14:12} Then the woman said, Let thine handmaid, I
pray thee, speak [one] word unto my lord the king. And he said, Say on.
{14:13} 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. {14:14} For we must needs die, and [are] as water spilt on
the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect
[any] person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not
expelled from him. {14:15} Now therefore that I am come to speak of
this thing unto my lord 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. {14:16}
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. {14:17} Then thine handmaid said, The word of my lord the king
shall now be comfortable: for as an angel of God, so [is] my lord the
king to discern good and bad: therefore the LORD thy God will be with
thee. {14:18} Then the king answered and said unto the woman, Hide not
from me, I pray thee, the thing that I shall ask thee. And the woman
said, Let my lord the king now speak. {14:19} 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: {14:20} To fetch about this form of speech
hath thy servant Joab done this thing: and my lord [is] wise, according
to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all [things] that [are] in
the earth.

   {14:21} And the king said unto Joab, Behold now, I have done this
thing: go therefore, bring the young man Absalom again. {14:22} And
Joab fell to the ground on his face, and bowed himself, and thanked the
king: and Joab said, Today 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. {14:23} So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and
brought Absalom to Jerusalem. {14:24} 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.

   {14:25} 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. {14:26} 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. {14:27} And
unto Absalom there were born three sons, and one daughter, whose name
[was] Tamar: she was a woman of a fair countenance.

   {14:28} So Absalom dwelt two full years in Jerusalem, and saw not
the king's face. {14:29} 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. {14:30} 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.
{14:31} Then Joab arose, and came to Absalom unto [his] house, and said
unto him, Wherefore have thy servants set my field on fire? {14:32} 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. {14:33} 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.

   {15:1} And it came to pass after this, that Absalom prepared him
chariots and horses, and fifty men to run before him. {15:2} And
Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the 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.
{15:3} And Absalom said unto him, See, thy matters [are] good and
right; but [there is] no man [deputed] of the king to hear thee. {15:4}
Absalom said moreover, Oh that I were made judge in the land, that
every man which hath any suit or cause might come unto me, and I would
do him justice! {15:5} 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. {15:6} 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.

   {15:7} 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. {15:8} 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. {15:9} And the king
said unto him, Go in peace. So he arose, and went to Hebron.

   {15:10} 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. {15:11} 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. {15:12} 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.

   {15:13} And there came a messenger to David, saying, The hearts of
the men of Israel are after Absalom. {15:14} And David said unto all
his servants that [were] with him at 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. {15:15} And the king's servants said unto
the king, Behold, thy servants [are ready to do] whatsoever my lord the
king shall appoint. {15:16} And the king went forth, and all his
household after him. And the king left ten women, [which were]
concubines, to keep the house. {15:17} And the king went forth, and all
the people after him, and tarried in a place that was far off. {15:18}
And all his servants passed on beside him; and all the Cherethites, and
all the Pelethites, and all the Gittites, six hundred men which came
after him from Gath, passed on before the king.

   {15:19} 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. {15:20} 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. {15:21} 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. {15:22} 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. {15:23} 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.

   {15:24} 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. {15:25} 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: {15:26}
But if he thus say, I have no delight in thee; behold, [here am] I, let
him do to me as seemeth good unto him. {15:27} The king said also unto
Zadok the priest, [Art not] thou a seer? return into the city in peace,
and your two sons with you, Ahimaaz thy son, and Jonathan the son of
Abiathar. {15:28} See, I will tarry in the plain of the wilderness,
until there come word from you to certify me. {15:29} Zadok therefore
and Abiathar carried the ark of God again to Jerusalem: and they
tarried there.

   {15:30} And David went up by the ascent of [mount] Olivet, and wept
as 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.

   {15:31} 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.

   {15:32} And it came to pass, that [when] David was come to the top
[of the mount,] where he worshipped God, behold, Hushai the Archite
came to meet him with his coat rent, and earth upon his head: {15:33}
Unto whom David said, If thou passest on with me, then thou shalt be a
burden unto me: {15:34} But if thou return to the city, and say unto
Absalom, I will be thy 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. {15:35} 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. {15:36} 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. {15:37} So Hushai David's friend came into the
city, and Absalom came into Jerusalem.

   {16:1} And when David was a little past the top [of the hill,]
behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of
asses saddled, and upon them two hundred [loaves] of bread, and an
hundred bunches of raisins, and an hundred of summer fruits, and a
bottle of wine. {16:2} And the king said unto Ziba, What meanest thou
by these? And 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. {16:3} 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, Today shall the
house of Israel restore me the kingdom of my father. {16:4} 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.

   {16:5} 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. {16:6} 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. {16:7} And thus said Shimei when he cursed, Come out, come out,
thou bloody man, and thou man of Belial: {16:8} The LORD hath returned
upon thee all the blood of the house of 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.

   {16:9} 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. {16:10} 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? {16:11} 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. {16:12} It may be that
the LORD will look on mine affliction, and that the LORD will requite
me good for his cursing this day. {16:13} And as David and his men went
by the way, Shimei went along on the hill's side over against him, and
cursed as he went, and threw stones at him, and cast dust. {16:14} And
the king, and all the people that [were] with him, came weary, and
refreshed themselves there.

   {16:15} And Absalom, and all the people the men of Israel, came to
Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him. {16:16} And it came to pass, when
Hushai the Archite, David's friend, was come unto Absalom, that Hushai
said unto Absalom, God save the king, God save the king. {16:17} And
Absalom said to Hushai, [Is] this thy kindness to thy friend? why
wentest thou not with thy friend? {16:18} And Hushai said unto Absalom,
Nay; but whom the LORD, and this people, and all the men of Israel,
choose, his will I be, and with him will I abide. {16:19} And again,
whom should I serve? [should I] not [serve] in the presence of his son?
as I have served in thy father's presence, so will I be in thy presence.

   {16:20} Then said Absalom to Ahithophel, Give counsel among you what
we shall do. {16:21} 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. {16:22} 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. {16:23} 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.

   {17:1} Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out
twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this
night: {17:2} And I will come upon him while he [is] weary and weak
handed, and will make him afraid: and all the people that [are] with
him shall flee; and I will smite the king only: {17:3} And I will bring
back all the people unto thee: the man whom thou seekest [is] as if all
returned: [so] all the people shall be in peace. {17:4} And the saying
pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel. {17:5} Then said
Absalom, Call now Hushai the Archite also, and let us hear likewise
what he saith. {17:6} And when Hushai was come to Absalom, Absalom
spake unto him, saying, Ahithophel hath spoken after this manner: shall
we do [after] his saying? if not; speak thou. {17:7} And Hushai said
unto Absalom, The counsel that Ahithophel hath given [is] not good at
this time. {17:8} For, said Hushai, thou knowest thy father and his
men, that they [be] mighty men, and they [be] chafed in their minds, as
a bear robbed of her whelps in the field: and thy father [is] a man of
war, and will not lodge with the people. {17:9} Behold, he is hid now
in some pit, or in some [other] place: and it 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. {17:10}
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. {17:11}
Therefore I counsel that all Israel be generally gathered unto thee,
from Dan even to Beer-sheba, as the sand that [is] by the sea for
multitude; and that thou go to battle in thine own person. {17:12} 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.
{17:13} 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. {17:14} 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.

   {17:15} 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. {17:16} 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. {17:17} Now Jonathan and
Ahimaaz stayed by En-rogel; 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. {17:18} 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. {17:19} And the
woman took and spread a covering over the well's mouth, and spread
ground corn thereon; and the thing was not known. {17:20} 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. {17:21} 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. {17:22} 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.

   {17:23} 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. {17:24} Then David came to
Mahanaim. And Absalom passed over Jordan, he and all the men of Israel
with him.

   {17:25} And Absalom made Amasa captain of the host instead of Joab:
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. {17:26} So Israel and Absalom pitched in the land of Gilead.

   {17:27} And it came to pass, when David was come to Mahanaim, that
Shobi the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and Machir
the son of Ammiel of Lo- debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim,
{17:28} Brought beds, and basons, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and
barley, and flour, and parched [corn,] and beans, and lentiles, and
parched [pulse, ]{17:29} 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.

   {18:1} And David numbered the people that [were] with him, and set
captains of thousands and captains of hundreds over them. {18:2} And
David sent forth a third part of the people under the hand 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.
{18:3} 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. {18:4} 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. {18:5} 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.

   {18:6} So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the
battle was in the wood of Ephraim; {18:7} Where the people of Israel
were slain before the servants of David, and there was there a great
slaughter that day of twenty thousand [men. ]{18:8} 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.

   {18:9} 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. {18:10} And
a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom
hanged in an oak. {18:11} And Joab said unto the man that told him,
And, behold, thou 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. {18:12} 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. {18:13} 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. ]{18:14} 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. {18:15} And ten young men that bare Joab's
armour compassed about and smote Absalom, and slew him. {18:16} And
Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after
Israel: for Joab held back the people. {18:17} And they took Absalom,
and cast him into a great pit in the wood, and laid a very great heap
of stones upon him: and all Israel fled every one to his tent.

   {18:18} 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.

   {18:19} 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.
{18:20} 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. {18:21} Then said Joab to
Cushi, Go tell the king what thou hast seen. And Cushi bowed himself
unto Joab, and ran. {18:22} Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok yet
again to Joab, But 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? {18:23} 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. {18:24} 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. {18:25} 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.
{18:26} 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. {18:27} 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. {18:28} 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. {18:29}
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. ]{18:30} And the king said [unto
him,] Turn aside, [and] stand here. And he turned aside, and stood
still. {18:31} And, behold, Cushi came; and Cushi said, Tidings, my
lord the king: for the LORD hath avenged thee this day of all them that
rose up against thee. {18:32} 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.]

   {18:33} 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!

   {19:1} And it was told Joab, Behold, the king weepeth and mourneth
for Absalom. {19:2} 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. {19:3} And the people gat them by stealth that day
into the city, as people being ashamed steal away when they flee in
battle. {19:4} But the king covered his face, and the king cried with a
loud voice, O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son! {19:5} And
Joab came into the house to the king, and said, Thou hast 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; {19:6} 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. {19:7} 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. {19:8} 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.

   {19:9} 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. {19:10} And Absalom, whom we anointed
over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why speak ye not a word of
bringing the king back?

   {19:11} And king David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests,
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. {19:12} Ye [are] my brethren, ye
[are] my bones and my flesh: wherefore then are ye the last to bring
back the king? {19:13} And say ye to Amasa, [Art] thou not of my bone,
and of my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if thou be not captain
of the host before me continually in the room of Joab. {19:14} 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. {19:15} So the king returned, and came to Jordan. And
Judah came to Gilgal, to go to meet the king, to conduct the king over
Jordan.

   {19:16} And Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite, which [was] of
Bahurim, hasted and came down with the men of Judah to meet king David.
{19:17} 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. {19:18}
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; {19:19} 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.
{19:20} 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. {19:21} 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? {19:22} 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? {19:23} Therefore the
king said unto Shimei, Thou shalt not die. And the king sware unto him.

   {19:24} And Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king,
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. {19:25} 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? {19:26} 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. {19:27} And he hath slandered thy servant unto my lord the king;
but my lord the king [is] as an angel of God: do therefore [what is]
good in thine eyes. {19:28} For all [of] my father's house were but
dead men before my lord 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? {19:29} And the king said unto him, Why
speakest thou any more of thy matters? I have said, Thou and Ziba
divide the land. {19:30} And Mephibosheth said unto the king, Yea, let
him take all, forasmuch as my lord the king is come again in peace unto
his own house.

   {19:31} And Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim, and went
over Jordan with the king, to conduct him over Jordan. {19:32} Now
Barzillai was a very aged man, [even] fourscore years old: and he had
provided the king of sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for he [was]
a very great man. {19:33} And the king said unto Barzillai, Come thou
over with me, and I will feed thee with me in Jerusalem. {19:34} And
Barzillai said unto the king, How long have I to live, that I should go
up with the king unto Jerusalem? {19:35} I [am] this day fourscore
years old: [and] can I discern between 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? {19:36} Thy servant will go a little
way over Jordan with the king: and why should the king recompense it me
with such a reward? {19:37} Let thy servant, I pray thee, turn back
again, that I may die in 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. {19:38} 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. {19:39} 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.
{19:40} 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.

   {19:41} 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? {19:42} 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? {19:43} 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.

   {20:1} And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name
[was] 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. {20:2} 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.

   {20:3} 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.

   {20:4} Then said the king to Amasa, Assemble me the men of Judah
within three days, and be thou here present. {20:5} So Amasa went to
assemble [the men of] Judah: but he tarried longer than the set time
which he had appointed him. {20:6} And David said to Abishai, Now shall
Sheba the son of Bichri do 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. {20:7} 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.
{20:8} 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. {20:9} 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. {20:10} 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. {20:11} And one of Joab's men stood by him,
and said, He that favoureth Joab, and he that [is] for David, [let him
go] after Joab. {20:12} And Amasa wallowed in blood in the midst of the
highway. And 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. {20:13}
When he was removed out of the highway, all the people went on after
Joab, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.

   {20:14} And he went through all the tribes of Israel unto Abel, and
to Beth-maachah, and all the Berites: and they were gathered together,
and went also after him. {20:15} And they came and besieged him in Abel
of Beth-maachah, 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.

   {20:16} 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.
{20:17} 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. {20:18} 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. ]{20:19} 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? {20:20} And Joab answered and said, Far
be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy. {20:21}
The matter [is] not so: but a man of mount Ephraim, Sheba the 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. {20:22} 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.

   {20:23} Now Joab [was] over all the host of Israel: and Benaiah the
son of Jehoiada [was] over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites:
{20:24} And Adoram [was] over the tribute: and Jehoshaphat the son of
Ahilud [was] recorder: {20:25} And Sheva [was] scribe: and Zadok and
Abiathar [were] the priests: {20:26} And Ira also the Jairite was a
chief ruler about David.

   {21:1} 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. {21:2} 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.) {21:3} 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? {21:4} 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. {21:5} And they answered
the king, The man that consumed us, and that devised against us [that]
we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the coasts of Israel,
{21:6} Let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us, and we will hang
them up unto the LORD in Gibeah of Saul, [whom] the LORD did choose.
And the king said, I will give [them. ]{21:7} 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. {21:8} 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: {21:9} 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.

   {21:10} 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.
{21:11} And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the
concubine of Saul, had done.

   {21:12} And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of
Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh-gilead, which had stolen them
from the street of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hanged them,
when the Philistines had slain Saul in Gilboa: {21:13} 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. {21:14} 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.

   {21:15} 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. {21:16} And Ishbi-benob, which
[was] of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear [weighed]
three hundred [shekels] of brass in weight, he being girded with a new
[sword,] thought to have slain David. {21:17} But Abishai the son of
Zeruiah succoured him, and smote the 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. {21:18} 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. {21:19} And there was again a battle in
Gob with the Philistines, where Elhanan the son of Jaare-oregim, a
Bethlehemite, slew [the brother of] Goliath the Gittite, the staff of
whose spear [was] like a weaver's beam. {21:20} And there was yet a
battle in Gath, where was a man of [great] 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. {21:21} And when he defied
Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimeah the brother of David slew him.
{21:22} These four were born to the giant in Gath, and fell by the hand
of David, and by the hand of his servants.

   {22:1} 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: {22:2} And he said, The LORD [is]
my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; {22:3} The God of my rock;
in him will I trust: [he is] my shield, and the horn of my salvation,
my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence.
{22:4} I will call on the LORD, [who is] worthy to be praised: so shall
I be saved from mine enemies. {22:5} When the waves of death compassed
me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid; {22:6} The sorrows of
hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me; {22:7} 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.
{22:8} Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven
moved and shook, because he was wroth. {22:9} There went up a smoke out
of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled
by it. {22:10} He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness
[was] under his feet. {22:11} And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly:
and he was seen upon the wings of the wind. {22:12} And he made
darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters, [and] thick clouds of
the skies. {22:13} Through the brightness before him were coals of fire
kindled. {22:14} The LORD thundered from heaven, and the most High
uttered his voice. {22:15} And he sent out arrows, and scattered them;
lightning, and discomfited them. {22:16} 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. {22:17} He
sent from above, he took me; he drew me out of many waters; {22:18} He
delivered me from my strong enemy, [and] from them that hated me: for
they were too strong for me. {22:19} They prevented me in the day of my
calamity: but the LORD was my stay. {22:20} He brought me forth also
into a large place: he delivered me, because he delighted in me.
{22:21} The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness: according
to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me. {22:22} For I have
kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
{22:23} For all his judgments [were] before me: and [as for] his
statutes, I did not depart from them. {22:24} I was also upright before
him, and have kept myself from mine iniquity. {22:25} Therefore the
LORD hath recompensed me according to my righteousness; according to my
cleanness in his eye sight. {22:26} With the merciful thou wilt shew
thyself merciful, [and] with the upright man thou wilt shew thyself
upright. {22:27} With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with
the froward thou wilt shew thyself unsavoury. {22:28} And the afflicted
people thou wilt save: but thine eyes [are] upon the haughty, [that]
thou mayest bring [them] down. {22:29} For thou [art] my lamp, O LORD:
and the LORD will lighten my darkness. {22:30} For by thee I have run
through a troop: by my God have I leaped over a wall. {22:31} [As for]
God, his way [is] perfect; the word of the LORD [is] tried: he [is] a
buckler to all them that trust in him. {22:32} For who [is] God, save
the LORD? and who [is] a rock, save our God? {22:33} God [is] my
strength [and] power: and he maketh my way perfect. {22:34} He maketh
my feet like hinds [feet:] and setteth me upon my high places. {22:35}
He teacheth my hands to war; so that a bow of steel is broken by mine
arms. {22:36} Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and
thy gentleness hath made me great. {22:37} Thou hast enlarged my steps
under me; so that my feet did not slip. {22:38} I have pursued mine
enemies, and destroyed them; and turned not again until I had consumed
them. {22:39} And I have consumed them, and wounded them, that they
could not arise: yea, they are fallen under my feet. {22:40} For thou
hast girded me with strength to battle: them that rose up against me
hast thou subdued under me. {22:41} Thou hast also given me the necks
of mine enemies, that I might destroy them that hate me. {22:42} They
looked, but [there was] none to save; [even] unto the LORD, but he
answered them not. {22:43} Then did I beat them as small as the dust of
the earth, I did stamp them as the mire of the street, [and] did spread
them abroad. {22:44} 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. {22:45} Strangers shall submit
themselves unto me: as soon as they hear, they shall be obedient unto
me. {22:46} Strangers shall fade away, and they shall be afraid out of
their close places. {22:47} The LORD liveth; and blessed [be] my rock;
and exalted be the God of the rock of my salvation. {22:48} It [is] God
that avengeth me, and that bringeth down the people under me, {22:49}
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. {22:50} Therefore I will give thanks unto thee, O
LORD, among the heathen, and I will sing praises unto thy name. {22:51}
[He is] the tower of salvation for his king: and sheweth mercy to his
anointed, unto David, and to his seed for evermore.

   {23:1} 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, {23:2} The
Spirit of the LORD spake by me, and his word [was] in my tongue. {23:3}
The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth
over men [must be] just, ruling in the fear of God. {23:4} And [he
shall be] as the light of the morning, [when] the sun riseth, [even] a
morning without clouds; [as] the tender grass [springing] out of the
earth by clear shining after rain. {23:5} 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.

   {23:6} But [the sons] of Belial [shall be] all of them as thorns
thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands: {23:7} But the
man [that] shall touch them must be fenced with iron and the staff of a
spear; and they shall be utterly burned with fire in the [same] place.

   {23:8} 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. {23:9} 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: {23:10} 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. {23:11} 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. {23:12} But he stood in the
midst of the ground, and defended it, and slew the Philistines: and the
LORD wrought a great victory. {23:13} And three of the thirty chief
went down, and came to David in the harvest time unto the cave of
Adullam: and the troop of the Philistines pitched in the valley of
Rephaim. {23:14} And David [was] then in an hold, and the garrison of
the Philistines [was] then [in] Bethlehem. {23:15} And David longed,
and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of
Bethlehem, which [is] by the gate! {23:16} And the three mighty men
brake through the host 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. {23:17} 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. {23:18} 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.
{23:19} Was he not most honourable of three? therefore he was their
captain: howbeit he attained not unto the [first] three. {23:20} And
Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man, of 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: {23:21} 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. {23:22} These
[things] did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had the name among three
mighty men. {23:23} He was more honourable than the thirty, but he
attained not to the [first] three. And David set him over his guard.
{23:24} Asahel the brother of Joab [was] one of the thirty; Elhanan the
son of Dodo of Bethlehem, {23:25} Shammah the Harodite, Elika the
Harodite, {23:26} Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite,
{23:27} Abiezer the Anethothite, Mebunnai the Hushathite, {23:28}
Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite, {23:29} Heleb the son of
Baanah, a Netophathite, Ittai the son of Ribai out of Gibeah of the
children of Benjamin, {23:30} Benaiah the Pirathonite, Hiddai of the
brooks of Gaash, {23:31} Abi-albon the Arbathite, Azmaveth the
Barhumite, {23:32} Eliahba the Shaalbonite, of the sons of Jashen,
Jonathan, {23:33} Shammah the Hararite, Ahiam the son of Sharar the
Hararite, {23:34} Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai, the son of the
Maachathite, Eliam the son of Ahithophel the Gilonite, {23:35} Hezrai
the Carmelite, Paarai the Arbite, {23:36} Igal the son of Nathan of
Zobah, Bani the Gadite, {23:37} Zelek the Ammonite, Nahari the
Beerothite, armourbearer to Joab the son of Zeruiah, {23:38} Ira an
Ithrite, Gareb an Ithrite, {23:39} Uriah the Hittite: thirty and seven
in all.

   {24:1} And again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel,
and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah.
{24:2} 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
Beer-sheba, and number ye the people, that I may know the number of the
people. {24:3} 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? {24:4} 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.

   {24:5} 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: {24:6} Then they came to Gilead, and to the land of
Tahtim-hodshi; and they came to Dan-jaan, and about to Zidon, {24:7}
And came to the strong hold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the
Hivites, and of the Canaanites: and they went out to the south of
Judah, [even] to Beer-sheba. {24:8} So when they had gone through all
the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty
days. {24:9} And Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people unto
the 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.

   {24:10} 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. {24:11} For when David was
up in the morning, the word of the LORD came unto the prophet Gad,
David's seer, saying, {24:12} Go and say unto David, Thus saith the
LORD, I offer thee three [things;] choose thee one of them, that I may
[do it] unto thee. {24:13} So Gad came to David, and told him, and said
unto him, Shall 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. {24:14} 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.

   {24:15} 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 Beer-sheba seventy thousand men. {24:16} 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. {24:17} 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.

   {24:18} And Gad came that day to David, and said unto him, Go up,
rear an altar unto the LORD in the threshingfloor of Araunah the
Jebusite. {24:19} And David, according to the saying of Gad, went up as
the LORD commanded. {24:20} And Araunah looked, and saw the king and
his servants coming on toward him: and Araunah went out, and bowed
himself before the king on his face upon the ground. {24:21} And
Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant? And
David said, To buy the threshingfloor of thee, to build an altar unto
the LORD, that the plague may be stayed from the people. {24:22} And
Araunah said unto David, Let my lord the king take and offer up what
[seemeth] good unto him: behold, [here be] oxen for burnt sacrifice,
and threshing instruments and [other] instruments of the oxen for wood.
{24:23} All [these] things did Araunah, [as] a king, give unto the
king. And Araunah said unto the king, The LORD thy God accept thee.
{24:24} 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. {24:25} 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.





The Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Thessalonians

   {1:1} Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the
Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: {1:2} Grace
unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

   {1:3} 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; {1:4} 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: {1:5}
[Which is] a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye
may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:
{1:6} Seeing [it is] a righteous thing with God to recompense
tribulation to them that trouble you; {1:7} And to you who are troubled
rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with
his mighty angels, {1:8} In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that
know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
{1:9} Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the
presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power; {1:10} When he
shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them
that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that
day. {1:11} 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: {1:12} 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.

   {2:1} Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus
Christ, and [by] our gathering together unto him, {2:2} That ye be not
soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word,
nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. {2:3}
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; {2:4} Who opposeth and exalteth himself
above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God
sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. {2:5}
Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these
things? {2:6} And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be
revealed in his time. {2:7} For the mystery of iniquity doth already
work: only he who now letteth [will let,] until he be taken out of the
way. {2:8} And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall
consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the
brightness of his coming: {2:9} [Even him,] whose coming is after the
working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, {2:10} And
with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because
they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
{2:11} And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that
they should believe a lie: {2:12} That they all might be damned who
believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

   {2:13} But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you,
brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning
chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief
of the truth: {2:14} Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the
obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. {2:15} Therefore,
brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been
taught, whether by word, or our epistle. {2:16} Now our Lord Jesus
Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath
given [us] everlasting consolation and good hope through grace, {2:17}
Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work.

   {3:1} Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may
have [free] course, and be glorified, even as [it is] with you: {3:2}
And that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men: for all
[men] have not faith. {3:3} But the Lord is faithful, who shall
stablish you, and keep [you] from evil. {3:4} And we have confidence in
the Lord touching you, that ye both do and will do the things which we
command you. {3:5} And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of
God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.

   {3:6} Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus
Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh
disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us. {3:7}
For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us: for we behaved not
ourselves disorderly among you; {3:8} Neither did we eat any man's
bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day,
that we might not be chargeable to any of you: {3:9} Not because we
have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow
us. {3:10} For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that
if any would not work, neither should he eat. {3:11} For we hear that
there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but
are busybodies. {3:12} Now them that are such we command and exhort by
our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own
bread. {3:13} But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing. {3:14} And
if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have
no company with him, that he may be ashamed. {3:15} Yet count [him] not
as an enemy, but admonish [him] as a brother. {3:16} Now the Lord of
peace himself give you peace always by all means. The Lord [be] with
you all.

   {3:17} The salutation of Paul with mine own hand, which is the token
in every epistle: so I write. {3:18} The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ
[be] with you all. Amen.





The Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Timothy

   {1:1} Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according
to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus, {1:2} To Timothy, [my]
dearly beloved son: Grace, mercy, [and] peace, from God the Father and
Christ Jesus our Lord. {1:3} I thank God, whom I serve from [my]
forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have
remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day; {1:4} Greatly desiring
to see thee, being mindful of thy tears, that I may be filled with joy;
{1:5} When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee,
which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I
am persuaded that in thee also. {1:6} Wherefore I put thee in
remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the
putting on of my hands. {1:7} For God hath not given us the spirit of
fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. {1:8} Be not thou
therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner:
but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the
power of God; {1:9} Who hath saved us, and called [us] with an holy
calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose
and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,
{1:10} 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: {1:11} Whereunto I am appointed a
preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles. {1:12} 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. {1:13} Hold
fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and
love which is in Christ Jesus. {1:14} That good thing which was
committed unto thee keep by the Holy Ghost which dwelleth in us. {1:15}
This thou knowest, that all they which are in Asia be turned away from
me; of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes. {1:16} The Lord give mercy
unto the house of Onesiphorus; for he oft refreshed me, and was not
ashamed of my chain: {1:17} But, when he was in Rome, he sought me out
very diligently, and found [me. ]{1:18} The Lord grant unto him that he
may find mercy of the Lord in that day: and in how many things he
ministered unto me at Ephesus, thou knowest very well.

   {2:1} Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in
Christ Jesus. {2:2} And the things that thou hast heard of me among
many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able
to teach others also. {2:3} Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good
soldier of Jesus Christ. {2:4} No man that warreth entangleth himself
with the affairs of [this] life; that he may please him who hath chosen
him to be a soldier. {2:5} And if a man also strive for masteries,
[yet] is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully. {2:6} The
husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits. {2:7}
Consider what I say; and the Lord give thee understanding in all
things. {2:8} Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was
raised from the dead according to my gospel: {2:9} Wherein I suffer
trouble, as an evil doer, [even] unto bonds; but the word of God is not
bound. {2:10} Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sakes, that
they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with
eternal glory. {2:11} [It is] a faithful saying: For if we be dead with
[him,] we shall also live with [him: ]{2:12} If we suffer, we shall
also reign with [him:] if we deny [him,] he also will deny us: {2:13}
If we believe not, [yet] he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.
{2:14} Of these things put [them] in remembrance, charging [them]
before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, [but] to
the subverting of the hearers. {2:15} Study to shew thyself approved
unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing
the word of truth. {2:16} But shun profane [and] vain babblings: for
they will increase unto more ungodliness. {2:17} And their word will
eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus; {2:18} Who
concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past
already; and overthrow the faith of some. {2:19} Nevertheless the
foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth
them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ
depart from iniquity. {2:20} 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. {2:21} 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. {2:22}
Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity,
peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart. {2:23} But
foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender
strifes. {2:24} And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be
gentle unto all [men,] apt to teach, patient, {2:25} In meekness
instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give
them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; {2:26} And [that]
they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are
taken captive by him at his will.

   {3:1} This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall
come. {3:2} For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous,
boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful,
unholy, {3:3} Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers,
incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, {3:4} Traitors,
heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; {3:5}
Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such
turn away. {3:6} For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and
lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
{3:7} Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the
truth. {3:8} Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these
also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the
faith. {3:9} But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall
be manifest unto all [men,] as theirs also was. {3:10} But thou hast
fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering,
charity, patience, {3:11} Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me
at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out
of [them] all the Lord delivered me. {3:12} Yea, and all that will live
godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. {3:13} But evil men and
seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
{3:14} But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast
been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned [them; ]{3:15} And
that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able
to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ
Jesus. {3:16} All scripture [is] given by inspiration of God, and [is]
profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction
in righteousness: {3:17} That the man of God may be perfect, throughly
furnished unto all good works.

   {4:1} 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; {4:2} Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season;
reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. {4:3} For
the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after
their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching
ears; {4:4} And they shall turn away [their] ears from the truth, and
shall be turned unto fables. {4:5} But watch thou in all things, endure
afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy
ministry. {4:6} For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my
departure is at hand. {4:7} I have fought a good fight, I have finished
[my] course, I have kept the faith: {4:8} 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.

   {4:9} Do thy diligence to come shortly unto me: {4:10} For Demas
hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto
Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia. {4:11} Only
Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him with thee: for he is
profitable to me for the ministry. {4:12} And Tychicus have I sent to
Ephesus. {4:13} The cloke that I left at Troas with Carpus, when thou
comest, bring [with thee,] and the books, [but] especially the
parchments. {4:14} Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord
reward him according to his works: {4:15} Of whom be thou ware also;
for he hath greatly withstood our words. {4:16} At my first answer no
man stood with me, but all [men] forsook me: [I pray God] that it may
not be laid to their charge. {4:17} Notwithstanding the Lord stood with
me, and strengthened me; 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. {4:18} 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.

   {4:19} Salute Prisca and Aquila, and the household of Onesiphorus.
{4:20} Erastus abode at Corinth: but Trophimus have I left at Miletum
sick. {4:21} Do thy diligence to come before winter. Eubulus greeteth
thee, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and all the brethren.

   {4:22} The Lord Jesus Christ [be] with thy spirit. Grace [be] with
you. Amen.





The Third Epistle of John

   {1:1} The elder unto the wellbeloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth.

   {1:2} Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and
be in health, even as thy soul prospereth. {1:3} For I rejoiced
greatly, when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in
thee, even as thou walkest in the truth. {1:4} I have no greater joy
than to hear that my children walk in truth. {1:5} Beloved, thou doest
faithfully whatsoever thou doest to the brethren, and to strangers;
{1:6} Which have borne witness of thy charity before the church: whom
if thou bring forward on their journey after a godly sort, thou shalt
do well: {1:7} Because that for his name's sake they went forth, taking
nothing of the Gentiles. {1:8} We therefore ought to receive such, that
we might be fellowhelpers to the truth.

   {1:9} I wrote unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have
the preeminence among them, receiveth us not. {1:10} Wherefore, if I
come, I will remember his deeds which he doeth, prating against us with
malicious words: and not content therewith, neither doth he himself
receive the brethren, and forbiddeth them that would, and casteth
[them] out of the church.

   {1:11} Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is
good. He that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not
seen God. {1:12} 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.

   {1:13} I had many things to write, but I will not with ink and pen
write unto thee: {1:14} 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.





The Acts of the Apostles

   {1:1} The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that
Jesus began both to do and teach, {1:2} Until the day in which he was
taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments
unto the apostles whom he had chosen: {1:3} 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: {1:4} 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.
{1:5} For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with
the Holy Ghost not many days hence. {1:6} When they therefore were come
together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time
restore again the kingdom to Israel? {1:7} And he said unto them, It is
not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put
in his own power. {1:8} But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy
Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in
Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost
part of the earth. {1:9} And when he had spoken these things, while
they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their
sight. {1:10} And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went
up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; {1:11} Which also
said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into 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. {1:12} Then returned they
unto Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is from Jerusalem a
sabbath day's journey. {1:13} And when they were come in, they went up
into an upper room, 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.
{1:14} These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication,
with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.

   {1:15} 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,) {1:16} 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.
{1:17} For he was numbered with us, and had obtained part of this
ministry. {1:18} 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. {1:19} 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. {1:20} 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. {1:21} Wherefore of
these men which have companied with us all the time that the Lord Jesus
went in and out among us, {1:22} 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. {1:23} And they appointed
two, Joseph called Barsabas, who was surnamed Justus, and Matthias.
{1:24} And they prayed, and said, Thou, Lord, which knowest the hearts
of all [men,] shew whether of these two thou hast chosen, {1:25} That
he may take part of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas by
transgression fell, that he might go to his own place. {1:26} And they
gave forth their lots; and the lot fell upon Matthias; and he was
numbered with the eleven apostles.

   {2:1} And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all
with one accord in one place. {2:2} And suddenly there came a sound
from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house
where they were sitting. {2:3} And there appeared unto them cloven
tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. {2:4} And they
were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other
tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. {2:5} And there were
dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under
heaven. {2:6} Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came
together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak
in his own language. {2:7} And they were all amazed and marvelled,
saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak
Galilaeans? {2:8} And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein
we were born? {2:9} Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the
dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and
Asia, {2:10} Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of
Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes, {2:11}
Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful
works of God. {2:12} And they were all amazed, and were in doubt,
saying one to another, What meaneth this? {2:13} Others mocking said,
These men are full of new wine.

   {2:14} But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice,
and said unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and all [ye] that dwell at
Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words: {2:15} For
these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is [but] the third hour
of the day. {2:16} But this is that which was spoken by the prophet
Joel; {2:17} 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: {2:18} And on my servants and on my
handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall
prophesy: {2:19} And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in
the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke: {2:20} The sun
shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that
great and notable day of the Lord come: {2:21} And it shall come to
pass, [that] whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be
saved. {2:22} Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a
man 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: {2:23}
Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of
God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
{2:24} Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death:
because it was not possible that he should be holden of it. {2:25} For
David speaketh concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always before my
face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved: {2:26}
Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad; moreover also
my flesh shall rest in hope: {2:27} Because thou wilt not leave my soul
in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
{2:28} Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me
full of joy with thy countenance. {2:29} Men [and] brethren, let me
freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and
buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day. {2:30} 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; {2:31} He seeing this before spake of
the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither
his flesh did see corruption. {2:32} This Jesus hath God raised up,
whereof we all are witnesses. {2:33} Therefore being by the right hand
of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the
Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear. {2:34}
For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he saith himself, The
LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, {2:35} Until I make
thy foes thy footstool. {2:36} Therefore let all the house of Israel
know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have
crucified, both Lord and Christ.

   {2:37} 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? {2:38} 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.
{2:39} 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.
{2:40} And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying,
Save yourselves from this untoward generation.

   {2:41} Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and
the same day there were added [unto them] about three thousand souls.
{2:42} And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and
fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers. {2:43} And fear
came upon every soul: and many wonders and signs were done by the
apostles. {2:44} And all that believed were together, and had all
things common; {2:45} And sold their possessions and goods, and parted
them to all [men,] as every man had need. {2:46} And they, continuing
daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to
house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart, {2:47}
Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added
to the church daily such as should be saved.

   {3:1} Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the
hour of prayer, [being] the ninth [hour. ]{3:2} And a certain man lame
from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of
the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered
into the temple; {3:3} Who seeing Peter and John about to go into the
temple asked an alms. {3:4} And Peter, fastening his eyes upon him with
John, said, Look on us. {3:5} And he gave heed unto them, expecting to
receive something of them. {3:6} 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. {3:7} And he took him by the right hand, and
lifted [him] up: and immediately his feet and ancle bones received
strength. {3:8} And he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with
them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God. {3:9} And
all the people saw him walking and praising God: {3:10} 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. {3:11} 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.

   {3:12} And when Peter saw [it,] he answered unto the people, Ye men
of Israel, why marvel ye at this? or why look ye so earnestly on us, as
though by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk?
{3:13} The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our
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.
{3:14} But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer
to be granted unto you; {3:15} And killed the Prince of life, whom God
hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses. {3:16} And his
name through faith in his name hath made this man 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. {3:17} And now, brethren, I wot
that through ignorance ye did [it,] as [did] also your rulers. {3:18}
But those things, which God before had shewed by the mouth of all his
prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled.

   {3:19} Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be
blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence
of the Lord; {3:20} And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was
preached unto you: {3:21} 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. {3:22} 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. {3:23} And it shall come to pass,
[that] every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed
from among the people. {3:24} Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel and
those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold
of these days. {3:25} Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the
covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in
thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed. {3:26} 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.

   {4:1} And as they spake unto the people, the priests, and the
captain of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them, {4:2} Being
grieved that they taught the people, and preached through Jesus the
resurrection from the dead. {4:3} And they laid hands on them, and put
[them] in hold unto the next day: for it was now eventide. {4:4}
Howbeit many of them which heard the word believed; and the number of
the men was about five thousand.

   {4:5} And it came to pass on the morrow, that their rulers, and
elders, and scribes, {4:6} 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. {4:7} And when they had
set them in the midst, they asked, By what power, or by what name, have
ye done this? {4:8} Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said unto
them, Ye rulers of the people, and elders of Israel, {4:9} If we this
day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by what
means he is made whole; {4:10} Be it known unto you all, and to all the
people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye
crucified, whom God raised from the dead, [even] by him doth this man
stand here before you whole. {4:11} This is the stone which was set at
nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner. {4:12}
Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name
under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.

   {4:13} Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and
perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled;
and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus. {4:14}
And beholding the man which was healed standing with them, they could
say nothing against it. {4:15} But when they had commanded them to go
aside out of the council, they conferred among themselves, {4:16}
Saying, What shall we do to these men? for that indeed a notable
miracle hath been done by them [is] manifest to all them that dwell in
Jerusalem; and we cannot deny [it. ]{4:17} But that it spread no
further among the people, let us straitly threaten them, that they
speak henceforth to no man in this name. {4:18} And they called them,
and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus.
{4:19} But Peter and John answered and said unto them, Whether it be
right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge
ye. {4:20} For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and
heard. {4:21} 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. {4:22} For the man
was above forty years old, on whom this miracle of healing was shewed.

   {4:23} And being let go, they went to their own company, and
reported all that the chief priests and elders had said unto them.
{4:24} 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: {4:25} Who by the mouth of
thy servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people
imagine vain things? {4:26} The kings of the earth stood up, and the
rulers were gathered together against the Lord, and against his Christ.
{4:27} For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast
anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the
people of Israel, were gathered together, {4:28} For to do whatsoever
thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done. {4:29} And now,
Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto thy servants, that with
all boldness they may speak thy word, {4:30} By stretching forth thine
hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy
holy child Jesus.

   {4:31} And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they
were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost,
and they spake the word of God with boldness. {4:32} 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. {4:33} And with great power gave the
apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace
was upon them all. {4:34} 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, {4:35} And laid [them]
down at the apostles' feet: and distribution was made unto every man
according as he had need. {4:36} And Joses, who by the apostles was
surnamed Barnabas, (which is, being interpreted, The son of
consolation,) a Levite, [and] of the country of Cyprus, {4:37} Having
land, sold [it,] and brought the money, and laid [it] at the apostles'
feet.

   {5:1} But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold
a possession, {5:2} And kept back [part] of the price, his wife also
being privy [to it,] and brought a certain part, and laid [it] at the
apostles' feet. {5:3} But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled
thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back [part] of the
price of the land? {5:4} 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. {5:5} And Ananias hearing these words fell down, and gave up
the ghost: and great fear came on all them that heard these things.
{5:6} And the young men arose, wound him up, and carried [him] out, and
buried [him. ]{5:7} And it was about the space of three hours after,
when his wife, not knowing what was done, came in. {5:8} And Peter
answered unto her, Tell me whether ye sold the land for so much? And
she said, Yea, for so much. {5:9} Then Peter said unto her, How is it
that ye have agreed together 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. {5:10} 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.
{5:11} And great fear came upon all the church, and upon as many as
heard these things.

   {5:12} And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders
wrought among the people; (and they were all with one accord in
Solomon's porch. {5:13} And of the rest durst no man join himself to
them: but the people magnified them. {5:14} And believers were the more
added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women.) {5:15} Insomuch
that they brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid [them] on
beds and couches, that at the least the shadow of Peter passing by
might overshadow some of them. {5:16} 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.

   {5:17} 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, {5:18} And laid their hands on the apostles, and put them
in the common prison. {5:19} But the angel of the Lord by night opened
the prison doors, and brought them forth, and said, {5:20} Go, stand
and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life.
{5:21} 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.
{5:22} But when the officers came, and found them not in the prison,
they returned, and told, {5:23} Saying, The prison truly found we shut
with all safety, and the keepers standing without before the doors: but
when we had opened, we found no man within. {5:24} 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. {5:25} Then
came one and told them, saying, Behold, the men whom ye put in prison
are standing in the temple, and teaching the people. {5:26} Then went
the captain with the officers, and brought them without violence: for
they feared the people, lest they should have been stoned. {5:27} And
when they had brought them, they set [them] before the council: and the
high priest asked them, {5:28} 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.

   {5:29} Then Peter and the [other] apostles answered and said, We
ought to obey God rather than men. {5:30} The God of our fathers raised
up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree. {5:31} Him hath God
exalted with his right hand [to be] a Prince and a Saviour, for to give
repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins. {5:32} And we are his
witnesses of these things; and [so is] also the Holy Ghost, whom God
hath given to them that obey him.

   {5:33} When they heard [that,] they were cut [to the heart,] and
took counsel to slay them. {5:34} Then stood there up one in the
council, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a doctor of the law, had in
reputation among all the people, and commanded to put the apostles
forth a little space; {5:35} And said unto them, Ye men of Israel, take
heed to yourselves what ye intend to do as touching these men. {5:36}
For before these days rose up Theudas, boasting himself to be somebody;
to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves: who was
slain; and all, as many as obeyed him, were scattered, and brought to
nought. {5:37} After this man rose up Judas of Galilee in the days of
the taxing, and drew away much people after him: he also perished; and
all, [even] as many as obeyed him, were dispersed. {5:38} 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: {5:39} But if
it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to
fight against God. {5:40} And to him they agreed: and when they had
called the apostles, and beaten [them,] they commanded that they should
not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.

   {5:41} And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing
that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name. {5:42} And
daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased not to teach and
preach Jesus Christ.

   {6:1} And in those days, when the number of the disciples was
multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the
Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration.
{6:2} Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples [unto
them,] and said, It is not reason that we should leave the word of God,
and serve tables. {6:3} 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. {6:4} But we will give ourselves
continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word.

   {6:5} And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose
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: {6:6} Whom they set before the apostles: and when
they had prayed, they laid [their] hands on them. {6:7} And the word of
God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem
greatly; and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.
{6:8} And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and
miracles among the people.

   {6:9} Then there arose certain of [the synagogue,] which is called
the synagogue of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and
of them of Cilicia and of Asia, disputing with Stephen. {6:10} And they
were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake.
{6:11} Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him speak
blasphemous words against Moses, and [against] God. {6:12} And they
stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and came upon
[him,] and caught him, and brought [him] to the council, {6:13} And set
up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak
blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law: {6:14} For we
have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this
place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered us. {6:15}
And all that sat in the council, looking stedfastly on him, saw his
face as it had been the face of an angel.

   {7:1} Then said the high priest, Are these things so? {7:2} And he
said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared
unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in
Charran, {7:3} And said unto him, Get thee out of thy country, and from
thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall shew thee. {7:4} 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. {7:5} 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. {7:6} 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. {7:7} 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. {7:8} 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. {7:9} And the patriarchs, moved with
envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him, {7:10} And
delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favour and
wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he made him governor
over Egypt and all his house. {7:11} Now there came a dearth over all
the land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great affliction: and our fathers
found no sustenance. {7:12} But when Jacob heard that there was corn in
Egypt, he sent out our fathers first. {7:13} And at the second [time]
Joseph was made known to his brethren; and Joseph's kindred was made
known unto Pharaoh. {7:14} Then sent Joseph, and called his father
Jacob to [him,] and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.
{7:15} So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and our fathers,
{7:16} 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. {7:17} But when the time of the promise drew nigh,
which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in
Egypt, {7:18} Till another king arose, which knew not Joseph. {7:19}
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. {7:20} In which time Moses was born, and was exceeding
fair, and nourished up in his father's house three months: {7:21} And
when he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and nourished him
for her own son. {7:22} And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the
Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds. {7:23} And when he was
full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the
children of Israel. {7:24} And seeing one [of them] suffer wrong, he
defended [him,] and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the
Egyptian: {7:25} For he supposed his brethren would have understood how
that God by his hand would deliver them: but they understood not.
{7:26} 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? {7:27} But he that did his neighbour wrong
thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us?
{7:28} Wilt thou kill me, as thou diddest the Egyptian yesterday?
{7:29} Then fled Moses at this saying, and was a stranger in the land
of Madian, where he begat two sons. {7:30} And when forty years were
expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel
of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush. {7:31} When Moses saw [it,]
he wondered at the sight: and as he drew near to behold [it,] the voice
of the Lord came unto him, {7:32} [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. {7:33} Then said the
Lord to him, Put off thy shoes from thy feet: for the place where thou
standest is holy ground. {7:34} I have seen, I have seen the affliction
of my people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and am
come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send thee into Egypt.
{7:35} 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. {7:36} 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.

   {7:37} 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. {7:38} 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: {7:39} To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust [him]
from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt, {7:40}
Saying unto Aaron, Make us gods to go before us: for [as for] this
Moses, which brought us out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is
become of him. {7:41} And they made a calf in those days, and offered
sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.
{7:42} Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven;
as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel,
have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices [by the space of]
forty years in the wilderness? {7:43} Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of
Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to
worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon. {7:44} Our
fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as he had
appointed, speaking unto Moses, that he should make it according to the
fashion that he had seen. {7:45} Which also our fathers that came after
brought in with Jesus into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God
drave out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David;
{7:46} Who found favour before God, and desired to find a tabernacle
for the God of Jacob. {7:47} But Solomon built him an house. {7:48}
Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith
the prophet, {7:49} Heaven [is] my throne, and earth [is] my footstool:
what house will ye build me? saith the Lord: or what [is] the place of
my rest? {7:50} Hath not my hand made all these things?

   {7:51} Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do
always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers [did,] so [do] ye. {7:52}
Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have
slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom
ye have been now the betrayers and murderers: {7:53} Who have received
the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept [it.]

   {7:54} When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and
they gnashed on him with [their] teeth. {7:55} But he, being full of
the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of
God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God, {7:56} And said,
Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the
right hand of God. {7:57} Then they cried out with a loud voice, and
stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord, {7:58} And cast
[him] out of the city, and stoned [him:] and the witnesses laid down
their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul. {7:59} And
they stoned Stephen, calling upon [God,] and saying, Lord Jesus,
receive my spirit. {7:60} And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud
voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said
this, he fell asleep.

   {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. {8:2} And devout men carried Stephen [to
his burial,] and made great lamentation over him. {8:3} As for Saul, he
made havock of the church, entering into every house, and haling men
and women committed [them] to prison. {8:4} Therefore they that were
scattered abroad went every where preaching the word. {8:5} Then Philip
went down to the city of Samaria, and preached Christ unto them. {8:6}
And the people with one accord gave heed unto those things which Philip
spake, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did. {8:7} 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. {8:8} And there was great joy in that city. {8:9} But there was
a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the same city used
sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself
was some great one: {8:10} To whom they all gave heed, from the least
to the greatest, saying, This man is the great power of God. {8:11} And
to him they had regard, because that of long time he had bewitched them
with sorceries. {8:12} But when they believed Philip preaching the
things concerning the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ,
they were baptized, both men and women. {8:13} Then Simon himself
believed also: and when he was baptized, he continued with Philip, and
wondered, beholding the miracles and signs which were done. {8:14} Now
when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had
received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John: {8:15}
Who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive
the Holy Ghost: {8:16} (For as yet he was fallen upon none of them:
only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.) {8:17} Then
laid they [their] hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost.
{8:18} And when Simon saw that through laying on of the apostles' hands
the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money, {8:19} Saying, Give me
also this power, that on whomsoever I lay hands, he may receive the
Holy Ghost. {8:20} But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee,
because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with
money. {8:21} Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter: for thy
heart is not right in the sight of God. {8:22} Repent therefore of this
thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may
be forgiven thee. {8:23} For I perceive that thou art in the gall of
bitterness, and [in] the bond of iniquity. {8:24} Then answered Simon,
and said, Pray ye to the Lord for me, that none of these things which
ye have spoken come upon me. {8:25} 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. {8:26} 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.
{8:27} And he arose and went: and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch
of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the
charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem for to worship,
{8:28} Was returning, and sitting in his chariot read Esaias the
prophet. {8:29} Then the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near, and join
thyself to this chariot. {8:30} And Philip ran thither to [him,] and
heard him read the prophet Esaias, and said, Understandest thou what
thou readest? {8:31} And he said, How can I, except some man should
guide me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him.
{8:32} 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: {8:33} In his humiliation his judgment was
taken away: and who shall declare his generation? for his life is taken
from the earth. {8:34} And the eunuch answered Philip, and said, I pray
thee, of whom speaketh the prophet this? of himself, or of some other
man? {8:35} Then Philip opened his mouth, and began at the same
scripture, and preached unto him Jesus. {8:36} And as they went on
[their] way, they came unto a certain water: and the eunuch said, See,
[here is] water; what doth hinder me to be baptized? {8:37} 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.
{8:38} 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.
{8:39} 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. {8:40} But Philip was found at Azotus: and
passing through he preached in all the cities, till he came to Caesarea.

   {9:1} And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against
the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest, {9:2} 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. {9:3} And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and
suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven: {9:4} And he
fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why
persecutest thou me? {9:5} And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the
Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: [it is] hard for thee to
kick against the pricks. {9:6} 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. {9:7} And the men which journeyed with him stood speechless,
hearing a voice, but seeing no man. {9:8} And Saul arose from the
earth; and when his eyes were opened, he saw no man: but they led him
by the hand, and brought [him] into Damascus. {9:9} And he was three
days without sight, and neither did eat nor drink.

   {9:10} 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. {9:11} 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, {9:12}
And hath seen in a vision a man named Ananias coming in, and putting
[his] hand on him, that he might receive his sight. {9:13} Then Ananias
answered, Lord, I have heard by many of this man, how much evil he hath
done to thy saints at Jerusalem: {9:14} And here he hath authority from
the chief priests to bind all that call on thy name. {9:15} But the
Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to
bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of
Israel: {9:16} For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for
my name's sake. {9:17} 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. {9:18} And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had
been scales: and he received sight forthwith, and arose, and was
baptized. {9:19} And when he had received meat, he was strengthened.
Then was Saul certain days with the disciples which were at Damascus.
{9:20} And straightway he preached Christ in the synagogues, that he is
the Son of God. {9:21} But all that heard [him] were amazed, and said;
Is not this he that 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? {9:22} But Saul increased the more in
strength, and confounded the Jews which dwelt at Damascus, proving that
this is very Christ.

   {9:23} And after that many days were fulfilled, the Jews took
counsel to kill him: {9:24} But their laying await was known of Saul.
And they watched the gates day and night to kill him. {9:25} Then the
disciples took him by night, and let [him] down by the wall in a
basket. {9:26} 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. {9:27} 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. {9:28} And he was with them
coming in and going out at Jerusalem. {9:29} And he spake boldly in the
name of the Lord Jesus, and disputed against the Grecians: but they
went about to slay him. {9:30} [Which] when the brethren knew, they
brought him down to Caesarea, and sent him forth to Tarsus. {9:31} Then
had the churches rest throughout all Judaea and Galilee and Samaria,
and were edified; and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the
comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied.

   {9:32} And it came to pass, as Peter passed throughout all
[quarters,] he came down also to the saints which dwelt at Lydda.
{9:33} And there he found a certain man named Aeneas, which had kept
his bed eight years, and was sick of the palsy. {9:34} And Peter said
unto him, Aeneas, Jesus Christ maketh thee whole: arise, and make thy
bed. And he arose immediately. {9:35} And all that dwelt at Lydda and
Saron saw him, and turned to the Lord. {9:36} 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.
{9:37} 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. {9:38}
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. {9:39} 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. {9:40} 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. {9:41} And he gave her [his] hand, and lifted
her up, and when he had called the saints and widows, presented her
alive. {9:42} And it was known throughout all Joppa; and many believed
in the Lord. {9:43} And it came to pass, that he tarried many days in
Joppa with one Simon a tanner.

   {10:1} There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a
centurion of the band called the Italian [band, ]{10:2} A devout [man,]
and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the
people, and prayed to God alway. {10:3} He saw in a vision evidently
about the ninth hour of the day an angel of God coming in to him, and
saying unto him, Cornelius. {10:4} And when he looked on him, he was
afraid, and said, What is it, Lord? And he said unto him, Thy prayers
and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God. {10:5} And now
send men to Joppa, and call for [one] Simon, whose surname is Peter:
{10:6} He lodgeth with one Simon a tanner, whose house is by the sea
side: he shall tell thee what thou oughtest to do. {10:7} And when the
angel which spake unto Cornelius was departed, he called two of his
household servants, and a devout soldier of them that waited on him
continually; {10:8} And when he had declared all [these] things unto
them, he sent them to Joppa.

   {10:9} 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: {10:10} And he became very hungry, and would have eaten: but
while they made ready, he fell into a trance, {10:11} And saw heaven
opened, and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a
great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth:
{10:12} Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and
wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air. {10:13} And
there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter; kill, and eat. {10:14} But
Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is
common or unclean. {10:15} And the voice [spake] unto him again the
second time, What God hath cleansed, [that] call not thou common.
{10:16} This was done thrice: and the vessel was received up again into
heaven. {10:17} 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, {10:18} And called, and asked whether Simon, which was surnamed
Peter, were lodged there.

   {10:19} While Peter thought on the vision, the Spirit said unto him,
Behold, three men seek thee. {10:20} Arise therefore, and get thee
down, and go with them, doubting nothing: for I have sent them. {10:21}
Then Peter went down to the men which were sent unto him from
Cornelius; and said, Behold, I am he whom ye seek: what [is] the cause
wherefore ye are come? {10:22} And they said, Cornelius the centurion,
a just man, and one that 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. {10:23} Then called he
them in, and lodged [them.] And on the morrow Peter went away with
them, and certain brethren from Joppa accompanied him. {10:24} And the
morrow after they entered into Caesarea. And Cornelius waited for them,
and had called together his kinsmen and near friends. {10:25} And as
Peter was coming in, Cornelius met him, and fell down at his feet, and
worshipped [him. ]{10:26} But Peter took him up, saying, Stand up; I
myself also am a man. {10:27} And as he talked with him, he went in,
and found many that were come together. {10:28} 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. {10:29} 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? {10:30} 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, {10:31} And said, Cornelius, thy prayer is heard, and thine
alms are had in remembrance in the sight of God. {10:32} Send therefore
to Joppa, and call hither Simon, whose surname 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. {10:33} 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.

   {10:34} Then Peter opened [his] mouth, and said, Of a truth I
perceive that God is no respecter of persons: {10:35} But in every
nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with
him. {10:36} The word which [God] sent unto the children of Israel,
preaching peace by Jesus Christ: (he is Lord of all:) {10:37} That
word, [I say,] ye know, which was published throughout all Judaea, and
began from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached; {10:38} 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. {10:39} 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: {10:40} Him God raised up the third day, and
shewed him openly; {10:41} Not to all the people, but unto witnesses
chosen before of God, [even] to us, who did eat and drink with him
after he rose from the dead. {10:42} And he commanded us to preach unto
the people, and to testify that it is he which was ordained of God [to
be] the Judge of quick and dead. {10:43} To him give all the prophets
witness, that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive
remission of sins.

   {10:44} While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on
all them which heard the word. {10:45} And they of the circumcision
which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because
that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost.
{10:46} For they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God. Then
answered Peter, {10:47} Can any man forbid water, that these should not
be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we? {10:48}
And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord. Then
prayed they him to tarry certain days.

   {11:1} And the apostles and brethren that were in Judaea heard that
the Gentiles had also received the word of God. {11:2} And when Peter
was come up to Jerusalem, they that were of the circumcision contended
with him, {11:3} Saying, Thou wentest in to men uncircumcised, and
didst eat with them. {11:4} But Peter rehearsed [the matter] from the
beginning, and expounded [it] by order unto them, saying, {11:5} 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: {11:6} 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.
{11:7} And I heard a voice saying unto me, Arise, Peter; slay and eat.
{11:8} But I said, Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath at
any time entered into my mouth. {11:9} But the voice answered me again
from heaven, What God hath cleansed, [that] call not thou common.
{11:10} And this was done three times: and all were drawn up again into
heaven. {11:11} And, behold, immediately there were three men already
come unto the house where I was, sent from Caesarea unto me. {11:12}
And the spirit bade me go with them, nothing doubting. Moreover these
six brethren accompanied me, and we entered into the man's house:
{11:13} 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; {11:14} Who shall tell thee words, whereby thou and
all thy house shall be saved. {11:15} And as I began to speak, the Holy
Ghost fell on them, as on us at the beginning. {11:16} 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. {11:17} 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?
{11:18} When they heard these things, they held their peace, and
glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted
repentance unto life.

   {11:19} 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. {11:20} 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. {11:21}
And the hand of the Lord was with them: and a great number believed,
and turned unto the Lord.

   {11:22} Then tidings of these things came unto the ears of the
church which was in Jerusalem: and they sent forth Barnabas, that he
should go as far as Antioch. {11:23} 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. {11:24} For he was a good man,
and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith: and much people was added unto
the Lord. {11:25} Then departed Barnabas to Tarsus, for to seek Saul:
{11:26} 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.

   {11:27} And in these days came prophets from Jerusalem unto Antioch.
{11:28} And there stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by
the spirit that there should be great dearth throughout all the world:
which came to pass in the days of Claudius Caesar. {11:29} Then the
disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send
relief unto the brethren which dwelt in Judaea: {11:30} Which also they
did, and sent it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.

   {12:1} Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth [his]
hands to vex certain of the church. {12:2} And he killed James the
brother of John with the sword. {12:3} And because he saw it pleased
the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also. (Then were the days
of unleavened bread.) {12:4} And when he had apprehended him, he put
[him] in prison, and delivered [him] to four quaternions of soldiers to
keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people.
{12:5} Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without
ceasing of the church unto God for him. {12:6} And when Herod would
have brought him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two
soldiers, bound with two chains: and the keepers before the door kept
the prison. {12:7} 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. {12:8} 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. {12:9} And he went out, and followed him;
and wist not that it was true which was done by the angel; but thought
he saw a vision. {12:10} When they were past the first and the second
ward, they came 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. {12:11}
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. {12:12} 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. {12:13} And as Peter knocked at the
door of the gate, a damsel came to hearken, named Rhoda. {12:14} And
when she knew Peter's voice, she opened not the gate for gladness, but
ran in, and told how Peter stood before the gate. {12:15} And they said
unto her, Thou art mad. But she constantly affirmed that it was even
so. Then said they, It is his angel. {12:16} But Peter continued
knocking: and when they had opened [the door,] and saw him, they were
astonished. {12:17} But he, beckoning unto them with the hand to hold
their peace, 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. {12:18} Now as
soon as it was day, there was no small stir among the soldiers, what
was become of Peter. {12:19} And when Herod had sought for him, and
found him not, he examined the keepers, and commanded that [they]
should be put to death. And he went down from Judaea to Caesarea, and
[there] abode.

   {12:20} 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. ]{12:21} And upon a set day
Herod, arrayed in royal apparel, sat upon his throne, and made an
oration unto them. {12:22} And the people gave a shout, [saying, It is]
the voice of a god, and not of a man. {12:23} And immediately the angel
of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was
eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.

   {12:24} But the word of God grew and multiplied. {12:25} And
Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem, when they had fulfilled
[their] ministry, and took with them John, whose surname was Mark.

   {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. {13:2} 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. {13:3} And when they had fasted and
prayed, and laid [their] hands on them, they sent [them] away.

   {13:4} So they, being sent forth by the Holy Ghost, departed unto
Seleucia; and from thence they sailed to Cyprus. {13:5} And when they
were at Salamis, they preached the word of God in the synagogues of the
Jews: and they had also John to [their] minister. {13:6} And when they
had gone through the isle unto Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a
false prophet, a Jew, whose name [was] Bar-jesus: {13:7} Which was with
the deputy of the country, Sergius Paulus, a prudent man; who called
for Barnabas and Saul, and desired to hear the word of God. {13:8} But
Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood
them, seeking to turn away the deputy from the faith. {13:9} Then Saul,
(who also [is called] Paul,) filled with the Holy Ghost, set his eyes
on him, {13:10} And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief,
[thou] child of the devil, [thou] enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou
not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord? {13:11} 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. {13:12} Then the deputy, when he saw what was done, believed,
being astonished at the doctrine of the Lord. {13:13} Now when Paul and
his company loosed from Paphos, they came to Perga in Pamphylia: and
John departing from them returned to Jerusalem.

   {13:14} But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in
Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and sat down.
{13:15} 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. {13:16} Then Paul
stood up, and beckoning with [his] hand said, Men of Israel, and ye
that fear God, give audience. {13:17} The God of this people of Israel
chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers
in the land of Egypt, and with an high arm brought he them out of it.
{13:18} And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in
the wilderness. {13:19} And when he had destroyed seven nations in the
land of Chanaan, he divided their land to them by lot. {13:20} And
after that he gave [unto them] judges about the space of four hundred
and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet. {13:21} And afterward they
desired a king: and God gave unto them Saul the son of Cis, a man of
the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of forty years. {13:22} And when he
had removed him, he raised up unto them David to be their king; to whom
also he gave testimony, and said, I have found David the [son] of
Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfil all my will.
{13:23} Of this man's seed hath God according to [his] promise raised
unto Israel a Saviour, Jesus: {13:24} When John had first preached
before his coming the baptism of repentance to all the people of
Israel. {13:25} And as John fulfilled his course, he said, Whom think
ye that I am? I am not [he.] But, behold, there cometh one after me,
whose shoes of [his] feet I am not worthy to loose. {13:26} Men [and]
brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you
feareth God, to you is the word of this salvation sent. {13:27} 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. ]{13:28} And though
they found no cause of death [in him,] yet desired they Pilate that he
should be slain. {13:29} And when they had fulfilled all that was
written of him, they took [him] down from the tree, and laid [him] in a
sepulchre. {13:30} But God raised him from the dead: {13:31} And he was
seen many days of them which came up with him from Galilee to
Jerusalem, who are his witnesses unto the people. {13:32} And we
declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto
the fathers, {13:33} God hath fulfilled the same unto us their
children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also written
in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.
{13:34} 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. {13:35} Wherefore he saith also in another
[psalm,] Thou shalt not suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
{13:36} For David, after he had served his own generation by the will
of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw
corruption: {13:37} But he, whom God raised again, saw no corruption.

   {13:38} Be it known unto you therefore, men [and] brethren, that
through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins: {13:39}
And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which
ye could not be justified by the law of Moses. {13:40} Beware
therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the prophets;
{13:41} Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work
in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man
declare it unto you. {13:42} And when the Jews were gone out of the
synagogue, the Gentiles besought that these words might be preached to
them the next sabbath. {13:43} Now when the congregation was broken up,
many of the Jews and religious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas:
who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.

   {13:44} And the next sabbath day came almost the whole city together
to hear the word of God. {13:45} But when the Jews saw the multitudes,
they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were
spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming. {13:46} 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. {13:47} 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. {13:48} 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. {13:49} And the word of
the Lord was published throughout all the region. {13:50} 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. {13:51} But they shook off the dust of their
feet against them, and came unto Iconium. {13:52} And the disciples
were filled with joy, and with the Holy Ghost.

   {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. {14:2} But the
unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles, and made their minds evil
affected against the brethren. {14:3} Long time therefore abode they
speaking boldly in the Lord, which gave testimony unto the word of his
grace, and granted signs and wonders to be done by their hands. {14:4}
But the multitude of the city was divided: and part held with the Jews,
and part with the apostles. {14:5} And when there was an assault made
both of the Gentiles, and also of the Jews with their rulers, to use
[them] despitefully, and to stone them, {14:6} They were ware of [it,]
and fled unto Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and unto the region
that lieth round about: {14:7} And there they preached the gospel.

   {14:8} And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet,
being a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked: {14:9}
The same heard Paul speak: who stedfastly beholding him, and perceiving
that he had faith to be healed, {14:10} Said with a loud voice, Stand
upright on thy feet. And he leaped and walked. {14:11} 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. {14:12} And they called Barnabas, Jupiter; and Paul, Mercurius,
because he was the chief speaker. {14:13} 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. {14:14} [Which] when the
apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard [of,] they rent their clothes, and
ran in among the people, crying out, {14:15} 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: {14:16} Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in
their own ways. {14:17} Nevertheless he left not himself without
witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and
fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness. {14:18}
And with these sayings scarce restrained they the people, that they had
not done sacrifice unto them.

   {14:19} And there came thither [certain] Jews from Antioch and
Iconium, who persuaded the people, and, having stoned Paul, drew [him]
out of the city, supposing he had been dead. {14:20} 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. {14:21} And when
they had preached the gospel to that city, and had taught many, they
returned again to Lystra, and [to] Iconium, and Antioch, {14:22}
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. {14:23} 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. {14:24} And after they had passed throughout
Pisidia, they came to Pamphylia. {14:25} And when they had preached the
word in Perga, they went down into Attalia: {14:26} And thence sailed
to Antioch, from whence they had been recommended to the grace of God
for the work which they fulfilled. {14:27} 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.
{14:28} And there they abode long time with the disciples.

   {15:1} And certain men which came down from Judaea taught the
brethren, [and said,] Except ye be circumcised after the manner of
Moses, ye cannot be saved. {15:2} When therefore Paul and Barnabas had
no small dissension and 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. {15:3} And being
brought on their way by the church, they passed through Phenice and
Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles: and they caused
great joy unto all the brethren. {15:4} And when they were come to
Jerusalem, they were received of the church, and [of] the apostles and
elders, and they declared all things that God had done with them.
{15:5} But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which
believed, saying, That it was needful to circumcise them, and to
command [them] to keep the law of Moses.

   {15:6} And the apostles and elders came together for to consider of
this matter. {15:7} 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. {15:8} And God, which
knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even
as [he did] unto us; {15:9} And put no difference between us and them,
purifying their hearts by faith. {15:10} 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? {15:11} But we believe that through
the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they.

   {15:12} Then all the multitude kept silence, and gave audience to
Barnabas and Paul, declaring what miracles and wonders God had wrought
among the Gentiles by them.

   {15:13} And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying,
Men [and] brethren, hearken unto me: {15:14} Simeon hath declared how
God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people
for his name. {15:15} And to this agree the words of the prophets; as
it is written, {15:16} 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: {15:17} 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. {15:18} Known
unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world. {15:19}
Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among
the Gentiles are turned to God: {15:20} But that we write unto them,
that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and [from] fornication, and
[from] things strangled, and [from] blood. {15:21} For Moses of old
time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the
synagogues every sabbath day. {15:22} Then pleased it the apostles and
elders, with the whole church, 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: {15:23} 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: {15:24} 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: {15:25} It seemed good unto us, being
assembled with one accord, to send chosen men unto you with our beloved
Barnabas and Paul, {15:26} Men that have hazarded their lives for the
name of our Lord Jesus Christ. {15:27} We have sent therefore Judas and
Silas, who shall also tell [you] the same things by mouth. {15:28} For
it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater
burden than these necessary things; {15:29} That ye abstain from meats
offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from
fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare
ye well. {15:30} So when they were dismissed, they came to Antioch: and
when they had gathered the multitude together, they delivered the
epistle: {15:31} [Which] when they had read, they rejoiced for the
consolation. {15:32} And Judas and Silas, being prophets also
themselves, exhorted the brethren with many words, and confirmed [them.
]{15:33} And after they had tarried [there] a space, they were let go
in peace from the brethren unto the apostles. {15:34} Notwithstanding
it pleased Silas to abide there still. {15:35} Paul also and Barnabas
continued in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of the Lord, with
many others also.

   {15:36} And some days after Paul said unto Barnabas, Let us go again
and visit our brethren in every city where we have preached the word of
the Lord, [and see] how they do. {15:37} And Barnabas determined to
take with them John, whose surname was Mark. {15:38} But Paul thought
not good to take him with them, who departed from them from Pamphylia,
and went not with them to the work. {15:39} 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; {15:40} And Paul chose
Silas, and departed, being recommended by the brethren unto the grace
of God. {15:41} And he went through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the
churches.

   {16:1} Then came he to Derbe and Lystra: and, behold, a certain
disciple was there, named Timotheus, the son of a certain woman, which
was a Jewess, and believed; but his father [was] a Greek: {16:2} Which
was well reported of by the brethren that were at Lystra and Iconium.
{16:3} 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. {16:4} 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.
{16:5} And so were the churches established in the faith, and increased
in number daily. {16:6} 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, {16:7} After they were come to Mysia, they assayed to
go into Bithynia: but the Spirit suffered them not. {16:8} And they
passing by Mysia came down to Troas. {16:9} And a vision appeared to
Paul in the night; There stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed him,
saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help us. {16:10} 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. {16:11} Therefore loosing from Troas, we came with a
straight course to Samothracia, and the next day to Neapolis; {16:12}
And from thence to Philippi, which is the chief city of that part of
Macedonia, [and] a colony: and we were in that city abiding certain
days. {16:13} 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.]

   {16:14} 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. {16:15} And when she was baptized, and her household, she
besought [us,] saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord,
come into my house, and abide [there.] And she constrained us.

   {16:16} And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel
possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters
much gain by soothsaying: {16:17} 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. {16:18} 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.

   {16:19} 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, {16:20} And brought them to the magistrates, saying,
These men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city, {16:21} And
teach customs, which are not lawful for us to receive, neither to
observe, being Romans. {16:22} And the multitude rose up together
against them: and the magistrates rent off their clothes, and commanded
to beat [them. ]{16:23} And when they had laid many stripes upon them,
they cast [them] into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely:
{16:24} Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner
prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.

   {16:25} And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto
God: and the prisoners heard them. {16:26} And suddenly there was a
great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken:
and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one's bands were
loosed. {16:27} 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. {16:28} But
Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, Do thyself no harm: for we are
all here. {16:29} Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came
trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas, {16:30} And brought
them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? {16:31} And they
said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and
thy house. {16:32} And they spake unto him the word of the Lord, and to
all that were in his house. {16:33} And he took them the same hour of
the night, and washed [their] stripes; and was baptized, he and all
his, straightway. {16:34} And when he had brought them into his house,
he set meat before them, and rejoiced, believing in God with all his
house. {16:35} And when it was day, the magistrates sent the serjeants,
saying, Let those men go. {16:36} And the keeper of the prison told
this saying to Paul, The magistrates have sent to let you go: now
therefore depart, and go in peace. {16:37} But Paul said unto them,
They have beaten us openly uncondemned, being Romans, and have cast
[us] into prison; and now do they thrust us out privily? nay verily;
but let them come themselves and fetch us out. {16:38} And the
serjeants told these words unto the magistrates: and they feared, when
they heard that they were Romans. {16:39} And they came and besought
them, and brought [them] out, and desired [them] to depart out of the
city. {16:40} And they went out of the prison, and entered into [the
house of] Lydia and when they had seen the brethren, they comforted
them, and departed.

   {17:1} Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia,
they came to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the Jews: {17:2}
And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days
reasoned with them out of the scriptures, {17:3} Opening and alleging,
that Christ must needs have suffered, and risen again from the dead;
and that this Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is Christ. {17:4} 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.

   {17:5} 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. {17:6} 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; {17:7} Whom Jason hath received: and these all do contrary
to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, [one]
Jesus. {17:8} And they troubled the people and the rulers of the city,
when they heard these things. {17:9} And when they had taken security
of Jason, and of the other, they let them go.

   {17:10} And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by
night unto Berea: who coming [thither] went into the synagogue of the
Jews. {17:11} 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. {17:12} Therefore many
of them believed; also of honourable women which were Greeks, and of
men, not a few. {17:13} But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge
that the word of God was preached of Paul at Berea, they came thither
also, and stirred up the people. {17:14} And then immediately the
brethren sent away Paul to go as it were to the sea: but Silas and
Timotheus abode there still. {17:15} And they that conducted Paul
brought him unto Athens: and receiving a commandment unto Silas and
Timotheus for to come to him with all speed, they departed.

   {17:16} Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was
stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry. {17:17}
Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the
devout persons, and in the market daily with them that met with him.
{17:18} 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. {17:19} And they took
him, and brought him unto Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new
doctrine, whereof thou speakest, [is? ]{17:20} For thou bringest
certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these
things mean. {17:21} (For all the Athenians and strangers which were
there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear
some new thing.)

   {17:22} Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, [Ye]
men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.
{17:23} For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar
with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly
worship, him declare I unto you. {17:24} God that made the world and
all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth,
dwelleth not in temples made with hands; {17:25} Neither is worshipped
with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to
all life, and breath, and all things; {17:26} 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; {17:27} 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: {17:28} 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. {17:29} 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. {17:30} And the times of this
ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to
repent: {17:31} Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will
judge the world in righteousness by [that] man whom he hath ordained;
[whereof] he hath given assurance unto all [men,] in that he hath
raised him from the dead.

   {17:32} And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some
mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this [matter.
]{17:33} So Paul departed from among them. {17:34} Howbeit certain men
clave unto him, and believed: among the which [was] Dionysius the
Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.

   {18:1} After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to
Corinth; {18:2} And found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus,
lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla; (because that Claudius
had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome:) and came unto them. {18:3}
And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought:
for by their occupation they were tentmakers. {18:4} And he reasoned in
the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks.
{18:5} And when Silas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia, Paul was
pressed in the spirit, and testified to the Jews [that] Jesus [was]
Christ. {18:6} 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.

   {18:7} 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. {18:8} 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. {18:9} Then spake the Lord to Paul
in the night by a vision, Be not afraid, but speak, and hold not thy
peace: {18:10} For I am with thee, and no man shall set on thee to hurt
thee: for I have much people in this city. {18:11} And he continued
[there] a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.

   {18:12} And when Gallio was the deputy of Achaia, the Jews made
insurrection with one accord against Paul, and brought him to the
judgment seat, {18:13} Saying, This [fellow] persuadeth men to worship
God contrary to the law. {18:14} And when Paul was now about to open
[his] mouth, Gallio said unto the Jews, If it were a matter of wrong or
wicked lewdness, O [ye] Jews, reason would that I should bear with you:
{18:15} But if it be a question of words and names, and [of] your law,
look ye [to it;] for I will be no judge of such [matters. ]{18:16} And
he drave them from the judgment seat. {18:17} 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.

   {18:18} 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. {18:19} And he came to Ephesus, and left them there: but
he himself entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews.
{18:20} When they desired [him] to tarry longer time with them, he
consented not; {18:21} 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. {18:22} And when he
had landed at Caesarea, and gone up, and saluted the church, he went
down to Antioch. {18:23} And after he had spent some time [there,] he
departed, and went over [all] the country of Galatia and Phrygia in
order, strengthening all the disciples.

   {18:24} And a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an
eloquent man, [and] mighty in the scriptures, came to Ephesus. {18:25}
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. {18:26} 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.
{18:27} 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: {18:28} For he
mightily convinced the Jews, [and that] publickly, shewing by the
scriptures that Jesus was Christ.

   {19:1} 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, {19:2} 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. {19:3} And he said unto them,
Unto what then were ye baptized? And they said, Unto John's baptism.
{19:4} Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of
repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe on him
which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus. {19:5} When they
heard [this,] they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. {19:6}
And when Paul had laid [his] hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on
them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied. {19:7} And all the
men were about twelve. {19:8} And he went into the synagogue, and spake
boldly for the space of three months, disputing and persuading the
things concerning the kingdom of God. {19:9} But when divers were
hardened, and believed not, but spake evil of that way before the
multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples,
disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus. {19:10} 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. {19:11}
And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul: {19:12} 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.

   {19:13} 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. {19:14} And there
were seven sons of [one] Sceva, a Jew, [and] chief of the priests,
which did so. {19:15} And the evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I
know, and Paul I know; but who are ye? {19:16} And the man in whom the
evil spirit was leaped on them, and overcame them, and prevailed
against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.
{19:17} 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. {19:18} And many that believed came, and confessed, and
shewed their deeds. {19:19} 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. {19:20} So mightily grew the word of God and prevailed.

   {19:21} After these things were ended, Paul purposed in the spirit,
when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem,
saying, After I have been there, I must also see Rome. {19:22} So he
sent into Macedonia two of them that ministered unto him, Timotheus and
Erastus; but he himself stayed in Asia for a season. {19:23} And the
same time there arose no small stir about that way. {19:24} For a
certain [man] named Demetrius, a silversmith, which made silver shrines
for Diana, brought no small gain unto the craftsmen; {19:25} Whom he
called together with the workmen of like occupation, and said, Sirs, ye
know that by this craft we have our wealth. {19:26} 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: {19:27} 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. {19:28} And when
they heard [these sayings,] they were full of wrath, and cried out,
saying, Great [is] Diana of the Ephesians. {19:29} And the whole city
was filled with confusion: and having caught Gaius and Aristarchus, men
of Macedonia, Paul's companions in travel, they rushed with one accord
into the theatre. {19:30} And when Paul would have entered in unto the
people, the disciples suffered him not. {19:31} And certain of the
chief of Asia, which were his friends, sent unto him, desiring [him]
that he would not adventure himself into the theatre. {19:32} Some
therefore cried one thing, and some another: for the assembly was
confused; and the more part knew not wherefore they were come together.
{19:33} 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. {19:34} 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. {19:35} 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? {19:36} Seeing then that these things cannot be spoken
against, ye ought to be quiet, and to do nothing rashly. {19:37} For ye
have brought hither these men, which are neither robbers of churches,
nor yet blasphemers of your goddess. {19:38} Wherefore if Demetrius,
and the craftsmen which are with him, have a matter against any man,
the law is open, and there are deputies: let them implead one another.
{19:39} But if ye enquire any thing concerning other matters, it shall
be determined in a lawful assembly. {19:40} For we are in danger to be
called in question for this day's uproar, there being no cause whereby
we may give an account of this concourse. {19:41} And when he had thus
spoken, he dismissed the assembly.

   {20:1} And after the uproar was ceased, Paul called unto [him] the
disciples, and embraced [them,] and departed for to go into Macedonia.
{20:2} And when he had gone over those parts, and had given them much
exhortation, he came into Greece, {20:3} And [there] abode three
months. And when the Jews laid wait for him, as he was about to sail
into Syria, he purposed to return through Macedonia. {20:4} And there
accompanied him into Asia Sopater of Berea; and of the Thessalonians,
Aristarchus and Secundus; and Gaius of Derbe, and Timotheus; and of
Asia, Tychicus and Trophimus. {20:5} These going before tarried for us
at Troas. {20:6} And we sailed away from Philippi after the days of
unleavened bread, and came unto them to Troas in five days; where we
abode seven days. {20:7} 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.
{20:8} And there were many lights in the upper chamber, where they were
gathered together. {20:9} And there sat in a window a certain young man
named Eutychus, 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. {20:10} And Paul went down, and fell on him, and
embracing [him] said, Trouble not yourselves; for his life is in him.
{20:11} When he therefore was come up again, and had broken bread, and
eaten, and talked a long while, even till break of day, so he departed.
{20:12} And they brought the young man alive, and were not a little
comforted.

   {20:13} And we went before to ship, and sailed unto Assos, there
intending to take in Paul: for so had he appointed, minding himself to
go afoot. {20:14} And when he met with us at Assos, we took him in, and
came to Mitylene. {20:15} 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. {20:16} 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.

   {20:17} And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called the elders
of the church. {20:18} 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, {20:19} Serving the Lord
with all humility of mind, and with many tears, and temptations, which
befell me by the lying in wait of the Jews: {20:20} [And] how I kept
back nothing that was profitable [unto you,] but have shewed you, and
have taught you publickly, and from house to house, {20:21} Testifying
both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and
faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ. {20:22} And now, behold, I go bound
in the spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befall
me there: {20:23} Save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city,
saying that bonds and afflictions abide me. {20:24} But none of these
things move me, neither count I my life dear 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.
{20:25} And now, behold, I know that ye all, among whom I have gone
preaching the kingdom of God, shall see my face no more. {20:26}
Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I [am] pure from the
blood of all [men. ]{20:27} For I have not shunned to declare unto you
all the counsel of God.

   {20:28} 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. {20:29} For
I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in
among you, not sparing the flock. {20:30} Also of your own selves shall
men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
{20:31} Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years
I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears. {20:32} 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. {20:33} I have coveted no man's silver, or
gold, or apparel. {20:34} Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands
have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.
{20:35} I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to
support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he
said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

   {20:36} And when he had thus spoken, he kneeled down, and prayed
with them all. {20:37} And they all wept sore, and fell on Paul's neck,
and kissed him, {20:38} 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.

   {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: {21:2} And finding
a ship sailing over unto Phenicia, we went aboard, and set forth.
{21:3} Now when we had discovered Cyprus, we left it on the left hand,
and sailed into Syria, and landed at Tyre: for there the ship was to
unlade her burden. {21:4} And finding disciples, we tarried there seven
days: who said to Paul through the Spirit, that he should not go up to
Jerusalem. {21:5} And when we had accomplished those days, we departed
and 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. {21:6} And when we had taken our leave one of
another, we took ship; and they returned home again. {21:7} And when we
had finished [our] course from Tyre, we came to Ptolemais, and saluted
the brethren, and abode with them one day. {21:8} 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. {21:9} And the same man had four daughters,
virgins, which did prophesy. {21:10} And as we tarried [there] many
days, there came down from Judaea a certain prophet, named Agabus.
{21:11} And when he was come unto us, he took Paul's girdle, and bound
his own hands and feet, and said, Thus saith the Holy Ghost, So shall
the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that owneth this girdle, and shall
deliver [him] into the hands of the Gentiles. {21:12} And when we heard
these things, both we, and they of that place, besought him not to go
up to Jerusalem. {21:13} Then Paul answered, What mean ye to weep and
to break mine heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to
die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus. {21:14} And when he
would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, The will of the Lord be done.

   {21:15} And after those days we took up our carriages, and went up
to Jerusalem. {21:16} 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. {21:17} And when we were come
to Jerusalem, the brethren received us gladly. {21:18} And the [day]
following Paul went in with us unto James; and all the elders were
present. {21:19} And when he had saluted them, he declared particularly
what things God had wrought among the Gentiles by his ministry. {21:20}
And when they heard [it,] they glorified the Lord, and said unto him,
Thou seest, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are which
believe; and they are all zealous of the law: {21:21} 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. {21:22} What is it
therefore? the multitude must needs come together: for they will hear
that thou art come. {21:23} Do therefore this that we say to thee: We
have four men which have a vow on them; {21:24} Them take, and purify
thyself with them, and be at charges with 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. {21:25} 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.
{21:26} 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.

   {21:27} 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, {21:28} 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. {21:29} (For they
had seen before with him in the city Trophimus an Ephesian, whom they
supposed that Paul had brought into the temple.) {21:30} 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. {21:31}
And as they went about to kill him, tidings came unto the chief captain
of the band, that all Jerusalem was in an uproar. {21:32} Who
immediately took soldiers and centurions, and ran down unto them: and
when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, they left beating of
Paul. {21:33} Then the chief captain came near, and took him, and
commanded [him] to be bound with two chains; and demanded who he was,
and what he had done. {21:34} And some cried one thing, some another,
among the multitude: and when he could not know the certainty for the
tumult, he commanded him to be carried into the castle. {21:35} And
when he came upon the stairs, so it was, that he was borne of the
soldiers for the violence of the people. {21:36} For the multitude of
the people followed after, crying, Away with him. {21:37} 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? {21:38} Art not thou
that Egyptian, which before these days madest an uproar, and leddest
out into the wilderness four thousand men that were murderers? {21:39}
But Paul said, I am a man [which am] a Jew of Tarsus, [a city] in
Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city: and, I beseech thee, suffer me to
speak unto the people. {21:40} And when he had given him licence, Paul
stood on the stairs, 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,

   {22:1} Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defence [which I make]
now unto you. {22:2} (And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew
tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he saith,) {22:3} I am
verily a man [which am] a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, 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. {22:4} And I persecuted this way unto the
death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women. {22:5}
As also the high priest doth bear me witness, and all the estate of 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. {22:6} 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. {22:7} And I fell unto the ground,
and heard a voice saying unto me, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
{22:8} And I answered, Who art thou, Lord? And he said unto me, I am
Jesus of Nazareth, whom thou persecutest. {22:9} And they that were
with me saw indeed the light, and were afraid; but they heard not the
voice of him that spake to me. {22:10} 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.
{22:11} 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. {22:12}
And one Ananias, a devout man according to the law, having a good
report of all the Jews which dwelt [there, ]{22:13} Came unto me, and
stood, and said unto me, Brother Saul, receive thy sight. And the same
hour I looked up upon him. {22:14} And he said, The God of our fathers
hath chosen thee, that thou shouldest know his will, and see that Just
One, and shouldest hear the voice of his mouth. {22:15} For thou shalt
be his witness unto all men of what thou hast seen and heard. {22:16}
And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy
sins, calling on the name of the Lord. {22:17} And it came to pass,
that, when I was come again to Jerusalem, even while I prayed in the
temple, I was in a trance; {22:18} And saw him saying unto me, Make
haste, and get thee quickly out of Jerusalem: for they will not receive
thy testimony concerning me. {22:19} And I said, Lord, they know that I
imprisoned and beat in every synagogue them that believed on thee:
{22:20} And when the blood of thy martyr Stephen was shed, I also was
standing by, and consenting unto his death, and kept the raiment of
them that slew him. {22:21} And he said unto me, Depart: for I will
send thee far hence unto the Gentiles. {22:22} 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. {22:23} And as they cried out, and cast off [their]
clothes, and threw dust into the air, {22:24} The chief captain
commanded him to be brought into the castle, and bade that he should be
examined by scourging; that he might know wherefore they cried so
against him. {22:25} And as they bound him with thongs, Paul said unto
the centurion that stood by, Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that
is a Roman, and uncondemned? {22:26} When the centurion heard [that,]
he went and told the chief captain, saying, Take heed what thou doest:
for this man is a Roman. {22:27} Then the chief captain came, and said
unto him, Tell me, art thou a Roman? He said, Yea. {22:28} And the
chief captain answered, With a great sum obtained I this freedom. And
Paul said, But I was [free] born. {22:29} Then straightway they
departed from him which should have examined him: and the chief captain
also was afraid, after he knew that he was a Roman, and because he had
bound him. {22:30} 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.

   {23:1} And Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, Men [and]
brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this
day. {23:2} And the high priest Ananias commanded them that stood by
him to smite him on the mouth. {23:3} Then said Paul unto him, God
shall smite thee, [thou] whited wall: for sittest thou to judge me
after the law, and commandest me to be smitten contrary to the law?
{23:4} And they that stood by said, Revilest thou God's high priest?
{23:5} 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. {23:6} 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. {23:7} And when he
had so said, there arose a dissension between the Pharisees and the
Sadducees: and the multitude was divided. {23:8} For the Sadducees say
that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit: but the
Pharisees confess both. {23:9} And there arose a great cry: and the
scribes [that were] of 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. {23:10} 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.
{23:11} 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. {23:12} 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. {23:13} And they were more than forty which had made this
conspiracy. {23:14} 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. {23:15} Now therefore ye with the
council signify to the chief captain that he bring him down unto you to
morrow, as though ye would enquire something more perfectly concerning
him: and we, or ever he come near, are ready to kill him. {23:16} And
when Paul's sister's son heard of their lying in wait, he went and
entered into the castle, and told Paul. {23:17} Then Paul called one of
the centurions unto [him,] and said, Bring this young man unto the
chief captain: for he hath a certain thing to tell him. {23:18} 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. {23:19} 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? {23:20} 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. {23:21} 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. {23:22} 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. {23:23} And he called unto [him] two centurions, saying, Make
ready two hundred soldiers to go to Caesarea, and horsemen threescore
and ten, and spearmen two hundred, at the third hour of the night;
{23:24} And provide [them] beasts, that they may set Paul on, and bring
[him] safe unto Felix the governor. {23:25} And he wrote a letter after
this manner: {23:26} Claudius Lysias unto the most excellent governor
Felix [sendeth] greeting. {23:27} 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. {23:28} And when I would
have known the cause wherefore they accused him, I brought him forth
into their council: {23:29} Whom I perceived to be accused of questions
of their law, but to have nothing laid to his charge worthy of death or
of bonds. {23:30} And when it was told me how that the Jews laid wait
for the man, I sent straightway to thee, and gave commandment to his
accusers also to say before thee what [they had] against him. Farewell.
{23:31} Then the soldiers, as it was commanded them, took Paul, and
brought [him] by night to Antipatris. {23:32} On the morrow they left
the horsemen to go with him, and returned to the castle: {23:33} Who,
when they came to Caesarea, and delivered the epistle to the governor,
presented Paul also before him. {23:34} And when the governor had read
[the letter,] he asked of what province he was. And when he understood
that [he was] of Cilicia; {23:35} I will hear thee, said he, when thine
accusers are also come. And he commanded him to be kept in Herod's
judgment hall.

   {24:1} 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. {24:2} 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, {24:3} We accept [it] always, and in all places,
most noble Felix, with all thankfulness. {24:4} Notwithstanding, that I
be not further tedious unto thee, I pray thee that thou wouldest hear
us of thy clemency a few words. {24:5} For we have found this man [a]
pestilent [fellow,] and a mover of sedition among all the Jews
throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes:
{24:6} Who also hath gone about to profane the temple: whom we took,
and would have judged according to our law. {24:7} But the chief
captain Lysias came [upon us,] and with great violence took [him] away
out of our hands, {24:8} Commanding his accusers to come unto thee: by
examining of whom thyself mayest take knowledge of all these things,
whereof we accuse him. {24:9} And the Jews also assented, saying that
these things were so. {24:10} Then Paul, after that the governor had
beckoned unto him to speak, answered, Forasmuch as I know that thou
hast been of many years a judge unto this nation, I do the more
cheerfully answer for myself: {24:11} Because that thou mayest
understand, that there are yet but twelve days since I went up to
Jerusalem for to worship. {24:12} And they neither found me in the
temple disputing with any man, neither raising up the people, neither
in the synagogues, nor in the city: {24:13} Neither can they prove the
things whereof they now accuse me. {24:14} 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: {24:15} 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. {24:16} And herein do I exercise myself, to have
always a conscience void of offence toward God, and [toward] men.
{24:17} Now after many years I came to bring alms to my nation, and
offerings. {24:18} Whereupon certain Jews from Asia found me purified
in the temple, neither with multitude, nor with tumult. {24:19} Who
ought to have been here before thee, and object, if they had ought
against me. {24:20} Or else let these same [here] say, if they have
found any evil doing in me, while I stood before the council, {24:21}
Except it be for this one voice, that I cried standing among them,
Touching the resurrection of the dead I am called in question by you
this day.

   {24:22} And when Felix heard these things, having more perfect
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. {24:23} And he commanded a centurion to keep Paul, and to let
[him] have liberty, and that he should forbid none of his acquaintance
to minister or come unto him.

   {24:24} And after certain days, when Felix came with his wife
Drusilla, which was a Jewess, he sent for Paul, and heard him
concerning the faith in Christ. {24:25} 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. {24:26} 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. {24:27} But after two years Porcius
Festus came into Felix' room: and Felix, willing to shew the Jews a
pleasure, left Paul bound.

   {25:1} Now when Festus was come into the province, after three days
he ascended from Caesarea to Jerusalem. {25:2} Then the high priest and
the chief of the Jews informed him against Paul, and besought him,
{25:3} And desired favour against him, that he would send for him to
Jerusalem, laying wait in the way to kill him. {25:4} But Festus
answered, that Paul should be kept at Caesarea, and that he himself
would depart shortly [thither. ]{25:5} Let them therefore, said he,
which among you are able, go down with [me,] and accuse this man, if
there be any wickedness in him. {25:6} 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. {25:7} 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. {25:8} 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. {25:9} But Festus, willing to
do the Jews a pleasure, answered Paul, and said, Wilt thou go up to
Jerusalem, and there be judged of these things before me? {25:10} Then
said Paul, I stand at Caesar's judgment seat, where I ought to be
judged: to the Jews have I done no wrong, as thou very well knowest.
{25:11} 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. {25:12} Then Festus, when he had conferred with the council,
answered, Hast thou appealed unto Caesar? unto Caesar shalt thou go.

   {25:13} And after certain days king Agrippa and Bernice came unto
Caesarea to salute Festus. {25:14} 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: {25:15} About whom, when I was at
Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed [me,]
desiring [to have] judgment against him. {25:16} 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. {25:17}
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.
{25:18} Against whom when the accusers stood up, they brought none
accusation of such things as I supposed: {25:19} But had certain
questions against him of their own superstition, and of one Jesus,
which was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive. {25:20} And because I
doubted of such manner of questions, I asked [him] whether he would go
to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these matters. {25:21} But when
Paul had appealed to be reserved unto the hearing of Augustus, I
commanded him to be kept till I might send him to Caesar. {25:22} Then
Agrippa said unto Festus, I would also hear the man myself. To morrow,
said he, thou shalt hear him.

   {25:23} And on the morrow, when Agrippa was come, and Bernice, with
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. {25:24} 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. {25:25} But when I
found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, and that he
himself hath appealed to Augustus, I have determined to send him.
{25:26} Of whom I have no certain thing to write unto my lord.
Wherefore I have brought him forth before you, and specially before
thee, O king Agrippa, that, after examination had, I might have
somewhat to write. {25:27} For it seemeth to me unreasonable to send a
prisoner, and not withal to signify the crimes [laid] against him.

   {26:1} Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Thou art permitted to speak for
thyself. Then Paul stretched forth the hand, and answered for himself:
{26:2} 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: {26:3} 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. {26:4} My manner of life from my
youth, which was at the first among mine own nation at Jerusalem, know
all the Jews; {26:5} Which knew me from the beginning, if they would
testify, that after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a
Pharisee. {26:6} And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the
promise made of God unto our fathers: {26:7} Unto which [promise] our
twelve tribes, instantly serving [God] day and night, hope to come. For
which hope's sake, king Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews. {26:8} Why
should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise
the dead? {26:9} I verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many
things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth. {26:10} Which thing I
also did in Jerusalem: and many of the saints did I shut up in prison,
having received authority from the chief priests; and when they were
put to death, I gave my voice against [them. ]{26:11} And I punished
them oft in every synagogue, and compelled [them] to blaspheme; and
being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted [them] even unto
strange cities. {26:12} Whereupon as I went to Damascus with authority
and commission from the chief priests, {26:13} At midday, O king, I saw
in the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun,
shining round about me and them which journeyed with me. {26:14} 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. {26:15} And I said,
Who art thou, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest.
{26:16} 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; {26:17} Delivering thee from the people, and
[from] the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee, {26:18} To open their
eyes, [and] to turn [them] from darkness to light, and [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.
{26:19} Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the
heavenly vision: {26:20} 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. {26:21} For these causes the Jews caught me in the
temple, and went about to kill [me. ]{26:22} Having therefore obtained
help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and
great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses
did say should come: {26:23} That Christ should suffer, [and] that he
should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should shew
light unto the people, and to the Gentiles.

   {26:24} And as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a loud
voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad.
{26:25} But he said, I am not mad, most noble Festus; but speak forth
the words of truth and soberness. {26:26} For the king knoweth of these
things, before whom also I speak freely: for I am persuaded that none
of these things are hidden from him; for this thing was not done in a
corner. {26:27} King Agrippa, believest thou the prophets? I know that
thou believest. {26:28} Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou
persuadest me to be a Christian. {26:29} 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. {26:30} And
when he had thus spoken, the king rose up, and the governor, and
Bernice, and they that sat with them: {26:31} And when they were gone
aside, they talked between themselves, saying, This man doeth nothing
worthy of death or of bonds. {26:32} Then said Agrippa unto Festus,
This man might have been set at liberty, if he had not appealed unto
Caesar.

   {27:1} 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. {27:2} And entering into a ship
of Adramyttium, we launched, meaning to sail by the coasts of Asia;
[one] Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, being with us. {27:3}
And the next [day] we touched at Sidon. And Julius courteously
entreated Paul, and gave [him] liberty to go unto his friends to
refresh himself. {27:4} And when we had launched from thence, we sailed
under Cyprus, because the winds were contrary. {27:5} And when we had
sailed over the sea of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra, [a city]
of Lycia. {27:6} And there the centurion found a ship of Alexandria
sailing into Italy; and he put us therein. {27:7} And when we had
sailed slowly many days, and scarce were come over against Cnidus, the
wind not suffering us, we sailed under Crete, over against Salmone;
{27:8} And, hardly passing it, came unto a place which is called The
fair havens; nigh whereunto was the city [of] Lasea.

   {27:9} Now when much time was spent, and when sailing was now
dangerous, because the fast was now already past, Paul admonished
[them, ]{27:10} 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. {27:11} Nevertheless the centurion believed the
master and the owner of the ship, more than those things which were
spoken by Paul. {27:12} 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. {27:13}
And when the south wind blew softly, supposing that they had obtained
[their] purpose, loosing [thence,] they sailed close by Crete. {27:14}
But not long after there arose against it a tempestuous wind, called
Euroclydon. {27:15} And when the ship was caught, and could not bear up
into the wind, we let [her] drive. {27:16} And running under a certain
island which is called Clauda, we had much work to come by the boat:
{27:17} Which when they had taken up, they used helps, undergirding the
ship; and, fearing lest they should fall into the quicksands, strake
sail, and so were driven. {27:18} And we being exceedingly tossed with
a tempest, the next [day] they lightened the ship; {27:19} And the
third [day] we cast out with our own hands the tackling of the ship.
{27:20} 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. {27:21} 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.
{27:22} And now I exhort you to be of good cheer: for there shall be no
loss of [any man's] life among you, but of the ship. {27:23} For there
stood by me this night the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve,
{27:24} Saying, Fear not, Paul; thou must be brought before Caesar:
and, lo, God hath given thee all them that sail with thee. {27:25}
Wherefore, sirs, be of good cheer: for I believe God, that it shall be
even as it was told me. {27:26} Howbeit we must be cast upon a certain
island. {27:27} But when the fourteenth night was come, as we were
driven up and down in Adria, about midnight the shipmen deemed that
they drew near to some country; {27:28} And sounded, and found [it]
twenty fathoms: and when they had gone a little further, they sounded
again, and found [it] fifteen fathoms. {27:29} Then fearing lest we
should have fallen upon rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern,
and wished for the day. {27:30} 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,
{27:31} Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, Except these
abide in the ship, ye cannot be saved. {27:32} Then the soldiers cut
off the ropes of the boat, and let her fall off. {27:33} 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. {27:34} 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. {27:35} 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. {27:36} Then were they all of good cheer, and
they also took [some] meat. {27:37} And we were in all in the ship two
hundred threescore and sixteen souls. {27:38} And when they had eaten
enough, they lightened the ship, and cast out the wheat into the sea.
{27:39} And when it was day, they knew not the land: but they
discovered a certain creek with a shore, into the which they were
minded, if it were possible, to thrust in the ship. {27:40} 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. {27:41} 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. {27:42} And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the
prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape. {27:43} But
the centurion, willing to save Paul, kept them from [their] purpose;
and commanded that they which could swim should cast [themselves] first
[into the sea,] and get to land: {27:44} 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.

   {28:1} And when they were escaped, then they knew that the island
was called Melita. {28:2} 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. {28:3} 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. {28:4} And when the
barbarians saw the [venomous] beast hang on his hand, they said among
themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath
escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live. {28:5} And he
shook off the beast into the fire, and felt no harm. {28:6} Howbeit
they looked when he should have swollen, or fallen down dead suddenly:
but after they had looked a great while, and saw no harm come to him,
they changed their minds, and said that he was a god.

   {28:7} In the same quarters were possessions of the chief man of the
island, whose name was Publius; who received us, and lodged us three
days courteously. {28:8} 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. {28:9} So
when this was done, others also, which had diseases in the island,
came, and were healed: {28:10} Who also honoured us with many honours;
and when we departed, they laded [us] with such things as were
necessary.

   {28:11} And after three months we departed in a ship of Alexandria,
which had wintered in the isle, whose sign was Castor and Pollux.
{28:12} And landing at Syracuse, we tarried [there] three days. {28:13}
And from thence we fetched a compass, and came to Rhegium: and after
one day the south wind blew, and we came the next day to Puteoli:
{28:14} Where we found brethren, and were desired to tarry with them
seven days: and so we went toward Rome. {28:15} And from thence, when
the brethren heard of us, they came to meet us as far as Appii Forum,
and The three taverns: whom when Paul saw, he thanked God, and took
courage. {28:16} 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.

   {28:17} 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. {28:18} Who, when they had
examined me, would have let [me] go, because there was no cause of
death in me. {28:19} But when the Jews spake against [it,] I was
constrained to appeal unto Caesar; not that I had ought to accuse my
nation of. {28:20} For this cause therefore have I called for you, to
see [you,] and to speak with [you:] because that for the hope of Israel
I am bound with this chain. {28:21} 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. {28:22} But we
desire to hear of thee what thou thinkest: for as concerning this sect,
we know that every where it is spoken against. {28:23} 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. {28:24} And some believed the
things which were spoken, and some believed not. {28:25} 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, {28:26} Saying, Go unto this people, and say, Hearing ye shall
hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not
perceive: {28:27} 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. {28:28} Be it known therefore unto you, that the salvation
of God is sent unto the Gentiles, and [that] they will hear it. {28:29}
And when he had said these words, the Jews departed, and had great
reasoning among themselves.

   {28:30} And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house, and
received all that came in unto him, {28:31} Preaching the kingdom of
God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ,
with all confidence, no man forbidding him.





Amos

   {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. {1:2} 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. {1:3} 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: {1:4} But I will send a fire into
the house of Hazael, which shall devour the palaces of Ben-hadad. {1:5}
I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant 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.

   {1:6} 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:
{1:7} But I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, which shall devour
the palaces thereof: {1:8} 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.

   {1:9} 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: {1:10} But I will send a fire on the wall of Tyrus,
which shall devour the palaces thereof.

   {1:11} 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: {1:12} But
I will send a fire upon Teman, which shall devour the palaces of Bozrah.

   {1:13} 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: {1:14} 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: {1:15}
And their king shall go into captivity, he and his princes together,
saith the LORD.

   {2:1} 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: {2:2} 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:
{2:3} And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will
slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the LORD.

   {2:4} Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and
for 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: {2:5} But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour
the palaces of Jerusalem.

   {2:6} 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; {2:7}
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: {2:8} 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.

   {2:9} 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. {2:10} Also
I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years
through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite. {2:11} And
I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for
Nazarites. [Is it] not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith the
LORD. {2:12} But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the
prophets, saying, Prophesy not. {2:13} Behold, I am pressed under you,
as a cart is pressed [that is] full of sheaves. {2:14} Therefore the
flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen
his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself: {2:15} 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. {2:16} And [he that is] courageous among the mighty
shall flee away naked in that day, saith the LORD.

   {3:1} 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, {3:2} You only have I known of all the
families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your
iniquities. {3:3} Can two walk together, except they be agreed? {3:4}
Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? will a young lion
cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing? {3:5} Can a bird fall in
a snare upon the earth, where no gin [is] for him? shall [one] take up
a snare from the earth, and have taken nothing at all? {3:6} 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? ]{3:7} Surely the
Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants
the prophets. {3:8} The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord
GOD hath spoken, who can but prophesy?

   {3:9} Publish in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the
land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of
Samaria, and behold the great tumults in the midst thereof, and the
oppressed in the midst thereof. {3:10} For they know not to do right,
saith the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.
{3:11} Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; An adversary [there shall be]
even round about the land; and he shall bring down thy strength from
thee, and thy palaces shall be spoiled. {3:12} 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. {3:13}
Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith the Lord GOD, the God
of hosts, {3:14} That in the day that I shall visit the transgressions
of Israel upon him I will also visit the altars of Bethel: and the
horns of the altar shall be cut off, and fall to the ground. {3:15} 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.

   {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. {4:2} 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. {4:3} 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.

   {4:4} Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply
transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, [and] your
tithes after three years: {4:5} 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.

   {4:6} 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. {4:7} 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.
{4:8} 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. {4:9} 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. {4:10} 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. {4:11} I have overthrown [some] of you, as God
overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of
the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD. {4:12}
Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: [and] because I will do
this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel. {4:13} For, lo, he
that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, 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.

   {5:1} Hear ye this word which I take up against you, [even] a
lamentation, O house of Israel. {5:2} The virgin of Israel is fallen;
she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; [there is] none
to raise her up. {5:3} For thus saith the Lord GOD; The city that went
out [by] a thousand shall leave an hundred, and that which went forth
[by] an hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel.

   {5:4} For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me,
and ye shall live: {5:5} But seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal,
and pass not to Beer-sheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity,
and Bethel shall come to nought. {5:6} 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. {5:7} Ye who turn
judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth, {5:8}
[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: {5:9} That strengtheneth the
spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the
fortress. {5:10} They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they
abhor him that speaketh uprightly. {5:11} 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.
{5:12} 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. ]{5:13} Therefore the prudent shall keep
silence in that time; for it [is] an evil time. {5:14} Seek good, and
not evil, that ye may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be
with you, as ye have spoken. {5:15} Hate the evil, and love the good,
and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of
hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph. {5:16} 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. {5:17} And in all vineyards [shall be] wailing:
for I will pass through thee, saith the LORD. {5:18} Woe unto you that
desire the day of the LORD! to what end [is] it for you? the day of the
LORD [is] darkness, and not light. {5:19} 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. {5:20} [Shall] not the day of the
LORD [be] darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in
it?

   {5:21} I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in
your solemn assemblies. {5:22} 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. {5:23} Take thou away from me
the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.
{5:24} But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a
mighty stream. {5:25} Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings
in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel? {5:26} But ye have
borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of
your god, which ye made to yourselves. {5:27} Therefore will I cause
you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the LORD, whose name
[is] The God of hosts.

   {6:1} 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! {6:2} 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? {6:3} Ye that put far away the evil day, and
cause the seat of violence to come near; {6:4} 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; {6:5} That
chant to the sound of the viol, [and] invent to themselves instruments
of musick, like David; {6:6} That drink wine in bowls, and anoint
themselves with the chief ointments: but they are not grieved for the
affliction of Joseph.

   {6:7} Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go
captive, and the banquet of them that stretched themselves shall be
removed. {6:8} The Lord GOD hath sworn by himself, saith the LORD the
God of hosts, I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces:
therefore will I deliver up the city with all that is therein. {6:9}
And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that
they shall die. {6:10} And a man's uncle shall take him up, and he that
burneth him, to 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. {6:11} For, behold, the
LORD commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and
the little house with clefts.

   {6:12} Shall horses run upon the rock? will [one] plow [there] with
oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of
righteousness into hemlock: {6:13} Ye which rejoice in a thing of
nought, which say, Have we not taken to us horns by our own strength?
{6:14} But, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of
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.

   {7:1} Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed
grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth;
and, lo, [it was] the latter growth after the king's mowings. {7:2} And
it came to pass, [that] when they had made an end of eating the grass
of the land, then I said, O Lord GOD, forgive, I beseech thee: by whom
shall Jacob arise? for he [is] small. {7:3} The LORD repented for this:
It shall not be, saith the LORD.

   {7:4} 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. {7:5} Then said I, O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech thee: by
whom shall Jacob arise? for he [is] small. {7:6} The LORD repented for
this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord GOD.

   {7:7} Thus he shewed me: and, behold, the Lord stood upon a wall
[made] by a plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand. {7:8} And the LORD
said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, 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: {7:9} 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.

   {7:10} 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. {7:11} For
thus Amos saith, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall
surely be led away captive out of their own land. {7:12} Also Amaziah
said unto Amos, O thou seer, go, flee thee away into the land of Judah,
and there eat bread, and prophesy there: {7:13} But prophesy not again
any more at Bethel: for it [is] the king's chapel, and it [is] the
king's court.

   {7:14} Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I [was] no prophet,
neither [was] I a prophet's son; but I [was] an herdman, and a gatherer
of sycomore fruit: {7:15} And the LORD took me as I followed the flock,
and the LORD said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel.

   {7:16} Now therefore hear thou the word of the LORD: Thou sayest,
Prophesy not against Israel, and drop not [thy word] against the house
of Isaac. {7:17} 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.

   {8:1} Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and behold a basket of
summer fruit. {8:2} 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. {8:3}
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.

   {8:4} Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the
poor of the land to fail, {8:5} Saying, When will the new moon be gone,
that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat,
making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the
balances by deceit? {8:6} That we may buy the poor for silver, and the
needy for a pair of shoes; [yea,] and sell the refuse of the wheat?
{8:7} The LORD hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will
never forget any of their works. {8:8} Shall not the land tremble for
this, and every one mourn that 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. {8:9} 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: {8:10} 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.

   {8:11} 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: {8:12} 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. ]{8:13} In that
day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst. {8:14} They
that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy god, O Dan, liveth; and,
The manner of Beer-sheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise
up again.

   {9:1} 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. {9:2} Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine
hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring
them down: {9:3} And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel,
I will 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: {9:4} 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. {9:5}
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.
{9:6} [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. {9:7} [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? {9:8} 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.
{9:9} 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. {9:10} All the sinners of my
people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake
nor prevent us.

   {9:11} In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is
fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his
ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old: {9:12} 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. {9:13} 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. {9:14} 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. {9:15} 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.





The Prayer of Azariah

   {1:1} And they walked in the midst of the fire, praising God, and
blessing the Lord.

   {1:2} Then Azarias stood up, and prayed on this manner; and opening
his mouth in the midst of the fire said,

   {1:3} Blessed art thou, O Lord God of our fathers: thy name is
worthy to be praised and glorified for evermore:

   {1:4} For thou art righteous in all the things that thou hast done
to us: yea, true are all thy works, thy ways are right, and all thy
judgments truth.

   {1:5} In all the things that thou hast brought upon us, and upon the
holy city of our fathers, even Jerusalem, thou hast executed true
judgment: for according to truth and judgment didst thou bring all
these things upon us because of our sins.

   {1:6} For we have sinned and committed iniquity, departing from thee.

   {1:7} In all things have we trespassed, and not obeyed thy
commandments, nor kept them, neither done as thou hast commanded us,
that it might go well with us.

   {1:8} Wherefore all that thou hast brought upon us, and every thing
that thou hast done to us, thou hast done in true judgment.

   {1:9} And thou didst deliver us into the hands of lawless enemies,
most hateful forsakers of God, and to an unjust king, and the most
wicked in all the world.

   {1:10} And now we cannot open our mouths, we are become a shame and
reproach to thy servants; and to them that worship thee.

   {1:11} Yet deliver us not up wholly, for thy name's sake, neither
disannul thou thy covenant:

   {1:12} And cause not thy mercy to depart from us, for thy beloved
Abraham's sake, for thy servant Issac's sake, and for thy holy Israel's
sake;

   {1:13} To whom thou hast spoken and promised, that thou wouldest
multiply their seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand that lieth
upon the seashore.

   {1:14} For we, O Lord, are become less than any nation, and be kept
under this day in all the world because of our sins.

   {1:15} Neither is there at this time prince, or prophet, or leader,
or burnt offering, or sacrifice, or oblation, or incense, or place to
sacrifice before thee, and to find mercy.

   {1:16} Nevertheless in a contrite heart and an humble spirit let us
be accepted.

   {1:17} Like as in the burnt offerings of rams and bullocks, and like
as in ten thousands of fat lambs: so let our sacrifice be in thy sight
this day, and grant that we may wholly go after thee: for they shall
not be confounded that put their trust in thee.

   {1:18} And now we follow thee with all our heart, we fear thee, and
seek thy face.

   {1:19} Put us not to shame: but deal with us after thy
lovingkindness, and according to the multitude of thy mercies.

   {1:20} Deliver us also according to thy marvellous works, and give
glory to thy name, O Lord: and let all them that do thy servants hurt
be ashamed;

   {1:21} And let them be confounded in all their power and might, and
let their strength be broken;

   {1:22} And let them know that thou art God, the only God, and
glorious over the whole world.

   {1:23} And the king's servants, that put them in, ceased not to make
the oven hot with rosin, pitch, tow, and small wood;

   {1:24} So that the flame streamed forth above the furnace forty and
nine cubits.

   {1:25} And it passed through, and burned those Chaldeans it found
about the furnace.

   {1:26} But the angel of the Lord came down into the oven together
with Azarias and his fellows, and smote the flame of the fire out of
the oven;

   {1:27} And made the midst of the furnace as it had been a moist
whistling wind, so that the fire touched them not at all, neither hurt
nor troubled them.

   {1:28} Then the three, as out of one mouth, praised, glorified, and
blessed, God in the furnace, saying,

   {1:29} Blessed art thou, O Lord God of our fathers: and to be
praised and exalted above all for ever.

   {1:30} And blessed is thy glorious and holy name: and to be praised
and exalted above all for ever.

   {1:31} Blessed art thou in the temple of thine holy glory: and to be
praised and glorified above all for ever.

   {1:32} Blessed art thou that beholdest the depths, and sittest upon
the cherubims: and to be praised and exalted above all for ever.

   {1:33} Blessed art thou on the glorious throne of thy kingdom: and
to be praised and glorified above all for ever.

   {1:34} Blessed art thou in the firmament of heaven: and above all to
be praised and glorified for ever.

   {1:35} O all ye works of the Lord, bless ye the Lord : praise and
exalt him above all for ever,

   {1:36} O ye heavens, bless ye the Lord : praise and exalt him above
all for ever.

   {1:37} O ye angels of the Lord, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt
him above all for ever.

   {1:38} O all ye waters that be above the heaven, bless ye the Lord:
praise and exalt him above all for ever.

   {1:39} O all ye powers of the Lord, bless ye the Lord: praise and
exalt him above all for ever.

   {1:40} O ye sun and moon, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him
above all for ever.

   {1:41} O ye stars of heaven, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him
above all for ever.

   {1:42} O every shower and dew, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt
him above all for ever.

   {1:43} O all ye winds, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above
all for ever,

   {1:44} O ye fire and heat, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him
above all for ever.

   {1:45} O ye winter and summer, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt
him above all for ever.

   {1:46} 0 ye dews and storms of snow, bless ye the Lord: praise and
exalt him above all for ever.

   {1:47} O ye nights and days, bless ye the Lord: bless and exalt him
above all for ever.

   {1:48} O ye light and darkness, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt
him above all for ever.

   {1:49} O ye ice and cold, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him
above all for ever.

   {1:50} O ye frost and snow, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him
above all for ever.

   {1:51} O ye lightnings and clouds, bless ye the Lord: praise and
exalt him above all for ever.

   {1:52} O let the earth bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above
all for ever.

   {1:53} O ye mountains and little hills, bless ye the Lord: praise
and exalt him above all for ever.

   {1:54} O all ye things that grow in the earth, bless ye the Lord:
praise and exalt him above all for ever.

   {1:55} O ye mountains, bless ye the Lord: Praise and exalt him above
all for ever.

   {1:56} O ye seas and rivers, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him
above all for ever.

   {1:57} O ye whales, and all that move in the waters, bless ye the
Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

   {1:58} O all ye fowls of the air, bless ye the Lord: praise and
exalt him above all for ever.

   {1:59} O all ye beasts and cattle, bless ye the Lord: praise and
exalt him above all for ever.

   {1:60} O ye children of men, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him
above all for ever.

   {1:61} O Israel, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all
for ever.

   {1:62} O ye priests of the Lord, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt
him above all for ever.

   {1:63} O ye servants of the Lord, bless ye the Lord: praise and
exalt him above all for ever.

   {1:64} O ye spirits and souls of the righteous, bless ye the Lord:
praise and exalt him above all for ever.

   {1:65} O ye holy and humble men of heart, bless ye the Lord: praise
and exalt him above all for ever.

   {1:66} O Ananias, Azarias, and Misael, bless ye the Lord: praise and
exalt him above all for ever: far he hath delivered us from hell, and
saved us from the hand of death, and delivered us out of the midst of
the furnace and burning flame: even out of the midst of the fire hath
he delivered us.

   {1:67} O give thanks unto the Lord, because he is gracious: for his
mercy endureth for ever.

   {1:68} O all ye that worship the Lord, bless the God of gods, praise
him, and give him thanks: for his mercy endureth for ever.





The Book of Baruch

   {1:1} And these are the words of the book, which Baruch the son of
Nerias, the son of Maasias, the son of Sedecias, the son of Asadias,
the son of Chelcias, wrote in Babylon,

   {1:2} In the fifth year, and in the seventh day of the month, what
time as the Chaldeans took Jerusalem, and burnt it with fire.

   {1:3} And Baruch did read the words of this book in the hearing of
Jechonias the son of Joachim king of Juda, and in the ears of all the
people that came to hear the book,

   {1:4} And in the hearing of the nobles, and of the king's sons, and
in the hearing of the elders, and of all the people, from the lowest
unto the highest, even of all them that dwelt at Babylon by the river
Sud.

   {1:5} Whereupon they wept, fasted, and prayed before the Lord.

   {1:6} They made also a collection of money according to every man's
power:

   {1:7} And they sent it to Jerusalem unto Joachim the high priest,
the son of Chelcias, son of Salom, and to the priests, and to all the
people which were found with him at Jerusalem,

   {1:8} At the same time when he received the vessels of the house of
the Lord, that were carried out of the temple, to return them into the
land of Juda, the tenth day of the month Sivan, namely, silver vessels,
which Sedecias the son of Josias king of Jada had made,

   {1:9} After that Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon had carried away
Jechonias, and the princes, and the captives, and the mighty men, and
the people of the land, from Jerusalem, and brought them unto Babylon.

   {1:10} And they said, Behold, we have sent you money to buy you
burnt offerings, and sin offerings, and incense, and prepare ye manna,
and offer upon the altar of the Lord our God;

   {1:11} And pray for the life of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and
for the life of Balthasar his son, that their days may be upon earth as
the days of heaven:

   {1:12} And the Lord will give us strength, and lighten our eyes, and
we shall live under the shadow of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and
under the shadow of Balthasar his son, and we shall serve them many
days, and find favour in their sight.

   {1:13} Pray for us also unto the Lord our God, for we have sinned
against the Lord our God; and unto this day the fury of the Lord and
his wrath is not turned from us.

   {1:14} And ye shall read this book which we have sent unto you, to
make confession in the house of the Lord, upon the feasts and solemn
days.

   {1:15} And ye shall say, To the Lord our God belongeth
righteousness, but unto us the confusion of faces, as it is come to
pass this day, unto them of Juda, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem,

   {1:16} And to our kings, and to our princes, and to our priests, and
to our prophets, and to our fathers:

   {1:17} For we have sinned before the Lord,

   {1:18} And disobeyed him, and have not hearkened unto the voice of
the Lord our God, to walk in the commandments that he gave us openly:

   {1:19} Since the day that the Lord brought our forefathers out of
the land of Egypt, unto this present day, we have been disobedient unto
the Lord our God, and we have been negligent in not hearing his voice.

   {1:20} Wherefore the evils cleaved unto us, and the curse, which the
Lord appointed by Moses his servant at the time that he brought our
fathers out of the land of Egypt, to give us a land that floweth with
milk and honey, like as it is to see this day.

   {1:21} Nevertheless we have not hearkened unto the voice of the Lord
our God, according unto all the words of the prophets, whom he sent
unto us:

   {1:22} But every man followed the imagination of his own wicked
heart, to serve strange gods, and to do evil in the sight of the Lord
our God.

   {2:1} Therefore the Lord hath made good his word, which he
pronounced against us, and against our judges that judged Israel, and
against our kings, and against our princes, and against the men of
Israel and Juda,

   {2:2} To bring upon us great plagues, such as never happened under
the whole heaven, as it came to pass in Jerusalem, according to the
things that were written in the law of Moses;

   {2:3} That a man should eat the flesh of his own son, and the flesh
of his own daughter.

   {2:4} Moreover he hath delivered them to be in subjection to all the
kingdoms that are round about us, to be as a reproach and desolation
among all the people round about, where the Lord hath scattered them.

   {2:5} Thus we were cast down, and not exalted, because we have
sinned against the Lord our God, and have not been obedient unto his
voice.

   {2:6} To the Lord our God appertaineth righteousness: but unto us
and to our fathers open shame, as appeareth this day.

   {2:7} For all these plagues are come upon us, which the Lord hath
pronounced against us

   {2:8} Yet have we not prayed before the Lord, that we might turn
every one from the imaginations of his wicked heart.

   {2:9} Wherefore the Lord watched over us for evil, and the Lord hath
brought it upon us: for the Lord is righteous in all his works which he
hath commanded us.

   {2:10} Yet we have not hearkened unto his voice, to walk in the
commandments of the Lord, that he hath set before us.

   {2:11} And now, O Lord God of Israel, that hast brought thy people
out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and high arm, and with
signs, and with wonders, and with great power, and hast gotten thyself
a name, as appeareth this day:

   {2:12} O Lord our God, we have sinned, we have done ungodly, we have
dealt unrighteously in all thine ordinances.

   {2:13} Let thy wrath turn from us: for we are but a few left among
the heathen, where thou hast scattered us.

   {2:14} Hear our prayers, O Lord, and our petitions, and deliver us
for thine own sake, and give us favour in the sight of them which have
led us away:

   {2:15} That all the earth may know that thou art the Lord our God,
because Israel and his posterity is called by thy name.

   {2:16} O Lord, look down from thine holy house, and consider us: bow
down thine ear, O Lord, to hear us.

   {2:17} Open thine eyes, and behold; for the dead that are in the
graves, whose souls are taken from their bodies, will give unto the
Lord neither praise nor righteousness:

   {2:18} But the soul that is greatly vexed, which goeth stooping and
feeble, and the eyes that fail, and the hungry soul, will give thee
praise and righteousness, O Lord.

   {2:19} Therefore we do not make our humble supplication before thee,
O Lord our God, for the righteousness of our fathers, and of our kings.

   {2:20} For thou hast sent out thy wrath and indignation upon us, as
thou hast spoken by thy servants the prophets, saying,

   {2:21} Thus saith the Lord, Bow down your shoulders to serve the
king of Babylon: so shall ye remain in the land that I gave unto your
fathers.

   {2:22} But if ye will not hear the voice of the Lord, to serve the
king of Babylon,

   {2:23} I will cause to cease out of the cites of Judah, and from
without Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of joy, the voice
of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: and the whole land shall
be desolate of inhabitants.

   {2:24} But we would not hearken unto thy voice, to serve the king of
Babylon: therefore hast thou made good the words that thou spakest by
thy servants the prophets, namely, that the bones of our kings, and the
bones of our fathers, should be taken out of their place.

   {2:25} And, lo, they are cast out to the heat of the day, and to the
frost of the night, and they died in great miseries by famine, by
sword, and by pestilence.

   {2:26} And the house which is called by thy name hast thou laid
waste, as it is to be seen this day, for the wickedness of the house of
Israel and the house of Juda.

   {2:27} O Lord our God, thou hast dealt with us after all thy
goodness, and according to all that great mercy of thine,

   {2:28} As thou spakest by thy servant Moses in the day when thou
didst command him to write the law before the children of Israel,
saying,

   {2:29} If ye will not hear my voice, surely this very great
multitude shall be turned into a small number among the nations, where
I will scatter them.

   {2:30} For I knew that they would not hear me, because it is a
stiffnecked people: but in the land of their captivities they shall
remember themselves.

   {2:31} And shall know that I am the Lord their God: for I will give
them an heart, and ears to hear:

   {2:32} And they shall praise me in the land of their captivity, and
think upon my name,

   {2:33} And return from their stiff neck, and from their wicked
deeds: for they shall remember the way of their fathers, which sinned
before the Lord.

   {2:34} And I will bring them again into the land which I promised
with an oath unto their fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and they
shall be lords of it: and I will increase them, and they shall not be
diminished.

   {2:35} And I will make an everlasting covenant with them to be their
God, and they shall be my people: and I will no more drive my people of
Israel out of the land that I have given them.

   {3:1} O Lord Almighty, God of Israel, the soul in anguish the
troubled spirit, crieth unto thee.

   {3:2} Hear, O Lord, and have mercy; ar thou art merciful: and have
pity upon us, because we have sinned before thee.

   {3:3} For thou endurest for ever, and we perish utterly.

   {3:4} O Lord Almighty, thou God of Israel, hear now the prayers of
the dead Israelites, and of their children, which have sinned before
thee, and not hearkened unto the voice of thee their God: for the which
cause these plagues cleave unto us.

   {3:5} Remember not the iniquities of our forefathers: but think upon
thy power and thy name now at this time.

   {3:6} For thou art the Lord our God, and thee, O Lord, will we
praise.

   {3:7} And for this cause thou hast put thy fear in our hearts, to
the intent that we should call upon thy name, and praise thee in our
captivity: for we have called to mind all the iniquity of our
forefathers, that sinned before thee.

   {3:8} Behold, we are yet this day in our captivity, where thou hast
scattered us, for a reproach and a curse, and to be subject to
payments, according to all the iniquities of our fathers, which
departed from the Lord our God.

   {3:9} Hear, Israel, the commandments of life: give ear to understand
wisdom.

   {3:10} How happeneth it Israel, that thou art in thine enemies'
land, that thou art waxen old in a strange country, that thou art
defiled with the dead,

   {3:11} That thou art counted with them that go down into the grave?

   {3:12} Thou hast forsaken the fountain of wisdom.

   {3:13} For if thou hadst walked in the way of God, thou shouldest
have dwelled in peace for ever.

   {3:14} Learn where is wisdom, where is strength, where is
understanding; that thou mayest know also where is length of days, and
life, where is the light of the eyes, and peace.

   {3:15} Who hath found out her place? or who hath come into her
treasures ?

   {3:16} Where are the princes of the heathen become, and such as
ruled the beasts upon the earth;

   {3:17} They that had their pastime with the fowls of the air, and
they that hoarded up silver and gold, wherein men trust, and made no
end of their getting?

   {3:18} For they that wrought in silver, and were so careful, and
whose works are unsearchable,

   {3:19} They are vanished and gone down to the grave, and others are
come up in their steads.

   {3:20} Young men have seen light, and dwelt upon the earth: but the
way of knowledge have they not known,

   {3:21} Nor understood the paths thereof, nor laid hold of it: their
children were far off from that way.

   {3:22} It hath not been heard of in Chanaan, neither hath it been
seen in Theman.

   {3:23} The Agarenes that seek wisdom upon earth, the merchants of
Meran and of Theman, the authors of fables, and searchers out of
understanding; none of these have known the way of wisdom, or remember
her paths.

   {3:24} O Israel, how great is the house of God! and how large is the
place of his possession!

   {3:25} Great, and hath none end; high, and unmeasurable.

   {3:26} There were the giants famous from the beginning, that were of
so great stature, and so expert in war.

   {3:27} Those did not the Lord choose, neither gave he the way of
knowledge unto them:

   {3:28} But they were destroyed, because they had no wisdom, and
perished through their own foolishness.

   {3:29} Who hath gone up into heaven, and taken her, and brought her
down from the clouds?

   {3:30} Who hath gone over the sea, and found her, and will bring her
for pure gold?

   {3:31} No man knoweth her way, nor thinketh of her path.

   {3:32} But he that knoweth all things knoweth her, and hath found
her out with his understanding: he that prepared the earth for evermore
hath filled it with fourfooted beasts:

   {3:33} He that sendeth forth light, and it goeth, calleth it again,
and it obeyeth him with fear.

   {3:34} The stars shined in their watches, and rejoiced: when he
calleth them, they say, Here we be; and so with cheerfulness they
shewed light unto him that made them.

   {3:35} This is our God, and there shall none other be accounted of
in comparison of him

   {3:36} He hath found out all the way of knowledge, and hath given it
unto Jacob his servant, and to Israel his beloved.

   {3:37} Afterward did he shew himself upon earth, and conversed with
men.

   {4:1} This is the book of the commandments of God, and the law that
endureth for ever: all they that keep it shall come to life; but such
as leave it shall die.

   {4:2} Turn thee, O Jacob, and take hold of it: walk in the presence
of the light thereof, that thou mayest be illuminated.

   {4:3} Give not thine honour to another, nor the things that are
profitable unto thee to a strange nation.

   {4:4} O Israel, happy are we: for things that are pleasing to God
are made known unto us.

   {4:5} Be of good cheer, my people, the memorial of Israel.

   {4:6} Ye were sold to the nations, not for [your] destruction: but
because ye moved God to wrath, ye were delivered unto the enemies.

   {4:7} For ye provoked him that made you by sacrificing unto devils,
and not to God.

   {4:8} Ye have forgotten the everlasting God, that brought you up;
and ye have grieved Jerusalem, that nursed you.

   {4:9} For when she saw the wrath of God coming upon you, she said,
Hearken, O ye that dwell about Sion: God hath brought upon me great
mourning;

   {4:10} For I saw the captivity of my sons and daughters, which the
Everlasting brought upon them.

   {4:11} With joy did I nourish them; but sent them away with weeping
and mourning.

   {4:12} Let no man rejoice over me, a widow, and forsaken of many,
who for the sins of my children am left desolate; because they departed
from the law of God.

   {4:13} They knew not his statutes, nor walked in the ways of his
commandments, nor trod in the paths of discipline in his righteousness.

   {4:14} Let them that dwell about Sion come, and remember ye the
captivity of my sons and daughters, which the Everlasting hath brought
upon them.

   {4:15} For he hath brought a nation upon them from far, a shameless
nation, and of a strange language, who neither reverenced old man, nor
pitied child.

   {4:16} These have carried away the dear beloved children of the
widow, and left her that was alone desolate without daughters.

   {4:17} But what can I help you?

   {4:18} For he that brought these plagues upon you will deliver you
from the hands of your enemies.

   {4:19} Go your way, O my children, go your way: for I am left
desolate.

   {4:20} I have put off the clothing of peace, and put upon me the
sackcloth of my prayer: I will cry unto the Everlasting in my days.

   {4:21} Be of good cheer, O my children, cry unto the Lord, and he
will deliver you from the power and hand of the enemies.

   {4:22} For my hope is in the Everlasting, that he will save you; and
joy is come unto me from the Holy One, because of the mercy which shall
soon come unto you from the Everlasting our Saviour.

   {4:23} For I sent you out with mourning and weeping: but God will
give you to me again with joy and gladness for ever.

   {4:24} Like as now the neighbours of Sion have seen your captivity:
so shall they see shortly your salvation from our God which shall come
upon you with great glory, and brightness of the Everlasting.

   {4:25} My children, suffer patiently the wrath that is come upon you
from God: for thine enemy hath persecuted thee; but shortly thou shalt
see his destruction, and shalt tread upon his neck.

   {4:26} My delicate ones have gone rough ways, and were taken away as
a flock caught of the enemies.

   {4:27} Be of good comfort, O my children, and cry unto God: for ye
shall be remembered of him that brought these things upon you.

   {4:28} For as it was your mind to go astray from God: so, being
returned, seek him ten times more.

   {4:29} For he that hath brought these plagues upon you shall bring
you everlasting joy with your salvation.

   {4:30} Take a good heart, O Jerusalem: for he that gave thee that
name will comfort thee.

   {4:31} Miserable are they that afflicted thee, and rejoiced at thy
fall.

   {4:32} Miserable are the cities which thy children served: miserable
is she that received thy sons.

   {4:33} For as she rejoiced at thy ruin, and was glad of thy fall: so
shall she be grieved for her own desolation.

   {4:34} For I will take away the rejoicing of her great multitude,
and her pride shall be turned into mourning.

   {4:35} For fire shall come upon her from the Everlasting, long to
endure; and she shall be inhabited of devils for a great time.

   {4:36} O Jerusalem, look about thee toward the east, and behold the
joy that cometh unto thee from God.

   {4:37} Lo, thy sons come, whom thou sentest away, they come gathered
together from the east to the west by the word of the Holy One,
rejoicing in the glory of God.

   {5:1} Put off, O Jerusalem, the garment of mourning and affliction,
and put on the comeliness of the glory that cometh from God for ever.

   {5:2} Cast about thee a double garment of the righteousness which
cometh from God; and set a diadem on thine head of the glory of the
Everlasting.

   {5:3} For God will shew thy brightness unto every country under
heaven.

   {5:4} For thy name shall be called of God for ever The peace of
righteousness, and The glory of God's worship.

   {5:5} Arise, O Jerusalem, and stand on high, and look about toward
the east, and behold thy children gathered from the west unto the east
by the word of the Holy One, rejoicing in the remembrance of God.

   {5:6} For they departed from thee on foot, and were led away of
their enemies: but God bringeth them unto thee exalted with glory, as
children of the kingdom.

   {5:7} For God hath appointed that every high hill, and banks of long
continuance, should be cast down, and valleys filled up, to make even
the ground, that Israel may go safely in the glory of God,

   {5:8} Moreover even the woods and every sweetsmelling tree shall
overshadow Israel by the commandment of God.

   {5:9} For God shall lead Israel with joy in the light of his glory
with the mercy and righteousness that cometh from him.





The Book of Bel and the Dragon [in Daniel]

   The History of the Destruction of Bel and the Dragon, Cut off from
the end of Daniel.



   {1:1} And king Astyages was gathered to his fathers, and Cyrus of
Persia received his kingdom.

   {1:2} And Daniel conversed with the king, and was honoured above all
his friends.

   {1:3} Now the Babylons had an idol, called Bel, and there were spent
upon him every day twelve great measures of fine flour, and forty
sheep, and six vessels of wine.

   {1:4} And the king worshipped it and went daily to adore it: but
Daniel worshipped his own God. And the king said unto him, Why dost not
thou worship Bel?

   {1:5} Who answered and said, Because I may not worship idols made
with hands, but the living God, who hath created the heaven and the
earth, and hath sovereignty over all flesh.

   {1:6} Then said the king unto him, Thinkest thou not that Bel is a
living God? seest thou not how much he eateth and drinketh every day?

   {1:7} Then Daniel smiled, and said, O king, be not deceived: for
this is but clay within, and brass without, and did never eat or drink
any thing.

   {1:8} So the king was wroth, and called for his priests, and said
unto them, If ye tell me not who this is that devoureth these expences,
ye shall die.

   {1:9} But if ye can certify me that Bel devoureth them, then Daniel
shall die: for he hath spoken blasphemy against Bel. And Daniel said
unto the king, Let it be according to thy word.

   {1:10} Now the priests of Bel were threescore and ten, beside their
wives and children. And the king went with Daniel into the temple of
Bel.

   {1:11} So Bel's priests said, Lo, we go out: but thou, O king, set
on the meat, and make ready the wine, and shut the door fast and seal
it with thine own signet;

   {1:12} And to morrow when thou comest in, if thou findest not that
Bel hath eaten up all, we will suffer death: or else Daniel, that
speaketh falsely against us.

   {1:13} And they little regarded it: for under the table they had
made a privy entrance, whereby they entered in continually, and
consumed those things.

   {1:14} So when they were gone forth, the king set meats before Bel.
Now Daniel had commanded his servants to bring ashes, and those they
strewed throughout all the temple in the presence of the king alone:
then went they out, and shut the door, and sealed it with the king's
signet, and so departed.

   {1:15} Now in the night came the priests with their wives and
children, as they were wont to do, and did eat and drink up all.

   {1:16} In the morning betime the king arose, and Daniel with him.

   {1:17} And the king said, Daniel, are the seals whole? And he said,
Yea, O king, they be whole.

   {1:18} And as soon as he had opened the dour, the king looked upon
the table, and cried with a loud voice, Great art thou, O Bel, and with
thee is no deceit at all.

   {1:19} Then laughed Daniel, and held the king that he should not go
in, and said, Behold now the pavement, and mark well whose footsteps
are these.

   {1:20} And the king said, I see the footsteps of men, women, and
children. And then the king was angry,

   {1:21} And took the priests with their wives and children, who
shewed him the privy doors, where they came in, and consumed such
things as were upon the table.

   {1:22} Therefore the king slew them, and delivered Bel into Daniel's
power, who destroyed him and his temple.

   {1:23} And in that same place there was a great dragon, which they
of Babylon worshipped.

   {1:24} And the king said unto Daniel, Wilt thou also say that this
is of brass? lo, he liveth, he eateth and drinketh; thou canst not say
that he is no living god: therefore worship him.

   {1:25} Then said Daniel unto the king, I will worship the Lord my
God: for he is the living God.

   {1:26} But give me leave, O king, and I shall slay this dragon
without sword or staff. The king said, I give thee leave.

   {1:27} Then Daniel took pitch, and fat, and hair, and did seethe
them together, and made lumps thereof: this he put in the dragon's
mouth, and so the dragon burst in sunder : and Daniel said, Lo, these
are the gods ye worship.

   {1:28} When they of Babylon heard that, they took great indignation,
and conspired against the king, saying, The king is become a Jew, and
he hath destroyed Bel, he hath slain the dragon, and put the priests to
death.

   {1:29} So they came to the king, and said, Deliver us Daniel, or
else we will destroy thee and thine house.

   {1:30} Now when the king saw that they pressed him sore, being
constrained, he delivered Daniel unto them:

   {1:31} Who cast him into the lions' den: where he was six days.

   {1:32} And in the den there were seven lions, and they had given
them every day two carcases, and two sheep: which then were not given
to them, to the intent they might devour Daniel.

   {1:33} Now there was in Jewry a prophet, called Habbacuc, who had
made pottage, and had broken bread in a bowl, and was going into the
field, for to bring it to the reapers.

   {1:34} But the angel of the Lord said unto Habbacuc, Go, carry the
dinner that thou hast into Babylon unto Daniel, who is in the lions'
den.

   {1:35} And Habbacuc said, Lord, I never saw Babylon; neither do I
know where the den is.

   {1:36} Then the angel of the Lord took him by the crown, and bare
him by the hair of his head, and through the vehemency of his spirit
set him in Babylon over the den.

   {1:37} And Habbacuc cried, saying, O Daniel, Daniel, take the dinner
which God hath sent thee.

   {1:38} And Daniel said, Thou hast remembered me, O God: neither hast
thou forsaken them that seek thee and love thee.

   {1:39} So Daniel arose, and did eat: and the angel of the Lord set
Habbacuc in his own place again immediately.

   {1:40} Upon the seventh day the king went to bewail Daniel: and when
he came to the den, he looked in, and behold, Daniel was sitting.

   {1:41} Then cried the king with a loud voice, saying, Great art Lord
God of Daniel, and there is none other beside thee.

   {1:42} And he drew him out, and cast those that were the cause of
his destruction into the den: and they were devoured in a moment before
his face.





The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Colossians

   {1:1} Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and
Timotheus [our] brother, {1:2} 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. {1:3} We give thanks to God and
the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you, {1:4}
Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love [which ye
have] to all the saints, {1:5} For the hope which is laid up for you in
heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel;
{1:6} Which is come unto you, as [it is] in all the world; and bringeth
forth fruit, as [it doth] also in you, since the day ye heard [of it,]
and knew the grace of God in truth: {1:7} As ye also learned of
Epaphras our dear fellowservant, who is for you a faithful minister of
Christ; {1:8} Who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit. {1:9}
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; {1:10} That ye
might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in
every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God; {1:11}
Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all
patience and longsuffering with joyfulness; {1:12} Giving thanks unto
the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance
of the saints in light: {1:13} Who hath delivered us from the power of
darkness, and hath translated [us] into the kingdom of his dear Son:
{1:14} In whom we have redemption through his blood, [even] the
forgiveness of sins: {1:15} Who is the image of the invisible God, the
firstborn of every creature: {1:16} For by him were all things created,
that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible,
whether [they be] thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers:
all things were created by him, and for him: {1:17} And he is before
all things, and by him all things consist. {1:18} 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. {1:19} For it
pleased [the Father] that in him should all fulness dwell; {1:20} 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. {1:21} And you, that were sometime
alienated and enemies in [your] mind by wicked works, yet now hath he
reconciled {1:22} In the body of his flesh through death, to present
you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight: {1:23} If ye
continue in the faith grounded and settled, and [be] not 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; {1:24} 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: {1:25} 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; {1:26} [Even] the mystery which hath
been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to
his saints: {1:27} 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: {1:28} Whom we preach, warning every man, and
teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect
in Christ Jesus: {1:29} Whereunto I also labour, striving according to
his working, which worketh in me mightily.

   {2:1} 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; {2:2} That their hearts might be comforted, being knit
together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of
understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the
Father, and of Christ; {2:3} In whom are hid all the treasures of
wisdom and knowledge. {2:4} And this I say, lest any man should beguile
you with enticing words. {2:5} 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.

   {2:6} As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, [so] walk
ye in him: {2:7} Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the
faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
{2:8} Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit,
after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not
after Christ. {2:9} For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead
bodily. {2:10} And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all
principality and power: {2:11} 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: {2:12} 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. {2:13} And you,
being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he
quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; {2:14}
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; {2:15} [And] having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a
shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it. {2:16} Let no man
therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday,
or of the new moon, or of the sabbath [days: ]{2:17} Which are a shadow
of things to come; but the body [is] of Christ. {2:18} Let no man
beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of
angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly
puffed up by his fleshly mind, {2:19} And not holding the Head, from
which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered,
and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.

   {2:20} Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the
world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to
ordinances, {2:21} (Touch not; taste not; handle not; {2:22} Which all
are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of
men? {2:23} Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship,
and humility, and neglecting of the body; not in any honour to the
satisfying of the flesh.

   {3:1} If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are
above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. {3:2} Set your
affection on things above, not on things on the earth. {3:3} For ye are
dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. {3:4} When Christ, [who
is] our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.

   {3:5} Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth;
fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and
covetousness, which is idolatry: {3:6} For which things' sake the wrath
of God cometh on the children of disobedience: {3:7} In the which ye
also walked some time, when ye lived in them. {3:8} But now ye also put
off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication
out of your mouth. {3:9} Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have
put off the old man with his deeds; {3:10} And have put on the new
[man,] which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that
created him: {3:11} Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision
nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond [nor] free: but Christ
[is] all, and in all. {3:12} Put on therefore, as the elect of God,
holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind,
meekness, longsuffering; {3:13} Forbearing one another, and forgiving
one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ
forgave you, so also [do] ye. {3:14} And above all these things [put
on] charity, which is the bond of perfectness. {3:15} And let the peace
of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one
body; and be ye thankful. {3:16} Let the word of Christ dwell in you
richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms
and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the
Lord. {3:17} And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, [do] all in the name
of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.

   {3:18} Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit
in the Lord. {3:19} Husbands, love [your] wives, and be not bitter
against them. {3:20} Children, obey [your] parents in all things: for
this is well pleasing unto the Lord. {3:21} Fathers, provoke not your
children [to anger,] lest they be discouraged. {3:22} Servants, obey in
all things [your] masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice,
as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God: {3:23} And
whatsoever ye do, do [it] heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;
{3:24} Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the
inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ. {3:25} But he that doeth
wrong shall receive for the wrong which he hath done: and there is no
respect of persons.

   {4:1} Masters, give unto [your] servants that which is just and
equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.

   {4:2} Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving;
{4:3} Withal praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of
utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in
bonds: {4:4} That I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak. {4:5}
Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time. {4:6}
Let your speech [be] alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may
know how ye ought to answer every man.

   {4:7} All my state shall Tychicus declare unto you, [who is] a
beloved brother, and a faithful minister and fellowservant in the Lord:
{4:8} Whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that he might
know your estate, and comfort your hearts; {4:9} With Onesimus, a
faithful and beloved brother, who is [one] of you. They shall make
known unto you all things which [are done] here.

   {4:10} Aristarchus my fellowprisoner saluteth you, and Marcus,
sister's son to Barnabas, (touching whom ye received commandments: if
he come unto you, receive him;) {4:11} And Jesus, which is called
Justus, who are of the circumcision. These only [are my] fellow workers
unto the kingdom of God, which have been a comfort unto me. {4:12}
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. {4:13} For I bear him
record, that he hath a great zeal for you, and them [that are] in
Laodicea, and them in Hierapolis. {4:14} Luke, the beloved physician,
and Demas, greet you. {4:15} Salute the brethren which are in Laodicea,
and Nymphas, and the church which is in his house. {4:16} And when this
epistle is read among you, cause that it be read also in the church of
the Laodiceans; and that ye likewise read the [epistle] from Laodicea.
{4:17} And say to Archippus, Take heed to the ministry which thou hast
received in the Lord, that thou fulfil it.

   {4:18} The salutation by the hand of me Paul. Remember my bonds.
Grace [be] with you. Amen.





The Book of Daniel

   {1:1} In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Jerusalem, and besieged it. {1:2}
And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with 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.

   {1:3} 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; {1:4} Children in whom [was] no
blemish, but well favoured, and skilful in all wisdom, and cunning in
knowledge, and understanding science, and such as [had] ability in them
to stand in the king's palace, and whom they might teach the learning
and the tongue of the Chaldeans. {1:5} And the king appointed them a
daily provision of the king's meat, and of the wine which he drank: so
nourishing them three years, that at the end thereof they might stand
before the king. {1:6} Now among these were of the children of Judah,
Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah: {1:7} Unto whom the prince of
the eunuchs gave names: for he gave unto Daniel [the name] of
Belteshazzar; and to Hananiah, of Shadrach; and to Mishael, of Meshach;
and to Azariah, of Abed-nego.

   {1:8} But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile
himself 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. {1:9} Now God had brought Daniel into favour
and tender love with the prince of the eunuchs. {1:10} 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. {1:11} Then said Daniel to
Melzar, whom the prince of the eunuchs had set over Daniel, Hananiah,
Mishael, and Azariah, {1:12} Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten
days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink. {1:13}
Then let our countenances be looked upon before thee, and the
countenance of the children that eat of the portion of the king's meat:
and as thou seest, deal with thy servants. {1:14} So he consented to
them in this matter, and proved them ten days. {1:15} 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. {1:16}
Thus Melzar took away the portion of their meat, and the wine that they
should drink; and gave them pulse.

   {1:17} As for these four children, God gave them knowledge and skill
in all learning and wisdom: and Daniel had understanding in all visions
and dreams. {1:18} 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. {1:19} 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. {1:20} 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. {1:21} And Daniel continued [even] unto
the first year of king Cyrus.

   {2:1} And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar
Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, wherewith his spirit was troubled, and
his sleep brake from him. {2:2} Then the king commanded to call the
magicians, and the astrologers, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans,
for to shew the king his dreams. So they came and stood before the
king. {2:3} And the king said unto them, I have dreamed a dream, and my
spirit was troubled to know the dream. {2:4} Then spake the Chaldeans
to the king in Syriack, O king, live for ever: tell thy servants the
dream, and we will shew the interpretation. {2:5} 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. {2:6} 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. {2:7} They answered again and said, Let the
king tell his servants the dream, and we will shew the interpretation
of it. {2:8} The king answered and said, I know of certainty that ye
would gain the time, because ye see the thing is gone from me. {2:9}
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.

   {2:10} 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. {2:11} 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.
{2:12} For this cause the king was angry and very furious, and
commanded to destroy all the wise [men] of Babylon. {2:13} And the
decree went forth that the wise [men] should be slain; and they sought
Daniel and his fellows to be slain.

   {2:14} Then Daniel answered with counsel and wisdom to Arioch the
captain of the king's guard, which was gone forth to slay the wise
[men] of Babylon: {2:15} 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. {2:16} Then Daniel went in, and desired of
the king that he would give him time, and that he would shew the king
the interpretation. {2:17} Then Daniel went to his house, and made the
thing known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions: {2:18}
That they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this
secret; that Daniel and his fellows should not perish with the rest of
the wise [men] of Babylon.

   {2:19} Then was the secret revealed unto Daniel in a night vision.
Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven. {2:20} Daniel answered and said,
Blessed be the name of God for ever and ever: for wisdom and might are
his: {2:21} And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth
kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and
knowledge to them that know understanding: {2:22} He revealeth the deep
and secret things: he knoweth what [is] in the darkness, and the light
dwelleth with him. {2:23} I thank thee, and praise thee, O thou God of
my fathers, who 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.

   {2:24} 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. {2:25} 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. {2:26} 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? {2:27}
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; {2:28} 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; {2:29} 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. {2:30} 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.

   {2:31} 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. {2:32} This image's head [was] of fine gold,
his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass,
{2:33} His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay. {2:34}
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. {2:35} 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.

   {2:36} This [is] the dream; and we will tell the interpretation
thereof before the king. {2:37} Thou, O king, [art] a king of kings:
for the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom, power, and strength,
and glory. {2:38} And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts
of the 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.
{2:39} And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and
another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the
earth. {2:40} 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. {2:41} 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. {2:42} And [as] the toes of the feet [were] part of iron, and
part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.
{2:43} And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall
mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one
to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay. {2:44} 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. {2:45} 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.

   {2:46} Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face, and
worshipped Daniel, and commanded that they should offer an oblation and
sweet odours unto him. {2:47} The king answered unto Daniel, and said,
Of a truth [it is,] that your God is a God of gods, and a Lord of
kings, and a revealer of secrets, seeing thou couldst reveal this
secret. {2:48} Then the king made Daniel a great man, and gave him many
great gifts, and made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon, and
chief of the governors over all the wise [men] of Babylon. {2:49} Then
Daniel requested of the king, and he set Shadrach, Meshach, and
Abed-nego, over the affairs of the province of Babylon: but Daniel
[sat] in the gate of the king.

   {3:1} Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height
[was] threescore cubits, [and] the breadth thereof six cubits: he set
it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon. {3:2} 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. {3:3} 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. {3:4} Then an herald cried aloud,
To you it is commanded, O people, nations, and languages, {3:5} [That]
at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut,
psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship
the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set up: {3:6} And
whoso falleth not down and worshippeth shall the same hour be cast into
the midst of a burning fiery furnace. {3:7} Therefore at that time,
when all the people heard the sound of the 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.

   {3:8} Wherefore at that time certain Chaldeans came near, and
accused the Jews. {3:9} They spake and said to the king Nebuchadnezzar,
O king, live for ever. {3:10} Thou, O king, hast made a decree, that
every man that shall 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: {3:11} And whoso falleth not down
and worshippeth, [that] he should be cast into the midst of a burning
fiery furnace. {3:12} There are certain Jews whom thou hast set over
the affairs of the province of Babylon, Shadrach, Meshach, and
Abed-nego; these men, O king, have not regarded thee: they serve not
thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.

   {3:13} Then Nebuchadnezzar in [his] rage and fury commanded to bring
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego. Then they brought these men before
the king. {3:14} Nebuchadnezzar spake and said unto them, [Is it] true,
O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, do not ye serve my gods, nor
worship the golden image which I have set up? {3:15} Now if ye be ready
that at what time ye hear the sound of the 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?
{3:16} Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, answered and said to the king,
O Nebuchadnezzar, we [are] not careful to answer thee in this matter.
{3:17} If it be [so,] our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from
the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver [us] out of thine hand,
O king. {3:18} 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.

   {3:19} Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his
visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego:
[therefore] he spake, and commanded that they should heat the furnace
one seven times more than it was wont to be heated. {3:20} And he
commanded the most mighty men that [were] in his army to bind Shadrach,
Meshach, and Abed-nego, [and] to cast [them] into the burning fiery
furnace. {3:21} 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. {3:22} Therefore because the king's
commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the
fire slew those men that took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed- nego.
{3:23} And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, fell down
bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace. {3:24} Then
Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonied, and rose up in 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. {3:25} 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.

   {3:26} Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning
fiery furnace, [and] spake, and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego,
ye servants of the most high God, come forth, and come [hither.] Then
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, came forth of the midst of the fire.
{3:27} And the princes, governors, and captains, and the king's
counsellors, being gathered together, saw these men, upon whose bodies
the fire had no power, nor was an hair of their head singed, neither
were their coats changed, nor the smell of fire had passed on them.
{3:28} [Then] Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said, Blessed [be] the God of
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, 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. {3:29} Therefore I make a decree, That
every people, nation, and language, which speak any thing amiss against
the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, 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. {3:30} Then the king promoted
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, in the province of Babylon.

   {4:1} Nebuchadnezzar the king, unto all people, nations, and
languages, that dwell in all the earth; Peace be multiplied unto you.
{4:2} I thought it good to shew the signs and wonders that the high God
hath wrought toward me. {4:3} How great [are] his signs! and how mighty
[are] his wonders! his kingdom [is] an everlasting kingdom, and his
dominion [is] from generation to generation.

   {4:4} I Nebuchadnezzar was at rest in mine house, and flourishing in
my palace: {4:5} I saw a dream which made me afraid, and the thoughts
upon my bed and the visions of my head troubled me. {4:6} Therefore
made I a decree to bring in all the wise [men] of Babylon before me,
that they might make known unto me the interpretation of the dream.
{4:7} 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.

   {4:8} But at the last Daniel came in before me, whose name [was]
Belteshazzar, according to the name of my god, and in whom is the
spirit of the holy gods: and before him I told the dream, [saying,
]{4:9} O Belteshazzar, master of the magicians, because I know that the
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. {4:10} 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. {4:11} The tree grew, and was strong, and
the height thereof reached unto heaven, and the sight thereof to the
end of all the earth: {4:12} 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. {4:13} I saw in the
visions of my head upon my bed, and, behold, a watcher and an holy one
came down from heaven; {4:14} He cried aloud, and said thus, Hew down
the tree, and cut off his branches, shake off his leaves, and scatter
his fruit: let the beasts get away from under it, and the fowls from
his branches: {4:15} 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: {4:16} 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. {4:17} 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. {4:18} This dream I king Nebuchadnezzar have seen. Now
thou, O Belteshazzar, declare the interpretation thereof, forasmuch as
all the wise [men] of my kingdom are not able to make known unto me the
interpretation: but thou [art] able; for the spirit of the holy gods
[is] in thee.

   {4:19} Then Daniel, whose name [was] Belteshazzar, was astonied for
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. {4:20}
The tree that thou sawest, which grew, and was strong, whose height
reached unto the heaven, and the sight thereof to all the earth; {4:21}
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: {4:22} 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. {4:23} 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; {4:24} This [is] the
interpretation, O king, and this [is] the decree of the most High,
which is come upon my lord the king: {4:25} That they shall drive thee
from men, and thy dwelling shall be 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. {4:26} 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. {4:27} 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 tranquility.

   {4:28} All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. {4:29} At the end
of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon.
{4:30} The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have
built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for
the honour of my majesty? {4:31} While the word [was] in the king's
mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, [saying,] O king Nebuchadnezzar,
to thee it is spoken; The kingdom is departed from thee. {4:32} And
they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling [shall be] 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.
{4:33} 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. ]{4:34} 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: {4:35} 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? {4:36} At the same time my reason
returned unto me; and for the glory of my kingdom, mine honour and
brightness returned unto me; and my counsellors and my lords sought
unto me; and I was established in my kingdom, and excellent majesty was
added unto me. {4:37} Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour
the King of heaven, all whose works [are] truth, and his ways judgment:
and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.

   {5:1} Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his
lords, and drank wine before the thousand. {5:2} Belshazzar, whiles he
tasted the wine, commanded to bring the 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. {5:3} 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. {5:4} They drank wine, and praised the gods
of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

   {5:5} In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote
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. {5:6}
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. {5:7} 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. {5:8} Then came in all the king's wise
[men:] but they could not read the writing, nor make known to the king
the interpretation thereof. {5:9} Then was king Belshazzar greatly
troubled, and his countenance was changed in him, and his lords were
astonied.

   {5:10} [Now] the queen, by reason of the words of the king and his
lords, 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: {5:11} 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; {5:12} Forasmuch as an excellent spirit, and knowledge,
and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and shewing of hard
sentences, and dissolving of doubts, were found in the same Daniel,
whom the king named Belteshazzar: now let Daniel be called, and he will
shew the interpretation. {5:13} Then was Daniel brought in before the
king. [And] the king spake 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? {5:14} 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. {5:15} 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:
{5:16} 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.

   {5:17} 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. {5:18}
O thou king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father a
kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honour: {5:19} And for the majesty
that he gave him, all people, nations, and 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.
{5:20} 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: {5:21} 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. {5:22} And
thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou
knewest all this; {5:23} But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of
heaven; and they 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: {5:24} Then was the part of the hand sent from him; and
this writing was written.

   {5:25} And this [is] the writing that was written, MENE, MENE,
TEKEL, UPHARSIN. {5:26} This [is] the interpretation of the thing:
MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it. {5:27} TEKEL;
Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. {5:28} PERES;
Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians. {5:29}
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.

   {5:30} In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.
{5:31} And Darius the Median took the kingdom, [being] about threescore
and two years old.

   {6:1} It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom an hundred and
twenty princes, which should be over the whole kingdom; {6:2} And over
these three presidents; of whom Daniel [was] first: that the princes
might give accounts unto them, and the king should have no damage.
{6:3} 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.

   {6:4} 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. {6:5} 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. {6:6} Then these presidents and
princes assembled together to the king, and said thus unto him, King
Darius, live for ever. {6:7} All the presidents of the kingdom, the
governors, and the princes, the counsellors, and the captains, have
consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm
decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for
thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of
lions. {6:8} Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing,
that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians,
which altereth not. {6:9} Wherefore king Darius signed the writing and
the decree.

   {6:10} 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. {6:11} Then these men
assembled, and found Daniel praying and making supplication before his
God. {6:12} Then they came near, and spake before the king concerning
the 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. {6:13} Then answered they and said before
the king, That Daniel, which [is] of the children of the captivity of
Judah, regardeth not thee, O king, nor the decree that thou hast
signed, but maketh his petition three times a day. {6:14} Then the
king, when he heard [these] words, was sore displeased with himself,
and set [his] heart on Daniel to deliver him: and he laboured till the
going down of the sun to deliver him. {6:15} 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. {6:16} 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. {6:17} 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.

   {6:18} 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. {6:19} Then the king arose very early in the
morning, and went in haste unto the den of lions. {6:20} And when he
came to the den, he cried with a lamentable voice 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? {6:21} Then said Daniel unto the king, O king, live for
ever. {6:22} 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.
{6:23} Then was the king exceeding 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.

   {6:24} 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.

   {6:25} Then king Darius wrote unto all people, nations, and
languages, that dwell in all the earth; Peace be multiplied unto you.
{6:26} I make a decree, That in every dominion of my kingdom men
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. {6:27} 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. {6:28}
So this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius, and in the reign of
Cyrus the Persian.

   {7:1} 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. {7:2} Daniel spake and said, I saw
in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove
upon the great sea. {7:3} And four great beasts came up from the sea,
diverse one from another. {7:4} 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. {7:5} 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. {7:6} 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.
{7:7} 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. {7:8} 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.

   {7:9} 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. {7:10} 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. {7:11} 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. {7:12}
As concerning the rest of the beasts, they had their dominion taken
away: yet their lives were prolonged for a season and time. {7:13} 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. {7:14} 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.

   {7:15} I Daniel was grieved in my spirit in the midst of [my] body,
and the visions of my head troubled me. {7:16} I came near unto one of
them that stood by, and asked him the truth of all this. So he told me,
and made me know the interpretation of the things. {7:17} These great
beasts, which are four, [are] four kings, [which] shall arise out of
the earth. {7:18} But the saints of the most High shall take the
kingdom, and possess the kingdom for ever, even for ever and ever.
{7:19} 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; {7:20} 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. {7:21}
I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed
against them; {7:22} Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was
given to the saints of the most High; and the time came that the saints
possessed the kingdom. {7:23} 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. {7:24} 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. {7:25} 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. {7:26} But the judgment shall sit, and
they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy [it] unto
the end. {7:27} And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the
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. {7:28} Hitherto [is] the end of
the matter. As for me Daniel, my cogitations much troubled me, and my
countenance changed in me: but I kept the matter in my heart.

   {8:1} 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. {8:2} And I saw in a vision; and it came to pass, when
I saw, that I [was] at Shushan [in] the palace, which [is] in the
province of Elam; and I saw in a vision, and I was by the river of
Ulai. {8:3} Then I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, there
stood 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. {8:4} 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. {8:5} 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. {8:6}
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. {8:7} 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. {8:8} 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. {8:9} 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. ]{8:10} 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. {8:11} Yea,
he magnified [himself] even to the prince of the host, and by him the
daily [sacrifice] was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was
cast down. {8:12} And an host was given [him] against the daily
[sacrifice] by reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth to
the ground; and it practised, and prospered.

   {8:13} Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said unto
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? {8:14} And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred
days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.

   {8:15} And it came to pass, when I, [even] I Daniel, had seen the
vision, and sought for the meaning, then, behold, there stood before me
as the appearance of a man. {8:16} And I heard a man's voice between
[the banks of] Ulai, which called, and said, Gabriel, make this [man]
to understand the vision. {8:17} 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. {8:18} 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.
{8:19} 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. ]{8:20} The ram which thou sawest having [two] horns [are] the
kings of Media and Persia. {8:21} And the rough goat [is] the king of
Grecia: and the great horn that [is] between his eyes [is] the first
king. {8:22} Now that being broken, whereas four stood up for it, four
kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation, but not in his power. {8:23}
And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are
come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark
sentences, shall stand up. {8:24} And his power shall be mighty, but
not by his own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall
prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy
people. {8:25} 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. {8:26} 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. {8:27} 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.]

   {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;
{9:2} 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.

   {9:3} And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and
supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes: {9:4} And I
prayed unto the LORD my God, and made my confession, 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; {9:5} We have sinned,
and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled,
even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments: {9:6}
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. {9:7} O Lord, righteousness [belongeth] unto thee,
but unto us confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah,
and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, [that are]
near, and [that are] far off, through all the countries whither thou
hast driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed
against thee. {9:8} O Lord, to us [belongeth] confusion of face, to our
kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned
against thee. {9:9} To the Lord our God [belong] mercies and
forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him; {9:10} Neither have
we obeyed the voice of the LORD our God, to walk in his laws, which he
set before us by his servants the prophets. {9:11} Yea, all Israel have
transgressed thy law, even by departing, that 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. {9:12} 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. {9:13} 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. {9:14} 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. {9:15} 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.

   {9:16} 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. {9:17} 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. {9:18} 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. {9:19} 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.

   {9:20} And whiles I [was] speaking, and praying, and confessing my
sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication
before the LORD my God for the holy mountain of my God; {9:21} Yea,
whiles I [was] speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had
seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly,
touched me about the time of the evening oblation. {9:22} And he
informed [me,] and talked with me, and said, O Daniel, I am now come
forth to give thee skill and understanding. {9:23} At the beginning of
thy supplications the commandment came forth, and I am come to shew
[thee;] for thou [art] greatly beloved: therefore understand the
matter, and consider the vision. {9:24} 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. {9:25} Know therefore and
understand, [that] from the going forth of the commandment to restore
and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince [shall be] seven
weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again,
and the wall, even in troublous times. {9:26} And after threescore and
two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but 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. {9:27} 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.

   {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. {10:2} In those days I
Daniel was mourning three full weeks. {10:3} I ate no pleasant bread,
neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at
all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled. {10:4} And in the four and
twentieth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great
river, which [is] Hiddekel; {10:5} Then I lifted up mine eyes, and
looked, and behold a certain man clothed in linen, whose loins [were]
girded with fine gold of Uphaz: {10:6} 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. {10:7}
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. {10:8} Therefore I was left alone, and saw this
great vision, and there remained no strength in me: for my comeliness
was turned in me into corruption, and I retained no strength. {10:9}
Yet heard I the voice of his words: and when I heard the voice of his
words, then was I in a deep sleep on my face, and my face toward the
ground.

   {10:10} And, behold, an hand touched me, which set me upon my knees
and [upon] the palms of my hands. {10:11} And he said unto me, O
Daniel, a man greatly beloved, understand the words that I speak unto
thee, and stand upright: for unto thee am I now sent. And when he had
spoken this word unto me, I stood trembling. {10:12} Then said he unto
me, Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day 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. {10:13} 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. {10:14} 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. {10:15} And when he had spoken such words unto me, I set
my face toward the ground, and I became dumb. {10:16} And, behold,
[one] like the similitude of the sons of men touched 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. {10:17} For how can the servant of this my lord
talk with this my lord? for as for me, straightway there remained no
strength in me, neither is there breath left in me. {10:18} Then there
came again and touched me [one] like the appearance of a man, and he
strengthened me, {10:19} And said, O man greatly beloved, fear not:
peace [be] unto thee, 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. {10:20} 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. {10:21}
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.

   {11:1} Also I in the first year of Darius the Mede, [even] I, stood
to confirm and to strengthen him. {11:2} 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. {11:3} And
a mighty king shall stand up, that shall rule with great dominion, and
do according to his will. {11:4} And when he shall stand up, his
kingdom shall be broken, and 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.

   {11:5} 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. {11:6} 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. {11:7} 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: {11:8}
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. {11:9} So
the king of the south shall come into [his] kingdom, and shall return
into his own land. {11:10} But his sons shall be stirred up, and shall
assemble a multitude 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. {11:11} 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. {11:12} [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. ]{11:13} 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. {11:14} 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. {11:15} 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. {11:16} 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. {11:17} 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. {11:18}
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. {11:19} Then he shall turn his face toward the fort of his own
land: but he shall stumble and fall, and not be found. {11:20} Then
shall stand up in his estate a raiser of taxes [in] the glory of the
kingdom: but within few days he shall be destroyed, neither in anger,
nor in battle. {11:21} 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. {11:22} 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. {11:23} And
after the league [made] with him he shall work deceitfully: for he
shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people. {11:24} 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. {11:25} 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.
{11:26} Yea, they that feed of the portion of his meat shall destroy
him, and his army shall overflow: and many shall fall down slain.
{11:27} And both 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. {11:28} 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.
{11:29} At the time appointed he shall return, and come toward the
south; but it shall not be as the former, or as the latter.

   {11:30} For the ships of Chittim shall come against him: therefore
he 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. {11:31} 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. {11:32} 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. ]{11:33} 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. {11:34} Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen
with a little help: but many shall cleave to them with flatteries.
{11:35} And [some] of them of understanding shall fall, to try them,
and to purge, and to make [them] white, [even] to the time of the end:
because [it is] yet for a time appointed. {11:36} 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. {11:37} 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. {11:38} 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. {11:39} 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. {11:40} 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.
{11:41} 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.
{11:42} He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and
the land of Egypt shall not escape. {11:43} But he shall have power
over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious
things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians [shall be] at his
steps. {11:44} 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. {11:45} 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.

   {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. {12:2} And many of them
that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting
life, and some to shame [and] everlasting contempt. {12:3} And they
that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they
that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever. {12:4}
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.

   {12:5} 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. {12:6} 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? {12:7} 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. {12:8} And I heard, but I understood
not: then said I, O my Lord, what [shall be] the end of these [things?
]{12:9} And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words [are] closed up
and sealed till the time of the end. {12:10} Many shall be purified,
and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none
of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand. {12:11}
And from the time [that] the daily [sacrifice] shall be taken away, and
the abomination that maketh desolate set up, [there shall be] a
thousand two hundred and ninety days. {12:12} Blessed [is] he that
waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty
days. {12:13} But go thou thy way till the end [be:] for thou shalt
rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days.





The Fifth Book of Moses, called Deuteronomy

   {1:1} 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. {1:2}
([There are] eleven days' [journey] from Horeb by the way of mount Seir
unto Kadesh-barnea.) {1:3} And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in
the eleventh month, on 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; {1:4} After he had slain Sihon the king
of the Amorites, which dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan,
which dwelt at Astaroth in Edrei: {1:5} On this side Jordan, in the
land of Moab, began Moses to declare this law, saying, {1:6} The LORD
our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in
this mount: {1:7} Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount
of the 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. {1:8} 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.

   {1:9} And I spake unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to
bear you myself alone: {1:10} The LORD your God hath multiplied you,
and, behold, ye [are] this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.
{1:11} (The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many
more as ye [are,] and bless you, as he hath promised you!) {1:12} How
can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your
strife? {1:13} Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among
your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you. {1:14} And ye
answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken is good [for
us] to do. {1:15} So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men, and
known, and 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. {1:16} 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. {1:17} 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.
{1:18} And I commanded you at that time all the things which ye should
do.

   {1:19} 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
Kadesh-barnea. {1:20} And I said unto you, Ye are come unto the
mountain of the Amorites, which the LORD our God doth give unto us.
{1:21} 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.

   {1:22} 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. {1:23} and the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of
you, one of a tribe: {1:24} And they turned and went up into the
mountain, and came unto the valley of Eshcol, and searched it out.
{1:25} And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and
brought [it] down unto us, and brought us word again, and said, [It is]
a good land which the LORD our God doth give us. {1:26} Notwithstanding
ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD
your God: {1:27} And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the
LORD 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. {1:28} 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. {1:29} Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of
them. {1:30} 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; {1:31} 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. {1:32} Yet in this thing ye did
not believe the LORD your God, {1:33} 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. {1:34} And
the LORD heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and sware,
saying, {1:35} Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil
generation see that good land, which I sware to give unto your fathers,
{1:36} 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. {1:37} Also the LORD was
angry with me for your sakes, saying, Thou also shalt not go in
thither. {1:38} [But] Joshua the son of Nun, which standeth before
thee, he shall go in thither: encourage him: for he shall cause Israel
to inherit it. {1:39} Moreover your little ones, which ye said should
be a prey, and 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. {1:40} But [as for] you, turn you,
and take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.
{1:41} Then ye answered and said unto me, We have sinned against 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. {1:42} 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. {1:43} So I spake unto you; and ye
would not hear, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD, and
went presumptuously up into the hill. {1:44} And the Amorites, which
dwelt in that mountain, came out against you, and chased you, as bees
do, and destroyed you in Seir, [even] unto Hormah. {1:45} And ye
returned and wept before the LORD; but the LORD would not hearken to
your voice, nor give ear unto you. {1:46} So ye abode in Kadesh many
days, according unto the days that ye abode [there.]

   {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. {2:2} And the LORD spake unto me, saying, {2:3}
Ye have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward. {2:4}
And command thou the people, saying, Ye [are] to pass through 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:
{2:5} Meddle not with them; for I will not give you of their land, no,
not so much as a footbreadth; because I have given mount Seir unto Esau
[for] a possession. {2:6} 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. {2:7} 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. {2:8} 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 Ezion-gaber, we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of
Moab. {2:9} 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. {2:10} The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a
people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; {2:11} Which also
were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call them
Emims. {2:12} The Horims also dwelt in Seir beforetime; but the
children of 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. {2:13} Now rise up,
[said I,] and get you over the brook Zered. And we went over the brook
Zered. {2:14} And the space in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until
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. {2:15} For indeed the hand of the
LORD was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they
were consumed.

   {2:16} So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and
dead from among the people, {2:17} That the LORD spake unto me, saying,
{2:18} Thou art to pass over through Ar, the coast of Moab, this day:
{2:19} 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. {2:20} (That also
was accounted a land of giants: giants dwelt therein in old time; and
the Ammonites call them Zamzummims; {2:21} A people great, and many,
and tall, as the Anakims; but the LORD destroyed them before them; and
they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead: {2:22} 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: {2:23} 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.)

   {2:24} 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. {2:25} 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.

   {2:26} And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth unto
Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying, {2:27} Let me pass
through thy land: I will go along by the high way, I will neither turn
unto the right hand nor to the left. {2:28} 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; {2:29} (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. {2:30} 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. {2:31} 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. {2:32} Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his
people, to fight at Jahaz. {2:33} And the LORD our God delivered him
before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and all his people. {2:34}
And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed the men,
and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we left none to
remain: {2:35} Only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, and
the spoil of the cities which we took. {2:36} From Aroer, which [is] by
the brink of the river of Arnon, and [from] 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: {2:37} 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.

   {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. {3:2} 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. {3:3} 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. {3:4} 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. {3:5} All
these cities [were] fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside
unwalled towns a great many. {3:6} And we utterly destroyed them, as we
did unto Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and
children, of every city. {3:7} But all the cattle, and the spoil of the
cities, we took for a prey to ourselves. {3:8} 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; {3:9}
([Which] Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion; and the Amorites call it
Shenir;) {3:10} All the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all
Bashan, unto Salchah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
{3:11} For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants;
behold, his bedstead [was] a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of
the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four
cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man. {3:12} And this
land, [which] we possessed at that time, from Aroer, which [is] by the
river Arnon, and half mount Gilead, and the cities thereof, gave I unto
the Reubenites and to the Gadites. {3:13} 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. {3:14} 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, Bashan- havoth-jair, unto this day. {3:15} And
I gave Gilead unto Machir. {3:16} 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; {3:17} The plain also, and Jordan, and the coast
[thereof,] from Chinnereth even unto the sea of the plain, [even] the
salt sea, under Ashdoth-pisgah eastward.

   {3:18} 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.
{3:19} 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; {3:20} 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.

   {3:21} 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. {3:22} Ye
shall not fear them: for the LORD your God he shall fight for you.
{3:23} And I besought the LORD at that time, saying, {3:24} O Lord GOD,
thou hast begun to shew thy servant thy greatness, and thy mighty hand:
for what God [is there] in heaven or in earth, that can do according to
thy works, and according to thy might? {3:25} I pray thee, let me go
over, and see the good land that [is] beyond Jordan, that goodly
mountain, and Lebanon. {3:26} But the LORD was wroth with me for your
sakes, and would not hear me: and the LORD said unto me, Let it suffice
thee; speak no more unto me of this matter. {3:27} Get thee up into the
top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes westward, and northward, and
southward, and eastward, and behold [it] with thine eyes: for thou
shalt not go over this Jordan. {3:28} But charge Joshua, and encourage
him, and strengthen him: for he shall go over before this people, and
he shall cause them to inherit the land which thou shalt see. {3:29} So
we abode in the valley over against Beth- peor.

   {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. {4:2} 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. {4:3} Your eyes
have seen what the LORD did because of Baal-peor: for all the men that
followed Baal-peor, the LORD thy God hath destroyed them from among
you. {4:4} But ye that did cleave unto the LORD your God [are] alive
every one of you this day. {4:5} Behold, I have taught you statutes and
judgments, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do so
in the land whither ye go to possess it. {4:6} Keep therefore and do
[them;] for this [is] your wisdom and your 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. {4:7} 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? ]{4:8}
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? {4:9}
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; {4:10} [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. {4:11} 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. {4:12} 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. {4:13} 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.

   {4:14} And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes
and judgments, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to
possess it. {4:15} Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye
saw no manner of similitude on the day [that] the LORD spake unto you
in Horeb out of the midst of the fire: {4:16} Lest ye corrupt
[yourselves,] and make you a graven image, the similitude of any
figure, the likeness of male or female, {4:17} The likeness of any
beast that [is] on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that
flieth in the air, {4:18} The likeness of any thing that creepeth on
the ground, the likeness of any fish that [is] in the waters beneath
the earth: {4:19} And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and
when thou 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. {4:20} But the LORD hath taken you, and brought you forth out
of the iron furnace, [even] out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of
inheritance, as [ye are] this day. {4:21} Furthermore the LORD was
angry with me for your sakes, and 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: {4:22} But I must die in this
land, I must not go over Jordan: but ye shall go over, and possess that
good land. {4:23} Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the
covenant of the 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. {4:24} For the LORD thy God [is] a consuming fire,
[even] a jealous God.

   {4:25} When thou shalt beget children, and children's children, and
ye 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: {4:26} 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. {4:27} 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. {4:28} And there ye shall
serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see,
nor hear, nor eat, nor smell. {4:29} 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. {4:30} 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; {4:31}
(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. {4:32} 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? {4:33} Did [ever] people hear the voice of God speaking out of
the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live? {4:34} Or hath God
assayed to go [and] take him a nation from the midst of another
[nation,] by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by
a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors,
according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before
your eyes? {4:35} Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that
the LORD he [is] God; [there is] none else beside him. {4:36} Out of
heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: and
upon earth he shewed thee his great fire; and thou heardest his words
out of the midst of the fire. {4:37} 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; {4:38} 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.
{4:39} 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. {4:40} 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.

   {4:41} Then Moses severed three cities on this side Jordan toward
the sunrising; {4:42} 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: {4:43} [Namely,] Bezer
in the wilderness, in the plain country, of the Reubenites; and Ramoth
in Gilead, of the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, of the Manassites.

   {4:44} And this is the law which Moses set before the children of
Israel: {4:45} 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, {4:46} On this side Jordan, in the valley over
against Beth-peor, 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: {4:47} 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; {4:48} From Aroer, which [is]
by the bank of the river Arnon, even unto mount Sion, which [is]
Hermon, {4:49} And all the plain on this side Jordan eastward, even
unto the sea of the plain, under the springs of Pisgah.

   {5:1} 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. {5:2} The LORD our God
made a covenant with us in Horeb. {5:3} The LORD made not this covenant
with our fathers, but with us, [even] us, who [are] all of us here
alive this day. {5:4} The LORD talked with you face to face in the
mount out of the midst of the fire, {5:5} (I stood between the LORD and
you at that time, to shew you the word of the LORD: for ye were afraid
by reason of the fire, and went not up into the mount;) saying,

   {5:6} I [am] the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of
Egypt, from the house of bondage. {5:7} Thou shalt have none other gods
before me. {5:8} 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: {5:9} 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, {5:10} And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and
keep my commandments. {5:11} 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. {5:12} Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the
LORD thy God hath commanded thee. {5:13} Six days thou shalt labour,
and do all thy work: {5:14} 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. {5:15} 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.

   {5:16} 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. {5:17} Thou
shalt not kill. {5:18} Neither shalt thou commit adultery. {5:19}
Neither shalt thou steal. {5:20} Neither shalt thou bear false witness
against thy neighbour. {5:21} Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour's
wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour's house, his field, or his
manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any [thing] that
[is] thy neighbour's.

   {5:22} These words the LORD spake unto all your assembly in the
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. {5:23} 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; {5:24} 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. {5:25} 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. {5:26} 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? {5:27}
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. ]{5:28} 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. {5:29} 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! {5:30} Go say to them, Get you into your tents
again. {5:31} 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. {5:32} 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. {5:33} 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.

   {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: {6:2} 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.

   {6:3} 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. {6:4} Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God [is] one LORD: {6:5}
And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all
thy soul, and with all thy might. {6:6} And these words, which I
command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: {6:7} 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. {6:8} And thou shalt bind
them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between
thine eyes. {6:9} And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy
house, and on thy gates. {6:10} 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, {6:11} 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; {6:12} [Then] beware lest thou
forget the LORD, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt,
from the house of bondage. {6:13} Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God, and
serve him, and shalt swear by his name. {6:14} Ye shall not go after
other gods, of the gods of the people which [are] round about you;
{6:15} (For the LORD thy God [is] a jealous God among you) lest the
anger of the LORD thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee
from off the face of the earth.

   {6:16} Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted [him] in
Massah. {6:17} Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD
your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath
commanded thee. {6:18} 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, {6:19} To cast out all thine enemies from before thee, as the
LORD hath spoken. {6:20} [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? {6:21} 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: {6:22} And the LORD
shewed signs and wonders, great and sore, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and
upon all his household, before our eyes: {6:23} And he brought us out
from thence, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he
sware unto our fathers. {6:24} 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. {6:25} And it shall be
our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before
the LORD our God, as he hath commanded us.

   {7:1} 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; {7:2} 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: {7:3} 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. {7:4} 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. {7:5} 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. {7:6} 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. {7:7} 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: {7:8}
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. {7:9} 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; {7:10} 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. {7:11} Thou shalt therefore keep the
commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee
this day, to do them.

   {7:12} Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these
judgments, and keep, and do them, that the LORD thy God shall keep unto
thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers: {7:13}
And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will 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.
{7:14} Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male
or female barren among you, or among your cattle. {7:15} And the LORD
will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil
diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay them
upon all [them] that hate thee. {7:16} 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. {7:17} If thou shalt say in thine heart, These
nations [are] more than I; how can I dispossess them? {7:18} Thou shalt
not be afraid of them: [but] shalt well remember what the LORD thy God
did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt; {7:19} 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. {7:20} Moreover the LORD thy God will send the hornet among
them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be
destroyed. {7:21} Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the LORD
thy God [is] among you, a mighty God and terrible. {7:22} And the LORD
thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little:
thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field
increase upon thee. {7:23} But the LORD thy God shall deliver them unto
thee, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they be
destroyed. {7:24} And he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and
thou shalt destroy their name from under heaven: there shall no man be
able to stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them. {7:25} 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 therein: for it [is] an abomination to the LORD thy
God. {7:26} 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.

   {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. {8:2} 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. {8:3} 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. {8:4} Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot
swell, these forty years. {8:5} Thou shalt also consider in thine
heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, [so] the LORD thy God
chasteneth thee. {8:6} Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of
the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. {8:7} For the
LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water,
of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills; {8:8} A
land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates;
a land of oil olive, and honey; {8:9} A land wherein thou shalt eat
bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any [thing] in it; a land
whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.
{8:10} When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the
LORD thy God for the good land which he hath given thee. {8:11} Beware
that thou forget not the LORD thy God, in not keeping his commandments,
and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this day:
{8:12} Lest [when] thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly
houses, and dwelt [therein; ]{8:13} And [when] thy herds and thy flocks
multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou
hast is multiplied; {8:14} Then thine heart be lifted up, and thou
forget the LORD thy God, which brought thee forth out of the land of
Egypt, from the house of bondage; {8:15} 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; {8:16} 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;
{8:17} And thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of [mine]
hand hath gotten me this wealth. {8:18} But thou shalt remember the
LORD thy God: for [it is] he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that
he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as [it
is] this day. {8:19} 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. {8:20} 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.

   {9:1} Hear, O Israel: Thou [art] to pass over Jordan this day, to go
in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great
and fenced up to heaven, {9:2} A people great and tall, the children of
the Anakims, whom thou knowest, and [of whom] thou hast heard [say,]
Who can stand before the children of Anak! {9:3} 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. {9:4} 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. {9:5} 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. {9:6} 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.

   {9:7} 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. {9:8} Also in Horeb ye provoked the LORD
to wrath, so that the LORD was angry with you to have destroyed you.
{9:9} When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone,
[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: {9:10} 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. {9:11} 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.
{9:12} 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. {9:13}
Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people,
and, behold, it [is] a stiffnecked people: {9:14} Let me alone, that I
may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I will
make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they. {9:15} 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. {9:16} 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. {9:17} And I took the two tables, and
cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes. {9:18}
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. {9:19} 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. {9:20} And the LORD
was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron
also the same time. {9:21} And I took your sin, the calf which ye had
made, and burnt it with 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. {9:22} And at
Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, ye provoked the LORD
to wrath. {9:23} Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadesh-barnea,
saying, 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. {9:24} Ye have been rebellious
against the LORD from the day that I knew you. {9:25} 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. {9:26} 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. {9:27}
Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the
stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin:
{9:28} 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. {9:29} Yet they [are] thy people and thine inheritance,
which thou broughtest out by thy mighty power and by thy stretched out
arm.

   {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. {10:2} 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. {10:3} 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. {10:4} 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. {10:5} 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.

   {10:6} 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. {10:7} From thence they journeyed unto Gudgodah; and from
Gudgodah to Jotbath, a land of rivers of waters.

   {10:8} At that time the LORD separated the tribe of Levi, to bear
the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to
minister unto him, and to bless in his name, unto this day. {10:9}
Wherefore Levi hath no part nor inheritance with his brethren; the LORD
[is] his inheritance, according as the LORD thy God promised him.
{10:10} 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. {10:11} 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.

   {10:12} 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,
{10:13} To keep the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, which I
command thee this day for thy good? {10:14} Behold, the heaven and the
heaven of heavens [is] the LORD'S thy God, the earth [also,] with all
that therein [is. ]{10:15} 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. {10:16} Circumcise therefore the foreskin
of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked. {10:17} 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: {10:18} He
doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the
stranger, in giving him food and raiment. {10:19} Love ye therefore the
stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. {10:20} Thou
shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt
thou cleave, and swear by his name. {10:21} He [is] thy praise, and he
[is] thy God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible things,
which thine eyes have seen. {10:22} Thy fathers went down into Egypt
with threescore and ten persons; and now the LORD thy God hath made
thee as the stars of heaven for multitude.

   {11:1} Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his
charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments,
alway. {11:2} And know ye this day: for [I speak] not with your
children which 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, {11:3} 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;
{11:4} 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; {11:5} And what he did unto you in the wilderness, until
ye came into this place; {11:6} 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: {11:7} But your eyes have seen all the great acts of the LORD
which he did. {11:8} 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; {11:9} 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.

   {11:10} 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: {11:11}
But the land, whither ye go to possess it, [is] a land of hills [and]
valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven: {11:12} A land which
the LORD thy God careth for: the eyes of the LORD thy God [are] always
upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year.

   {11:13} 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,
{11:14} 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. {11:15} And I will send grass in thy
fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat and be full. {11:16} Take
heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside,
and serve other gods, and worship them; {11:17} And [then] the LORD'S
wrath be kindled against you, and he shut 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.

   {11:18} 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. {11:19} 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.
{11:20} And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house,
and upon thy gates: {11:21} That your days may be multiplied, and the
days of your children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your
fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.

   {11:22} 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; {11:23} Then will the LORD drive out
all these nations from before you, and ye shall possess greater nations
and mightier than yourselves. {11:24} Every place whereon the soles of
your feet shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon,
from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall
your coast be. {11:25} 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.

   {11:26} Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse;
{11:27} A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the LORD your God,
which I command you this day: {11:28} And a curse, if ye will not obey
the commandments of the LORD 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. {11:29} 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. {11:30} [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? {11:31}
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.
{11:32} And ye shall observe to do all the statutes and judgments which
I set before you this day.

   {12:1} These [are] the statutes and judgments, which ye shall
observe to do in the land, which the LORD God of thy fathers giveth
thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth. {12:2} 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: {12:3} 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. {12:4} Ye shall not do so unto the
LORD your God. {12:5} 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: {12:6} 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: {12:7} 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. {12:8} Ye shall
not do after all [the things] that we do here this day, every man
whatsoever [is] right in his own eyes. {12:9} For ye are not as yet
come to the rest and to the inheritance, which the LORD your God giveth
you. {12:10} But [when] ye go over Jordan, and dwell in the land which
the 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; {12:11}
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: {12:12} And ye shall rejoice before the LORD your
God, ye, and your sons, and your daughters, and your menservants, and
your maidservants, and the Levite that [is] within your gates;
forasmuch as he hath no part nor inheritance with you. {12:13} Take
heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt offerings in every place
that thou seest: {12:14} But in the place which the LORD shall choose
in one of thy tribes, there thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, and
there thou shalt do all that I command thee. {12:15} 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. {12:16} Only ye shall not eat the blood;
ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.

   {12:17} 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: {12:18} 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. {12:19} Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the
Levite as long as thou livest upon the earth.

   {12:20} When the LORD thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he hath
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. {12:21} 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. {12:22} Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so
thou shalt eat them: the unclean and the clean shall eat [of] them
alike. {12:23} 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. {12:24}
Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water.
{12:25} 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. {12:26} Only thy holy things which thou hast,
and thy vows, thou shalt take, and go unto the place which the LORD
shall choose: {12:27} 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. {12:28} 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.

   {12:29} 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; {12:30} 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. {12:31} 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.
{12:32} What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt
not add thereto, nor diminish from it.

   {13:1} If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams,
and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, {13:2} And the sign or the wonder
come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other
gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them; {13:3} 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. {13:4} 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. {13:5} 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.

   {13:6} 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; {13:7} [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; {13:8} 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: {13:9} 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. {13:10} 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. {13:11} And all Israel shall hear, and fear,
and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is among you.

   {13:12} If thou shalt hear [say] in one of thy cities, which the
LORD thy God hath given thee to dwell there, saying, {13:13} [Certain]
men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, and have
withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve
other gods, which ye have not known; {13:14} 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;
{13:15} 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. {13:16} 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. {13:17} 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; {13:18} 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.

   {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.
{14:2} 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.

   {14:3} Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing. {14:4} These [are]
the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat, {14:5}
The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and
the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois. {14:6} 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. {14:7}
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. {14:8} 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.

   {14:9} These ye shall eat of all that [are] in the waters: all that
have fins and scales shall ye eat: {14:10} And whatsoever hath not fins
and scales ye may not eat; it [is] unclean unto you.

   {14:11} [Of] all clean birds ye shall eat. {14:12} But these [are
they] of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and ossifrage, and the
ospray, {14:13} And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his
kind, {14:14} And every raven after his kind, {14:15} And the owl, and
the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind, {14:16}
The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan, {14:17} And the
pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant, {14:18} And the stork,
and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat. {14:19} And
every creeping thing that flieth [is] unclean unto you: they shall not
be eaten. {14:20} [But of] all clean fowls ye may eat.

   {14:21} Ye shall not eat [of] any thing 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. {14:22} Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that
the field bringeth forth year by year. {14:23} And thou shalt eat
before the LORD thy God, in the place which 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. {14:24} 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: {14:25} 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: {14:26}
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, {14:27} And
the Levite that [is] within thy gates; thou shalt not forsake him; for
he hath no part nor inheritance with thee.

   {14:28} At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the
tithe of thine increase the same year, and shalt lay [it] up within thy
gates: {14:29} 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.

   {15:1} At the end of [every] seven years thou shalt make a release.
{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. {15:3} Of a foreigner thou mayest exact [it again:]
but [that] which is thine with thy brother thine hand shall release;
{15:4} Save when there shall be no poor among you; for the LORD shall
greatly bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee [for]
an inheritance to possess it: {15:5} Only if thou carefully hearken
unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all these
commandments which I command thee this day. {15:6} For the LORD thy God
blesseth thee, as he promised thee: and 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.

   {15:7} 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: {15:8} But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt
surely lend him sufficient for his need, [in that] which he wanteth.
{15:9} Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying,
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. {15:10} 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. {15:11}
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.

   {15:12} [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. {15:13} And when thou sendest him out
free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty: {15:14} Thou
shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and
out of thy winepress: [of that] wherewith the LORD thy God hath blessed
thee thou shalt give unto him. {15:15} 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. {15:16} 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; {15:17} 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. {15:18} 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.

   {15:19} 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. {15:20} Thou shalt eat [it] before the LORD thy God year by year
in the place which the LORD shall choose, thou and thy household.
{15:21} 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. {15:22} Thou shalt eat it within thy gates: the unclean
and the clean [person shall eat it] alike, as the roebuck, and as the
hart. {15:23} Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt
pour it upon the ground as water.

   {16:1} 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. {16:2} 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. {16:3} 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. {16:4} 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. {16:5} Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any
of thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee: {16:6} But at the
place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place 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. {16:7} 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.
{16:8} 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.]

   {16:9} 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. {16:10} 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: {16:11} 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.
{16:12} And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt: and
thou shalt observe and do these statutes.

   {16:13} Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days,
after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine: {16:14} And
thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter,
and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger,
and the fatherless, and the widow, that [are] within thy gates. {16:15}
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.

   {16:16} 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: {16:17}
Every man [shall give] as he is able, according to the blessing of the
LORD thy God which he hath given thee.

   {16:18} Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates,
which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they
shall judge the people with just judgment. {16:19} Thou shalt not wrest
judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a
gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the
righteous. {16:20} That which is altogether just shalt thou follow,
that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the LORD thy God
giveth thee.

   {16:21} Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the
altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee. {16:22} Neither
shalt thou set thee up [any] image; which the LORD thy God hateth.

   {17:1} Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the LORD thy God [any] bullock,
or sheep, wherein is blemish, [or] any evilfavouredness: for that [is]
an abomination unto the LORD thy God.

   {17:2} If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which
the LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought
wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, in transgressing his
covenant, {17:3} 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; {17:4} 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: {17:5}
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. {17:6} 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. {17:7} 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.

   {17:8} 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; {17:9} 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: {17:10} 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: {17:11} 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.
{17:12} 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. {17:13} And all the people shall hear, and
fear, and do no more presumptuously.

   {17:14} 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; {17:15} 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. {17:16} But he shall not multiply horses to
himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he
should multiply horses: forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you, Ye
shall henceforth return no more that way. {17:17} Neither shall he
multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall
he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold. {17:18} And it shall
be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write
him a copy of this law in a book out of [that which is] before the
priests the Levites: {17:19} 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: {17:20} 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.

   {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. {18:2} Therefore shall
they have no inheritance among their brethren: the LORD [is] their
inheritance, as he hath said unto them.

   {18:3} And this shall be the priest's due from the people, from them
that 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.
{18:4} The firstfruit [also] of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine
oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt thou give him.
{18:5} For the LORD thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes, to
stand to minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons for ever.

   {18:6} 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; {18:7} 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. {18:8} They shall have like portions to
eat, beside that which cometh of the sale of his patrimony.

   {18:9} When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God
giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those
nations. {18:10} 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,
{18:11} Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a
wizard, or a necromancer. {18:12} 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. {18:13} Thou shalt be
perfect with the LORD thy God. {18:14} For these nations, which thou
shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners:
but as for thee, the LORD thy God hath not suffered thee so [to do.]

   {18:15} 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; {18:16} 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. {18:17} And the LORD said unto me, They have well
[spoken that] which they have spoken. {18:18} I will raise them up a
Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my
words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall
command him. {18:19} And it shall come to pass, [that] whosoever will
not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will
require [it] of him. {18:20} But the prophet, which shall presume to
speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or
that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall
die. {18:21} And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word
which the LORD hath not spoken? {18:22} When a prophet speaketh in the
name of the LORD, if the thing 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.

   {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; {19:2} Thou shalt separate three
cities for thee in the midst of thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth
thee to possess it. {19:3} Thou shalt prepare thee a way, and divide
the coasts of thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to inherit,
into three parts, that every slayer may flee thither.

   {19:4} 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; {19:5} 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: {19:6} 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. {19:7} Wherefore I command thee, saying,
Thou shalt separate three cities for thee. {19:8} And if the LORD thy
God enlarge thy coast, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, and give thee
all the land which he promised to give unto thy fathers; {19:9} 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: {19:10} That
innocent blood be not shed in thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth
thee [for] an inheritance, and [so] blood be upon thee.

   {19:11} But if any man hate his neighbour, and lie in wait for him,
and rise up against him, and smite him mortally that he die, and fleeth
into one of these cities: {19:12} 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. {19:13} Thine eye shall not pity him, but
thou shalt put away [the guilt of] innocent blood from Israel, that it
may go well with thee.

   {19:14} Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they
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.

   {19:15} 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.

   {19:16} If a false witness rise up against any man to testify
against him [that which is] wrong; {19:17} Then both the men, between
whom the controversy [is,] shall stand before the LORD, before the
priests and the judges, which shall be in those days; {19:18} And the
judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, [if] the witness
[be] a false witness, [and] hath testified falsely against his brother;
{19:19} 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. {19:20}
And those which remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth
commit no more any such evil among you. {19:21} And thine eye shall not
pity; [but] life [shall go] for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth,
hand for hand, foot for foot.

   {20:1} 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. {20:2} And it shall be, when ye are come
nigh unto the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak unto the
people, {20:3} And shall say unto them, Hear, O Israel, ye approach
this day unto battle against your enemies: let not your hearts faint,
fear not, and do not tremble, neither be ye terrified because of them;
{20:4} For the LORD your God [is] he that goeth with you, to fight for
you against your enemies, to save you.

   {20:5} And the officers shall speak unto the people, saying, What
man [is 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. {20:6} 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. {20:7} 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. {20:8} 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. {20:9} 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.

   {20:10} When thou comest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then
proclaim peace unto it. {20:11} 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. {20:12} And if it will make no peace with thee, but will
make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it: {20:13} And when the
LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every
male thereof with the edge of the sword: {20:14} 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. {20:15}
Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities [which are] very far off from
thee, which [are] not of the cities of these nations. {20:16} But of
the cities of these people, which the LORD thy God doth give thee [for]
an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth: {20:17}
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: {20:18} 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.

   {20:19} 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: {20:20} 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.

   {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: {21:2} Then thy elders and thy judges shall come
forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which [are] round about
him that is slain: {21:3} 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; {21:4} 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: {21:5} 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:
]{21:6} 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: {21:7} And they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed
this blood, neither have our eyes seen [it. ]{21:8} Be merciful, O
LORD, unto thy people Israel, whom thou hast redeemed, and lay not
innocent blood unto thy people of Israel's charge. And the blood shall
be forgiven them. {21:9} 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.

   {21:10} 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, {21:11} And seest among the captives a beautiful woman,
and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife;
{21:12} Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house; and she shall
shave her head, and pare her nails; {21:13} And she shall put the
raiment of her captivity from off her, and 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.
{21:14} 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.

   {21:15} 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: {21:16} 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: {21:17} 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.

   {21:18} 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: {21:19} 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; {21:20} 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. {21:21} 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.

   {21:22} And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be
to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree: {21:23} His body shall
not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt 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.

   {22:1} Thou shalt not see the brother's ox or his sheep go astray,
and hide thyself from them: thou shalt in any case bring them again
unto thy brother. {22:2} 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. {22:3} In like manner shalt thou do with
his ass; and so shalt thou do with his raiment; and with all lost
things of thy brother's, which he hath lost, and thou hast found, shalt
thou do likewise: thou mayest not hide thyself.

   {22:4} 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.

   {22:5} 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.

   {22:6} 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: {22:7} [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.

   {22:8} 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.

   {22:9} 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.

   {22:10} Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together.

   {22:11} Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, [as] of
woollen and linen together.

   {22:12} Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy
vesture, wherewith thou coverest [thyself.]

   {22:13} If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,
{22:14} And give occasions of speech against her, and bring up an evil
name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I
found her not a maid: {22:15} 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: {22:16} And the damsel's
father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to
wife, and he hateth her; {22:17} And, lo, he hath given occasions of
speech [against her,] saying, I 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. {22:18} And the elders
of that city shall take that man and chastise him; {22:19} And they
shall amerce him in an hundred [shekels] of silver, and 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. {22:20} But if this thing be true, [and the tokens
of] virginity be not found for the damsel: {22:21} Then they shall
bring out the damsel to the door of her father's 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.

   {22:22} 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.

   {22:23} If a damsel [that is] a virgin be betrothed unto an husband,
and a man find her in the city, and lie with her; {22:24} Then ye shall
bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and 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.

   {22:25} 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: {22:26} 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:
{22:27} For he found her in the field, [and] the betrothed damsel
cried, and [there was] none to save her.

   {22:28} If a man find a damsel [that is] a virgin, which is not
betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;
{22:29} 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.

   {22:30} A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his
father's skirt.

   {23:1} He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member
cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD. {23:2} A
bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his
tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD.
{23:3} 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: {23:4} 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. {23:5} 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. {23:6} Thou
shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever.

   {23:7} Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he [is] thy brother:
thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian; because thou wast a stranger in his
land. {23:8} The children that are begotten of them shall enter into
the congregation of the LORD in their third generation.

   {23:9} When the host goeth forth against thine enemies, then keep
thee from every wicked thing.

   {23:10} If there be among you any man, that is not clean by reason
of uncleanness that chanceth him by night, then shall he go abroad out
of the camp, he shall not come within the camp: {23:11} But it shall
be, when evening cometh on, he shall wash [himself] with water: and
when the sun is down, he shall come into the camp [again.]

   {23:12} Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou
shalt go forth abroad: {23:13} And thou shalt have a paddle upon thy
weapon; and it shall be, when thou wilt ease thyself abroad, thou shalt
dig therewith, and shalt turn back and cover that which cometh from
thee: {23:14} 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.

   {23:15} Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is
escaped from his master unto thee: {23:16} He shall dwell with thee,
[even] among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy
gates, where it liketh him best: thou shalt not oppress him.

   {23:17} There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a
sodomite of the sons of Israel. {23:18} Thou shalt not bring the hire
of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD thy God
for any vow: for even both these [are] abomination unto the LORD thy
God.

   {23:19} Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of
money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury:
{23:20} Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy
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.

   {23:21} 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. {23:22} But if thou shalt forbear to
vow, it shall be no sin in thee. {23:23} 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.

   {23:24} 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. {23:25} 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.

   {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. {24:2} And when
she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's
[wife. ]{24:3} And [if] the latter husband hate her, and write her a
bill of 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; {24:4} 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.

   {24:5} When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war,
neither shall he be charged with any business: [but] he shall be free
at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken.

   {24:6} No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to
pledge: for he taketh [a man's] life to pledge.

   {24:7} If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the
children of Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him; then
that thief shall die; and thou shalt put evil away from among you.

   {24:8} 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. {24:9}
Remember what the LORD thy God did unto Miriam by the way, after that
ye were come forth out of Egypt.

   {24:10} When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go
into his house to fetch his pledge. {24:11} Thou shalt stand abroad,
and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring out the pledge abroad
unto thee. {24:12} And if the man [be] poor, thou shalt not sleep with
his pledge: {24:13} 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.

   {24:14} Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant [that is] poor and
needy, [whether he be] of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that [are]
in thy land within thy gates: {24:15} At his day thou shalt give [him]
his hire, neither shall the sun go 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. {24:16} 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.

   {24:17} Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, [nor]
of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge: {24:18} But
thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and the LORD thy
God redeemed thee thence: therefore I command thee to do this thing.

   {24:19} 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. {24:20}
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. {24:21} 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. {24:22} And thou shalt remember that
thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt: therefore I command thee to
do this thing.

   {25:1} If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto
judgment, that [the judges] may judge them; then they shall justify the
righteous, and condemn the wicked. {25:2} 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. {25:3} 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.

   {25:4} Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out [the corn.]

   {25:5} 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. {25:6} 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. {25:7} 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. {25:8}
Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak unto him: and
[if] he stand [to it,] and say, I like not to take her; {25:9} Then
shall his brother's wife come unto him in the presence of 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. {25:10} And his name shall be called in Israel,
The house of him that hath his shoe loosed.

   {25:11} When men strive together one with another, and the wife of
the 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: {25:12} Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not
pity [her.]

   {25:13} Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a
small. {25:14} Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a
great and a small. {25:15} [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. {25:16}
For all that do such things, [and] all that do unrighteously, [are] an
abomination unto the LORD thy God.

   {25:17} Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when ye were
come forth out of Egypt; {25:18} How he met thee by the way, and smote
the hindmost of thee, [even] all [that were] feeble behind thee, when
thou [wast] faint and weary; and he feared not God. {25:19} 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.]

   {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; {26:2} 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. {26:3} 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. {26:4} And the priest shall take the basket out of thine hand,
and set it down before the altar of the LORD thy God. {26:5} And thou
shalt speak and say before the LORD thy God, A Syrian 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: {26:6}
And the Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us
hard bondage: {26:7} And when we cried unto the LORD God of our
fathers, the LORD heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and
our labour, and our oppression: {26:8} 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: {26:9} And he
hath brought us into this place, and hath given us this land, [even] a
land that floweth with milk and honey. {26:10} And now, behold, I have
brought the firstfruits of the land, which thou, O LORD, hast given me.
And thou shalt set it before the LORD thy God, and worship before the
LORD thy God: {26:11} 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.

   {26:12} 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; {26:13} 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:
]{26:14} 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. {26:15}
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.

   {26:16} 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. {26:17} 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: {26:18} 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; {26:19} 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.

   {27:1} And Moses with the elders of Israel commanded the people,
saying, Keep all the commandments which I command you this day. {27:2}
And it shall be on the day when ye shall pass over Jordan unto the land
which the LORD thy God giveth thee, that thou shalt set thee up great
stones, and plaister them with plaister: {27:3} 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. {27:4} 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. {27:5}
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. {27:6} 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: {27:7} And
thou shalt offer peace offerings, and shalt eat there, and rejoice
before the LORD thy God. {27:8} And thou shalt write upon the stones
all the words of this law very plainly.

   {27:9} 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. {27:10} Thou shalt therefore obey the voice
of the LORD thy God, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I
command thee this day.

   {27:11} And Moses charged the people the same day, saying, {27:12}
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: {27:13} And these shall stand upon mount Ebal to
curse; Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.

   {27:14} And the Levites shall speak, and say unto all the men of
Israel with a loud voice, {27:15} Cursed [be] the man that maketh [any]
graven or molten image, an 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. {27:16} Cursed [be] he that
setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall
say, Amen. {27:17} Cursed [be] he that removeth his neighbour's
landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen. {27:18} Cursed [be] he
that maketh the blind to wander out of the way. And all the people
shall say, Amen. {27:19} Cursed [be] he that perverteth the judgment of
the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say,
Amen. {27:20} Cursed [be] he that lieth with his father's wife; because
he uncovereth his father's skirt. And all the people shall say, Amen.
{27:21} Cursed [be] he that lieth with any manner of beast. And all the
people shall say, Amen. {27:22} Cursed [be] he that lieth with his
sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother. And
all the people shall say, Amen. {27:23} Cursed [be] he that lieth with
his mother in law. And all the people shall say, Amen. {27:24} Cursed
[be] he that smiteth his neighbour secretly. And all the people shall
say, Amen. {27:25} Cursed [be] he that taketh reward to slay an
innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen. {27:26} Cursed
[be] he that confirmeth not [all] the words of this law to do them. And
all the people shall say, Amen.

   {28:1} 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: {28:2} And all these
blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken
unto the voice of the LORD thy God. {28:3} Blessed [shalt] thou [be] in
the city, and blessed [shalt] thou [be] in the field. {28:4} 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. {28:5} Blessed [shall be] thy basket and thy store. {28:6}
Blessed [shalt] thou [be] when thou comest in, and blessed [shalt] thou
[be] when thou goest out. {28:7} The LORD shall cause thine enemies
that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall
come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways. {28:8}
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. {28:9} 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. {28:10} And all people of the earth shall see that thou art
called by the name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of thee.
{28:11} And the LORD shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit
of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy
ground, in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
{28:12} The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven 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. {28:13} 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: ]{28:14} 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.

   {28:15} 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: {28:16} Cursed [shalt] thou [be] in
the city, and cursed [shalt] thou [be] in the field. {28:17} Cursed
[shall be] thy basket and thy store. {28:18} Cursed [shall be] the
fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine,
and the flocks of thy sheep. {28:19} Cursed [shalt] thou [be] when thou
comest in, and cursed [shalt] thou [be] when thou goest out. {28:20}
The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, 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. {28:21} The LORD shall make the
pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the
land, whither thou goest to possess it. {28:22} 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. {28:23} And
thy heaven that [is] over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that
is under thee [shall be] iron. {28:24} The LORD shall make the rain of
thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee,
until thou be destroyed. {28:25} The LORD shall cause thee to be
smitten before thine enemies: 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. {28:26} 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. {28:27} 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. {28:28} The LORD shall smite thee
with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart: {28:29} 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. ]{28:30} 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. {28:31} 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. ]{28:32} 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. {28:33} 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: {28:34} So that thou shalt
be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see. {28:35} 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. {28:36} 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. {28:37}
And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among
all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee. {28:38} Thou shalt carry
much seed out into the field, and shalt gather [but] little in; for the
locust shall consume it. {28:39} Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress
[them,] but shalt neither drink [of] the wine, nor gather [the grapes;]
for the worms shall eat them. {28:40} 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. ]{28:41} Thou shalt beget
sons and daughters, but thou shalt not enjoy them; for they shall go
into captivity. {28:42} All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the
locust consume. {28:43} The stranger that [is] within thee shall get up
above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low. {28:44} He
shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the
head, and thou shalt be the tail. {28:45} Moreover all these curses
shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till
thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the
LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he
commanded thee: {28:46} And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for
a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever. {28:47} Because thou servedst not
the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the
abundance of all [things; ]{28:48} Therefore shalt thou serve thine
enemies which the LORD shall 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. {28:49} 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; {28:50} A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not
regard the person of the old, nor shew favour to the young: {28:51} And
he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, 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. {28:52} 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. {28:53} 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: {28:54} [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: {28:55} 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. {28:56} 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, {28:57} 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. {28:58} 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; {28:59} 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. {28:60}
Moreover he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, which thou
wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee. {28:61} 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.
{28:62} 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. {28:63} 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.
{28:64} 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. {28:65} 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:
{28:66} And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt
fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life: {28:67}
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. {28:68} 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.]

   {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.

   {29:2} 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; {29:3} The
great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those
great miracles: {29:4} Yet the LORD hath not given you an heart to
perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day. {29:5} And
I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not
waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot. {29:6}
Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink:
that ye might know that I [am] the LORD your God. {29:7} And when ye
came unto this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of
Bashan, came out against us unto battle, and we smote them: {29:8} And
we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites,
and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of Manasseh. {29:9} Keep
therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper
in all that ye do.

   {29:10} Ye stand this day all of you before the LORD your God; your
captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, [with] all the
men of Israel, {29:11} 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: {29:12} 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: {29:13} 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. {29:14} Neither with you only do I make this covenant and
this oath; {29:15} 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: {29:16} (For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt;
and how we came through the nations which ye passed by; {29:17} And ye
have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver
and gold, which [were] among them:) {29:18} Lest there should be among
you man, or woman, or family, or 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;
{29:19} 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:
{29:20} 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. {29:21} 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: {29:22} 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; {29:23} [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: {29:24} Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the
LORD done thus unto this land? what [meaneth] the heat of this great
anger? {29:25} 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: {29:26} For they went
and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not,
and [whom] he had not given unto them: {29:27} And the anger of the
LORD was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses
that are written in this book: {29:28} 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. {29:29} 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.

   {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, {30:2} 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; {30:3} 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. {30:4} 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:
{30:5} 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. {30:6} 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.
{30:7} And the LORD thy God will put all these curses upon thine
enemies, and on them that hate thee, which persecuted thee. {30:8} And
thou shalt return and obey the voice of the LORD, and do all his
commandments which I command thee this day. {30:9} And the LORD thy God
will make thee plenteous in every work of 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: {30:10} 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.

   {30:11} For this commandment which I command thee this day, it [is]
not hidden from thee, neither [is] it far off. {30:12} It [is] not in
heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and
bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? {30:13} 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? {30:14}
But the word [is] very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart,
that thou mayest do it.

   {30:15} See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and
death and evil; {30:16} 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. {30:17} But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear,
but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;
{30:18} I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, [and
that] ye shall not prolong [your] days upon the land, whither thou
passest over Jordan to go to possess it. {30:19} 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: {30:20} 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.

   {31:1} And Moses went and spake these words unto all Israel. {31:2}
And he said unto them, I [am] an hundred and twenty years old 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. {31:3} 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. {31:4} 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. {31:5} And the LORD shall give them up before your face,
that ye may do unto them according unto all the commandments which I
have commanded you. {31:6} Be strong and of a good courage, fear not,
nor be afraid of them: for the LORD thy God, he [it is] that doth go
with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

   {31:7} 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. {31:8} 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.

   {31:9} 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. {31:10} 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, {31:11} 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.
{31:12} 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: {31:13} 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.

   {31:14} 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.
{31:15} 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.

   {31:16} 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.
{31:17} 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? {31:18} 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. {31:19} 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.
{31:20} 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.
{31:21} 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.

   {31:22} Moses therefore wrote this song the same day, and taught it
the children of Israel. {31:23} 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.

   {31:24} And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing
the words of this law in a book, until they were finished, {31:25} That
Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the
LORD, saying, {31:26} Take this book of the law, and put it in the side
of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there
for a witness against thee. {31:27} 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?

   {31:28} 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. {31:29} 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. {31:30} And Moses spake in the
ears of all the congregation of Israel the words of this song, until
they were ended.

   {32:1} Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth,
the words of my mouth. {32:2} 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: {32:3} Because I will publish the
name of the LORD: ascribe ye greatness unto our God. {32:4} [He is] the
Rock, his work [is] perfect: for all his ways [are] judgment: a God of
truth and without iniquity, just and right [is] he. {32:5} They have
corrupted themselves, their spot [is] not [the spot] of his children:
[they are] a perverse and crooked generation. {32:6} Do ye thus requite
the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? [is] not he thy father [that]
hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?

   {32:7} 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. {32:8} 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.
{32:9} For the LORD'S portion [is] his people; Jacob [is] the lot of
his inheritance. {32:10} 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. {32:11} As an eagle stirreth up her nest,
fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them,
beareth them on her wings: {32:12} [So] the LORD alone did lead him,
and [there was] no strange god with him. {32:13} 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; {32:14} 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.

   {32:15} 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.
{32:16} They provoked him to jealousy with strange [gods,] with
abominations provoked they him to anger. {32:17} They sacrificed unto
devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new [gods that] came
newly up, whom your fathers feared not. {32:18} Of the Rock [that]
begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.
{32:19} And when the LORD saw [it,] he abhorred [them,] because of the
provoking of his sons, and of his daughters. {32:20} And he said, I
will hide my face from them, I will see what their end [shall be:] for
they [are] a very froward generation, children in whom [is] no faith.
{32:21} 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. {32:22} 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. {32:23} I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine
arrows upon them. {32:24} [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. {32:25} The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both
the young man and the virgin, the suckling [also] with the man of gray
hairs. {32:26} I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make
the remembrance of them to cease from among men: {32:27} Were it not
that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should
behave themselves strangely, [and] lest they should say, Our hand is
high, and the LORD hath not done all this. {32:28} For they [are] a
nation void of counsel, neither [is there any] understanding in them.
{32:29} O that they were wise, [that] they understood this, [that] they
would consider their latter end! {32:30} How should one chase a
thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had
sold them, and the LORD had shut them up? {32:31} For their rock [is]
not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves [being] judges. {32:32}
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: {32:33} Their wine [is] the poison of dragons, and the cruel
venom of asps. {32:34} [Is] not this laid up in store with me, [and]
sealed up among my treasures? {32:35} 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. {32:36} 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. {32:37} And he shall say, Where [are] their
gods, [their] rock in whom they trusted, {32:38} 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. {32:39} 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. {32:40} For I lift up my hand to heaven, and
say, I live for ever. {32:41} If I whet my glittering sword, and mine
hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies,
and will reward them that hate me. {32:42} I will make mine arrows
drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; [and that] with the
blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges
upon the enemy. {32:43} 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.

   {32:44} And Moses came and spake all the words of this song in the
ears of the people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun. {32:45} And Moses
made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel: {32:46} 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. {32:47} 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.
{32:48} And the LORD spake unto Moses that selfsame day, saying,
{32:49} 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: {32:50} 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: {32:51} Because ye trespassed against me
among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah-Kadesh, in the
wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the
children of Israel. {32:52} Yet thou shalt see the land before [thee;]
but thou shalt not go thither unto the land which I give the children
of Israel.

   {33:1} And this [is] the blessing, wherewith Moses the man of God
blessed the children of Israel before his death. {33:2} And he said,
The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir 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. {33:3} 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. {33:4} Moses commanded us
a law, [even] the inheritance of the congregation of Jacob. {33:5} And
he was king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people [and] the tribes
of Israel were gathered together.

   {33:6} Let Reuben live, and not die; and let [not] his men be few.

   {33:7} 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.
{33:8} 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; {33:9} 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. {33:10} They shall teach Jacob thy judgments,
and Israel thy law: they shall put incense before thee, and whole burnt
sacrifice upon thine altar. {33:11} 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.

   {33:12} [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.

   {33:13} 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, {33:14} And for the precious fruits [brought forth]
by the sun, and for the precious things put forth by the moon, {33:15}
And for the chief things of the ancient mountains, and for the precious
things of the lasting hills, {33:16} And for the precious things of the
earth and fulness thereof, and [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. {33:17}
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.

   {33:18} And of Zebulun he said, Rejoice, Zebulun, in thy going out;
and, Issachar, in thy tents. {33:19} They shall call the people unto
the mountain; there they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness: for
they shall suck [of] the abundance of the seas, and [of] treasures hid
in the sand.

   {33:20} And of Gad he said, Blessed [be] he that enlargeth Gad: he
dwelleth as a lion, and teareth the arm with the crown of the head.
{33:21} 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.

   {33:22} And of Dan he said, Dan [is] a lion's whelp: he shall leap
from Bashan.

   {33:23} 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.

   {33:24} 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. {33:25} Thy shoes [shall be] iron and brass; and as thy
days, [so shall] thy strength [be.]

   {33:26} [There is] none like unto the God of Jeshurun, [who] rideth
upon the heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky. {33:27}
The eternal God [is thy] refuge, and underneath [are] the everlasting
arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and shall
say, Destroy [them. ]{33:28} 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. {33:29} 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.

   {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, {34:2} And all
Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and all the land of
Judah, unto the utmost sea, {34:3} And the south, and the plain of the
valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, unto Zoar. {34:4} And the
LORD said unto him, This [is] the land which I sware unto 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.

   {34:5} So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of
Moab, according to the word of the LORD. {34:6} And he buried him in a
valley in the land of Moab, over against Beth-peor: but no man knoweth
of his sepulchre unto this day.

   {34:7} And Moses [was] an hundred and twenty years old when he died:
his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.

   {34:8} 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.

   {34:9} 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.

   {34:10} And there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto
Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face, {34:11} In all the signs and
the wonders, which the LORD sent him to do in the land of Egypt to
Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land, {34:12} And in
all that mighty hand, and in all the great terror which Moses shewed in
the sight of all Israel.





Ecclesiastesor, the Preacher

   {1:1} The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in
Jerusalem. {1:2} Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of
vanities; all [is] vanity. {1:3} What profit hath a man of all his
labour which he taketh under the sun? {1:4} [One] generation passeth
away, and [another] generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.
{1:5} The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his
place where he arose. {1:6} The wind goeth toward the south, and
turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the
wind returneth again according to his circuits. {1:7} All the rivers
run into the sea; yet the sea [is] not full; unto the place from whence
the rivers come, thither they return again. {1:8} All things [are] full
of labour; man cannot utter [it:] the eye is not satisfied with seeing,
nor the ear filled with hearing. {1:9} The thing that hath been, it [is
that] which shall be; and that which is done [is] that which shall be
done: and [there is] no new [thing] under the sun. {1:10} Is there
[any] thing whereof it may be said, See, this [is] new? it hath been
already of old time, which was before us. {1:11} [There is] no
remembrance of former [things;] neither shall there be [any]
remembrance of [things] that are to come with [those] that shall come
after.

   {1:12} I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem. {1:13} And
I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all
[things] that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given
to the sons of man to be exercised therewith. {1:14} I have seen all
the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all [is] vanity and
vexation of spirit. {1:15} [That which is] crooked cannot be made
straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered. {1:16} I
communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to 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.
{1:17} And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and
folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. {1:18} For in
much wisdom [is] much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge
increaseth sorrow.

   {2:1} I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth,
therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also [is] vanity. {2:2} I
said of laughter, [It is] mad: and of mirth, What doeth it? {2:3} I
sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting 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. {2:4} I made me great works; I
builded me houses; I planted me vineyards: {2:5} I made me gardens and
orchards, and I planted trees in them of all [kind of] fruits: {2:6} I
made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth
trees: {2:7} I got [me] servants and maidens, and had servants born in
my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle above
all that were in Jerusalem before me: {2:8} 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. {2:9} So I was
great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem:
also my wisdom remained with me. {2:10} And whatsoever mine eyes
desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for
my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my
labour. {2:11} 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. {2:12} 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. {2:13} Then I saw that wisdom
excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness. {2:14} 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. {2:15} 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. {2:16} 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.
{2:17} 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.

   {2:18} 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. {2:19}
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. {2:20}
Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour
which I took under the sun. {2:21} For there is a man whose labour [is]
in wisdom, and in 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. {2:22} For what hath man of all his labour,
and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the
sun? {2:23} For all his days [are] sorrows, and his travail grief; yea,
his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.

   {2:24} [There is] nothing better for a man, [than] that he should
eat and 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. {2:25} For
who can eat, or who else can hasten [hereunto,] more than I? {2:26} 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.

   {3:1} To every [thing there is] a season, and a time to every
purpose under the heaven: {3:2} A time to be born, and a time to die; a
time to plant, and a time to pluck up [that which is] planted; {3:3} A
time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to
build up; {3:4} A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn,
and a time to dance; {3:5} A time to cast away stones, and a time to
gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from
embracing; {3:6} A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and
a time to cast away; {3:7} A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to
keep silence, and a time to speak; {3:8} A time to love, and a time to
hate; a time of war, and a time of peace. {3:9} What profit hath he
that worketh in that wherein he laboureth? {3:10} I have seen the
travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.
{3:11} 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. {3:12} I know that [there is]
no good in them, but for [a man] to rejoice, and to do good in his
life. {3:13} And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy
the good of all his labour, it [is] the gift of God. {3:14} I know
that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to
it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth [it,] that [men] should
fear before him. {3:15} That which hath been is now; and that which is
to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past.

   {3:16} And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment,
[that] wickedness [was] there; and the place of righteousness, [that]
iniquity [was] there. {3:17} 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. {3:18} 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. {3:19} 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. {3:20} All
go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
{3:21} Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit
of the beast that goeth downward to the earth? {3:22} Wherefore I
perceive that [there is] nothing better, than that a man should rejoice
in his own works; for that [is] his portion: for who shall bring him to
see what shall be after him?

   {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. {4:2} Wherefore I praised the
dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.
{4:3} Yea, better [is he] than both they, which hath not yet been, who
hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

   {4:4} 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. {4:5} The fool foldeth his hands together, and
eateth his own flesh. {4:6} Better [is] an handful [with] quietness,
than both the hands full [with] travail and vexation of spirit.

   {4:7} Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun. {4:8} There
is one [alone,] and [there is] not a second; yea, he hath neither child
nor brother: yet [is there] no end of all his labour; neither is his
eye satisfied with riches; neither [saith he,] For whom do I labour,
and bereave my soul of good? This [is] also vanity, yea, it [is] a sore
travail.

   {4:9} Two [are] better than one; because they have a good reward for
their labour. {4:10} 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. {4:11} Again, if two lie together, then they
have heat: but how can one be warm [alone? ]{4:12} And if one prevail
against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not
quickly broken.

   {4:13} Better [is] a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish
king, who will no more be admonished. {4:14} For out of prison he
cometh to reign; whereas also [he that is] born in his kingdom becometh
poor. {4:15} I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with
the second child that shall stand up in his stead. {4:16} [There is] no
end of all the people, [even] of all that have been before them: they
also that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also [is]
vanity and vexation of spirit.

   {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. {5:2} 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. {5:3} For
a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice
[is known] by multitude of words. {5:4} When thou vowest a vow unto
God, defer not to pay it; for [he hath] no pleasure in fools: pay that
which thou hast vowed. {5:5} Better [is it] that thou shouldest not
vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay. {5:6} Suffer not thy
mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel,
that it [was] an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and
destroy the work of thine hands? {5:7} For in the multitude of dreams
and many words [there are] also [divers] vanities: but fear thou God.

   {5:8} If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent
perverting of 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.

   {5:9} Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king
[himself] is served by the field. {5:10} He that loveth silver shall
not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with
increase: this [is] also vanity. {5:11} When goods increase, they are
increased that eat them: and what good [is there] to the owners
thereof, saving the beholding [of them] with their eyes? {5:12} 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. {5:13} There is
a sore evil [which] I have seen under the sun, [namely,] riches kept
for the owners thereof to their hurt. {5:14} But those riches perish by
evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and [there is] nothing in his
hand. {5:15} As he came forth of his mother's womb, naked shall he
return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he
may carry away in his hand. {5:16} 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? {5:17} All his days also he eateth
in darkness, and [he hath] much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.

   {5:18} Behold [that] which I have seen: [it is] good and comely [for
one] to 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. {5:19} 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.
{5:20} For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God
answereth [him] in the joy of his heart.

   {6:1} There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it [is]
common among men: {6:2} 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.

   {6:3} 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. {6:4} For he cometh in with vanity, and
departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.
{6:5} Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known [any thing:] this
hath more rest than the other.

   {6:6} Yea, though he live a thousand years twice [told,] yet hath he
seen no good: do not all go to one place? {6:7} All the labour of man
[is] for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled. {6:8} For what
hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to
walk before the living?

   {6:9} Better [is] the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the
desire: this [is] also vanity and vexation of spirit. {6:10} That which
hath been is named already, and it is known that it [is] man: neither
may he contend with him that is mightier than he.

   {6:11} Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what [is]
man the better? {6:12} 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?

   {7:1} A good name [is] better than precious ointment; and the day of
death than the day of one's birth.

   {7:2} [It is] better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to
the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living
will lay [it] to his heart. {7:3} Sorrow [is] better than laughter: for
by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better. {7:4} The
heart of the wise [is] in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools
[is] in the house of mirth. {7:5} [It is] better to hear the rebuke of
the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools. {7:6} For as the
crackling of thorns under a pot, so [is] the laughter of the fool: this
also [is] vanity.

   {7:7} Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth
the heart. {7:8} Better [is] the end of a thing than the beginning
thereof: [and] the patient in spirit [is] better than the proud in
spirit. {7:9} Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth
in the bosom of fools. {7:10} Say not thou, What is [the cause] that
the former days were better than these? for thou dost not enquire
wisely concerning this.

   {7:11} Wisdom [is] good with an inheritance: and [by it there is]
profit to them that see the sun. {7:12} For wisdom [is] a defence,
[and] money [is] a defence: but the excellency of knowledge [is, that]
wisdom giveth life to them that have it. {7:13} Consider the work of
God: for who can make [that] straight, which he hath made crooked?
{7:14} 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. {7:15} 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. {7:16} Be not righteous over much; neither make
thyself over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself? {7:17} Be not
over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die
before thy time? {7:18} [It is] good that thou shouldest take hold of
this; yea, also from this withdraw not thine hand: for he that feareth
God shall come forth of them all. {7:19} Wisdom strengtheneth the wise
more than ten mighty [men] which are in the city. {7:20} For [there is]
not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not. {7:21}
Also take no heed unto all words that are spoken; lest thou hear thy
servant curse thee: {7:22} For oftentimes also thine own heart knoweth
that thou thyself likewise hast cursed others.

   {7:23} All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but
it [was] far from me. {7:24} That which is far off, and exceeding deep,
who can find it out? {7:25} I applied mine heart to know, and to
search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason [of things,] and to know
the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness [and] madness: {7:26} 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. {7:27} Behold, this have I
found, saith the preacher, [counting] one by one, to find out the
account: {7:28} Which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man
among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not
found. {7:29} Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man
upright; but they have sought out many inventions.

   {8:1} Who [is] as the wise [man?] and who knoweth the interpretation
of a thing? a man's wisdom maketh his face to shine, and the boldness
of his face shall be changed. {8:2} I [counsel thee] to keep the king's
commandment, and [that] in regard of the oath of God. {8:3} Be not
hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth
whatsoever pleaseth him. {8:4} Where the word of a king [is, there is]
power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou? {8:5} Whoso keepeth
the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man's heart
discerneth both time and judgment.

   {8:6} Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore
the misery of man [is] great upon him. {8:7} For he knoweth not that
which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be? {8:8} [There is]
no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither
[hath he] power in the day of death: and [there is] no discharge in
[that] war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to
it. {8:9} All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work
that is done under the sun: [there is] a time wherein one man ruleth
over another to his own hurt. {8:10} 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.
{8:11} 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.

   {8:12} 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: {8:13} 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. {8:14} 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. {8:15} 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.

   {8:16} 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:) {8:17} 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 further; though a wise [man] think to know [it,] yet
shall he not be able to find [it.]

   {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. {9:2} 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. {9:3} 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.

   {9:4} For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for
a living dog is better than a dead lion. {9:5} For the living know that
they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any
more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. {9:6} 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.

   {9:7} Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a
merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works. {9:8} Let thy garments be
always white; and let thy head lack no ointment. {9:9} 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. {9:10} 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.

   {9:11} 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. {9:12} 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.

   {9:13} This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it [seemed]
great unto me: {9:14} [There was] a little city, and few men within it;
and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built
great bulwarks against it: {9:15} 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. {9:16} Then said I, Wisdom [is] better than
strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom [is] despised, and his
words are not heard. {9:17} The words of wise [men are] heard in quiet
more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools. {9:18} Wisdom [is]
better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.

   {10:1} 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. {10:2} A wise man's heart [is] at his right
hand; but a fool's heart at his left. {10:3} Yea also, when he that is
a fool walketh by the way, his wisdom faileth [him,] and he saith to
every one [that] he [is] a fool. {10:4} If the spirit of the ruler rise
up against thee, leave not thy place; for yielding pacifieth great
offences. {10:5} There is an evil [which] I have seen under the sun, as
an error [which] proceedeth from the ruler: {10:6} Folly is set in
great dignity, and the rich sit in low place. {10:7} I have seen
servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth.
{10:8} He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh an
hedge, a serpent shall bite him. {10:9} Whoso removeth stones shall be
hurt therewith; [and] he that cleaveth wood shall be endangered
thereby. {10:10} If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge,
then must he put to more strength: but wisdom [is] profitable to
direct. {10:11} Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a
babbler is no better. {10:12} The words of a wise man's mouth [are]
gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself. {10:13} The
beginning of the words of his mouth [is] foolishness: and the end of
his talk [is] mischievous madness. {10:14} A fool also is full of
words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him,
who can tell him? {10:15} The labour of the foolish wearieth every one
of them, because he knoweth not how to go to the city.

   {10:16} Woe to thee, O land, when thy king [is] a child, and thy
princes eat in the morning! {10:17} Blessed [art] thou, O land, when
thy king [is] the son of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for
strength, and not for drunkenness!

   {10:18} By much slothfulness the building decayeth; and through
idleness of the hands the house droppeth through.

   {10:19} A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but
money answereth all [things.]

   {10:20} Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the
rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice,
and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.

   {11:1} Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after
many days. {11:2} Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for thou
knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth. {11:3} If the clouds be
full of rain, they empty [themselves] upon the earth: and if the tree
fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree
falleth, there it shall be. {11:4} He that observeth the wind shall not
sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap. {11:5} As thou
knowest not what [is] the way of the spirit, [nor] how the bones [do
grow] in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not
the works of God who maketh all. {11:6} 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.

   {11:7} Truly the light [is] sweet, and a pleasant [thing it is] for
the eyes to behold the sun: {11:8} But if a man live many years, [and]
rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for
they shall be many. All that cometh [is] vanity.

   {11:9} 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. {11:10} Therefore remove sorrow from
thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth
[are] vanity.

   {12:1} 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; {12:2} While the sun, or the light, or the
moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the
rain: {12:3} In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble,
and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because
they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened,
{12:4} 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; {12:5} 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: {12:6} Or ever the silver cord
be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at
the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. {12:7} Then shall the
dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto
God who gave it.

   {12:8} Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all [is] vanity.
{12:9} 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. {12:10} The preacher sought to find out acceptable
words: and [that which was] written [was] upright, [even] words of
truth. {12:11} The words of the wise [are] as goads, and as nails
fastened by the masters of assemblies, [which] are given from one
shepherd. {12:12} And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of
making many books [there is] no end; and much study [is] a weariness of
the flesh.

   {12:13} Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God,
and keep his commandments: for this [is] the whole [duty] of man.
{12:14} For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret
thing, whether [it be] good, or whether [it be] evil.





The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Ephesians

   {1:1} Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the
saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus: {1:2}
Grace [be] to you, and peace, from God our Father, and [from] the Lord
Jesus Christ.

   {1:3} Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who
hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly [places] in
Christ: {1:4} According as he hath chosen us in him before the
foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame
before him in love: {1:5} Having predestinated us unto the adoption of
children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of
his will, {1:6} To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he
hath made us accepted in the beloved. {1:7} In whom we have redemption
through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of
his grace; {1:8} Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and
prudence; {1:9} Having made known unto us the mystery of his will,
according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:
{1:10} That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather
together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and
which are on earth; [even] in him: {1:11} In whom also we have obtained
an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who
worketh all things after the counsel of his own will: {1:12} That we
should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.
{1:13} 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, {1:14} Which
is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased
possession, unto the praise of his glory.

   {1:15} Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord
Jesus, and love unto all the saints, {1:16} Cease not to give thanks
for you, making mention of you in my prayers; {1:17} 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: {1:18} 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, {1:19} And what [is] the exceeding greatness
of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his
mighty power, {1:20} Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him
from the dead, and set [him] at his own right hand in the heavenly
[places, ]{1:21} 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: {1:22} And hath put all [things] under
his feet, and gave him [to be] the head over all [things] to the
church, {1:23} Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all
in all.

   {2:1} And you [hath he quickened,] who were dead in trespasses and
sins; {2:2} Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of
this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit
that now worketh in the children of disobedience: {2:3} 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. {2:4} But God, who is rich in
mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, {2:5} Even when we
were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye
are saved;) {2:6} And hath raised [us] up together, and made [us] sit
together in heavenly [places] in Christ Jesus: {2:7} That in the ages
to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in [his]
kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. {2:8} For by grace are ye
saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: [it is] the gift of
God: {2:9} Not of works, lest any man should boast. {2:10} For we are
his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God
hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

   {2:11} Wherefore remember, that ye [being] in time past Gentiles in
the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the
Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; {2:12} That at that time ye
were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and
strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without
God in the world: {2:13} But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were
far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. {2:14} For he is our
peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of
partition [between us; ]{2:15} Having abolished in his flesh the
enmity, [even] the law of commandments [contained] in ordinances; for
to make in himself of twain one new man, [so] making peace; {2:16} And
that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having
slain the enmity thereby: {2:17} And came and preached peace to you
which were afar off, and to them that were nigh. {2:18} For through him
we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father. {2:19} Now therefore
ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the
saints, and of the household of God; {2:20} And are built upon the
foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the
chief corner [stone; ]{2:21} In whom all the building fitly framed
together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: {2:22} In whom ye
also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.

   {3:1} For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you
Gentiles, {3:2} If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of
God which is given me to youward: {3:3} How that by revelation he made
known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words, {3:4}
Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of
Christ) {3:5} 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; {3:6} That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same
body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel: {3:7}
Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of
God given unto me by the effectual working of his power. {3:8} Unto me,
who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I
should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;
{3:9} 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: {3:10} To the intent that now
unto the principalities and powers in heavenly [places] might be known
by the church the manifold wisdom of God, {3:11} According to the
eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord: {3:12} In
whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him.
{3:13} Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you,
which is your glory. {3:14} For this cause I bow my knees unto the
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, {3:15} Of whom the whole family in
heaven and earth is named, {3:16} That he would grant you, according to
the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in
the inner man; {3:17} That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith;
that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, {3:18} May be able to
comprehend with all saints what [is] the breadth, and length, and
depth, and height; {3:19} And to know the love of Christ, which passeth
knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.

   {3:20} Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above
all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,
{3:21} Unto him [be] glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all
ages, world without end. Amen.

   {4:1} I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye
walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, {4:2} With all
lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in
love; {4:3} Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of
peace. {4:4} [There is] one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called
in one hope of your calling; {4:5} One Lord, one faith, one baptism,
{4:6} One God and Father of all, who [is] above all, and through all,
and in you all. {4:7} But unto every one of us is given grace according
to the measure of the gift of Christ. {4:8} Wherefore he saith, When he
ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.
{4:9} (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended
first into the lower parts of the earth? {4:10} He that descended is
the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might
fill all things.) {4:11} And he gave some, apostles; and some,
prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; {4:12}
For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the
edifying of the body of Christ: {4:13} Till we all come in the unity of
the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man,
unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: {4:14} 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; {4:15} But speaking
the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the
head, [even] Christ: {4:16} From whom the whole body fitly joined
together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according
to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase
of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.

   {4:17} This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye
henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their
mind, {4:18} Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from
the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the
blindness of their heart: {4:19} Who being past feeling have given
themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with
greediness. {4:20} But ye have not so learned Christ; {4:21} If so be
that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in
Jesus: {4:22} That ye put off concerning the former conversation the
old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; {4:23} And
be renewed in the spirit of your mind; {4:24} And that ye put on the
new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

   {4:25} Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his
neighbour: for we are members one of another. {4:26} Be ye angry, and
sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: {4:27} Neither give
place to the devil. {4:28} 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. {4:29} 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. {4:30}
And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the
day of redemption. {4:31} Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and
clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
{4:32} And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one
another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

   {5:1} Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; {5:2} And
walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for
us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour. {5:3}
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be
once named among you, as becometh saints; {5:4} Neither filthiness, nor
foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather
giving of thanks. {5:5} For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor
unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any
inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. {5:6} Let no man
deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the
wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. {5:7} Be not ye
therefore partakers with them. {5:8} For ye were sometimes darkness,
but now [are ye] light in the Lord: walk as children of light: {5:9}
(For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and
truth;) {5:10} Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord. {5:11} And
have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather
reprove [them. ]{5:12} For it is a shame even to speak of those things
which are done of them in secret. {5:13} But all things that are
reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make
manifest is light. {5:14} Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest,
and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. {5:15} See
then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, {5:16}
Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. {5:17} Wherefore be ye
not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord [is. ]{5:18}
And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the
Spirit; {5:19} Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual
songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; {5:20}
Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name
of our Lord Jesus Christ; {5:21} Submitting yourselves one to another
in the fear of God. {5:22} Wives, submit yourselves unto your own
husbands, as unto the Lord. {5:23} For the husband is the head of the
wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour
of the body. {5:24} Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so
[let] the wives [be] to their own husbands in every thing. {5:25}
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and
gave himself for it; {5:26} That he might sanctify and cleanse it with
the washing of water by the word, {5:27} 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. {5:28} So ought
men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife
loveth himself. {5:29} For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but
nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: {5:30} For
we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. {5:31} 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. {5:32} This is a great
mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. {5:33}
Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even
as himself; and the wife [see] that she reverence [her] husband.

   {6:1} Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
{6:2} Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment
with promise;) {6:3} That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest
live long on the earth. {6:4} And, ye fathers, provoke not your
children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of
the Lord. {6:5} Servants, be obedient to them that are [your] masters
according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your
heart, as unto Christ; {6:6} Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but
as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart; {6:7}
With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men: {6:8}
Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he
receive of the Lord, whether [he be] bond or free. {6:9} And, ye
masters, do the same things unto them, forbearing threatening: knowing
that your Master also is in heaven; neither is there respect of persons
with him.

   {6:10} Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power
of his might. {6:11} Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be
able to stand against the wiles of the devil. {6:12} For we wrestle not
against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers,
against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual
wickedness in high [places. ]{6:13} Wherefore take unto you the whole
armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and
having done all, to stand. {6:14} Stand therefore, having your loins
girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
{6:15} And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
{6:16} Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be
able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. {6:17} And take the
helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of
God: {6:18} Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the
Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication
for all saints; {6:19} And for me, that utterance may be given unto me,
that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the
gospel, {6:20} For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I
may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

   {6:21} But that ye also may know my affairs, [and] how I do,
Tychicus, a beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord, shall
make known to you all things: {6:22} Whom I have sent unto you for the
same purpose, that ye might know our affairs, and [that] he might
comfort your hearts.

   {6:23} Peace [be] to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the
Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. {6:24} Grace [be] with all them that
love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Amen.





The Book of Esther

   {1:1} Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus, (this [is]
Ahasuerus which reigned, from India even unto Ethiopia, [over] an
hundred and seven and twenty provinces:) {1:2} [That] in those days,
when the king Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom, which [was]
in Shushan the palace, {1:3} In the third year of his reign, he made a
feast unto all his princes and his servants; the power of Persia and
Media, the nobles and princes of the provinces, [being] before him:
{1:4} When he shewed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the honour
of his excellent majesty many days, [even] an hundred and fourscore
days. {1:5} And when these days were expired, the king made a feast
unto 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; {1:6} [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. {1:7} 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. {1:8} 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. {1:9} Also Vashti the queen made
a feast for the women [in] the royal house which [belonged] to king
Ahasuerus.

   {1:10} On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with
wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha,
Zethar, and Carcas, the seven chamberlains that served in the presence
of Ahasuerus the king, {1:11} To bring Vashti the queen before the king
with the crown royal, to shew the people and the princes her beauty:
for she [was] fair to look on. {1:12} But the queen Vashti refused to
come at the king's commandment by [his] chamberlains: therefore was the
king very wroth, and his anger burned in him.

   {1:13} Then the king said to the wise men, which knew the times,
(for so [was] the king's manner toward all that knew law and judgment:
{1:14} And the next unto him [was] Carshena, Shethar, Admatha,
Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, [and] Memucan, the seven princes of Persia
and Media, which saw the king's face, [and] which sat the first in the
kingdom;) {1:15} What shall we do unto the queen Vashti according to
law, because she hath not performed the commandment of the king
Ahasuerus by the chamberlains? {1:16} And Memucan answered before the
king and the princes, Vashti 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. {1:17} 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. {1:18} [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.
{1:19} 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. {1:20} 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.
{1:21} And the saying pleased the king and the princes; and the king
did according to the word of Memucan: {1:22} For he sent letters into
all the king's provinces, into every 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.

   {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. {2:2} Then said the king's servants that
ministered unto him, Let there be fair young virgins sought for the
king: {2:3} And let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of
his 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: ]{2:4} And let the maiden which
pleaseth the king be queen instead of Vashti. And the thing pleased the
king; and he did so.

   {2:5} [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; {2:6} 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. {2:7} 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.

   {2:8} 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. {2:9}
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. {2:10} Esther had not shewed
her people nor her kindred: for Mordecai had charged her that she
should not shew [it. ]{2:11} And Mordecai walked every day before the
court of the women's house, to know how Esther did, and what should
become of her.

   {2:12} 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;) {2:13} 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. {2:14} 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.

   {2:15} 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. {2:16} 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. {2:17}
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. {2:18}
Then the king made a great feast unto all his princes and his servants,
[even] Esther's feast; and he made a release to the provinces, and gave
gifts, according to the state of the king. {2:19} And when the virgins
were gathered together the second time, then Mordecai sat in the king's
gate. {2:20} Esther had not [yet] shewed her kindred nor her people; as
Mordecai had charged her: for Esther did the commandment of Mordecai,
like as when she was brought up with him.

   {2:21} 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 hand on the king Ahasuerus. {2:22}
And the thing was known to Mordecai, who told it unto Esther the queen;
and Esther certified the king [thereof] in Mordecai's name. {2:23} 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.

   {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. {3:2} 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. {3:3} Then the king's servants, which [were] in the
king's gate, said unto Mordecai, Why transgressest thou the king's
commandment? {3:4} Now it came to pass, when they spake daily unto him,
and he 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. {3:5} And when Haman saw that Mordecai bowed not, nor did him
reverence, then was Haman full of wrath. {3:6} And he thought scorn to
lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had shewed him the people of
Mordecai: wherefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that [were]
throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, [even] the people of
Mordecai.

   {3:7} In the first month, that [is,] the month Nisan, in the twelfth
year of 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.

   {3:8} 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. {3:9} 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. {3:10} And the king took his ring from his hand,
and gave it unto Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews'
enemy. {3:11} And the king said unto Haman, The silver [is] given to
thee, the people also, to do with them as it seemeth good to thee.
{3:12} Then were the king's scribes called on the thirteenth day of the
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. {3:13} 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. {3:14} 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.
{3:15} 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.

   {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; {4:2} And came
even before the king's gate: for none [might] enter into the king's
gate clothed with sackcloth. {4:3} And in every province, whithersoever
the king's commandment and his decree came, [there was] great mourning
among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in
sackcloth and ashes.

   {4:4} 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. {4:5} Then called Esther for Hatach, [one] of the king's
chamberlains, whom he had appointed to attend upon her, and gave him a
commandment to Mordecai, to know what it [was,] and why it [was. ]{4:6}
So Hatach went forth to Mordecai unto the street of the city, which
[was] before the king's gate. {4:7} And Mordecai told him of all that
had happened unto him, and of the sum of the money that Haman had
promised to pay to the king's treasuries for the Jews, to destroy them.
{4:8} Also he gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was
given at Shushan to destroy them, to shew [it] unto Esther, and to
declare [it] unto her, and to charge her that she should go in unto the
king, to make supplication unto him, and to make request before him for
her people. {4:9} And Hatach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai.

   {4:10} Again Esther spake unto Hatach, and gave him commandment unto
Mordecai; {4:11} All the king's servants, and the people of the king's
provinces, do know, that whosoever, whether man or woman, 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. {4:12} And they told
to Mordecai Esther's words. {4:13} Then Mordecai commanded to answer
Esther, Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king's
house, more than all the Jews. {4:14} 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?

   {4:15} Then Esther bade [them] return Mordecai [this answer, ]{4:16}
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. {4:17}
So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that Esther had
commanded him.

   {5:1} 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. {5:2} 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. {5:3} 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. {5:4} 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. {5:5} 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.

   {5:6} 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. {5:7}
Then answered Esther, and said, My petition and my request [is; ]{5:8}
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.

   {5:9} 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. {5:10}
Nevertheless Haman refrained himself: and when he came home, he sent
and called for his friends, and Zeresh his wife. {5:11} 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. {5:12} 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. {5:13} Yet all this availeth
me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's
gate.

   {5:14} Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a
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.

   {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. {6:2} 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. {6:3} 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.

   {6:4} 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. {6:5} And
the king's servants said unto him, Behold, Haman standeth in the court.
And the king said, Let him come in. {6:6} 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? {6:7} And Haman answered
the king, For the man whom the king delighteth to honour, {6:8} 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: {6:9} 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. {6:10} 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. {6:11}
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.

   {6:12} And Mordecai came again to the king's gate. But Haman hasted
to his house mourning, and having his head covered. {6:13} And Haman
told Zeresh his wife and all his friends every [thing] 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. {6:14} 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.

   {7:1} So the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther the queen.
{7:2} And the king said again unto Esther on the second day at the
banquet of wine, What [is] thy petition, queen Esther? and it shall be
granted thee: and what [is] thy request? and it shall be performed,
[even] to the half of the kingdom. {7:3} Then Esther the queen answered
and said, If I have found favour 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: {7:4} 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.

   {7:5} 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? {7:6} And Esther said, The adversary and enemy [is] this wicked
Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.

   {7:7} 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. {7:8} 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 the king's
mouth, they covered Haman's face. {7:9} And Harbonah, one of the
chamberlains, said before the king, Behold also, the gallows fifty
cubits high, which Haman had made for Mordecai, who had spoken good for
the king, standeth in the house of Haman. Then the king said, Hang him
thereon. {7:10} So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had
prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.

   {8:1} 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. {8:2} 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.

   {8:3} 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. {8:4}
Then the king held out the golden sceptre toward Esther. So Esther
arose, and stood before the king, {8:5} And said, If it please the
king, and if I have found favour in his sight, and 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: {8:6} For how can I endure to see the evil that shall
come unto my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my
kindred?

   {8:7} Then the king Ahasuerus said unto Esther the queen and to
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. {8:8} 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. {8:9} 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.
{8:10} 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: {8:11} 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, {8:12} Upon one day in all the provinces of king Ahasuerus,
[namely,] upon the thirteenth [day] of the twelfth month, which [is]
the month Adar. {8:13} 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. {8:14} [So] the posts that rode upon mules [and] camels went
out, being hastened and pressed on by the king's commandment. And the
decree was given at Shushan the palace.

   {8:15} And Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal
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. {8:16} The Jews had light, and gladness, and joy, and honour.
{8:17} And in every province, and in every city, whithersoever the
king's commandment and his decree came, the Jews had joy and gladness,
a feast and a good day. And many of the people of the land became Jews;
for the fear of the Jews fell upon them.

   {9:1} 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;) {9:2} 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. {9:3} 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. {9:4} 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. {9:5}
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. {9:6} And in Shushan the palace the Jews slew and destroyed
five hundred men. {9:7} And Parshandatha, and Dalphon, and Aspatha,
{9:8} And Poratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha, {9:9} And Parmashta, and
Arisai, and Aridai, and Vajezatha, {9:10} The ten sons of Haman the son
of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews, slew they; but on the spoil laid
they not their hand. {9:11} On that day the number of those that were
slain in Shushan the palace was brought before the king.

   {9:12} 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. {9:13} Then said Esther, If it
please the king, let it be granted to the Jews which [are] in Shushan
to do to morrow also according unto this day's decree, and let Haman's
ten sons be hanged upon the gallows. {9:14} And the king commanded it
so to be done: and the decree was given at Shushan; and they hanged
Haman's ten sons. {9:15} For the Jews that [were] in Shushan gathered
themselves 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. {9:16} 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, {9:17} 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. {9:18} 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. {9:19}
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.

   {9:20} 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, {9:21} To stablish [this] among them, that they should
keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the
same, yearly, {9:22} 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. {9:23} And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as
Mordecai had written unto them; {9:24} Because Haman the son of
Hammedatha, the Agagite, the 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; {9:25} 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. {9:26} 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, {9:27} 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; {9:28} 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. {9:29} Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and
Mordecai the Jew, wrote with all authority, to confirm this second
letter of Purim. {9:30} And he sent the letters unto all the Jews, to
the hundred twenty and seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus,
[with] words of peace and truth, {9:31} To confirm these days of Purim
in their times [appointed,] 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. {9:32} And
the decree of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim; and it was
written in the book.

   {10:1} And the king Ahasuerus laid a tribute upon the land, and
[upon] the isles of the sea. {10:2} 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? {10:3} 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.





The Second Book of Moses, called Exodus

   {1:1} Now these [are] the names of the children of Israel, which
came into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob. {1:2}
Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, {1:3} Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,
{1:4} Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. {1:5} And all the souls that
came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in
Egypt [already. ]{1:6} And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all
that generation.

   {1:7} And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased
abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land
was filled with them. {1:8} Now there arose up a new king over Egypt,
which knew not Joseph. {1:9} And he said unto his people, Behold, the
people of the children of Israel [are] more and mightier than we:
{1:10} Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and
it 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. {1:11} Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict
them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities,
Pithom and Raamses. {1:12} But the more they afflicted them, the more
they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children
of Israel. {1:13} And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to
serve with rigour: {1:14} 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.

   {1:15} 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:
{1:16} 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. {1:17} But
the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded
them, but saved the men children alive. {1:18} And the king of Egypt
called for the midwives, and said unto them, Why have ye done this
thing, and have saved the men children alive? {1:19} 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. {1:20} Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and
the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty. {1:21} And it came to
pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses. {1:22}
And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye
shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.

   {2:1} And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took [to wife]
a daughter of Levi. {2:2} And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and
when she saw him that he [was a] goodly [child,] she hid him three
months. {2:3} 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.
{2:4} And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him.

   {2:5} And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash [herself] at the
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. {2:6} 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. {2:7} 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? {2:8} And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go.
And the maid went and called the child's mother. {2:9} And Pharaoh's
daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and
I will give [thee] thy wages. And the woman took the child, and nursed
it. {2:10} 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.

   {2:11} 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. {2:12} 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. {2:13} 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?
{2:14} 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. {2:15} 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.
{2:16} Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and
drew [water,] and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.
{2:17} And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up
and helped them, and watered their flock. {2:18} And when they came to
Reuel their father, he said, How [is it that] ye are come so soon to
day? {2:19} And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of
the shepherds, and also drew [water] enough for us, and watered the
flock. {2:20} 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.
{2:21} And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses
Zipporah his daughter. {2:22} And she bare [him] a son, and he called
his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.

   {2:23} And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of
Egypt 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. {2:24} And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his
covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. {2:25} And God
looked upon the children of Israel, and God had respect unto [them.]

   {3:1} 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. {3:2} 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. {3:3} And Moses said, I will now turn aside,
and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt. {3:4} And when the
LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the
midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here [am] I.
{3:5} And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy
feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground. {3:6}
Moreover he said, I [am] the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the
God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was
afraid to look upon God.

   {3:7} 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; {3:8} 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.
{3:9} 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. {3:10} Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto
Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel
out of Egypt.

   {3:11} 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? {3:12} 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. {3:13} 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? {3:14} 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. {3:15} 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. {3:16} 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:
{3:17} 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. {3:18} 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.

   {3:19} And I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let you go, no,
not by a mighty hand. {3:20} 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. {3:21} 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: {3:22} 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.

   {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. {4:2} And the LORD said unto him, What [is]
that in thine hand? And he said, A rod. {4:3} And he said, Cast it on
the ground. And he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and
Moses fled from before it. {4:4} And the LORD said unto Moses, Put
forth thine hand, and take it by the tail. And he put forth his hand,
and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand: {4:5} 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.

   {4:6} 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. {4:7} 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. {4:8} 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. {4:9} 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.]

   {4:10} 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. {4:11} 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? {4:12} Now therefore
go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say.
{4:13} And he said, O my Lord, send, I pray thee, by the hand [of him
whom] thou wilt send. {4:14} And the anger of the LORD was kindled
against Moses, and he 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. {4:15} 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. {4:16} 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. {4:17} And thou shalt take this rod in thine hand,
wherewith thou shalt do signs.

   {4:18} 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. {4:19} And the LORD said unto Moses in
Midian, Go, return into Egypt: for all the men are dead which sought
thy life. {4:20} 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. {4:21} 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. {4:22} And thou shalt say unto
Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD, Israel [is] my son, [even] my firstborn:
{4:23} And I say unto thee, Let my son go, that he may serve me: and if
thou refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay thy son, [even] thy
firstborn.

   {4:24} And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the LORD met
him, and sought to kill him. {4:25} Then Zipporah took a sharp stone,
and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast [it] at his feet, and
said, Surely a bloody husband [art] thou to me. {4:26} So he let him
go: then she said, A bloody husband [thou art,] because of the
circumcision.

   {4:27} And the LORD said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet
Moses. And he went, and met him in the mount of God, and kissed him.
{4:28} And Moses told Aaron all the words of the LORD who had sent him,
and all the signs which he had commanded him.

   {4:29} And Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders
of the children of Israel: {4:30} And Aaron spake all the words which
the LORD had spoken unto Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the
people. {4:31} 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.

   {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. {5:2} 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. {5:3} 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. {5:4} 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. {5:5} And Pharaoh said, Behold, the
people of the land now [are] many, and ye make them rest from their
burdens. {5:6} And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of
the people, and their officers, saying, {5:7} Ye shall no more give the
people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw
for themselves. {5:8} And the tale of the bricks, which they did make
heretofore, ye 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. {5:9} Let there more work be laid upon the
men, that they may labour therein; and let them not regard vain words.

   {5:10} And the taskmasters of the people went out, and their
officers, and they spake to the people, saying, Thus saith Pharaoh, I
will not give you straw. {5:11} Go ye, get you straw where ye can find
it: yet not ought of your work shall be diminished. {5:12} So the
people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather
stubble instead of straw. {5:13} And the taskmasters hasted [them,]
saying, Fulfil your works, [your] daily tasks, as when there was straw.
{5:14} And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh's
taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, [and] demanded, Wherefore
have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and to
day, as heretofore?

   {5:15} Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried
unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants?
{5:16} There is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us,
Make brick: and, behold, thy servants [are] beaten; but the fault [is]
in thine own people. {5:17} But he said, Ye [are] idle, [ye are] idle:
therefore ye say, Let us go [and] do sacrifice to the LORD. {5:18} Go
therefore now, [and] work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet
shall ye deliver the tale of bricks. {5:19} And the officers of the
children of Israel did see [that] they [were] in evil [case,] after it
was said, Ye shall not minish [ought] from your bricks of your daily
task.

   {5:20} And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way, as they
came forth from Pharaoh: {5:21} And they said unto them, The LORD look
upon you, and judge; because ye have made our savour to be abhorred in
the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in
their hand to slay us. {5:22} And Moses returned unto the LORD, and
said, Lord, wherefore hast thou [so] evil entreated this people? why
[is] it [that] thou hast sent me? {5:23} 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.

   {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. {6:2} And God spake
unto Moses, and said unto him, I [am] the LORD: {6:3} And I appeared
unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by [the name of] God
Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them. {6:4} 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.
{6:5} And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel,
whom the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered my covenant.
{6:6} Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I [am] the LORD, and I
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: {6:7} 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. {6:8} 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.

   {6:9} And Moses spake so unto the children of Israel: but they
hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.
{6:10} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {6:11} Go in, speak unto
Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the children of Israel go out of his
land. {6:12} And Moses spake before the LORD, saying, Behold, the
children of Israel have not hearkened unto me; how then shall Pharaoh
hear me, who [am] of uncircumcised lips? {6:13} 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.

   {6:14} 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. {6:15} 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.

   {6:16} 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. {6:17} The
sons of Gershon; Libni, and Shimi, according to their families. {6:18}
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. {6:19} And the sons of Merari; Mahali and Mushi: these [are] the
families of Levi according to their generations. {6:20} And Amram took
him Jochebed his father's sister to wife; and she bare him Aaron and
Moses: and the years of the life of Amram [were] an hundred and thirty
and seven years.

   {6:21} And the sons of Izhar; Korah, and Nepheg, and Zichri. {6:22}
And the sons of Uzziel; Mishael, and Elzaphan, and Zithri. {6:23} And
Aaron took him Elisheba, daughter of Amminadab, sister of Naashon, to
wife; and she bare him Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. {6:24}
And the sons of Korah; Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph: these [are]
the families of the Korhites. {6:25} And Eleazar Aaron's son took him
[one] of the daughters of Putiel to wife; and she bare him Phinehas:
these [are] the heads of the fathers of the Levites according to their
families. {6:26} 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. {6:27} 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.

   {6:28} And it came to pass on the day [when] the LORD spake unto
Moses in the land of Egypt, {6:29} That the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying, I [am] the LORD: speak thou unto Pharaoh king of Egypt all that
I say unto thee. {6:30} And Moses said before the LORD, Behold, I [am]
of uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh hearken unto me?

   {7:1} And the LORD said unto Moses, See, I have made thee a god to
Pharaoh: and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet. {7:2} Thou shalt
speak all that I command thee: and Aaron thy brother shall speak unto
Pharaoh, that he send the children of Israel out of his land. {7:3} And
I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in
the land of Egypt. {7:4} But Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you, that I
may lay my hand upon Egypt, and bring forth mine armies, [and] my
people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great
judgments. {7:5} 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. {7:6} And Moses and Aaron did as the LORD
commanded them, so did they. {7:7} And Moses [was] fourscore years old,
and Aaron fourscore and three years old, when they spake unto Pharaoh.

   {7:8} And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, {7:9}
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.

   {7:10} 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. {7:11} Then Pharaoh also
called the wise men and the sorcerers: now the magicians of Egypt, they
also did in like manner with their enchantments. {7:12} For they cast
down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aaron's rod
swallowed up their rods. {7:13} And he hardened Pharaoh's heart, that
he hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said.

   {7:14} And the LORD said unto Moses, Pharaoh's heart [is] hardened,
he refuseth to let the people go. {7:15} Get thee unto Pharaoh in the
morning; lo, he goeth out unto the 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. {7:16} 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. {7:17} 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. {7:18} 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.

   {7:19} 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. {7:20} 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. {7:21} 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. {7:22} 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.
{7:23} And Pharaoh turned and went into his house, neither did he set
his heart to this also. {7:24} And all the Egyptians digged round about
the river for water to drink; for they could not drink of the water of
the river. {7:25} And seven days were fulfilled, after that the LORD
had smitten the river.

   {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.
{8:2} And if thou refuse to let [them] go, behold, I will smite all thy
borders with frogs: {8:3} 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:
{8:4} And the frogs shall come up both on thee, and upon thy people,
and upon all thy servants.

   {8:5} And the LORD spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch forth
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. {8:6} And
Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt; and the frogs
came up, and covered the land of Egypt. {8:7} And the magicians did so
with their enchantments, and brought up frogs upon the land of Egypt.

   {8:8} Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, Intreat the
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.
{8:9} 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? {8:10} 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. {8:11} 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. {8:12} And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh:
and Moses cried unto the LORD because of the frogs which he had brought
against Pharaoh. {8:13} 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. {8:14} And they gathered them together upon heaps:
and the land stank. {8:15} But when Pharaoh saw that there was respite,
he hardened his heart, and hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had
said.

   {8:16} 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. {8:17} 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. {8:18} 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. {8:19} 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.

   {8:20} 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. {8:21} 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.
]{8:22} 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. {8:23} And
I will put a division between my people and thy people: to morrow shall
this sign be. {8:24} And the LORD did so; and there came a grievous
swarm [of flies] 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.]

   {8:25} And Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, Go ye,
sacrifice to your God in the land. {8:26} And Moses said, It is not
meet so to do; for we shall sacrifice the 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? {8:27} We will
go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the LORD
our God, as he shall command us. {8:28} And Pharaoh said, I will let
you go, that ye may sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness;
only ye shall not go very far away: intreat for me. {8:29} 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. {8:30} And Moses
went out from Pharaoh, and intreated the LORD. {8:31} And the LORD did
according to the word of Moses; and he removed the swarms [of flies]
from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people; there remained
not one. {8:32} And Pharaoh hardened his heart at this time also,
neither would he let the people go.

   {9:1} 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. {9:2} For if thou refuse to let [them] go, and wilt
hold them still, {9:3} 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. {9:4} 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. {9:5} And the LORD appointed a set
time, saying, To morrow the LORD shall do this thing in the land. {9:6}
And the LORD did that thing on the morrow, and all the cattle of Egypt
died: but of the cattle of the children of Israel died not one. {9:7}
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.

   {9:8} 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. {9:9} 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. {9:10} And
they took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses
sprinkled it up toward heaven; and it became a boil breaking forth
[with] blains upon man, and upon beast. {9:11} And the magicians could
not stand before Moses because of the boils; for the boil was upon the
magicians, and upon all the Egyptians. {9:12} And the LORD hardened the
heart of Pharaoh, and he hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had
spoken unto Moses.

   {9:13} 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. {9:14} 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. {9:15} 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. {9:16} And in very deed for this
[cause] have I raised thee up, for to shew [in] thee my power; and that
my name may be declared throughout all the earth. {9:17} As yet
exaltest thou thyself against my people, that thou wilt not let them
go? {9:18} Behold, to morrow about this time I will cause it to rain a
very grievous hail, such as hath not been in Egypt since the foundation
thereof even until now. {9:19} 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. {9:20} He that
feared the word of the LORD among the servants of Pharaoh made his
servants and his cattle flee into the houses: {9:21} And he that
regarded not the word of the LORD left his servants and his cattle in
the field.

   {9:22} And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch forth thine hand toward
heaven, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, upon man, and
upon beast, and upon every herb of the field, throughout the land of
Egypt. {9:23} And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and the
LORD sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon the ground; and
the LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt. {9:24} 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. {9:25} 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. {9:26} Only in the land of Goshen,
where the children of Israel [were,] was there no hail.

   {9:27} And Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said
unto them, I have sinned this time: the LORD [is] righteous, and I and
my people [are] wicked. {9:28} 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. {9:29} 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.
{9:30} But as for thee and thy servants, I know that ye will not yet
fear the LORD God. {9:31} And the flax and the barley was smitten: for
the barley was in the ear, and the flax [was] bolled. {9:32} But the
wheat and the rie were not smitten: for they [were] not grown up.
{9:33} 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. {9:34} 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. {9:35} And the heart of
Pharaoh was hardened, neither would he let the children of Israel go;
as the LORD had spoken by Moses.

   {10:1} 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: {10:2} 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. {10:3} 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. {10:4} Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold,
to morrow will I bring the locusts into thy coast: {10:5} And they
shall cover the face of the earth, that one cannot be 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: {10:6} 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. {10:7} 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? {10:8} 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? {10:9} 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. {10:10} 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. {10:11} 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.

   {10:12} 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. {10:13} 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. {10:14} And the locusts 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. {10:15} 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.

   {10:16} Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste; and he
said, I have sinned against the LORD your God, and against you. {10:17}
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.
{10:18} And he went out from Pharaoh, and intreated the LORD. {10:19}
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. {10:20} But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's
heart, so that he would not let the children of Israel go.

   {10:21} 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. {10:22} And Moses stretched forth his
hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of
Egypt three days: {10:23} They saw not one another, neither rose any
from his place for three days: but all the children of Israel had light
in their dwellings.

   {10:24} 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. {10:25} And Moses said, Thou must give us also
sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice unto the LORD our
God. {10:26} Our cattle also shall go with us; there shall not an hoof
be left 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.

   {10:27} But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he would not let
them go. {10:28} 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. {10:29} And Moses said, Thou hast spoken well, I will
see thy face again no more.

   {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. {11:2} 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. {11:3} 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. {11:4} And Moses said, Thus saith the LORD,
About midnight will I go out into the midst of Egypt: {11:5} And all
the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn 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.
{11:6} 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. {11:7}
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. {11:8} 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.
{11:9} And the LORD said unto Moses, Pharaoh shall not hearken unto
you; that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt. {11:10}
And Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh: and the LORD
hardened Pharaoh's heart, so that he would not let the children of
Israel go out of his land.

   {12:1} And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,
saying, {12:2} This month [shall be] unto you the beginning of months:
it [shall be] the first month of the year to you.

   {12:3} Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the
tenth [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: {12:4}
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. {12:5} Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first
year: ye shall take [it] out from the sheep, or from the goats: {12:6}
And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and
the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the
evening. {12:7} 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. {12:8} And they shall eat the flesh in that night,
roast with fire, and unleavened bread; [and] with bitter [herbs] they
shall eat it. {12:9} 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. {12:10} And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the
morning; and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn
with fire.

   {12:11} And thus shall ye eat it; [with] your loins girded, your
shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in
haste: it [is] the LORD'S passover. {12:12} 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. {12:13} 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. {12:14} And this day
shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the
LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an
ordinance for ever. {12:15} Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread;
even the first day ye 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. {12:16} And in the first
day [there shall be] an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there
shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in
them, save [that] which every man must eat, that only may be done of
you. {12:17} And ye shall observe [the feast of] unleavened bread; for
in this 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.

   {12:18} 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. {12:19} 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. {12:20} Ye shall eat nothing leavened;
in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread.

   {12:21} 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. {12:22} 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. {12:23} 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. ]{12:24} And ye shall observe this thing for
an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever. {12:25} And it shall
come to pass, when ye be come to the land which the LORD will give you,
according as he hath promised, that ye shall keep this service. {12:26}
And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What
mean ye by this service? {12:27} That ye shall say, It [is] the
sacrifice of the LORD'S passover, who 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. {12:28} And
the children of Israel went away, and did as the LORD had commanded
Moses and Aaron, so did they.

   {12:29} And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the
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. {12:30} 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.

   {12:31} 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. {12:32} Also take
your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone; and bless me
also. {12:33} And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, that they
might send them out of the land in haste; for they said, We [be] all
dead [men. ]{12:34} And the people took their dough before it was
leavened, their kneadingtroughs being bound up in their clothes upon
their shoulders. {12:35} And the children of Israel did according to
the word of Moses; and they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver,
and jewels of gold, and raiment: {12:36} 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.

   {12:37} And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to
Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot [that were] men, beside
children. {12:38} And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and
flocks, and herds, [even] very much cattle. {12:39} And they baked
unleavened cakes of the dough which they 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.

   {12:40} Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in
Egypt, [was] four hundred and thirty years. {12:41} And it came to pass
at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day
it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land
of Egypt. {12:42} 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.

   {12:43} And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron, This [is] the
ordinance of the passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof: {12:44}
But every man's servant that is bought for money, when thou hast
circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof. {12:45} A foreigner and an
hired servant shall not eat thereof. {12:46} 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. {12:47} All the
congregation of Israel shall keep it. {12:48} 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. {12:49} One law shall be to him that is homeborn,
and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you. {12:50} Thus did all
the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses and Aaron, so did
they. {12:51} And it came to pass the selfsame day, [that] the LORD did
bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.

   {13:1} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {13:2} Sanctify unto
me all the firstborn, whatsoever openeth the womb among the children of
Israel, [both] of man and of beast: it [is] mine.

   {13:3} And Moses said unto the people, Remember this day, in which
ye 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. {13:4} This day came ye out in the month Abib.

   {13:5} 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. {13:6} Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and in the
seventh day [shall be] a feast to the LORD. {13:7} Unleavened bread
shall be eaten seven days; and there shall no leavened bread be seen
with thee, neither shall there be leaven seen with thee in all thy
quarters.

   {13:8} 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. {13:9} 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. {13:10} Thou shalt therefore keep this ordinance in his season
from year to year.

   {13:11} 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, {13:12} 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. {13:13} 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.

   {13:14} 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:
{13:15} 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. {13:16} 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.

   {13:17} 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: {13:18} 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.
{13:19} 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.

   {13:20} And they took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in
Etham, in the edge of the wilderness. {13:21} 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:
{13:22} He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar
of fire by night, [from] before the people.

   {14:1} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {14:2} Speak unto the
children of Israel, that they turn and encamp before Pi-hahiroth,
between Migdol and the sea, over against Baal-zephon: before it shall
ye encamp by the sea. {14:3} For Pharaoh will say of the children of
Israel, They [are] entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them
in. {14:4} And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, that he shall follow
after them; 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.

   {14:5} 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? {14:6} And he made ready his chariot, and took his people
with him: {14:7} And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the
chariots of Egypt, and captains over every one of them. {14:8} And the
LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued after
the children of Israel: and the children of Israel went out with an
high hand. {14:9} 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 Pi-hahiroth, before Baal-zephon.

   {14:10} 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.
{14:11} 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? {14:12} [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.

   {14:13} 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. {14:14} The LORD shall fight for you, and ye shall hold
your peace.

   {14:15} And the LORD said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto me?
speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward: {14:16} But
lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and
divide it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry [ground] through
the midst of the sea. {14:17} 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. {14:18} 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.

   {14:19} 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: {14:20} 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. {14:21} 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. {14:22} 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.

   {14:23} 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. {14:24} 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, {14:25} 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.

   {14:26} 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. {14:27} 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. {14:28} 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. {14:29} 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. {14:30} Thus the LORD
saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw
the Egyptians dead upon the sea shore. {14:31} 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.

   {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. {15:2} The LORD [is] my strength and song, and he is become my
salvation: he [is] my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my
father's God, and I will exalt him. {15:3} The LORD [is] a man of war:
the LORD [is] his name. {15:4} Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath he
cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea.
{15:5} The depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a
stone. {15:6} Thy right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power: thy
right hand, O LORD, hath dashed in pieces the enemy. {15:7} And in the
greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown them that rose up
against thee: thou sentest forth thy wrath, [which] consumed them as
stubble. {15:8} 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. {15:9} 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.
{15:10} Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: they sank
as lead in the mighty waters. {15:11} Who [is] like unto thee, O LORD,
among the gods? who [is] like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful [in]
praises, doing wonders? {15:12} Thou stretchedst out thy right hand,
the earth swallowed them. {15:13} Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the
people [which] thou hast redeemed: thou hast guided [them] in thy
strength unto thy holy habitation. {15:14} The people shall hear, [and]
be afraid: sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Palestina.
{15:15} Then the dukes of Edom shall be amazed; the mighty men of Moab,
trembling shall take hold upon them; all the inhabitants of Canaan
shall melt away. {15:16} 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. {15:17} 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. {15:18} The LORD shall reign for ever and ever.
{15:19} 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.

   {15:20} 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. {15:21} 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. {15:22} 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.

   {15:23} 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. {15:24} And the people murmured against Moses, saying,
What shall we drink? {15:25} 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, {15:26} 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.

   {15:27} And they came to Elim, where [were] twelve wells of water,
and threescore and ten palm trees: and they encamped there by the
waters.

   {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. {16:2} And the
whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and
Aaron in the wilderness: {16:3} And the children of Israel said unto
them, Would to God we had 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.

   {16:4} 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. {16:5} 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. {16:6} 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: {16:7} 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? {16:8}
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.

   {16:9} 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. {16:10} And it came to pass, as Aaron spake unto the
whole congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked toward
the wilderness, and, behold, the glory of the LORD appeared in the
cloud.

   {16:11} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {16:12} I have heard
the murmurings of the children of Israel: speak unto 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. {16:13} 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. {16:14} 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. {16:15} 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.

   {16:16} 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. {16:17} And the children of Israel did so,
and gathered, some more, some less. {16:18} 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. {16:19} And Moses said, Let no man leave of it till the
morning. {16:20} Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but
some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and
stank: and Moses was wroth with them. {16:21} And they gathered it
every morning, every man according to his eating: and when the sun
waxed hot, it melted.

   {16:22} And it came to pass, [that] on the sixth day they gathered
twice as much bread, two omers for one [man:] and all the rulers of the
congregation came and told Moses. {16:23} 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. {16:24} And they laid it up till the
morning, as Moses bade: and it did not stink, neither was there any
worm therein. {16:25} And Moses said, Eat that to day; for to day [is]
a sabbath unto the LORD: to day ye shall not find it in the field.
{16:26} Six days ye shall gather it; but on the seventh day, [which is]
the sabbath, in it there shall be none.

   {16:27} And it came to pass, [that] there went out [some] of the
people on the seventh day for to gather, and they found none. {16:28}
And the LORD said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my
commandments and my laws? {16:29} See, for that the LORD hath given you
the sabbath, therefore he 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. {16:30} So the people rested on the seventh day.
{16:31} 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.

   {16:32} 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. {16:33} 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. {16:34} As the LORD
commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.
{16:35} 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. {16:36} Now an omer [is] the tenth
[part] of an ephah.

   {17:1} And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed
from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the
commandment of the LORD, and pitched in Rephidim: and [there was] no
water for the people to drink. {17:2} Wherefore the people did chide
with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said
unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the LORD? {17:3}
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? {17:4} And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, What shall I do
unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me. {17:5} And the LORD
said unto Moses, Go on before the people, and take with thee of the
elders of Israel; and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, take
in thine hand, and go. {17:6} 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. {17:7} And he called the name of the
place Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of
Israel, and because they tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among
us, or not?

   {17:8} Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim. {17:9}
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. {17:10} 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. {17:11} And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that
Israel prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.
{17:12} But Moses' hands [were] heavy; and they took a stone, and put
[it] 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. {17:13} And
Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
{17:14} 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. {17:15} And Moses
built an altar, and called the name of it Jehovah-nissi: {17:16} For he
said, Because the LORD hath sworn [that] the LORD [will have] war with
Amalek from generation to generation.

   {18:1} 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; {18:2} Then
Jethro, Moses' father in law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had
sent her back, {18:3} And her two sons; of which the name of the one
[was] Gershom; for he said, I have been an alien in a strange land:
{18:4} And the name of the other [was] Eliezer; for the God of my
father, [said he, was] mine help, and delivered me from the sword of
Pharaoh: {18:5} And Jethro, Moses' father in law, came with his sons
and his wife unto Moses into the wilderness, where he encamped at the
mount of God: {18:6} And he said unto Moses, I thy father in law Jethro
am come unto thee, and thy wife, and her two sons with her.

   {18:7} 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. {18:8} 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. {18:9} 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. {18:10} 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. {18:11} Now I know that
the LORD [is] greater than all gods: for in the thing wherein they
dealt proudly [he was] above them. {18:12} 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.

   {18:13} 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. {18:14} 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? {18:15} And Moses said unto his father in
law, Because the people come unto me to enquire of God: {18:16} When
they have a matter, they come unto me; and I judge between one and
another, and I do make [them] know the statutes of God, and his laws.
{18:17} And Moses' father in law said unto him, The thing that thou
doest [is] not good. {18:18} Thou wilt surely wear away, both thou, and
this people that [is] with thee: for this thing [is] too heavy for
thee; thou art not able to perform it thyself alone. {18:19} 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: {18:20} 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. {18:21} 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: {18:22} 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. {18:23} 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. {18:24} So Moses hearkened to the
voice of his father in law, and did all that he had said. {18:25} And
Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the
people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and
rulers of tens. {18:26} And they judged the people at all seasons: the
hard causes they brought unto Moses, but every small matter they judged
themselves.

   {18:27} And Moses let his father in law depart; and he went his way
into his own land.

   {19:1} 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. {19:2} 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. {19:3} 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;
{19:4} Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and [how] I bare you
on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself. {19:5} Now therefore, if
ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a
peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth [is]
mine: {19:6} And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy
nation. These [are] the words which thou shalt speak unto the children
of Israel.

   {19:7} And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and
laid before their faces all these words which the LORD commanded him.
{19:8} 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. {19:9} 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.

   {19:10} And the LORD said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and
sanctify them to day and to morrow, and let them wash their clothes,
{19:11} 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. {19:12}
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: {19:13} 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.

   {19:14} And Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and
sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes. {19:15} And he
said unto the people, Be ready against the third day: come not at
[your] wives.

   {19:16} And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that
there 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. {19:17} And Moses brought forth the
people out of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at the nether
part of the mount. {19:18} 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.
{19:19} And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed
louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice.
{19:20} 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. {19:21} 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. {19:22} And let the priests also, which come near to the
LORD, sanctify themselves, lest the LORD break forth upon them. {19:23}
And Moses said unto the LORD, The people cannot come up to mount Sinai:
for thou chargedst us, saying, Set bounds about the mount, and sanctify
it. {19:24} 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. {19:25} So Moses went down unto the people, and spake unto
them.

   {20:1} And God spake all these words, saying, {20:2} I [am] the LORD
thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the
house of bondage. {20:3} Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
{20:4} Thou shalt not make unto 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 water under the earth: {20:5} Thou shalt
not bow down thyself to 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;
{20:6} And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep
my commandments. {20:7} 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. {20:8} Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. {20:9}
Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: {20:10} 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: {20:11} 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.

   {20:12} Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long
upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. {20:13} Thou shalt
not kill. {20:14} Thou shalt not commit adultery. {20:15} Thou shalt
not steal. {20:16} Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy
neighbour. {20:17} 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.

   {20:18} 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. {20:19} And they
said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God
speak with us, lest we die. {20:20} And Moses said unto the people,
Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before
your faces, that ye sin not. {20:21} And the people stood afar off, and
Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God [was.]

   {20:22} And the LORD said unto Moses, Thus thou shalt say unto the
children of Israel, Ye have seen that I have talked with you from
heaven. {20:23} Ye shall not make with me gods of silver, neither shall
ye make unto you gods of gold.

   {20:24} An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt
sacrifice 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. {20:25} 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. {20:26} Neither shalt thou
go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered
thereon.

   {21:1} Now these [are] the judgments which thou shalt set before
them. {21:2} If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve:
and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. {21:3} If he came
in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his
wife shall go out with him. {21:4} If his master have given him a wife,
and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children
shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself. {21:5} And if
the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my
children; I will not go out free: {21:6} Then his master shall bring
him unto the judges; he shall also 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.

   {21:7} And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall
not go out as the menservants do. {21:8} If she please not her master,
who hath betrothed her to himself, 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. {21:9} And if he have betrothed her
unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.
{21:10} If he take him another [wife;] her food, her raiment, and her
duty of marriage, shall he not diminish. {21:11} And if he do not these
three unto her, then shall she go out free without money.

   {21:12} He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put
to death. {21:13} And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver [him]
into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee.
{21:14} But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay
him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.

   {21:15} And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be
surely put to death.

   {21:16} And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be
found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.

   {21:17} And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely
be put to death.

   {21:18} And if men strive together, and one smite another with a
stone, or with [his] fist, and he die not, but keepeth [his] bed:
{21:19} 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.

   {21:20} And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and
he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished. {21:21}
Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished:
for he [is] his money.

   {21:22} If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her
fruit 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. ]{21:23} And if [any] mischief
follow, then thou shalt give life for life, {21:24} Eye for eye, tooth
for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, {21:25} Burning for burning,
wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

   {21:26} 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.
{21:27} 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.

   {21:28} 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. {21:29} 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. {21:30} If
there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the ransom
of his life whatsoever is laid upon him. {21:31} Whether he have gored
a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this judgment shall it be
done unto him. {21:32} If the ox shall push a manservant or a
maidservant; he shall give unto their master thirty shekels of silver,
and the ox shall be stoned.

   {21:33} And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit,
and not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein; {21:34} The owner
of the pit shall make [it] good, [and] give money unto the owner of
them; and the dead [beast] shall be his.

   {21:35} And if one man's ox hurt another's, that he die; then they
shall sell the live ox, and divide the money of it; and the dead [ox]
also they shall divide. {21:36} 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.

   {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.

   {22:2} If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die,
[there shall] no blood [be shed] for him. {22:3} If the sun be risen
upon him, [there shall be] blood [shed] for him; [for] he should make
full restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his
theft. {22:4} If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive,
whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep; he shall restore double.

   {22:5} If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and
shall put 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.

   {22:6} 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.

   {22:7} 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. {22:8} 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. {22:9} 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. {22:10}
If a man deliver unto his neighbour an ass, or an ox, or a sheep, or
any beast, to keep; and it die, or be hurt, or driven away, no man
seeing [it: ]{22:11} [Then] shall an oath of the LORD be between them
both, that he 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.
{22:12} And if it be stolen from him, he shall make restitution unto
the owner thereof. {22:13} If it be torn in pieces, [then] let him
bring it [for] witness, [and] he shall not make good that which was
torn.

   {22:14} And if a man borrow [ought] of his neighbour, and it be
hurt, or die, the owner thereof [being] not with it, he shall surely
make [it] good. {22:15} [But] if the owner thereof [be] with it, he
shall not make [it] good: if it [be] an hired [thing,] it came for his
hire.

   {22:16} And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie
with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife. {22:17} If her
father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money
according to the dowry of virgins.

   {22:18} Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.

   {22:19} Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.

   {22:20} He that sacrificeth unto [any] god, save unto the LORD only,
he shall be utterly destroyed.

   {22:21} Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye
were strangers in the land of Egypt.

   {22:22} Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child. {22:23}
If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will
surely hear their cry; {22:24} And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will
kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your
children fatherless.

   {22:25} If thou lend money to [any of] my people [that is] poor by
thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay
upon him usury. {22:26} If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to
pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:
{22:27} For that [is] his covering only, it [is] his raiment for his
skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth
unto me, that I will hear; for I [am] gracious.

   {22:28} Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy
people.

   {22:29} 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. {22:30} 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.

   {22:31} And ye shall be holy men unto me: neither shall ye eat [any]
flesh [that is] torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to the
dogs.

   {23:1} Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with
the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

   {23:2} Thou shalt not follow a multitude to [do] evil; neither shalt
thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest [judgment:]

   {23:3} Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.

   {23:4} If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou
shalt surely bring it back to him again. {23:5} If thou see the ass of
him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to
help him, thou shalt surely help with him. {23:6} Thou shalt not wrest
the judgment of thy poor in his cause. {23:7} Keep thee far from a
false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will
not justify the wicked.

   {23:8} And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise,
and perverteth the words of the righteous.

   {23:9} Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart
of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. {23:10}
And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits
thereof: {23:11} 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. {23:12} 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. {23:13} 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.

   {23:14} Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year.
{23:15} Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat
unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed
of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall
appear before me empty:) {23:16} And the feast of harvest, the
firstfruits of thy labours, which thou 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. {23:17} Three times in the
year all thy males shall appear before the Lord GOD. {23:18} Thou shalt
not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall
the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning. {23:19} 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.

   {23:20} Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the
way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared. {23:21}
Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not
pardon your transgressions: for my name [is] in him. {23:22} But if
thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will
be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine
adversaries. {23:23} For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring
thee in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and
the Canaanites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them
off. {23:24} 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. {23:25} 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.

   {23:26} There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy
land: the number of thy days I will fulfil. {23:27} I will send my fear
before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come,
and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee. {23:28}
And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite,
the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee. {23:29} I will not
drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become
desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee. {23:30} By
little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be
increased, and inherit the land. {23:31} And I will set thy bounds from
the Red sea even unto the sea of 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. {23:32} Thou
shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. {23:33} 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.

   {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. {24:2} And Moses alone shall come near the LORD:
but they shall not come nigh; neither shall the people go up with him.

   {24:3} And Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD,
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. {24:4} 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. {24:5} And he sent young men
of the children of Israel, which offered burnt offerings, and
sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the LORD. {24:6} And Moses took
half of the blood, and put [it] in basons; and half of the blood he
sprinkled on the altar. {24:7} And he took the book of the covenant,
and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the
LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient. {24:8} 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.

   {24:9} Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy
of the elders of Israel: {24:10} And they saw the God of Israel: and
[there was] under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone,
and as it were the body of heaven in [his] clearness. {24:11} And upon
the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand: also they
saw God, and did eat and drink.

   {24:12} 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. {24:13}
And Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua: and Moses went up into the
mount of God. {24:14} And he said unto the elders, Tarry ye here for
us, until we come again unto you: and, behold, Aaron and Hur [are] with
you: if any man have any matters to do, let him come unto them. {24:15}
And Moses went up into the mount, and a cloud covered the mount.
{24:16} 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. {24:17} And the sight of the glory of the LORD
[was] like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the
children of Israel. {24:18} And Moses went into the midst of the cloud,
and gat him up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days
and forty nights.

   {25:1} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {25:2} Speak unto the
children of Israel, that they bring me an offering: of every man that
giveth it willingly with his heart ye shall take my offering. {25:3}
And this [is] the offering which ye shall take of them; gold, and
silver, and brass, {25:4} And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine
linen, and goats [hair, ]{25:5} And rams' skins dyed red, and badgers'
skins, and shittim wood, {25:6} Oil for the light, spices for anointing
oil, and for sweet incense, {25:7} Onyx stones, and stones to be set in
the ephod, and in the breastplate. {25:8} And let them make me a
sanctuary; that I may dwell among them. {25:9} According to all that I
shew thee, [after] the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of
all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make [it.]

   {25:10} And they shall make an ark [of] shittim wood: two cubits and
a half [shall be] the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the
breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof. {25:11} 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. {25:12}
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. {25:13} And thou shalt make
staves [of] shittim wood, and overlay them with gold. {25:14} And thou
shalt put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, that the
ark may be borne with them. {25:15} The staves shall be in the rings of
the ark: they shall not be taken from it. {25:16} And thou shalt put
into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee. {25:17} 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.
{25:18} And thou shalt make two cherubims [of] gold, [of] beaten work
shalt thou make them, in the two ends of the mercy seat. {25:19} And
make one cherub on the one end, and the other cherub on the other end:
[even] of the mercy seat shall ye make the cherubims on the two ends
thereof. {25:20} And the cherubim 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. {25:21} 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. {25:22} 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.

   {25:23} 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. {25:24} And thou shalt overlay it
with pure gold, and make thereto a crown of gold round about. {25:25}
And thou shalt make unto it a border of an hand breadth round about,
and thou shalt make a golden crown to the border thereof round about.
{25:26} And thou shalt make for it four rings of gold, and put the
rings in the four corners that [are] on the four feet thereof. {25:27}
Over against the border shall the rings be for places of the staves to
bear the table. {25:28} And thou shalt make the staves [of] shittim
wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be borne with
them. {25:29} 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. {25:30} And thou shalt set upon the
table shewbread before me alway.

   {25:31} And thou shalt make a candlestick [of] pure gold: [of]
beaten work shall the candlestick be made: his shaft, and his branches,
his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, shall be of the same. {25:32}
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: {25:33} 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. {25:34} And in the
candlestick [shall be] four bowls made like unto almonds, [with] their
knops and their flowers. {25:35} And [there shall be] a knop under two
branches of the same, and 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. {25:36} Their knops and their branches
shall be of the same: all it [shall be] one beaten work [of] pure gold.
{25:37} And thou shalt make the seven lamps thereof: and they shall
light the lamps thereof, that they may give light over against it.
{25:38} And the tongs thereof, and the snuffdishes thereof, [shall be
of] pure gold. {25:39} [Of] a talent of pure gold shall he make it,
with all these vessels. {25:40} And look that thou make [them] after
their pattern, which was shewed thee in the mount.

   {26:1} 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. {26:2} 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. {26:3} The five curtains shall be coupled together one to
another; and [other] five curtains [shall be] coupled one to another.
{26:4} And thou shalt make loops of blue upon the edge of the one
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. {26:5} 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.
{26:6} And thou shalt make fifty taches of gold, and couple the
curtains together with the taches: and it shall be one tabernacle.

   {26:7} And thou shalt make curtains [of] goats' [hair] to be a
covering upon the tabernacle: eleven curtains shalt thou make. {26:8}
The length of one curtain [shall be] thirty cubits, and the breadth of
one curtain four cubits: and the eleven curtains [shall be all] of one
measure. {26:9} 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. {26:10} 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.
{26:11} 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.
{26:12} And the remnant that remaineth of the curtains of the tent, the
half curtain that remaineth, shall hang over the backside of the
tabernacle. {26:13} 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. {26:14} And thou shalt make a covering for
the tent [of] rams' skins dyed red, and a covering above [of] badgers
skins.

   {26:15} And thou shalt make boards for the tabernacle [of] shittim
wood standing up. {26:16} Ten cubits [shall be] the length of a board,
and a cubit and a half [shall be] the breadth of one board. {26:17} Two
tenons [shall there be] in one board, set in order one against another:
thus shalt thou make for all the boards of the tabernacle. {26:18} And
thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards on the
south side southward. {26:19} And thou shalt make forty sockets of
silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two
tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons. {26:20}
And for the second side of the tabernacle on the north side [there
shall be] twenty boards: {26:21} And their forty sockets [of] silver;
two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
{26:22} And for the sides of the tabernacle westward thou shalt make
six boards. {26:23} And two boards shalt thou make for the corners of
the tabernacle in the two sides. {26:24} 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. {26:25} And they shall be eight boards, and their sockets
[of] silver, sixteen sockets; two sockets under one board, and two
sockets under another board.

   {26:26} And thou shalt make bars [of] shittim wood; five for the
boards of the one side of the tabernacle, {26:27} And five bars for the
boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the
boards of the side of the tabernacle, for the two sides westward.
{26:28} And the middle bar in the midst of the boards shall reach from
end to end. {26:29} 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. {26:30} And thou shalt rear up the
tabernacle according to the fashion thereof which was shewed thee in
the mount.

   {26:31} And thou shalt make a vail [of] blue, and purple, and
scarlet, and fine twined linen of cunning work: with cherubims shall it
be made: {26:32} And thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of shittim
[wood] overlaid with gold: their hooks [shall be of] gold, upon the
four sockets of silver.

   {26:33} 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. {26:34} And thou shalt put the mercy seat upon the ark of the
testimony in the most holy [place. ]{26:35} And thou shalt set the
table without the vail, and the candlestick over against the table on
the side of the tabernacle toward the south: and thou shalt put the
table on the north side. {26:36} And thou shalt make an hanging for the
door of the tent, [of] blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined
linen, wrought with needlework. {26:37} 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.

   {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. {27:2} 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. {27:3} 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. {27:4} 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. {27:5} And thou shalt put it under the compass of the
altar beneath, that the net may be even to the midst of the altar.
{27:6} And thou shalt make staves for the altar, staves [of] shittim
wood, and overlay them with brass. {27:7} And the staves shall be put
into the rings, and the staves shall be upon the two sides of the
altar, to bear it. {27:8} Hollow with boards shalt thou make it: as it
was shewed thee in the mount, so shall they make [it.]

   {27:9} And thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle: for the
south side southward [there shall be] hangings for the court [of] fine
twined linen of an hundred cubits long for one side: {27:10} 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.
{27:11} 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.

   {27:12} And [for] the breadth of the court on the west side [shall
be] hangings of fifty cubits: their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.
{27:13} And the breadth of the court on the east side eastward [shall
be] fifty cubits. {27:14} The hangings of one side [of the gate shall
be] fifteen cubits: their pillars three, and their sockets three.
{27:15} And on the other side [shall be] hangings fifteen [cubits:]
their pillars three, and their sockets three.

   {27:16} And for the gate of the court [shall be] an hanging of
twenty cubits, [of] blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined
linen, wrought with needlework: [and] their pillars [shall be] four,
and their sockets four. {27:17} All the pillars round about the court
[shall be] filleted with silver; their hooks [shall be of] silver, and
their sockets of brass.

   {27:18} The length of the court [shall be] an hundred cubits, and
the breadth fifty every where, and the height five cubits [of] fine
twined linen, and their sockets [of] brass. {27:19} 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.

   {27:20} 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. {27:21} 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.

   {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. {28:2} And thou shalt make holy garments for
Aaron thy brother for glory and for beauty. {28:3} And thou shalt speak
unto all [that are] wise hearted, whom I have 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. {28:4} 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. {28:5} And they shall take gold, and
blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen.

   {28:6} And they shall make the ephod [of] gold, [of] blue, and [of]
purple, [of] scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cunning work. {28:7}
It shall have the two shoulderpieces thereof joined at the two edges
thereof; and [so] it shall be joined together. {28:8} And the curious
girdle of the ephod, which [is] upon it, shall be of the same,
according to the work thereof; [even of] gold, [of] blue, and purple,
and scarlet, and fine twined linen. {28:9} And thou shalt take two onyx
stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel: {28:10}
Six of their names on one stone, and [the other] six names of the rest
on the other stone, according to their birth. {28:11} With the work of
an engraver in stone, [like] the engravings of a signet, shalt thou
engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel: thou
shalt make them to be set in ouches of gold. {28:12} And thou shalt put
the two stones upon the shoulders of 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.

   {28:13} And thou shalt make ouches [of] gold; {28:14} And two chains
[of] pure gold at the ends; [of] wreathen work shalt thou make them,
and fasten the wreathen chains to the ouches.

   {28:15} 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. {28:16} Foursquare it shall be [being] doubled; a
span [shall be] the length thereof, and a span [shall be] the breadth
thereof. {28:17} And thou shalt set in it settings of stones, [even]
four rows of stones: [the first] row [shall be] a sardius, a topaz, and
a carbuncle: [this shall be] the first row. {28:18} And the second row
[shall be] an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond. {28:19} And the third
row a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst. {28:20} And the fourth row a
beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper: they shall be set in gold in their
inclosings. {28:21} And the stones shall be with the names of the
children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, [like] the
engravings of a signet; every one with his name shall they be according
to the twelve tribes.

   {28:22} And thou shalt make upon the breastplate chains at the ends
[of] wreathen work [of] pure gold. {28:23} And thou shalt make upon the
breastplate two rings of gold, and shalt put the two rings on the two
ends of the breastplate. {28:24} And thou shalt put the two wreathen
[chains] of gold in the two rings [which are] on the ends of the
breastplate. {28:25} And [the other] two ends of the two wreathen
[chains] thou shalt fasten in the two ouches, and put [them] on the
shoulderpieces of the ephod before it.

   {28:26} 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. {28:27} 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. {28:28} 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. {28:29} 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.

   {28:30} 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.

   {28:31} And thou shalt make the robe of the ephod all [of] blue.
{28:32} 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.

   {28:33} 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: {28:34} A
golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, upon
the hem of the robe round about. {28:35} 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.

   {28:36} And thou shalt make a plate [of] pure gold, and grave upon
it, [like] the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD. {28:37}
And thou shalt put it on a blue lace, that it may be upon the mitre;
upon the forefront of the mitre it shall be. {28:38} And it shall be
upon Aaron's forehead, that Aaron may bear the 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.

   {28:39} 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.

   {28:40} 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. {28:41} 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.
{28:42} And thou shalt make them linen breeches to cover their
nakedness; from the loins even unto the thighs they shall reach:
{28:43} 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.

   {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, {29:2} And unleavened bread, and
cakes unleavened tempered with oil, and wafers unleavened anointed with
oil: [of] wheaten flour shalt thou make them. {29:3} And thou shalt put
them into one basket, and bring them in the basket, with the bullock
and the two rams. {29:4} And Aaron and his sons thou shalt bring unto
the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shalt wash them
with water. {29:5} And thou shalt take the garments, and put upon Aaron
the coat, and the robe of the ephod, and the ephod, and the
breastplate, and gird him with the curious girdle of the ephod: {29:6}
And thou shalt put the mitre upon his head, and put the holy crown upon
the mitre. {29:7} Then shalt thou take the anointing oil, and pour [it]
upon his head, and anoint him. {29:8} And thou shalt bring his sons,
and put coats upon them. {29:9} 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. {29:10} 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. {29:11}
And thou shalt kill the bullock before the LORD, [by] the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation. {29:12} And thou shalt take of the
blood of the bullock, and put [it] upon the horns of the altar with thy
finger, and pour all the blood beside the bottom of the altar. {29:13}
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. {29:14} But the flesh of the
bullock, and his skin, and his dung, shalt thou burn with fire without
the camp: it [is] a sin offering.

   {29:15} Thou shalt also take one ram; and Aaron and his sons shall
put their hands upon the head of the ram. {29:16} And thou shalt slay
the ram, and thou shalt take his blood, and sprinkle [it] round about
upon the altar. {29:17} And thou shalt cut the ram in pieces, and wash
the inwards of him, and his legs, and put [them] unto his pieces, and
unto his head. {29:18} 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.

   {29:19} And thou shalt take the other ram; and Aaron and his sons
shall put their hands upon the head of the ram. {29:20} Then shalt thou
kill the ram, and take of his blood, and put [it] 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. {29:21}
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. {29:22} 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: {29:23} 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: {29:24} 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. {29:25} 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. {29:26} 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. {29:27} 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: {29:28} And it shall be Aaron's and his sons' by a statute for
ever from the children of Israel: for it [is] an heave offering: and it
shall be an heave offering from the children of Israel of the sacrifice
of their peace offerings, [even] their heave offering unto the LORD.

   {29:29} And the holy garments of Aaron shall be his sons' after him,
to be anointed therein, and to be consecrated in them. {29:30} [And]
that son that is priest in his stead shall put them on seven days, when
he cometh into the tabernacle of the congregation to minister in the
holy [place.]

   {29:31} And thou shalt take the ram of the consecration, and seethe
his flesh in the holy place. {29:32} And Aaron and his sons shall eat
the flesh of the ram, and the bread that [is] in the basket, [by] the
door of the tabernacle of the congregation. {29:33} And they shall eat
those things wherewith the atonement was made, to consecrate [and] to
sanctify them: but a stranger shall not eat [thereof,] because they
[are] holy. {29:34} 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.
{29:35} 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. {29:36} 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. {29:37} 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.

   {29:38} Now this [is that] which thou shalt offer upon the altar;
two lambs of the first year day by day continually. {29:39} The one
lamb thou shalt offer in the morning; and the other lamb thou shalt
offer at even: {29:40} And with the one lamb a tenth deal of flour
mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil; and the fourth
part of an hin of wine [for] a drink offering. {29:41} 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.
{29:42} [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. {29:43} And
there I will meet with the children of Israel, and [the tabernacle]
shall be sanctified by my glory. {29:44} And I will sanctify the
tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar: I will sanctify also
both Aaron and his sons, to minister to me in the priest's office.

   {29:45} And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be
their God. {29:46} 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.

   {30:1} And thou shalt make an altar to burn incense upon: [of]
shittim wood shalt thou make it. {30:2} A cubit [shall be] the length
thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof; foursquare shall it be: and
two cubits [shall be] the height thereof: the horns thereof [shall be]
of the same. {30:3} And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, the top
thereof, and the sides thereof round about, and the horns thereof; and
thou shalt make unto it a crown of gold round about. {30:4} 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. {30:5} And
thou shalt make the staves [of] shittim wood, and overlay them with
gold. {30:6} And thou shalt put it before the vail that [is] by the ark
of the testimony, before the mercy seat that [is] over the testimony,
where I will meet with thee. {30:7} And Aaron shall burn thereon sweet
incense every morning: when he dresseth the lamps, he shall burn
incense upon it. {30:8} And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at even, he
shall burn incense upon it, a perpetual incense before the LORD
throughout your generations. {30:9} Ye shall offer no strange incense
thereon, nor burnt sacrifice, nor meat offering; neither shall ye pour
drink offering thereon. {30:10} And Aaron shall make an atonement upon
the horns of it once in 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.

   {30:11} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {30:12} 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. {30:13} 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. {30:14} Every one that passeth among them that
are numbered, from twenty years old and above, shall give an offering
unto the LORD. {30:15} 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. {30:16} 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.

   {30:17} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {30:18} 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. {30:19}
For Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet thereat:
{30:20} 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: {30:21}
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.

   {30:22} Moreover the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {30:23} Take
thou also unto thee principal spices, of pure myrrh five hundred
[shekels,] and of sweet cinnamon half so much, [even] two hundred and
fifty [shekels,] and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty [shekels,
]{30:24} And of cassia five hundred [shekels,] after the shekel of the
sanctuary, and of oil olive an hin: {30:25} And thou shalt make it an
oil of holy ointment, an ointment compound after the art of the
apothecary: it shall be an holy anointing oil. {30:26} And thou shalt
anoint the tabernacle of the congregation therewith, and the ark of the
testimony, {30:27} And the table and all his vessels, and the
candlestick and his vessels, and the altar of incense, {30:28} And the
altar of burnt offering with all his vessels, and the laver and his
foot. {30:29} And thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy:
whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy. {30:30} And thou shalt anoint
Aaron and his sons, and consecrate them, that [they] may minister unto
me in the priest's office. {30:31} And thou shalt speak unto the
children of Israel, saying, This shall be an holy anointing oil unto me
throughout your generations. {30:32} Upon man's flesh shall it not be
poured, neither shall ye make [any other] like it, after the
composition of it: it [is] holy, [and] it shall be holy unto you.
{30:33} Whosoever compoundeth [any] like it, or whosoever putteth [any]
of it upon a stranger, shall even be cut off from his people.

   {30:34} And the LORD said unto Moses, Take unto thee sweet spices,
stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; [these] sweet spices with pure
frankincense: of each shall there be a like [weight: ]{30:35} And thou
shalt make it a perfume, a confection after the art of the apothecary,
tempered together, pure [and] holy: {30:36} And thou shalt beat [some]
of it very small, and put of it before the testimony in the tabernacle
of the congregation, where I will meet with thee: it shall be unto you
most holy. {30:37} And [as for] the perfume which thou shalt make, ye
shall not make to yourselves according to the composition thereof: it
shall be unto thee holy for the LORD. {30:38} Whosoever shall make like
unto that, to smell thereto, shall even be cut off from his people.

   {31:1} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {31:2} See, I have
called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of
Judah: {31:3} And I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom,
and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of
workmanship, {31:4} To devise cunning works, to work in gold, and in
silver, and in brass, {31:5} And in cutting of stones, to set [them,]
and in carving of timber, to work in all manner of workmanship. {31:6}
And I, behold, I have given with him Aholiab, the son of 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; {31:7}
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, {31:8} And the table and his furniture, and the pure
candlestick with all his furniture, and the altar of incense, {31:9}
And the altar of burnt offering with all his furniture, and the laver
and his foot, {31:10} And the cloths of service, and the holy garments
for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the
priest's office, {31:11} And the anointing oil, and sweet incense for
the holy [place:] according to all that I have commanded thee shall
they do.

   {31:12} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {31:13} Speak thou
also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall
keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations;
that ye may know that I [am] the LORD that doth sanctify you. {31:14}
Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it [is] holy unto you: every
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.
{31:15} 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. {31:16} Wherefore the children of
Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their
generations, [for] a perpetual covenant. {31:17} It [is] a sign between
me and the children of Israel for ever: for [in] six days the LORD made
heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.

   {31:18} 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.

   {32:1} 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. {32:2} 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. {32:3} And all
the people brake off the golden earrings which [were] in their ears,
and brought [them] unto Aaron. {32:4} And he received [them] at their
hand, and fashioned it with a 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. {32:5} And when Aaron saw
[it,] he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and
said, To morrow [is] a feast to the LORD. {32:6} And they rose up early
on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace
offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to
play.

   {32:7} 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: ]{32:8} 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.
{32:9} And the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and,
behold, it [is] a stiffnecked people: {32:10} 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. {32:11} 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? {32:12} 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. {32:13} 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. {32:14} And the LORD repented of the evil which
he thought to do unto his people.

   {32:15} 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. {32:16} And the tables [were] the work of God, and the writing
[was] the writing of God, graven upon the tables. {32:17} And when
Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto
Moses, [There is] a noise of war in the camp. {32:18} And he said, [It
is] not the voice of [them that] shout for mastery, neither [is it] the
voice of [them that] cry for being overcome: [but] the noise of [them
that] sing do I hear.

   {32:19} 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.
{32:20} 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. ]{32:21} And Moses said unto
Aaron, What did this people unto thee, that thou hast brought so great
a sin upon them? {32:22} And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord
wax hot: thou knowest the people, that they are [set] on mischief.
{32:23} For they said unto me, 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. {32:24} 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.

   {32:25} And when Moses saw that the people [were] naked; (for Aaron
had made them naked unto [their] shame among their enemies:) {32:26}
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. {32:27} 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.
{32:28} And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses:
and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men. {32:29}
For Moses had said, Consecrate yourselves to day to the LORD, even
every man upon his son, and upon his brother; that he may bestow upon
you a blessing this day.

   {32:30} 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. {32:31} And Moses
returned unto the LORD, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great
sin, and have made them gods of gold. {32:32} Yet now, if thou wilt
forgive their sin--; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book
which thou hast written. {32:33} And the LORD said unto Moses,
Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.
{32:34} Therefore now go, lead the people unto [the place] of which I
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.
{32:35} And the LORD plagued the people, because they made the calf,
which Aaron made.

   {33:1} 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: {33:2} 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: {33:3} 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.

   {33:4} And when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned:
and no man did put on him his ornaments. {33:5} For the LORD had said
unto Moses, Say unto the children of 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. {33:6} And the children of Israel stripped
themselves of their ornaments by the mount Horeb. {33:7} And Moses took
the tabernacle, and pitched it without the camp, 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. {33:8}
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. {33:9} 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. {33:10} 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. {33:11} 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.

   {33:12} 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. {33:13} 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. {33:14} And he said, My presence shall go [with thee,] and
I will give thee rest. {33:15} And he said unto him, If thy presence go
not [with me,] carry us not up hence. {33:16} 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.
{33:17} 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. {33:18} And he said, I beseech thee, shew me thy glory.
{33:19} 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. {33:20} And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall
no man see me, and live. {33:21} And the LORD said, Behold, [there is]
a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock: {33:22} And it shall
come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a
clift of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by:
{33:23} And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back
parts: but my face shall not be seen.

   {34:1} 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. {34:2} 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. {34:3} 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.

   {34:4} 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. {34:5} And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him
there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD. {34:6} And the LORD passed
by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and
gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, {34:7}
Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression 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. ]{34:8} And
Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped.
{34:9} And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord, let
my Lord, I pray thee, go among us; for it [is] a stiffnecked people;
and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance.

   {34:10} And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy
people I will do marvels, such as have not been done in all the earth,
nor in any nation: and all the people among which thou [art] shall see
the work of the LORD: for it [is] a terrible thing that I will do with
thee. {34:11} Observe thou that which I command thee this day: behold,
I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the
Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite. {34:12}
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: {34:13} But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images,
and cut down their groves: {34:14} For thou shalt worship no other god:
for the LORD, whose name [is] Jealous, [is] a jealous God: {34:15} Lest
thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a
whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and [one]
call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice; {34:16} 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. {34:17}
Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.

   {34:18} The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days
thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of
the month Abib: for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt.
{34:19} All that openeth the matrix [is] mine; and every firstling
among thy cattle, [whether] ox or sheep, [that is male. ]{34:20} But
the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb: and if 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.

   {34:21} Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt
rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.

   {34:22} And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the
firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the
year's end.

   {34:23} Thrice in the year shall all your men children appear before
the Lord GOD, the God of Israel. {34:24} For I will cast out the
nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders: neither shall any man
desire thy land, when thou shalt go up to appear before the LORD thy
God thrice in the year. {34:25} 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. {34:26} 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. {34:27} 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. {34:28} 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.

   {34:29} 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. {34:30} 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. {34:31} And Moses called unto them; and Aaron and all
the rulers of the congregation returned unto him: and Moses talked with
them. {34:32} And afterward all the children of Israel came nigh: and
he gave them in commandment all that the LORD had spoken with him in
mount Sinai. {34:33} And [till] Moses had done speaking with them, he
put a vail on his face. {34:34} 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. {34:35} 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.

   {35:1} And Moses gathered all the congregation of the children of
Israel together, and said unto them, These [are] the words which the
LORD hath commanded, that [ye] should do them. {35:2} Six days shall
work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you an holy day,
a sabbath of rest to the LORD: whosoever doeth work therein shall be
put to death. {35:3} Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your
habitations upon the sabbath day.

   {35:4} And Moses spake unto all the congregation of the children of
Israel, saying, This [is] the thing which the LORD commanded, saying,
{35:5} 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, {35:6} And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and
fine linen, and goats' [hair, ]{35:7} And rams' skins dyed red, and
badgers' skins, and shittim wood, {35:8} And oil for the light, and
spices for anointing oil, and for the sweet incense, {35:9} And onyx
stones, and stones to be set for the ephod, and for the breastplate.
{35:10} And every wise hearted among you shall come, and make all that
the LORD hath commanded; {35:11} The tabernacle, his tent, and his
covering, his taches, and his boards, his bars, his pillars, and his
sockets, {35:12} The ark, and the staves thereof, [with] the mercy
seat, and the vail of the covering, {35:13} The table, and his staves,
and all his vessels, and the shewbread, {35:14} The candlestick also
for the light, and his furniture, and his lamps, with the oil for the
light, {35:15} And the incense altar, and his staves, and the anointing
oil, and the sweet incense, and the hanging for the door at the
entering in of the tabernacle, {35:16} The altar of burnt offering,
with his brasen grate, his staves, and all his vessels, the laver and
his foot, {35:17} The hangings of the court, his pillars, and their
sockets, and the hanging for the door of the court, {35:18} The pins of
the tabernacle, and the pins of the court, and their cords, {35:19} 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.

   {35:20} And all the congregation of the children of Israel departed
from the presence of Moses. {35:21} And they came, every one whose
heart stirred him up, and every 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.
{35:22} 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. {35:23} 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. ]{35:24} 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. ]{35:25} 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. {35:26} And all the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom
spun goats' [hair. ]{35:27} And the rulers brought onyx stones, and
stones to be set, for the ephod, and for the breastplate; {35:28} And
spice, and oil for the light, and for the anointing oil, and for the
sweet incense. {35:29} The children of Israel brought a willing
offering unto the LORD, 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.

   {35:30} 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; {35:31} And he hath filled him with the spirit of God,
in wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of
workmanship; {35:32} And to devise curious works, to work in gold, and
in silver, and in brass, {35:33} And in the cutting of stones, to set
[them,] and in carving of wood, to make any manner of cunning work.
{35:34} And he hath put in his heart that he may teach, [both] he, and
Aholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan. {35:35} Them hath
he filled with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of work, of the
engraver, and of the cunning workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue,
and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, [even]
of them that do any work, and of those that devise cunning work.

   {36:1} 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. {36:2} 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: {36:3} 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. {36:4} And all the wise men, that wrought all
the work of the sanctuary, came every man from his work which they made;

   {36:5} And they spake unto Moses, saying, The people bring much more
than enough for the service of the work, which the LORD commanded to
make. {36:6} 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. {36:7} For the stuff they had was sufficient
for all the work to make it, and too much.

   {36:8} And every wise hearted man among them that wrought the work
of the tabernacle made ten curtains [of] fine twined linen, and blue,
and purple, and scarlet: [with] cherubims of cunning work made he them.
{36:9} 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. {36:10} And he coupled the five curtains one unto another: and
[the other] five curtains he coupled one unto another. {36:11} And he
made loops of blue on the edge of one curtain from the selvedge in the
coupling: likewise he made in the uttermost side of [another] curtain,
in the coupling of the second. {36:12} Fifty loops made he in one
curtain, and fifty loops made he in the edge of the curtain which [was]
in the coupling of the second: the loops held one [curtain] to another.
{36:13} And he made fifty taches of gold, and coupled the curtains one
unto another with the taches: so it became one tabernacle.

   {36:14} And he made curtains [of] goats' [hair] for the tent over
the tabernacle: eleven curtains he made them. {36:15} The length of one
curtain [was] thirty cubits, and four cubits [was] the breadth of one
curtain: the eleven curtains [were] of one size. {36:16} And he coupled
five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves. {36:17}
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. {36:18} And he made fifty taches [of] brass to
couple the tent together, that it might be one. {36:19} And he made a
covering for the tent [of] rams' skins dyed red, and a covering [of]
badgers' skins above [that.]

   {36:20} And he made boards for the tabernacle [of] shittim wood,
standing up. {36:21} The length of a board [was] ten cubits, and the
breadth of a board one cubit and a half. {36:22} One board had two
tenons, equally distant one from another: thus did he make for all the
boards of the tabernacle. {36:23} And he made boards for the
tabernacle; twenty boards for the south side southward: {36:24} And
forty sockets of silver he made under the twenty boards; two sockets
under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board
for his two tenons. {36:25} And for the other side of the tabernacle,
[which is] toward the north corner, he made twenty boards, {36:26} And
their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two
sockets under another board. {36:27} And for the sides of the
tabernacle westward he made six boards. {36:28} And two boards made he
for the corners of the tabernacle in the two sides. {36:29} 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. {36:30} And
there were eight boards; and their sockets [were] sixteen sockets of
silver, under every board two sockets.

   {36:31} And he made bars of shittim wood; five for the boards of the
one side of the tabernacle, {36:32} And five bars for the boards of the
other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the
tabernacle for the sides westward. {36:33} And he made the middle bar
to shoot through the boards from the one end to the other. {36:34} And
he overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings [of] gold [to
be] places for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.

   {36:35} And he made a vail [of] blue, and purple, and scarlet, and
fine twined linen: [with] cherubims made he it of cunning work. {36:36}
And he made thereunto four pillars [of] shittim [wood,] and overlaid
them with gold: their hooks [were of] gold; and he cast for them four
sockets of silver.

   {36:37} And he made an hanging for the tabernacle door [of] blue,
and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, of needlework; {36:38}
And the five pillars of it with their hooks: and he overlaid their
chapiters and their fillets with gold: but their five sockets [were of]
brass.

   {37:1} 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: {37:2} And he overlaid it with
pure gold within and without, and made a crown of gold to it round
about. {37:3} And he cast for it four rings of gold, [to be set] by the
four corners of it; even two rings upon the one side of it, and two
rings upon the other side of it. {37:4} And he made staves [of] shittim
wood, and overlaid them with gold. {37:5} And he put the staves into
the rings by the sides of the ark, to bear the ark.

   {37:6} And he made the mercy seat [of] pure gold: two cubits and a
half [was] the length thereof, and one cubit and a half the breadth
thereof. {37:7} And he made two cherubims [of] gold, beaten out of one
piece made he them, on the two ends of the mercy seat; {37:8} One
cherub on the end on this side, and another cherub on the [other] end
on that side: out of the mercy seat made he the cherubims on the two
ends thereof. {37:9} 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.

   {37:10} 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: {37:11} And he overlaid it with pure gold, and made
thereunto a crown of gold round about. {37:12} Also he made thereunto a
border of an handbreadth round about; and made a crown of gold for the
border thereof round about. {37:13} And he cast for it four rings of
gold, and put the rings upon the four corners that [were] in the four
feet thereof. {37:14} Over against the border were the rings, the
places for the staves to bear the table. {37:15} And he made the staves
[of] shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold, to bear the table.
{37:16} And he made the vessels which [were] upon the table, his
dishes, and his spoons, and his bowls, and his covers to cover withal,
[of] pure gold.

   {37:17} 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: {37:18} 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: {37:19} 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. {37:20} And in the candlestick
[were] four bowls made like almonds, his knops, and his flowers:
{37:21} And a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two
branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same,
according to the six branches going out of it. {37:22} Their knops and
their branches were of the same: all of it [was] one beaten work [of]
pure gold. {37:23} And he made his seven lamps, and his snuffers, and
his snuffdishes, [of] pure gold. {37:24} [Of] a talent of pure gold
made he it, and all the vessels thereof.

   {37:25} And he made the incense altar [of] shittim wood: the length
of it [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. {37:26} 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. {37:27} 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. {37:28} And he made the staves [of] shittim wood, and overlaid
them with gold.

   {37:29} And he made the holy anointing oil, and the pure incense of
sweet spices, according to the work of the apothecary.

   {38:1} 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.
{38:2} And he made the horns thereof on the four corners of it; the
horns thereof were of the same: and he overlaid it with brass. {38:3}
And he made all the vessels of the altar, the pots, and the shovels,
and the basons, [and] the fleshhooks, and the firepans: all the vessels
thereof made he [of] brass. {38:4} And he made for the altar a brasen
grate of network under the compass thereof beneath unto the midst of
it. {38:5} And he cast four rings for the four ends of the grate of
brass, [to be] places for the staves. {38:6} And he made the staves
[of] shittim wood, and overlaid them with brass. {38:7} And he put the
staves into the rings on the sides of the altar, to bear it withal; he
made the altar hollow with boards.

   {38:8} And he made the laver [of] brass, and the foot of it [of]
brass, of the lookingglasses of [the women] assembling, which assembled
[at] the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

   {38:9} And he made the court: on the south side southward the
hangings of the court [were of] fine twined linen, an hundred cubits:
{38:10} Their pillars [were] twenty, and their brasen sockets twenty;
the hooks of the pillars and their fillets [were of] silver. {38:11}
And for the north side [the hangings were] an hundred cubits, their
pillars [were] twenty, and their sockets of brass twenty; the hooks of
the pillars and their fillets [of] silver. {38:12} 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.
{38:13} And for the east side eastward fifty cubits. {38:14} The
hangings of the one side [of the gate were] fifteen cubits; their
pillars three, and their sockets three. {38:15} And for the other side
of the court gate, on this hand and that hand, [were] hangings of
fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three. {38:16}
All the hangings of the court round about [were] of fine twined linen.
{38:17} 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. {38:18} 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. {38:19} 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. {38:20} And all the pins of the tabernacle, and of the
court round about, [were of] brass.

   {38:21} This is the sum of the tabernacle, [even] of the tabernacle
of testimony, as it was counted, according to the commandment of Moses,
[for] the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, son to Aaron
the priest. {38:22} And Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the
tribe of Judah, made all that the LORD commanded Moses. {38:23} And
with him [was] Aholiab, son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an
engraver, and a cunning workman, and an embroiderer in blue, and in
purple, and in scarlet, and fine linen. {38:24} All the gold that was
occupied for the work in all the work of the 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. {38:25} And the
silver of them that were numbered of the congregation [was] an hundred
talents, and a thousand seven hundred and threescore and fifteen
shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary: {38:26} A bekah for every
man, [that is,] half a shekel, after the shekel of 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. ]{38:27} 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. {38:28} And of
the thousand seven hundred seventy and five [shekels] he made hooks for
the pillars, and overlaid their chapiters, and filleted them. {38:29}
And the brass of the offering [was] seventy talents, and two thousand
and four hundred shekels. {38:30} And therewith he made the sockets to
the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the brasen altar,
and the brasen grate for it, and all the vessels of the altar, {38:31}
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.

   {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. {39:2} And he made the ephod
[of] gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen. {39:3}
And they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut [it into] wires,
to work [it] in the blue, and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in
the fine linen, [with] cunning work. {39:4} They made shoulderpieces
for it, to couple [it] together: by the two edges was it coupled
together. {39:5} And the curious girdle of his ephod, that [was] upon
it, [was] of the same, according to the work thereof; [of] gold, blue,
and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen; as the LORD commanded
Moses.

   {39:6} And they wrought onyx stones inclosed in ouches of gold,
graven, as signets are graven, with the names of the children of
Israel. {39:7} And he put them on the shoulders of the ephod, [that
they should be] stones for a memorial to the children of Israel; as the
LORD commanded Moses.

   {39:8} And he made the breastplate [of] cunning work, like the work
of the ephod; [of] gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined
linen. {39:9} It was foursquare; they made the breastplate double: a
span [was] the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof, [being]
doubled. {39:10} And they set in it four rows of stones: [the first]
row [was] a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this [was] the first
row. {39:11} And the second row, an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.
{39:12} And the third row, a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst. {39:13}
And the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper: [they were]
inclosed in ouches of gold in their inclosings. {39:14} And the stones
[were] according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve,
according to their names, [like] the engravings of a signet, every one
with his name, according to the twelve tribes. {39:15} And they made
upon the breastplate chains at the ends, [of] wreathen work [of] pure
gold. {39:16} And they made two ouches [of] gold, and two gold rings;
and put the two rings in the two ends of the breastplate. {39:17} And
they put the two wreathen chains of gold in the two rings on the ends
of the breastplate. {39:18} And the two ends of the two wreathen chains
they fastened in the two ouches, and put them on the shoulderpieces of
the ephod, before it. {39:19} 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. {39:20} 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. {39:21} 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.

   {39:22} And he made the robe of the ephod [of] woven work, all [of]
blue. {39:23} 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. {39:24} And they made upon the hems of the robe
pomegranates [of] blue, and purple, and scarlet, [and] twined [linen.
]{39:25} And they made bells [of] pure gold, and put the bells between
the pomegranates upon the hem of the robe, round about between the
pomegranates; {39:26} 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.

   {39:27} And they made coats [of] fine linen [of] woven work for
Aaron, and for his sons, {39:28} And a mitre [of] fine linen, and
goodly bonnets [of] fine linen, and linen breeches [of] fine twined
linen, {39:29} And a girdle [of] fine twined linen, and blue, and
purple, and scarlet, [of] needlework; as the LORD commanded Moses.

   {39:30} And they made the plate of the holy crown [of] pure gold,
and wrote upon it a writing, [like to] the engravings of a signet,
HOLINESS TO THE LORD. {39:31} And they tied unto it a lace of blue, to
fasten [it] on high upon the mitre; as the LORD commanded Moses.

   {39:32} Thus was all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of the
congregation finished: and the children of Israel did according to all
that the LORD commanded Moses, so did they.

   {39:33} 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, {39:34} And the covering of rams' skins dyed red, and
the covering of badgers' skins, and the vail of the covering, {39:35}
The ark of the testimony, and the staves thereof, and the mercy seat,
{39:36} The table, [and] all the vessels thereof, and the shewbread,
{39:37} 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, {39:38} And the golden altar, and the anointing oil, and the
sweet incense, and the hanging for the tabernacle door, {39:39} The
brasen altar, and his grate of brass, his staves, and all his vessels,
the laver and his foot, {39:40} The hangings of the court, his pillars,
and his sockets, and the 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, {39:41} 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. {39:42}
According to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so the children of
Israel made all the work. {39:43} And Moses did look upon all the work,
and, behold, they have done it as the LORD had commanded, even so had
they done it: and Moses blessed them.

   {40:1} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {40:2} On the first
day of the first month shalt thou set up the tabernacle of the tent of
the congregation. {40:3} And thou shalt put therein the ark of the
testimony, and cover the ark with the vail. {40:4} And thou shalt bring
in the table, and set in order the things that are to be set in order
upon it; and thou shalt bring in the candlestick, and light the lamps
thereof. {40:5} 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. {40:6} And thou shalt set the altar of the burnt offering
before the door of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation.
{40:7} And thou shalt set the laver between the tent of the
congregation and the altar, and shalt put water therein. {40:8} And
thou shalt set up the court round about, and hang up the hanging at the
court gate. {40:9} And thou shalt take the anointing oil, and anoint
the tabernacle, and all that [is] therein, and shalt hallow it, and all
the vessels thereof: and it shall be holy. {40:10} 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. {40:11} And
thou shalt anoint the laver and his foot, and sanctify it. {40:12} And
thou shalt bring Aaron and his sons unto the door of the tabernacle of
the congregation, and wash them with water. {40:13} And thou shalt put
upon Aaron the holy garments, and anoint him, and sanctify him; that he
may minister unto me in the priest's office. {40:14} And thou shalt
bring his sons, and clothe them with coats: {40:15} 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. {40:16} Thus did
Moses: according to all that the LORD commanded him, so did he.

   {40:17} And it came to pass in the first month in the second year,
on the first [day] of the month, [that] the tabernacle was reared up.
{40:18} 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. {40:19} And he spread abroad the tent over the
tabernacle, and put the covering of the tent above upon it; as the LORD
commanded Moses.

   {40:20} 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: {40:21}
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.

   {40:22} And he put the table in the tent of the congregation, upon
the side of the tabernacle northward, without the vail. {40:23} And he
set the bread in order upon it before the LORD; as the LORD had
commanded Moses.

   {40:24} And he put the candlestick in the tent of the congregation,
over against the table, on the side of the tabernacle southward.
{40:25} And he lighted the lamps before the LORD; as the LORD commanded
Moses.

   {40:26} And he put the golden altar in the tent of the congregation
before the vail: {40:27} And he burnt sweet incense thereon; as the
LORD commanded Moses.

   {40:28} And he set up the hanging [at] the door of the tabernacle.
{40:29} And he put the altar of burnt offering [by] the door of the
tabernacle of the tent of the congregation, and offered upon it the
burnt offering and the meat offering; as the LORD commanded Moses.

   {40:30} And he set the laver between the tent of the congregation
and the altar, and put water there, to wash [withal. ]{40:31} And Moses
and Aaron and his sons washed their hands and their feet thereat:
{40:32} When they went into the tent of the congregation, and when they
came near unto the altar, they washed; as the LORD commanded Moses.
{40:33} 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.

   {40:34} Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the
glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle. {40:35} And Moses was not able
to enter into the tent of the congregation, because the cloud abode
thereon, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle. {40:36} And
when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of
Israel went onward in all their journeys: {40:37} But if the cloud were
not taken up, then they journeyed not till the day that it was taken
up. {40:38} For the cloud of the LORD [was] upon the tabernacle by day,
and fire was on it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel,
throughout all their journeys.





The Book of the Prophet Ezekiel

   {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. {1:2} In the fifth [day] of the month, which [was] the
fifth year of king Jehoiachin's captivity, {1:3} 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. {1:4} 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. {1:5} 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. {1:6} And every one had
four faces, and every one had four wings. {1:7} 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.
{1:8} And [they had] the hands of a man under their wings on their four
sides; and they four had their faces and their wings. {1:9} Their wings
[were] joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went
every one straight forward. {1:10} As for the likeness of their faces,
they four had the face of a 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. {1:11} 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. {1:12} And they
went every one straight forward: whither the spirit was to go, they
went; [and] they turned not when they went. {1:13} 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. {1:14} And the living creatures ran and returned as
the appearance of a flash of lightning.

   {1:15} Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon
the earth by the living creatures, with his four faces. {1:16} The
appearance of the wheels and their work [was] like unto 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. {1:17} When they
went, they went upon their four sides: [and] they turned not when they
went. {1:18} As for their rings, they were so high that they were
dreadful; and their rings [were] full of eyes round about them four.
{1:19} And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them: and
when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels
were lifted up. {1:20} 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. {1:21} 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. {1:22} 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. {1:23} 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. {1:24} 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. {1:25} And there was a voice
from the firmament that [was] over their heads, when they stood, and
had let down their wings.

   {1:26} And above the firmament that [was] over their heads [was] the
likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon
the likeness of the throne [was] the likeness as the appearance of a
man above upon it. {1:27} And I saw as the colour of amber, as the
appearance of fire 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. {1:28} 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.

   {2:1} And he said unto me, Son of man, stand upon thy feet, and I
will speak unto thee. {2:2} And the spirit entered into me when he
spake unto me, and set me upon my feet, that I heard him that spake
unto me. {2:3} And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the
children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that hath rebelled against
me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me, [even] unto
this very day. {2:4} For [they are] impudent children and stiffhearted.
I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the
Lord GOD. {2:5} 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.

   {2:6} 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. {2:7} And thou shalt
speak my words unto them, whether they will hear, or whether they will
forbear: for they [are] most rebellious. {2:8} But thou, son of man,
hear what I say unto thee; Be not thou rebellious like that rebellious
house: open thy mouth, and eat that I give thee.

   {2:9} And when I looked, behold, an hand [was] sent unto me; and,
lo, a roll of a book [was] therein; {2:10} And he spread it before me;
and it [was] written within and without: and [there was] written
therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.

   {3:1} Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, eat that thou findest;
eat this roll, and go speak unto the house of Israel. {3:2} So I opened
my mouth, and he caused me to eat that roll. {3:3} 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.

   {3:4} And he said unto me, Son of man, go, get thee unto the house
of Israel, and speak with my words unto them. {3:5} For thou [art] not
sent to a people of a strange speech and of an hard language, [but] to
the house of Israel; {3:6} Not to many people of a strange speech and
of an hard language, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, had
I sent thee to them, they would have hearkened unto thee. {3:7} 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.
{3:8} Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and thy
forehead strong against their foreheads. {3:9} As an adamant harder
than flint have I made thy forehead: fear them not, neither be dismayed
at their looks, though they [be] a rebellious house. {3:10} Moreover he
said unto me, Son of man, all my words that I shall speak unto thee
receive in thine heart, and hear with thine ears. {3:11} 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. {3:12} 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. {3:13} [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. {3:14} 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.

   {3:15} Then I came to them of the captivity at Tel-abib, that dwelt
by the river of Chebar, and I sat where they sat, and remained there
astonished among them seven days. {3:16} And it came to pass at the end
of seven days, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, {3:17}
Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel:
therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.
{3:18} 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. {3:19} 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. {3:20}
Again, When a righteous [man] doth turn from his righteousness, and
commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock 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. {3:21} 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.

   {3:22} 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.
{3:23} 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. {3:24} 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. {3:25} 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: {3:26} 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. {3:27} 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.

   {4:1} Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before
thee, and pourtray upon it the city, [even] Jerusalem: {4:2} And lay
siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against
it; set the camp also against it, and set [battering] rams against it
round about. {4:3} 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. {4:4} 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. {4:5} 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.
{4:6} 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. {4:7} Therefore thou
shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and thine arm [shall
be] uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it. {4:8} 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.

   {4:9} 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. {4:10} And thy meat which thou shalt eat [shall be] by weight,
twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it. {4:11} Thou
shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time
to time shalt thou drink. {4:12} And thou shalt eat it [as] barley
cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in
their sight. {4:13} And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of
Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive
them. {4:14} 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. {4:15} Then he said unto me, Lo, I have
given thee cow's dung for man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread
therewith. {4:16} Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will
break the 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: {4:17} That they may want bread and water, and be
astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.

   {5:1} 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. ]{5:2}
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. {5:3} Thou shalt
also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts. {5:4}
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.

   {5:5} 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.
{5:6} 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. {5:7} 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; {5:8} 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. {5:9} 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. {5:10} 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. {5:11} 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.

   {5:12} 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. {5:13}
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.
{5:14} 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.
{5:15} 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. ]{5:16} 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: {5:17} 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.]

   {6:1} And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, {6:2} Son of
man, set thy face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against
them, {6:3} And say, 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; Behold, I, [even] I, will bring a sword
upon you, and I will destroy your high places. {6:4} And your altars
shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken: and I will cast
down your slain [men] before your idols. {6:5} 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. {6:6} 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. {6:7} And the slain shall
fall in the midst of you, and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD.

   {6:8} 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. {6:9} And they that escape of you shall remember me
among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am
broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with
their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and they shall lothe
themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their
abominations. {6:10} And they shall know that I [am] the LORD, [and
that] I have not said in vain that I would do this evil unto them.

   {6:11} Thus saith the Lord GOD; Smite with thine hand, and stamp
with 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. {6:12} 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. {6:13} 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. {6:14} 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.

   {7:1} Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, {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. {7:3} 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. {7:4} 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. {7:5} Thus saith the Lord GOD; An evil, an only
evil, behold, is come. {7:6} An end is come, the end is come: it
watcheth for thee; behold, it is come. {7:7} 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. {7:8}
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. {7:9} 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. {7:10} Behold the day,
behold, it is come: the morning is gone forth; the rod hath blossomed,
pride hath budded. {7:11} Violence is risen up into a rod of
wickedness: none of them [shall remain,] nor of their multitude, nor of
any of theirs: neither [shall there be] wailing for them. {7:12} 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. {7:13} 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. {7:14} 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. {7:15} 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.

   {7:16} 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. {7:17} All hands shall be feeble, and all knees
shall be weak [as] water. {7:18} 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. {7:19} 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.

   {7:20} As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but
they made the images of their abominations [and] of their detestable
things therein: therefore have I set it far from them. {7:21} And I
will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the
wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it. {7:22} 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.

   {7:23} Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the
city is full of violence. {7:24} 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.
{7:25} Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and [there shall
be] none. {7:26} 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. {7:27} 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.

   {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. {8:2} 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. {8:3} 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. {8:4} And,
behold, the glory of the God of Israel [was] there, according to the
vision that I saw in the plain.

   {8:5} Then said he unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the
way 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. {8:6} 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.

   {8:7} And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked,
behold a hole in the wall. {8:8} Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig
now in the wall: and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door.
{8:9} And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations
that they do here. {8:10} So I went in and saw; and behold every form
of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the
house of Israel, pourtrayed upon the wall round about. {8:11} 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.
{8:12} 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.

   {8:13} He said also unto me, Turn thee yet again, [and] thou shalt
see greater abominations that they do. {8:14} Then he brought me to the
door of the gate of the LORD'S house which [was] toward the north; and,
behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz.

   {8:15} 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. {8:16} 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.

   {8:17} 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. {8:18} 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.

   {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. {9:2} 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. {9:3} And the glory of the God of Israel
was gone up from the cherub, whereupon he was, to the threshold of the
house. And he called to the man clothed with linen, which [had] the
writer's inkhorn by his side; {9:4} And the LORD said unto him, Go
through the midst of the city, 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.

   {9:5} 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: {9:6} 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. {9:7} 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.

   {9:8} 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? {9:9} 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. {9:10} And as for me also,
mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, [but] I will
recompense their way upon their head. {9:11} And, behold, the man
clothed with linen, which [had] the inkhorn by his side, reported the
matter, saying, I have done as thou hast commanded me.

   {10:1} Then I looked, and, behold, in the firmament that was above
the head of the cherubims there appeared over them as it were a
sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne. {10:2}
And he spake unto the man clothed with linen, and said, Go in 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. {10:3} Now the cherubims stood on the right
side of the house, when the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner
court. {10:4} 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. {10:5} And the sound of the cherubims' wings was heard [even] to
the outer court, as the voice of the Almighty God when he speaketh.
{10:6} And it came to pass, [that] when he had commanded the man
clothed with linen, saying, Take fire from between the wheels, from
between the cherubims; then he went in, and stood beside the wheels.
{10:7} 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.

   {10:8} And there appeared in the cherubims the form of a man's hand
under their wings. {10:9} And when I looked, behold the four wheels by
the cherubims, one wheel by one cherub, and another wheel by another
cherub: and the appearance of the wheels [was] as the colour of a beryl
stone. {10:10} And [as for] their appearances, they four had one
likeness, as if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel. {10:11} When
they went, they went upon their four sides; they turned not as they
went, but to the place whither the head looked they followed it; they
turned not as they went. {10:12} 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. {10:13} As for the
wheels, it was cried unto them in my hearing, O wheel. {10:14} 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. {10:15} And the cherubims
were lifted up. This [is] the living creature that I saw by the river
of Chebar. {10:16} And when the cherubims went, the wheels went by
them: and when the cherubims lifted up their wings to mount up from the
earth, the same wheels also turned not from beside them. {10:17} 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. {10:18} Then the glory of the LORD departed from off the
threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubims. {10:19} And the
cherubims lifted up their wings, and mounted up from 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. {10:20} 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. {10:21} Every one
had four faces apiece, and every one four wings; and the likeness of
the hands of a man [was] under their wings. {10:22} And the likeness of
their faces [was] the same faces which I saw by the river of Chebar,
their appearances and themselves: they went every one straight forward.

   {11:1} 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, the princes of the
people. {11:2} Then said he unto me, Son of man, these [are] the men
that devise mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city: {11:3}
Which say, [It is] not near; let us build houses: this [city is] the
caldron, and we [be] the flesh.

   {11:4} Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man.
{11:5} 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. {11:6}
Ye have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye have filled the
streets thereof with the slain. {11:7} Therefore thus saith the Lord
GOD; Your slain whom ye have laid 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. {11:8} Ye have feared the sword; and I will bring a
sword upon you, saith the Lord GOD. {11:9} And I will bring you out of
the midst thereof, and deliver you into the hands of strangers, and
will execute judgments among you. {11:10} Ye shall fall by the sword; I
will judge you in the border of Israel; and ye shall know that I [am]
the LORD. {11:11} This [city] shall not be your caldron, neither shall
ye be the flesh in the midst thereof; [but] I will judge you in the
border of Israel: {11:12} 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.

   {11:13} 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? {11:14} Again the word of the LORD came unto me,
saying, {11:15} 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. {11:16} 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. {11:17} 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. {11:18}
And they shall come thither, and they shall take away all the
detestable things thereof and all the abominations thereof from thence.
{11:19} 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: {11:20} 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. {11:21} But [as for them] whose heart
walketh after the heart of their detestable things and their
abominations, I will recompense their way upon their own heads, saith
the Lord GOD.

   {11:22} Then did the cherubims lift up their wings, and the wheels
beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel [was] over them above.
{11:23} And the glory of the LORD went up from the midst of the city,
and stood upon the mountain which [is] on the east side of the city.

   {11:24} 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. {11:25} Then I spake unto them
of the captivity all the things that the LORD had shewed me.

   {12:1} The word of the LORD also came unto me, saying, {12:2} Son of
man, thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious house, which have eyes
to see, and see not; they have ears to hear, and hear not: for they
[are] a rebellious house. {12:3} 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. {12:4} 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. {12:5} Dig thou through the wall in their
sight, and carry out thereby. {12:6} 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. {12:7} 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.

   {12:8} And in the morning came the word of the LORD unto me, saying,
{12:9} Son of man, hath not the house of Israel, the rebellious house,
said unto thee, What doest thou? {12:10} Say thou unto them, Thus saith
the Lord GOD; This burden [concerneth] the prince in Jerusalem, and all
the house of Israel that [are] among them. {12:11} Say, I [am] your
sign: like as I have done, so shall it be done unto them: they shall
remove [and] go into captivity. {12:12} 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. {12:13} 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. {12:14} 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. {12:15} And they shall
know that I [am] the LORD, when I shall scatter them among the nations,
and disperse them in the countries. {12:16} But I will leave a few men
of them from the sword, from the 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.

   {12:17} Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, {12:18}
Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with
trembling and with carefulness; {12:19} And say unto the people of the
land, Thus saith the Lord GOD of 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. {12:20} And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste,
and the land shall be desolate; and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD.

   {12:21} And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, {12:22} Son
of man, what [is] that proverb [that] ye have in the land of Israel,
saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision faileth? {12:23} 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.
{12:24} For there shall be no more any vain vision nor flattering
divination within the house of Israel. {12:25} For I [am] the LORD: I
will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall come to pass; it
shall be no more prolonged: for in your days, O rebellious house, will
I say the word, and will perform it, saith the Lord GOD.

   {12:26} Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying, {12:27} 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. {12:28} 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.

   {13:1} And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, {13:2} Son of
man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel that prophesy, and say
thou unto them that prophesy out of their own hearts, Hear ye the word
of the LORD; {13:3} Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe unto the foolish
prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing! {13:4} O
Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts. {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. {13:6} 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. {13:7} 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? {13:8} Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD;
Because ye have spoken vanity, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I [am]
against you, saith the Lord GOD. {13:9} 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.

   {13:10} 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: ]{13:11} Say unto them which
daub it with untempered [morter,] that it shall fall: there shall be an
overflowing shower; and ye, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a
stormy wind shall rend [it. ]{13:12} Lo, when the wall is fallen, shall
it not be said unto you, Where [is] the daubing wherewith ye have
daubed [it? ]{13:13} Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even
rend [it] with a stormy wind in my fury; and there shall be an
overflowing shower in mine anger, and great hailstones in [my] fury to
consume [it. ]{13:14} So will I break down the wall that ye have daubed
with untempered [morter,] and bring it down to the ground, so that the
foundation thereof shall be discovered, and it shall fall, and ye shall
be consumed in the midst thereof: and ye shall know that I [am] the
LORD. {13:15} Thus will I accomplish my wrath upon the wall, and upon
them that have daubed it with untempered [morter,] and will say unto
you, The wall [is] no [more,] neither they that daubed it; {13:16} [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.

   {13:17} 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, {13:18} 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?
{13:19} 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? {13:20} 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. {13:21}
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. {13:22} 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: {13:23} 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.

   {14:1} Then came certain of the elders of Israel unto me, and sat
before me. {14:2} And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, {14:3}
Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put
the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be
enquired of at all by them? {14:4} Therefore speak unto them, and say
unto them, Thus saith the 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;
{14:5} That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because
they are all estranged from me through their idols.

   {14:6} Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord
GOD; Repent, and turn [yourselves] from your idols; and turn away your
faces from all your abominations. {14:7} 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:
{14:8} 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. {14:9} 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. {14:10} 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; ]{14:11} 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.

   {14:12} The word of the LORD came again to me, saying, {14:13} Son
of man, when the land sinneth against me by trespassing 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: {14:14} 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.

   {14:15} 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: {14:16} [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.

   {14:17} 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: {14:18}
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.

   {14:19} Or [if] I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my
fury upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast: {14:20} Though
Noah, Daniel, and Job, [were] in it, [as] I live, saith the Lord GOD,
they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall [but] deliver
their own souls by their righteousness. {14:21} 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?

   {14:22} 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. {14:23} 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.

   {15:1} And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, {15:2} Son of
man, What is the vine tree more than any tree, [or than] a branch which
is among the trees of the forest? {15:3} Shall wood be taken thereof to
do any work? or will [men] take a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon?
{15:4} Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire devoureth
both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned. Is it meet for
[any] work? {15:5} 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?

   {15:6} 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. {15:7} 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. {15:8} And I will make the land desolate, because
they have committed a trespass, saith the Lord GOD.

   {16:1} Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, {16:2} Son
of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations, {16:3} 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. {16:4} 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. {16:5} 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.

   {16:6} 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. {16:7} 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. {16:8} 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. {16:9} Then washed I thee with water; yea, I throughly
washed away thy blood from thee, and I anointed thee with oil. {16:10}
I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers'
skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with
silk. {16:11} I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets
upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck. {16:12} And I put a jewel on
thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon
thine head. {16:13} Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver; and thy
raiment [was 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. {16:14} 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. {16:15} 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. {16:16} 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.
{16:17} 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, {16:18} And tookest thy broidered
garments, and coveredst them: and thou hast set mine oil and mine
incense before them. {16:19} 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. {16:20} 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, {16:21} That thou
hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass
through [the fire] for them? {16:22} And in all thine abominations and
thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou
wast naked and bare, [and] wast polluted in thy blood. {16:23} And it
came to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe unto thee! saith the
Lord GOD;) {16:24} [That] thou hast also built unto thee an eminent
place, and hast made thee an high place in every street. {16:25} Thou
hast built thy high place at every head of the way, and hast made thy
beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every one that
passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms. {16:26} Thou hast also
committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, great of
flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger.
{16:27} Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee, and
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. {16:28} 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. {16:29} Thou hast
moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land of Canaan unto Chaldea;
and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith. {16:30} How weak is thine
heart, saith the Lord GOD, seeing thou doest all these [things,] the
work of an imperious whorish woman; {16:31} In that thou buildest thine
eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thine high place in
every street; and hast not been as an harlot, in that thou scornest
hire; {16:32} [But as] a wife that committeth adultery, [which] taketh
strangers instead of her husband! {16:33} They give gifts to all
whores: but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and hirest them,
that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredom. {16:34}
And the contrary is in thee from [other] women in thy whoredoms,
whereas none followeth thee to commit whoredoms: and in that thou
givest a reward, and no reward is given unto thee, therefore thou art
contrary.

   {16:35} Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD: {16:36} 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; {16:37} 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. {16:38} 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. {16:39} 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. {16:40} They shall also bring up a company against thee, and
they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their
swords. {16:41} 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. {16:42} 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. {16:43} Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy
youth, but hast fretted me in all these [things;] behold, therefore I
also will recompense thy way upon [thine] head, saith the Lord GOD: and
thou shalt not commit this lewdness above all thine abominations.

   {16:44} Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use [this]
proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, [so is] her daughter.
{16:45} Thou [art] thy mother's daughter, that lotheth her husband and
her 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. {16:46} 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.
{16:47} 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. {16:48} [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. {16:49} Behold, this was the
iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of
idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen
the hand of the poor and needy. {16:50} And they were haughty, and
committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw
[good. ]{16:51} Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but
thou hast multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast
justified thy sisters in all thine abominations which thou hast done.
{16:52} 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. {16:53} 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:
{16:54} 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.
{16:55} 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. {16:56} For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy
mouth in the day of thy pride, {16:57} 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. {16:58} Thou hast borne thy lewdness
and thine abominations, saith the LORD. {16:59} 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.

   {16:60} Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the
days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting
covenant. {16:61} Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed,
when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger: and I
will give them unto thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant.
{16:62} And I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt know
that I [am] the LORD: {16:63} That thou mayest remember, and be
confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame,
when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the
Lord GOD.

   {17:1} And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, {17:2} Son of
man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the house of Israel;
{17:3} 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: {17:4} He
cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a land of
traffick; he set it in a city of merchants. {17:5} He took also of the
seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful field; he placed [it] by
great waters, [and] set it [as] a willow tree. {17:6} And it grew, and
became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward
him, and the roots thereof were under him: so it became a vine, and
brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs. {17:7} 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.
{17:8} 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. {17:9} 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. {17:10} 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.

   {17:11} Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, {17:12}
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; {17:13} 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: {17:14} That the kingdom might be base, that it
might not lift itself up, [but] that by keeping of his covenant it
might stand. {17:15} But he rebelled against him in sending his
ambassadors into 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? {17:16} 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. {17:17} 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:
{17:18} 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. {17:19} 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. {17:20} 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. {17:21} 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.]

   {17:22} 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: {17:23} 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. {17:24} 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 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.]

   {18:1} The word of the LORD came unto me again, saying, {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? {18:3} [As] I live, saith the Lord GOD, ye shall not
have [occasion] any more to use this proverb in Israel. {18:4} Behold,
all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the
son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.

   {18:5} But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right,
{18:6} [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, {18:7}
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; {18:8} 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, {18:9} Hath walked in my statutes, and
hath kept my judgments, to deal truly; he [is] just, he shall surely
live, saith the Lord GOD.

   {18:10} If he beget a son [that is] a robber, a shedder of blood,
and [that] doeth the like to [any] one of these [things, ]{18:11} And
that doeth not any of those [duties,] but even hath eaten upon the
mountains, and defiled his neighbour's wife, {18:12} Hath oppressed the
poor and needy, hath spoiled by violence, hath not restored the pledge,
and hath lifted up his eyes to the idols, hath committed abomination,
{18:13} 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.

   {18:14} Now, lo, [if] he beget a son, that seeth all his father's
sins which he hath done, and considereth, and doeth not such like,
{18:15} [That] hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted
up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, hath not defiled his
neighbour's wife, {18:16} 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, {18:17} [That] hath taken off his hand from the poor, [that]
hath not received usury nor increase, hath executed my judgments, hath
walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father,
he shall surely live. {18:18} [As for] his father, because he cruelly
oppressed, spoiled his brother by violence, and did [that] which [is]
not good among his people, lo, even he shall die in his iniquity.

   {18:19} 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.
{18:20} 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. {18:21} 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. {18:22} All his transgressions that he hath
committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him: in his righteousness
that he hath done he shall live. {18:23} 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?

   {18:24} 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.

   {18:25} 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?
{18:26} 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. {18:27} 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. {18:28} Because he
considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath
committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die. {18:29} Yet saith
the house of Israel, The way of the Lord is not equal. O house of
Israel, are not my ways equal? are not your ways unequal? {18:30}
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.

   {18:31} 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? {18:32} For I have no pleasure in the death
of him that dieth, saith the Lord GOD: wherefore turn [yourselves,] and
live ye.

   {19:1} Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of
Israel, {19:2} And say, What [is] thy mother? A lioness: she lay down
among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions. {19:3} And she
brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to
catch the prey; it devoured men. {19:4} The nations also heard of him;
he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the
land of Egypt. {19:5} Now when she saw that she had waited, [and] her
hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, [and] made him a
young lion. {19:6} And he went up and down among the lions, he became a
young lion, and learned to catch the prey, [and] devoured men. {19:7}
And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and
the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the noise of his
roaring. {19:8} Then the nations set against him on every side from the
provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit.
{19:9} 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.

   {19:10} Thy mother [is] like a vine in thy blood, planted by the
waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.
{19:11} And she had strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare
rule, and her stature was exalted among the thick branches, and she
appeared in her height with the multitude of her branches. {19:12} 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. {19:13} And now she [is] planted in the
wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground. {19:14} 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.

   {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. {20:2} Then came
the word of the LORD unto me, saying, {20:3} 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. {20:4} Wilt thou judge them, son of man, wilt thou
judge [them?] cause them to know the abominations of their fathers:

   {20:5} And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when I
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; {20:6}
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: {20:7} 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. {20:8} 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. {20:9} 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.

   {20:10} Wherefore I caused them to go forth out of the land of
Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness. {20:11} And I gave them my
statutes, and shewed them my judgments, which [if] a man do, he shall
even live in them. {20:12} Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be
a sign between me and them, that they might know that I [am] the LORD
that sanctify them. {20:13} But the house of Israel rebelled against me
in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my
judgments, which [if] a man do, he shall even live in them; and my
sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury
upon them in the wilderness, to consume them. {20:14} But I wrought for
my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, in
whose sight I brought them out. {20:15} Yet also I lifted up my hand
unto them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land
which I had given [them,] flowing with milk and honey, which [is] the
glory of all lands; {20:16} Because they despised my judgments, and
walked not in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart
went after their idols. {20:17} Nevertheless mine eye spared them from
destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness.
{20:18} But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not
in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor
defile yourselves with their idols: {20:19} I [am] the LORD your God;
walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; {20:20} And
hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that
ye may know that I [am] the LORD your God. {20:21} Notwithstanding the
children rebelled against me: they walked not in my statutes, neither
kept my judgments to do them, which [if] a man do, he shall even live
in them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my
fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.
{20:22} Nevertheless I withdrew mine hand, and wrought for my name's
sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight of the heathen, in
whose sight I brought them forth. {20:23} 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; {20:24} Because they
had not executed my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had
polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers' idols.
{20:25} Wherefore I gave them also statutes [that were] not good, and
judgments whereby they should not live; {20:26} And I polluted them in
their own gifts, in that they caused to pass 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.

   {20:27} 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.
{20:28} [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.
{20:29} Then I said unto them, What [is] the high place whereunto ye
go? And the name thereof is called Bamah unto this day. {20:30}
Wherefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Are ye
polluted after the manner of your fathers? and commit ye whoredom after
their abominations? {20:31} 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. {20:32} And that which cometh into your mind shall not be at
all, that ye say, We will be as the heathen, as the families of the
countries, to serve wood and stone.

   {20:33} [As] I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely with a mighty hand,
and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out, will I rule
over you: {20:34} 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. {20:35}
And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there will
I plead with you face to face. {20:36} Like as I pleaded with your
fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I plead with
you, saith the Lord GOD. {20:37} And I will cause you to pass under the
rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant: {20:38} And I
will purge out from among you the rebels, and them that 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. {20:39} 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. {20:40} 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. {20:41} 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. {20:42}
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. {20:43} 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. {20:44} 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.

   {20:45} Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, {20:46}
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; {20:47}
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. {20:48} And all flesh shall see that I the LORD have
kindled it: it shall not be quenched. {20:49} Then said I, Ah Lord GOD!
they say of me, Doth he not speak parables?

   {21:1} And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, {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, {21:3} 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. {21:4} 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:
{21:5} That all flesh may know that I the LORD have drawn forth my
sword out of his sheath: it shall not return any more. {21:6} Sigh
therefore, thou son of man, with the breaking of [thy] loins; and with
bitterness sigh before their eyes. {21:7} And it shall be, when they
say unto thee, Wherefore sighest 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.

   {21:8} Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, {21:9} Son
of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD; Say, A sword, a sword
is sharpened, and also furbished: {21:10} It is sharpened to make a
sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then
make mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son, [as] every tree. {21:11}
And he hath given it to be furbished, that it may be handled: this
sword is sharpened, and it is furbished, to give it into the hand of
the slayer. {21:12} Cry and howl, son of man: for it shall be upon my
people, it [shall be] upon all the princes of Israel: terrors by reason
of the sword shall be upon my people: smite therefore upon [thy] thigh.
{21:13} Because [it is] a trial, and what if [the sword] contemn even
the rod? it shall be no [more,] saith the Lord GOD. {21:14} Thou
therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite [thine] hands 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. {21:15} 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. {21:16} Go thee one way or other, [either] on the right
hand, [or] on the left, whithersoever thy face [is] set. {21:17} I will
also smite mine hands together, and I will cause my fury to rest: I the
LORD have said [it. ]{21:18} The word of the LORD came unto me again,
saying, {21:19} 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. {21:20} Appoint a way, that the sword may come to
Rabbath of the Ammonites, and to Judah in Jerusalem the defenced.
{21:21} For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the
head of the two ways, to use divination: he made [his] arrows bright,
he consulted with images, he looked in the liver. {21:22} 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. {21:23} 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. {21:24} Therefore thus saith the
Lord GOD; Because ye have made your iniquity to be remembered, in that
your transgressions are discovered, so that in all your doings your
sins do appear; because, [I say,] that ye are come to remembrance, ye
shall be taken with the hand.

   {21:25} And thou, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is
come, when iniquity [shall have] an end, {21:26} Thus saith the Lord
GOD; Remove the diadem, and take off the crown: this [shall] not [be]
the same: exalt [him that is] low, and abase [him that is] high.
{21:27} I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no
[more,] until he come whose right it is; and I will give it [him.]

   {21:28} And thou, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord
GOD concerning the Ammonites, and concerning their reproach; even say
thou, The sword, the sword [is] drawn: for the slaughter [it is]
furbished, to consume because of the glittering: {21:29} Whiles they
see vanity unto thee, whiles they divine a lie unto 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. {21:30} Shall I cause
[it] to return into his sheath? I will judge thee in the place where
thou wast created, in the land of thy nativity. {21:31} And I will pour
out mine indignation upon thee, I will blow against thee in the fire of
my wrath, and deliver thee into the hand of brutish men, [and] skilful
to destroy. {21:32} 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.]

   {22:1} Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, {22:2}
Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city?
yea, thou shalt shew her all her abominations. {22:3} Then say thou,
Thus saith the Lord GOD, The city sheddeth blood in the midst of it,
that her time may come, and maketh idols against herself to defile
herself. {22:4} 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. {22:5} [Those that be] near, and [those that
be] far from thee, shall mock thee, [which art] infamous [and] much
vexed. {22:6} Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to
their power to shed blood. {22:7} In thee have they set light by father
and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the
stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow. {22:8}
Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.
{22:9} 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.
{22:10} In thee have they discovered their fathers' nakedness: in thee
have they humbled her that was set apart for pollution. {22:11} 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. {22:12} 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.

   {22:13} 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. {22:14} 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. ]{22:15} And I will scatter thee among the
heathen, and disperse thee in the countries, and will consume thy
filthiness out of thee. {22:16} And thou shalt take thine inheritance
in thyself in the sight of the heathen, and thou shalt know that I [am]
the LORD. {22:17} And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
{22:18} Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they
[are] brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace;
they are [even] the dross of silver. {22:19} Therefore thus saith the
Lord GOD; Because ye are all become dross, behold, therefore I will
gather you into the midst of Jerusalem. {22:20} [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. {22:21} Yea, I will gather you, and blow upon you in the fire of
my wrath, and ye shall be melted in the midst thereof. {22:22} As
silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall ye be melted in
the midst thereof; and ye shall know that I the LORD have poured out my
fury upon you.

   {22:23} And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, {22:24} Son
of man, say unto her, Thou [art] the land that is not cleansed, nor
rained upon in the day of indignation. {22:25} [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.
{22:26} 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. {22:27} Her princes in the midst thereof [are] like wolves
ravening the prey, to shed blood, [and] to destroy souls, to get
dishonest gain. {22:28} And her prophets have daubed them with
untempered [morter,] seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them,
saying, Thus saith the Lord GOD, when the LORD hath not spoken. {22:29}
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. {22:30} 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. {22:31} 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.

   {23:1} The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, {23:2} Son
of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother: {23:3} And
they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their
youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the
teats of their virginity. {23:4} 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. {23:5} And Aholah played the harlot when she was
mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians [her] neighbours,
{23:6} [Which were] clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them
desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses. {23:7} Thus she
committed her whoredoms with them, with all them [that were] the chosen
men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted: with all their idols
she defiled herself. {23:8} 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. {23:9}
Wherefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the
hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted. {23:10} These discovered
her nakedness: they took her sons and her daughters, and slew her with
the sword: and she became famous among women; for they had executed
judgment upon her. {23:11} 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. {23:12} She doted upon the
Assyrians [her] neighbours, captains and rulers clothed most
gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young
men. {23:13} Then I saw that she was defiled, [that] they [took] both
one way, {23:14} And [that] she increased her whoredoms: for when she
saw men pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans
pourtrayed with vermilion, {23:15} 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: {23:16} And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she
doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea. {23:17}
And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled
her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her mind
was alienated from them. {23:18} 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. {23:19} 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. {23:20} For she doted upon
their paramours, whose flesh [is as] the flesh of asses, and whose
issue [is like] the issue of horses. {23:21} Thus thou calledst to
remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in bruising thy teats by the
Egyptians for the paps of thy youth.

   {23:22} 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; {23:23} 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.
{23:24} 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.
{23:25} 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. {23:26} They
shall also strip thee out of thy clothes, and take away thy fair
jewels. {23:27} 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. {23:28} 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: {23:29} 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. {23:30} I will do these [things] unto thee, because thou
hast gone a whoring after the heathen, [and] because thou art polluted
with their idols. {23:31} Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister;
therefore will I give her cup into thine hand. {23:32} Thus saith the
Lord GOD; Thou shalt drink of thy sister's cup deep and large: thou
shalt be laughed to scorn and had in derision; it containeth much.
{23:33} Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup
of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.
{23:34} Thou shalt even drink it and suck [it] out, and thou shalt
break the sherds thereof, and pluck off thine own breasts: for I have
spoken [it,] saith the Lord GOD. {23:35} 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.

   {23:36} The LORD said moreover unto me; Son of man, wilt thou judge
Aholah and Aholibah? yea, declare unto them their abominations; {23:37}
That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, 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. ]{23:38} Moreover this they have done unto me:
they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my
sabbaths. {23:39} For when they had slain their children to their
idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it;
and, lo, thus have they done in the midst of mine house. {23:40} 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,
{23:41} And satest upon a stately bed, and a table prepared before it,
whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine oil. {23:42} And a voice
of a multitude being at ease [was] with her: and with the men of the
common sort [were] brought Sabeans from the wilderness, which put
bracelets upon their hands, and beautiful crowns upon their heads.
{23:43} Then said I unto [her that was] old in adulteries, Will they
now commit whoredoms with her, and she [with them? ]{23:44} Yet they
went in unto her, as they go in unto a woman that playeth the harlot:
so went they in unto Aholah and unto Aholibah, the lewd women.

   {23:45} And the righteous men, they shall judge them after the
manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women that shed blood;
because they [are] adulteresses, and blood [is] in their hands. {23:46}
For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will bring up a company upon them, and
will give them to be removed and spoiled. {23:47} And the company shall
stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they shall
slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with
fire. {23:48} Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that
all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness. {23:49} And they
shall recompense your lewdness upon you, and ye shall bear the sins of
your idols: and ye shall know that I [am] the Lord GOD.

   {24:1} Again in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth
[day] of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, {24:2}
Son of man, write thee the name of the day, [even] of this same day:
the king of Babylon set himself against Jerusalem this same day. {24:3}
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: {24:4} Gather the pieces thereof into it, [even] every good piece,
the thigh, and the shoulder; fill [it] with the choice bones. {24:5}
Take the choice of the flock, and burn also the bones under it, [and]
make it boil well, and let them seethe the bones of it therein.

   {24:6} 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 up on it. {24:7} 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; {24:8} 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. {24:9} Therefore
thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city! I will even make the
pile for fire great. {24:10} Heap on wood, kindle the fire, consume the
flesh, and spice it well, and let the bones be burned. {24:11} Then set
it empty upon the coals thereof, that the brass of it may be hot, and
may burn, and [that] the filthiness of it may be molten in it, [that]
the scum of it may be consumed. {24:12} She hath wearied [herself] with
lies, and her great scum went not forth out of her: her scum [shall be]
in the fire. {24:13} 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.
{24:14} 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.

   {24:15} Also the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, {24:16} 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. {24:17} 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. {24:18} So I
spake unto the people in the morning: and at even my wife died; and I
did in the morning as I was commanded.

   {24:19} And the people said unto me, Wilt thou not tell us what
these [things are] to us, that thou doest [so? ]{24:20} Then I answered
them, The word of the LORD came unto me, saying, {24:21} 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. {24:22} And ye shall do as I have
done: ye shall not cover [your] lips, nor eat the bread of men. {24:23}
And your tires [shall be] upon your heads, and your shoes upon your
feet: ye shall not mourn nor weep; but ye shall pine away for your
iniquities, and mourn one toward another. {24:24} 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. {24:25} 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, {24:26}
[That] he that escapeth in that day shall come unto thee, to cause
[thee] to hear [it] with [thine] ears? {24:27} In that day shall thy
mouth be opened to him which is escaped, 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.

   {25:1} The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, {25:2} Son
of man, set thy face against the Ammonites, and prophesy against them;
{25:3} 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; {25:4} 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. {25:5} And I will make Rabbah a stable for
camels, and the Ammonites a couchingplace for flocks: and ye shall know
that I [am] the LORD. {25:6} 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; {25:7} 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.

   {25:8} Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because that Moab and Seir do say,
Behold, the house of Judah [is] like unto all the heathen; {25:9}
Therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from the cities, from
his cities [which are] on his frontiers, the glory of the country,
Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon, and Kiriathaim, {25:10} 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. {25:11} And I will
execute judgments upon Moab; and they shall know that I [am] the LORD.

   {25:12} Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because that Edom hath dealt
against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and hath greatly
offended, and revenged himself upon them; {25:13} 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. {25:14} 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.

   {25:15} Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the Philistines have dealt
by revenge, and have taken vengeance with a despiteful heart, to
destroy [it] for the old hatred; {25:16} Therefore thus saith the Lord
GOD; Behold, I will stretch out mine hand upon the Philistines, and I
will cut off the Cherethims, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast.
{25:17} 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.

   {26:1} And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first [day]
of the month, [that] the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, {26:2}
Son of man, because that Tyrus hath said against Jerusalem, 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: {26:3} 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. {26:4} 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. {26:5} 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. {26:6}
And her daughters which [are] in the field shall be slain by the sword;
and they shall know that I [am] the LORD.

   {26:7} For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring upon Tyrus
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, a king of kings, from the north, with
horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and companies, and much
people. {26:8} He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field:
and he shall make a fort against thee, and cast a mount against thee,
and lift up the buckler against thee. {26:9} And he shall set engines
of war against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy
towers. {26:10} By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust
shall cover thee: thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen,
and of the wheels, and of the chariots, when he shall enter into thy
gates, as men enter into a city wherein is made a breach. {26:11} With
the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all thy streets: he shall
slay thy people by the sword, and thy strong garrisons shall go down to
the ground. {26:12} 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. {26:13} And I will cause
the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of thy harps shall be no
more heard. {26:14} And I will make thee like the top of a rock: thou
shalt be [a place] to spread nets upon; thou shalt be built no more:
for I the LORD have spoken [it,] saith the Lord GOD.

   {26:15} 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? {26:16} 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. {26:17} 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! {26:18} Now shall the isles tremble in the day of
thy fall; yea, the isles that [are] in the sea shall be troubled at thy
departure. {26:19} For thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall make thee
a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall
bring up the deep upon thee, and great waters shall cover thee; {26:20}
When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, 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; {26:21} 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.

   {27:1} The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, {27:2} Now,
thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus; {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. {27:4} Thy borders
[are] in the midst of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty.
{27:5} They have made all thy [ship] boards of fir trees of Senir: they
have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee. {27:6} [Of] the
oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars; the company of the Ashurites
have made thy benches [of] ivory, [brought] out of the isles of
Chittim. {27:7} 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. {27:8} The inhabitants of
Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners: thy wise [men,] O Tyrus, [that] were
in thee, were thy pilots. {27:9} The ancients of Gebal and the wise
[men] thereof were in thee thy calkers: all the ships of the sea with
their mariners were in thee to occupy thy merchandise. {27:10} 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.
{27:11} 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. {27:12}
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.
{27:13} Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they [were] thy merchants: they
traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market. {27:14}
They of the house of Togarmah traded in thy fairs with horses and
horsemen and mules. {27:15} The men of Dedan [were] thy merchants; many
isles [were] the merchandise of thine hand: they brought thee [for] a
present horns of ivory and ebony. {27:16} 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. {27:17} 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. {27:18} 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. {27:19} Dan also
and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs: bright iron, cassia,
and calamus, were in thy market. {27:20} Dedan [was] thy merchant in
precious clothes for chariots. {27:21} Arabia, and all the princes of
Kedar, they occupied with thee in lambs, and rams, and goats: in these
[were they] thy merchants. {27:22} 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. {27:23} Haran, and
Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, [and] Chilmad, [were]
thy merchants. {27:24} These [were] thy merchants in all sorts [of
things,] in blue clothes, and broidered work, and in chests of rich
apparel, bound with cords, and made of cedar, among thy merchandise.
{27:25} The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market: and thou
wast replenished, and made very glorious in the midst of the seas.
{27:26} Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind
hath broken thee in the midst of the seas. {27:27} Thy riches, and thy
fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy 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. {27:28} The
suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots. {27:29} 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;
{27:30} 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: {27:31} 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. {27:32}
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? {27:33} 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.
{27:34} 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. {27:35} 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. {27:36} The merchants among the people
shall hiss at thee; thou [shalt be] a terror, and never shalt be any
more.

   {28:1} The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, {28:2} 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: {28:3}
Behold, thou [art] wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can
hide from thee: {28:4} With thy wisdom and with thine understanding
thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy
treasures: {28:5} By thy great wisdom [and] by thy traffick hast thou
increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy
riches: {28:6} Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast set
thine heart as the heart of God; {28:7} Behold, therefore I will bring
strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw
their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile
thy brightness. {28:8} They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou
shalt die the deaths of [them that are] slain in the midst of the seas.
{28:9} Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I [am] God? but
thou [shalt be] a man, and no God, in the hand of him that slayeth
thee. {28:10} Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the
hand of strangers: for I have spoken [it,] saith the Lord GOD. {28:11}
Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, {28:12} Son of man,
take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus
saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and
perfect in beauty. {28:13} 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. {28:14} 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. {28:15} Thou
[wast] perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till
iniquity was found in thee. {28:16} By the multitude of thy merchandise
they have filled the midst of 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. {28:17} 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.
{28:18} 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. {28:19} 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.

   {28:20} Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, {28:21} Son
of man, set thy face against Zidon, and prophesy against it, {28:22}
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. {28:23} For I will send into her pestilence, and
blood into her street; 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. {28:24} 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. {28:25} 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. {28:26}
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.

   {29:1} In the tenth year, in the tenth [month,] in the twelfth [day]
of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, {29:2} Son of
man, set thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against
him, and against all Egypt: {29:3} Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord
GOD; Behold, I [am] against 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. {29:4} 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.
{29:5} 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. {29:6} And
all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I [am] the LORD, because
they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel. {29:7} When they
took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and rend all their
shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou brakest, and madest all
their loins to be at a stand.

   {29:8} Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring a
sword upon thee, and cut off man and beast out of thee. {29:9} 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. ]{29:10} 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.
{29:11} No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall
pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years. {29:12} And
I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the 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.

   {29:13} Yet thus saith the Lord GOD; At the end of forty years will
I gather the Egyptians from the people whither they were scattered:
{29:14} 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. {29:15} 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. {29:16} 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.

   {29:17} 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, {29:18} 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: {29:19} Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will
give the land of Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he
shall take her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it
shall be the wages for his army. {29:20} I have given him the land of
Egypt [for] his labour wherewith he served against it, because they
wrought for me, saith the Lord GOD.

   {29:21} 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.

   {30:1} The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, {30:2} Son
of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Howl ye, Woe worth
the day {30:3} For the day [is] near, even the day of the LORD [is]
near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen. {30:4} And the
sword shall come upon Egypt, and great pain shall be in Ethiopia, when
the slain shall fall in Egypt, and they shall take away her multitude,
and her foundations shall be broken down. {30:5} 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. {30:6} 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. {30:7} 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. {30:8}
And they shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I have set a fire in
Egypt, and [when] all her helpers shall be destroyed. {30:9} In that
day shall messengers go forth from me in ships to make the careless
Ethiopians afraid, and great pain shall come upon them, as in the day
of Egypt: for, lo, it cometh. {30:10} Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will
also make the multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar
king of Babylon. {30:11} He and his people with him, the terrible of
the nations, shall be brought to destroy the land: and they shall draw
their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain. {30:12}
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. ]{30:13} 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. {30:14} And
I will make Pathros desolate, and will set fire in Zoan, and will
execute judgments in No. {30:15} And I will pour my fury upon Sin, the
strength of Egypt; and I will cut off the multitude of No. {30:16} And
I will set fire in Egypt: Sin shall have great pain, and No shall be
rent asunder, and Noph [shall have] distresses daily. {30:17} The young
men of Aven and of Pi-beseth shall fall by the sword: and these
[cities] shall go into captivity. {30:18} At Tehaphnehes also the day
shall be darkened, when I shall 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. {30:19} Thus will
I execute judgments in Egypt: and they shall know that I [am] the LORD.

   {30:20} 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, {30:21} 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.
{30:22} 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.
{30:23} And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will
disperse them through the countries. {30:24} 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. ]{30:25} 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. {30:26} And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations,
and disperse them among the countries; and they shall know that I [am]
the LORD.

   {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, {31:2} Son of man, speak unto Pharaoh king of
Egypt, and to his multitude; Whom art thou like in thy greatness?

   {31:3} 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. {31:4} The waters made him great, the
deep set him up on high with her rivers running round about his plants,
and sent out her little rivers unto all the trees of the field. {31:5}
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. {31:6} 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. {31:7} Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the
length of his branches: for his root was by great waters. {31:8} The
cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not
like his boughs, and the chesnut trees were not like his branches; nor
any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty. {31:9} 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.

   {31:10} 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; {31:11} 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. {31:12} 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. {31:13} Upon his ruin shall all the
fowls of the heaven remain, and all the beasts of the field shall be
upon his branches: {31:14} To the end that none of all the trees by the
waters exalt 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. {31:15} 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. {31:16} 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. {31:17} 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.

   {31:18} 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.

   {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, {32:2} 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. {32:3} 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. {32:4} 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. {32:5} And I will lay thy flesh upon the
mountains, and fill the valleys with thy height. {32:6} I will also
water with thy blood the land wherein thou swimmest, [even] to the
mountains; and the rivers shall be full of thee. {32:7} And when I
shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof
dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give
her light. {32:8} All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over
thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord GOD. {32:9} I will
also vex the hearts of many people, when I shall bring thy destruction
among the nations, into the countries which thou hast not known.
{32:10} 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.

   {32:11} For thus saith the Lord GOD; The sword of the king of
Babylon shall come upon thee. {32:12} By the swords of the mighty will
I cause thy multitude to fall, the terrible of the nations, all of
them: and they shall spoil the pomp of Egypt, and all the multitude
thereof shall be destroyed. {32:13} 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. {32:14}
Then will I make their waters deep, and cause their rivers to run like
oil, saith the Lord GOD. {32:15} When I shall make the land of Egypt
desolate, and the country 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. {32:16} 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.

   {32:17} 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,
{32:18} 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. {32:19}
Whom dost thou pass in beauty? go down, and be thou laid with the
uncircumcised. {32:20} 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. {32:21} 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. {32:22} Asshur [is] there and
all her company: his graves [are] about him: all of them slain, fallen
by the sword: {32:23} Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and
her company is round about her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the
sword, which caused terror in the land of the living. {32:24} 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. {32:25} 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.
{32:26} 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. {32:27} 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. {32:28} Yea, thou shalt be broken in the
midst of the uncircumcised, and shalt lie with [them that are] slain
with the sword. {32:29} 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. {32:30} 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. {32:31} 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. {32:32} 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.

   {33:1} Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, {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: {33:3} If when he seeth
the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people;
{33:4} Then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not
warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon
his own head. {33:5} 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. {33:6} 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.

   {33:7} 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. {33:8} 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. {33:9} 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. {33:10}
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? {33:11} 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? {33:12}
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. {33:13} When I shall say to the righteous, [that] he shall
surely live; if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity,
all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity
that he hath committed, he shall die for it. {33:14} Again, when I say
unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do
that which is lawful and right; {33:15} [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.
{33:16} 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.

   {33:17} Yet the children of thy people say, The way of the Lord is
not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal. {33:18} When the
righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he
shall even die thereby. {33:19} But if the wicked turn from his
wickedness, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall live
thereby.

   {33:20} Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O ye house of
Israel, I will judge you every one after his ways.

   {33:21} And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in
the 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.
{33:22} 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. {33:23}
Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, {33:24} 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. {33:25} 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? {33:26} Ye
stand upon your sword, ye work abomination, and ye defile every one his
neighbour's wife: and shall ye possess the land? {33:27} 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. {33:28} 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. {33:29} 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.

   {33:30} 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. {33:31}
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. {33:32} 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. {33:33} And
when this cometh to pass, (lo, it will come,) then shall they know that
a prophet hath been among them.

   {34:1} And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, {34:2} Son of
man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, 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? {34:3} Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the
wool, ye kill them that are fed: [but] ye feed not the flock. {34:4}
The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed 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. {34:5} And they were scattered, because [there is] no
shepherd: and they became meat to all the beasts of the field, when
they were scattered. {34:6} 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.]

   {34:7} Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD; {34:8}
[As] I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely because my flock became a 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; {34:9} Therefore, O ye
shepherds, hear the word of the LORD; {34:10} Thus saith the Lord GOD;
Behold, I [am] against the shepherds; 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.

   {34:11} For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, [even] I, will both
search my sheep, and seek them out. {34:12} As a shepherd seeketh out
his flock in the day that he is among 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. {34:13} 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. {34:14} 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. {34:15} I will feed my flock, and I will cause
them to lie down, saith the Lord GOD. {34:16} 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.
{34:17} 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.
{34:18} [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? {34:19} 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.

   {34:20} Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD unto them; Behold, I,
[even] I, will judge between the fat cattle and between the lean
cattle. {34:21} Because ye have thrust with side and with shoulder, and
pushed all the diseased with your horns, till ye have scattered them
abroad; {34:22} Therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more
be a prey; and I will judge between cattle and cattle. {34:23} And I
will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, [even] my
servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.
{34:24} And I the LORD will be their God, and my servant David a prince
among them; I the LORD have spoken [it. ]{34:25} And I will make with
them a covenant of peace, and will cause the evil beasts to cease out
of the land: and they shall dwell safely in the wilderness, and sleep
in the woods. {34:26} 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. {34:27} 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. {34:28} 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. {34:29} 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. {34:30} 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. {34:31} And ye my
flock, the flock of my pasture, [are] men, [and] I [am] your God, saith
the Lord GOD.

   {35:1} Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, {35:2}
Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it,
{35:3} 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. {35:4} I will lay thy cities waste, and
thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I [am] the LORD.
{35:5} Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed [the
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:
{35:6} 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. {35:7} Thus will I make mount Seir
most desolate, and cut off from it him that passeth out and him that
returneth. {35:8} And I will fill his mountains with his slain [men:]
in thy hills, and in thy valleys, and in all thy rivers, shall they
fall that are slain with the sword. {35:9} I will make thee perpetual
desolations, and thy cities shall not return: and ye shall know that I
[am] the LORD. {35:10} Because thou hast said, These two nations and
these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas the
LORD was there: {35:11} 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. {35:12} 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. {35:13}
Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me, and have multiplied
your words against me: I have heard [them. ]{35:14} Thus saith the Lord
GOD; When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee desolate. {35:15}
As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of Israel,
because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee: thou shalt be
desolate, O mount Seir, and all Idumea, [even] all of it: and they
shall know that I [am] the LORD.

   {36:1} Also, thou son of man, prophesy unto the mountains of Israel,
and say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD: {36:2} Thus
saith the Lord GOD; Because the enemy hath said against you, Aha, even
the ancient high places are ours in possession: {36:3} 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: {36:4} 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; {36:5} 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. {36:6} 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: {36:7} Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I have lifted
up mine hand, Surely the heathen that [are] about you, they shall bear
their shame.

   {36:8} 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. {36:9} For, behold, I [am] for you, and I will turn unto
you, and ye shall be tilled and sown: {36:10} 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: {36:11} 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. {36:12} 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.
]{36:13} Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they say unto you, Thou
[land] devourest up men, and hast bereaved thy nations; {36:14}
Therefore thou shalt devour men no more, neither bereave thy nations
any more, saith the Lord GOD. {36:15} Neither will I cause [men] to
hear in thee the shame of the 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.

   {36:16} Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, {36:17}
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. {36:18} 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: {36:19} And I scattered
them among the heathen, and they were dispersed through the countries:
according to their way and according to their doings I judged them.
{36:20} And when they entered unto the heathen, whither they went, 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.

   {36:21} But I had pity for mine holy name, which the house of Israel
had profaned among the heathen, whither they went. {36:22} Therefore
say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; 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. {36:23} 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. {36:24} For I will take you from among the heathen,
and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own
land.

   {36:25} 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. {36:26} 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. {36:27} And I will put my
spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall
keep my judgments, and do [them. ]{36:28} And ye shall dwell in the
land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will
be your God. {36:29} I will also save you from all your uncleannesses:
and I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine
upon you. {36:30} And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the
increase of the field, that ye shall receive no more reproach of famine
among the heathen. {36:31} Then shall ye remember your own evil ways,
and your doings that [were] not good, and shall lothe yourselves in
your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations. {36:32}
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.
{36:33} 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. {36:34} And the desolate land
shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that
passed by. {36:35} And they shall say, This land that was desolate is
become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined
cities [are become] fenced, [and] are inhabited. {36:36} 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. ]{36:37} 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. {36:38} 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.

   {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, {37:2} 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. {37:3} And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones
live? And I answered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest. {37:4} Again he said
unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones,
hear the word of the LORD. {37:5} Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these
bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall
live: {37:6} And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh
upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall
live; and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD. {37:7} 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. {37:8} 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. {37:9} 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. {37:10} 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.

   {37:11} 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. {37:12} 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. {37:13} And ye shall know that I [am] the
LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up
out of your graves, {37:14} And shall put my spirit in you, and ye
shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know
that I the LORD have spoken [it,] and performed [it,] saith the LORD.

   {37:15} The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, {37:16}
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: {37:17} And join them one to
another into one stick; and they shall become one in thine hand.

   {37:18} And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee,
saying, Wilt thou not shew us what thou [meanest] by these? {37:19} Say
unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the 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.

   {37:20} And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand
before their eyes. {37:21} 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: {37:22} 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: {37:23} 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. {37:24} 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. {37:25} 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. {37:26} 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. {37:27} My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I
will be their God, and they shall be my people. {37:28} And the heathen
shall know that I the LORD do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall
be in the midst of them for evermore.

   {38:1} And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, {38:2} Son of
man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of
Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him, {38:3} And say, Thus saith
the Lord GOD; Behold I [am] against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of
Meshech and Tubal: {38:4} And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into
thy jaws, and I will 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:
{38:5} Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield
and helmet: {38:6} Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of
the north quarters, and all his bands: [and] many people with thee.
{38:7} Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy
company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.

   {38:8} 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. {38:9} 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. {38:10} 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:
{38:11} 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, {38:12}
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. {38:13} 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?

   {38:14} 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? ]{38:15} 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: {38:16} 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. {38:17} Thus saith the Lord GOD; [Art] thou
he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of
Israel, which prophesied in those days [many] years that I would bring
thee against them? {38:18} And it shall come to pass at the same time
when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD,
[that] my fury shall come up in my face. {38:19} 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; {38:20} 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. {38:21} 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. {38:22} 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. {38:23}
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.

   {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: {39:2} 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:
{39:3} And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause
thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand. {39:4} Thou shalt fall upon
the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy 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. {39:5} Thou shalt fall
upon the open field: for I have spoken [it,] saith the Lord GOD. {39:6}
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. {39:7} 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.

   {39:8} Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this
[is] the day whereof I have spoken. {39:9} And they that dwell in the
cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall 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: {39:10} 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.

   {39:11} 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 Hamon-gog. {39:12} And seven months
shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the
land. {39:13} Yea, all the people of the land shall bury [them;] and it
shall be to them a renown the day that I shall be glorified, saith the
Lord GOD. {39:14} 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. {39:15} 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 Hamon-gog.
{39:16} And also the name of the city [shall be] Hamonah. Thus shall
they cleanse the land.

   {39:17} And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto
every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble
yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice
that I do sacrifice for you, [even] a great sacrifice upon the
mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood. {39:18} Ye
shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes
of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them
fatlings of Bashan. {39:19} And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and
drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed
for you. {39:20} Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and
chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.
{39:21} 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. {39:22} So the house of Israel shall know that I [am]
the LORD their God from that day and forward.

   {39:23} And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went
into 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. {39:24} According to their
uncleanness and according to their transgressions have I done unto
them, and hid my face from them. {39:25} 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;
{39:26} 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. {39:27} 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;
{39:28} 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. {39:29} 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.

   {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. {40:2} 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.
{40:3} 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. {40:4} 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. {40:5} 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.

   {40:6} 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. {40:7} 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. {40:8} He measured also the porch of the gate within,
one reed. {40:9} Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits;
and the posts thereof, two cubits; and the porch of the gate [was]
inward. {40:10} 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.
{40:11} And he measured the breadth of the entry of the gate, ten
cubits; [and] the length of the gate, thirteen cubits. {40:12} The
space also before the little chambers [was] one cubit [on this 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. {40:13} 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. {40:14} He made also posts of threescore cubits, even unto the
post of the court round about the gate. {40:15} And from the face of
the gate of the entrance unto the face of the porch of the inner gate
[were] fifty cubits. {40:16} And [there were] narrow windows to the
little chambers, and to 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. {40:17} 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.
{40:18} And the pavement by the side of the gates over against the
length of the gates [was] the lower pavement. {40:19} Then he measured
the breadth from the forefront of the lower gate unto the forefront of
the inner court without, an hundred cubits eastward and northward.

   {40:20} And the gate of the outward court that looked toward the
north, he measured the length thereof, and the breadth thereof. {40:21}
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. {40:22} 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. {40:23} 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.

   {40:24} 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. {40:25} 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.
{40:26} 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. {40:27} And [there
was] a gate in the inner court toward the south: and he measured from
gate to gate toward the south an hundred cubits. {40:28} And he brought
me to the inner court by the south gate: and he measured the south gate
according to these measures; {40:29} And the little chambers thereof,
and the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, according to these
measures: and [there were] windows in it and in the arches thereof
round about: [it was] fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits
broad. {40:30} And the arches round about [were] five and twenty cubits
long, and five cubits broad. {40:31} And the arches thereof [were]
toward the utter court; and palm trees [were] upon the posts thereof:
and the going up to it [had] eight steps.

   {40:32} And he brought me into the inner court toward the east: and
he measured the gate according to these measures. {40:33} And the
little chambers thereof, and the posts thereof, and the arches thereof,
[were] according to these measures: and [there were] windows therein
and in the arches thereof round about: [it was] fifty cubits long, and
five and twenty cubits broad. {40:34} And the arches thereof [were]
toward the outward 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. {40:35} And he brought me to the north gate, and measured [it]
according to these measures; {40:36} 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. {40:37} 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. {40:38} And the
chambers and the entries thereof [were] by the posts of the gates,
where they washed the burnt offering.

   {40:39} And in the porch of the gate [were] two tables on this side,
and two tables on that side, to slay thereon the burnt offering and the
sin offering and the trespass offering. {40:40} 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. {40:41} 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. ]{40:42} 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. {40:43} And within [were] hooks, an hand broad, fastened
round about: and upon the tables [was] the flesh of the offering.

   {40:44} And without the inner gate [were] the chambers of the
singers in 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. {40:45} 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. {40:46} 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.
{40:47} So he measured the court, an hundred cubits long, and an
hundred cubits broad, foursquare; and the altar [that was] before the
house.

   {40:48} 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. {40:49} The length of the porch [was]
twenty cubits, and the breadth eleven cubits; and [he brought me] by
the steps whereby they went up to it: and [there were] pillars by the
posts, one on this side, and another on that side.

   {41:1} Afterward he brought me to the temple, and measured the
posts, six cubits broad on the one side, and six cubits broad on the
other side, [which was] the breadth of the tabernacle. {41:2} 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. {41:3} 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. {41:4} 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. ]{41:5} 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. {41:6} 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. {41:7} 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. {41:8} I saw also the height of
the house round about: the foundations of the side chambers [were] a
full reed of six great cubits. {41:9} The thickness of the wall, which
[was] for the side chamber without, [was] five cubits: and [that] which
[was] left [was] the place of the side chambers that [were] within.
{41:10} And between the chambers [was] the wideness of twenty cubits
round about the house on every side. {41:11} And the doors of the side
chambers [were] toward [the place that 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. {41:12} 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. {41:13} So he
measured the house, an hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and
the building, with the walls thereof, an hundred cubits long; {41:14}
Also the breadth of the face of the house, and of the separate place
toward the east, an hundred cubits. {41:15} And he measured the length
of the building over against the 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;
{41:16} 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; {41:17} To that above the door, even unto the inner
house, and without, and by all the wall round about within and without,
by measure. {41:18} 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; {41:19} 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. {41:20} From the ground unto above the door [were] cherubims and
palm trees made, and [on] the wall of the temple. {41:21} The posts of
the temple [were] squared, [and] the face of the sanctuary; the
appearance [of the one] as the appearance [of the other. ]{41:22} The
altar of wood [was] three cubits high, and the length thereof 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. {41:23} And the temple and the sanctuary had two
doors. {41:24} And the doors had two leaves [apiece,] two turning
leaves; two [leaves] for the one door, and two leaves for the other
[door. ]{41:25} 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.
{41:26} 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.

   {42:1} 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. {42:2} Before the length of an hundred cubits [was] the north
door, and the breadth [was] fifty cubits. {42:3} Over against the
twenty [cubits] which [were] for the inner court, and over against the
pavement which [was] for the utter court, [was] gallery against gallery
in three [stories. ]{42:4} And before the chambers [was] a walk of ten
cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors toward the
north. {42:5} Now the upper chambers [were] shorter: for the galleries
were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the
building. {42:6} 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.
{42:7} 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. {42:8} For the length of the chambers that
[were] in the utter court [was] fifty cubits: and, lo, before the
temple [were] an hundred cubits. {42:9} And from under these chambers
[was] the entry on the east side, as one goeth into them from the utter
court. {42:10} The chambers [were] in the thickness of the wall of the
court toward the east, over against the separate place, and over
against the building. {42:11} 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. {42:12} 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.

   {42:13} 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. {42:14} 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. {42:15} 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. {42:16} He
measured the east side with the measuring reed, five hundred reeds,
with the measuring reed round about. {42:17} He measured the north
side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about. {42:18}
He measured the south side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed.

   {42:19} He turned about to the west side, [and] measured five
hundred reeds with the measuring reed. {42:20} He measured it by the
four sides: it had a wall round about, five hundred [reeds] long, and
five hundred broad, to make a separation between the sanctuary and the
profane place.

   {43:1} Afterward he brought me to the gate, [even] the gate that
looketh toward the east: {43:2} 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. {43:3} 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. {43:4} And the glory of the LORD came into the
house by the way of the gate whose prospect [is] toward the east.
{43:5} So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court;
and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house. {43:6} And I heard
[him] speaking unto me out of the house; and the man stood by me.

   {43:7} 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.
{43:8} 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. {43:9} 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.

   {43:10} 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. {43:11} 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.
{43:12} 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. {43:13} 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. {43:14} 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.
{43:15} So the altar [shall be] four cubits; and from the altar and
upward [shall be] four horns. {43:16} And the altar [shall be] twelve
[cubits] long, twelve broad, square in the four squares thereof.
{43:17} And the settle [shall be] fourteen [cubits] long and fourteen
broad in 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. {43:18} 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. {43:19} 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. {43:20} 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.
{43:21} Thou shalt take the bullock also of the sin offering, and he
shall burn it in the appointed place of the house, without the
sanctuary. {43:22} And on the second day thou shalt offer a kid of the
goats without blemish for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the
altar, as they did cleanse [it] with the bullock. {43:23} 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. {43:24}
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. {43:25} 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. {43:26} Seven days shall they
purge the altar and purify it; and they shall consecrate themselves.
{43:27} 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.

   {44:1} Then he brought me back the way of the gate of the outward
sanctuary which looketh toward the east; and it [was] shut. {44:2} Then
said the LORD unto me; This gate shall be shut, it shall not 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. {44:3} [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.

   {44:4} 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. {44:5} 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.
{44:6} 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, {44:7} In that ye have brought [into my
sanctuary] strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in
flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, [even] my house, when ye
offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant
because of all your abominations. {44:8} And ye have not kept the
charge of mine holy things: but ye have set keepers of my charge in my
sanctuary for yourselves.

   {44:9} Thus saith the Lord GOD; No stranger, uncircumcised in heart,
nor uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any
stranger that [is] among the children of Israel. {44:10} And the
Levites that are gone away far from me, when Israel went astray, which
went astray away from me after their idols; they shall even bear their
iniquity. {44:11} 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. {44:12} 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.
{44:13} 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. {44:14} 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.

   {44:15} 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: {44:16} They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come
near to my table, to minister unto me, and they shall keep my charge.

   {44:17} And it shall come to pass, [that] when they enter in at the
gates of 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. {44:18} 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. {44:19} 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.
{44:20} Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to
grow long; they shall only poll their heads. {44:21} Neither shall any
priest drink wine, when they enter into the inner court. {44:22}
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. {44:23} And they shall teach my
people [the difference] between the holy and profane, and cause them to
discern between the unclean and the clean. {44:24} And in controversy
they shall stand in judgment; [and] they shall judge it according to my
judgments: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all mine
assemblies; and they shall hallow my sabbaths. {44:25} And they shall
come at no dead person to defile themselves: but 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. {44:26} And after he
is cleansed, they shall reckon unto him seven days. {44:27} 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.
{44:28} 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. {44:29} They shall eat the meat offering, and the sin
offering, and the trespass offering; and every dedicated thing in
Israel shall be theirs. {44:30} And the first of all the firstfruits of
all [things,] and every oblation of 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. {44:31} The priests shall not eat of any thing that is
dead of itself, or torn, whether it be fowl or beast.

   {45:1} 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. {45:2} 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. {45:3} 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. ]{45:4}
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. {45:5} 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.

   {45:6} 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.

   {45:7} 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. {45:8} 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.

   {45:9} 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. {45:10} Ye
shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath. I {45:11}
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. {45:12} And the
shekel [shall be] twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, five and twenty
shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh. {45:13} This [is] the
oblation that ye shall offer; the sixth part of an ephah of an homer of
wheat, and ye shall give the sixth part of an ephah of an homer of
barley: {45:14} Concerning the ordinance of oil, the bath of oil, [ye
shall offer] the tenth part of a bath out of the cor, [which is] an
homer of ten baths; for ten baths [are] an homer: {45:15} 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. {45:16}
All the people of the land shall give this oblation for the prince in
Israel. {45:17} 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. {45:18} 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: {45:19} 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. {45:20} 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.
{45:21} In the first [month,] in the fourteenth day of the month, ye
shall have the passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall
be eaten. {45:22} And upon that day shall the prince prepare for
himself and for all the people of the land a bullock [for] a sin
offering. {45:23} And seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt
offering to the LORD, seven bullocks and seven rams without blemish
daily the seven days; and a kid of the goats daily [for] a sin
offering. {45:24} And he shall prepare a meat offering of an ephah for
a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and an hin of oil for an ephah.
{45:25} In the seventh [month,] in the fifteenth day of the month,
shall he 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.

   {46:1} 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. {46:2} 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. {46:3} 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. {46:4} 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. {46:5}
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. {46:6} 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. {46:7} 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. {46:8} And
when the prince shall enter, he shall go in by the way of the porch of
[that] gate, and he shall go forth by the way thereof.

   {46:9} But when the people of the land shall come before the LORD in
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. {46:10} And the prince in the midst
of them, when they go in, shall go in; and when they go forth, shall go
forth. {46:11} And in the feasts and in the solemnities the meat
offering shall be an ephah to a bullock, and ephah to a ram, and to the
lambs as he is able to give, and an hin of oil to an ephah. {46:12} Now
when the prince shall prepare a voluntary burnt offering or 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. {46:13}
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.
{46:14} 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. {46:15} Thus shall they prepare the lamb, and
the meat offering, and the oil, every morning [for] a continual burnt
offering.

   {46:16} Thus saith the Lord GOD; If the prince give a gift unto any
of his sons, the inheritance thereof shall be his sons'; it [shall be]
their possession by inheritance. {46:17} But if he give a gift of his
inheritance to one of his servants, then 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. {46:18} 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.

   {46:19} 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. {46:20} 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. {46:21} 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. {46:22} 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. {46:23} 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. {46:24} 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.

   {47:1} Afterward he brought me again unto the door of the house;
and, behold, waters issued out from under the threshold of the house
eastward: for the forefront of the house [stood toward] the east, and
the waters came down from under from the right side of the house, at
the south [side] of the altar. {47:2} Then brought he me out of the way
of the gate northward, and led 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. {47:3} And when the man that had the line in
his hand went forth eastward, he measured a thousand cubits, and he
brought me through the waters; the waters [were] to the ancles. {47:4}
Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through the waters; the
waters [were] to the knees. Again he measured a thousand, and brought
me through; the waters [were] to the loins. {47:5} Afterward he
measured a thousand; [and it was] a river that I could not pass over:
for the waters were risen, waters to swim in, a river that could not be
passed over.

   {47:6} And he said unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen [this?] Then
he brought me, and caused me to return to the brink of the river.
{47:7} Now when I had returned, behold, at the bank of the river [were]
very many trees on the one side and on the other. {47:8} Then said he
unto me, These waters issue out toward the east country, and go down
into the desert, and go into the sea: [which being] brought forth into
the sea, the waters shall be healed. {47:9} 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. {47:10}
And it shall come to pass, [that] the fishers shall stand upon it from
En-gedi even unto En-eglaim; 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. {47:11} But the miry places thereof and the
marishes thereof shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt.
{47:12} And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on
that 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.

   {47:13} 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. {47:14} 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. {47:15} And this [shall be] the border of the land toward
the north side, from the great sea, the way of Hethlon, as men go to
Zedad; {47:16} Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which [is] between the border
of Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazar-hatticon, which is by the
coast of Hauran. {47:17} And the border from the sea shall be
Hazar-enan, the border of Damascus, and the north northward, and the
border of Hamath. And [this is] the north side. {47:18} 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. {47:19} 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. {47:20} The west
side also [shall be] the great sea from the border, till a man come
over against Hamath. This [is] the west side. {47:21} So shall ye
divide this land unto you according to the tribes of Israel.

   {47:22} 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. {47:23} And it shall
come to pass, [that] in what tribe the stranger sojourneth, there shall
ye give [him] his inheritance, saith the Lord GOD.

   {48:1} Now these [are] the names of the tribes. From the north end
to the coast of the way of Hethlon, as one goeth to Hamath, Hazar-enan,
the border of Damascus northward, to the coast of Hamath; for these are
his sides east [and] west; a [portion for] Dan. {48:2} And by the
border of Dan, from the east side unto the west side, a [portion for]
Asher. {48:3} And by the border of Asher, from the east side even unto
the west side, a [portion for] Naphtali. {48:4} And by the border of
Naphtali, from the east side unto the west side, a [portion for]
Manasseh. {48:5} And by the border of Manasseh, from the east side unto
the west side, a [portion for] Ephraim. {48:6} And by the border of
Ephraim, from the east side even unto the west side, a [portion for]
Reuben. {48:7} And by the border of Reuben, from the east side unto the
west side, a [portion for] Judah.

   {48:8} And by the border of Judah, from the east side unto the west
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. {48:9} The oblation that ye shall offer unto the
LORD [shall be] of five and twenty thousand in length, and of ten
thousand in breadth. {48:10} And for them, [even] for the priests,
shall be [this] holy oblation; 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. {48:11} [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. {48:12} And [this] oblation of the land that is offered shall
be unto them a thing most holy by the border of the Levites. {48:13}
And over against the border of the priests the Levites [shall have]
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. {48:14} And they shall not sell of it, neither exchange, nor
alienate the firstfruits of the land: for [it is] holy unto the LORD.

   {48:15} And the five thousand, that are left in the breadth over
against 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. {48:16} 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. {48:17} 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.
{48:18} 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.
{48:19} And they that serve the city shall serve it out of all the
tribes of Israel. {48:20} 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.

   {48:21} 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. {48:22} 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. {48:23} As for the rest of the
tribes, from the east side unto the west side, Benjamin [shall have] a
[portion. ]{48:24} And by the border of Benjamin, from the east side
unto the west side, Simeon [shall have] a [portion. ]{48:25} And by the
border of Simeon, from the east side unto the west side, Issachar a
[portion. ]{48:26} And by the border of Issachar, from the east side
unto the west side, Zebulun a [portion. ]{48:27} And by the border of
Zebulun, from the east side unto the west side, Gad a [portion.
]{48:28} And by the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the
border shall be even from Tamar [unto] the waters of strife [in]
Kadesh, [and] to the river toward the great sea. {48:29} 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.

   {48:30} And these [are] the goings out of the city on the north
side, four thousand and five hundred measures. {48:31} And the gates of
the city [shall be] after the names of the tribes of Israel: three
gates northward; one gate of Reuben, one gate of Judah, one gate of
Levi. {48:32} 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. {48:33} 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. {48:34} 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. {48:35} [It was] round about eighteen thousand
[measures:] and the name of the city from [that] day [shall be,] The
LORD [is] there.





Ezra

   {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, {1:2} 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. {1:3} 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. {1:4} 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.

   {1:5} 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. {1:6} 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.

   {1:7} Also Cyrus the king brought forth the vessels of the house of
the LORD, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought forth out of Jerusalem, and
had put them in the house of his gods; {1:8} Even those did Cyrus king
of Persia bring forth by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and
numbered them unto Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah. {1:9} And this
[is] the number of them: thirty chargers of gold, a thousand chargers
of silver, nine and twenty knives, {1:10} Thirty basons of gold, silver
basons of a second [sort] four hundred and ten, [and] other vessels a
thousand. {1:11} All the vessels of gold and of silver [were] five
thousand and four hundred. All [these] did Sheshbazzar bring up with
[them of] the captivity that were brought up from Babylon unto
Jerusalem.

   {2:1} Now these [are] the children of the province that went up out
of the captivity, of those which had been carried away, whom
Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away unto Babylon, and
came again unto Jerusalem and Judah, every one unto his city; {2:2}
Which came with Zerubbabel: Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah,
Mordecai, Bilshan, Mizpar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah. The number of the men
of the people of Israel: {2:3} The children of Parosh, two thousand an
hundred seventy and two. {2:4} The children of Shephatiah, three
hundred seventy and two. {2:5} The children of Arah, seven hundred
seventy and five. {2:6} The children of Pahath-moab, of the children of
Jeshua [and] Joab, two thousand eight hundred and twelve. {2:7} The
children of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four. {2:8} The
children of Zattu, nine hundred forty and five. {2:9} The children of
Zaccai, seven hundred and threescore. {2:10} The children of Bani, six
hundred forty and two. {2:11} The children of Bebai, six hundred twenty
and three. {2:12} The children of Azgad, a thousand two hundred twenty
and two. {2:13} The children of Adonikam, six hundred sixty and six.
{2:14} The children of Bigvai, two thousand fifty and six. {2:15} The
children of Adin, four hundred fifty and four. {2:16} The children of
Ater of Hezekiah, ninety and eight. {2:17} The children of Bezai, three
hundred twenty and three. {2:18} The children of Jorah, an hundred and
twelve. {2:19} The children of Hashum, two hundred twenty and three.
{2:20} The children of Gibbar, ninety and five. {2:21} The children of
Bethlehem, an hundred twenty and three. {2:22} The men of Netophah,
fifty and six. {2:23} The men of Anathoth, an hundred twenty and eight.
{2:24} The children of Azmaveth, forty and two. {2:25} The children of
Kirjath-arim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred and forty and
three. {2:26} The children of Ramah and Gaba, six hundred twenty and
one. {2:27} The men of Michmas, an hundred twenty and two. {2:28} The
men of Bethel and Ai, two hundred twenty and three. {2:29} The children
of Nebo, fifty and two. {2:30} The children of Magbish, an hundred
fifty and six. {2:31} The children of the other Elam, a thousand two
hundred fifty and four. {2:32} The children of Harim, three hundred and
twenty. {2:33} The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred
twenty and five. {2:34} The children of Jericho, three hundred forty
and five. {2:35} The children of Senaah, three thousand and six hundred
and thirty.

   {2:36} The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua,
nine hundred seventy and three. {2:37} The children of Immer, a
thousand fifty and two. {2:38} The children of Pashur, a thousand two
hundred forty and seven. {2:39} The children of Harim, a thousand and
seventeen.

   {2:40} The Levites: the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the
children of Hodaviah, seventy and four.

   {2:41} The singers: the children of Asaph, an hundred twenty and
eight.

   {2:42} The children of the porters: the children of Shallum, the
children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the
children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, [in] all an hundred thirty
and nine.

   {2:43} The Nethinims: the children of Ziha, the children of Hasupha,
the children of Tabbaoth, {2:44} The children of Keros, the children of
Siaha, the children of Padon, {2:45} The children of Lebanah, the
children of Hagabah, the children of Akkub, {2:46} The children of
Hagab, the children of Shalmai, the children of Hanan, {2:47} The
children of Giddel, the children of Gahar, the children of Reaiah,
{2:48} The children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda, the children of
Gazzam, {2:49} The children of Uzza, the children of Paseah, the
children of Besai, {2:50} The children of Asnah, the children of
Mehunim, the children of Nephusim, {2:51} The children of Bakbuk, the
children of Hakupha, the children of Harhur, {2:52} The children of
Bazluth, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha, {2:53} The
children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Thamah,
{2:54} The children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha.

   {2:55} The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai,
the children of Sophereth, the children of Peruda, {2:56} The children
of Jaalah, the children of Darkon, the children of Giddel, {2:57} The
children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of
Pochereth of Zebaim, the children of Ami. {2:58} All the Nethinims, and
the children of Solomon's servants, [were] three hundred ninety and
two. {2:59} And these [were] they which went up from Tel-melah,
Tel-harsa, Cherub, Addan, [and] Immer: but they could not shew their
father's house, and their seed, whether they [were] of Israel: {2:60}
The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of
Nekoda, six hundred fifty and two.

   {2:61} And of the children of the priests: the children of Habaiah,
the children of Koz, the children of Barzillai; which took a wife of
the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their
name: {2:62} These sought their register [among] those that were
reckoned by genealogy, but they were not found: therefore were they, as
polluted, put from the priesthood. {2:63} 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.

   {2:64} The whole congregation together [was] forty and two thousand
three hundred [and] threescore, {2:65} Beside their servants and their
maids, of whom [there were] seven thousand three hundred thirty and
seven: and [there were] among them two hundred singing men and singing
women. {2:66} Their horses [were] seven hundred thirty and six; their
mules, two hundred forty and five; {2:67} Their camels, four hundred
thirty and five; [their] asses, six thousand seven hundred and twenty.

   {2:68} And [some] of the chief of the fathers, when they came to the
house of the LORD which [is] at Jerusalem, offered freely for the house
of God to set it up in his place: {2:69} 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. {2:70} 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.

   {3:1} And when the seventh month was come, and the children of
Israel [were] in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as
one man to Jerusalem. {3:2} Then stood up Jeshua the son of Jozadak,
and his brethren the 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. {3:3} 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. {3:4} They kept also the feast of tabernacles, as [it is]
written, and [offered] the daily burnt offerings by number, according
to the custom, as the duty of every day required; {3:5} And afterward
[offered] the continual burnt offering, both of the 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. {3:6} 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. {3:7} 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.

   {3:8} Now in the second year of their coming unto the house of God
at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son of
Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the remnant of their
brethren the priests and the Levites, and all they that were come out
of the captivity unto Jerusalem; and appointed the Levites, from twenty
years old and upward, to set forward the work of the house of the LORD.
{3:9} Then stood Jeshua [with] his sons and his brethren, Kadmiel and
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. {3:10} 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. {3:11} 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. {3:12} 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: {3:13} 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.

   {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; {4:2} 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 Esar-
haddon king of Assur, which brought us up hither. {4:3} But Zerubbabel,
and Jeshua, and the rest of the chief of the fathers of Israel, said
unto them, Ye have nothing to do with us to build an house unto our
God; but we ourselves together will build unto the LORD God of Israel,
as king Cyrus the king of Persia hath commanded us. {4:4} Then the
people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and
troubled them in building, {4:5} And hired counsellors against them, to
frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even
until the reign of Darius king of Persia. {4:6} And in the reign of
Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, wrote they [unto him] an
accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.

   {4:7} And in the days of Artaxerxes wrote Bishlam, Mithredath,
Tabeel, 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. {4:8} Rehum the
chancellor and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to
Artaxerxes the king in this sort: {4:9} Then [wrote] Rehum the
chancellor, and Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their companions;
the Dinaites, the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the
Archevites, the Babylonians, the Susanchites, the Dehavites, [and] the
Elamites, {4:10} And the rest of the nations whom the great and noble
Asnapper brought over, and set in the cities of Samaria, and the rest
[that are] on this side the river, and at such a time.

   {4:11} 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. {4:12} 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. {4:13} 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. {4:14} 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; {4:15} 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. {4:16} 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.

   {4:17} [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. {4:18} The letter which ye sent unto us hath been plainly
read before me. {4:19} 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. {4:20}
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. {4:21} 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. {4:22} Take heed now that ye fail not to do
this: why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings?

   {4:23} Now when the copy of king Artaxerxes' letter [was] read
before 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. {4:24} 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.

   {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. {5:2} Then rose up
Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and
began to build the house of God which [is] at Jerusalem: and with them
[were] the prophets of God helping them.

   {5:3} At the same time came to them Tatnai, governor on this side
the river, and Shethar- boznai, and their companions, and said thus
unto them, Who hath commanded you to build this house, and to make up
this wall? {5:4} Then said we unto them after this manner, What are the
names of the men that make this building? {5:5} But the eye of their
God was upon the elders of the Jews, that they could not cause them to
cease, till the matter came to Darius: and then they returned answer by
letter concerning this [matter.]

   {5:6} The copy of the letter that Tatnai, governor on this side the
river, and Shethar- boznai, and his companions the Apharsachites, which
[were] on this side the river, sent unto Darius the king: {5:7} They
sent a letter unto him, wherein was written thus; Unto Darius the king,
all peace. {5:8} Be it known unto the king, that we went into the
province of 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. {5:9} Then asked we those elders,
[and] said unto them thus, Who commanded you to build this house, and
to make up these walls? {5:10} We asked their names also, to certify
thee, that we might write the names of the men that [were] the chief of
them. {5:11} And thus they returned us answer, saying, We are the
servants 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. {5:12} But after that our fathers had provoked the God of
heaven unto wrath, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the
king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried
the people away into Babylon. {5:13} But in the first year of Cyrus the
king of Babylon [the same] king Cyrus made a decree to build this house
of God. {5:14} And the vessels also of gold and silver of the house of
God, 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;
{5:15} 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. {5:16} 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. {5:17} Now therefore, if [it seem] good to the king, let
there be search made in the king's treasure house, which [is] there at
Babylon, whether it be [so,] that a decree was made of Cyrus the king
to build this house of God at Jerusalem, and let the king send his
pleasure to us concerning this matter.

   {6:1} Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in the
house of the rolls, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon. {6:2}
And there was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province
of the Medes, a roll, and therein [was] a record thus written: {6:3} In
the first year of Cyrus the king [the same] Cyrus the king made a
decree [concerning] the house of God at Jerusalem, Let the house be
builded, the place where they offered sacrifices, and let the
foundations thereof be strongly laid; the height thereof threescore
cubits, [and] the breadth thereof threescore cubits; {6:4} [With] three
rows of great stones, and a row of new timber: and let the expences be
given out of the king's house: {6:5} And also let the golden and silver
vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took forth out of the
temple which is at Jerusalem, and brought unto Babylon, be restored,
and brought again unto the temple which is at Jerusalem, [every one] to
his place, and place [them] in the house of God. {6:6} Now [therefore,]
Tatnai, governor beyond the river, Shethar-boznai, and your companions
the Apharsachites, which [are] beyond the river, be ye far from thence:
{6:7} 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.
{6:8} 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 expences be given
unto these men, that they be not hindered. {6:9} 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: {6:10} 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. {6:11} 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. {6:12} 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.

   {6:13} Then Tatnai, governor on this side the river, Shethar-boznai,
and their companions, according to that which Darius the king had sent,
so they did speedily. {6:14} 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. {6:15}
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.

   {6:16} 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, {6:17} 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. {6:18} 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.
{6:19} And the children of the captivity kept the passover upon the
fourteenth [day] of the first month. {6:20} For the priests and the
Levites were purified together, all of them [were] pure, and killed the
passover for all the children of the captivity, and for their brethren
the priests, and for themselves. {6:21} 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, {6:22} 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.

   {7:1} Now after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of
Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of
Hilkiah, {7:2} The son of Shallum, the son of Zadok, the son of Ahitub,
{7:3} The son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth,
{7:4} The son of Zerahiah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Bukki, {7:5} The
son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of
Aaron the chief priest: {7:6} This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he
[was] a ready scribe in 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. {7:7} 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. {7:8} And he came to Jerusalem in
the fifth month, which [was] in the seventh year of the king. {7:9} For
upon the first [day] of the first month began he to go up from Babylon,
and on the first [day] of the fifth month came he to Jerusalem,
according to the good hand of his God upon him. {7:10} For Ezra had
prepared his heart to seek the law of the LORD, and to do [it,] and to
teach in Israel statutes and judgments.

   {7:11} Now this [is] the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes
gave unto Ezra the priest, the scribe, [even] a scribe of the words of
the commandments of the LORD, and of his statutes to Israel. {7:12}
Artaxerxes, king of kings, unto Ezra the priest, a scribe of the law of
the God of heaven, perfect [peace,] and at such a time. {7:13} I make a
decree, that all they of the people of Israel, and [of] his priests and
Levites, in my realm, which are minded of their own freewill to go up
to Jerusalem, go with thee. {7:14} Forasmuch as thou art sent of the
king, and of his seven counsellors, to enquire concerning Judah and
Jerusalem, according to the law of thy God which [is] in thine hand;
{7:15} And to carry the silver and gold, which the king and his
counsellors have freely offered unto the God of Israel, whose
habitation [is] in Jerusalem, {7:16} 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: {7:17} 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. {7:18} 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. {7:19} The
vessels also that are given thee for the service of the house of thy
God, [those] deliver thou before the God of Jerusalem. {7:20} And
whatsoever more shall be needful for the house of thy God, which thou
shalt have occasion to bestow, bestow [it] out of the king's treasure
house. {7:21} 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, {7:22} Unto an hundred talents of silver,
and to an hundred measures of wheat, and to an hundred baths of wine,
and to an hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescribing [how much.
]{7:23} Whatsoever is commanded by the God of heaven, let it be
diligently done for the house of the God of heaven: for why should
there be wrath against the realm of the king and his sons? {7:24} Also
we certify you, that touching any of the priests and Levites, singers,
porters, Nethinims, or ministers of this house of God, it shall not be
lawful to impose toll, tribute, or custom, upon them. {7:25} And thou,
Ezra, after the wisdom of thy God, that [is] in thine 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. {7:26} And whosoever will not do the law of
thy God, and the law of the king, let judgment be executed speedily
upon him, whether [it be] unto death, or to banishment, or to
confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.

   {7:27} Blessed [be] the LORD God of our fathers, which hath put
[such a thing] as this in the king's heart, to beautify the house of
the LORD which [is] in Jerusalem: {7:28} 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.

   {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. {8:2} Of the sons of Phinehas; Gershom: of the
sons of Ithamar; Daniel: of the sons of David; Hattush. {8:3} 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. {8:4} Of
the sons of Pahath- moab; Elihoenai the son of Zerahiah, and with him
two hundred males. {8:5} Of the sons of Shechaniah; the son of
Jahaziel, and with him three hundred males. {8:6} Of the sons also of
Adin; Ebed the son of Jonathan, and with him fifty males. {8:7} And of
the sons of Elam; Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah, and with him seventy
males. {8:8} And of the sons of Shephatiah; Zebadiah the son of
Michael, and with him fourscore males. {8:9} Of the sons of Joab;
Obadiah the son of Jehiel, and with him two hundred and eighteen males.
{8:10} And of the sons of Shelomith; the son of Josiphiah, and with him
an hundred and threescore males. {8:11} And of the sons of Bebai;
Zechariah the son of Bebai, and with him twenty and eight males. {8:12}
And of the sons of Azgad; Johanan the son of Hakkatan, and with him an
hundred and ten males. {8:13} And of the last sons of Adonikam, whose
names [are] these, Eliphelet, Jeiel, and Shemaiah, and with them
threescore males. {8:14} Of the sons also of Bigvai; Uthai, and Zabbud,
and with them seventy males.

   {8:15} And I gathered them together to the river than 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. {8:16} 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. {8:17} 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. {8:18}
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; {8:19}
And Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, his
brethren and their sons, twenty; {8:20} Also of the Nethinims, whom
David and the princes had appointed for the service of the Levites, two
hundred and twenty Nethinims: all of them were expressed by name.

   {8:21} 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. {8:22} For
I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to
help us against the enemy in the way: because we had spoken unto the
king, saying, The hand of our God [is] upon all them for good that seek
him; but his power and his wrath [is] against all them that forsake
him. {8:23} So we fasted and besought our God for this: and he was
intreated of us.

   {8:24} Then I separated twelve of the chief of the priests,
Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brethren with them, {8:25} And
weighed unto them the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, [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: {8:26} I
even weighed unto their hand six hundred and fifty talents of silver,
and silver vessels an hundred talents, [and] of gold an hundred
talents; {8:27} Also twenty basons of gold, of a thousand drams; and
two vessels of fine copper, precious as gold. {8:28} And I said unto
them, Ye [are] holy unto the LORD; the vessels [are] holy also; and the
silver and the gold [are] a freewill offering unto the LORD God of your
fathers. {8:29} 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. {8:30}
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.

   {8:31} 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. {8:32} And we came to Jerusalem, and abode
there three days.

   {8:33} 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; {8:34} By number [and] by weight of every one: and all
the weight was written at that time. {8:35} [Also] the children of
those that had been carried away, which 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.

   {8:36} 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.

   {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. {9:2} 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. {9:3} 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. {9:4}
Then were assembled unto me every one that trembled at the words of the
God of Israel, because of the transgression of those that had been
carried away; and I sat astonied until the evening sacrifice.

   {9:5} And at the evening sacrifice I arose up from my heaviness; and
having rent my garment and my mantle, I fell upon my knees, and spread
out my hands unto the LORD my God. {9:6} 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. {9:7} 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. {9:8} And now for a little space grace
hath been [shewed] from the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant to
escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may
lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage. {9:9}
For we [were] bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our 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.
{9:10} And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? for we have
forsaken thy commandments, {9:11} Which thou hast commanded by thy
servants the prophets, 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. {9:12} 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. {9:13} 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; {9:14} 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?
{9:15} O LORD God of Israel, thou [art] righteous: for we remain yet
escaped, as [it is] this day: behold, we [are] before thee in our
trespasses: for we cannot stand before thee because of this.

   {10:1} 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. {10:2} 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. {10:3} 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. {10:4} Arise; for [this]
matter [belongeth] unto thee: we also [will be] with thee: be of good
courage, and do [it. ]{10:5} Then arose Ezra, and made the chief
priests, the Levites, and all Israel, to swear that they should do
according to this word. And they sware.

   {10:6} 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. {10:7} And they made
proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem unto all the children of
the captivity, that they should gather themselves together unto
Jerusalem; {10:8} 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.

   {10:9} 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. {10:10} And Ezra the priest stood up, and said unto them,
Ye have transgressed, and have taken strange wives, to increase the
trespass of Israel. {10:11} Now therefore make confession unto the LORD
God of your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from
the people of the land, and from the strange wives. {10:12} Then all
the congregation answered and said with a loud voice, As thou hast
said, so must we do. {10:13} But the people [are] many, and [it is] a
time of much rain, and we 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. {10:14} 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.

   {10:15} 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. {10:16} 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. {10:17} And they made an end with all the men that had
taken strange wives by the first day of the first month.

   {10:18} 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. {10:19} 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. {10:20} And of the sons of Immer; Hanani, and Zebadiah.
{10:21} And of the sons of Harim; Maaseiah, and Elijah, and Shemaiah,
and Jehiel, and Uzziah. {10:22} And of the sons of Pashur; Elioenai,
Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethaneel, Jozabad, and Elasah. {10:23} Also of the
Levites; Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah, (the same [is] Kelita,)
Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer. {10:24} Of the singers also; Eliashib:
and of the porters; Shallum, and Telem, and Uri. {10:25} Moreover of
Israel: of the sons of Parosh; Ramiah, and Jeziah, and Malchiah, and
Miamin, and Eleazar, and Malchijah, and Benaiah. {10:26} And of the
sons of Elam; Mattaniah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, and Abdi, and Jeremoth,
and Eliah. {10:27} And of the sons of Zattu; Elioenai, Eliashib,
Mattaniah, and Jeremoth, and Zabad, and Aziza. {10:28} Of the sons also
of Bebai; Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai, [and] Athlai. {10:29} And of the
sons of Bani; Meshullam, Malluch, and Adaiah, Jashub, and Sheal, and
Ramoth. {10:30} And of the sons of Pahath-moab; Adna, and Chelal,
Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezaleel, and Binnui, and Manasseh.
{10:31} And [of] the sons of Harim; Eliezer, Ishijah, Malchiah,
Shemaiah, Shimeon, {10:32} Benjamin, Malluch, [and] Shemariah. {10:33}
Of the sons of Hashum; Mattenai, Mattathah, Zabad, Eliphelet, Jeremai,
Manasseh, [and] Shimei. {10:34} Of the sons of Bani; Maadai, Amram, and
Uel, {10:35} Benaiah, Bedeiah, Chelluh, {10:36} Vaniah, Meremoth,
Eliashib, {10:37} Mattaniah, Mattenai, and Jaasau, {10:38} And Bani,
and Binnui, Shimei, {10:39} And Shelemiah, and Nathan, and Adaiah,
{10:40} Machnadebai, Shashai, Sharai, {10:41} Azareel, and Shelemiah,
Shemariah, {10:42} Shallum, Amariah, [and] Joseph. {10:43} Of the sons
of Nebo; Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Jadau, and Joel, Benaiah.
{10:44} All these had taken strange wives: and [some] of them had wives
by whom they had children.





The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Galatians

   {1:1} Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus
Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;) {1:2} And
all the brethren which are with me, unto the churches of Galatia: {1:3}
Grace [be] to you and peace from God the Father, and [from] our Lord
Jesus Christ, {1:4} Who gave himself for our sins, that he might
deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God
and our Father: {1:5} To whom [be] glory for ever and ever. Amen.

   {1:6} I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you
into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: {1:7} Which is not
another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the
gospel of Christ. {1:8} But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach
any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you,
let him be accursed. {1:9} 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.

   {1:10} 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.
{1:11} But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached
of me is not after man. {1:12} For I neither received it of man,
neither was I taught [it,] but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.
{1:13} For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews'
religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and
wasted it: {1:14} And profited in the Jews' religion above many my
equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the
traditions of my fathers. {1:15} But when it pleased God, who separated
me from my mother's womb, and called [me] by his grace, {1:16} To
reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen;
immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood: {1:17} Neither went I
up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into
Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus. {1:18} Then after three years
I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days.
{1:19} But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord's
brother. {1:20} Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before
God, I lie not. {1:21} Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and
Cilicia; {1:22} And was unknown by face unto the churches of Judaea
which were in Christ: {1:23} But they had heard only, That he which
persecuted us in times past now preacheth the faith which once he
destroyed. {1:24} And they glorified God in me.

   {2:1} Then fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem with
Barnabas, and took Titus with [me] also. {2:2} And I went up by
revelation, and communicated unto them that 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. {2:3} But neither Titus,
who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised: {2:4}
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: {2:5} To whom we gave place by subjection,
no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with
you. {2:6} But of these who seemed to be somewhat, (whatsoever they
were, it maketh no matter to me: God accepteth no man's person:) for
they who seemed [to be somewhat] in conference added nothing to me:
{2:7} But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the
uncircumcision was committed unto me, as [the gospel] of the
circumcision [was] unto Peter; {2:8} (For he that wrought effectually
in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mighty in
me toward the Gentiles:) {2:9} And when James, Cephas, and John, who
seemed to be pillars, 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. {2:10} Only [they
would] that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was
forward to do. {2:11} But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood
him to the face, because he was to be blamed. {2:12} For before that
certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they
were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were
of the circumcision. {2:13} And the other Jews dissembled likewise with
him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their
dissimulation. {2:14} But when I saw that they walked not uprightly
according to the 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? {2:15} We [who are] Jews by nature, and not sinners of the
Gentiles, {2:16} 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. {2:17} 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. {2:18} For if I build again the things which I
destroyed, I make myself a transgressor. {2:19} For I through the law
am dead to the law, that I might live unto God. {2:20} I am crucified
with Christ: nevertheless 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. {2:21} I do not
frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness [come] by the law,
then Christ is dead in vain.

   {3:1} 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? {3:2} This only would I learn of you,
Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of
faith? {3:3} Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now
made perfect by the flesh? {3:4} Have ye suffered so many things in
vain? if [it be] yet in vain. {3:5} He therefore that ministereth to
you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, [doeth he it] by the
works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? {3:6} Even as Abraham
believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.

   {3:7} Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are
the children of Abraham. {3:8} 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. {3:9} So
then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham. {3:10}
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. {3:11} But that no
man is justified by the law in the sight of God, [it is] evident: for,
The just shall live by faith. {3:12} And the law is not of faith: but,
The man that doeth them shall live in them. {3:13} 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: {3:14} That the
blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ;
that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. {3:15}
Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though [it be] but a man's
covenant, yet [if it be] confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth
thereto. {3:16} Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He
saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed,
which is Christ. {3:17} 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. {3:18} For if the inheritance [be] of the law, [it is] no
more of promise: but God gave [it] to Abraham by promise. {3:19}
Wherefore then [serveth] the law? It was added because of
transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made;
[and it was] ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator. {3:20} Now a
mediator is not [a mediator] of one, but God is one. {3:21} [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. {3:22} But the scripture hath concluded all under
sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them
that believe.

   {3:23} But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up
unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. {3:24} Wherefore
the law was our schoolmaster [to bring us] unto Christ, that we might
be justified by faith. {3:25} But after that faith is come, we are no
longer under a schoolmaster. {3:26} For ye are all the children of God
by faith in Christ Jesus. {3:27} For as many of you as have been
baptized into Christ have put on Christ. {3:28} 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. {3:29} And if ye [be]
Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the
promise.

   {4:1} Now I say, [That] the heir, as long as he is a child,
differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; {4:2} But
is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.
{4:3} Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the
elements of the world: {4:4} But when the fulness of the time was come,
God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, {4:5} To
redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption
of sons. {4:6} And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit
of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. {4:7} Wherefore thou
art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God
through Christ.

   {4:8} Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them
which by nature are no gods. {4:9} But now, after that ye have known
God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and
beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage? {4:10}
Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. {4:11} I am afraid
of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.

   {4:12} Brethren, I beseech you, be as I [am;] for I [am] as ye
[are:] ye have not injured me at all. {4:13} Ye know how through
infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.
{4:14} And my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor
rejected; but received me as an angel of God, [even] as Christ Jesus.
{4:15} Where is then the blessedness ye spake of? for I bear you
record, that, if [it had been] possible, ye would have plucked out your
own eyes, and have given them to me. {4:16} Am I therefore become your
enemy, because I tell you the truth? {4:17} They zealously affect you,
[but] not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.
{4:18} But [it is] good to be zealously affected always in [a] good
[thing,] and not only when I am present with you. {4:19} My little
children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in
you, {4:20} I desire to be present with you now, and to change my
voice; for I stand in doubt of you.

   {4:21} Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear
the law? {4:22} For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one
by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman. {4:23} But he [who was] of the
bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman [was] by
promise. {4:24} Which things are an allegory: for these are the two
covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage,
which is Agar. {4:25} For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and
answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her
children. {4:26} But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the
mother of us all. {4:27} 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. {4:28}
Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise. {4:29} But
as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him [that was born]
after the Spirit, even so [it is] now. {4:30} Nevertheless what saith
the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the
bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the free woman. {4:31} So
then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.

   {5:1} Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made
us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

   {5:2} Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ
shall profit you nothing. {5:3} For I testify again to every man that
is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law. {5:4} Christ
is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the
law; ye are fallen from grace. {5:5} For we through the Spirit wait for
the hope of righteousness by faith. {5:6} For in Jesus Christ neither
circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which
worketh by love. {5:7} Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye
should not obey the truth? {5:8} This persuasion [cometh] not of him
that calleth you. {5:9} A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.
{5:10} I have confidence in you through the Lord, that ye will be none
otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment,
whosoever he be. {5:11} And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision,
why do I yet suffer persecution? then is the offence of the cross
ceased. {5:12} I would they were even cut off which trouble you. {5:13}
For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only [use] not liberty
for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. {5:14} For
all the law is fulfilled in one word, [even] in this; Thou shalt love
thy neighbour as thyself. {5:15} But if ye bite and devour one another,
take heed that ye be not consumed one of another. {5:16} [This] I say
then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the
flesh. {5:17} 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. {5:18} But if ye be led of the
Spirit, ye are not under the law. {5:19} Now the works of the flesh are
manifest, which are [these;] Adultery, fornication, uncleanness,
lasciviousness, {5:20} Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance,
emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, {5:21} 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. {5:22} But the fruit
of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness,
faith, {5:23} Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
{5:24} And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the
affections and lusts. {5:25} If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk
in the Spirit. {5:26} Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking
one another, envying one another.

   {6:1} Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are
spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering
thyself, lest thou also be tempted. {6:2} Bear ye one another's
burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. {6:3} For if a man think
himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.
{6:4} But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have
rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another. {6:5} For every man
shall bear his own burden. {6:6} Let him that is taught in the word
communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things. {6:7} Be not
deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he
also reap. {6:8} For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh
reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit
reap life everlasting. {6:9} And let us not be weary in well doing: for
in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. {6:10} As we have
therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all [men,] especially unto
them who are of the household of faith. {6:11} Ye see how large a
letter I have written unto you with mine own hand. {6:12} 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. {6:13} For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the
law; but desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your
flesh. {6:14} 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. {6:15} For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision
availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature. {6:16} And
as many as walk according to this rule, peace [be] on them, and mercy,
and upon the Israel of God. {6:17} From henceforth let no man trouble
me: for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus. {6:18} Brethren,
the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [be] with your spirit. Amen.





The First Book of Moses, called Genesis

   {1:1} In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. {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.

   {1:3} And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. {1:4}
And God saw the light, that [it was] good: and God divided the light
from the darkness. {1:5} And God called the light Day, and the darkness
he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

   {1:6} And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the
waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. {1:7} And God
made the firmament, and divided the waters which [were] under the
firmament from the waters which [were] above the firmament: and it was
so. {1:8} And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the
morning were the second day.

   {1:9} And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered
together unto one place, and let the dry [land] appear: and it was so.
{1:10} And God called the dry [land] Earth; and the gathering together
of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that [it was] good. {1:11}
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. {1:12} 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. {1:13} And the evening and the morning were the
third day.

   {1:14} 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: {1:15} And let them be for lights
in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was
so. {1:16} And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the
day, and the lesser light to rule the night: [he made] the stars also.
{1:17} And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light
upon the earth, {1:18} And to rule over the day and over the night, and
to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that [it was] good.
{1:19} And the evening and the morning were the fourth day. {1:20} 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. {1:21} 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. {1:22} And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful,
and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in
the earth. {1:23} And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

   {1:24} 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. {1:25} 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.

   {1:26} 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. {1:27} So God
created man in his [own] image, in the image of God created he him;
male and female created he them. {1:28} And God blessed them, and God
said unto them, Be fruitful, and 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.

   {1:29} 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. {1:30} 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.
{1:31} 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.

   {2:1} Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host
of them. {2:2} 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. {2:3} 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.

   {2:4} 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, {2:5} 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. {2:6} But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered
the whole face of the ground. {2:7} And the LORD God formed man [of]
the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of
life; and man became a living soul.

   {2:8} And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there
he put the man whom he had formed. {2:9} And out of the ground made the
LORD God to grow every tree 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. {2:10} And a river went out of Eden to
water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four
heads. {2:11} The name of the first [is] Pison: that [is] it which
compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where [there is] gold; {2:12} And
the gold of that land [is] good: there [is] bdellium and the onyx
stone. {2:13} And the name of the second river [is] Gihon: the same
[is] it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia. {2:14} And the name
of the third river [is] Hiddekel: that [is] it which goeth toward the
east of Assyria. And the fourth river [is] Euphrates. {2:15} And the
LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it
and to keep it. {2:16} And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of
every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: {2:17} But of the tree
of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the
day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

   {2:18} And the LORD God said, [It is] not good that the man should
be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. {2:19} And out of the
ground the LORD God formed every beast of the 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. {2:20} 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. {2:21} 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; {2:22} And the rib, which the LORD God
had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
{2:23} And Adam said, This [is] now bone of my bones, and flesh of my
flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
{2:24} Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall
cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. {2:25} And they were
both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

   {3:1} 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?

   {3:2} And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit
of the trees of the garden: {3:3} But of the fruit of the tree which
[is] in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it,
neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. {3:4} And the serpent said unto
the woman, Ye shall not surely die: {3:5} For God doth know that in the
day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as
gods, knowing good and evil. {3:6} And when the woman saw that the tree
[was] good for food, and 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. {3:7}
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.
{3:8} 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. {3:9} And the
LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where [art] thou? {3:10}
And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because
I [was] naked; and I hid myself. {3:11} And he said, Who told thee that
thou [wast] naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded
thee that thou shouldest not eat? {3:12} And the man said, The woman
whom thou gavest [to be] with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did
eat. {3:13} And the LORD God said unto the woman, What [is] this [that]
thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did
eat. {3:14} 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: {3:15} 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. {3:16} 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. {3:17} 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; {3:18} Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to
thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; {3:19} In the sweat of
thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for
out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou [art,] and unto dust shalt
thou return. {3:20} And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she
was the mother of all living. {3:21} Unto Adam also and to his wife did
the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them. {3:22} And the LORD
God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and
evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of
life, and eat, and live for ever: {3:23} Therefore the LORD God sent
him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he
was taken. {3:24} So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of
the garden of Eden Cherubim, and a flaming sword which turned every
way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

   {4:1} And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain,
and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD. {4:2} And she again bare
his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller
of the ground. {4:3} And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain
brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD. {4:4} And
Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat
thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering: {4:5}
But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very
wroth, and his countenance fell. {4:6} And the LORD said unto Cain, Why
art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen? {4:7} If thou doest
well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth
at the door. And unto thee [shall be] his desire, and thou shalt rule
over him. {4:8} 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.

   {4:9} And the LORD said unto Cain, Where [is] Abel thy brother? And
he said, I know not: [Am] I my brother's keeper? {4:10} And he said,
What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me
from the ground. {4:11} And now [art] thou cursed from the earth, which
hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;
{4:12} When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto
thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the
earth. {4:13} And Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment [is] greater
than I can bear. {4:14} 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. {4:15} 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.

   {4:16} And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in
the land of Nod, on the east of Eden. {4:17} And Cain knew his wife;
and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called
the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch. {4:18} And unto
Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and Mehujael begat
Methusael: and Methusael begat Lamech.

   {4:19} And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one [was]
Adah, and the name of the other Zillah. {4:20} And Adah bare Jabal: he
was the father of such as dwell in tents, and [of such as have] cattle.
{4:21} And his brother's name [was] Jubal: he was the father of all
such as handle the harp and organ. {4:22} And Zillah, she also bare
Tubal- cain, an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron: and
the sister of Tubal-cain [was] Naamah. {4:23} And Lamech said unto his
wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto
my speech: for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my
hurt. {4:24} If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy
and sevenfold.

   {4:25} 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. {4:26} 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.

   {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; {5:2} Male and
female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam,
in the day when they were created.

   {5:3} And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat [a son]
in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth: {5:4}
And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred
years: and he begat sons and daughters: {5:5} And all the days that
Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died. {5:6} And
Seth lived an hundred and five years, and begat Enos: {5:7} And Seth
lived after he begat Enos eight hundred and seven years, and begat sons
and daughters: {5:8} And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and
twelve years: and he died.

   {5:9} And Enos lived ninety years, and begat Cainan: {5:10} And Enos
lived after he begat Cainan eight hundred and fifteen years, and begat
sons and daughters: {5:11} And all the days of Enos were nine hundred
and five years: and he died.

   {5:12} And Cainan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalaleel: {5:13}
And Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty
years, and begat sons and daughters: {5:14} And all the days of Cainan
were nine hundred and ten years: and he died.

   {5:15} And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared:
{5:16} And Mahalaleel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred and
thirty years, and begat sons and daughters: {5:17} And all the days of
Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety and five years: and he died.

   {5:18} And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he begat
Enoch: {5:19} And Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years,
and begat sons and daughters: {5:20} And all the days of Jared were
nine hundred sixty and two years: and he died.

   {5:21} And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:
{5:22} And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three
hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: {5:23} And all the days of
Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years: {5:24} And Enoch walked
with God: and he [was] not; for God took him. {5:25} And Methuselah
lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech: {5:26} And
Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two
years, and begat sons and daughters: {5:27} And all the days of
Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.

   {5:28} And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a
son: {5:29} 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. {5:30} And Lamech lived after he
begat Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons and
daughters: {5:31} And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy
and seven years: and he died. {5:32} And Noah was five hundred years
old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

   {6:1} And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of
the earth, and daughters were born unto them, {6:2} That the sons of
God saw the daughters of men that they [were] fair; and they took them
wives of all which they chose. {6:3} 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. {6:4} 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.

   {6:5} 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. {6:6} And it repented the LORD that he had made
man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. {6:7} And the LORD
said, I will destroy man whom I have created from 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. {6:8} But Noah
found grace in the eyes of the LORD.

   {6:9} These [are] the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man [and]
perfect in his generations, [and] Noah walked with God. {6:10} And Noah
begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. {6:11} The earth also was
corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. {6:12} And
God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh
had corrupted his way upon the earth. {6:13} And God said unto Noah,
The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with
violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

   {6:14} Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the
ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. {6:15} And this
[is the fashion] which thou shalt make it [of:] The length of the ark
[shall be] three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and
the height of it thirty cubits. {6:16} 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. {6:17} 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. {6:18} 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. {6:19} 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. {6:20} 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. {6:21} 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. {6:22} Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded
him, so did he.

   {7:1} And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into
the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
{7:2} Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male
and his female: and of beasts that [are] not clean by two, the male and
his female. {7:3} Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the
female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth. {7:4} For
yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days
and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I
destroy from off the face of the earth. {7:5} And Noah did according
unto all that the LORD commanded him. {7:6} And Noah [was] six hundred
years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.

   {7:7} And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons'
wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood. {7:8}
Of clean beasts, and of beasts that [are] not clean, and of fowls, and
of every thing that creepeth upon the earth, {7:9} There went in two
and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had
commanded Noah. {7:10} And it came to pass after seven days, that the
waters of the flood were upon the earth.

   {7:11} In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second
month, the 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. {7:12} And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty
nights. {7:13} 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; {7:14} 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. {7:15} And they went in unto Noah into
the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein [is] the breath of life.
{7:16} And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as
God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in. {7:17} 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. {7:18} And the waters
prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went
upon the face of the waters. {7:19} And the waters prevailed
exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that [were] under
the whole heaven, were covered. {7:20} Fifteen cubits upward did the
waters prevail; and the mountains were covered. {7:21} 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: {7:22} All in whose nostrils [was] the breath of life, of
all that [was] in the dry [land,] died. {7:23} And every living
substance was destroyed which was upon 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. {7:24} And the waters
prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.

   {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; {8:2} The fountains also of the
deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven
was restrained; {8:3} And the waters returned from off the earth
continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters
were abated. {8:4} And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the
seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat. {8:5} And
the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth
[month,] on the first [day] of the month, were the tops of the
mountains seen.

   {8:6} And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened
the window of the ark which he had made: {8:7} And he sent forth a
raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from
off the earth. {8:8} Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the
waters were abated from off the face of the ground; {8:9} But the dove
found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she 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. {8:10} And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth
the dove out of the ark; {8:11} And the dove came in to him in the
evening; and, lo, in her mouth [was] an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah
knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. {8:12} And he
stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned
not again unto him any more.

   {8:13} And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in
the 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. {8:14} And in the
second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the
earth dried.

   {8:15} And God spake unto Noah, saying, {8:16} Go forth of the ark,
thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee. {8:17}
Bring forth with thee every living thing that [is] with thee, of all
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. {8:18} And Noah went
forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him: {8:19}
Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, [and] whatsoever
creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark.

   {8:20} 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. {8:21} 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.
{8:22} While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and
heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

   {9:1} And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be
fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. {9:2} And the fear of
you and the dread of you shall be upon every 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.
{9:3} Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the
green herb have I given you all things. {9:4} But flesh with the life
thereof, [which is] the blood thereof, shall ye not eat. {9:5} 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. {9:6} Whoso sheddeth
man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God
made he man. {9:7} And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth
abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.

   {9:8} And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,
{9:9} And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your
seed after you; {9:10} And with every living creature that [is] with
you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with
you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth.
{9:11} 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. {9:12} 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:
{9:13} I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a
covenant between me and the earth. {9:14} And it shall come to pass,
when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the
cloud: {9:15} And I will remember my covenant, which [is] between me
and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no
more become a flood to destroy all flesh. {9:16} 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. {9:17} 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.

   {9:18} And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem,
and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan. {9:19} These
[are] the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth
overspread. {9:20} And Noah began [to be] an husbandman, and he planted
a vineyard: {9:21} And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he
was uncovered within his tent. {9:22} And Ham, the father of Canaan,
saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.
{9:23} And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid [it] upon both
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. {9:24} And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what
his younger son had done unto him. {9:25} And he said, Cursed [be]
Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. {9:26} And
he said, Blessed [be] the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his
servant. {9:27} God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the
tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.

   {9:28} And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.
{9:29} And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and
he died.

   {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. {10:2}
The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal,
and Meshech, and Tiras. {10:3} And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and
Riphath, and Togarmah. {10:4} And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and
Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim. {10:5} By these were the isles of the
Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after
their families, in their nations.

   {10:6} And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.
{10:7} And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah,
and Sabtechah: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan. {10:8} And
Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. {10:9} He
was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as
Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD. {10:10} And the beginning of
his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of
Shinar. {10:11} Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded
Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah, {10:12} And Resen between
Nineveh and Calah: the same [is] a great city. {10:13} And Mizraim
begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim, {10:14} And
Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (out of whom came Philistim,) and Caphtorim.

   {10:15} And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn, and Heth, {10:16} And
the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite, {10:17} And the
Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite, {10:18} And the Arvadite, and
the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the
Canaanites spread abroad. {10:19} And the border of the Canaanites was
from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto
Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha. {10:20}
These [are] the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues,
in their countries, [and] in their nations.

   {10:21} Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the
brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were [children] born. {10:22}
The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and
Aram. {10:23} And the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and
Mash. {10:24} And Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat Eber. {10:25}
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.
{10:26} And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazar-maveth, and
Jerah, {10:27} And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah, {10:28} And Obal, and
Abimael, and Sheba, {10:29} And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all
these [were] the sons of Joktan. {10:30} And their dwelling was from
Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar a mount of the east. {10:31} These
[are] the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in
their lands, after their nations. {10:32} These [are] the families of
the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by
these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.

   {11:1} And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
{11:2} And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they
found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. {11:3} And
they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them
throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.
{11:4} 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. {11:5} And the LORD
came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men
builded. {11:6} And the LORD said, Behold, the people [is] one, and
they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing
will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. {11:7} Go
to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may
not understand one another's speech. {11:8} So the LORD scattered them
abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to
build the city. {11:9} 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.

   {11:10} These [are] the generations of Shem: Shem [was] an hundred
years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood: {11:11} And
Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons
and daughters. {11:12} And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and
begat Salah: {11:13} And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four
hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters. {11:14} And
Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber: {11:15} And Salah lived after
he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and
daughters. {11:16} And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat
Peleg: {11:17} And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and
thirty years, and begat sons and daughters. {11:18} And Peleg lived
thirty years, and begat Reu: {11:19} And Peleg lived after he begat Reu
two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters. {11:20} And
Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug: {11:21} And Reu lived
after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and
daughters. {11:22} And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:
{11:23} And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and
begat sons and daughters. {11:24} And Nahor lived nine and twenty
years, and begat Terah: {11:25} And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an
hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters. {11:26} And
Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

   {11:27} Now these [are] the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram,
Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot. {11:28} And Haran died before
his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.
{11:29} 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. {11:30} But Sarai
was barren; she [had] no child. {11:31} 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. {11:32} And the days of Terah were two hundred and five
years: and Terah died in Haran.

   {12:1} 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: {12:2} And I will make of thee a great nation,
and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a
blessing: {12:3} And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him
that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be
blessed. {12:4} So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and
Lot went with him: and Abram [was] seventy and five years old when he
departed out of Haran. {12:5} 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.

   {12:6} And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem,
unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite [was] then in the land.
{12:7} 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. {12:8} 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. {12:9} And Abram journeyed, going on
still toward the south.

   {12:10} 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.
{12:11} 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: {12:12} 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. {12:13} Say, I
pray thee, thou [art] my sister: that it may be well with me for thy
sake; and my soul shall live because of thee.

   {12:14} And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt,
the Egyptians beheld the woman that she [was] very fair. {12:15} The
princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and
the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house. {12:16} 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. {12:17} And
the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of
Sarai Abram's wife. {12:18} And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What
[is] this [that] thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me
that she [was] thy wife? {12:19} 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. {12:20} And Pharaoh commanded [his] men
concerning him: and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he
had.

   {13:1} And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all
that he had, and Lot with him, into the south. {13:2} And Abram [was]
very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold. {13:3} 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; {13:4} Unto the
place of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there
Abram called on the name of the LORD.

   {13:5} And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds,
and tents. {13:6} 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. {13:7} 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. {13:8} 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. {13:9} [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. {13:10}
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. {13:11} Then Lot chose him all the plain of
Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one
from the other. {13:12} Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot
dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched [his] tent toward
Sodom. {13:13} But the men of Sodom [were] wicked and sinners before
the LORD exceedingly.

   {13:14} And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated
from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou
art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward: {13:15} For
all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed
for ever. {13:16} And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so
that if a man can number the dust of the earth, [then] shall thy seed
also be numbered. {13:17} Arise, walk through the land in the length of
it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee. {13:18} Then
Abram removed [his] tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre,
which [is] in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the LORD.

   {14:1} And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar,
Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of
nations; {14:2} [That these] made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with
Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of
Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar. {14:3} All these were
joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the salt sea. {14:4}
Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they
rebelled. {14:5} And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the
kings that [were] with him, and smote the Rephaims in Ashteroth
Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emims in Shaveh Kiriathaim,
{14:6} And the Horites in their mount Seir, unto El-paran, which [is]
by the wilderness. {14:7} And they returned, and came to En-mishpat,
which [is] Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and
also the Amorites that dwelt in Hazezon- tamar. {14:8} 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; {14:9} 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. {14:10} 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. {14:11} And they took all the goods of
Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and went their way. {14:12}
And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his
goods, and departed.

   {14:13} And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the
Hebrew; for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre the Amorite, brother of
Eshcol, and brother of Aner: and these [were] confederate with Abram.
{14:14} And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he
armed his trained [servants,] born in his own house, three hundred and
eighteen, and pursued [them] unto Dan. {14:15} 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.
{14:16} And he brought back all the goods, and also brought again his
brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.

   {14:17} 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. {14:18} And
Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he [was]
the priest of the most high God. {14:19} And he blessed him, and said,
Blessed [be] Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth:
{14:20} And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine
enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all. {14:21} And the
king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods
to thyself. {14:22} And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up
mine hand unto the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and
earth, {14:23} 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: {14:24} 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.

   {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. {15:2} And Abram said, Lord GOD, what wilt thou give me,
seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of
Damascus? {15:3} And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed:
and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir. {15:4} And, behold, the
word of the LORD [came] unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir;
but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine
heir. {15:5} 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. {15:6} And he believed in the LORD; and
he counted it to him for righteousness. {15:7} And he said unto him, I
[am] the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee
this land to inherit it. {15:8} And he said, Lord GOD, whereby shall I
know that I shall inherit it? {15:9} 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. {15:10} 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. {15:11}
And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away.
{15:12} And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram;
and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him. {15:13} And he said
unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a
land [that is] not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict
them four hundred years; {15:14} And also that nation, whom they shall
serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great
substance. {15:15} And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou
shalt be buried in a good old age. {15:16} But in the fourth generation
they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites [is] not
yet full. {15:17} And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down,
and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that
passed between those pieces. {15:18} In the same day the LORD made a
covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from
the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates: {15:19}
The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, {15:20} And the
Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims, {15:21} And the
Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.

   {16:1} Now Sarai Abram's wife bare him no children: and she had an
handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name [was] Hagar. {16:2} 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. {16:3} 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.

   {16:4} And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she
saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.
{16:5} 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. {16:6} But
Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid [is] in thy hand; do to her as
it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai dealt hardly with her, she fled from
her face.

   {16:7} And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in
the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur. {16:8} And he said,
Hagar, Sarai's maid, whence camest thou? and whither wilt thou go? And
she said, I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai. {16:9} And the
angel of the LORD said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit
thyself under her hands. {16:10} And the angel of the LORD said unto
her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be
numbered for multitude. {16:11} And the angel of the LORD said unto
her, Behold, thou [art] with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt
call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
{16:12} 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. {16:13} 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? {16:14} Wherefore the well was
called Beer-lahai-roi; behold, [it is] between Kadesh and Bered.

   {16:15} And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called his son's name,
which Hagar bare, Ishmael. {16:16} And Abram [was] fourscore and six
years old, when Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram.

   {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. {17:2} And I will make my covenant
between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly. {17:3} And
Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying, {17:4} As for
me, behold, my covenant [is] with thee, and thou shalt be a father of
many nations. {17:5} Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram,
but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made
thee. {17:6} And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make
nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee. {17:7} And I will
establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in
their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee,
and to thy seed after thee. {17:8} And I will give unto thee, and to
thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land
of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.

   {17:9} And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant
therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations. {17:10}
This [is] my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy
seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised.
{17:11} And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it
shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you. {17:12} And he
that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child
in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money
of any stranger, which [is] not of thy seed. {17:13} He that is born in
thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be
circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting
covenant. {17:14} And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his
foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his
people; he hath broken my covenant.

   {17:15} And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt
not call her name Sarai, but Sarah [shall] her name [be. ]{17:16} 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. {17:17} 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? {17:18} And
Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before thee! {17:19}
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. {17:20} 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. {17:21} But my
covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee
at this set time in the next year. {17:22} And he left off talking with
him, and God went up from Abraham.

   {17:23} 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. {17:24} And Abraham
[was] ninety years old and nine, when he was circumcised in the flesh
of his foreskin. {17:25} And Ishmael his son [was] thirteen years old,
when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. {17:26} In the
selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son. {17:27} And
all the men of his house, born in the house, and bought with money of
the stranger, were circumcised with him.

   {18:1} And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he
sat in the tent door in the heat of the day; {18:2} And he lift up his
eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw
[them,] he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself
toward the ground, {18:3} And said, My Lord, if now I have found favour
in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant: {18:4} Let
a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest
yourselves under the tree: {18:5} And I will fetch a morsel of bread,
and comfort ye your hearts; after that ye shall pass on: for therefore
are ye come to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said.
{18:6} 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. {18:7} 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. {18:8} 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.

   {18:9} And they said unto him, Where [is] Sarah thy wife? And he
said, Behold, in the tent. {18:10} And he said, I will certainly return
unto thee according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall
have a son. And Sarah heard [it] in the tent door, which [was] behind
him. {18:11} Now Abraham and Sarah [were] old [and] well stricken in
age; [and] it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.
{18:12} Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am
waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also? {18:13} And
the LORD said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I
of a surety bear a child, which am old? {18:14} Is any thing too hard
for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according
to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son. {18:15} Then Sarah
denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid. And he said, Nay;
but thou didst laugh.

   {18:16} And the men rose up from thence, and looked toward Sodom:
and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way. {18:17} And the
LORD said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do; {18:18}
Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and
all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him? {18:19} 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. {18:20} And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and
Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous; {18:21} I
will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according
to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.
{18:22} And the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward
Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the LORD. {18:23} And Abraham drew
near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?
{18:24} Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt
thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that
[are] therein? {18:25} 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? {18:26} And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty
righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their
sakes. {18:27} And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken
upon me to speak unto the Lord, which [am but] dust and ashes: {18:28}
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. ]{18:29} 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. {18:30} 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. {18:31} 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. {18:32}
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. {18:33} And the LORD went his way, as
soon as he had left communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto
his place.

   {19:1} 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; {19:2} 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. {19:3} 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.

   {19:4} 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: {19:5} 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. {19:6} And Lot went out at the door
unto them, and shut the door after him, {19:7} And said, I pray you,
brethren, do not so wickedly. {19:8} 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. {19:9}
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. {19:10} But the men put
forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to
the door. {19:11} And they smote the men that [were] at the door of the
house with blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied
themselves to find the door.

   {19:12} 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: {19:13} 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. {19:14} 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.

   {19:15} 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. {19:16} 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.

   {19:17} 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. {19:18} And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my Lord:
{19:19} 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: {19:20} 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. {19:21} 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. {19:22} Haste thee, escape thither; for
I cannot do any thing till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of
the city was called Zoar.

   {19:23} The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar.
{19:24} Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and
fire from the LORD out of heaven; {19:25} And he overthrew those
cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and
that which grew upon the ground.

   {19:26} But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a
pillar of salt.

   {19:27} And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where
he stood before the LORD: {19:28} And he looked toward Sodom and
Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo,
the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.

   {19:29} 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.

   {19:30} 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. {19:31} 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: {19:32}
Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that
we may preserve seed of our father. {19:33} And they made their father
drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her
father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
{19:34} 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. {19:35} 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. {19:36}
Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father. {19:37}
And the firstborn bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same [is]
the father of the Moabites unto this day. {19:38} And the younger, she
also bare a son, and called his name Benammi: the same [is] the father
of the children of Ammon unto this day.

   {20:1} And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south country,
and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned in Gerar. {20:2} And
Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She [is] my sister: and Abimelech king
of Gerar sent, and took Sarah. {20:3} But God came to Abimelech in a
dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou [art but] a dead man, for
the woman which thou hast taken; for she [is] a man's wife. {20:4} But
Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, Lord, wilt thou slay also
a righteous nation? {20:5} Said he not unto me, She [is] my sister? and
she, even she herself said, He [is] my brother: in the integrity of my
heart and innocency of my hands have I done this. {20:6} And God said
unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that thou didst this in the integrity
of thy heart; for I also withheld thee from sinning against me:
therefore suffered I thee not to touch her. {20:7} 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. {20:8}
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. {20:9} 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. {20:10} And Abimelech said unto
Abraham, What sawest thou, that thou hast done this thing? {20:11} 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. {20:12} 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. {20:13} 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.
{20:14} And Abimelech took sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and
womenservants, and gave [them] unto Abraham, and restored him Sarah his
wife. {20:15} And Abimelech said, Behold, my land [is] before thee:
dwell where it pleaseth thee. {20:16} And unto Sarah he said, Behold, I
have given thy brother a thousand [pieces] of silver: behold, he [is]
to thee a covering of the eyes, unto all that [are] with thee, and with
all [other:] thus she was reproved.

   {20:17} So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and
his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare [children. ]{20:18} For
the LORD had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech,
because of Sarah Abraham's wife.

   {21:1} And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did
unto Sarah as he had spoken. {21:2} For Sarah conceived, and bare
Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken
to him. {21:3} And Abraham called the name of his son that was born
unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac. {21:4} And Abraham circumcised
his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him. {21:5}
And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto
him.

   {21:6} And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, [so that] all that
hear will laugh with me. {21:7} And she said, Who would have said unto
Abraham, that Sarah should have given children suck? for I have born
[him] a son in his old age. {21:8} And the child grew, and was weaned:
and Abraham made a great feast the [same] day that Isaac was weaned.

   {21:9} And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had
born unto Abraham, mocking. {21:10} Wherefore she said unto Abraham,
Cast out this bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman
shall not be heir with my son, [even] with Isaac. {21:11} And the thing
was very grievous in Abraham's sight because of his son.

   {21:12} 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. {21:13} And also of the son of the bondwoman will I
make a nation, because he [is] thy seed. {21:14} And Abraham rose up
early in the morning, and took bread, and 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
Beer-sheba. {21:15} And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast
the child under one of the shrubs. {21:16} And she went, and sat her
down over against [him] a good way off, as it were a bowshot: 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. {21:17} And God heard the voice
of the lad; and the angel of God called 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. ]{21:18} Arise, lift up the lad, and
hold him in thine hand; for I will make him a great nation. {21:19} And
God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and
filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink. {21:20} And God
was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became
an archer. {21:21} And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his
mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.

   {21:22} And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phichol
the chief captain of his host spake unto Abraham, saying, God [is] with
thee in all that thou doest: {21:23} 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. {21:24} And Abraham said, I will swear. {21:25} And Abraham
reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech's
servants had violently taken away. {21:26} And Abimelech said, I wot
not who hath done this thing: neither didst thou tell me, neither yet
heard I [of it,] but to day. {21:27} And Abraham took sheep and oxen,
and gave them unto Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant. {21:28}
And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves. {21:29} And
Abimelech said unto Abraham, What [mean] these seven ewe lambs which
thou hast set by themselves? {21:30} And he said, For [these] seven ewe
lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that they may be a witness unto me,
that I have digged this well. {21:31} Wherefore he called that place
Beer-sheba; because there they sware both of them. {21:32} Thus they
made a covenant at Beer-sheba: then Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the
chief captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the
Philistines.

   {21:33} And [Abraham] planted a grove in Beer-sheba, and called
there on the name of the LORD, the everlasting God. {21:34} And Abraham
sojourned in the Philistines' land many days.

   {22:1} 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.
]{22:2} 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.

   {22:3} 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. {22:4} Then on the third day Abraham
lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off. {22:5} And Abraham said
unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will
go yonder and worship, and come again to you, {22:6} 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. {22:7} 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? {22:8} And
Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt
offering: so they went both of them together. {22:9} And they came to
the place which God had told him of; and 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. {22:10} And Abraham stretched forth his hand,
and took the knife to slay his son. {22:11} And the angel of the LORD
called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said,
Here [am] I. {22:12} And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad,
neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest
God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only [son] from me.
{22:13} 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. {22:14} And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah-jireh:
as it is said [to] this day, In the mount of the LORD it shall be seen.

   {22:15} And the angel of the LORD called unto Abraham out of heaven
the second time, {22:16} And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the
LORD, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy
son, thine only [son: ]{22:17} 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; {22:18} And in thy seed shall all the nations
of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice. {22:19} So
Abraham returned unto his young men, and they rose up and went together
to Beer-sheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beer-sheba.

   {22:20} And it came to pass after these things, that it was told
Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she hath also born children unto thy
brother Nahor; {22:21} Huz his firstborn, and Buz his brother, and
Kemuel the father of Aram, {22:22} And Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash,
and Jidlaph, and Bethuel. {22:23} And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these
eight Milcah did bear to Nahor, Abraham's brother. {22:24} And his
concubine, whose name [was] Reumah, she bare also Tebah, and Gaham, and
Thahash, and Maachah.

   {23:1} And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old:
[these were] the years of the life of Sarah. {23:2} And Sarah died in
Kirjath-arba; the same [is] Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham
came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.

   {23:3} And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the
sons of Heth, saying, {23:4} I [am] a stranger and a sojourner with
you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury
my dead out of my sight. {23:5} And the children of Heth answered
Abraham, saying unto him, {23:6} 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. {23:7} And Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people
of the land, [even] to the children of Heth. {23:8} And he communed
with them, saying, If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of
my sight; hear me, and intreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,
{23:9} 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. {23:10} And
Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth: and Ephron the Hittite
answered Abraham in the audience of the children of Heth, [even] of all
that went in at the gate of his city, saying, {23:11} Nay, my lord,
hear me: the field give I thee, and the cave that [is] therein, I give
it thee; in the presence of the sons of my people give I it thee: bury
thy dead. {23:12} And Abraham bowed down himself before the people of
the land. {23:13} And he spake unto Ephron in the audience of the
people of 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. {23:14} And Ephron answered Abraham, saying
unto him, {23:15} My lord, hearken unto me: the land [is worth] four
hundred shekels of silver; what [is] that betwixt me and thee? bury
therefore thy dead. {23:16} And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and
Abraham weighed to 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.

   {23:17} 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 {23:18} Unto Abraham for a possession in
the presence of the children of Heth, before all that went in at the
gate of his city. {23:19} And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife
in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre: the same [is]
Hebron in the land of Canaan. {23:20} And the field, and the cave that
[is] therein, were made sure unto Abraham for a possession of a
buryingplace by the sons of Heth.

   {24:1} And Abraham was old, [and] well stricken in age: and the LORD
had blessed Abraham in all things. {24:2} And Abraham said unto his
eldest servant of his house, that ruled over all that he had, Put, I
pray thee, thy hand under my thigh: {24:3} 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: {24:4} But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my
kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac. {24:5} And the servant said
unto him, Peradventure the woman will not be willing to follow me unto
this land: must I needs bring thy son again unto the land from whence
thou camest? {24:6} And Abraham said unto him, Beware thou that thou
bring not my son thither again.

   {24:7} The LORD God of heaven, which took me from my father's 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. {24:8} 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. {24:9} And the servant put his hand under the thigh of
Abraham his master, and sware to him concerning that matter.

   {24:10} And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master,
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. {24:11} 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. ]{24:12} 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. {24:13} Behold, I stand [here] by the well of water; and the
daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water: {24:14} And
let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let 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.

   {24:15} 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.
{24:16} 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. {24:17} And the servant ran to meet her, and
said, Let me, I pray thee, drink a little water of thy pitcher. {24:18}
And she said, Drink, my lord: and she hasted, and let down her pitcher
upon her hand, and gave him drink. {24:19} And when she had done giving
him drink, she said, I will draw [water] for thy camels also, until
they have done drinking. {24:20} 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. {24:21} And the man wondering at her held
his peace, to wit whether the LORD had made his journey prosperous or
not. {24:22} And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that
the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two
bracelets for her hands of ten [shekels] weight of gold; {24:23} And
said, Whose daughter [art] thou? tell me, I pray thee: is there room
[in] thy father's house for us to lodge in? {24:24} And she said unto
him, I [am] the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, which she bare
unto Nahor. {24:25} She said moreover unto him, We have both straw and
provender enough, and room to lodge in. {24:26} And the man bowed down
his head, and worshipped the LORD. {24:27} And he said, Blessed [be]
the LORD God of my master Abraham, 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. {24:28} And the damsel ran,
and told [them of] her mother's house these things.

   {24:29} And Rebekah had a brother, and his name [was] Laban: and
Laban ran out unto the man, unto the well. {24:30} 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. {24:31} 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.

   {24:32} 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. {24:33} 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. {24:34} And he said, I [am]
Abraham's servant. {24:35} And the LORD hath blessed my master greatly;
and he is become great: and he hath given him flocks, and herds, and
silver, and gold, and menservants, and maidservants, and camels, and
asses. {24:36} And Sarah my master's wife bare a son to my master when
she was old: and unto him hath he given all that he hath. {24:37} And
my master made me swear, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife to my son
of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell: {24:38} But
thou shalt go unto my father's house, and to my kindred, and take a
wife unto my son. {24:39} And I said unto my master, Peradventure the
woman will not follow me. {24:40} 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: {24:41} 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. {24:42} And I came this day unto the well, and
said, O LORD God of my master Abraham, if now thou do prosper my way
which I go; {24:43} Behold, I stand by the well of water; and it shall
come to pass, 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; {24:44} 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. {24:45} 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. {24:46} 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. {24:47} 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. {24:48} 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.
{24:49} 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. {24:50} Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing
proceedeth from the LORD: we cannot speak unto thee bad or good.
{24:51} Behold, Rebekah [is] before thee, take [her,] and go, and let
her be thy master's son's wife, as the LORD hath spoken. {24:52} And it
came to pass, that, when Abraham's servant heard their words, he
worshipped the LORD, [bowing himself] to the earth. {24:53} And the
servant brought forth jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and
raiment, and gave [them] to Rebekah: he gave also to her brother and to
her mother precious things. {24:54} 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. {24:55} 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. {24:56} And he said
unto them, Hinder me not, seeing the LORD hath prospered my way; send
me away that I may go to my master. {24:57} And they said, We will call
the damsel, and enquire at her mouth. {24:58} And they called Rebekah,
and said unto her, Wilt thou go with this man? And she said, I will go.
{24:59} And they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and
Abraham's servant, and his men. {24:60} And they blessed Rebekah, and
said unto her, Thou [art] our sister, be thou [the mother] of thousands
of millions, and let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them.

   {24:61} 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. {24:62} And Isaac came from the way of the well Lahai-roi; for
he dwelt in the south country. {24:63} And Isaac went out to meditate
in the field at the eventide: and he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and,
behold, the camels [were] coming. {24:64} And Rebekah lifted up her
eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she lighted off the camel. {24:65} For
she [had] said unto the servant, What man [is] this that walketh in the
field to meet us? And the servant [had] said, It [is] my master:
therefore she took a vail, and covered herself. {24:66} And the servant
told Isaac all things that he had done. {24:67} 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.]

   {25:1} Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name [was] Keturah.
{25:2} And she bare him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and
Ishbak, and Shuah. {25:3} And Jokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan. And the
sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim. {25:4} And the
sons of Midian; Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and Abidah, and Eldaah.
All these [were] the children of Keturah.

   {25:5} And Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac. {25:6} But unto
the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts, and
sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, unto
the east country. {25:7} And these [are] the days of the years of
Abraham's life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years.
{25:8} Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an
old man, and full [of years;] and was gathered to his people. {25:9}
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; {25:10} The field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth:
there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife.

   {25:11} And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that God
blessed his son Isaac; and Isaac dwelt by the well Lahai-roi.

   {25:12} Now these [are] the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son,
whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bare unto Abraham: {25:13}
And these [are] the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names,
according to their generations: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebajoth; and
Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam, {25:14} And Mishma, and Dumah, and
Massa, {25:15} Hadar, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah: {25:16}
These [are] the sons of Ishmael, and these [are] their names, by their
towns, and by their castles; twelve princes according to their nations.
{25:17} And these [are] the years of the life of Ishmael, an hundred
and thirty and seven years: and he gave up the ghost and died; and was
gathered unto his people. {25:18} 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.

   {25:19} And these [are] the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son:
Abraham begat Isaac: {25:20} And Isaac was forty years old when he took
Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padan-aram, the
sister to Laban the Syrian. {25:21} And Isaac intreated the LORD for
his wife, because she [was] barren: and the LORD was intreated of him,
and Rebekah his wife conceived. {25:22} And the children struggled
together within her; and she said, If [it be] so, why [am] I thus? And
she went to enquire of the LORD. {25:23} And the LORD said unto her,
Two nations [are] in thy womb, and 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.

   {25:24} And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold,
[there were] twins in her womb. {25:25} And the first came out red, all
over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau. {25:26} And
after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel;
and his name was called Jacob: and Isaac [was] threescore years old
when she bare them. {25:27} And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning
hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob [was] a plain man, dwelling in
tents. {25:28} And Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of [his]
venison: but Rebekah loved Jacob.

   {25:29} And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he
[was] faint: {25:30} 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. {25:31} And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright.
{25:32} And Esau said, Behold, I [am] at the point to die: and what
profit shall this birthright do to me? {25:33} And Jacob said, Swear to
me this day; and he sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto
Jacob. {25:34} Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and
he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised
[his] birthright.

   {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. {26:2} And the LORD appeared unto him, and
said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee
of: {26:3} Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will
bless thee; for 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; {26:4} 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; {26:5} Because that
Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my
statutes, and my laws.

   {26:6} And Isaac dwelt in Gerar: {26:7} 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. {26:8} 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. {26:9} 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. {26:10} 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. {26:11} And
Abimelech charged all [his] people, saying, He that toucheth this man
or his wife shall surely be put to death. {26:12} Then Isaac sowed in
that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD
blessed him. {26:13} And the man waxed great, and went forward, and
grew until he became very great: {26:14} For he had possession of
flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the
Philistines envied him. {26:15} For all the wells which his father's
servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines
had stopped them, and filled them with earth. {26:16} And Abimelech
said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much mightier than we.

   {26:17} And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the
valley of Gerar, and dwelt there. {26:18} And Isaac digged again the
wells of water, which they had 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. {26:19} And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and
found there a well of springing water. {26:20} 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. {26:21}
And they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he called
the name of it Sitnah. {26:22} And he removed from thence, and digged
another well; and for 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. {26:23} And he went up from thence to
Beer-sheba. {26:24} 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. {26:25} 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.

   {26:26} Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of
his friends, and Phichol the chief captain of his army. {26:27} And
Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate me, and
have sent me away from you? {26:28} And they said, We saw certainly
that the LORD was with thee: and we said, Let there be now an oath
betwixt us, [even] betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with
thee; {26:29} 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. {26:30} And
he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink. {26:31} And they rose
up betimes in the morning, and sware one to another: and Isaac sent
them away, and they departed from him in peace. {26:32} 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.
{26:33} And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city [is]
Beer-sheba unto this day.

   {26:34} And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the
daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the
Hittite: {26:35} Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.

   {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.
{27:2} And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my
death: {27:3} Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver
and thy bow, and go out to the field, and take me [some] venison;
{27:4} And make me savoury meat, such as I love, and bring [it] to me,
that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die. {27:5} And
Rebekah heard when Isaac spake to Esau his son. And Esau went to the
field to hunt [for] venison, [and] to bring [it.]

   {27:6} And Rebekah spake unto Jacob her son, saying, Behold, I heard
thy father speak unto Esau thy brother, saying, {27:7} Bring me
venison, and make me savoury meat, that I may eat, and bless thee
before the LORD before my death. {27:8} Now therefore, my son, obey my
voice according to that which I command thee. {27:9} 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: {27:10} And
thou shalt bring [it] to thy father, that he may eat, and that he may
bless thee before his death. {27:11} And Jacob said to Rebekah his
mother, Behold, Esau my brother [is] a hairy man, and I [am] a smooth
man: {27:12} My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to
him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a
blessing. {27:13} And his mother said unto him, Upon me [be] thy curse,
my son: only obey my voice, and go fetch me [them. ]{27:14} And he
went, and fetched, and brought [them] to his mother: and his mother
made savoury meat, such as his father loved. {27:15} And Rebekah took
goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau, which [were] with her in the
house, and put them upon Jacob her younger son: {27:16} And she put the
skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon the smooth of
his neck: {27:17} And she gave the savoury meat and the bread, which
she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.

   {27:18} And he came unto his father, and said, My father: and he
said, Here [am] I; who [art] thou, my son? {27:19} And Jacob said unto
his father, I [am] Esau thy firstborn; I have done according as thou
badest me: arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul
may bless me. {27:20} 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. {27:21} And Isaac said unto Jacob, Come
near, I pray thee, that I may feel thee, my son, whether thou [be] my
very son Esau or not. {27:22} And Jacob went near unto Isaac his
father; and he felt him, and said, The voice [is] Jacob's voice, but
the hands [are] the hands of Esau. {27:23} And he discerned him not,
because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau's hands: so he
blessed him. {27:24} And he said, [Art] thou my very son Esau? And he
said, I [am. ]{27:25} And he said, Bring [it] near to me, and I will
eat of my son's 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. {27:26} And his father Isaac said unto him, Come near now, and
kiss me, my son. {27:27} 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: {27:28} Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the
fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine: {27:29} Let people
serve thee, and nations bow down to thee: be lord 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.

   {27:30} 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.
{27:31} 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. {27:32} And Isaac his father
said unto him, Who [art] thou? And he said, I [am] thy son, thy
firstborn Esau. {27:33} And Isaac trembled very exceedingly, and said,
Who? where [is] 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. {27:34} 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. {27:35} And he said,
Thy brother came with subtilty, and hath taken away thy blessing.
{27:36} And he said, Is not he rightly named Jacob? for he hath
supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright; and, behold,
now he hath taken away my blessing. And he said, Hast thou not reserved
a blessing for me? {27:37} And Isaac answered and said unto Esau,
Behold, I have made 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? {27:38} 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. {27:39} 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;
{27:40} 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.

   {27:41} 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. {27:42}
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. {27:43} Now therefore, my son, obey my voice; and arise,
flee thou to Laban my brother to Haran; {27:44} And tarry with him a
few days, until thy brother's fury turn away; {27:45} 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? {27:46} And Rebekah
said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth:
if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these [which
are] of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?

   {28:1} 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.
{28:2} Arise, go to Padan-aram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's
father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy
mother's brother. {28:3} And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee
fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people;
{28:4} And give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed
with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land wherein thou art a
stranger, which God gave unto Abraham. {28:5} And Isaac sent away
Jacob: and he went to Padan-aram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian,
the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother.

   {28:6} When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him away
to Padan-aram, to take him a wife from thence; and that as he blessed
him he gave him a charge, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the
daughters of Canaan; {28:7} And that Jacob obeyed his father and his
mother, and was gone to Padan-aram; {28:8} And Esau seeing that the
daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father; {28:9} Then went Esau
unto Ishmael, and took unto the wives which he had Mahalath the
daughter of Ishmael Abraham's son, the sister of Nebajoth, to be his
wife.

   {28:10} And Jacob went out from Beer-sheba, and went toward Haran.
{28:11} 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. {28:12} 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. {28:13} 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; {28:14} 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. {28:15} 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.

   {28:16} And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the
LORD is in this place; and I knew [it] not. {28:17} And he was afraid,
and said, How dreadful [is] this place! this is none other but the
house of God, and this [is] the gate of heaven. {28:18} 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. {28:19} And he called the name of that place Bethel: but the name
of that city [was called] Luz at the first. {28:20} And Jacob vowed a
vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that
I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, {28:21} So
that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the LORD be
my God: {28:22} And this stone, which I have set [for] a pillar, shall
be God's house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give
the tenth unto thee.

   {29:1} Then Jacob went on his journey, and came into the land of the
people of the east. {29:2} 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. {29:3} 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. {29:4} And Jacob
said unto them, My brethren, whence [be] ye? And they said, Of Haran
[are] we. {29:5} And he said unto them, Know ye Laban the son of Nahor?
And they said, We know [him. ]{29:6} And he said unto them, [Is] he
well? And they said, [He is] well: and, behold, Rachel his daughter
cometh with the sheep. {29:7} And he said, Lo, [it is] yet high day,
neither [is it] time that the cattle should be gathered together: water
ye the sheep, and go [and] feed [them. ]{29:8} 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.

   {29:9} And while he yet spake with them, Rachel came with her
father's sheep: for she kept them. {29:10} And it came to pass, when
Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of 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. {29:11} And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his
voice, and wept. {29:12} 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. {29:13} 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. {29:14} And Laban said to him, Surely thou [art] my bone
and my flesh. And he abode with him the space of a month.

   {29:15} And Laban said unto Jacob, Because thou [art] my brother,
shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? tell me, what [shall] thy
wages [be? ]{29:16} And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder
[was] Leah, and the name of the younger [was] Rachel. {29:17} Leah
[was] tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well favoured. {29:18}
And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for
Rachel thy younger daughter. {29:19} And Laban said, [It is] better
that I give her to thee, than that I should give her to another man:
abide with me. {29:20} And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and
they seemed unto him [but] a few days, for the love he had to her.

   {29:21} And Jacob said unto Laban, Give [me] my wife, for my days
are fulfilled, that I may go in unto her. {29:22} And Laban gathered
together all the men of the place, and made a feast. {29:23} 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. {29:24} And Laban gave
unto his daughter Leah Zilpah his maid [for] an handmaid. {29:25} 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? {29:26} And
Laban said, It must not be so done in our country, to give the younger
before the firstborn. {29:27} Fulfil her week, and we will give thee
this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven
other years. {29:28} And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he
gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also. {29:29} And Laban gave to
Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid. {29:30} And he
went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and
served with him yet seven other years.

   {29:31} And when the LORD saw that Leah [was] hated, he opened her
womb: but Rachel [was] barren. {29:32} And Leah conceived, and bare a
son, and she called his name Reuben: for she said, Surely the LORD hath
looked upon my affliction; now therefore my husband will love me.
{29:33} And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Because the
LORD hath heard that I [was] hated, he hath therefore given me this
[son] also: and she called his name Simeon. {29:34} 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. {29:35} 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.

   {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. {30:2} 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? {30:3} 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.
{30:4} And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in
unto her. {30:5} And Bilhah conceived, and bare Jacob a son. {30:6} 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. {30:7} And Bilhah
Rachel's maid conceived again, and bare Jacob a second son. {30:8} And
Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and
I have prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali. {30:9} When Leah
saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her
Jacob to wife. {30:10} And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a son. {30:11}
And Leah said, A troop cometh: and she called his name Gad. {30:12} And
Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a second son. {30:13} And Leah said,
Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed: and she called his
name Asher.

   {30:14} And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found
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.
{30:15} 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. {30:16} 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. {30:17} And God hearkened unto Leah, and she
conceived, and bare Jacob the fifth son. {30:18} And Leah said, God
hath given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband:
and she called his name Issachar. {30:19} And Leah conceived again, and
bare Jacob the sixth son. {30:20} 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. {30:21} And
afterwards she bare a daughter, and called her name Dinah.

   {30:22} And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and
opened her womb. {30:23} And she conceived, and bare a son; and said,
God hath taken away my reproach: {30:24} And she called his name
Joseph; and said, The LORD shall add to me another son.

   {30:25} 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. {30:26} 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. {30:27} 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. {30:28} And he said,
Appoint me thy wages, and I will give [it. ]{30:29} And he said unto
him, Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how thy cattle was with
me. {30:30} For [it was] little which thou hadst before I [came,] and
it is [now] increased unto a multitude; and the LORD hath blessed thee
since my coming: and now when shall I provide for mine own house also?
{30:31} 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: {30:32} 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. {30:33} 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. {30:34} And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be
according to thy word. {30:35} 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. {30:36} And he set three days journey betwixt himself and Jacob:
and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.

   {30:37} And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel
and chesnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white
appear which [was] in the rods. {30:38} 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. {30:39} And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought
forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted. {30:40} And Jacob did
separate the lambs, and set the faces of the 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. {30:41}
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. {30:42} But when the cattle were
feeble, he put [them] not in: so the feebler were Laban's, and the
stronger Jacob's. {30:43} And the man increased exceedingly, and had
much cattle, and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses.

   {31:1} 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. {31:2} And Jacob beheld the
countenance of Laban, and, behold, it [was] not toward him as before.
{31:3} And the LORD said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy
fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee. {31:4} And Jacob
sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto his flock, {31:5} 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. {31:6}
And ye know that with all my power I have served your father. {31:7}
And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but
God suffered him not to hurt me. {31:8} If he said thus, The speckled
shall be thy wages; then all the cattle bare speckled: and if he said
thus, The ringstraked shall be thy hire; then bare all the cattle
ringstraked. {31:9} Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father,
and given [them] to me. {31:10} 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. {31:11} And the angel of God spake unto me in a
dream, [saying,] Jacob: And I said, Here [am] I. {31:12} And he said,
Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the rams which leap upon the
cattle [are] ringstraked, speckled, and grisled: for I have seen all
that Laban doeth unto thee. {31:13} 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. {31:14} And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, [Is
there] yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?
{31:15} Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and
hath quite devoured also our money. {31:16} For all the riches which
God hath taken from our father, that [is] ours, and our children's: now
then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.

   {31:17} Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon
camels; {31:18} 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
Padan-aram, for to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.
{31:19} And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the
images that [were] her father's. {31:20} And Jacob stole away unawares
to Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not that he fled. {31:21} So
he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed over the
river, and set his face [toward] the mount Gilead. {31:22} And it was
told Laban on the third day that Jacob was fled. {31:23} And he took
his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey; and
they overtook him in the mount Gilead. {31:24} And God came to Laban
the Syrian in a dream by night, and said unto him, Take heed that thou
speak not to Jacob either good or bad.

   {31:25} Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in
the mount: and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mount of Gilead.
{31:26} And Laban said to Jacob, What hast thou done, that thou hast
stolen away unawares to me, and carried away my daughters, as captives
[taken] with the sword? {31:27} Wherefore didst thou flee away
secretly, and steal away from me; and didst not tell me, that I might
have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with
harp? {31:28} And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my
daughters? thou hast now done foolishly in so doing. {31:29} It is in
the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the God of your father spake
unto me yesternight, saying, Take thou heed that thou speak not to
Jacob either good or bad. {31:30} And now, [though] thou wouldest needs
be gone, because thou sore longedst after thy father's house, [yet]
wherefore hast thou stolen my gods? {31:31} And Jacob answered and said
to Laban, Because I was afraid: for I said, Peradventure thou wouldest
take by force thy daughters from me. {31:32} 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. {31:33} 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. {31:34} 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. {31:35} 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.

   {31:36} 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? {31:37} 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. {31:38} 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. {31:39} 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. {31:40} [Thus]
I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and
my sleep departed from mine eyes. {31:41} Thus have I been twenty years
in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and
six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times.
{31:42} 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.

   {31:43} 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? {31:44} Now therefore come thou, let us make a
covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee.
{31:45} And Jacob took a stone, and set it up [for] a pillar. {31:46}
And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones; and they took stones,
and made an heap: and they did eat there upon the heap. {31:47} And
Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha: but Jacob called it Galeed. {31:48}
And Laban said, This heap [is] a witness between me and thee this day.
Therefore was the name of it called Galeed; {31:49} And Mizpah; for he
said, The LORD watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from
another. {31:50} If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt
take [other] wives beside my daughters, no man [is] with us; see, God
[is] witness betwixt me and thee. {31:51} And Laban said to Jacob,
Behold this heap, and behold [this] pillar, which I have cast betwixt
me and thee; {31:52} This heap [be] witness, and [this] pillar [be]
witness, that I will not pass over this heap to thee, and that thou
shalt not pass over this heap and this pillar unto me, for harm.
{31:53} 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. {31:54} 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. {31:55} 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.

   {32:1} And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.
{32:2} And when Jacob saw them, he said, This [is] God's host: and he
called the name of that place Mahanaim. {32:3} And Jacob sent
messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land of Seir, the
country of Edom. {32:4} And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye
speak unto my lord Esau; Thy servant Jacob saith thus, I have sojourned
with Laban, and stayed there until now: {32:5} 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.

   {32:6} 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. {32:7} 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; {32:8} And said, If Esau come to the one
company, and smite it, then the other company which is left shall
escape.

   {32:9} And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my
father Isaac, the LORD which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country,
and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee: {32:10} 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. {32:11} 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.
{32:12} And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed
as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude. {32:13}
And he lodged there that same night; and took of that which came to his
hand a present for Esau his brother; {32:14} Two hundred she goats, and
twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams, {32:15} Thirty
milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she
asses, and ten foals. {32:16} And he delivered [them] into the hand of
his servants, every drove by themselves; and said unto his servants,
Pass over before me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove. {32:17}
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? {32:18} Then thou shalt say,
[They be] thy servant Jacob's; it [is] a present sent unto my lord
Esau: and, behold, also he [is] behind us. {32:19} And so commanded he
the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying, On
this manner shall ye speak unto Esau, when ye find him. {32:20} 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. {32:21} So went
the present over before him: and himself lodged that night in the
company. {32:22} And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and
his two womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford
Jabbok. {32:23} And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and
sent over that he had.

   {32:24} And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him
until the breaking of the day. {32:25} And when he saw that he
prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the
hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him.
{32:26} And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I
will not let thee go, except thou bless me. {32:27} And he said unto
him, What [is] thy name? And he said, Jacob. {32:28} And he said, Thy
name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast
thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed. {32:29} And Jacob
asked [him,] and said, Tell [me,] I pray thee, thy name. And he said,
Wherefore [is] it [that] thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed
him there. {32:30} And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I
have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved. {32:31} And as he
passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh.
{32:32} Therefore the children of Israel eat not [of] the sinew which
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.

   {33:1} 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. {33:2} And he put
the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children
after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost. {33:3} And he passed over
before them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came
near to his brother. {33:4} And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him,
and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept. {33:5} And he
lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, Who
[are] those with thee? And he said, The children which God hath
graciously given thy servant. {33:6} Then the handmaidens came near,
they and their children, and they bowed themselves. {33:7} And Leah
also with her children came near, and bowed themselves: and after came
Joseph near and Rachel, and they bowed themselves. {33:8} And he said,
What [meanest] thou by all this drove which I met? And he said, [These
are] to find grace in the sight of my lord. {33:9} And Esau said, I
have enough, my brother; keep that thou hast unto thyself. {33:10} 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.
{33:11} 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. ]{33:12} And he said, Let us take our
journey, and let us go, and I will go before thee. {33:13} 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. {33:14} 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. {33:15} 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.

   {33:16} So Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir. {33:17} And
Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him an house, and made booths for
his cattle: therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.

   {33:18} And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which [is] in
the land of Canaan, when he came from Padan-aram; and pitched his tent
before the city. {33:19} And he bought a parcel of a field, where he
had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's
father, for an hundred pieces of money. {33:20} And he erected there an
altar, and called it El-elohe-Israel.

   {34:1} And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob,
went out to see the daughters of the land. {34:2} And when Shechem the
son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her,
and lay with her, and defiled her. {34:3} And his soul clave unto Dinah
the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and spake kindly unto
the damsel. {34:4} And Shechem spake unto his father Hamor, saying, Get
me this damsel to wife. {34:5} 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.

   {34:6} And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Jacob to
commune with him. {34:7} And the sons of Jacob came out of the field
when they heard [it:] 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. {34:8} And Hamor communed
with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your
daughter: I pray you give her him to wife. {34:9} And make ye marriages
with us, [and] give your daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto
you. {34:10} And ye shall dwell with us: and the land shall be before
you; dwell and trade ye therein, and get you possessions therein.
{34:11} And Shechem said unto her father and unto her brethren, Let me
find grace in your eyes, and what ye shall say unto me I will give.
{34:12} 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. {34:13} And
the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully,
and said, because he had defiled Dinah their sister: {34:14} And they
said unto them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one that
is uncircumcised; for that [were] a reproach unto us: {34:15} But in
this will we consent unto you: If ye will be as we [be,] that every
male of you be circumcised; {34:16} Then will we give our daughters
unto you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with
you, and we will become one people. {34:17} But if ye will not hearken
unto us, to be circumcised; then will we take our daughter, and we will
be gone. {34:18} And their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem Hamor's
son. {34:19} 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.

   {34:20} And Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the gate of their
city, and communed with the men of their city, saying, {34:21} These
men [are] peaceable with us; therefore let them dwell in 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. {34:22} Only herein will the men consent unto us for to
dwell with us, to be one people, if every male among us be circumcised,
as they [are] circumcised. {34:23} [Shall] not their cattle and their
substance and every beast of theirs [be] ours? only let us consent unto
them, and they will dwell with us. {34:24} 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.

   {34:25} 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. {34:26} 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. {34:27}
The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city, because
they had defiled their sister. {34:28} They took their sheep, and their
oxen, and their asses, and that which [was] in the city, and that which
[was] in the field, {34:29} And all their wealth, and all their little
ones, and their wives took they captive, and spoiled even all that
[was] in the house. {34:30} And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have
troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land,
among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I [being] few in number,
they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I
shall be destroyed, I and my house. {34:31} And they said, Should he
deal with our sister as with an harlot?

   {35:1} 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. {35:2} 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: {35:3} 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. {35:4} 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. {35:5} 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.

   {35:6} So Jacob came to Luz, which [is] in the land of Canaan, that
[is,] Bethel, he and all the people that [were] with him. {35:7} And he
built there an altar, and called the place El-beth-el: because there
God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother.
{35:8} But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried beneath
Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was called Allon-bachuth.

   {35:9} And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of
Padan-aram, and blessed him. {35:10} And God said unto him, Thy name
[is] Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel
shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel. {35:11} 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; {35:12} 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. {35:13}
And God went up from him in the place where he talked with him. {35:14}
And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, [even]
a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering thereon, and he
poured oil thereon. {35:15} And Jacob called the name of the place
where God spake with him, Bethel.

   {35:16} And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but a little
way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour.
{35:17} 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. {35:18}
And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that
she called his name Ben-oni: but his father called him Benjamin.
{35:19} And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which
[is] Bethlehem. {35:20} And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that
[is] the pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day.

   {35:21} And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond the tower
of Edar. {35:22} 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: {35:23} The sons of
Leah; Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and
Issachar, and Zebulun: {35:24} The sons of Rachel; Joseph, and
Benjamin: {35:25} And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid; Dan, and
Naphtali: {35:26} And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid; Gad, and
Asher: these [are] the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in
Padan-aram.

   {35:27} And Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto Mamre, unto the
city of Arbah, which [is] Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.
{35:28} And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years.
{35:29} 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.

   {36:1} Now these [are] the generations of Esau, who [is] Edom.
{36:2} Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan; Adah the
daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah the
daughter of Zibeon the Hivite; {36:3} And Bashemath Ishmael's daughter,
sister of Nebajoth. {36:4} And Adah bare to Esau Eliphaz; and Bashemath
bare Reuel; {36:5} And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah:
these [are] the sons of Esau, which were born unto him in the land of
Canaan. {36:6} 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.
{36:7} 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. {36:8} Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir: Esau [is] Edom.

   {36:9} And these [are] the generations of Esau the father of the
Edomites in mount Seir: {36:10} 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. {36:11} And the sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar,
Zepho, and Gatam, and Kenaz. {36:12} And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz
Esau's son; and she bare to Eliphaz Amalek: these [were] the sons of
Adah Esau's wife. {36:13} And these [are] the sons of Reuel; Nahath,
and Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah: these were the sons of Bashemath Esau's
wife.

   {36:14} And these were the sons of Aholibamah, the daughter of Anah
the daughter of Zibeon, Esau's wife: and she bare to Esau Jeush, and
Jaalam, and Korah.

   {36:15} 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, {36:16} 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.

   {36:17} 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.

   {36:18} 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. {36:19} These [are] the
sons of Esau, who [is] Edom, and these [are] their dukes.

   {36:20} These [are] the sons of Seir the Horite, who inhabited the
land; Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah, {36:21} And Dishon, and
Ezer, and Dishan: these [are] the dukes of the Horites, the children of
Seir in the land of Edom. {36:22} And the children of Lotan were Hori
and Hemam; and Lotan's sister [was] Timna. {36:23} And the children of
Shobal [were] these; Alvan, and Manahath, and Ebal, Shepho, and Onam.
{36:24} And these [are] the children of Zibeon; both Ajah, and Anah:
this [was that] Anah that found the mules in the wilderness, as he fed
the asses of Zibeon his father. {36:25} And the children of Anah [were]
these; Dishon, and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah. {36:26} And these
[are] the children of Dishon; Hemdan, and Eshban, and Ithran, and
Cheran. {36:27} The children of Ezer [are] these; Bilhan, and Zaavan,
and Akan. {36:28} The children of Dishan [are] these: Uz, and Aran.
{36:29} These [are] the dukes [that came] of the Horites; duke Lotan,
duke Shobal, duke Zibeon, duke Anah, {36:30} Duke Dishon, duke Ezer,
duke Dishan: these [are] the dukes [that came] of Hori, among their
dukes in the land of Seir.

   {36:31} And these [are] the kings that reigned in the land of Edom,
before there reigned any king over the children of Israel. {36:32} And
Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom: and the name of his city [was]
Dinhabah. {36:33} And Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah
reigned in his stead. {36:34} And Jobab died, and Husham of the land of
Temani reigned in his stead. {36:35} 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. {36:36} And Hadad died, and
Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his stead. {36:37} And Samlah died, and
Saul of Rehoboth [by] the river reigned in his stead. {36:38} And Saul
died, and Baal-hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his stead. {36:39}
And Baal-hanan 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. {36:40} 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, {36:41} Duke Aholibamah, duke Elah, duke Pinon,
{36:42} Duke Kenaz, duke Teman, duke Mibzar, {36:43} Duke Magdiel, duke
Iram: these [be] the dukes of Edom, according to their habitations in
the land of their possession: he [is] Esau the father of the Edomites.

   {37:1} And Jacob dwelt in the land wherein his father was a
stranger, in the land of Canaan. {37:2} 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. {37:3} 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. {37:4} 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.

   {37:5} And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told [it] his brethren:
and they hated him yet the more. {37:6} And he said unto them, Hear, I
pray you, this dream which I have dreamed: {37:7} 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. {37:8} 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.

   {37:9} 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. {37:10} 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? {37:11} And his brethren envied him; but his father
observed the saying.

   {37:12} And his brethren went to feed their father's flock in
Shechem. {37:13} 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. {37:14} 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.

   {37:15} And a certain man found him, and, behold, [he was] wandering
in the field: and the man asked him, saying, What seekest thou? {37:16}
And he said, I seek my brethren: tell me, I pray thee, where they feed
[their flocks. ]{37:17} And the man said, They are departed hence; for
I heard them say, Let us go to Dothan. And Joseph went after his
brethren, and found them in Dothan. {37:18} And when they saw him afar
off, even before he came near unto them, they conspired against him to
slay him. {37:19} And they said one to another, Behold, this dreamer
cometh. {37:20} 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. {37:21} And Reuben heard
[it,] and he delivered him out of their hands; and said, Let us not
kill him. {37:22} And Reuben said unto them, Shed no blood, [but] cast
him into 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.

   {37:23} 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; {37:24} And they took him, and cast him into a pit:
and the pit [was] empty, [there was] no water in it. {37:25} And they
sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and,
behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead with their camels
bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry [it] down to Egypt.
{37:26} And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit [is it] if we
slay our brother, and conceal his blood? {37:27} Come, and let us sell
him to the Ishmeelites, and let not our hand be upon him; for he [is]
our brother [and] our flesh. And his brethren were content. {37:28}
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.

   {37:29} And Reuben returned unto the pit; and, behold, Joseph [was]
not in the pit; and he rent his clothes. {37:30} And he returned unto
his brethren, and said, The child [is] not; and I, whither shall I go?
{37:31} And they took Joseph's coat, and killed a kid of the goats, and
dipped the coat in the blood; {37:32} And they sent the coat of [many]
colours, and they brought [it] to their father; and said, This have we
found: know now whether it [be] thy son's coat or no. {37:33} And he
knew it, and said, [It is] my son's coat; an evil beast hath devoured
him; Joseph is without doubt rent in pieces. {37:34} And Jacob rent his
clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many
days. {37:35} And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort
him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down
into the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him.
{37:36} And the Midianites sold him into Egypt unto Potiphar, an
officer of Pharaoh's, [and] captain of the guard.

   {38:1} 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. {38:2} And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite,
whose name [was] Shuah; and he took her, and went in unto her. {38:3}
And she conceived, and bare a son; and he called his name Er. {38:4}
And she conceived again, and bare a son; and she called his name Onan.
{38:5} And she yet again conceived, and bare a son; and called his name
Shelah: and he was at Chezib, when she bare him. {38:6} And Judah took
a wife for Er his firstborn, whose name [was] Tamar. {38:7} And Er,
Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD
slew him. {38:8} And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother's
wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother. {38:9} And Onan
knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to 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. {38:10} And the thing which he
did displeased the LORD: wherefore he slew him also. {38:11} Then said
Judah to Tamar his daughter in law, Remain a widow 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.

   {38:12} And in process of time the daughter of Shuah Judah's wife
died; and Judah was comforted, and went up unto his sheepshearers to
Timnath, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite. {38:13} And it was
told Tamar, saying, Behold thy father in law goeth up to Timnath to
shear his sheep. {38:14} And she put her widow's garments off from her,
and covered her 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. {38:15} When Judah saw
her, he thought her [to be] an harlot; because she had covered her
face. {38:16} And he turned unto her by the way, and said, Go to, I
pray thee, 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? {38:17} And he said, I will send [thee] a kid
from the flock. And she said, Wilt thou give [me] a pledge, till thou
send [it? ]{38:18} And he said, What pledge shall I give thee? And she
said, Thy 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. {38:19} And she arose, and went away, and laid by her vail from
her, and put on the garments of her widowhood. {38:20} And Judah sent
the kid by the hand of his friend the Adullamite, to receive [his]
pledge from the woman's hand: but he found her not. {38:21} 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. ]{38:22} 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. ]{38:23} And Judah said, Let her take [it] to her, lest we be
shamed: behold, I sent this kid, and thou hast not found her.

   {38:24} 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. {38:25} 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. {38:26} 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.

   {38:27} And it came to pass in the time of her travail, that,
behold, twins [were] in her womb. {38:28} And it came to pass, when she
travailed, that [the one] put out [his] hand: and the midwife took and
bound upon his hand a scarlet thread, saying, This came out first,
{38:29} 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. {38:30}
And afterward came out his brother, that had the scarlet thread upon
his hand: and his name was called Zarah.

   {39:1} And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an
officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of
the hands of the Ishmeelites, which had brought him down thither.
{39:2} And the LORD was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and
he was in the house of his master the Egyptian. {39:3} And his master
saw that the LORD [was] with him, and that the LORD made all [that] he
did to prosper in his hand. {39:4} And Joseph found grace in his sight,
and he served him: and he made him overseer over his house, and all
that he had he put into his hand. {39:5} 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. {39:6} 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.

   {39:7} And it came to pass after these things, that his master's
wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with me. {39:8} 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; {39:9} [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? {39:10} 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. {39:11} 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. {39:12} 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. {39:13} And it came to pass, when she saw that he had left
his garment in her hand, and was fled forth, {39:14} That she called
unto the men of her house, and spake unto them, saying, See, he hath
brought in an Hebrew unto us to mock us; he came in unto me to lie with
me, and I cried with a loud voice: {39:15} And it came to pass, when he
heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment
with me, and fled, and got him out. {39:16} And she laid up his garment
by her, until his lord came home. {39:17} 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: {39:18} And it came to
pass, as I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment with
me, and fled out. {39:19} And it came to pass, when his master heard
the words of his wife, which she spake unto him, saying, After this
manner did thy servant to me; that his wrath was kindled. {39:20} 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.

   {39:21} But the LORD was with Joseph, and shewed him mercy, and gave
him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison. {39:22} And the
keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand all the prisoners that
[were] in the prison; and whatsoever they did there, he was the doer
[of it. ]{39:23} 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.

   {40:1} 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. {40:2} And Pharaoh was wroth against two [of] his officers,
against the chief of the butlers, and against the chief of the bakers.
{40:3} And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the
guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph [was] bound. {40:4} And
the captain of the guard charged Joseph with them, and he served them:
and they continued a season in ward.

   {40:5} And they dreamed a dream both of them, each man his dream in
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. {40:6} And Joseph came in unto them in the morning, and looked
upon them, and, behold, they [were] sad. {40:7} And he asked Pharaoh's
officers that [were] with him in the ward of his lord's house, saying,
Wherefore look ye [so] sadly to day? {40:8} And they said unto him, We
have dreamed a dream, and [there is] no interpreter of it. And Joseph
said unto them, [Do] not interpretations [belong] to God? tell me
[them,] I pray you. {40:9} And the chief butler told his dream to
Joseph, and said to him, In my dream, behold, a vine [was] before me;
{40:10} And in the vine [were] three branches: and it [was] as though
it budded, [and] her blossoms shot forth; and the clusters thereof
brought forth ripe grapes: {40:11} 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. {40:12} And Joseph said unto him, This
[is] the interpretation of it: The three branches [are] three days:
{40:13} Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thine head, and
restore thee unto thy place: and thou shalt deliver Pharaoh's cup into
his hand, after the former manner when thou wast his butler. {40:14}
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: {40:15} 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. {40:16} 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: {40:17} 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. {40:18} And
Joseph answered and said, This [is] the interpretation thereof: The
three baskets [are] three days: {40:19} Yet within three days shall
Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree;
and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee.

   {40:20} 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.
{40:21} And he restored the chief butler unto his butlership again; and
he gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand: {40:22} But he hanged the chief
baker: as Joseph had interpreted to them. {40:23} Yet did not the chief
butler remember Joseph, but forgat him.

   {41:1} And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that
Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river. {41:2} And,
behold, there came up out of the river seven well favoured kine and
fatfleshed; and they fed in a meadow. {41:3} And, behold, seven other
kine came up after them out of the river, ill favoured and leanfleshed;
and stood by the [other] kine upon the brink of the river. {41:4} And
the ill favoured and leanfleshed kine did eat up the seven well
favoured and fat kine. So Pharaoh awoke. {41:5} And he slept and
dreamed the second time: and, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon
one stalk, rank and good. {41:6} And, behold, seven thin ears and
blasted with the east wind sprung up after them. {41:7} And the seven
thin ears devoured the seven rank and full ears. And Pharaoh awoke,
and, behold, [it was] a dream. {41:8} And it came to pass in the
morning that his spirit was troubled; 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.

   {41:9} Then spake the chief butler unto Pharaoh, saying, I do
remember my faults this day: {41:10} Pharaoh was wroth with his
servants, and put me in ward in the captain of the guard's house, both
[me] and the chief baker: {41:11} And we dreamed a dream in one night,
I and he; we dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his
dream. {41:12} And [there was] there with us a young man, an Hebrew,
servant to the captain of the guard; and we told him, and he
interpreted to us our dreams; to each man according to his dream he did
interpret. {41:13} And it came to pass, as he interpreted to us, so it
was; me he restored unto mine office, and him he hanged.

   {41:14} Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him
hastily out of the dungeon: and he shaved [himself,] and changed his
raiment, and came in unto Pharaoh. {41:15} 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. {41:16} And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, [It is]
not in me: God shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace. {41:17} And
Pharaoh said unto Joseph, In my dream, behold, I stood upon the bank of
the river: {41:18} And, behold, there came up out of the river seven
kine, fatfleshed and well favoured; and they fed in a meadow: {41:19}
And, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill
favoured and leanfleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt
for badness: {41:20} And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up
the first seven fat kine: {41:21} 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. {41:22} And I saw in my
dream, and, behold, seven ears came up in one stalk, full and good:
{41:23} And, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, [and] blasted with the
east wind, sprung up after them: {41:24} And the thin ears devoured the
seven good ears: and I told [this] unto the magicians; but [there was]
none that could declare [it] to me.

   {41:25} And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh [is] one:
God hath shewed Pharaoh what he [is] about to do. {41:26} The seven
good kine [are] seven years; and the seven good ears [are] seven years:
the dream [is] one. {41:27} And the seven thin and ill favoured kine
that came up after them [are] seven years; and the seven empty ears
blasted with the east wind shall be seven years of famine. {41:28} This
[is] the thing which I have spoken unto Pharaoh: What God [is] about to
do he sheweth unto Pharaoh. {41:29} Behold, there come seven years of
great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: {41:30} And there shall
arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be
forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land;
{41:31} And the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of that
famine following; for it [shall be] very grievous. {41:32} And for that
the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh twice; [it is] because the thing
[is] established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass. {41:33}
Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise, and set him
over the land of Egypt. {41:34} Let Pharaoh do [this,] and let him
appoint officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land
of Egypt in the seven plenteous years. {41:35} 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. {41:36} 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.

   {41:37} And the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the
eyes of all his servants. {41:38} And Pharaoh said unto his servants,
Can we find [such a one] as this [is,] a man in whom the Spirit of God
is? {41:39} And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Forasmuch as God hath shewed
thee all this, [there is] none so discreet and wise as thou [art:
]{41:40} 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.
{41:41} And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, See, I have set thee over all the
land of Egypt. {41:42} 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; {41:43} 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. {41:44} 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. {41:45} And Pharaoh
called Joseph's name Zaphnath-paaneah; and he gave him to wife Asenath
the daughter of Poti- pherah priest of On. And Joseph went out over
[all] the land of Egypt.

   {41:46} 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. {41:47} And in the
seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls. {41:48} 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. {41:49} And
Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left
numbering; for [it was] without number. {41:50} And unto Joseph were
born two sons before the years of famine came, which Asenath the
daughter of Poti- pherah priest of On bare unto him. {41:51} And Joseph
called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: For God, [said he,] hath
made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house. {41:52} And the
name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath caused me to be
fruitful in the land of my affliction.

   {41:53} And the seven years of plenteousness, that was in the land
of Egypt, were ended. {41:54} And the seven years of dearth began to
come, according as Joseph had said: and the dearth was in all lands;
but in all the land of Egypt there was bread. {41:55} 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. {41:56} 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. {41:57} And all countries came
into Egypt to Joseph for to buy [corn;] because that the famine was so
sore in all lands.

   {42:1} Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said
unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another? {42:2} And he said,
Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down thither,
and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.

   {42:3} And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt.
{42:4} But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his
brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him. {42:5}
And the sons of Israel came to buy [corn] among those that came: for
the famine was in the land of Canaan. {42:6} And Joseph [was] the
governor over the land, [and] he [it was] that 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. {42:7} 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. {42:8} And Joseph knew
his brethren, but they knew not him. {42:9} And Joseph remembered the
dreams which he dreamed of them, and said unto them, Ye [are] spies; to
see the nakedness of the land ye are come. {42:10} And they said unto
him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy servants come. {42:11} We
[are] all one man's sons; we [are] true [men,] thy servants are no
spies. {42:12} And he said unto them, Nay, but to see the nakedness of
the land ye are come. {42:13} 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. {42:14} And
Joseph said unto them, That [is it] that I spake unto you, saying, Ye
[are] spies: {42:15} Hereby ye shall be proved: By the life of Pharaoh
ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither.
{42:16} Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall
be 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. {42:17} And he put them all together into ward three days.
{42:18} And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live;
[for] I fear God: {42:19} 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: {42:20} But bring your youngest brother unto
me; so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did
so.

   {42:21} And they said one to another, We [are] verily guilty
concerning our 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. {42:22} 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. {42:23} And they knew
not that Joseph understood [them;] for he spake unto them by an
interpreter. {42:24} And he turned himself about from them, and wept;
and returned to them again, and communed with them, and took from them
Simeon, and bound him before their eyes.

   {42:25} 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. {42:26} And they laded their asses
with the corn, and departed thence. {42:27} 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. {42:28} 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?

   {42:29} And they came unto Jacob their father unto the land of
Canaan, and told him all that befell unto them; saying, {42:30} The
man, [who is] the lord of the land, spake roughly to us, and took us
for spies of the country. {42:31} And we said unto him, We [are] true
[men;] we are no spies: {42:32} We [be] twelve brethren, sons of our
father; one [is] not, and the youngest [is] this day with our father in
the land of Canaan. {42:33} And the man, the lord of the country, said
unto us, Hereby shall I 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: {42:34} 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.

   {42:35} 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.
{42:36} 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. {42:37} 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.
{42:38} 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.

   {43:1} And the famine [was] sore in the land. {43:2} 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.
{43:3} 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. {43:4} If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go down
and buy thee food: {43:5} 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. {43:6} And Israel said, Wherefore dealt ye
so ill with me, as to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother? {43:7}
And they said, The man asked us straitly of our state, and of our
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? {43:8} 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. {43:9} 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: {43:10} For except we had
lingered, surely now we had returned this second time. {43:11} 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: {43:12} 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: {43:13} Take
also your brother, and arise, go again unto the man: {43:14} And God
Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may send away your
other brother, and Benjamin. If I be bereaved [of my children,] I am
bereaved.

   {43:15} And the men took that present, and they took double money in
their hand, and Benjamin; and rose up, and went down to Egypt, and
stood before Joseph. {43:16} 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. {43:17} And the
man did as Joseph bade; and the man brought the men into Joseph's
house. {43:18} And the men were afraid, because they were brought into
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. {43:19} And they came near to the steward of Joseph's house, and
they communed with him at the door of the house, {43:20} And said, O
sir, we came indeed down at the first time to buy food: {43:21} 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. {43:22} And
other money have we brought down in our hands to buy food: we cannot
tell who put our money in our sacks. {43:23} And he said, Peace [be] to
you, fear not: your God, and the God of your father, hath given you
treasure in your sacks: I had your money. And he brought Simeon out
unto them. {43:24} 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. {43:25} And they made ready the present against Joseph came
at noon: for they heard that they should eat bread there.

   {43:26} And when Joseph came home, they brought him the present
which [was] in their hand into the house, and bowed themselves to him
to the earth. {43:27} And he asked them of [their] welfare, and said,
[Is] your father well, the old man of whom ye spake? [Is] he yet alive?
{43:28} And they answered, Thy servant our father [is] in good health,
he [is] yet alive. And they bowed down their heads, and made obeisance.
{43:29} 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. {43:30}
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. {43:31} And he washed his face, and went out, and refrained
himself, and said, Set on bread. {43:32} And they set on for him by
himself, and for them by themselves, 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.
{43:33} 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. {43:34} And he took [and sent] messes unto
them from before him: but Benjamin's mess was five times so much as any
of theirs. And they drank, and were merry with him.

   {44:1} 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. {44:2} 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. {44:3} As soon as the
morning was light, the men were sent away, they and their asses. {44:4}
[And] when they were gone out of the city, [and] not [yet] far off,
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? {44:5} [Is] not this [it] in which my lord drinketh, and whereby
indeed he divineth? ye have done evil in so doing.

   {44:6} And he overtook them, and he spake unto them these same
words. {44:7} And they said unto him, Wherefore saith my lord these
words? God forbid that thy servants should do according to this thing:
{44:8} Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks' mouths, we
brought again unto thee out of the land of Canaan: how then should we
steal out of thy lord's house silver or gold? {44:9} With whomsoever of
thy servants it be found, both let him die, and we also will be my
lord's bondmen. {44:10} And he said, Now also [let] it [be] according
unto your words; he with whom it is found shall be my servant; and ye
shall be blameless. {44:11} Then they speedily took down every man his
sack to the ground, and opened every man his sack. {44:12} And he
searched, [and] began at the eldest, and left at the youngest: and the
cup was found in Benjamin's sack. {44:13} Then they rent their clothes,
and laded every man his ass, and returned to the city.

   {44:14} And Judah and his brethren came to Joseph's house; for he
[was] yet there: and they fell before him on the ground. {44:15} And
Joseph said unto them, What deed [is] this that ye have done? wot ye
not that such a man as I can certainly divine? {44:16} And Judah said,
What shall we say unto my lord? what shall we 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. {44:17} 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.

   {44:18} 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. {44:19}
My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a brother?
{44:20} 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. {44:21} And
thou saidst unto thy servants, Bring him down unto me, that I may set
mine eyes upon him. {44:22} And we said unto my lord, The lad cannot
leave his father: for [if] he should leave his father, [his father]
would die. {44:23} And thou saidst unto thy servants, Except your
youngest brother come down with you, ye shall see my face no more.
{44:24} And it came to pass when we came up unto thy servant my father,
we told him the words of my lord. {44:25} And our father said, Go
again, [and] buy us a little food. {44:26} And we said, We cannot go
down: if our youngest brother be with us, then will we go down: for we
may not see the man's face, except our youngest brother [be] with us.
{44:27} And thy servant my father said unto us, Ye know that my wife
bare me two [sons: ]{44:28} And the one went out from me, and I said,
Surely he is torn in pieces; and I saw him not since: {44:29} And if ye
take this also from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down my
gray hairs with sorrow to the grave. {44:30} Now therefore when I come
to thy servant my father, and the lad [be] not with us; seeing that his
life is bound up in the lad's life; {44:31} 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. {44:32} 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. {44:33} 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. {44:34} For how shall I go up to my
father, and the lad [be] not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil
that shall come on my father.

   {45:1} 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. {45:2} And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians and the house of
Pharaoh heard. {45:3} 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. {45:4} 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. {45:5} Now
therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me
hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life. {45:6} 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. {45:7} And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity
in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance. {45:8} So
now [it was] not you [that] sent me hither, but God: and he hath made
me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler
throughout all the land of Egypt. {45:9} 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: {45:10} 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: {45:11} 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. {45:12} And, behold, your eyes
see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that [it is] my mouth that
speaketh unto you. {45:13} And ye shall tell my father of all my glory
in Egypt, and of all that ye have seen; and ye shall haste and bring
down my father hither. {45:14} And he fell upon his brother Benjamin's
neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept upon his neck. {45:15} Moreover he
kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them: and after that his
brethren talked with him.

   {45:16} And the fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying,
Joseph's brethren are come: and it pleased Pharaoh well, and his
servants. {45:17} And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto thy brethren,
This do ye; lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Canaan;
{45:18} 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. {45:19} 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. {45:20} Also regard not your
stuff; for the good of all the land of Egypt [is] yours. {45:21} 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.
{45:22} 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. {45:23} 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. {45:24} So he sent
his brethren away, and they departed: and he said unto them, See that
ye fall not out by the way.

   {45:25} And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of
Canaan unto Jacob their father, {45:26} And told him, saying, Joseph
[is] yet alive, and he [is] governor over all the land of Egypt. And
Jacob's heart fainted, for he believed them not. {45:27} 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: {45:28} And Israel said, [It is] enough; Joseph
my son [is] yet alive: I will go and see him before I die.

   {46:1} And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to
Beer-sheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac.
{46:2} And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said,
Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here [am] I. {46:3} And he said, I [am] God,
the God of thy father: fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there
make of thee a great nation: {46:4} I will go down with thee into
Egypt; and I will also surely bring thee up [again:] and Joseph shall
put his hand upon thine eyes. {46:5} And Jacob rose up from Beer-sheba:
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. {46:6} 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: {46:7} His sons, and his sons' sons with him, his
daughters, and his sons' daughters, and all his seed brought he with
him into Egypt.

   {46:8} And these [are] the names of the children of Israel, which
came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn. {46:9}
And the sons of Reuben; Hanoch, and Phallu, and Hezron, and Carmi.

   {46:10} And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and
Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman.

   {46:11} And the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

   {46:12} 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.

   {46:13} And the sons of Issachar; Tola, and Phuvah, and Job, and
Shimron.

   {46:14} And the sons of Zebulun; Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel.
{46:15} These [be] the sons of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob in
Padan-aram, with his daughter Dinah: all the souls of his sons and his
daughters [were] thirty and three.

   {46:16} And the sons of Gad; Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon,
Eri, and Arodi, and Areli.

   {46:17} And the sons of Asher; Jimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui, and
Beriah, and Serah their sister: and the sons of Beriah; Heber, and
Malchiel. {46:18} These [are] the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to
Leah his daughter, and these she bare unto Jacob, [even] sixteen souls.
{46:19} The sons of Rachel Jacob's wife; Joseph, and Benjamin.

   {46:20} And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and
Ephraim, which Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah priest of On bare
unto him.

   {46:21} And the sons of Benjamin were Belah, and Becher, and Ashbel,
Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard. {46:22}
These [are] the sons of Rachel, which were born to Jacob: all the souls
[were] fourteen.

   {46:23} And the sons of Dan; Hushim.

   {46:24} And the sons of Naphtali; Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and
Shillem. {46:25} These [are] the sons of Bilhah, which Laban gave unto
Rachel his daughter, and she bare these unto Jacob: all the souls
[were] seven. {46:26} 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; {46:27} 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.

   {46:28} And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to direct his face
unto Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen. {46:29} And Joseph
made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father, to
Goshen, and presented himself unto him; and he fell on his neck, and
wept on his neck a good while. {46:30} And Israel said unto Joseph, Now
let me die, since I have seen thy face, because thou [art] yet alive.
{46:31} And Joseph said unto his brethren, and unto his father's house,
I 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;
{46:32} 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. {46:33} And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall
call you, and shall say, What [is] your occupation? {46:34} That ye
shall say, Thy servants' trade hath been about cattle 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.

   {47:1} 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. {47:2} And he took some of his brethren, [even] five men,
and presented them unto Pharaoh. {47:3} And Pharaoh said unto his
brethren, What [is] your occupation? And they said unto Pharaoh, Thy
servants [are] shepherds, both we, [and] also our fathers. {47:4} They
said moreover 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. {47:5} And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph,
saying, Thy father and thy brethren are come unto thee: {47:6} The land
of Egypt [is] before thee; in the best of the land make 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. {47:7} And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him
before Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed Pharaoh. {47:8} And Pharaoh said unto
Jacob, How old [art] thou? {47:9} And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days
of the years of my pilgrimage [are] an hundred and thirty years: few
and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not
attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the
days of their pilgrimage. {47:10} And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went
out from before Pharaoh.

   {47:11} 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. {47:12} And Joseph nourished his
father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread,
according to [their] families.

   {47:13} And [there was] no bread in all the land; for the famine
[was] very sore, so that the land of Egypt and [all] the land of Canaan
fainted by reason of the famine. {47:14} 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. {47:15} 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. {47:16} And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will
give you for your cattle, if money fail. {47:17} And they brought their
cattle unto Joseph: and Joseph gave 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. {47:18} 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:
{47:19} 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. {47:20} 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. {47:21}
And as for the people, he removed them to cities from [one] end of the
borders of Egypt even to the [other] end thereof. {47:22} Only the land
of the priests bought he not; for the priests had a portion [assigned
them] of Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them:
wherefore they sold not their lands. {47:23} 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. {47:24} 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. {47:25} And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let
us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's
servants. {47:26} And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto
this day, [that] Pharaoh should have the fifth [part;] except the land
of the priests only, [which] became not Pharaoh's.

   {47:27} And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of
Goshen; and they had possessions therein, and grew, and multiplied
exceedingly. {47:28} And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen
years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years.
{47:29} And the time drew nigh that Israel must die: and he called his
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: {47:30} 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. {47:31}
And he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him. And Israel bowed
himself upon the bed's head.

   {48:1} 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. {48:2} And [one] told Jacob, and said,
Behold, thy son Joseph cometh unto thee: and Israel strengthened
himself, and sat upon the bed. {48:3} And Jacob said unto Joseph, God
Almighty appeared unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,
{48:4} And said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and
multiply 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.

   {48:5} 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. {48:6} And thy
issue, which thou begettest after them, shall be thine, [and] shall be
called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance. {48:7}
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. {48:8} And Israel beheld Joseph's sons, and said, Who [are]
these? {48:9} 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. {48:10} 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. {48:11} And Israel
said unto Joseph, I had not thought to see thy face: and, lo, God hath
shewed me also thy seed. {48:12} And Joseph brought them out from
between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.
{48:13} And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward
Israel's left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel's right
hand, and brought [them] near unto him. {48:14} 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.

   {48:15} 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, {48:16} The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the
lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers
Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of
the earth. {48:17} And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right
hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him: and he held up his
father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head unto Manasseh's head.
{48:18} And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father: for this
[is] the firstborn; put thy right hand upon his head. {48:19} And his
father refused, and said, I know [it,] my son, I know [it:] he 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. {48:20} And he blessed them that day, saying, In
thee shall Israel bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as
Manasseh: and he set Ephraim before Manasseh. {48:21} And Israel said
unto Joseph, Behold, I die: but God shall be with you, and bring you
again unto the land of your fathers. {48:22} 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.

   {49:1} 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. {49:2} Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob;
and hearken unto Israel your father.

   {49:3} Reuben, thou [art] my firstborn, my might, and the beginning
of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:
{49:4} Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up
to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou [it:] he went up to my couch.

   {49:5} Simeon and Levi [are] brethren; instruments of cruelty [are
in] their habitations. {49:6} 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. {49:7} Cursed [be] their anger, for [it was] fierce; and their
wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them
in Israel.

   {49:8} Judah, thou [art he] whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand
[shall be] in the neck of thine enemies; thy father's children shall
bow down before thee. {49:9} Judah [is] a lion's whelp: from the prey,
my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as
an old lion; who shall rouse him up? {49:10} The sceptre shall not
depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh
come; and unto him [shall] the gathering of the people [be. ]{49:11}
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: {49:12} His eyes [shall be] red with wine, and his teeth white
with milk.

   {49:13} Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he [shall
be] for an haven of ships; and his border [shall be] unto Zidon.

   {49:14} Issachar [is] a strong ass couching down between two
burdens: {49:15} 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.

   {49:16} Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.
{49:17} Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that
biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward. {49:18}
I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.

   {49:19} Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at
the last.

   {49:20} Out of Asher his bread [shall be] fat, and he shall yield
royal dainties.

   {49:21} Naphtali [is] a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.

   {49:22} Joseph [is] a fruitful bough, [even] a fruitful bough by a
well; [whose] branches run over the wall: {49:23} The archers have
sorely grieved him, and shot [at him,] and hated him: {49:24} 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:) {49:25} [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: {49:26} The blessings of thy
father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the
utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of
Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his
brethren.

   {49:27} Benjamin shall ravin [as] a wolf: in the morning he shall
devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.

   {49:28} All these [are] the twelve tribes of Israel: and this [is
it] that their father spake unto them, and blessed them; every one
according to his blessing he blessed them. {49:29} 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,
{49:30} 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. {49:31}
There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac
and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah. {49:32} The purchase of
the field and of the cave that [is] therein [was] from the children of
Heth. {49:33} And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he
gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was
gathered unto his people.

   {50:1} And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him,
and kissed him. {50:2} And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians
to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel. {50:3} And
forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of
those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore
and ten days. {50:4} 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,
{50:5} 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. {50:6} And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father,
according as he made thee swear.

   {50:7} And Joseph went up to bury his father: and with him went up
all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the
elders of the land of Egypt, {50:8} 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. {50:9} And
there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very
great company. {50:10} And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad,
which [is] beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very
sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.
{50:11} And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the
mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This [is] a grievous mourning
to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abel-mizraim,
which [is] beyond Jordan. {50:12} And his sons did unto him according
as he commanded them: {50:13} 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.

   {50:14} 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.

   {50:15} 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. {50:16} And they sent a
messenger unto Joseph, saying, Thy father did command before he died,
saying, {50:17} So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now,
the 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.
{50:18} And his brethren also went and fell down before his face; and
they said, Behold, we [be] thy servants. {50:19} And Joseph said unto
them, Fear not: for [am] I in the place of God? {50:20} But as for you,
ye thought evil against me; [but] God meant it unto good, to bring to
pass, as [it is] this day, to save much people alive. {50:21} Now
therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he
comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.

   {50:22} And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house: and
Joseph lived an hundred and ten years. {50:23} And Joseph saw Ephraim's
children of the third [generation:] the children also of Machir the son
Manasseh were brought up upon Joseph's knees. {50:24} And Joseph said
unto his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit you, and bring you
out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and
to Jacob. {50:25} 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. {50:26} So Joseph died, [being] an hundred and ten years old:
and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.





The Rest of the Chapters of the Book of Esther

   {10:4} Then Mardocheus said, God hath done these things.

   {10:5} For I remember a dream which I saw concerning these matters,
and nothing thereof hath failed.

   {10:6} A little fountain became a river, and there was light, and
the sun, and much water: this river is Esther, whom the king married,
and made queen:

   {10:7} And the two dragons are I and Aman.

   {10:8} And the nations were those that were assembled to destroy the
name of the Jews:

   {10:9} And my nation is this Israel, which cried to God, and were
saved: for the Lord hath saved his people, and the Lord hath delivered
us from all those evils, and God hath wrought signs and great wonders,
which have not been done among the Gentiles.

   {10:10} Therefore hath he made two lots, one for the people of God,
and another for all the Gentiles.

   {10:11} And these two lots came at the hour, and time, and day of
judgment, before God among all nations.

   {10:12} So God remembered his people, and justified his inheritance.

   {10:13} Therefore those days shall be unto them in the month Adar,
the fourteenth and fifteenth day of the same month, with an assembly,
and joy, and with gladness before God, according to the generations for
ever among his people.

   {11:1} In the fourth year of the reign of Ptolemeus and Cleopatra,
Dositheus, who said he was a priest and Levite, and Ptolemeus his son,
brought this epistle of Phurim, which they said was the same, and that
Lysimachus the son of Ptolemeus, that was in Jerusalem, had interpreted
it.

   {11:2} In the second year of the reign of Artexerxes the great, in
the first day of the month Nisan, Mardocheus the son of Jairus, the son
of Semei, the son of Cisai, of the tribe of Benjamin, had a dream;

   {11:3} Who was a Jew, and dwelt in the city of Susa, a great man,
being a servitor in the king's court.

   {11:4} He was also one of the captives, which Nabuchodonosor the
king of Babylon carried from Jerusalem with Jechonias king of Judea;
and this was his dream:

   {11:5} Behold a noise of a tumult, with thunder, and earthquakes,
and uproar in the land:

   {11:6} And, behold, two great dragons came forth ready to fight, and
their cry was great.

   {11:7} And at their cry all nations were prepared to battle, that
they might fight against the righteous people.

   {11:8} And lo a day of darkness and obscurity, tribulation and
anguish, affliction and great uproar, upon earth.

   {11:9} And the whole righteous nation was troubled, fearing their
own evils, and were ready to perish.

   {11:10} Then they cried unto God, and upon their cry, as it were
from a little fountain, was made a great flood, even much water.

   {11:11} The light and the sun rose up, and the lowly were exalted,
and devoured the glorious.

   {11:12} Now when Mardocheus, who had seen this dream, and what God
had determined to do, was awake, he bare this dream in mind, and until
night by all means was desirous to know it.

   {12:1} And Mardocheus took his rest in the court with Gabatha and
Tharra, the two eunuchs of the king, and keepers of the palace.

   {12:2} And he heard their devices, and searched out their purposes,
and learned that they were about to lay hands upon Artexerxes the king;
and so he certified the king of them.

   {12:3} Then the king examined the two eunuchs, and after that they
had confessed it, they were strangled.

   {12:4} And the king made a record of these things, and Mardocheus
also wrote thereof.

   {12:5} So the king commanded, Mardocheus to serve in the court, and
for this he rewarded him.

   {12:6} Howbeit Aman the son of Amadathus the Agagite, who was in
great honour with the king, sought to molest Mardocheus and his people
because of the two eunuchs of the king.

   {13:1} The copy of the letters was this: The great king Artexerxes
writeth these things to the princes and governours that are under him
from India unto Ethiopia in an hundred and seven and twenty provinces.

   {13:2} After that I became lord over many nations and had dominion
over the whole world, not lifted up with presumption of my authority,
but carrying myself always with equity and mildness, I purposed to
settle my subjects continually in a quiet life, and making my kingdom
peaceable, and open for passage to the utmost coasts, to renew peace,
which is desired of all men.

   {13:3} Now when I asked my counsellors how this might be brought to
pass, Aman, that excelled in wisdom among us, and was approved for his
constant good will and steadfast fidelity, and had the honour of the
second place in the kingdom,

   {13:4} Declared unto us, that in all nations throughout the world
there was scattered a certain malicious people, that had laws contrary
to all nations, and continually despised the commandments of kings, so
as the uniting of our kingdoms, honourably intended by us cannot go
forward.

   {13:5} Seeing then we understand that this people alone is
continually in opposition unto all men, differing in the strange manner
of their laws, and evil affected to our state, working all the mischief
they can that our kingdom may not be firmly established:

   {13:6} Therefore have we commanded, that all they that are signified
in writing unto you by Aman, who is ordained over the affairs, and is
next unto us, shall all, with their wives and children, be utterly
destroyed by the sword of their enemies, without all mercy and pity,
the fourteenth day of the twelfth month Adar of this present year:

   {13:7} That they, who of old and now also are malicious, may in one
day with violence go into the grave, and so ever hereafter cause our
affairs to be well settled, and without trouble.

   {13:8} Then Mardocheus thought upon all the works of the Lord, and
made his prayer unto him,

   {13:9} Saying, O Lord, Lord, the King Almighty: for the whole world
is in thy power, and if thou hast appointed to save Israel, there is no
man that can gainsay thee:

   {13:10} For thou hast made heaven and earth, and all the wondrous
things under the heaven.

   {13:11} Thou art Lord of all things, and and there is no man that
can resist thee, which art the Lord.

   {13:12} Thou knowest all things, and thou knowest, Lord, that it was
neither in contempt nor pride, nor for any desire of glory, that I did
not bow down to proud Aman.

   {13:13} For I could have been content with good will for the
salvation of Israel to kiss the soles of his feet.

   {13:14} But I did this, that I might not prefer the glory of man
above the glory of God: neither will I worship any but thee, O God,
neither will I do it in pride.

   {13:15} And now, O Lord God and King, spare thy people: for their
eyes are upon us to bring us to nought; yea, they desire to destroy the
inheritance, that hath been thine from the beginning.

   {13:16} Despise not the portion, which thou hast delivered out of
Egypt for thine own self.

   {13:17} Hear my prayer, and be merciful unto thine inheritance: turn
our sorrow into joy, that we may live, O Lord, and praise thy name: and
destroy not the mouths of them that praise thee, O Lord.

   {13:18} All Israel in like manner cried most earnestly unto the
Lord, because their death was before their eyes.

   {14:1} Queen Esther also, being in fear of death, resorted unto the
Lord:

   {14:2} And laid away her glorious apparel, and put on the garments
of anguish and mourning: and instead of precious ointments, she covered
her head with ashes and dung, and she humbled her body greatly, and all
the places of her joy she filled with her torn hair.

   {14:3} And she prayed unto the Lord God of Israel, saying, O my
Lord, thou only art our King: help me, desolate woman, which have no
helper but thee:

   {14:4} For my danger is in mine hand.

   {14:5} From my youth up I have heard in the tribe of my family that
thou, O Lord, tookest Israel from among all people, and our fathers
from all their predecessors, for a perpetual inheritance, and thou hast
performed whatsoever thou didst promise them.

   {14:6} And now we have sinned before thee: therefore hast thou given
us into the hands of our enemies,

   {14:7} Because we worshipped their gods: O Lord, thou art righteous.

   {14:8} Nevertheless it satisfieth them not, that we are in bitter
captivity: but they have stricken hands with their idols,

   {14:9} That they will abolish the thing that thou with thy mouth
hast ordained, and destroy thine inheritance, and stop the mouth of
them that praise thee, and quench the glory of thy house, and of thine
altar,

   {14:10} And open the mouths of the heathen to set forth the praises
of the idols, and to magnify a fleshly king for ever.

   {14:11} O Lord, give not thy sceptre unto them that be nothing, and
let them not laugh at our fall; but turn their device upon themselves,
and make him an example, that hath begun this against us.

   {14:12} Remember, O Lord, make thyself known in time of our
affliction, and give me boldness, O King of the nations, and Lord of
all power.

   {14:13} Give me eloquent speech in my mouth before the lion: turn
his heart to hate him that fighteth against us, that there may be an
end of him, and of all that are likeminded to him:

   {14:14} But deliver us with thine hand, and help me that am
desolate, and which have no other help but thee.

   {14:15} Thou knowest all things, O Lord; thou knowest that I hate
the glory of the unrighteous, and abhor the bed of the uncircumcised,
and of all the heathen.

   {14:16} Thou knowest my necessity: for I abhor the sign of my high
estate, which is upon mine head in the days wherein I shew myself, and
that I abhor it as a menstruous rag, and that I wear it not when I am
private by myself.

   {14:17} And that thine handmaid hath not eaten at Aman's table, and
that I have not greatly esteemed the king's feast, nor drunk the wine
of the drink offerings.

   {14:18} Neither had thine handmaid any joy since the day that I was
brought hither to this present, but in thee, O Lord God of Abraham.

   {14:19} O thou mighty God above all, hear the voice of the forlorn
and deliver us out of the hands of the mischievous, and deliver me out
of my fear.

   {15:1} And upon the third day, when she had ended her prayers, she
laid away her mourning garments, and put on her glorious apparel.

   {15:2} And being gloriously adorned, after she had called upon God,
who is the beholder and saviour of all things, she took two maids with
her:

   {15:3} And upon the one she leaned, as carrying herself daintily;

   {15:4} And the other followed, bearing up her train.

   {15:5} And she was ruddy through the perfection of her beauty, and
her countenance was cheerful and very amiable: but her heart was in
anguish for fear.

   {15:6} Then having passed through all the doors, she stood before
the king, who sat upon his royal throne, and was clothed with all his
robes of majesty, all glittering with gold and precious stones; and he
was very dreadful.

   {15:7} Then lifting up his countenance that shone with majesty, he
looked very fiercely upon her: and the queen fell down, and was pale,
and fainted, and bowed herself upon the head of the maid that went
before her.

   {15:8} Then God changed the spirit of the king into mildness, who in
a fear leaped from his throne, and took her in his arms, till she came
to herself again, and comforted her with loving words and said unto her,

   {15:9} Esther, what is the matter? I am thy brother, be of good
cheer:

   {15:10} Thou shalt not die, though our our commandment be general:
come near.

   {15:11} And so be held up his golden sceptre, and laid it upon her
neck,

   {15:12} And embraced her, and said, Speak unto me.

   {15:13} Then said she unto him, I saw thee, my lord, as an angel of
God, and my heart was troubled for fear of thy majesty.

   {15:14} For wonderful art thou, lord, and thy countenance is full of
grace.

   {15:15} And as she was speaking, she fell down for faintness.

   {15:16} Then the king was troubled, and all his servants comforted
her.

   {16:1} The great king Artexerxes unto the princes and governors of
an hundred and seven and twenty provinces from India unto Ethiopia, and
unto all our faithful subjects, greeting.

   {16:2} Many, the more often they are honoured with the great bounty
of their gracious princes, the more proud they are waxen,

   {16:3} And endeavour to hurt not our subjects only, but not being
able to bear abundance, do take in hand to practise also against those
that do them good:

   {16:4} And take not only thankfulness away from among men, but also
lifted up with the glorious words of lewd persons, that were never
good, they think to escape the justice of God, that seeth all things
and hateth evil.

   {16:5} Oftentimes also fair speech of those, that are put in trust
to manage their friends' affairs, hath caused many that are in
authority to be partakers of innocent blood, and hath enwrapped them in
remediless calamities:

   {16:6} Beguiling with the falsehood and deceit of their lewd
disposition the innocency and goodness of princes.

   {16:7} Now ye may see this, as we have declared, not so much by
ancient histories, as ye may, if ye search what hath been wickedly done
of late through the pestilent behaviour of them that are unworthily
placed in authority.

   {16:8} And we must take care for the time to come, that our kingdom
may be quiet and peaceable for all men,

   {16:9} Both by changing our purposes, and always judging things that
are evident with more equal proceeding.

   {16:10} For Aman, a Macedonian, the son of Amadatha, being indeed a
stranger from the Persian blood, and far distant from our goodness, and
as a stranger received of us,

   {16:11} Had so far forth obtained the favour that we shew toward
every nation, as that he was called our father, and was continually
honoured of all the next person unto the king.

   {16:12} But he, not bearing his great dignity, went about to deprive
us of our kingdom and life:

   {16:13} Having by manifold and cunning deceits sought of us the
destruction, as well of Mardocheus, who saved our life, and continually
procured our good, as also of blameless Esther, partaker of our
kingdom, with their whole nation.

   {16:14} For by these means he thought, finding us destitute of
friends to have translated the kingdom of the Persians to the
Macedonians.

   {16:15} But we find that the Jews, whom this wicked wretch hath
delivered to utter destruction, are no evildoers, but live by most just
laws:

   {16:16} And that they be children of the most high and most mighty,
living God, who hath ordered the kingdom both unto us and to our
progenitors in the most excellent manner.

   {16:17} Wherefore ye shall do well not to put in execution the
letters sent unto you by Aman the son of Amadatha.

   {16:18} For he that was the worker of these things, is hanged at the
gates of Susa with all his family: God, who ruleth all things, speedily
rendering vengeance to him according to his deserts.

   {16:19} Therefore ye shall publish the copy of this letter in all
places, that the Jews may freely live after their own laws.

   {16:20} And ye shall aid them, that even the same day, being the
thirteenth day of the twelfth month Adar, they may be avenged on them,
who in the time of their affliction shall set upon them.

   {16:21} For Almighty God hath turned to joy unto them the day,
wherein the chosen people should have perished.

   {16:22} Ye shall therefore among your solemn feasts keep it an high
day with all feasting:

   {16:23} That both now and hereafter there may be safety to us and
the well affected Persians; but to those which do conspire against us a
memorial of destruction.

   {16:24} Therefore every city and country whatsoever, which shall not
do according to these things, shall be destroyed without mercy with
fire and sword, and shall be made not only unpassable for men, but also
most hateful to wild beasts and fowls for ever.





Habakkuk

   {1:1} The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see. {1:2} O LORD,
how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! [even] cry out unto thee
[of] violence, and thou wilt not save! {1:3} Why dost thou shew me
iniquity, and cause [me] to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence
[are] before me: and there are [that] raise up strife and contention.
{1:4} Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth:
for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong
judgment proceedeth.

   {1:5} Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder
marvellously: for [I] will work a work in your days, [which] ye will
not believe, though it be told [you. ]{1:6} 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
theirs. {1:7} They [are] terrible and dreadful: their judgment and
their dignity shall proceed of themselves. {1:8} Their horses also are
swifter than the leopards, and are more 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. {1:9}
They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up [as] the
east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand. {1:10} 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. {1:11} Then shall [his] mind change, and he shall pass
over, and offend, [imputing] this his power unto his god.

   {1:12} [Art] thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, mine Holy
One? we shall not die. O LORD, thou hast ordained them for judgment;
and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for correction. {1:13}
[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? {1:14} And makest men as the fishes of the sea,
as the creeping things, [that have] no ruler over them? {1:15} They
take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and
gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad. {1:16}
Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their
drag; because by them their portion [is] fat, and their meat plenteous.
{1:17} Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually
to slay the nations?

   {2:1} 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. {2:2} And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the
vision, and make [it] plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth
it. {2:3} 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. {2:4} Behold, his soul [which] is
lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.

   {2:5} Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, [he is] a proud
man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and
[is] as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all
nations, and heapeth unto him all people: {2:6} Shall not all these
take up a parable against him, and a taunting 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! {2:7} Shall they not rise
up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and
thou shalt be for booties unto them? {2:8} 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.

   {2:9} 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! {2:10} Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting
off many people, and hast sinned [against] thy soul. {2:11} For the
stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall
answer it.

   {2:12} Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a
city by iniquity! {2:13} 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? {2:14} For the earth shall be filled with
the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.

   {2:15} Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest
thy bottle to [him,] and makest [him] drunken also, that thou mayest
look on their nakedness! {2:16} 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. {2:17} 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.

   {2:18} 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? {2:19} 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. {2:20} But the LORD [is] in his holy
temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.

   {3:1} A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon Shigionoth. {3:2} O
LORD, I have heard thy speech, [and] was afraid: O LORD, revive thy
work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known;
in wrath remember mercy. {3:3} 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. {3:4} And [his] brightness was as the light; he
had horns [coming] out of his hand: and there [was] the hiding of his
power. {3:5} Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went
forth at his feet. {3:6} 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.
{3:7} I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: [and] the curtains of
the land of Midian did tremble. {3:8} Was the LORD displeased against
the rivers? [was] thine anger against the rivers? [was] thy wrath
against the sea, that thou didst ride upon thine horses [and] thy
chariots of salvation? {3:9} Thy bow was made quite naked, [according]
to the oaths of the tribes, [even thy] word. Selah. Thou didst cleave
the earth with rivers. {3:10} 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. {3:11} 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. {3:12} Thou didst
march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen in
anger. {3:13} 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. {3:14} Thou didst strike through with his staves the head
of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their
rejoicing [was] as to devour the poor secretly. {3:15} Thou didst walk
through the sea with thine horses, [through] the heap of great waters.
{3:16} When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice:
rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I
might rest in the day of trouble: when he cometh up unto the people, he
will invade them with his troops.

   {3:17} Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither [shall]
fruit [be] in 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: {3:18} Yet I will rejoice
in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation. {3:19} 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

   {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, {1:2} 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. {1:3} Then came
the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying, {1:4} [Is it] time
for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house [lie]
waste? {1:5} Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your
ways. {1:6} 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.

   {1:7} Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways. {1:8} 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. {1:9} 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. {1:10}
Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is
stayed [from] her fruit. {1:11} And I called for a drought upon the
land, and upon 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.

   {1:12} 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. {1:13} Then spake Haggai the LORD'S messenger in the LORD'S
message unto the people, saying, I [am] with you, saith the LORD.
{1:14} And the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of
Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of
Josedech, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the
people; and they came and did work in the house of the LORD of hosts,
their God, {1:15} In the four and twentieth day of the sixth month, in
the second year of Darius the king.

   {2:1} In the seventh [month,] in the one and twentieth [day] of the
month, came the word of the LORD by the prophet Haggai, saying, {2:2}
Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to
Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and to the residue of the
people, saying, {2:3} Who [is] left among you that saw this house in
her first glory? and how do ye see it now? [is it] not in your eyes in
comparison of it as nothing? {2:4} Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel,
saith the LORD; and be strong, 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: {2:5} [According
to] the word that I covenanted with you when ye came out of Egypt, so
my spirit remaineth among you: fear ye not. {2:6} For thus saith the
LORD of hosts; Yet once, it [is] a little while, and I will shake the
heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry [land; ]{2:7} 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. {2:8} The
silver [is] mine, and the gold [is] mine, saith the LORD of hosts.
{2:9} 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.

   {2:10} 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, {2:11} Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Ask now the priests
[concerning] the law, saying, {2:12} If one bear holy flesh in the
skirt of his garment, and with his skirt do touch bread, or pottage, or
wine, or oil, or any meat, shall it be holy? And the priests answered
and said, No. {2:13} Then said Haggai, If [one that is] unclean by a
dead body touch any of these, shall it be unclean? And the priests
answered and said, It shall be unclean. {2:14} 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. {2:15} 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: {2:16} 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. {2:17} 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. {2:18} 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. ]{2:19} 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.]

   {2:20} And again the word of the LORD came unto Haggai in the four
and twentieth [day] of the month, saying, {2:21} Speak to Zerubbabel,
governor of Judah, saying, I will shake the heavens and the earth;
{2:22} And I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and I will destroy
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. {2:23} 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.





The Epistle to the Hebrews

   {1:1} God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time
past unto the fathers by the prophets, {1:2} Hath in these last days
spoken unto us by [his] Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things,
by whom also he made the worlds; {1:3} Who being the brightness of
[his] glory, and the express image of 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; {1:4} Being
made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained
a more excellent name than they. {1:5} For unto which of the angels
said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee?
And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?
{1:6} And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world,
he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him. {1:7} And of the
angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a
flame of fire. {1:8} But unto the Son [he saith,] Thy throne, O God,
[is] for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness [is] the sceptre of
thy kingdom. {1:9} Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity;
therefore God, [even] thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of
gladness above thy fellows. {1:10} And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning
hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of
thine hands: {1:11} They shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all
shall wax old as doth a garment; {1:12} 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. {1:13} But to which of the angels said he at any
times, Sit on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool?
{1:14} Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for
them who shall be heirs of salvation?

   {2:1} Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things
which we have heard, lest at any time we should let [them] slip. {2:2}
For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression
and disobedience received a just recompence of reward; {2:3} How shall
we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began
to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard
[him; ]{2:4} 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?

   {2:5} For unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the world to
come, whereof we speak. {2:6} But one in a certain place testified,
saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man,
that thou visitest him? {2:7} 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: {2:8} 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. {2:9} 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. {2:10} 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. {2:11} 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, {2:12} Saying, I
will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will
I sing praise unto thee. {2:13} And again, I will put my trust in him.
And again, Behold I and the children which God hath given me. {2:14}
Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, 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;
{2:15} And deliver them who through fear of death were all their
lifetime subject to bondage. {2:16} For verily he took not on [him the
nature of] angels; but he took on [him] the seed of Abraham. {2:17}
Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto [his]
brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in
things [pertaining] to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the
people. {2:18} For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he
is able to succour them that are tempted.

   {3:1} Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling,
consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;
{3:2} Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses [was
faithful] in all his house. {3:3} For this [man] was counted worthy of
more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath
more honour than the house. {3:4} For every house is builded by some
[man;] but he that built all things [is] God. {3:5} And Moses verily
[was] faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those
things which were to be spoken after; {3:6} But Christ as a son over
his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and
the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end. {3:7} Wherefore (as the
Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice, {3:8} Harden not
your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the
wilderness: {3:9} When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my
works forty years. {3:10} Wherefore I was grieved with that generation,
and said, They do alway err in [their] heart; and they have not known
my ways. {3:11} So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my
rest.) {3:12} Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil
heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. {3:13} But exhort
one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be
hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. {3:14} For we are made
partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence
stedfast unto the end; {3:15} While it is said, To day if ye will hear
his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation. {3:16} For
some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out
of Egypt by Moses. {3:17} But with whom was he grieved forty years?
[was it] not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the
wilderness? {3:18} And to whom sware he that they should not enter into
his rest, but to them that believed not? {3:19} So we see that they
could not enter in because of unbelief.

   {4:1} Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left [us] of
entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.
{4:2} For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but
the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in
them that heard [it. ]{4:3} 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. {4:4} 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. {4:5}
And in this [place] again, If they shall enter into my rest. {4:6}
Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to
whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief: {4:7}
Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so
long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden
not your hearts. {4:8} For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he
not afterward have spoken of another day. {4:9} There remaineth
therefore a rest to the people of God. {4:10} For he that is entered
into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God [did]
from his. {4:11} Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest
any man fall after the same example of unbelief. {4:12} For the word of
God [is] quick, and powerful, and sharper than 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. {4:13} 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. {4:14} 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. {4:15} 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. {4:16} Let us
therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain
mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

   {5:1} 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: {5:2} 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. {5:3} And by reason hereof he ought, as for the people,
so also for himself, to offer for sins. {5:4} And no man taketh this
honour unto himself, but he that is called of God, as [was] Aaron.
{5:5} So also Christ glorified not himself to be made an high priest;
but he that said unto him, Thou art my Son, to day have I begotten
thee. {5:6} As he saith also in another [place,] Thou [art] a priest
for ever after the order of Melchisedec. {5:7} Who in the days of his
flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong
crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was
heard in that he feared; {5:8} Though he were a Son, yet learned he
obedience by the things which he suffered; {5:9} And being made
perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that
obey him; {5:10} Called of God an high priest after the order of
Melchisedec.

   {5:11} Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered,
seeing ye are dull of hearing. {5:12} For when for the time ye ought to
be teachers, ye have need 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. {5:13} For every one that useth milk [is]
unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. {5:14} 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.

   {6:1} Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ,
let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of
repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, {6:2} Of the
doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of
the dead, and of eternal judgment. {6:3} And this will we do, if God
permit. {6:4} For [it is] impossible for those who were once
enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made
partakers of the Holy Ghost, {6:5} And have tasted the good word of
God, and the powers of the world to come, {6:6} 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. {6:7}
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: {6:8} But that which beareth thorns and briers [is]
rejected, and [is] nigh unto cursing; whose end [is] to be burned.
{6:9} But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things
that accompany salvation, though we thus speak. {6:10} For God [is] not
unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have
shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and
do minister. {6:11} And we desire that every one of you do shew the
same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end: {6:12} That
ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and
patience inherit the promises. {6:13} For when God made promise to
Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself,
{6:14} Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I
will multiply thee. {6:15} And so, after he had patiently endured, he
obtained the promise. {6:16} For men verily swear by the greater: and
an oath for confirmation [is] to them an end of all strife. {6:17}
Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise
the immutability of his counsel, confirmed [it] by an oath: {6:18} That
by two immutable things, in which [it was] impossible for God to lie,
we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay
hold upon the hope set before us: {6:19} Which [hope] we have as an
anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into
that within the veil; {6:20} Whither the forerunner is for us entered,
[even] Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of
Melchisedec.

   {7:1} 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; {7:2} To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first
being by interpretation King of righteousness, and after that also King
of Salem, which is, King of peace; {7:3} Without father, without
mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of
life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually.
{7:4} Now consider how great this man [was,] unto whom even the
patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils. {7:5} And verily they
that are of the sons of Levi, who receive the office of the priesthood,
have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law,
that is, of their brethren, though they come out of the loins of
Abraham: {7:6} But he whose descent is not counted from them received
tithes of Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises. {7:7} And
without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better. {7:8} And
here men that die receive tithes; but there he [receiveth them,] of
whom it is witnessed that he liveth. {7:9} And as I may so say, Levi
also, who receiveth tithes, payed tithes in Abraham. {7:10} For he was
yet in the loins of his father, when Melchisedec met him. {7:11} 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? {7:12} For the priesthood being
changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law. {7:13}
For he of whom these things are spoken pertaineth to another tribe, of
which no man gave attendance at the altar. {7:14} For [it is] evident
that our Lord sprang out of Juda; of which tribe Moses spake nothing
concerning priesthood. {7:15} And it is yet far more evident: for that
after the similitude of Melchisedec there ariseth another priest,
{7:16} Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but
after the power of an endless life. {7:17} For he testifieth, Thou
[art] a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec. {7:18} For
there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the
weakness and unprofitableness thereof. {7:19} For the law made nothing
perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope [did;] by the which we
draw nigh unto God. {7:20} And inasmuch as not without an oath [he was
made priest: ]{7:21} (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:) {7:22} By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better
testament. {7:23} And they truly were many priests, because they were
not suffered to continue by reason of death: {7:24} But this [man,]
because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood. {7:25}
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. {7:26}
For such an high priest became us, [who is] holy, harmless, undefiled,
separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; {7:27} 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. {7:28} 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.

   {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; {8:2} A minister of the sanctuary, and of
the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man. {8:3} For
every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore
[it is] of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer. {8:4}
For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there
are priests that offer gifts according to the law: {8:5} Who serve unto
the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of
God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he,
[that] thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in
the mount. {8:6} But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by
how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was
established upon better promises. {8:7} For if that first [covenant]
had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the
second. {8:8} For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days
come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of
Israel and with the house of Judah: {8:9} 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. {8:10} 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: {8:11} 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. {8:12} For I will be merciful to
their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I
remember no more. {8:13} In that he saith, A new [covenant,] he hath
made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old [is] ready
to vanish away.

   {9:1} Then verily the first [covenant] had also ordinances of divine
service, and a worldly sanctuary. {9:2} For there was a tabernacle
made; the first, wherein [was] the candlestick, and the table, and the
shewbread; which is called the sanctuary. {9:3} And after the second
veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all; {9:4} 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; {9:5} And over it the
cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of which we cannot now
speak particularly. {9:6} Now when these things were thus ordained, the
priests went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the
service [of God. ]{9:7} But into the second [went] the high priest
alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself,
and [for] the errors of the people: {9:8} 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: {9:9} 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; {9:10} [Which stood] only in
meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed
[on them] until the time of reformation. {9:11} But Christ being come
an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect
tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;
{9:12} Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood
he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal
redemption [for us. ]{9:13} For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and
the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the
purifying of the flesh: {9:14} How much more shall the blood of Christ,
who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God,
purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? {9:15}
And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by
means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions [that were]
under the first testament, they which are called might receive the
promise of eternal inheritance. {9:16} For where a testament [is,]
there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. {9:17} For a
testament [is] of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no
strength at all while the testator liveth. {9:18} Whereupon neither the
first [testament] was dedicated without blood. {9:19} 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, {9:20}
Saying, This [is] the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined
unto you. {9:21} Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle,
and all the vessels of the ministry. {9:22} And almost all things are
by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no
remission. {9:23} [It was] therefore necessary that the patterns of
things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly
things themselves with better sacrifices than these. {9:24} For Christ
is not entered into the holy places made with hands, [which are] the
figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the
presence of God for us: {9:25} Nor yet that he should offer himself
often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with
blood of others; {9:26} 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. {9:27} And as it
is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: {9:28}
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.

   {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. {10:2} For then would they not have ceased to be offered?
because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more
conscience of sins. {10:3} But in those [sacrifices there is] a
remembrance again [made] of sins every year. {10:4} For [it is] not
possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
{10:5} Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and
offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: {10:6} In
burnt offerings and [sacrifices] for sin thou hast had no pleasure.
{10:7} Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written
of me,) to do thy will, O God. {10:8} Above when he said, Sacrifice and
offering and burnt offerings and [offering] for sin thou wouldest not,
neither hadst pleasure [therein;] which are offered by the law; {10:9}
Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the
first, that he may establish the second. {10:10} By the which will we
are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once
[for all. ]{10:11} And every priest standeth daily ministering and
offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away
sins: {10:12} But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins
for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; {10:13} From henceforth
expecting till his enemies be made his footstool. {10:14} For by one
offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. {10:15}
[Whereof] the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had
said before, {10:16} This [is] the covenant that I will make with them
after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts,
and in their minds will I write them; {10:17} And their sins and
iniquities will I remember no more. {10:18} Now where remission of
these [is, there is] no more offering for sin.

   {10:19} Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the
holiest by the blood of Jesus, {10:20} By a new and living way, which
he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his
flesh; {10:21} And [having] an high priest over the house of God;
{10:22} Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith,
having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies
washed with pure water. {10:23} Let us hold fast the profession of
[our] faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)
{10:24} And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to
good works: {10:25} 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. {10:26} For if we sin wilfully
after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth
no more sacrifice for sins, {10:27} But a certain fearful looking for
of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
{10:28} He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or
three witnesses: {10:29} 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? {10:30} 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. {10:31} [It is] a fearful thing to fall into the
hands of the living God. {10:32} But call to remembrance the former
days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of
afflictions; {10:33} Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by
reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of
them that were so used. {10:34} For ye had compassion of me in my
bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in
yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.
{10:35} Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great
recompence of reward. {10:36} For ye have need of patience, that, after
ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. {10:37} For
yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not
tarry. {10:38} Now the just shall live by faith: but if [any man] draw
back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. {10:39} But we are not of
them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the
saving of the soul.

   {11:1} Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence
of things not seen. {11:2} For by it the elders obtained a good report.
{11:3} Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the
word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things
which do appear. {11:4} By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent
sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was
righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet
speaketh. {11:5} By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see
death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before
his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God. {11:6} 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. {11:7} 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. {11:8} By faith Abraham, when he
was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an
inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
{11:9} By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as [in] a strange
country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with
him of the same promise: {11:10} For he looked for a city which hath
foundations, whose builder and maker [is] God. {11:11} 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. {11:12} 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. {11:13} 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. {11:14} For they
that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. {11:15}
And truly, if they had been mindful of that [country] from whence they
came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. {11:16} But
now they desire a better [country,] that is, an heavenly: wherefore God
is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a
city. {11:17} By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac:
and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten
[son, ]{11:18} Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be
called: {11:19} Accounting that God [was] able to raise [him] up, even
from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure. {11:20} By
faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come. {11:21}
By faith Jacob, when he was a dying, blessed both the sons of Joseph;
and worshipped, [leaning] upon the top of his staff. {11:22} By faith
Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of the children of
Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones. {11:23} By faith
Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents, because
they saw [he was] a proper child; and they were not afraid of the
king's commandment. {11:24} By faith Moses, when he was come to years,
refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter; {11:25} Choosing
rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the
pleasures of sin for a season; {11:26} Esteeming the reproach of Christ
greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the
recompence of the reward. {11:27} By faith he forsook Egypt, not
fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is
invisible. {11:28} Through faith he kept the passover, and the
sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch
them. {11:29} By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry
[land:] which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned. {11:30} By
faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about
seven days. {11:31} By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them
that believed not, when she had received the spies with peace. {11:32}
And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of
Gedeon, and [of] Barak, and [of] Samson, and [of] Jephthae; [of] David
also, and Samuel, and [of] the prophets: {11:33} Who through faith
subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the
mouths of lions, {11:34} Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the
edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in
fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens. {11:35} Women
received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not
accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:
{11:36} And others had trial of [cruel] mockings and scourgings, yea,
moreover of bonds and imprisonment: {11:37} They were stoned, they were
sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered
about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted,
tormented; {11:38} (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in
deserts, and [in] mountains, and [in] dens and caves of the earth.
{11:39} And these all, having obtained a good report through faith,
received not the promise: {11:40} God having provided some better thing
for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.

   {12:1} Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a
cloud 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, {12:2} 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. {12:3} For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners
against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds. {12:4} Ye
have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. {12:5} And ye
have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto
children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor
faint when thou art rebuked of him: {12:6} For whom the Lord loveth he
chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. {12:7} If ye
endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is
he whom the father chasteneth not? {12:8} But if ye be without
chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not
sons. {12:9} Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which
corrected [us,] and we gave [them] reverence: shall we not much rather
be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live? {12:10} For they
verily for a few days chastened [us] after their own pleasure; but he
for [our] profit, that [we] might be partakers of his holiness. {12:11}
Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous:
nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness
unto them which are exercised thereby. {12:12} Wherefore lift up the
hands which hang down, and the feeble knees; {12:13} And make straight
paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way;
but let it rather be healed. {12:14} Follow peace with all [men,] and
holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: {12:15} Looking
diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of
bitterness springing up trouble [you,] and thereby many be defiled;
{12:16} Lest there [be] any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who
for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. {12:17} For ye know how
that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was
rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it
carefully with tears. {12:18} For ye are not come unto the mount that
might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and
darkness, and tempest, {12:19} 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: {12:20} (For they could not
endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the
mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart: {12:21}
And so terrible was the sight, [that] Moses said, I exceedingly fear
and quake:) {12:22} But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city
of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable
company of angels, {12:23} To the general assembly and church of the
firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all,
and to the spirits of just men made perfect, {12:24} And to Jesus the
mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that
speaketh better things than [that of] Abel. {12:25} 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: {12:26} Whose voice then shook the
earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the
earth only, but also heaven. {12:27} 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.
{12:28} Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us
have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and
godly fear: {12:29} For our God [is] a consuming fire.

   {13:1} Let brotherly love continue. {13:2} Be not forgetful to
entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
{13:3} Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; [and] them
which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body. {13:4}
Marriage [is] honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but
whoremongers and adulterers God will judge. {13:5} [Let your]
conversation [be] without covetousness; [and be] content with such
things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor
forsake thee. {13:6} So that we may boldly say, The Lord [is] my
helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.

   {13:7} Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken
unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of
[their] conversation. {13:8} Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to
day, and for ever. {13:9} Be not carried about with divers and strange
doctrines. For [it is] a good thing that the heart be established with
grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been
occupied therein. {13:10} We have an altar, whereof they have no right
to eat which serve the tabernacle. {13:11} For the bodies of those
beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest
for sin, are burned without the camp. {13:12} Wherefore Jesus also,
that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without
the gate. {13:13} Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp,
bearing his reproach. {13:14} For here have we no continuing city, but
we seek one to come. {13:15} By him therefore let us offer the
sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of [our]
lips giving thanks to his name. {13:16} But to do good and to
communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
{13:17} Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves:
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.

   {13:18} Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all
things willing to live honestly. {13:19} But I beseech [you] the rather
to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner. {13:20} Now the
God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that
great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting
covenant, {13:21} 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. {13:22} And I
beseech you, brethren, suffer the word of exhortation: for I have
written a letter unto you in few words. {13:23} Know ye that [our]
brother Timothy is set at liberty; with whom, if he come shortly, I
will see you.

   {13:24} Salute all them that have the rule over you, and all the
saints. They of Italy salute you.

   {13:25} Grace [be] with you all. Amen.





Hosea

   {1:1} 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. {1:2} 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.
{1:3} So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; which
conceived, and bare him a son. {1:4} And the LORD said unto him, Call
his name Jezreel; for yet a little [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. {1:5} And it shall come to pass at that day,
that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel.

   {1:6} And she conceived again, and bare a daughter. And [God] said
unto him, Call her name Lo-ruhamah: for I will no more have mercy upon
the house of Israel; but I will utterly take them away. {1:7} 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.

   {1:8} Now when she had weaned Lo-ruhamah, she conceived, and bare a
son. {1:9} Then said [God,] Call his name Lo-ammi: for ye [are] not my
people, and I will not be your [God.]

   {1:10} Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand
of 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. {1:11} 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.

   {2:1} Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters,
Ru-hamah. {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; {2:3} 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. {2:4} And I will not have mercy upon
her children; for they [be] the children of whoredoms. {2:5} 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.

   {2:6} Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and
make a wall, that she shall not find her paths. {2:7} And she shall
follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake 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.
{2:8} 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. {2:9}
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. {2:10} And now will I discover her
lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of
mine hand. {2:11} I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast
days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts.
{2:12} And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hath
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. {2:13}
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.

   {2:14} Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the
wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her. {2:15} And I will give her
her vineyards from thence, and the valley of 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. {2:16} And it shall be
at that day, saith the LORD, [that] thou shalt call me Ishi; and shalt
call me no more Baali. {2:17} For I will take away the names of Baalim
out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name.
{2:18} And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts
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. {2:19}
And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto
me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in
mercies. {2:20} I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and
thou shalt know the LORD. {2:21} And it shall come to pass in that day,
I will hear, saith the LORD, I will hear the heavens, and they shall
hear the earth; {2:22} And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine,
and the oil; and they shall hear Jezreel. {2:23} And I will sow her
unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy 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.

   {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. {3:2} So I bought her to me for fifteen [pieces] of silver,
and [for] an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley: {3:3} And I
said unto her, Thou shalt abide for me many days; thou shalt not play
the harlot, and thou shalt not be for [another] man: so [will] I also
[be] for thee. {3:4} 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: {3:5}
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.

   {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. {4:2} By
swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing
adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood. {4:3} Therefore
shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth 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. {4:4} Yet let no
man strive, nor reprove another: for thy people [are] as they that
strive with the priest. {4:5} Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and
the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy
thy mother.

   {4:6} My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou
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. {4:7} As they were increased, so they sinned
against me: [therefore] will I change their glory into shame. {4:8}
They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their
iniquity. {4:9} And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I
will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings. {4:10}
For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit whoredom,
and shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed to the
LORD. {4:11} Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.

   {4:12} 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. {4:13} 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. {4:14} 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.

   {4:15} Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, [yet] let not Judah
offend; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Beth-aven, nor
swear, The LORD liveth. {4:16} For Israel slideth back as a backsliding
heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place. {4:17}
Ephraim [is] joined to idols: let him alone. {4:18} Their drink is
sour: they have committed whoredom continually: her rulers [with] shame
do love, Give ye. {4:19} The wind hath bound her up in her wings, and
they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.

   {5:1} Hear ye this, O priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and
give ye 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. {5:2} And
the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though I [have been] a
rebuker of them all. {5:3} I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from
me: for now, O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, [and] Israel is
defiled. {5:4} They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God:
for the spirit of whoredoms [is] in the midst of them, and they have
not known the LORD. {5:5} 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. {5:6} 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. {5:7} They have dealt treacherously
against the LORD: for they have begotten strange children: now shall a
month devour them with their portions. {5:8} Blow ye the cornet in
Gibeah, [and] the trumpet in Ramah: cry aloud [at] Beth-aven, after
thee, O Benjamin. {5:9} Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke:
among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely
be. {5:10} The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound:
[therefore] I will pour out my wrath upon them like water. {5:11}
Ephraim [is] oppressed [and] broken in judgment, because he willingly
walked after the commandment. {5:12} Therefore [will] I [be] unto
Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness. {5:13} When
Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah [saw] his wound, then went Ephraim
to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb: yet could he not heal you, nor
cure you of your wound. {5:14} 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.]

   {5:15} 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.

   {6:1} Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and
he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. {6:2} After
two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and
we shall live in his sight. {6:3} Then shall we know, [if] we follow on
to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he
shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter [and] former rain unto
the earth.

   {6:4} 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. {6:5} 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. {6:6} For I desired mercy, and not
sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. {6:7}
But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt
treacherously against me. {6:8} Gilead [is] a city of them that work
iniquity, [and is] polluted with blood. {6:9} And as troops of robbers
wait for a man, [so] the company of priests murder in the way by
consent: for they commit lewdness. {6:10} I have seen an horrible thing
in the house of Israel: there [is] the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is
defiled. {6:11} Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I
returned the captivity of my people.

   {7:1} When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim
was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit
falsehood; and the thief cometh in, [and] the troop of robbers spoileth
without. {7:2} And they consider not in their hearts [that] I remember
all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they
are before my face. {7:3} They make the king glad with their
wickedness, and the princes with their lies. {7:4} They [are] all
adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, [who] ceaseth from raising
after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened. {7:5} In the day
of our king the princes have made [him] sick with bottles of wine; he
stretched out his hand with scorners. {7:6} For they have made ready
their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth
all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire. {7:7} 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. {7:8}
Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not
turned. {7:9} Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth [it]
not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.
{7:10} 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.

   {7:11} Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to
Egypt, they go to Assyria. {7:12} 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. {7:13} Woe unto
them! for they have fled from me: destruction unto them! because they
have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they
have spoken lies against me. {7:14} And they have not cried unto me
with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble
themselves for corn and wine, [and] they rebel against me. {7:15}
Though I have bound [and] strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine
mischief against me. {7:16} They return, [but] not to the most High:
they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword
for the rage of their tongue: this [shall be] their derision in the
land of Egypt.

   {8:1} [Set] the trumpet to thy mouth. [He shall come] as an eagle
against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my
covenant, and trespassed against my law. {8:2} Israel shall cry unto
me, My God, we know thee. {8:3} Israel hath cast off [the thing that
is] good: the enemy shall pursue him. {8:4} 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.

   {8:5} Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast [thee] off; mine anger is
kindled against them: how long [will it be] ere they attain to
innocency? {8:6} For from Israel [was] it also: the workman made it;
therefore it [is] not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in
pieces. {8:7} For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the
whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it
yield, the strangers shall swallow it up. {8:8} Israel is swallowed up:
now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein [is] no
pleasure. {8:9} For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by
himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers. {8:10} Yea, though they have hired
among the nations, now will I gather them, and they shall sorrow a
little for the burden of the king of princes. {8:11} Because Ephraim
hath made many altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin. {8:12} I
have written to him the great things of my law, [but] they were counted
as a strange thing. {8:13} They sacrifice flesh [for] the sacrifices of
mine offerings, and [eat it;] but the LORD accepteth them not; now will
he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to
Egypt. {8:14} 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.

   {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. {9:2} The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and
the new wine shall fail in her. {9:3} They shall not dwell in the
LORD'S land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat
unclean [things] in Assyria. {9:4} They shall not offer wine
[offerings] to the LORD, neither shall they 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. {9:5} What will ye do in the solemn
day, and in the day of the feast of the LORD? {9:6} 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. {9:7} 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. {9:8} 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. {9:9}
They have deeply corrupted [themselves,] as in the days of Gibeah:
[therefore] he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.
{9:10} 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
Baal-peor, and separated themselves unto [that] shame; and [their]
abominations were according as they loved. {9:11} [As for] Ephraim,
their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the
womb, and from the conception. {9:12} Though they bring up their
children, yet will I bereave them, [that there shall] not [be] a man
[left:] yea, woe also to them when I depart from them! {9:13} Ephraim,
as I saw Tyrus, [is] planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall
bring forth his children to the murderer. {9:14} Give them, O LORD:
what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
{9:15} All their wickedness [is] in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for
the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I
will love them no more: all their princes [are] revolters. {9:16}
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. {9:17} My God will cast them away, because they
did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.

   {10:1} Israel [is] an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto
himself: according to the multitude of his fruit he hath increased the
altars; according to the goodness of his land they have made goodly
images. {10:2} Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty:
he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images. {10:3}
For now they shall say, We have no king, because we feared not the
LORD; what then should a king do to us? {10:4} They have spoken words,
swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth up as
hemlock in the furrows of the field. {10:5} The inhabitants of Samaria
shall fear because of the calves of Beth-aven: 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. {10:6} 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. {10:7}
[As for] Samaria, her king is cut off as the foam upon the water.
{10:8} The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be
destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and
they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on
us. {10:9} O Israel, thou hast sinned from the days of Gibeah: there
they stood: the battle in Gibeah against the children of iniquity did
not overtake them. {10:10} [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. {10:11} 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. {10:12} 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. {10:13} 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. {10:14} Therefore
shall a tumult arise among thy people, and all thy fortresses shall be
spoiled, as Shalman spoiled Beth- arbel in the day of battle: the
mother was dashed in pieces upon [her] children. {10:15} So shall
Bethel do unto you because of your great wickedness: in a morning shall
the king of Israel utterly be cut off.

   {11:1} When Israel [was] a child, then I loved him, and called my
son out of Egypt. {11:2} [As] they called them, so they went from them:
they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.
{11:3} I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but they
knew not that I healed them. {11:4} I drew them with cords of a man,
with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on
their jaws, and I laid meat unto them.

   {11:5} He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian
shall be his king, because they refused to return. {11:6} And the sword
shall abide on his cities, and shall consume his branches, and devour
[them,] because of their own counsels. {11:7} And my people are bent to
backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at
all would exalt [him. ]{11:8} 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. {11:9} 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. {11:10} They shall walk after the LORD: he
shall roar like a lion: when he shall roar, then the children shall
tremble from the west. {11:11} 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. {11:12} 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.

   {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. {12:2} The LORD hath
also a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his
ways; according to his doings will he recompense him. {12:3} He took
his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had power
with God: {12:4} Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he
wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him [in] Bethel, and
there he spake with us; {12:5} Even the LORD God of hosts; the LORD
[is] his memorial. {12:6} Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy
and judgment, and wait on thy God continually.

   {12:7} [He is] a merchant, the balances of deceit [are] in his hand:
he loveth to oppress. {12:8} 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. {12:9} And I [that am] the LORD thy God
from the land of Egypt will yet make thee to dwell in tabernacles, as
in the days of the solemn feast. {12:10} I have also spoken by the
prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the
ministry of the prophets. {12:11} [Is there] iniquity [in] Gilead?
surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their
altars [are] as heaps in the furrows of the fields. {12:12} And Jacob
fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a
wife he kept [sheep. ]{12:13} And by a prophet the LORD brought Israel
out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved. {12:14} Ephraim
provoked [him] to anger most bitterly: therefore shall he leave his
blood upon him, and his reproach shall his Lord return unto him.

   {13:1} When Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted himself in Israel;
but when he offended in Baal, he died. {13:2} And now they sin more and
more, and have made them molten 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. {13:3} 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. {13:4}
Yet I [am] the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know
no god but me: for [there is] no saviour beside me.

   {13:5} I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great
drought. {13:6} According to their pasture, so were they filled; they
were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore have they forgotten
me. {13:7} Therefore I will be unto them as a lion: as a leopard by the
way will I observe [them: ]{13:8} I will meet them as a bear [that is]
bereaved [of her whelps,] and will rend the caul of their heart, and
there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them.
{13:9} O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me [is] thine
help. {13:10} 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? {13:11} I gave thee a king in mine anger, and took
[him] away in my wrath. {13:12} The iniquity of Ephraim [is] bound up;
his sin [is] hid. {13:13} The sorrows of a travailing woman shall come
upon him: he [is] an unwise son; for he should not stay long in [the
place of] the breaking forth of children. {13:14} I will ransom them
from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I
will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance
shall be hid from mine eyes.

   {13:15} 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. {13:16} 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.

   {14:1} O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen
by thine iniquity. {14:2} 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. {14:3} 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.

   {14:4} I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for
mine anger is turned away from him. {14:5} I will be as the dew unto
Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.
{14:6} His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive
tree, and his smell as Lebanon. {14:7} They that dwell under his shadow
shall return; they shall revive [as] the corn, and grow as the vine:
the scent thereof [shall be] as the wine of Lebanon. {14:8} 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. {14:9} 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.





The Book of the Prophet Isaiah

   {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. {1:2} Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth:
for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and
they have rebelled against me. {1:3} The ox knoweth his owner, and the
ass his master's crib: [but] Israel doth not know, my people doth not
consider. {1:4} Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed
of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the
LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are
gone away backward.

   {1:5} Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and
more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. {1:6} 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. {1:7} Your
country [is] desolate, your cities [are] burned with fire: your land,
strangers devour it in your presence, and [it is] desolate, as
overthrown by strangers. {1:8} And the daughter of Zion is left as a
cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a
besieged city. {1:9} Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very
small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, [and] we should have been
like unto Gomorrah.

   {1:10} Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto
the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah. {1:11} 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. {1:12} When
ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to
tread my courts? {1:13} Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an
abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of
assemblies, I cannot away with; [it is] iniquity, even the solemn
meeting. {1:14} Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul
hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear [them. ]{1:15}
And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you:
yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of
blood.

   {1:16} Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings
from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; {1:17} Learn to do well; seek
judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the
widow. {1:18} Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD:
though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though
they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. {1:19} If ye be
willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: {1:20} But if
ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth
of the LORD hath spoken [it.]

   {1:21} How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of
judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers. {1:22} Thy
silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water: {1:23} Thy princes
[are] rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts,
and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither
doth the cause of the widow come unto them. {1:24} Therefore saith the
Lord, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me
of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies:

   {1:25} And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy
dross, and take away all thy tin: {1:26} And I will restore thy judges
as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward
thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.
{1:27} Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with
righteousness.

   {1:28} And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners
[shall be] together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed.
{1:29} For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and
ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen. {1:30} For
ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no
water. {1:31} And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a
spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench [them.]

   {2:1} The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and
Jerusalem. {2:2} 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. {2:3} 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. {2:4} 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. {2:5} O house of Jacob,
come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.

   {2:6} 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. {2:7} 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: {2:8} Their land
also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that
which their own fingers have made: {2:9} And the mean man boweth down,
and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not.

   {2:10} Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of
the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty. {2:11} The lofty looks of
man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down,
and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day. {2:12} 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:
{2:13} And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, [that are] high and lifted
up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan, {2:14} And upon all the high
mountains, and upon all the hills [that are] lifted up, {2:15} And upon
every high tower, and upon every fenced wall, {2:16} And upon all the
ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures. {2:17} 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. {2:18}
And the idols he shall utterly abolish. {2:19} 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. {2:20} 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; {2:21} 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. {2:22} Cease ye from man, whose breath [is] in his
nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?

   {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, {3:2} The mighty man, and the man
of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient,
{3:3} The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor,
and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator. {3:4} And I will
give children [to be] their princes, and babes shall rule over them.
{3:5} 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. {3:6} 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: {3:7} In that day shall he swear, saying, I will
not be an healer; for in my house [is] neither bread nor clothing: make
me not a ruler of the people. {3:8} For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah
is fallen: because their tongue and their doings [are] against the
LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory.

   {3:9} 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. {3:10} Say ye to the
righteous, that [it shall be] well [with him:] for they shall eat the
fruit of their doings. {3:11} Woe unto the wicked! [it shall be] ill
[with him:] for the reward of his hands shall be given him.

   {3:12} [As for] my people, children [are] their oppressors, and
women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause [thee] to
err, and destroy the way of thy paths. {3:13} The LORD standeth up to
plead, and standeth to judge the people. {3:14} 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. {3:15} What mean ye [that] ye beat my people to pieces, and
grind the faces of the poor? saith the LORD GOD of hosts.

   {3:16} Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are
haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking
and mincing [as] they go, and making a tinkling with their feet: {3:17}
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.
{3:18} 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, {3:19} The chains, and the bracelets, and
the mufflers, {3:20} The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and
the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings, {3:21} The rings, and
nose jewels, {3:22} The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles,
and the wimples, and the crisping pins, {3:23} The glasses, and the
fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails. {3:24} 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.
{3:25} Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.
{3:26} And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she [being] desolate
shall sit upon the ground.

   {4:1} 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. {4:2} 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. {4:3} And it shall come to pass, [that he that is] left in
Zion, and [he that] remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy,
[even] every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem: {4:4}
When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters 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. {4:5}
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.
{4:6} And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from
the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and
from rain.

   {5:1} Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved
touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very
fruitful hill: {5:2} And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones
thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in
the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that
it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes. {5:3}
And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray
you, betwixt me and my vineyard. {5:4} What could have been done more
to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked
that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes? {5:5}
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: {5:6} 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. {5:7} 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.

   {5:8} 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! {5:9} In mine ears [said] the LORD of hosts, Of a
truth many houses shall be desolate, [even] great and fair, without
inhabitant. {5:10} Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and
the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.

   {5:11} Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, [that] they
may follow strong drink; that continue until night, [till] wine inflame
them! {5:12} 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.

   {5:13} Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because [they
have] no knowledge: and their honourable men [are] famished, and their
multitude dried up with thirst. {5:14} Therefore hell hath enlarged
herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and
their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend
into it. {5:15} And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty
man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:
{5:16} But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that
is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness. {5:17} Then shall the
lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones
shall strangers eat. {5:18} Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords
of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope: {5:19} That say, Let
him make speed, [and] hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the
counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know
[it!]

   {5:20} 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! {5:21} Woe unto [them that are] wise in their own
eyes, and prudent in their own sight! {5:22} Woe unto [them that are]
mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:
{5:23} Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the
righteousness of the righteous from him! {5:24} Therefore as the fire
devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, [so] their
root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust:
because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised
the word of the Holy One of Israel. {5:25} Therefore is the anger of
the LORD kindled against his people, 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.

   {5:26} 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: {5:27} 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: {5:28} Whose
arrows [are] sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses' hoofs shall
be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind: {5:29} 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. ]{5:30} 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.

   {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.
{6:2} 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. {6:3} And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy,
holy, [is] the LORD of hosts: the whole earth [is] full of his glory.
{6:4} And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried,
and the house was filled with smoke.

   {6:5} Then said I, Woe [is] me! for I am undone; because I [am] a
man of 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. {6:6} 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: {6:7} 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. {6:8} 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.

   {6:9} And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but
understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not. {6:10} Make the
heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, 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. {6:11} 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, {6:12} And the LORD have removed men far away, and [there be]
a great forsaking in the midst of the land.

   {6:13} But yet in it [shall be] a tenth, and [it] shall return, and
shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in
them, when they cast [their leaves: so] the holy seed [shall be] the
substance thereof.

   {7:1} 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. {7:2} 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. {7:3} Then said the LORD unto Isaiah, Go forth
now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shear-jashub thy son, at the end of the
conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field; {7:4}
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. {7:5}
Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have taken evil
counsel against thee, saying, {7:6} Let us go up against Judah, and vex
it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and set a king in the
midst of it, [even] the son of Tabeal: {7:7} Thus saith the Lord GOD,
It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass. {7:8} 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. {7:9} And the head of Ephraim [is] Samaria, and the head of
Samaria [is] Remaliah's son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall
not be established.

   {7:10} Moreover the LORD spake again unto Ahaz, saying, {7:11} Ask
thee a sign of the LORD thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the
height above. {7:12} But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I
tempt the LORD. {7:13} And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; [Is
it] a small thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also?
{7:14} Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a
virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name
Immanuel. {7:15} Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to
refuse the evil, and choose the good. {7:16} For before the child shall
know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou
abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings.

   {7:17} 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. {7:18} 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. {7:19} 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. {7:20} 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. {7:21} And it shall come to pass in
that day, [that] a man shall nourish a young cow, and two sheep; {7:22}
And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk [that] they shall
give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that
is left in the land. {7:23} And it shall come to pass in that day,
[that] every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a
thousand silverlings, it shall [even] be for briers and thorns. {7:24}
With arrows and with bows shall [men] come thither; because all the
land shall become briers and thorns. {7:25} And [on] all hills that
shall be digged with the mattock, there shall 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.

   {8:1} Moreover the LORD said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and
write in it with a man's pen concerning Maher-shalal-hash-baz. {8:2}
And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and
Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah. {8:3} And I went unto the prophetess;
and she conceived, and bare a son. Then said the LORD to me, Call his
name Maher-shalal-hash-baz. {8:4} For before the child shall have
knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of Damascus and
the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria.

   {8:5} The LORD spake also unto me again, saying, {8:6} Forasmuch as
this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice
in Rezin and Remaliah's son; {8:7} Now therefore, behold, the Lord
bringeth up upon them the 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: {8:8} 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.

   {8:9} 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. {8:10} Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought;
speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God [is] with us.

   {8:11} For the LORD spake thus to me with a strong hand, and
instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying,
{8:12} Say ye not, A confederacy, to all [them to] whom this people
shall say, A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid.
{8:13} Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and [let] him [be] your
fear, and [let] him [be] your dread. {8:14} And he shall be for a
sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to
both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants
of Jerusalem. {8:15} And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and
be broken, and be snared, and be taken. {8:16} Bind up the testimony,
seal the law among my disciples. {8:17} And I will wait upon the LORD,
that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
{8:18} Behold, I and the children whom the LORD hath given me [are] for
signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth
in mount Zion.

   {8:19} 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? {8:20} To
the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word,
[it is] because [there is] no light in them. {8:21} And they shall pass
through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that
when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their
king and their God, and look upward. {8:22} And they shall look unto
the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and
[they shall be] driven to darkness.

   {9:1} Nevertheless the dimness [shall] not [be] such as [was] in her
vexation, 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.
{9:2} 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. {9:3} 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. {9:4} For thou hast broken
the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his
oppressor, as in the day of Midian. {9:5} For every battle of the
warrior [is] with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but
[this] shall be with burning [and] fuel of fire. {9:6} 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. {9:7} 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.

   {9:8} The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon
Israel. {9:9} And all the people shall know, [even] Ephraim and the
inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of heart,
{9:10} The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones:
the sycomores are cut down, but we will change [them into] cedars.
{9:11} Therefore the LORD shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against
him, and join his enemies together; {9:12} The Syrians before, and the
Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For
all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand [is] stretched out
still.

   {9:13} For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them,
neither do they seek the LORD of hosts. {9:14} Therefore the LORD will
cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day. {9:15}
The ancient and honourable, he [is] the head; and the prophet that
teacheth lies, he [is] the tail. {9:16} For the leaders of this people
cause [them] to err; and [they that are] led of them [are] destroyed.
{9:17} Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, 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.

   {9:18} 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. {9:19} 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. {9:20} 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: {9:21} 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.

   {10:1} Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write
grievousness [which] they have prescribed; {10:2} 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! {10:3} 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? {10:4} 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.

   {10:5} O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their
hand is mine indignation. {10:6} 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. {10:7} Howbeit he meaneth not so,
neither doth his heart think so; but [it is] in his heart to destroy
and cut off nations not a few. {10:8} For he saith, [Are] not my
princes altogether kings? {10:9} [Is] not Calno as Carchemish? [is] not
Hamath as Arpad? [is] not Samaria as Damascus? {10:10} As my hand hath
found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them
of Jerusalem and of Samaria; {10:11} Shall I not, as I have done unto
Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols? {10:12}
Wherefore it shall come to pass, [that] when the Lord hath performed
his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the
fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his
high looks. {10:13} For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have
done [it,] and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the
bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put
down the inhabitants like a valiant [man: ]{10:14} And my hand hath
found as a nest the riches of the people: and 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. {10:15} 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. {10:16} 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. {10:17} 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;
{10:18} And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful
field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standardbearer
fainteth. {10:19} And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few,
that a child may write them.

   {10:20} And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the remnant of
Israel, 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. {10:21} The remnant shall return, [even]
the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God. {10:22} For though thy
people Israel be as the sand of the sea, [yet] a remnant of them shall
return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness.
{10:23} For the Lord GOD of hosts shall make a consumption, even
determined, in the midst of all the land.

   {10:24} Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, O my people that
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. {10:25} For yet a very little while, and the indignation
shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction. {10:26} And the LORD
of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him according 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. {10:27} 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. {10:28} He is come to Aiath, he is
passed to Migron; at Michmash he hath laid up his carriages: {10:29}
They are gone over the passage: they have taken up their lodging at
Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is fled. {10:30} Lift up thy
voice, O daughter of Gallim: cause it to be heard unto Laish, O poor
Anathoth. {10:31} Madmenah is removed; the inhabitants of Gebim gather
themselves to flee. {10:32} As yet shall he remain at Nob that day: he
shall shake his hand [against] the mount of the daughter of Zion, the
hill of Jerusalem. {10:33} Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, shall
lop the bough with terror: and the high ones of stature [shall be] hewn
down, and the haughty shall be humbled. {10:34} And he shall cut down
the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a
mighty one.

   {11:1} And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse,
and a Branch shall grow out of his roots: {11:2} And the spirit of the
LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the
spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of
the LORD; {11:3} And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear
of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes,
neither reprove after the hearing of his ears: {11:4} 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. {11:5}
And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness
the girdle of his reins. {11:6} The wolf also shall dwell with the
lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the
young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead
them. {11:7} And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones
shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
{11:8} And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the
weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den. {11:9} They
shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall
be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.

   {11:10} 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. {11:11} 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. {11:12}
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. {11:13} 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. {11:14} 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. {11:15} 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. {11:16} 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.

   {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. {12:2} Behold, God [is] my salvation; I will trust, and
not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH [is] my strength and [my] song; he
also is become my salvation. {12:3} Therefore with joy shall ye draw
water out of the wells of salvation. {12:4} 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. {12:5} Sing unto the
LORD; for he hath done excellent things: this [is] known in all the
earth. {12:6} Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great
[is] the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.

   {13:1} The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.
{13:2} 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.
{13:3} I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my
mighty ones for mine anger, [even] them that rejoice in my highness.
{13:4} The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great
people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered
together: the LORD of hosts mustereth the host of the battle. {13:5}
They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, [even] the LORD,
and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.

   {13:6} Howl ye; for the day of the LORD [is] at hand; it shall come
as a destruction from the Almighty. {13:7} Therefore shall all hands be
faint, and every man's heart shall melt: {13:8} And they shall be
afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in
pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another;
their faces [shall be as] flames. {13:9} Behold, the day of the LORD
cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land
desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it. {13:10}
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. {13:11} 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. {13:12} I will make a man more precious than fine
gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir. {13:13} Therefore I
will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in
the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.
{13:14} 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. {13:15} Every one that is found shall be thrust
through; and every one that is joined [unto them] shall fall by the
sword. {13:16} Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before
their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.
{13:17} Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not
regard silver; and [as for] gold, they shall not delight in it. {13:18}
[Their] bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall
have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare
children.

   {13:19} And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the
Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and
Gomorrah. {13:20} It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be
dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch
tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. {13:21}
But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall
be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs
shall dance there. {13:22} 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.

   {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. {14:2}
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. {14:3} 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,

   {14:4} That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of
Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city
ceased! {14:5} The LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked, [and] the
sceptre of the rulers. {14:6} He who smote the people in wrath with a
continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted,
[and] none hindereth. {14:7} The whole earth is at rest, [and] is
quiet: they break forth into singing. {14:8} 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. {14:9} 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. {14:10} All they shall
speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou
become like unto us? {14:11} Thy pomp is brought down to the grave,
[and] the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the
worms cover thee. {14:12} How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,
son of the morning! [how] art thou cut down to the ground, which didst
weaken the nations! {14:13} 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: {14:14} I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be
like the most High. {14:15} Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to
the sides of the pit. {14:16} 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; {14:17} [That] made the
world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; [that] opened
not the house of his prisoners? {14:18} All the kings of the nations,
[even] all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house. {14:19}
But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, [and 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.
{14:20} 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. {14:21} 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. {14:22} 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. {14:23} 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.

   {14:24} The LORD of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have
thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, [so] shall
it stand: {14:25} That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon
my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off
them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders. {14:26} This [is]
the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this [is] the
hand that is stretched out upon all the nations. {14:27} For the LORD
of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul [it?] and his hand [is]
stretched out, and who shall turn it back? {14:28} In the year that
king Ahaz died was this burden.

   {14:29} 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.
{14:30} 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. {14:31} 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. {14:32} 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.

   {15:1} The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid
waste, [and] brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is
laid waste, [and] brought to silence; {15:2} 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. {15:3} 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. {15:4} 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. {15:5} My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives [shall flee]
unto Zoar, an heifer of three years old: for by the mounting up of
Luhith with weeping shall they go it up; for in the way of Horonaim
they shall raise up a cry of destruction. {15:6} For the waters of
Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass
faileth, there is no green thing. {15:7} Therefore the abundance they
have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away to
the brook of the willows. {15:8} For the cry is gone round about the
borders of Moab; the howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling
thereof unto Beer-elim. {15:9} For the waters of Dimon shall be full of
blood: for I will bring more upon Dimon, lions upon him that escapeth
of Moab, and upon the remnant of the land.

   {16:1} Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the
wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion. {16:2} For it shall
be, [that,] as a wandering bird cast out of the nest, so the daughters
of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon. {16:3} Take counsel, execute
judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday;
hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth. {16:4} 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. {16:5} And in mercy shall
the throne be established: and he shall sit upon it in truth in the
tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking judgment, and hasting
righteousness.

   {16:6} We have heard of the pride of Moab; [he is] very proud:
[even] of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: [but] his lies
[shall] not [be] so. {16:7} Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab, every
one shall howl: for the foundations of Kir-hareseth shall ye mourn;
surely [they are] stricken. {16:8} For the fields of Heshbon languish,
[and] the vine of Sibmah: 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.

   {16:9} 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.
{16:10} And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field;
and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall there be
shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in [their] presses; I
have made [their vintage] shouting to cease. {16:11} Wherefore my
bowels shall sound like an harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for
Kir-haresh.

   {16:12} And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab is
weary on the high place, that he shall come to his sanctuary to pray;
but he shall not prevail. {16:13} This [is] the word that the LORD hath
spoken concerning Moab since that time. {16:14} But now the LORD hath
spoken, saying, Within three years, as 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.

   {17:1} The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from
[being] a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap. {17:2} The cities of
Aroer [are] forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down,
and none shall make [them] afraid. {17:3} The fortress also shall cease
from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria:
they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the LORD of
hosts. {17:4} 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. {17:5} 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.

   {17:6} 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. {17:7} At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and
his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel. {17:8} And he
shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall
respect [that] which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the
images.

   {17:9} 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. {17:10} 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: {17:11} 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.

   {17:12} 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! {17:13} 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. {17:14} 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.

   {18:1} Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which [is] beyond the
rivers of Ethiopia: {18:2} 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! {18:3} All ye inhabitants of the world,
and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the
mountains; and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye. {18:4} For so the
LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my
dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, [and] like a cloud of dew
in the heat of harvest. {18:5} 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 pruninghooks, and take away [and] cut down the
branches. {18:6} 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.

   {18:7} 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.

   {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.
{19:2} 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. {19:3} 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.
{19:4} 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. {19:5} And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river
shall be wasted and dried up. {19:6} And they shall turn the rivers far
away; [and] the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the
reeds and flags shall wither. {19:7} 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. ]{19:8} 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. {19:9} Moreover
they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall be
confounded. {19:10} And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof,
all that make sluices [and] ponds for fish.

   {19:11} Surely the princes of Zoan [are] fools, the counsel of the
wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh,
I [am] the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings? {19:12} Where
[are] they? where [are] thy wise [men?] and let them tell thee now, and
let them know what the LORD of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt. {19:13}
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. {19:14} 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. {19:15} Neither shall there
be [any] work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may
do. {19:16} In that day shall Egypt be like unto women: and it shall be
afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD of
hosts, which he shaketh over it. {19:17} And the land of Judah shall be
a terror unto Egypt, every one that maketh mention thereof shall be
afraid in himself, because of the counsel of the LORD of hosts, which
he hath determined against it.

   {19:18} In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the
language of Canaan, and swear to the LORD of hosts; one shall be
called, The city of destruction. {19:19} In that day shall there be an
altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at
the border thereof to the LORD. {19:20} And it shall be for a sign and
for a witness unto the LORD of 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. {19:21} 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. ]{19:22} 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.

   {19:23} 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. {19:24} In
that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, [even]
a blessing in the midst of the land: {19:25} Whom the LORD of hosts
shall bless, saying, Blessed [be] Egypt my people, and Assyria the work
of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.

   {20:1} In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod, (when Sargon the
king of Assyria sent him,) and fought against Ashdod, and took it;
{20:2} 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. {20:3}
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; {20:4} 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.
{20:5} And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their
expectation, and of Egypt their glory. {20:6} And the inhabitant of
this isle shall say in that day, Behold, such [is] our expectation,
whither we flee for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria: and
how shall we escape?

   {21:1} The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the
south pass through; [so] it cometh from the desert, from a terrible
land. {21:2} A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous
dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam:
besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease. {21:3}
Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold 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. ]{21:4} My heart
panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he
turned into fear unto me. {21:5} Prepare the table, watch in the
watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, [and] anoint the shield.
{21:6} For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him
declare what he seeth. {21:7} And he saw a chariot [with] a couple of
horsemen, a chariot of asses, [and] a chariot of camels; and he
hearkened diligently with much heed: {21:8} And he cried, A lion: My
lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and I am
set in my ward whole nights: {21:9} And, behold, here cometh a chariot
of men, [with] a couple of 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. {21:10} 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.

   {21:11} The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman,
what of the night? Watchman, what of the night? {21:12} The watchman
said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will enquire,
enquire ye: return, come.

   {21:13} The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye
lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim. {21:14} The inhabitants of
the land of Tema brought water to him that was thirsty, they prevented
with their bread him that fled. {21:15} For they fled from the swords,
from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness
of war. {21:16} For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Within a year,
according to the years of an hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall
fail: {21:17} 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.]

   {22:1} The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now,
that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops? {22:2} Thou that art
full of stirs, a tumultuous city, a joyous city: thy slain [men are]
not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle. {22:3} 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. {22:4} Therefore
said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort
me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people. {22:5} For
[it is] a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity by
the Lord GOD of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls,
and of crying to the mountains. {22:6} And Elam bare the quiver with
chariots of men [and] horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield. {22:7}
And it shall come to pass, [that] thy choicest valleys shall be full of
chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate.

   {22:8} And he discovered the covering of Judah, and thou didst look
in that day to the armour of the house of the forest. {22:9} Ye have
seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and ye
gathered together the waters of the lower pool. {22:10} And ye have
numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses have ye broken down to
fortify the wall. {22:11} Ye made also a ditch between the two walls
for the water of the old pool: but ye have not looked unto the maker
thereof, neither had respect unto him that fashioned it long ago.
{22:12} And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and
to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth: {22:13}
And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating
flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall
die. {22:14} 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.

   {22:15} Thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, Go, get thee unto this
treasurer, [even] unto Shebna, which [is] over the house, [and say,
]{22:16} 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? {22:17} Behold, the LORD will carry thee away with a mighty
captivity, and will surely cover thee. {22:18} He will surely violently
turn and toss thee [like] a ball into a large country: there shalt thou
die, and there the chariots of thy glory [shall be] the shame of thy
lord's house. {22:19} And I will drive thee from thy station, and from
thy state shall he pull thee down.

   {22:20} And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my
servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah: {22:21} And I will clothe him with
thy robe, and strengthen him with thy 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. {22:22} 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. {22:23} And I will
fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious
throne to his father's house. {22:24} And they shall hang upon him all
the glory of his father's house, the offspring and the issue, all
vessels of small quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to all the
vessels of flagons. {22:25} In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall
the nail that is 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.]

   {23:1} The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is
laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of
Chittim it is revealed to them. {23:2} Be still, ye inhabitants of the
isle; thou whom the merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have
replenished. {23:3} And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest
of the river, [is] her revenue; and she is a mart of nations. {23:4} Be
thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea hath spoken, [even] the strength of
the sea, saying, I travail not, nor bring forth children, neither do I
nourish up young men, [nor] bring up virgins. {23:5} As at the report
concerning Egypt, [so] shall they be sorely pained at the report of
Tyre. {23:6} Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the
isle. {23:7} [Is] this your joyous [city,] whose antiquity [is] of
ancient days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn. {23:8}
Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning [city,] whose
merchants [are] princes, whose traffickers [are] the honourable of the
earth? {23:9} The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of
all glory, [and] to bring into contempt all the honourable of the
earth. {23:10} Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of
Tarshish: [there is] no more strength. {23:11} He stretched out his
hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the LORD hath given a
commandment against the merchant [city,] to destroy the strong holds
thereof. {23:12} And he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou
oppressed virgin, daughter of Zidon: arise, pass over to Chittim; there
also shalt thou have no rest. {23:13} Behold the land of the Chaldeans;
this people was not, [til] the 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. {23:14} Howl, ye ships of
Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste. {23:15} 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. {23:16} Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that
hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou
mayest be remembered.

   {23:17} 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. {23:18} 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.

   {24:1} Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste,
and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants
thereof. {24:2} And it shall be, as with the people, so with the
priest; as with the 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. {24:3} The land shall be utterly emptied, and
utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken this word. {24:4} The earth
mourneth [and] fadeth away, the world languisheth [and] fadeth away,
the haughty people of the earth do languish. {24:5} The earth also is
defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed
the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.
{24:6} 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. {24:7} The new wine mourneth, the vine
languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh. {24:8} The mirth of tabrets
ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp
ceaseth. {24:9} They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink
shall be bitter to them that drink it. {24:10} The city of confusion is
broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in. {24:11}
[There is] a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the
mirth of the land is gone. {24:12} In the city is left desolation, and
the gate is smitten with destruction.

   {24:13} When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the
people, [there shall be] as the shaking of an olive tree, [and] as the
gleaning grapes when the vintage is done. {24:14} They shall lift up
their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the LORD, they shall
cry aloud from the sea. {24:15} Wherefore glorify ye the LORD in the
fires, [even] the name of the LORD God of Israel in the isles of the
sea.

   {24:16} From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs,
[even] glory to the righteous. But I said, My leanness, my leanness,
woe unto me! the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the
treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously. {24:17} Fear, and
the pit, and the snare, [are] upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
{24:18} 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. {24:19} The
earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth
is moved exceedingly. {24:20} The earth shall reel to and fro like a
drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression
thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
{24:21} And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the LORD shall
punish the host of the high ones [that are] on high, and the kings of
the earth upon the earth. {24:22} 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. {24:23} 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.

   {25:1} 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. {25:2} For thou hast made of a city an
heap; [of] a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city;
it shall never be built. {25:3} Therefore shall the strong people
glorify thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee. {25:4}
For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy 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. {25:5}
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.

   {25:6} 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. {25:7} 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. {25:8} 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.]

   {25:9} 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. {25:10}
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.
{25:11} 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. {25:12} And
the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he bring down, lay
low, [and] bring to the ground, [even] to the dust.

   {26:1} 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. {26:2} Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which
keepeth the truth may enter in. {26:3} Thou wilt keep [him] in perfect
peace, [whose] mind [is] stayed [on thee:] because he trusteth in thee.
{26:4} Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH [is]
everlasting strength:

   {26:5} For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty city,
he layeth it low; he layeth it low, [even] to the ground; he bringeth
it [even] to the dust. {26:6} The foot shall tread it down, [even] the
feet of the poor, [and] the steps of the needy. {26:7} The way of the
just [is] uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the
just. {26:8} Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited
for thee; the desire of [our] soul [is] to thy name, and to the
remembrance of thee. {26:9} 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. {26:10} 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. {26:11}
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.

   {26:12} LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast
wrought all our works in us. {26:13} O LORD our God, [other] lords
besides thee have had dominion over us: [but] by thee only will we make
mention of thy name. {26:14} [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. {26:15} 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. {26:16} LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out
a prayer [when] thy chastening [was] upon them. {26:17} Like as a woman
with child, [that] draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain,
[and] crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O LORD.
{26:18} 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. {26:19} 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.

   {26:20} 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. {26:21} 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.

   {27:1} In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword
shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that
crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that [is] in the sea.
{27:2} In that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine. {27:3} I
the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest [any] hurt it,
I will keep it night and day. {27:4} Fury [is] not in me: who would set
the briers [and] thorns against me in battle? I would go through them,
I would burn them together. {27:5} Or let him take hold of my strength,
[that] he may make peace with me; [and] he shall make peace with me.
{27:6} He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel
shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.

   {27:7} Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? [or]
is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him?
{27:8} In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he
stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind. {27:9} By this
therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is 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. {27:10} 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. {27:11} When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be
broken off: the women come, [and] set them on fire: for it [is] a
people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have
mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.

   {27:12} And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the LORD shall
beat 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. {27:13} 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.

   {28:1} Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose
glorious beauty is a fading flower, which [are] on the head of the fat
valleys of them that are overcome with wine! {28:2} Behold, the Lord
hath a mighty and strong one, [which] as a tempest of hail [and] a
destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast
down to the earth with the hand. {28:3} The crown of pride, the
drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet: {28:4} 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.

   {28:5} In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory,
and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people, {28:6} And
for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for
strength to them that turn the battle to the gate.

   {28:7} But they also have erred through wine, and through strong
drink 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.
{28:8} For all tables are full of vomit [and] filthiness, [so that
there is] no place [clean.]

   {28:9} 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. {28:10} For precept [must be] upon precept, precept
upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, [and]
there a little: {28:11} For with stammering lips and another tongue
will he speak to this people. {28:12} 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. {28:13} 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.

   {28:14} Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that
rule this people which [is] in Jerusalem. {28:15} Because ye have said,
We have made a covenant with death, 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:

   {28:16} Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for
a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner [stone,] a sure
foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste. {28:17} Judgment
also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the
hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow
the hiding place.

   {28:18} 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. {28:19} 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. {28:20} 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. ]{28:21} 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. {28:22} 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.

   {28:23} Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.
{28:24} Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break
the clods of his ground? {28:25} When he hath made plain the face
thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin,
and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and rie in
their place? {28:26} For his God doth instruct him to discretion, [and]
doth teach him. {28:27} For the fitches are not threshed with a
threshing instrument, 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. {28:28} 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. {28:29} This also cometh forth from the LORD of
hosts, [which] is wonderful in counsel, [and] excellent in working.

   {29:1} Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city [where] David dwelt! add ye
year to year; let them kill sacrifices. {29:2} Yet I will distress
Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me
as Ariel. {29:3} And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay
siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee.
{29:4} 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. {29:5} 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. {29:6} 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.

   {29:7} 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. {29:8} It shall
even be as when an hungry [man] dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but
he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth,
and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, [he is] faint,
and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations
be, that fight against mount Zion. {29:9} Stay yourselves, and wonder;
cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger,
but not with strong drink. {29:10} 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. {29:11} 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: {29:12} And the book is
delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee:
and he saith, I am not learned.

   {29:13} Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near
[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: {29:14} 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. {29:15} 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?
{29:16} 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? {29:17} [Is] it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon
shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be
esteemed as a forest?

   {29:18} And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book,
and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of
darkness. {29:19} The meek also shall increase [their] joy in the LORD,
and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel. {29:20}
For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed,
and all that watch for iniquity are cut off: {29:21} 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. {29:22} 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. {29:23} 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. {29:24} They also that
erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured
shall learn doctrine.

   {30:1} 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: {30:2} That walk to go down into
Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the
strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt! {30:3}
Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in
the shadow of Egypt [your] confusion. {30:4} For his princes were at
Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes. {30:5} They were all ashamed
of a people [that] could not profit them, nor be an help nor profit,
but a shame, and also a reproach. {30:6} The burden of the beasts of
the south: into the land of trouble and 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.
]{30:7} For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose:
therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength [is] to sit
still.

   {30:8} Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a
book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever: {30:9}
That this [is] a rebellious people, lying children, children [that]
will not hear the law of the LORD: {30:10} Which say to the seers, See
not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto
us smooth things, prophesy deceits: {30:11} Get you out of the way,
turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from
before us. {30:12} Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because
ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and
stay thereon: {30:13} Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a
breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking
cometh suddenly at an instant. {30:14} And he shall break it as the
breaking of the potters' vessel that is 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.
{30:15} For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In
returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence
shall be your strength: and ye would not. {30:16} But ye said, No; for
we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee: and, We will ride
upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift. {30:17}
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.

   {30:18} 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. {30:19} 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. {30:20}
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: {30:21} 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.
{30:22} 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. {30:23} 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. {30:24} 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. {30:25} 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. {30:26} 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.

   {30:27} 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: {30:28} 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. {30:29} 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. {30:30} 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. {30:31} For through the voice of the LORD shall the
Assyrian be beaten down, [which] smote with a rod. {30:32} And [in]
every place where the grounded staff shall pass, which the LORD shall
lay upon him, [it] shall be with tabrets and harps: and in battles of
shaking will he fight with it. {30:33} 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.

   {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! {31:2} 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. {31:3} 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. {31:4} For thus hath the LORD
spoken unto me, Like as the lion and the young lion roaring on his
prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him, [he]
will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of
them: so shall the LORD of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion, and
for the hill thereof. {31:5} As birds flying, so will the LORD of hosts
defend Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver [it; and] passing over
he will preserve [it.]

   {31:6} Turn ye unto [him from] whom the children of Israel have
deeply revolted. {31:7} 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.

   {31:8} 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. {31:9} 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.

   {32:1} Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes
shall rule in judgment. {32:2} 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. {32:3} And
the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that
hear shall hearken. {32:4} The heart also of the rash shall understand
knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak
plainly. {32:5} The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor
the churl said [to be] bountiful. {32:6} For the vile person will speak
villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and
to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry,
and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail. {32:7} The
instruments also of the churl [are] evil: he deviseth wicked devices to
destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.
{32:8} But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things
shall he stand.

   {32:9} Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye
careless daughters; give ear unto my speech. {32:10} Many days and
years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for the vintage shall
fail, the gathering shall not come. {32:11} Tremble, ye women that are
at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make you bare,
and gird [sackcloth] upon [your] loins. {32:12} They shall lament for
the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine. {32:13} Upon
the land of my people shall come up thorns [and] briers; yea, upon all
the houses of joy [in] the joyous city: {32:14} Because the palaces
shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts
and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture
of flocks; {32:15} 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. {32:16} Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and
righteousness remain in the fruitful field. {32:17} And the work of
righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness
and assurance for ever. {32:18} And my people shall dwell in a
peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting
places; {32:19} When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the
city shall be low in a low place. {32:20} Blessed [are] ye that sow
beside all waters, that send forth [thither] the feet of the ox and the
ass.

   {33:1} 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. {33:2} 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. {33:3} At the noise of the tumult the people fled; at the
lifting up of thyself the nations were scattered. {33:4} And your spoil
shall be gathered [like] the gathering of the caterpiller: as the
running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon them. {33:5} The LORD
is exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he hath filled Zion with judgment
and righteousness. {33:6} And wisdom and knowledge shall be the
stability of thy times, [and] strength of salvation: the fear of the
LORD [is] his treasure. {33:7} Behold, their valiant ones shall cry
without: the ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly. {33:8} The
highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the
covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man. {33:9} The
earth mourneth [and] languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed [and] hewn down:
Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off [their
fruits. ]{33:10} Now will I rise, saith the LORD; now will I be
exalted; now will I lift up myself. {33:11} Ye shall conceive chaff, ye
shall bring forth stubble: your breath, [as] fire, shall devour you.
{33:12} And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: [as] thorns
cut up shall they be burned in the fire.

   {33:13} Hear, ye [that are] far off, what I have done; and, ye [that
are] near, acknowledge my might. {33:14} 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? {33:15} 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; {33:16} 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. {33:17} Thine eyes
shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is
very far off. {33:18} Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where [is] the
scribe? where [is] the receiver? where [is] he that counted the towers?
{33:19} Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech
than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, [that thou canst] not
understand. {33:20} Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine
eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle [that] shall
not be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed,
neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken. {33:21} But there the
glorious LORD [will be] unto us a place of broad rivers [and] streams;
wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass
thereby. {33:22} For the LORD [is] our judge, the LORD [is] our
lawgiver, the LORD [is] our king; he will save us. {33:23} Thy
tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast, they
could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil divided;
the lame take the prey. {33:24} And the inhabitant shall not say, I am
sick: the people that dwell therein [shall be] forgiven [their]
iniquity.

   {34:1} 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. {34:2} 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. {34:3} 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.
{34:4} 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. {34:5} For my sword shall be bathed in heaven:
behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my
curse, to judgment. {34:6} The sword of the LORD is filled with blood,
it is made fat with 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. {34:7} 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. {34:8} For [it is] the day of the LORD'S vengeance, [and] the
year of recompences for the controversy of Zion. {34:9} And the streams
thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into
brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch. {34:10} 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. {34:11} 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. {34:12} They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom,
but none [shall be] there, and all her princes shall be nothing.
{34:13} And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles
in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons,
[and] a court for owls. {34:14} The wild beasts of the desert shall
also meet with the wild 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. {34:15} 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.

   {34:16} 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. {34:17} 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.

   {35:1} The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them;
and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. {35:2} It shall
blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of
Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon,
they shall see the glory of the LORD, [and] the excellency of our God.

   {35:3} Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.
{35:4} Say to them [that are] of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not:
behold, your God will come [with] vengeance, [even] God [with] a
recompence; he will come and save you. {35:5} Then the eyes of the
blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.
{35:6} Then shall the lame [man] leap as an hart, and the tongue of the
dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in
the desert. {35:7} And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the
thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each
lay, [shall be] grass with reeds and rushes. {35:8} And an highway
shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called 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. ]{35:9} 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: ]{35:10} 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.

   {36:1} Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah,
[that] Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the defenced
cities of Judah, and took them. {36:2} And the king of Assyria sent
Rabshakeh from Lachish to 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. {36:3} 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.

   {36:4} 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? {36:5} 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? {36:6} 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. {36:7} 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? {36:8} 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. {36:9} 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? {36:10} 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.

   {36:11} 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.

   {36:12} 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? {36:13} 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. {36:14} Thus saith the king, Let not
Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you. {36:15}
Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The LORD will
surely deliver us: this city shall not be delivered into the hand of
the king of Assyria. {36:16} 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; {36:17}
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. {36:18} [Beware] lest
Hezekiah persuade you, saying, The LORD will deliver us. Hath any of
the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king
of Assyria? {36:19} Where [are] the gods of Hamath and Arphad? where
[are] the gods of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my
hand? {36:20} 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? {36:21} But they held their peace, and
answered him not a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer
him not.

   {36:22} Then came Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, that [was] over 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.

   {37:1} 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. {37:2} 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. {37:3} 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. {37:4} 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. {37:5} So the servants of
king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.

   {37:6} 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. {37:7} 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.

   {37:8} So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring
against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.
{37:9} 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, {37:10} 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. {37:11} Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have
done to all lands by destroying them utterly; and shalt thou be
delivered? {37:12} Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my
fathers have destroyed, [as] Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the
children of Eden which [were] in Telassar? {37:13} Where [is] the king
of Hamath, and the king of Arphad, and the king of the city of
Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?

   {37:14} And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the
messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up unto the house of the
LORD, and spread it before the LORD. {37:15} And Hezekiah prayed unto
the LORD, saying, {37:16} O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, that dwellest
[between] the cherubims, thou [art] the God, [even] thou alone, of all
the kingdoms of the earth: thou hast made heaven and earth. {37:17}
Incline thine ear, O LORD, and hear; open thine eyes, O LORD, and see:
and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent to reproach the
living God. {37:18} Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid
waste all the nations, and their countries, {37:19} And have cast their
gods into the fire: for they [were] no gods, but the work of men's
hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them. {37:20} 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.

   {37:21} 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: {37:22} 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. {37:23} 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. {37:24}
By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said, By the
multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains,
to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof,
[and] the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the height of
his border, [and] the forest of his Carmel. {37:25} I have digged, and
drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the
rivers of the besieged places. {37:26} Hast thou not heard long ago,
[how] I have done it; [and] of ancient 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. {37:27} 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. {37:28} But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in,
and thy rage against me. {37:29} Because thy rage against me, and thy
tumult, is come up into 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. {37:30} 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. {37:31} And the
remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root
downward, and bear fruit upward: {37:32} For out of Jerusalem shall go
forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of
the LORD of hosts shall do this. {37:33} 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. {37:34} By the way that he came, by the same shall he
return, and shall not come into this city, saith the LORD. {37:35} For
I will defend this city to save it for mine own sake, and for my
servant David's sake. {37:36} Then the angel of the LORD went forth,
and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five
thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they [were]
all dead corpses.

   {37:37} So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and
returned, and dwelt at Nineveh. {37:38} And it came to pass, as he was
worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and
Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword; and they escaped into the
land of Armenia: and Esar-haddon his son reigned in his stead.

   {38:1} 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.
{38:2} Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto
the LORD, {38:3} 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.

   {38:4} Then came the word of the LORD to Isaiah, saying, {38:5} 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. {38:6} And I will deliver thee and this city
out of the hand of the king of Assyria: and I will defend this city.
{38:7} And this [shall be] a sign unto thee from the LORD, that the
LORD will do this thing that he hath spoken; {38:8} Behold, I will
bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun
dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by
which degrees it was gone down.

   {38:9} The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick,
and was recovered of his sickness: {38:10} I said in the cutting off of
my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the
residue of my years. {38:11} I said, I shall not see the LORD, [even]
the LORD, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with
the inhabitants of the world. {38:12} 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. {38:13} 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. {38:14} Like a crane [or] a swallow, so did I
chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail [with looking] upward: O
LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me. {38:15} What shall I say? he
hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done [it:] I shall go softly
all my years in the bitterness of my soul. {38:16} O Lord, by these
[things men] live, and in all these [things is] the life of my spirit:
so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live. {38:17} Behold, for peace
I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul [delivered it]
from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy
back. {38:18} For the grave cannot praise thee, death can [not]
celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy
truth. {38:19} The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I [do]
this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.
{38:20} The LORD [was ready] to save me: therefore we will sing my
songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house
of the LORD. {38:21} For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs,
and lay [it] for a plaister upon the boil, and he shall recover.
{38:22} Hezekiah also had said, What [is] the sign that I shall go up
to the house of the LORD?

   {39:1} At that time Merodach-baladan, the son of Baladan, king of
Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah: for he had heard that
he had been sick, and was recovered. {39:2} 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.

   {39:3} 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. {39:4} 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. {39:5} Then
said Isaiah to Hezekiah, Hear the word of the LORD of hosts: {39:6}
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. {39:7} 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. {39:8} 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.

   {40:1} Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. {40:2}
Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare
is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received
of the LORD'S hand double for all her sins.

   {40:3} The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye
the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
{40:4} 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: {40:5} 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. ]{40:6} 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: {40:7} The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because
the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people [is] grass.
{40:8} The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God
shall stand for ever.

   {40:9} O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high
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! {40:10} 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. {40:11} 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.

   {40:12} 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? {40:13} Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or [being]
his counsellor hath taught him? {40:14} With whom took he counsel, and
[who] instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and
taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding?
{40:15} 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. {40:16} And Lebanon [is] not sufficient
to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.
{40:17} All nations before him [are] as nothing; and they are counted
to him less than nothing, and vanity.

   {40:18} To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye
compare unto him? {40:19} The workman melteth a graven image, and the
goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.
{40:20} He that [is] so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth
a tree [that] will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to
prepare a graven image, [that] shall not be moved. {40:21} 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? {40:22} [It
is] he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants
thereof [are] as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a
curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: {40:23} That
bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as
vanity. {40:24} 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. {40:25} To whom then will ye liken me, or
shall I be equal? saith the Holy One. {40:26} 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. {40:27}
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?

   {40:28} 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. {40:29} He giveth power to the faint; and to [them that
have] no might he increaseth strength. {40:30} Even the youths shall
faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: {40:31} But
they that wait upon the LORD shall renew [their] strength; they shall
mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; [and]
they shall walk, and not faint.

   {41:1} 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. {41:2} 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. {41:3} He pursued them, [and]
passed safely; [even] by the way [that] he had not gone with his feet.
{41:4} Who hath wrought and done [it,] calling the generations from the
beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I [am] he. {41:5}
The isles saw [it,] and feared; the ends of the earth were afraid, drew
near, and came. {41:6} They helped every one his neighbour; and [every
one] said to his brother, Be of good courage. {41:7} So the carpenter
encouraged the goldsmith, [and] he that 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. {41:8} But thou,
Israel, [art] my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham
my friend. {41:9} [Thou] whom I have taken from the ends of the earth,
and called thee from the chief men thereof, and said unto thee, Thou
[art] my servant; I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away.

   {41:10} 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. {41:11}
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. {41:12} 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. {41:13} For I the LORD thy God
will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee.
{41:14} Fear not, thou worm Jacob, [and] ye men of Israel; I will help
thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. {41:15}
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. {41:16} 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.
{41:17} [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. {41:18} 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. {41:19}
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: {41:20} 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. {41:21}
Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your strong [reasons,]
saith the King of Jacob. {41:22} 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. {41:23} 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. {41:24}
Behold, ye [are] of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination
[is he that] chooseth you. {41:25} I have raised up [one] from the
north, and he shall come: from the 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. {41:26} Who hath declared from the beginning,
that we may know? and beforetime, that we may say, [He is] righteous?
yea, [there is] none that sheweth, yea, [there is] none that declareth,
yea, [there is] none that heareth your words. {41:27} The first [shall
say] to Zion, Behold, behold them: and I will give to Jerusalem one
that bringeth good tidings. {41:28} For I beheld, and [there was] no
man; even among them, and [there was] no counsellor, that, when I asked
of them, could answer a word. {41:29} Behold, they [are] all vanity;
their works [are] nothing: their molten images [are] wind and confusion.

   {42:1} Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, [in whom] my
soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth
judgment to the Gentiles. {42:2} He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor
cause his voice to be heard in the street. {42:3} A bruised reed shall
he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring
forth judgment unto truth. {42:4} He shall not fail nor be discouraged,
till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for
his law.

   {42:5} 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: {42:6} 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; {42:7}
To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison,
[and] them that sit in darkness out of the prison house. {42:8} I [am]
the LORD: that [is] my name: and my glory will I not give to another,
neither my praise to graven images. {42:9} Behold, the former things
are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth
I tell you of them. {42:10} Sing unto the LORD a new song, [and] his
praise from the end of the earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all
that is therein; the isles, and the inhabitants thereof. {42:11} 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. {42:12} Let them
give glory unto the LORD, and declare his praise in the islands.
{42:13} 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. {42:14} 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. {42:15} 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. {42:16} 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.

   {42:17} 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. {42:18} Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.
{42:19} Who [is] blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger [that]
I sent? who [is] blind as [he that is] perfect, and blind as the LORD'S
servant? {42:20} Seeing many things, but thou observest not; opening
the ears, but he heareth not. {42:21} The LORD is well pleased for his
righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make [it] honourable.
{42:22} But this [is] a people robbed and spoiled; [they are] all of
them 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.
{42:23} Who among you will give ear to this? [who] will hearken and
hear for the time to come? {42:24} 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. {42:25} 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.

   {43:1} 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. {43:2} 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. {43:3} 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.
{43:4} 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. {43:5} Fear not: for I [am] with thee: I will bring thy
seed from the east, and gather thee from the west; {43:6} I will say to
the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from
far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth; {43:7} [Even] every
one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I
have formed him; yea, I have made him.

   {43:8} Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf
that have ears. {43:9} 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. {43:10} 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. {43:11} I,
[even] I, [am] the LORD; and beside me [there is] no saviour. {43:12} I
have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when [there was] no
strange [god] among you: therefore ye [are] my witnesses, saith the
LORD, that I [am] God. {43:13} Yea, before the day [was] I [am] he; and
[there is] none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who
shall let it?

   {43:14} 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. {43:15} I [am]
the LORD, your Holy One, the creator of Israel, your King. {43:16} Thus
saith the LORD, which maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty
waters; {43:17} Which bringeth forth the chariot and horse, the army
and the power; they shall lie down together, they shall not rise: they
are extinct, they are quenched as tow.

   {43:18} Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the
things of old. {43:19} 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. {43:20} 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. {43:21} This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew
forth my praise.

   {43:22} But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but thou hast
been weary of me, O Israel. {43:23} Thou hast not brought me the small
cattle of thy burnt offerings; neither hast thou honoured me with thy
sacrifices. I have not caused thee to serve with an offering, nor
wearied thee with incense. {43:24} 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. {43:25} I, [even] I, [am] he that blotteth out thy
transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.
{43:26} Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou,
that thou mayest be justified. {43:27} Thy first father hath sinned,
and thy teachers have transgressed against me. {43:28} Therefore I have
profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have given Jacob to the
curse, and Israel to reproaches.

   {44:1} Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have
chosen: {44:2} 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. {44:3} 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: {44:4} And
they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water
courses. {44:5} 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.
{44:6} 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. {44:7} 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. {44:8} 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.]

   {44:9} 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. {44:10}
Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image [that] is profitable
for nothing? {44:11} Behold, all his fellows shall be ashamed: and the
workmen, they [are] of men: let them all be gathered together, let them
stand up; [yet] they shall fear, [and] they shall be ashamed together.
{44:12} 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. {44:13} 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.
{44:14} 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. ]{44:15} 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. {44:16} He burneth part thereof in the fire; with part thereof
he eateth flesh; he roasteth roast, and is satisfied: yea, he warmeth
[himself,] and saith, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire: {44:17} And
the residue thereof he maketh a god, [even] his graven image: he
falleth down unto it, and worshippeth [it,] and prayeth unto it, and
saith, Deliver me; for thou [art] my god. {44:18} They have not known
nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see;
[and] their hearts, that they cannot understand. {44:19} 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? {44:20} 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?

   {44:21} 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. {44:22} I have blotted out, as a thick
cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me;
for I have redeemed thee. {44:23} 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. {44:24} 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; {44:25} That
frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that
turneth wise [men] backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish;
{44:26} That confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth the
counsel of his messengers; that saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be
inhabited; and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built, and I will
raise up the decayed places thereof: {44:27} That saith to the deep, Be
dry, and I will dry up thy rivers: {44:28} That saith of Cyrus, [He is]
my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure: even saying to
Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and to the temple, Thy foundation shall
be laid.

   {45:1} 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; {45:2} 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: {45:3} 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. {45:4} 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.

   {45:5} I [am] the LORD, and [there is] none else, [there is] no God
beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me: {45:6} That
they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that
[there is] none beside me. I [am] the LORD, and [there is] none else.
{45:7} I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create
evil: I the LORD do all these [things. ]{45:8} Drop down, ye heavens,
from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth
open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring
up together; I the LORD have created it. {45:9} 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? {45:10} Woe unto him that saith
unto [his] father, What begettest thou? or to the woman, What hast thou
brought forth? {45:11} Thus saith the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and
his Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning
the work of my hands command ye me. {45:12} I have made the earth, and
created man upon it: I, [even] my hands, have stretched out the
heavens, and all their host have I commanded. {45:13} 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. {45:14} 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. {45:15} Verily
thou [art] a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the Saviour.
{45:16} They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they
shall go to confusion together [that are] makers of idols. {45:17}
[But] Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation:
ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end. {45:18} For
thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself 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. {45:19} 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.

   {45:20} 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.
{45:21} 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. {45:22}
Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I [am]
God, and [there is] none else. {45:23} I have sworn by myself, the word
is gone out of my mouth [in] righteousness, and shall not return, That
unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear. {45:24} 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. {45:25} In the LORD shall all the seed of Israel be justified,
and shall glory.

   {46:1} 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. ]{46:2} They stoop, they bow down
together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone
into captivity. {46:3} Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the
remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne [by me] from the belly,
which are carried from the womb: {46:4} 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.]

   {46:5} To whom will ye liken me, and make [me] equal, and compare
me, that we may be like? {46:6} They lavish gold out of the bag, and
weigh silver in the balance, [and] hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a
god: they fall down, yea, they worship. {46:7} 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. {46:8} Remember
this, and shew yourselves men: bring it again to mind, O ye
transgressors. {46:9} Remember the former things of old: for I [am]
God, and [there is] none else; [I am] God, and [there is] none like me,
{46:10} Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times
[the things] that are not [yet] done, saying, My counsel shall stand,
and I will do all my pleasure: {46:11} 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.

   {46:12} Hearken unto me, ye stouthearted, that [are] far from
righteousness: {46:13} 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.

   {47:1} Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon,
sit on the ground: [there is] no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans:
for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate. {47:2} Take the
millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg,
uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers. {47:3} Thy nakedness shall be
uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I
will not meet [thee as] a man. {47:4} [As for] our redeemer, the LORD
of hosts [is] his name, the Holy One of Israel. {47:5} Sit thou silent,
and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt
no more be called, The lady of kingdoms.

   {47:6} I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance,
and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the
ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.

   {47:7} 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. {47:8} 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: {47:9} 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.

   {47:10} 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.

   {47:11} 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 if off: and desolation shall come upon thee
suddenly, [which] thou shalt not know. {47:12} 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. {47:13} Thou art wearied in the multitude of
thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly
prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from [these things] that shall
come upon thee. {47:14} Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire
shall burn them; they 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. {47:15} 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.

   {48:1} 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. {48:2} For they call themselves of
the holy city, and stay themselves upon the God of Israel; The LORD of
hosts [is] his name. {48:3} I have declared the former things from the
beginning; and they went forth out of my mouth, and I shewed them; I
did [them] suddenly, and they came to pass. {48:4} Because I knew that
thou [art] obstinate, and thy neck [is] an iron sinew, and thy brow
brass; {48:5} I have even from the beginning declared [it] to thee;
before it came 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. {48:6} 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. {48:7} 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. {48:8} 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.

   {48:9} For my name's sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise
will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off. {48:10} Behold, I
have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the
furnace of affliction. {48:11} For mine own sake, [even] for mine own
sake, will I do [it:] for how should [my name] be polluted? and I will
not give my glory unto another.

   {48:12} Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I [am] he; I
[am] the first, I also [am] the last. {48:13} Mine hand also hath laid
the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spanned the
heavens: [when] I call unto them, they stand up together. {48:14} 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. {48:15} I, [even] I, have
spoken; yea, I have called him: I have brought him, and he shall make
his way prosperous.

   {48:16} Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in
secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there [am] I: and
now the Lord GOD, and his Spirit, hath sent me. {48:17} 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. {48:18} 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: {48:19} 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.

   {48:20} 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. {48:21}
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. {48:22} [There is] no peace, saith the LORD,
unto the wicked.

   {49:1} 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. {49:2} 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; {49:3} And said unto me,
Thou [art] my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified. {49:4}
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.

   {49:5} 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. {49:6} And he said, It is a light thing that thou
shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore
the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the
Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.
{49:7} Thus saith the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, [and] his Holy One,
to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a
servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall
worship, because of the LORD that is faithful, [and] the Holy One of
Israel, and he shall choose thee. {49:8} Thus saith the LORD, In an
acceptable time have I heard thee, 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; {49:9} 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. {49:10} 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. {49:11} And I will make all my mountains a
way, and my highways shall be exalted. {49:12} Behold, these shall come
from far: and, lo, these from the north and from the west; and these
from the land of Sinim.

   {49:13} 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. {49:14} But Zion said, The LORD
hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me. {49:15} 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.
{49:16} Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of [my] hands; thy
walls [are] continually before me. {49:17} Thy children shall make
haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of
thee.

   {49:18} Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these gather
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. ]{49:19} 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. {49:20} 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. {49:21} Then
shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I
have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and
fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these,
where [had] they [been? ]{49:22} Thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I
will lift up mine hand to the 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. {49:23} 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.

   {49:24} Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful
captive delivered? {49:25} 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. {49:26} 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.

   {50:1} Thus saith the LORD, Where [is] the bill of your mother's
divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors [is it] to
whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold
yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away. {50:2}
Wherefore, when I came, [was there] no man? when I called, [was there]
none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or
have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I
make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because [there is]
no water, and dieth for thirst. {50:3} I clothe the heavens with
blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering. {50:4} The Lord GOD
hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to
speak a word in season to [him that is] weary: he wakeneth morning by
morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.

   {50:5} The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious,
neither turned away back. {50:6} I gave my back to the smiters, and my
cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame
and spitting.

   {50:7} 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. {50:8} [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. {50:9} 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.

   {50:10} 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. {50:11}
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.

   {51:1} Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that
seek the LORD: look unto the rock [whence] ye are hewn, and to the hole
of the pit [whence] ye are digged. {51:2} Look unto Abraham your
father, and unto Sarah [that] bare you: for I called him alone, and
blessed him, and increased him. {51:3} For the LORD shall comfort Zion:
he will comfort all her waste 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.

   {51:4} 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. {51:5} 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. {51:6} 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.

   {51:7} Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in
whose heart [is] my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye
afraid of their revilings. {51:8} For the moth shall eat them up like a
garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness
shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.

   {51:9} 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? {51:10} [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? {51:11}
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.
{51:12} 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; {51:13} 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? {51:14} The captive exile hasteneth that he may
be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread
should fail. {51:15} But I [am] the LORD thy God, that divided the sea,
whose waves roared: The LORD of hosts [is] his name. {51:16} And I have
put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee 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.

   {51:17} 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. {51:18} [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. {51:19} 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? {51:20} 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.

   {51:21} Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but
not with wine: {51:22} 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: {51:23} 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.

   {52:1} Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy
beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there
shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean. {52:2}
Shake thyself from the dust; arise, [and] sit down, O Jerusalem: loose
thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion. {52:3}
For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye
shall be redeemed without money. {52:4} For thus saith the Lord GOD, My
people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the
Assyrian oppressed them without cause. {52:5} 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. {52:6} Therefore my people shall
know my name: therefore [they shall know] in that day that I [am] he
that doth speak: behold, [it is] I.

   {52:7} How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that
bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good
tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy
God reigneth! {52:8} 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.

   {52:9} Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of
Jerusalem: for the LORD hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed
Jerusalem. {52:10} 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.

   {52:11} 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. {52:12} 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.

   {52:13} Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted
and extolled, and be very high. {52:14} As many were astonied at thee;
his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the
sons of men: {52:15} 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.

   {53:1} Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the
LORD revealed? {53:2} 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. {53:3} 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.

   {53:4} Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet
we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. {53:5} But
he [was] wounded for our transgressions, [he was] bruised for our
iniquities: the chastisement of our peace [was] upon him; and with his
stripes we are healed. {53:6} 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. {53:7} He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet
he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and
as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
{53:8} He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall
declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the
living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken. {53:9} 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.

   {53:10} 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. {53:11} 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. {53:12}
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.

   {54:1} 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. {54:2} Enlarge the place of thy tent, and
let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not,
lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes; {54:3} For thou shalt
break forth on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall
inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.
{54:4} 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. {54:5} 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. {54:6} 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. {54:7} For a small moment
have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee. {54:8}
In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with
everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy
Redeemer. {54:9} 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.
{54:10} 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.

   {54:11} O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, [and] not comforted,
behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colors, and lay thy foundations
with sapphires. {54:12} And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy
gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones. {54:13}
And all thy children [shall be] taught of the LORD; and great [shall
be] the peace of thy children. {54:14} In righteousness shalt thou be
established: thou shalt be far from oppression; for thou shalt not
fear: and from terror; for it shall not come near thee. {54:15} Behold,
they shall surely gather together, [but] not by me: whosoever shall
gather together against thee shall fall for thy sake. {54:16} 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.

   {54:17} 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.

   {55:1} 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. {55:2} 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. {55:3} 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. {55:4}
Behold, I have given him [for] a witness to the people, a leader and
commander to the people. {55:5} Behold, thou shalt call a nation [that]
thou knowest not, 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.

   {55:6} Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him
while he is near: {55:7} 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.

   {55:8} For my thoughts [are] not your thoughts, neither [are] your
ways my ways, saith the LORD. {55:9} For [as] the heavens are higher
than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts
than your thoughts. {55:10} For as the rain cometh down, and the snow
from heaven, and 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: {55:11} 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. {55:12} 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. {55:13}
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.

   {56:1} Thus saith the LORD, Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my
salvation [is] near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.
{56:2} Blessed [is] the man [that] doeth this, and the son of man
[that] layeth hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it,
and keepeth his hand from doing any evil.

   {56:3} 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. {56:4}
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;
{56:5} 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. {56:6} 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; {56:7}
Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my
house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices [shall be]
accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of
prayer for all people. {56:8} The Lord GOD which gathereth the outcasts
of Israel saith, Yet will I gather [others] to him, beside those that
are gathered unto him.

   {56:9} All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, [yea,] all ye
beasts in the forest. {56:10} His watchmen [are] blind: they are all
ignorant, they [are] all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying
down, loving to slumber. {56:11} Yea, [they are] greedy dogs [which]
can never have enough, and they [are] shepherds [that] cannot
understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain,
from his quarter. {56:12} 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.

   {57:1} The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth [it] to heart: and
merciful men [are] taken away, none considering that the righteous is
taken away from the evil [to come. ]{57:2} He shall enter into peace:
they shall rest in their beds, [each one] walking [in] his uprightness.

   {57:3} But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of
the adulterer and the whore. {57:4} Against whom do ye sport
yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, [and] draw out the
tongue? [are] ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,
{57:5} Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying
the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks? {57:6} Among
the smooth [stones] of the stream [is] thy portion; they, they [are]
thy lot: even to them hast thou poured a drink offering, thou hast
offered a meat offering. Should I receive comfort in these? {57:7} Upon
a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither wentest
thou up to offer sacrifice. {57:8} Behind the doors also and the posts
hast thou set up thy 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. ]{57:9} 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. {57:10} 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.
{57:11} 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? {57:12} I will
declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit
thee.

   {57:13} 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; {57:14} And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare
the way, take up the stumblingblock out of the way of my people.
{57:15} For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity,
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. {57:16} 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.
{57:17} 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. {57:18} I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead
him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners. {57:19} I
create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to [him that is] far off,
and to [him that is] near, saith the LORD; and I will heal him. {57:20}
But the wicked [are] like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose
waters cast up mire and dirt. {57:21} [There is] no peace, saith my
God, to the wicked.

   {58:1} Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and
shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.
{58:2} Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation
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.

   {58:3} Wherefore have we fasted, [say they,] and thou seest not?
[wherefore] have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge?
Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your
labours. {58:4} Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite
with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as [ye do this] day, to
make your voice to be heard on high. {58:5} Is it such a fast that I
have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? [is it] to bow down
his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes [under him?]
wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD? {58:6}
[Is] not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of
wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go
free, and that ye break every yoke? {58:7} [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?

   {58:8} 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. {58:9} 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; {58:10} 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 noonday: {58:11} 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. {58:12} 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.

   {58:13} 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:
{58:14} 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.]

   {59:1} Behold, the LORD'S hand is not shortened, that it cannot
save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: {59:2} But your
iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have
hid [his] face from you, that he will not hear. {59:3} For your hands
are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have
spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness. {59:4} None
calleth for justice, nor [any] pleadeth for truth: they trust in
vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth
iniquity. {59:5} 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. {59:6} 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. {59:7}
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. {59:8} 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.

   {59:9} 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. {59:10} We grope for the wall like the
blind, and we grope as if [we had] no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in
the night; [we are] in desolate places as dead [men. ]{59:11} We roar
all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but
[there is] none; for salvation, [but] it is far off from us. {59:12}
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; {59:13} 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.
{59:14} And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar
off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
{59:15} 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.

   {59:16} 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. {59:17} 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 cloke. {59:18} According to [their] deeds,
accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his
enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence. {59:19} So shall they
fear the name of the LORD from the west, and 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.

   {59:20} And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn
from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD. {59:21} As for me, this
[is] my covenant with them, saith the LORD; My spirit that [is] upon
thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out
of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of
thy seed's seed, saith the LORD, from henceforth and for ever.

   {60:1} Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the
LORD is risen upon thee. {60:2} 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. {60:3} And the Gentiles
shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.
{60:4} Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather
themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come from far,
and thy daughters shall be nursed at [thy] side. {60:5} Then thou shalt
see, and flow together, and thine heart shall fear, and be enlarged;
because the abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee, the
forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee. {60:6} The multitude of
camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of 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. {60:7} 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. {60:8} Who [are] these [that]
fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows? {60:9} 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. {60:10} 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. {60:11}
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. {60:12} For the
nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, [those]
nations shall be utterly wasted. {60:13} The glory of Lebanon shall
come unto thee, the fir tree, the pine tree, and the box together, to
beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will make the place of my
feet glorious. {60:14} 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. {60:15} Whereas
thou hast been forsaken and hated, so that no man went through [thee,]
I will make thee an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations.
{60:16} 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. {60:17} 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. {60:18} 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. {60:19} 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. {60:20} 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. {60:21} 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. {60:22} A little one shall become a thousand, and a small
one a strong nation: I the LORD will hasten it in his time.

   {61:1} 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; {61:2} To proclaim
the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God;
to comfort all that mourn; {61:3} To appoint unto them that mourn in
Zion, to give unto them 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.

   {61:4} 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. {61:5} And strangers shall stand and
feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien [shall be] your plowmen and
your vinedressers. {61:6} But ye shall be named the Priests of the
LORD: [men] shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the
riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves.

   {61:7} 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. {61:8} 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. {61:9} 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. {61:10} I
will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God;
for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered
me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh [himself]
with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth [herself] with her jewels.
{61:11} For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden
causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord GOD
will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the
nations.

   {62:1} 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. {62:2}
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. {62:3} Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of
the LORD, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God. {62:4} Thou shalt
no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed
Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzi-bah, and thy land Beulah: for
the LORD delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married.

   {62:5} 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. {62:6} 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, {62:7} And give him
no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the
earth. {62:8} The LORD hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of
his 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: {62:9} 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.

   {62:10} Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the
people; cast up, cast up the highways; gather out the stones; lift up a
standard for the people. {62:11} 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. {62:12} And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of
the LORD: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken.

   {63:1} Who [is] this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from
Bozrah? this [that is] glorious in his apparel, travelling in the
greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to
save. {63:2} Wherefore [art thou] red in thine apparel, and thy
garments like him that treadeth in the winefat? {63:3} I have trodden
the winepress alone; and of the people [there was] 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. {63:4} For the day of vengeance [is] in mine heart, and the
year of my redeemed is come. {63:5} 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. {63:6}
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.

   {63:7} 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. {63:8} For he said, Surely they
[are] my people, children [that] will not lie: so he was their Saviour.
{63:9} In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his
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.

   {63:10} But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he
was turned to be their enemy, [and] he fought against them. {63:11}
Then he remembered the days of old, Moses, [and] his people, [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? {63:12}
That led [them] by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm,
dividing the water before them, to make himself an everlasting name?
{63:13} That led them through the deep, as an horse in the wilderness,
[that] they should not stumble? {63:14} As a beast goeth down into the
valley, the Spirit of the LORD caused him to rest: so didst thou lead
thy people, to make thyself a glorious name.

   {63:15} 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? {63:16} 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.

   {63:17} 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. {63:18} The people of thy holiness have
possessed [it] but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down
thy sanctuary. {63:19} We are [thine:] thou never barest rule over
them; they were not called by thy name.

   {64:1} Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest
come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence, {64:2}
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! {64:3} When thou didst terrible things
[which] we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down
at thy presence. {64:4} For since the beginning of the world [men] have
not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God,
beside thee, [what] he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.
{64:5} 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. {64:6} 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. {64:7} 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.
{64:8} But now, O LORD, thou [art] our father; we [are] the clay, and
thou our potter; and we all [are] the work of thy hand.

   {64:9} Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for
ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we [are] all thy people. {64:10}
Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a
desolation. {64:11} Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers
praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are
laid waste. {64:12} Wilt thou refrain thyself for these [things,] O
LORD? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?

   {65:1} 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. {65:2} 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; {65:3} A people that provoketh me to
anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth
incense upon altars of brick; {65:4} Which remain among the graves, and
lodge in the monuments, which eat swine's flesh, and broth of
abominable [things is in] their vessels; {65:5} Which say, Stand by
thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. [These] are a
smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day. {65:6} Behold, [it
is] written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense,
even recompense into their bosom, {65:7} Your iniquities, and the
iniquities of your fathers together, saith 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.

   {65:8} 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. {65:9} 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. {65:10} 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.

   {65:11} 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. {65:12} 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.
{65:13} 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: {65:14} Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but
ye shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of
spirit. {65:15} And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my
chosen: for the Lord GOD shall slay thee, and call his servants by
another name: {65:16} 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.

   {65:17} For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the
former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. {65:18} But be ye
glad and rejoice for ever [in that] which I create: for, behold, I
create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy. {65:19} And I will
rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people: and the voice of weeping
shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying. {65:20} 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. {65:21} And they
shall build houses, and inhabit [them;] and they shall plant vineyards,
and eat the fruit of them. {65:22} They shall not build, and another
inhabit; they shall not plant, 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. {65:23} 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. {65:24} And it shall come to pass, that
before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I
will hear. {65:25} The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the
lion shall eat 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.

   {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? {66:2} 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. {66:3} He that killeth an ox
[is as if] he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, [as if] he cut
off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, [as if he offered]
swine's blood; he that burneth incense, [as if] he blessed an idol.
Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in
their abominations. {66:4} I also will choose their delusions, and will
bring their fears upon 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.

   {66:5} 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. {66:6} A voice of noise from the city, a voice from
the temple, a voice of the LORD that rendereth recompence to his
enemies. {66:7} Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her
pain came, she was delivered of a man child. {66:8} Who hath heard such
a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall 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. {66:9} 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. {66:10} 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: {66:11} 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. {66:12} 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.
{66:13} As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and
ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem. {66:14} And when ye see [this,]
your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like an herb:
and the hand of the LORD shall be known toward his servants, and [his]
indignation toward his enemies. {66:15} 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. {66:16} For by fire and
by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the
LORD shall be many. {66:17} They that sanctify themselves, and purify
themselves in the gardens behind one [tree] in the midst, eating
swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed
together, saith the LORD. {66:18} 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. {66:19} 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. {66:20}
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. {66:21} And I will also take of them for
priests [and] for Levites, saith the LORD. {66:22} 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. {66:23} 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. {66:24} 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.





The General Epistle of James

   {1:1} James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the
twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.

   {1:2} My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers
temptations; {1:3} Knowing [this,] that the trying of your faith
worketh patience. {1:4} But let patience have [her] perfect work, that
ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. {1:5} If any of you lack
wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all [men] liberally, and
upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. {1:6} But let him ask in
faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea
driven with the wind and tossed. {1:7} For let not that man think that
he shall receive any thing of the Lord. {1:8} A double minded man [is]
unstable in all his ways. {1:9} Let the brother of low degree rejoice
in that he is exalted: {1:10} But the rich, in that he is made low:
because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away. {1:11} For the
sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it 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. {1:12}
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. {1:13} Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted
of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any
man: {1:14} But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own
lust, and enticed. {1:15} Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth
forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. {1:16}
Do not err, my beloved brethren. {1:17} Every good gift and every
perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights,
with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. {1:18} Of his
own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind
of firstfruits of his creatures.

   {1:19} Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to
hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: {1:20} For the wrath of man worketh
not the righteousness of God. {1:21} Wherefore lay apart all filthiness
and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted
word, which is able to save your souls. {1:22} But be ye doers of the
word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. {1:23} For if
any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man
beholding his natural face in a glass: {1:24} For he beholdeth himself,
and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he
was. {1:25} But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and
continueth [therein,] he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of
the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. {1:26} 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. {1:27} 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.

   {2:1} My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, [the
Lord] of glory, with respect of persons. {2:2} For if there come unto
your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come
in also a poor man in vile raiment; {2:3} 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: {2:4} Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become
judges of evil thoughts? {2:5} 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? {2:6} But ye have
despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the
judgment seats? {2:7} Do not they blaspheme that worthy name by the
which ye are called? {2:8} If ye fulfil the royal law according to the
scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well: {2:9}
But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of
the law as transgressors. {2:10} For whosoever shall keep the whole
law, and yet offend in one [point,] he is guilty of all. {2:11} For he
that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou
commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of
the law. {2:12} So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by
the law of liberty. {2:13} For he shall have judgment without mercy,
that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment. {2:14}
What [doth it] profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and
have not works? can faith save him? {2:15} If a brother or sister be
naked, and destitute of daily food, {2:16} And one of you say unto
them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give
them not those things which are needful to the body; what [doth it]
profit? {2:17} Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being
alone. {2:18} 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. {2:19} Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well:
the devils also believe, and tremble. {2:20} But wilt thou know, O vain
man, that faith without works is dead? {2:21} Was not Abraham our
father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the
altar? {2:22} Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works
was faith made perfect? {2:23} And the scripture was fulfilled which
saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for
righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God. {2:24} Ye see then
how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only. {2:25}
Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had
received the messengers, and had sent [them] out another way? {2:26}
For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is
dead also.

   {3:1} My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall
receive the greater condemnation. {3:2} 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. {3:3} Behold, we put bits in the
horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole
body. {3:4} Behold also the ships, which though [they be] so great, and
[are] driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very
small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth. {3:5} Even so the
tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great
a matter a little fire kindleth! {3:6} And the tongue [is] a fire, a
world of iniquity: so is the tongue 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. {3:7} For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of
serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of
mankind: {3:8} But the tongue can no man tame; [it is] an unruly evil,
full of deadly poison. {3:9} Therewith bless we God, even the Father;
and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.
{3:10} Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My
brethren, these things ought not so to be. {3:11} Doth a fountain send
forth at the same place sweet [water] and bitter? {3:12} Can the fig
tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so [can] no
fountain both yield salt water and fresh. {3:13} Who [is] a wise man
and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good
conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. {3:14} But if ye have
bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not
against the truth. {3:15} This wisdom descendeth not from above, but
[is] earthly, sensual, devilish. {3:16} For where envying and strife
[is,] there [is] confusion and every evil work. {3:17} 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. {3:18} And the fruit of righteousness is sown in
peace of them that make peace.

   {4:1} From whence [come] wars and fightings among you? [come they]
not hence, [even] of your lusts that war in your members? {4:2} Ye
lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye
fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. {4:3} Ye ask, and
receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume [it] upon your
lusts. {4:4} Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the
friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be
a friend of the world is the enemy of God. {4:5} Do ye think that the
scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to
envy? {4:6} But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth
the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. {4:7} Submit yourselves
therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. {4:8}
Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse [your] hands,
[ye] sinners; and purify [your] hearts, [ye] double minded. {4:9} Be
afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to
mourning, and [your] joy to heaviness. {4:10} Humble yourselves in the
sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up. {4:11} 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.
{4:12} There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who
art thou that judgest another?

   {4:13} 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:
{4:14} 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. {4:15} For that ye [ought] to say, If the Lord
will, we shall live, and do this, or that. {4:16} But now ye rejoice in
your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil. {4:17} Therefore to him
that knoweth to do good, and doeth [it] not, to him it is sin.

   {5:1} Go to now, [ye] rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that
shall come upon [you. ]{5:2} Your riches are corrupted, and your
garments are motheaten. {5:3} 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.
{5:4} 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. {5:5} Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton;
ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter. {5:6} Ye have
condemned [and] killed the just; [and] he doth not resist you.

   {5:7} 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.
{5:8} Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the
Lord draweth nigh. {5:9} Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest
ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door. {5:10}
Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the
Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience. {5:11}
Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience
of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very
pitiful, and of tender mercy. {5:12} 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. {5:13} Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is
any merry? let him sing psalms. {5:14} 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: {5:15} 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. {5:16} Confess
[your] faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be
healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
{5:17} Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he
prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth
by the space of three years and six months. {5:18} And he prayed again,
and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit. {5:19}
Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him;
{5:20} 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.





The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah

   {1:1} The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that
[were] in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin: {1:2} To whom the word of
the LORD came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, in
the thirteenth year of his reign. {1:3} It came also in the days of
Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of 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. {1:4} Then the word of
the LORD came unto me, saying, {1:5} 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. {1:6} Then said
I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I [am] a child.

   {1:7} 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. {1:8} Be not afraid of their faces: for I [am] with
thee to deliver thee, saith the LORD. {1:9} Then the LORD put forth his
hand, and touched my mouth. And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have
put my words in thy mouth. {1:10} 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.

   {1:11} 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. {1:12} Then
said the LORD unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will hasten my word
to perform it. {1:13} And the word of the LORD came unto me the second
time, saying, What seest thou? And I said, I see a seething pot; and
the face thereof [is] toward the north. {1:14} Then the LORD said unto
me, Out of the north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants
of the land. {1:15} For, lo, I will call all the families of the
kingdoms of the north, 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. {1:16} 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.

   {1:17} 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. {1:18} 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. {1:19}
And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against
thee; for I [am] with thee, saith the LORD, to deliver thee.

   {2:1} Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, {2:2} Go and
cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; I remember
thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou
wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land [that was] not sown.
{2:3} Israel [was] holiness unto the LORD, [and] the firstfruits of his
increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them,
saith the LORD. {2:4} Hear ye the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob,
and all the families of the house of Israel:

   {2:5} Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in
me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and
are become vain? {2:6} 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? {2:7} 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. {2:8} 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.

   {2:9} Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the LORD, and with
your children's children will I plead. {2:10} For pass over the isles
of Chittim, and see; and send unto Kedar, and consider diligently, and
see if there be such a thing. {2:11} Hath a nation changed [their]
gods, which [are] yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory
for [that which] doth not profit. {2:12} Be astonished, O ye heavens,
at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD.
{2:13} For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me
the fountain of living waters, [and] hewed them out cisterns, broken
cisterns, that can hold no water.

   {2:14} [Is] Israel a servant? [is] he a homeborn [slave?] why is he
spoiled? {2:15} The young lions roared upon him, [and] yelled, and they
made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant. {2:16}
Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown of thy
head. {2:17} Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou
hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way? {2:18} And
now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of
Sihor? or what hast thou to do in the way of Assyria, to drink the
waters of the river? {2:19} Thine own wickedness shall correct thee,
and thy backslidings 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.

   {2:20} 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.
{2:21} 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? {2:22} For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much
sope, [yet] thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.
{2:23} 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; {2:24} 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. {2:25} 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.
{2:26} 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, {2:27} 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. {2:28} 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. {2:29} Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have
transgressed against me, saith the LORD. {2:30} In vain have I smitten
your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath
devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

   {2:31} O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a
wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We
are lords; we will come no more unto thee? {2:32} Can a maid forget her
ornaments, [or] a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me
days without number. {2:33} Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love?
therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways. {2:34} Also
in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I
have not found it by secret search, but upon all these. {2:35} 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.
{2:36} Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? thou also
shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria. {2:37} Yea,
thou shalt go forth from him, and thine hands upon thine head: for the
LORD hath rejected thy confidences, and thou shalt not prosper in them.

   {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. {3:2} 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. {3:3} 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. {3:4} Wilt thou not from this time cry unto
me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth? {3:5} 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.

   {3:6} 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. {3:7} 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. ]{3:8} 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. {3:9} And it came to pass through the
lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed
adultery with stones and with stocks. {3:10} And yet for all this her
treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart,
but feignedly, saith the LORD. {3:11} And the LORD said unto me, The
backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah.

   {3:12} Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say,
Return, 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. {3:13} 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. {3:14} 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:
{3:15} And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall
feed you with knowledge and understanding. {3:16} And it shall come to
pass, when ye be multiplied and increased 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.
{3:17} 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. {3:18} 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. {3:19} But I said, How shall I put thee among the children,
and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of
nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn
away from me.

   {3:20} Surely [as] a wife treacherously departeth from her husband,
so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the
LORD. {3:21} 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. {3:22} Return, ye
backsliding children, [and] I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we
come unto thee; for thou [art] the LORD our God. {3:23} Truly in vain
[is salvation hoped for] from the hills, [and from] the multitude of
mountains: truly in the LORD our God [is] the salvation of Israel.
{3:24} For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our
youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
{3:25} 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.

   {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. {4:2} And thou shalt swear, The LORD liveth, in
truth, in judgment, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless
themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.

   {4:3} For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem,
Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns. {4:4} Circumcise
yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye
men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like
fire, and burn that none can quench [it,] because of the evil of your
doings. {4:5} Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say,
Blow ye the trumpet in the land: cry, gather together, and say,
Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the defenced cities. {4:6} Set
up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil
from the north, and a great destruction. {4:7} The lion is come up from
his thicket, and the destroyer of the 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. {4:8} For this gird you
with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD is
not turned back from us. {4:9} And it shall come to pass at that day,
saith the LORD, [that] the heart of the king shall perish, and the
heart of the princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the
prophets shall wonder. {4:10} 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. {4:11} At that time
shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind of the
high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to
fan, nor to cleanse, {4:12} [Even ]a full wind from those [places
]shall come unto me: now also will I give sentence against them. {4:13}
Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots [shall be] as a
whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are
spoiled. {4:14} O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that
thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within
thee? {4:15} For a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth affliction
from mount Ephraim. {4:16} 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. {4:17} As keepers of
a field, are they against her round about; because she hath been
rebellious against me, saith the LORD. {4:18} Thy way and thy doings
have procured these [things] unto thee; this [is] thy wickedness,
because it is bitter, because it reacheth unto thine heart.

   {4:19} My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart
maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard,
O my soul, the sound of the trump, the alarm of war. {4:20} Destruction
upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are
my tents spoiled, [and] my curtains in a moment. {4:21} How long shall
I see the standard, [and] hear the sound of the trumpet? {4:22} 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. {4:23} I beheld the earth, and,
lo, [it was] without form, and void; and the heavens, and they [had] no
light. {4:24} I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all
the hills moved lightly. {4:25} I beheld, and, lo, [there was] no man,
and all the birds of the heavens were fled. {4:26} I beheld, and, lo,
the fruitful place [was] a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were
broken down at the presence of the LORD, [and] by his fierce anger.
{4:27} For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate;
yet will I not make a full end. {4:28} For this shall the earth mourn,
and the heavens above be black: because I have spoken [it,] I have
purposed [it,] and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it.
{4:29} 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. {4:30} 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.
{4:31} 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.

   {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. {5:2} And though they say, The LORD liveth;
surely they swear falsely. {5:3} 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. {5:4}
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. {5:5} 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. {5:6} 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.

   {5:7} 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. {5:8} They were [as] fed horses in the morning:
every one neighed after his neighbour's wife. {5:9} Shall I not visit
for these [things?] saith the LORD: and shall not my soul be avenged on
such a nation as this?

   {5:10} Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full
end: take away her battlements; for they [are] not the LORD'S. {5:11}
For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very
treacherously against me, saith the LORD. {5:12} They have belied the
LORD, and said, [It is] not he; neither shall evil come upon us;
neither shall we see sword nor famine: {5:13} And the prophets shall
become wind, and the word [is] not in them: thus shall it be done unto
them. {5:14} Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye
speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and
this people wood, and it shall devour them. {5:15} Lo, I will bring a
nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith the LORD: it [is] a
mighty nation, it [is] an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou
knowest not, neither understandest what they say. {5:16} Their quiver
[is] as an open sepulchre, they [are] all mighty men. {5:17} 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. {5:18}
Nevertheless in those days, saith the LORD, I will not make a full end
with you.

   {5:19} And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore doeth
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 yours. {5:20}
Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying,
{5:21} Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding;
which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not: {5:22}
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? {5:23} But this people hath a revolting and a
rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone. {5:24} Neither say they
in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth rain,
both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the
appointed weeks of the harvest.

   {5:25} Your iniquities have turned away these [things,] and your
sins have withholden good [things] from you. {5:26} For among my people
are found wicked [men:] they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they
set a trap, they catch men. {5:27} As a cage is full of birds, so [are]
their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen
rich. {5:28} They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the
deeds of 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. {5:29} Shall I not visit for these [things?] saith the LORD:
shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

   {5:30} A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;
{5:31} 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?

   {6:1} O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of
the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a
sign of fire in Beth-haccerem: for evil appeareth out of the north, and
great destruction. {6:2} I have likened the daughter of Zion to a
comely and delicate [woman. ]{6:3} 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. {6:4} 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. {6:5}
Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces.

   {6:6} 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. {6:7} As a fountain casteth
out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil
is heard in her; before me continually is grief and wounds. {6:8} Be
thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I
make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.

   {6:9} Thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall throughly glean the
remnant of Israel as a vine: turn back thine hand as a grapegatherer
into the baskets. {6:10} To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that
they may hear? 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. {6:11} 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. {6:12} 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. {6:13} 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. {6:14} They have healed also the hurt [of the
daughter] of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when [there is]
no peace. {6:15} Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination?
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. {6:16} 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. ]{6:17} Also I set watchmen over
you, [saying,] Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We
will not hearken.

   {6:18} Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what
[is] among them. {6:19} 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. {6:20} 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. {6:21} 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. {6:22} 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. {6:23} 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.
{6:24} We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish
hath taken hold of us, [and] pain, as of a woman in travail. {6:25} Go
not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the
enemy [and] fear [is] on every side.

   {6:26} O daughter of my people, gird [thee] with sackcloth, and
wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, [as for] an only son, most
bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us. {6:27}
I have set thee [for] a tower [and] a fortress among my people, that
thou mayest know and try their way. {6:28} They [are] all grievous
revolters, walking with slanders: [they are] brass and iron; they [are]
all corrupters. {6:29} The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of
the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked
away. {6:30} Reprobate silver shall [men] call them, because the LORD
hath rejected them.

   {7:1} The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, {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. {7:3} 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. {7:4} Trust ye not in lying words, saying,
The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD,
[are] these. {7:5} For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings;
if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour; {7:6}
[If] ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and
shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to
your hurt: {7:7} Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the
land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.

   {7:8} Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit. {7:9}
Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn
incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not; {7:10}
And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name,
and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations? {7:11} Is this
house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your
eyes? Behold, even I have seen [it,] saith the LORD. {7:12} 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.
{7:13} 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; {7:14} 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. {7:15} And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out
all your brethren, [even] the whole seed of Ephraim. {7:16} Therefore
pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them,
neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear thee.

   {7:17} Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the
streets of Jerusalem? {7:18} 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. {7:19} Do they provoke me to anger?
saith the LORD: [do they] not [provoke] themselves to the confusion of
their own faces? {7:20} Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, mine
anger and my 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.

   {7:21} Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your
burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh. {7:22} For I spake
not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought
them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or
sacrifices: {7:23} 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. {7:24} 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. {7:25} 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:
]{7:26} Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but
hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers. {7:27}
Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but they will not
hearken to thee: thou shalt also call unto them; but they will not
answer thee. {7:28} 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.

   {7:29} 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. {7:30} 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.
{7:31} 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.

   {7:32} 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. {7:33} 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. {7:34} 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.

   {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: {8:2} 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. {8:3} 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.

   {8:4} Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD; Shall
they fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not return? {8:5} Why
[then] is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual
backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return. {8:6} I
hearkened and heard, [but] they spake not aright: no man repented him
of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his
course, as the horse rusheth into the battle. {8:7} 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. {8:8} 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. {8:9} 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? {8:10} 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. {8:11} For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my
people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when [there is] no peace. {8:12}
Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? 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.

   {8:13} 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. {8:14} 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. {8:15} We looked for peace,
but no good [came; and] for a time of health, and behold trouble!
{8:16} The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole land
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. {8:17} For, behold, I will send serpents,
cockatrices, among you, which [will] not [be] charmed, and they shall
bite you, saith the LORD.

   {8:18} [When] I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart [is]
faint in me. {8:19} 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? {8:20} The
harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved. {8:21} For
the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black;
astonishment hath taken hold on me. {8:22} [Is there] no balm in
Gilead; [is there] no physician there? why then is not the health of
the daughter of my people recovered?

   {9:1} 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! {9:2} 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. {9:3} 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. {9:4} 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. {9:5} 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. {9:6} Thine habitation [is] in the
midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.
{9:7} Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them,
and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people? {9:8}
Their tongue [is as] an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: [one]
speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he
layeth his wait.

   {9:9} Shall I not visit them for these [things?] saith the LORD:
shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? {9:10} For the
mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations
of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that
none can pass through [them;] neither can [men] hear the voice of the
cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are
gone. {9:11} And I will make Jerusalem heaps, [and] a den of dragons;
and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.

   {9:12} Who [is] the wise man, that may understand this? and [who is
he] 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? {9:13} And the LORD saith, Because they have
forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice,
neither walked therein; {9:14} But have walked after the imagination of
their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:
{9:15} Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;
Behold, I will feed them, [even] this people, with wormwood, and give
them water of gall to drink. {9:16} 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.

   {9:17} 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: {9:18} 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. {9:19} For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How
are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the
land, because our dwellings have cast [us] out. {9:20} Yet hear the
word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his
mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour
lamentation. {9:21} 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. {9:22} 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.]

   {9:23} 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: {9:24} But let him that glorieth glory
in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I [am] the LORD
which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the
earth: for in these [things] I delight, saith the LORD.

   {9:25} Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish all
[them which are] circumcised with the uncircumcised; {9:26} Egypt, and
Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, 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.

   {10:1} Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of
Israel: {10:2} 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. {10:3} 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. {10:4} They deck it with silver and with gold;
they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. {10:5}
They [are] upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must 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. {10:6} Forasmuch as
[there is] none like unto thee, O LORD; thou [art] great, and thy name
is great in might. {10:7} Who would not fear thee, O King of nations?
for to thee doth it appertain: forasmuch as among all the wise [men] of
the nations, and in all their kingdoms, [there is] none like unto thee.
{10:8} But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock [is] a
doctrine of vanities. {10:9} 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. ]{10:10} 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. {10:11} 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. {10:12} 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. {10:13} When he uttereth
his voice, [there is] a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he
causeth the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh
lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.
{10:14} 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. {10:15} They [are] vanity, [and] the work
of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish. {10:16}
The portion of Jacob [is] not like them: for he [is] the former of all
[things;] and Israel [is] the rod of his inheritance: The LORD of hosts
[is] his name.

   {10:17} Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the
fortress. {10:18} 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.

   {10:19} Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said,
Truly this [is] a grief, and I must bear it. {10:20} My tabernacle is
spoiled, and all my cords are broken: my 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. {10:21} For the pastors are become brutish,
and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all
their flocks shall be scattered. {10:22} 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.

   {10:23} O LORD, I know that the way of man [is] not in himself: [it
is] not in man that walketh to direct his steps. {10:24} O LORD,
correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me
to nothing. {10:25} Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee
not, and upon 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.

   {11:1} The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, {11:2}
Hear ye the words of this covenant, and speak unto the men of Judah,
and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem; {11:3} And say thou unto them,
Thus saith the LORD God of Israel; Cursed [be] the man that obeyeth not
the words of this covenant, {11:4} 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:
{11:5} 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. {11:6} Then the
LORD said unto me, Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah, and
in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Hear ye the words of this
covenant, and do them. {11:7} For I earnestly protested unto your
fathers in the day [that] I brought them up out of the land of Egypt,
[even] unto this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my
voice. {11:8} 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. {11:9} And the LORD said unto
me, A conspiracy is found among the men of Judah, and among the
inhabitants of Jerusalem. {11:10} They are turned back to the
iniquities of their forefathers, which 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.

   {11:11} 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. {11:12} 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. {11:13} For [according to] the number of thy
cities were thy gods, O Judah; and [according to] the number of the
streets of Jerusalem have ye set up altars to [that] shameful thing,
[even] altars to burn incense unto Baal. {11:14} Therefore pray not
thou for this people, neither lift up a cry or prayer for them: for I
will not hear [them] in the time that they cry unto me for their
trouble. {11:15} 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. {11:16} 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. {11:17} 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.

   {11:18} And the LORD hath given me knowledge [of it,] and I know
[it:] then thou shewedst me their doings. {11:19} But I [was] like a
lamb [or] an ox [that] is brought to the slaughter; 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. {11:20} 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. {11:21} 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: {11:22} 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: {11:23} And
there shall be no remnant of them: for I will bring evil upon the men
of Anathoth, [even] the year of their visitation.

   {12:1} 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? {12:2} 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. {12:3} 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.
{12:4} 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. {12:5} 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? {12:6} 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.

   {12:7} 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.
{12:8} Mine heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest; it crieth out
against me: therefore have I hated it. {12:9} Mine heritage [is] unto
me [as] a speckled bird, the birds round about [are] against her; come
ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, come to devour. {12:10} Many
pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under
foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness. {12:11}
They have made it desolate, [and being] desolate it mourneth unto me;
the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth [it] to heart.
{12:12} 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. {12:13} 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.

   {12:14} Thus saith the LORD against all mine evil neighbours, that
touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit;
Behold, I will pluck them out of their land, and pluck out the house of
Judah from among them. {12:15} And it shall come to pass, after that I
have plucked them out I will return, and have compassion on them, and
will bring them again, every man to his heritage, and every man to his
land. {12:16} And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn
the ways of my people, to swear by my name, The LORD liveth; as they
taught my people to swear by Baal; then shall they be built in the
midst of my people. {12:17} But if they will not obey, I will utterly
pluck up and destroy that nation, saith the LORD.

   {13:1} Thus saith the LORD unto me, Go and get thee a linen girdle,
and put it upon thy loins, and put it not in water. {13:2} So I got a
girdle according to the word of the LORD, and put [it] on my loins.
{13:3} And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time, saying,
{13:4} Take the girdle that thou hast got, which [is] upon thy loins,
and arise, go to Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock.
{13:5} So I went, and hid it by Euphrates, as the LORD commanded me.
{13:6} 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. {13:7} 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. {13:8}
Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, {13:9} Thus saith the
LORD, After this manner will I mar the pride of Judah, and the great
pride of Jerusalem. {13:10} This evil people, which refuse to hear my
words, which walk in 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. {13:11} 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.

   {13:12} 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? {13:13} 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.
{13:14} 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.

   {13:15} Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD hath
spoken. {13:16} Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause
darkness, 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. {13:17} 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. {13:18} Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves,
sit down: for your principalities shall come down, [even] the crown of
your glory. {13:19} 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. {13:20} Lift up your eyes, and
behold them that come from the north: where [is] the flock [that] was
given thee, thy beautiful flock? {13:21} 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?

   {13:22} 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. {13:23} Can the Ethiopian change his skin,
or the leopard his spots? [then] may ye also do good, that are
accustomed to do evil. {13:24} Therefore will I scatter them as the
stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness. {13:25} This
[is] thy lot, the portion of thy measures from me, saith the LORD;
because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood. {13:26}
Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face, that thy shame may
appear. {13:27} 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?]

   {14:1} The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the
dearth. {14:2} Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are
black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up. {14:3} And
their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to
the pits, [and] found no water; they returned with their vessels empty;
they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads. {14:4}
Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth, the
plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads. {14:5} Yea, the hind
also calved in the field, and forsook [it,] because there was no grass.
{14:6} And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed up
the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because [there was] no
grass.

   {14:7} 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. {14:8} O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time
of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a
wayfaring man [that] turneth aside to tarry for a night? {14:9} Why
shouldest thou be as a man astonied, as a mighty man [that] cannot
save? yet thou, O LORD, [art] in the midst of us, and we are called by
thy name; leave us not.

   {14:10} 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. {14:11} Then said the LORD unto me, Pray not for this people for
[their] good. {14:12} 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.

   {14:13} 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. {14:14} 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. {14:15} 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. {14:16} 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.

   {14:17} 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. {14:18} 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. {14:19} 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! {14:20} We
acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, [and] the iniquity of our fathers:
for we have sinned against thee. {14:21} Do not abhor [us,] for thy
name's sake, do not disgrace the throne of thy glory: remember, break
not thy covenant with us. {14:22} Are there [any] among the vanities of
the Gentiles that can cause 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.]

   {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. {15:2} 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. {15:3} 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. {15:4} 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. {15:5} For who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? or
who shall bemoan thee? or who shall go aside to ask how thou doest?
{15:6} Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art gone backward:
therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I
am weary with repenting. {15:7} 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. {15:8} 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.
{15:9} 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.

   {15:10} 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. {15:11} 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. {15:12} Shall iron break
the northern iron and the steel? {15:13} Thy substance and thy
treasures will I give to the spoil without price, and [that] for all
thy sins, even in all thy borders. {15:14} 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.

   {15:15} O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge
me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that
for thy sake I have suffered rebuke. {15:16} Thy words were found, and
I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine
heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts. {15:17} I sat
not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because
of thy hand: for thou hast filled me with indignation. {15:18} Why is
my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, [which] refuseth to be
healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, [and as] waters
[that] fail?

   {15:19} Therefore thus saith the LORD, If thou return, then will I
bring 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. {15:20} 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. {15:21} And I
will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee
out of the hand of the terrible.

   {16:1} The word of the LORD came also unto me, saying, {16:2} Thou
shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters
in this place. {16:3} For thus saith the LORD concerning the sons and
concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning
their mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers that begat
them in this land; {16:4} 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. {16:5} 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. {16:6} 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: {16:7} 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.
{16:8} Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting, to sit with
them to eat and to drink. {16:9} For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the
God of Israel; Behold, I will 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.

   {16:10} 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?
{16:11} 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; {16:12} 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: {16:13} 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.

   {16:14} 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; {16:15} 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.

   {16:16} 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. {16:17} For mine eyes [are] upon all their
ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from
mine eyes. {16:18} And first I will recompense their iniquity and their
sin double; because they have defiled my land, they have filled mine
inheritance with the carcases of their detestable and abominable
things. {16:19} 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. {16:20} Shall a man
make gods unto himself, and they [are] no gods? {16:21} Therefore,
behold, I will this once cause them to know, I will cause them to know
mine hand and my might; and they shall know that my name [is] The LORD.

   {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; {17:2} Whilst their children
remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high
hills. {17:3} O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance
[and] all thy treasures to the spoil, [and] thy high places for sin,
throughout all thy borders. {17:4} 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.

   {17:5} Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man,
and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.
{17:6} 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. {17:7} Blessed [is] the
man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is. {17:8} For
he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and [that] 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.

   {17:9} The heart [is] deceitful above all [things,] and desperately
wicked: who can know it? {17:10} I the LORD search the heart, [I] try
the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, [and]
according to the fruit of his doings. {17:11} As the partridge sitteth
[on eggs,] and hatcheth [them] not; [so] he that getteth riches, and
not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end
shall be a fool.

   {17:12} A glorious high throne from the beginning [is] the place of
our sanctuary. {17:13} 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. {17:14} Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me,
and I shall be saved: for thou [art] my praise.

   {17:15} Behold, they say unto me, Where [is] the word of the LORD?
let it come now. {17:16} 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.
{17:17} Be not a terror unto me: thou [art] my hope in the day of evil.
{17:18} Let them be confounded that persecute me, but let not me be
confounded: let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed: bring
upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.

   {17:19} Thus said the LORD unto me; Go and stand in the gate of the
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; {17:20} 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: {17:21} Thus saith the LORD; Take heed to yourselves, and bear
no burden on the sabbath day, nor bring [it] in by the gates of
Jerusalem; {17:22} Neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on
the sabbath day, neither do ye any work, but hallow ye the sabbath day,
as I commanded your fathers. {17:23} But they obeyed not, neither
inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not
hear, nor receive instruction. {17:24} 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; {17:25} 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. {17:26} 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. {17:27} But
if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the sabbath day, and not to
bear a burden, even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on the
sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it
shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.

   {18:1} The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, {18:2}
Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause thee
to hear my words. {18:3} Then I went down to the potter's house, and,
behold, he wrought a work on the wheels. {18:4} And the vessel that he
made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again
another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make [it. ]{18:5} Then
the word of the LORD came to me, saying, {18:6} O house of Israel,
cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the
clay [is] in the potter's hand, so [are] ye in mine hand, O house of
Israel. {18:7} [At what] instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and
concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy
[it; ]{18:8} If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from
their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
{18:9} And [at what] instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and
concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant [it; ]{18:10} If it do evil
in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good,
wherewith I said I would benefit them.

   {18:11} Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I frame
evil against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now every
one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good. {18:12}
And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own
devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart.
{18:13} 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. {18:14} 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? {18:15} 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; {18:16} To make their land desolate,
[and] a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be
astonished, and wag his head. {18:17} I will scatter them as with an
east wind before the enemy; I will shew them the back, and not the
face, in the day of their calamity.

   {18:18} 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.
{18:19} Give heed to me, O LORD, and hearken to the voice of them that
contend with me. {18:20} Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they
have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to
speak good for them, [and] to turn away thy wrath from them. {18:21}
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. {18:22} 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. {18:23} 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.

   {19:1} Thus saith the LORD, Go and get a potter's earthen bottle,
and [take] of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the
priests; {19:2} And go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom,
which [is] by the entry of the east gate, and proclaim there the words
that I shall tell thee, {19:3} And say, Hear ye the word of the LORD, O
kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem; Thus saith the LORD of
hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring evil upon this place,
the which whosoever heareth, his ears shall tingle. {19:4} Because they
have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, 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; {19:5} 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:
{19:6} 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. {19:7} 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. {19:8} 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. {19:9}
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. {19:10} Then shalt thou break
the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee, {19:11} 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. {19:12} Thus will I do unto this place, saith the
LORD, and to the inhabitants thereof, and [even] make this city as
Tophet: {19:13} And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the
kings of 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. {19:14}
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, {19:15} 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.

   {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. {20:2} 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. {20:3} 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 Magor-missabib.
{20:4} 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. {20:5}
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. {20:6} 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.

   {20:7} O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived: thou art
stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily, every one
mocketh me. {20:8} For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and
spoil; because the word of the LORD was made a reproach unto me, and a
derision, daily. {20:9} 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.]

   {20:10} 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. {20:11} 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. {20:12} 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. {20:13}
Sing unto the LORD, praise ye the LORD: for he hath delivered the soul
of the poor from the hand of evildoers.

   {20:14} Cursed [be] the day wherein I was born: let not the day
wherein my mother bare me be blessed. {20:15} Cursed [be] the man who
brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee;
making him very glad. {20:16} And let that man be as the cities which
the LORD overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the
morning, and the shouting at noontide; {20:17} 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. ]{20:18} Wherefore came I forth out of
the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with
shame?

   {21:1} 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, {21:2} 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. {21:3} Then said Jeremiah unto them,
Thus shall ye say to Zedekiah: {21:4} 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. {21:5} 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. {21:6} And I will smite the
inhabitants of this city, both man and beast: they shall die of a great
pestilence. {21:7} And afterward, saith the LORD, I will deliver
Zedekiah king of 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.

   {21:8} 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. {21:9}
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. {21:10} 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.

   {21:11} And touching the house of the king of Judah, say, Hear ye
the word of the LORD; {21:12} O house of David, thus saith the LORD;
Execute judgment in 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. {21:13}
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? {21:14} 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.

   {22:1} Thus saith the LORD; Go down to the house of the king of
Judah, and speak there this word, {22:2} And say, Hear the word of the
LORD, O king of Judah, that sittest upon the throne of David, thou, and
thy servants, and thy people that enter in by these gates: {22:3} 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. {22:4} 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. {22:5} But if ye will not hear these words, I
swear by myself, saith the LORD, that this house shall become a
desolation. {22:6} For thus saith the LORD unto the king's house of
Judah; Thou [art] Gilead unto me, [and] the head of Lebanon: [yet]
surely I will make thee a wilderness, [and] cities [which] are not
inhabited. {22:7} 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. {22:8} 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? {22:9} Then they shall answer, Because
they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God, and worshipped
other gods, and served them.

   {22:10} 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. {22:11} 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: {22:12} But he shall die in the place whither they have led
him captive, and shall see this land no more.

   {22:13} Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and
his chambers by wrong; [that] useth his neighbour's service without
wages, and giveth him not for his work; {22:14} That saith, I will
build me a wide house and large chambers, and cutteth him out windows;
and [it is] cieled with cedar, and painted with vermilion. {22:15}
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? {22:16} He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then
[it was] well [with him: was] not this to know me? saith the LORD.
{22:17} But thine eyes and thine heart [are] not but for thy
covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and
for violence, to do [it. ]{22:18} 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! {22:19} He shall
be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the
gates of Jerusalem.

   {22:20} Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up thy voice in Bashan,
and cry from the passages: for all thy lovers are destroyed. {22:21} I
spake unto thee in thy prosperity; [but] thou saidst, I will not hear.
This [hath been] thy manner from thy youth, that thou obeyedst not my
voice. {22:22} 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. {22:23} 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! {22:24} [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;
{22:25} 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.
{22:26} 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.
{22:27} But to the land whereunto they desire to return, thither shall
they not return. {22:28} [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? {22:29}
O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD. {22:30} 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.

   {23:1} Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of
my pasture! saith the LORD. {23:2} Therefore thus saith the LORD God of
Israel against the pastors 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. {23:3} 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. {23:4} 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.

   {23:5} 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. {23:6} 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. {23:7}
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; {23:8} 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.

   {23:9} 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. {23:10} 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.
{23:11} For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have
I found their wickedness, saith the LORD. {23:12} Wherefore their way
shall be unto them as slippery [ways] in the 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. {23:13} And I have seen
folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and caused
my people Israel to err. {23:14} I have seen also in the prophets of
Jerusalem an horrible thing: 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. {23:15} 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. {23:16} 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. {23:17} 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. {23:18} 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? ]{23:19} 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. {23:20} 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. {23:21} I have not sent these prophets, yet they
ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied. {23:22} But if
they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my
words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from
the evil of their doings. {23:23} [Am] I a God at hand, saith the LORD,
and not a God afar off? {23:24} 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. {23:25} I have heard what the prophets said,
that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.
{23:26} How long shall [this] be in the heart of the prophets that
prophesy lies? yea, [they are] prophets of the deceit of their own
heart; {23:27} 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. {23:28} 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.
{23:29} [Is] not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a
hammer [that] breaketh the rock in pieces? {23:30} Therefore, behold, I
[am] against the prophets, saith the LORD, that steal my words every
one from his neighbour. {23:31} Behold, I [am] against the prophets,
saith the LORD, that use their tongues, and say, He saith. {23:32}
Behold, I [am] against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the LORD,
and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by
their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore
they shall not profit this people at all, saith the LORD.

   {23:33} And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask
thee, saying, What [is] the burden of the LORD? thou shalt then say
unto them, What burden? I will even forsake you, saith the LORD.
{23:34} 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. {23:35} 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? {23:36} 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. {23:37} Thus
shalt thou say to the prophet, What hath the LORD answered thee? and,
What hath the LORD spoken? {23:38} But since ye say, The burden of the
LORD; therefore thus saith 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; {23:39} 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: {23:40} And I
will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame,
which shall not be forgotten.

   {24:1} 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. {24:2} 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. {24:3} 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.

   {24:4} Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, {24:5} 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.
{24:6} 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. {24:7} 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.

   {24:8} 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: {24:9} 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. {24:10} 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.

   {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; {25:2} The
which Jeremiah the prophet spake unto all the people of Judah, and to
all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, {25:3} From the thirteenth
year of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, 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. {25:4} 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. {25:5} 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: {25:6} 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. {25:7} 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.

   {25:8} Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Because ye have not
heard my words, {25:9} Behold, I will send and take all the families of
the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my
servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the
inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and
will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an
hissing, and perpetual desolations. {25:10} Moreover I will take from
them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the
bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones,
and the light of the candle. {25:11} And this whole land shall be a
desolation, [and] an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the
king of Babylon seventy years.

   {25:12} 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. {25:13} 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. {25:14} 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.

   {25:15} 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. {25:16} And they shall drink, and be moved, and be
mad, because of the sword that I will send among them. {25:17} Then
took I the cup at the LORD'S hand, and made all the nations to drink,
unto whom the LORD had sent me: {25:18} [To wit,] Jerusalem, and the
cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to
make them a desolation, an astonishment, an hissing, and a curse; as
[it is] this day; {25:19} Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and
his princes, and all his people; {25:20} 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, {25:21} Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon, {25:22} And
all the kings of Tyrus, and all the kings of Zidon, and the kings of
the isles which are beyond the sea, {25:23} Dedan, and Tema, and Buz,
and all [that are] in the utmost corners, {25:24} And all the kings of
Arabia, and all the kings of the mingled people that dwell in the
desert, {25:25} And all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam,
and all the kings of the Medes, {25:26} And all the kings of the north,
far and near, one with another, and all the kingdoms of the world,
which [are] upon the face of the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall
drink after them. {25:27} 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. {25:28} 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. {25:29} For, lo, I begin to
bring evil on the city which is called by my name, and should ye be
utterly unpunished? Ye shall not be unpunished: for I will call for a
sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith the LORD of hosts.
{25:30} Therefore prophesy thou against them all these words, and say
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. {25:31} 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. {25:32} 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. {25:33} 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.

   {25:34} 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. {25:35} And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the
principal of the flock to escape. {25:36} A voice of the cry of the
shepherds, and an howling of the principal of the flock, [shall be
heard:] for the LORD hath spoiled their pasture. {25:37} And the
peaceable habitations are cut down because of the fierce anger of the
LORD. {25:38} He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land
is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of
his fierce anger.

   {26:1} In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah
king of Judah came this word from the LORD, saying, {26:2} Thus saith
the LORD; Stand in the court of the LORD'S house, 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:
{26:3} If so be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil
way, that I may repent me of the evil, which I purpose to do unto them
because of the evil of their doings. {26:4} And thou shalt say unto
them, Thus saith the LORD; If ye will not hearken to me, to walk in my
law, which I have set before you, {26:5} To hearken to the words of my
servants the prophets, whom I sent unto you, both rising up early, and
sending [them,] but ye have not hearkened; {26:6} Then will I make this
house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations
of the earth. {26:7} So the priests and the prophets and all the people
heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the LORD.

   {26:8} Now it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end of
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. {26:9} 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.

   {26:10} 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. ]{26:11} 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.

   {26:12} 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. {26:13} 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. {26:14} As for me, behold, I [am] in your hand:
do with me as seemeth good and meet unto you. {26:15} But know ye for
certain, that if ye put me to death, ye shall surely 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.

   {26:16} 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. {26:17} Then rose up
certain of the elders of the land, and spake to all the assembly of the
people, saying, {26:18} Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of
Hezekiah king of 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. {26:19} 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.
{26:20} And there was also a man that prophesied in the name of the
LORD, Urijah the son of Shemaiah of Kirjath-jearim, who prophesied
against this city and against this land according to all the words of
Jeremiah: {26:21} And when Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty men,
and all 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; {26:22} And Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt, [namely,]
Elnathan the son of Achbor, and [certain] men with him into Egypt.
{26:23} 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. {26:24} 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.

   {27:1} In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah
king of Judah came this word unto Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
{27:2} Thus saith the LORD to me; Make thee bonds and yokes, and put
them upon thy neck, {27:3} And send them to the king of Edom, and to
the king of Moab, and 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; {27:4} 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; {27:5} I have made the
earth, the man and the beast that [are] upon the ground, by my great
power and by my outstretched arm, and have given it unto whom it seemed
meet unto me. {27:6} And now have I given all these lands into the hand
of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and the beasts of
the field have I given him also to serve him. {27:7} And all nations
shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until the very time of
his land come: and then many nations and great kings shall serve
themselves of him. {27:8} 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. {27:9} Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets, nor to your
diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor to your
sorcerers, which speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of
Babylon: {27:10} For they prophesy a lie unto you, to remove you far
from your land; and that I should drive you out, and ye should perish.
{27:11} 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.

   {27:12} 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. {27:13} 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? {27:14} 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. {27:15} 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. {27:16} 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. {27:17} Hearken not unto them; serve the
king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city be laid waste?
{27:18} But if they [be] prophets, and if the word of the LORD be with
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.

   {27:19} 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, {27:20} 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; {27:21} 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; {27:22} 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.

   {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, {28:2} Thus speaketh the LORD of
hosts, the God of Israel, saying, I have broken the yoke of the king of
Babylon. {28:3} Within two full years will I bring again into this
place all the vessels of the LORD'S house, that Nebuchadnezzar king of
Babylon took away from this place, and carried them to Babylon: {28:4}
And I will bring again to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim 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.

   {28:5} 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, {28:6} 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. {28:7}
Nevertheless hear thou now this word that I speak in thine ears, and in
the ears of all the people; {28:8} The prophets that have been before
me and before thee of old prophesied both against many countries, and
against great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence. {28:9}
The prophet which prophesieth of peace, when the word of the prophet
shall come to pass, [then] shall the prophet be known, that the LORD
hath truly sent him.

   {28:10} Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from off the prophet
Jeremiah's neck, and brake it. {28:11} And Hananiah spake in the
presence of all the people, saying, 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.

   {28:12} 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, {28:13} 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. {28:14} 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.

   {28:15} 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. {28:16} 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. {28:17}
So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month.

   {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; {29:2} (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;) {29:3} By
the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah,
(whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent unto Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king
of Babylon) saying, {29:4} Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of
Israel, unto all that are carried away captives, whom I have caused to
be carried away from Jerusalem unto Babylon; {29:5} Build ye houses,
and dwell [in them;] and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them;
{29:6} Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for
your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons
and daughters; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished.
{29:7} 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.

   {29:8} 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.
{29:9} For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I have not sent
them, saith the LORD.

   {29:10} 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. {29:11} For I know
the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of
peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. {29:12} Then shall
ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken
unto you. {29:13} And ye shall seek me, and find [me,] when ye shall
search for me with all your heart. {29:14} And I will be found of you,
saith the LORD: and I will turn away 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.

   {29:15} Because ye have said, The LORD hath raised us up prophets in
Babylon; {29:16} [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; {29:17} 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. {29:18}
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: {29:19}
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.

   {29:20} Hear ye therefore the word of the LORD, all ye of the
captivity, whom I have sent from Jerusalem to Babylon: {29:21} Thus
saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, of Ahab the son of Kolaiah,
and of Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, which prophesy a lie unto you in
my name; Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar
king of Babylon; and he shall slay them before your eyes; {29:22} And
of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captivity of Judah which
[are] in Babylon, saying, The LORD make thee like Zedekiah and like
Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire; {29:23} 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.

   {29:24} [Thus] shalt thou also speak to Shemaiah the Nehelamite,
saying, {29:25} Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel,
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, {29:26} 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. {29:27} Now therefore why hast thou not reproved Jeremiah of
Anathoth, which maketh himself a prophet to you? {29:28} For therefore
he sent unto us [in] Babylon, saying, This [captivity is] long: build
ye houses, and dwell [in them;] and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of
them. {29:29} And Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the ears of
Jeremiah the prophet.

   {29:30} Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying,
{29:31} Send to all them of the captivity, saying, Thus saith the LORD
concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite; Because that Shemaiah hath
prophesied unto you, and I sent him not, and he caused you to trust in
a lie: {29:32} Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will punish
Shemaiah 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.

   {30:1} The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, {30:2}
Thus speaketh the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write thee all the words
that I have spoken unto thee in a book. {30:3} For, lo, the days come,
saith the LORD, that I will bring again 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.

   {30:4} And these [are] the words that the LORD spake concerning
Israel and concerning Judah. {30:5} For thus saith the LORD; We have
heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace. {30:6} Ask ye
now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see
every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all
faces are turned into paleness? {30:7} Alas! for that day [is] great,
so that none [is] like it: it [is] even the time of Jacob's trouble;
but he shall be saved out of it. {30:8} For it shall come to pass in
that day, saith the LORD of hosts, [that] I will break his yoke from
off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no more
serve themselves of him: {30:9} But they shall serve the LORD their
God, and David their king, whom I will raise up unto them.

   {30:10} Therefore fear thou not, O my servant Jacob, saith the LORD;
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.
{30:11} 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 will
I not make a full end of thee: but I will correct thee in measure, and
will not leave thee altogether unpunished. {30:12} For thus saith the
LORD, Thy bruise [is] incurable, [and] thy wound [is] grievous. {30:13}
[There is] none to plead thy cause, that thou mayest be bound up: thou
hast no healing medicines. {30:14} All thy lovers have forgotten thee;
they seek thee not; for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy,
with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the multitude of thine
iniquity; [because] thy sins were increased. {30:15} Why criest thou
for thine affliction? thy sorrow [is] incurable for the multitude of
thine iniquity: [because] thy sins were increased, I have done these
things unto thee. {30:16} 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. {30:17} 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.

   {30:18} 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. {30:19} 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. {30:20} Their children also shall be as aforetime,
and their congregation shall be established before me, and I will
punish all that oppress them. {30:21} 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. {30:22} And ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
{30:23} Behold, the whirlwind of the LORD goeth forth with fury, a
continuing whirlwind: it shall fall with pain upon the head of the
wicked. {30:24} The fierce anger of the LORD shall not return, until he
have done [it,] and until he have performed the intents of his heart:
in the latter days ye shall consider it.

   {31:1} At the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the God of all
the families of Israel, and they shall be my people. {31:2} Thus saith
the LORD, The people [which were] left of the sword found grace in the
wilderness; [even] Israel, when I went to cause him to rest. {31:3} The
LORD hath appeared of old unto me, [saying,] Yea, I have loved thee
with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn
thee. {31:4} Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin
of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt go
forth in the dances of them that make merry. {31:5} Thou shalt yet
plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria: the planters shall plant,
and shall eat [them] as common things. {31:6} For there shall be a day,
[that] the watchmen upon the mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye, and let
us go up to Zion unto the LORD our God. {31:7} 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. {31:8} 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. {31:9} 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.

   {31:10} 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. {31:11} For the LORD hath
redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of [him that was]
stronger than he. {31:12} Therefore they shall come and sing in the
height of Zion, and 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. {31:13} 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. {31:14} And I will satiate the soul of the priests with
fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the
LORD.

   {31:15} Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah,
lamentation, [and] bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children
refused to be comforted for her children, because they [were] not.
{31:16} Thus saith the LORD; Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine
eyes from tears: for thy work shall be rewarded, saith the LORD; and
they shall come again from the land of the enemy. {31:17} And there is
hope in thine end, saith the LORD, that thy children shall come again
to their own border.

   {31:18} I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself [thus;] Thou
hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed [to
the yoke:] turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou [art] the LORD
my God. {31:19} Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after
that I was instructed, I smote upon [my] thigh: I was ashamed, yea,
even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth. {31:20}
[Is] Ephraim my dear son? [is he] a pleasant child? for since I spake
against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are
troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the LORD.
{31:21} Set thee up waymarks, make thee high heaps: set thine heart
toward the highway, [even] the way [which] thou wentest: turn again, O
virgin of Israel, turn again to these thy cities.

   {31:22} 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. {31:23} 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.
{31:24} And there shall dwell in Judah itself, and in all the cities
thereof together, husbandmen, and they [that] go forth with flocks.
{31:25} For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished
every sorrowful soul. {31:26} Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my
sleep was sweet unto me.

   {31:27} 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. {31:28} 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. {31:29} In those days they shall
say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's
teeth are set on edge. {31:30} But every one shall die for his own
iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set
on edge.

   {31:31} Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a
new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
{31:32} 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: {31:33} 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. {31:34} 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.

   {31:35} 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: {31:36} 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. {31:37} 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.

   {31:38} 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. {31:39} And the measuring line shall yet go forth over against
it upon the hill Gareb, and shall compass about to Goath. {31:40} And
the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes, and 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.

   {32:1} The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth
year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which [was] the eighteenth year of
Nebuchadrezzar. {32:2} For then the king of Babylon's army besieged
Jerusalem: and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the
prison, which [was] in the king of Judah's house. {32:3} 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; {32:4} 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; {32:5} 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?

   {32:6} And Jeremiah said, The word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
{32:7} 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. ]{32:8} 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. {32:9} 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. {32:10}
And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed [it,] and took witnesses, and
weighed [him] the money in the balances. {32:11} So I took the evidence
of the purchase, [both] that which was sealed [according] to the law
and custom, and that which was open: {32:12} 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.

   {32:13} And I charged Baruch before them, saying, {32:14} 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. {32:15} For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;
Houses and fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land.

   {32:16} Now when I had delivered the evidence of the purchase unto
Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed unto the LORD, saying, {32:17} Ah
Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great
power and stretched out arm, [and] there is nothing too hard for thee:
{32:18} 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,
{32:19} 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: {32:20} 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; {32:21} 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; {32:22} And hast given them
this land, which thou didst swear to their fathers to give them, a land
flowing with milk and honey; {32:23} And they came in, and possessed
it; but they obeyed not thy 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: {32:24} 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. ]{32:25} 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.

   {32:26} Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying,
{32:27} Behold, I [am] the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there any
thing too hard for me? {32:28} Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I
will give this city into the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand
of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and he shall take it: {32:29} 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. {32:30} 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. {32:31} 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, {32:32} 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. {32:33} 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. {32:34} But they set their abominations in the
house, which is called by my name, to defile it. {32:35} And they built
the high places of Baal, which [are] in the valley of 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.

   {32:36} 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; {32:37} 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: {32:38} And they shall be my people, and I will
be their God: {32:39} 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: {32:40} 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. {32:41} 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. {32:42} 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. {32:43} 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. {32:44} 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.

   {33:1} Moreover the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the second
time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the prison, saying,
{33:2} Thus saith the LORD the maker thereof, the LORD that formed it,
to establish it; the LORD [is] his name; {33:3} Call unto me, and I
will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou
knowest not. {33:4} For thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel,
concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the
kings of Judah, which are thrown down by the mounts, and by the sword;
{33:5} They come to fight with the Chaldeans, but [it is] 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.
{33:6} Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them,
and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth. {33:7} And
I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to
return, and will build them, as at the first. {33:8} And I will cleanse
them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me; and
I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned, and
whereby they have transgressed against me.

   {33:9} 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. {33:10} 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, {33:11} 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. {33:12} 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. {33:13} 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. {33:14} 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.

   {33:15} In those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch of
righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute judgment and
righteousness in the land. {33:16} In those days shall Judah be saved,
and Jerusalem shall dwell safely: and this [is the name] wherewith she
shall be called, The LORD our righteousness.

   {33:17} For thus saith the LORD; David shall never want a man to sit
upon the throne of the house of Israel; {33:18} Neither shall the
priests the Levites want a man before me to offer burnt offerings, and
to kindle meat offerings, and to do sacrifice continually.

   {33:19} And the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, saying, {33:20}
Thus saith the LORD; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my
covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in
their season; {33:21} [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. {33:22} 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. {33:23} Moreover the word of the LORD came to
Jeremiah, saying, {33:24} 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. {33:25} Thus saith the LORD; If my
covenant be not with day and night, [and if] I have not appointed the
ordinances of heaven and earth; {33:26} Then will I cast away the seed
of Jacob, and David my servant, 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.

   {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, {34:2} 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:
{34:3} 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. {34:4} 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: {34:5} [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.
{34:6} Then Jeremiah the prophet spake all these words unto Zedekiah
king of Judah in Jerusalem, {34:7} When the king of Babylon's army
fought against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of Judah that were
left, against Lachish, and against Azekah: for these defenced cities
remained of the cities of Judah.

   {34:8} [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; {34:9} That
every man should let his manservant, and every man his maidservant,
[being] an Hebrew or an Hebrewess, go free; that none should serve
himself of them, [to wit,] of a Jew his brother. {34:10} Now when all
the princes, and all the people, which had entered 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. {34:11} 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.

   {34:12} Therefore the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the
LORD, saying, {34:13} 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, {34:14} 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. {34:15} And ye were now turned, and had
done right in my sight, in proclaiming liberty every man to his
neighbour; and ye had made a covenant before me in the house which is
called by my name: {34:16} But ye turned and polluted my name, and
caused every man his 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. {34:17}
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. {34:18} 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, {34:19} 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; {34:20} 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. {34:21} 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. {34:22} 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.

   {35:1} The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD in the days
of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying, {35:2} Go unto
the house of the Rechabites, and speak unto them, and bring them into
the house of the LORD, into one of the chambers, and give them wine to
drink. {35:3} 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; {35:4} 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: {35:5}
And I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites pots full of
wine, and cups, and I said unto them, Drink ye wine. {35:6} But they
said, We will drink no wine: for Jonadab the son of Rechab our father
commanded us, saying, Ye shall drink no wine, [neither] ye, nor your
sons for ever: {35:7} 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.
{35:8} 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; {35:9} Nor to build houses
for us to dwell in: neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed:
{35:10} But we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed, and done according
to all that Jonadab our father commanded us. {35:11} But it came to
pass, when Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came up into the land, that
we said, Come, and let us go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the
Chaldeans, and for fear of the army of the Syrians: so we dwell at
Jerusalem.

   {35:12} Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying,
{35:13} Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Go and tell
the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will ye not receive
instruction to hearken to my words? saith the LORD. {35:14} The words
of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he commanded 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. {35:15} 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. {35:16} Because the
sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have performed the commandment of
their father, which he commanded them; but this people hath not
hearkened unto me: {35:17} Therefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts,
the God of Israel; 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.

   {35:18} 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: {35:19} 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.

   {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, {36:2} 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 into this day. {36:3} 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. {36:4} 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.
{36:5} And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I [am] shut up; I cannot
go into the house of the LORD: {36:6} Therefore go thou, and read in
the roll, which thou hast written 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. {36:7} 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. {36:8} 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. {36:9} 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. {36:10} 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.

   {36:11} When Michaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had
heard out of the book all the words of the LORD, {36:12} Then he went
down into the king's house, into the scribe's 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. {36:13}
Then Michaiah declared unto them all the words that he had heard, when
Baruch read the book in the ears of the people. {36:14} 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. {36:15} And
they said unto him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears. So Baruch
read [it] in their ears. {36:16} Now it came to pass, when they had
heard all the words, they were afraid both one and other, and said unto
Baruch, We will surely tell the king of all these words. {36:17} And
they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How didst thou write all these
words at his mouth? {36:18} Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced
all these words unto me with his mouth, and I wrote [them] with ink in
the book. {36:19} Then said the princes unto Baruch, Go, hide thee,
thou and Jeremiah; and let no man know where ye be.

   {36:20} And they went in to the king into the court, but they laid
up the roll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, and told all the
words in the ears of the king. {36:21} 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. {36:22} Now the king sat in the
winterhouse in the ninth month: and [there was a fire] on the hearth
burning before him. {36:23} And it came to pass, [that] when Jehudi had
read three or four 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. {36:24} Yet they were not afraid,
nor rent their garments, [neither] the king, nor any of his servants
that heard all these words. {36:25} 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. {36:26} 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.

   {36:27} 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, {36:28} 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. {36:29} And thou shalt say to Jehoiakim
the 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? {36:30} 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. {36:31} 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.

   {36:32} 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.

   {37:1} And king Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned instead of Coniah
the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon made king in
the land of Judah. {37:2} But neither he, nor his servants, nor the
people of the land, did hearken unto the words of the LORD, which he
spake by the prophet Jeremiah. {37:3} And Zedekiah the king sent
Jehucal the son of Shelemiah and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the
priest to the prophet Jeremiah, saying, Pray now unto the LORD our God
for us. {37:4} Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people: for
they had not put him into prison. {37:5} Then Pharaoh's army was come
forth out of Egypt: and when the Chaldeans that besieged Jerusalem
heard tidings of them, they departed from Jerusalem.

   {37:6} Then came the word of the LORD unto the prophet Jeremiah,
saying, {37:7} 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. {37:8} And the Chaldeans shall come
again, and fight against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire.
{37:9} Thus saith the LORD; Deceive not yourselves, saying, The
Chaldeans shall surely depart from us: for they shall not depart.
{37:10} 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.

   {37:11} And it came to pass, that when the army of the Chaldeans was
broken up from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh's army, {37:12} Then
Jeremiah went forth out of Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin,
to separate himself thence in the midst of the people. {37:13} And when
he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the ward [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. {37:14} 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. {37:15} 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.

   {37:16} When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon, and into the
cabins, and Jeremiah had remained there many days; {37:17} Then
Zedekiah the king sent, and took him out: and the king 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. {37:18} 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? {37:19} Where
[are] now your prophets which prophesied unto you, saying, The king of
Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land? {37:20}
Therefore hear now, I pray thee, O my lord the king: let my
supplication, I pray thee, be accepted before thee; that thou cause me
not to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.
{37:21} Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit
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.

   {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,
{38:2} 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. {38:3} Thus saith the LORD, This city shall
surely be given into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, which
shall take it. {38:4} Therefore the princes said unto the king, We
beseech thee, let 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. {38:5} Then Zedekiah the king
said, Behold, he is in your hand: for the king [is] not [he that] can
do [any] thing against you. {38:6} Then took they Jeremiah, and cast
him into the dungeon of 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.

   {38:7} Now when Ebed-melech 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; {38:8}
Ebed-melech went forth out of the king's house, and spake to the king,
saying, {38:9} 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. {38:10} Then the king commanded
Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, Take from hence thirty men with
thee, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he
die. {38:11} So Ebed- melech 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. {38:12} And Ebed-melech the Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah, Put
now [these] old cast clouts and rotten rags under thine armholes under
the cords. And Jeremiah did so. {38:13} So they drew up Jeremiah with
cords, and took him up out of the dungeon: and Jeremiah remained in the
court of the prison.

   {38:14} Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took Jeremiah the prophet
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. {38:15} 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? {38:16} 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. {38:17} 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: {38:18} 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. {38:19} 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.
{38:20} 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. {38:21} But if thou
refuse to go forth, this [is] the word that the LORD hath shewed me:
{38:22} 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. {38:23} 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.

   {38:24} Then said Zedekiah unto Jeremiah, Let no man know of these
words, and thou shalt not die. {38:25} But if the princes hear that I
have talked with thee, and they 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: {38:26} Then thou shalt say unto them, I presented my
supplication before the king, that he would not cause me to return to
Jonathan's house, to die there. {38:27} Then came all the princes unto
Jeremiah, and asked him: and 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. {38:28} So Jeremiah abode in the court of
the prison until the day that Jerusalem was taken: and he was [there]
when Jerusalem was taken.

   {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. {39:2} [And] in the eleventh year of
Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth [day] of the month, the city
was broken up. {39:3} And all the princes of the king of Babylon came
in, and sat in the middle gate, [even] Nergal-sharezer, Samgar-nebo,
Sarsechim, Rab- saris, Nergal-sharezer, Rabmag, with all the residue of
the princes of the king of Babylon.

   {39:4} And it came to pass, [that] when Zedekiah the king of Judah
saw 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. {39:5} 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. {39:6} 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. {39:7} Moreover he put out Zedekiah's
eyes, and bound him with chains, to carry him to Babylon.

   {39:8} And the Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the houses of
the people, with fire, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem. {39:9}
Then Nebuzar-adan 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. {39:10} But Nebuzar-adan 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.

   {39:11} Now Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon gave charge concerning
Jeremiah to Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard, saying, {39:12} Take
him, and look well to him, and do him no harm; but do unto him even as
he shall say unto thee. {39:13} So Nebuzar-adan the captain of the
guard sent, and Nebushasban, Rab-saris, and Nergal-sharezer, Rabmag,
and all the king of Babylon's princes; {39:14} Even they sent, and took
Jeremiah out of the court of the prison, 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.

   {39:15} Now the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, while he was
shut up in the court of the prison, saying, {39:16} Go and speak to
Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, Thus saith 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. {39:17} 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. {39:18} 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.

   {40:1} The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, after that
Nebuzar-adan 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. {40:2} And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said
unto him, The LORD thy God hath pronounced this evil upon this place.
{40:3} 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. {40:4} 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. {40:5} 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. {40:6}
Then went Jeremiah unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and dwelt
with him among the people that were left in the land.

   {40:7} 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; {40:8} 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. {40:9} 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. {40:10} 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. {40:11}
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; {40:12}
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.

   {40:13} Moreover Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of
the forces that [were] in the fields, came to Gedaliah to Mizpah,
{40:14} And said unto him, Dost thou certainly know that Baalis the
king of the Ammonites hath sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to slay
thee? But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam believed them not. {40:15} 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? {40:16} 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.

   {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.
{41:2} 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. {41:3} 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. {41:4} And it came to pass the
second day after he had slain Gedaliah, and no man knew [it, ]{41:5}
That there came certain from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from 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. {41:6} 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. {41:7} 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. {41:8} 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. {41:9} 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. {41:10} 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 Nebuzar-adan 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.

   {41:11} 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, {41:12} 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. {41:13} 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. {41:14} So all the people that Ishmael had carried away captive
from Mizpah cast about and returned, and went unto Johanan the son of
Kareah. {41:15} But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan
with eight men, and went to the Ammonites. {41:16} Then took Johanan
the son of Kareah, and all the captains of 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:
{41:17} And they departed, and dwelt in the habitation of Chimham,
which is by Bethlehem, to go to enter into Egypt, {41:18} 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.

   {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, {42:2} 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:) {42:3} That the LORD thy God may shew us the way wherein we may
walk, and the thing that we may do. {42:4} Then Jeremiah the prophet
said unto them, I have heard [you;] 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. {42:5} 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. {42:6} 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.

   {42:7} And it came to pass after ten days, that the word of the LORD
came unto Jeremiah. {42:8} Then called he Johanan the son of Kareah,
and all the captains of the forces which [were] with him, and all the
people from the least even to the greatest, {42:9} And said unto them,
Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, unto whom ye sent me to present
your supplication before him; {42:10} If ye will still abide in this
land, then will I build you, and not pull [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. {42:11} 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. {42:12} And I will shew
mercies unto you, that he may have mercy upon you, and cause you to
return to your own land.

   {42:13} But if ye say, We will not dwell in this land, neither obey
the voice of the LORD your God, {42:14} Saying, No; but we will go into
the land of Egypt, where we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the
trumpet, nor have hunger of bread; and there will we dwell: {42:15} 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; {42:16} 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.
{42:17} 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. {42:18} 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.

   {42:19} 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.
{42:20} 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. ]{42:21} 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. {42:22} Now therefore know certainly
that ye shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence,
in the place whither ye desire to go [and] to sojourn.

   {43:1} 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,
{43:2} 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: {43:3} 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. {43:4}
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. {43:5} 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;
{43:6} [Even] men, and women, and children, and the king's daughters,
and every person that Nebuzar-adan 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. {43:7} So they came into the
land of Egypt: for they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: thus came
they [even] to Tahpanhes.

   {43:8} Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah in Tahpanhes,
saying, {43:9} Take great stones in thine hand, and hide them in the
clay in the brickkiln, which [is] at the entry of Pharaoh's house in
Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah; {43:10} And say unto them,
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of 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. {43:11} 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. {43:12} 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. {43:13} He shall break also the images of Beth-shemesh, that
[is] in the land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of the Egyptians
shall he burn with fire.

   {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, {44:2} 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,
{44:3} Because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke
me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, [and] to serve other
gods, whom they knew not, [neither] they, ye, nor your fathers. {44:4}
Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising early and
sending [them,] saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate.
{44:5} But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to turn from
their wickedness, to burn no incense unto other gods. {44:6} Wherefore
my fury and mine anger was poured forth, and was kindled in the cities
of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are wasted [and]
desolate, as at this day. {44:7} 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; {44:8} 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? {44:9} 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? {44:10} 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.

   {44:11} 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. {44:12} 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. {44:13} For I will punish them that dwell in the land of
Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine, and
by the pestilence: {44:14} So that none of the remnant of Judah, which
are gone into the 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.

   {44:15} 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, {44:16} [As for] the word that thou
hast spoken unto us in the name of the LORD, we will not hearken unto
thee. {44:17} But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out
of our 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. {44:18} 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.
{44:19} 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?

   {44:20} 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, {44:21} 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? {44:22} So that the LORD could no
longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, [and] because of the
abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your land a
desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as
at this day. {44:23} Because ye have burned incense, and because ye
have sinned 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.
{44:24} 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: {44:25} 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. {44:26} 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.
{44:27} 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. {44:28} 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 theirs.

   {44:29} 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: {44:30} Thus saith the LORD; Behold,
I will give Pharaoh-hophra 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.

   {45:1} The word that Jeremiah the prophet spake unto Baruch the son
of Neriah, when he had written these words in a book at the mouth of
Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of
Judah, saying, {45:2} Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, unto
thee, O Baruch; {45:3} Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for the LORD hath
added grief to my sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest.

   {45:4} Thus shalt thou say unto him, The LORD saith thus; Behold,
[that] which I have built will I break down, and that which I have
planted I will pluck up, even this whole land. {45:5} 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.

   {46:1} The word of the LORD which came to Jeremiah the prophet
against the Gentiles; {46:2} Against Egypt, against the army of
Pharaoh-necho king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in
Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote in the fourth
year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah. {46:3} Order ye the
buckler and shield, and draw near to battle. {46:4} Harness the horses;
and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth with [your] helmets; furbish
the spears, [and] put on the brigandines. {46:5} 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. {46:6} Let not the swift flee away, nor the
mighty man escape; they shall stumble, and fall toward the north by the
river Euphrates. {46:7} Who [is] this [that] cometh up as a flood,
whose waters are moved as the rivers? {46:8} 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. {46:9} 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.
{46:10} 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. {46:11} 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. {46:12} 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.

   {46:13} The word that the LORD spake to Jeremiah the prophet, how
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come [and] smite the land of
Egypt. {46:14} Declare ye in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish
in Noph and in Tahpanhes: say ye, Stand fast, and prepare thee; for the
sword shall devour round about thee. {46:15} Why are thy valiant [men]
swept away? they stood not, because the LORD did drive them. {46:16} He
made many to fall, yea, one fell upon another: and they said, Arise,
and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our nativity,
from the oppressing sword. {46:17} They did cry there, Pharaoh king of
Egypt [is but] a noise; he hath passed the time appointed. {46:18} [As]
I live, saith the King, whose name [is] the LORD of hosts, Surely as
Tabor [is] among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, [so] shall he
come. {46:19} O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go
into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an
inhabitant. {46:20} Egypt [is like] a very fair heifer, [but]
destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north. {46:21} Also her hired
men [are] in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for 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. {46:22} 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. {46:23} They shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD, though it
cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and
[are] innumerable. {46:24} The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded;
she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.
{46:25} The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saith; Behold, I will
punish the multitude of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their gods,
and their kings; even Pharaoh, and [all] them that trust in him:
{46:26} 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.

   {46:27} 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. {46:28} 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.

   {47:1} The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet
against the Philistines, before that Pharaoh smote Gaza. {47:2} Thus
saith the LORD; Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and 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. {47:3} 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; {47:4} 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. {47:5}
Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off [with] the remnant of
their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself? {47:6} O thou sword of
the LORD, how long [will it be] ere thou be quiet? put up thyself into
thy scabbard, rest, and be still. {47:7} How can it be quiet, seeing
the LORD hath given it a charge against Ashkelon, and against the sea
shore? there hath he appointed it.

   {48:1} Against Moab thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;
Woe unto Nebo! for it is spoiled: Kiriathaim is confounded [and] taken:
Misgab is confounded and dismayed. {48:2} [There shall be] no more
praise of Moab: in Heshbon they have 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. {48:3} A voice of crying [shall
be] from Horonaim, spoiling and great destruction. {48:4} Moab is
destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard. {48:5} For in
the going up of Luhith continual weeping shall go up; for in the going
down of Horonaim the enemies have heard a cry of destruction. {48:6}
Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.

   {48:7} 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. {48:8} 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. {48:9} Give wings unto Moab, that it may flee and get
away: for the cities thereof shall be desolate, without any to dwell
therein. {48:10} Cursed [be] he that doeth the work of the LORD
deceitfully, and cursed [be] he that keepeth back his sword from blood.

   {48:11} Moab hath been at ease from his youth, and he hath settled
on 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. {48:12} 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.
{48:13} And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel
was ashamed of Bethel their confidence.

   {48:14} How say ye, We [are] mighty and strong men for the war?
{48:15} 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. {48:16} The calamity of Moab [is] near to
come, and his affliction hasteth fast. {48:17} 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! {48:18} 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. {48:19} O inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way, and espy; ask
him that fleeth, and her that escapeth, [and] say, What is done?
{48:20} Moab is confounded; for it is broken down: howl and cry; and
tell ye it in Arnon, that Moab is spoiled, {48:21} And judgment is come
upon the plain country; upon Holon, and upon Jahazah, and upon
Mephaath, {48:22} And upon Dibon, and upon Nebo, and upon
Beth-diblathaim, {48:23} And upon Kiriathaim, and upon Beth-gamul, and
upon Beth-meon, {48:24} And upon Kerioth, and upon Bozrah, and upon all
the cities of the land of Moab, far or near. {48:25} The horn of Moab
is cut off, and his arm is broken, saith the LORD.

   {48:26} 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. {48:27} For was not Israel a derision unto thee? was he found
among thieves? for since thou spakest of him, thou skippedst for joy.
{48:28} 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. {48:29} 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. {48:30} I know his wrath, saith the LORD; but
[it shall] not [be] so; his lies shall not so effect [it. ]{48:31}
Therefore will I howl for Moab, and I will cry out for all Moab; [mine
heart] shall mourn for the men of Kir- heres. {48:32} O vine of Sibmah,
I will weep for thee with the weeping of Jazer: 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. {48:33} 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. {48:34} 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. {48:35} 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. {48:36} Therefore mine heart shall sound for Moab
like pipes, and mine heart shall sound like pipes for the men of
Kir-heres: because the riches [that] he hath gotten are perished.
{48:37} For every head [shall be] bald, and every beard clipped: upon
all the hands [shall be] cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.
{48:38} [There shall be] lamentation generally upon all the housetops
of Moab, and in the streets thereof: for I have broken Moab like a
vessel wherein [is] no pleasure, saith the LORD. {48:39} 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. {48:40} For thus saith the LORD; Behold, he shall fly as an
eagle, and shall spread his wings over Moab. {48:41} Kerioth is taken,
and the strong holds are surprised, and the mighty men's hearts in Moab
at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs. {48:42} And
Moab shall be destroyed from [being] a people, because he hath
magnified [himself] against the LORD. {48:43} Fear, and the pit, and
the snare, [shall be] upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith the LORD.
{48:44} He that fleeth from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he
that 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. {48:45} 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. {48:46} Woe be unto thee,
O Moab! the people of Chemosh perisheth: for thy sons are taken
captives, and thy daughters captives. {48:47} Yet will I bring again
the captivity of Moab in the latter days, saith the LORD. Thus far [is]
the judgment of Moab.

   {49:1} 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? {49:2} Therefore, behold, the days come,
saith the LORD, that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah
of the Ammonites; and it shall be a desolate heap, and her daughters
shall be burned with fire: then shall Israel be heir unto them that
were his heirs, saith the LORD. {49:3} Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is
spoiled: cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, 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. {49:4} Wherefore
gloriest thou in the valleys, thy flowing valley, O backsliding
daughter? that trusted in her treasures, [saying,] Who shall come unto
me? {49:5} Behold, I will bring a fear upon thee, saith the Lord GOD of
hosts, 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.
{49:6} And afterward I will bring again the captivity of the children
of Ammon, saith the LORD.

   {49:7} Concerning Edom, thus saith the LORD of hosts; [Is] wisdom no
more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom
vanished? {49:8} Flee ye, turn back, dwell deep, O inhabitants of
Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time [that]
I will visit him. {49:9} If grapegatherers come to thee, would they not
leave [some] gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, they will destroy
till they have enough. {49:10} 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. {49:11} Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve [them]
alive; and let thy widows trust in me. {49:12} For thus saith the LORD;
Behold, they whose judgment [was] not 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. ]{49:13} 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. {49:14} 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. {49:15} For, lo, I will make thee small among the heathen,
[and] despised among men. {49:16} 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. {49:17} Also Edom shall be a desolation: every one that
goeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues
thereof. {49:18} As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the
neighbour [cities] thereof, saith the LORD, no man shall abide there,
neither shall a son of man dwell in it. {49:19} 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? {49:20} 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. {49:21} The earth is moved at the noise of their fall, at the cry
the noise thereof was heard in the Red sea. {49:22} Behold, he shall
come up and fly as the eagle, and spread his 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.

   {49:23} 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. {49:24} 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. {49:25} How is the city
of praise not left, the city of my joy! {49:26} 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. {49:27} And I will kindle a fire in
the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Ben-hadad.

   {49:28} Concerning Kedar, and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor,
which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon shall smite, thus saith the LORD;
Arise ye, go up to Kedar, and spoil the men of the east. {49:29} 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.

   {49:30} 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. {49:31}
Arise, get you up unto the wealthy nation, that dwelleth without care,
saith the LORD, which have neither gates nor bars, [which] dwell alone.
{49:32} 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. {49:33} 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.

   {49:34} The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet
against Elam in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah,
saying, {49:35} Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the
bow of Elam, the chief of their might. {49:36} And upon Elam will I
bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven, and will scatter
them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the
outcasts of Elam shall not come. {49:37} 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:
{49:38} And I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from thence
the king and the princes, saith the LORD.

   {49:39} But it shall come to pass in the latter days, [that] I will
bring again the captivity of Elam, saith the LORD.

   {50:1} The word that the LORD spake against Babylon [and] against
the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet. {50:2} Declare ye
among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, [and]
conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is
broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in
pieces. {50:3} For out of the north there cometh up a nation against
her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein:
they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.

   {50:4} 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. {50:5} They
shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, [saying,] Come,
and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual covenant [that]
shall not be forgotten. {50:6} My people hath been lost sheep: their
shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away
[on] the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have
forgotten their restingplace. {50:7} 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. {50:8} Remove out of the midst of Babylon, and
go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the he goats
before the flocks.

   {50:9} For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an
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.
{50:10} And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be
satisfied, saith the LORD. {50:11} Because ye were glad, because ye
rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as
the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls; {50:12} Your mother shall be
sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the
hindermost of the nations [shall be] a wilderness, a dry land, and a
desert. {50:13} Because of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be
inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate: every one that goeth by
Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues. {50:14} Put
yourselves in array against Babylon round about: all ye that bend the
bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she hath sinned against the
LORD. {50:15} 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. {50:16} 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.

   {50:17} 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. {50:18} 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. {50:19} 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. {50:20} 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.

   {50:21} 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.
{50:22} A sound of battle [is] in the land, and of great destruction.
{50:23} How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken!
how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations! {50:24} I have
laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou
wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast
striven against the LORD. {50:25} 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. {50:26}
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.
{50:27} Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe
unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation. {50:28}
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. {50:29} 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. {50:30} Therefore shall her young men fall in
the streets, and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith
the LORD. {50:31} Behold, I [am] against thee, [O thou] most proud,
saith the Lord GOD of hosts: for thy day is come, the time [that] I
will visit thee. {50:32} 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.

   {50:33} 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. {50:34} 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.

   {50:35} A sword [is] upon the Chaldeans, saith the LORD, and upon
the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise
[men. ]{50:36} A sword [is] upon the liars; and they shall dote: a
sword [is] upon her mighty men; and they shall be dismayed. {50:37} A
sword [is] upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and 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.
{50:38} 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.
{50:39} 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. {50:40} 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. {50:41}
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. {50:42}
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. {50:43} 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. {50:44} 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? {50:45} 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. {50:46} At the noise of the taking of Babylon the
earth is moved, and the cry is heard among the nations.

   {51:1} 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; {51:2} 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. {51:3} 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. {51:4} Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the
Chaldeans, and [they that are] thrust through in her streets. {51:5}
For Israel [hath] not [been] forsaken, nor Judah of his God, of the
LORD of hosts; though their land was filled with sin against the Holy
One of Israel. {51:6} 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.
{51:7} 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. {51:8} Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed:
howl for her; take balm for her pain, if so she may be healed. {51:9}
We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake 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. {51:10} The LORD
hath brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us declare in Zion
the work of the LORD our God. {51:11} 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. {51:12}
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. {51:13} O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in
treasures, thine end is come, [and] the measure of thy covetousness.
{51:14} The LORD of hosts hath sworn by himself, [saying,] Surely I
will fill thee with men, as with caterpillers; and they shall lift up a
shout against thee. {51:15} 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. {51:16} When he uttereth [his] voice,
[there is] a multitude of waters in the heavens; and he causeth the
vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth: he maketh lightnings with
rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures. {51:17} 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. {51:18} They [are] vanity, the work of errors: in the
time of their visitation they shall perish. {51:19} The portion of
Jacob [is] not like them; for he [is] the former of all things: and
[Israel is] the rod of his inheritance: the LORD of hosts is his name.
{51:20} 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; {51:21} 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; {51:22} 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; {51:23} 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. {51:24} 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. {51:25} 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. {51:26}
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.
{51:27} 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. {51:28}
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. {51:29} And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every
purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon, to make the
land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant. {51:30} The mighty
men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have remained in [their]
holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned
her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken. {51:31} 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, {51:32} And that the
passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the
men of war are affrighted. {51:33} For thus saith the LORD of hosts,
the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon [is] like a threshingfloor,
[it is] time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her
harvest shall come. {51:34} Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath
devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he
hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my
delicates, he hath cast me out. {51:35} The violence done to me and to
my flesh [be] upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and my
blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say. {51:36}
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. {51:37} And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling place for
dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.
{51:38} They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions'
whelps. {51:39} 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. {51:40} I will bring them down like lambs to
the slaughter, like rams with he goats. {51:41} How is Sheshach taken!
and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon
become an astonishment among the nations! {51:42} The sea is come up
upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
{51:43} Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a
land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth [any] son of man pass
thereby. {51:44} 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. {51:45} My people, go ye out of the midst of her, and
deliver ye every man his soul from the fierce anger of the LORD.
{51:46} And lest your heart faint, and ye fear for the rumour that
shall be 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. {51:47} 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. {51:48} 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. {51:49} As Babylon [hath caused] the
slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the
earth. {51:50} Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not
still: remember the LORD afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your
mind. {51:51} 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. {51:52} 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. {51:53} 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. {51:54} A
sound of a cry [cometh] from Babylon, and great destruction from the
land of the Chaldeans: {51:55} Because the LORD hath spoiled Babylon,
and destroyed out of her the great voice; when her waves do roar like
great waters, a noise of their voice is uttered: {51:56} 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. {51:57} 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. {51:58} 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.

   {51:59} 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. {51:60} So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the
evil that should come upon Babylon, [even] all these words that are
written against Babylon. {51:61} And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When
thou comest to Babylon, and shalt see, and shalt read all these words;
{51:62} 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. {51:63} 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: {51:64} 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.

   {52:1} Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign,
and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was]
Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. {52:2} And he did [that
which was] evil in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that
Jehoiakim had done. {52:3} For through the anger of the LORD it came to
pass in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had cast them out from his
presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

   {52:4} And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the
tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, [that] Nebuchadrezzar king
of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and pitched
against it, and built forts against it round about. {52:5} So the city
was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. {52:6} 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. {52:7}
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.

   {52:8} 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. {52:9} Then they took the king, and carried him up
unto the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; where he gave
judgment upon him. {52:10} And the king of Babylon slew the sons of
Zedekiah before his eyes: he slew also all the princes of Judah in
Riblah. {52:11} Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of
Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in
prison till the day of his death.

   {52:12} Now in the fifth month, in the tenth [day] of the month,
which [was] the nineteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, came
Nebuzar-adan, captain of the guard, [which] served the king of Babylon,
into Jerusalem, {52:13} And burned the house of the LORD, and the
king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of
the great [men,] burned he with fire: {52:14} And all the army of the
Chaldeans, that [were] with the captain of the guard, brake down all
the walls of Jerusalem round about. {52:15} Then Nebuzar-adan 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. {52:16} But Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard left
[certain] of the poor of the land for vinedressers and for husbandmen.
{52:17} Also the pillars of brass that [were] in the house of the LORD,
and 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.
{52:18} 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. {52:19} 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.
{52:20} 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. {52:21} 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. {52:22} 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. {52:23} And there were ninety and six pomegranates on a side;
[and] all the pomegranates upon the network [were] an hundred round
about.

   {52:24} And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest,
and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door:
{52:25} 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. {52:26} So
Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to
the king of Babylon to Riblah. {52:27} And the king of Babylon smote
them, and put them to death in Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah
was carried away captive out of his own land. {52:28} This is the
people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year
three thousand Jews and three and twenty: {52:29} In the eighteenth
year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight
hundred thirty and two persons: {52:30} In the three and twentieth year
of Nebuchadrezzar Nebuzar- adan 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.

   {52:31} 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] Evil-merodach 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, {52:32}
And spake kindly unto him, and set his throne above the throne of the
kings that [were] with him in Babylon, {52:33} And changed his prison
garments: and he did continually eat bread before him all the days of
his life. {52:34} And [for] his diet, there was a continual diet given
him of the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his
death, all the days of his life.





The Book of Job

   {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. {1:2} And there were born unto him seven sons and three
daughters. {1:3} His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three
thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she
asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of
all the men of the east. {1:4} And his sons went and feasted [in their]
houses, every one his day; and sent and called for their three sisters
to eat and to drink with them. {1:5} 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.

   {1:6} Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present
themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them. {1:7} 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. {1:8} 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?
{1:9} Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for
nought? {1:10} 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. {1:11}
But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will
curse thee to thy face. {1:12} And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold,
all that he hath [is] in thy power; only upon himself put not forth
thine hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD.

   {1:13} And there was a day when his sons and his daughters [were]
eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house: {1:14} And
there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and
the asses feeding beside them: {1:15} And the Sabeans fell [upon them,]
and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of
the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. {1:16} 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. {1:17}
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. {1:18} 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: {1:19} 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.
{1:20} Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and
fell down upon the ground, and worshipped, {1:21} 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.
{1:22} In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.

   {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. {2:2} 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. {2:3} 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. {2:4} And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea,
all that a man hath will he give for his life. {2:5} But put forth
thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse
thee to thy face. {2:6} And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, he [is]
in thine hand; but save his life.

   {2:7} So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote
Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown. {2:8} And
he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among
the ashes.

   {2:9} Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine
integrity? curse God, and die. {2:10} But he said unto her, Thou
speakest as one of the foolish 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.

   {2:11} 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. {2:12} 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.
{2:13} 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.

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

   {4:1} Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said, {4:2} [If] we
assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold
himself from speaking? {4:3} Behold, thou hast instructed many, and
thou hast strengthened the weak hands. {4:4} Thy words have upholden
him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.
{4:5} But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth
thee, and thou art troubled. {4:6} [Is] not [this] thy fear, thy
confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways? {4:7} Remember,
I pray thee, who [ever] perished, being innocent? or where were the
righteous cut off? {4:8} Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity,
and sow wickedness, reap the same. {4:9} By the blast of God they
perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed. {4:10} The
roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of
the young lions, are broken. {4:11} The old lion perisheth for lack of
prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad. {4:12} Now a
thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little
thereof. {4:13} In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep
sleep falleth on men, {4:14} Fear came upon me, and trembling, which
made all my bones to shake. {4:15} Then a spirit passed before my face;
the hair of my flesh stood up: {4:16} 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, ]{4:17} Shall mortal man be more
just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker? {4:18} Behold,
he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly:
{4:19} How much less [in] them that dwell in houses of clay, whose
foundation [is] in the dust, [which] are crushed before the moth?
{4:20} They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever
without any regarding [it. ]{4:21} Doth not their excellency [which is]
in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.

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

   {6:1} But Job answered and said, {6:2} O that my grief were
throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! {6:3}
For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my
words are swallowed up. {6:4} For the arrows of the Almighty [are]
within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God
do set themselves in array against me. {6:5} Doth the wild ass bray
when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder? {6:6} Can that
which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there [any] taste in
the white of an egg? {6:7} The things [that] my soul refused to touch
[are] as my sorrowful meat. {6:8} Oh that I might have my request; and
that God would grant [me] the thing that I long for! {6:9} Even that it
would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and
cut me off! {6:10} Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden
myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words
of the Holy One. {6:11} What [is] my strength, that I should hope? and
what [is] mine end, that I should prolong my life? {6:12} [Is] my
strength the strength of stones? or [is] my flesh of brass? {6:13} [Is]
not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me? {6:14} To him
that is afflicted pity [should be shewed] from his friend; but he
forsaketh the fear of the Almighty. {6:15} My brethren have dealt
deceitfully as a brook, [and] as the stream of brooks they pass away;
{6:16} Which are blackish by reason of the ice, [and] wherein the snow
is hid: {6:17} What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot,
they are consumed out of their place. {6:18} The paths of their way are
turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish. {6:19} The troops of Tema
looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them. {6:20} They were
confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.
{6:21} For now ye are no thing; ye see [my] casting down, and are
afraid. {6:22} Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of
your substance? {6:23} Or, Deliver me from the enemy's hand? or, Redeem
me from the hand of the mighty? {6:24} Teach me, and I will hold my
tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred. {6:25} How
forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove? {6:26} Do
ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate,
[which are] as wind? {6:27} Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye
dig [a pit] for your friend. {6:28} Now therefore be content, look upon
me; for [it is] evident unto you if I lie. {6:29} Return, I pray you,
let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness [is] in it.
{6:30} Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse
things?

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

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

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

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

   {11:1} Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said, {11:2} Should
not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk
be justified? {11:3} Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and
when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed? {11:4} For thou hast
said, My doctrine [is] pure, and I am clean in thine eyes. {11:5} But
oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee; {11:6} 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. ]{11:7} Canst thou by searching find out
God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? {11:8} [It is]
as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst
thou know? {11:9} The measure thereof [is] longer than the earth, and
broader than the sea. {11:10} If he cut off, and shut up, or gather
together, then who can hinder him? {11:11} For he knoweth vain men: he
seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider [it? ]{11:12} For vain
man would be wise, though man be born [like] a wild ass's colt. {11:13}
If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him;
{11:14} If iniquity [be] in thine hand, put it far away, and let not
wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles. {11:15} For then shalt thou lift
up thy face without spot; yea, thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not
fear: {11:16} Because thou shalt forget [thy] misery, [and] remember
[it] as waters [that] pass away: {11:17} And [thine] age shall be
clearer than the noonday; thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the
morning. {11:18} And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; yea,
thou shalt dig [about thee, and] thou shalt take thy rest in safety.
{11:19} Also thou shalt lie down, and none shall make [thee] afraid;
yea, many shall make suit unto thee. {11:20} But the eyes of the wicked
shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope [shall be as] the
giving up of the ghost.

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

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

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

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

   {16:1} Then Job answered and said, {16:2} I have heard many such
things: miserable comforters [are] ye all. {16:3} Shall vain words have
an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest? {16:4} 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. {16:5} [But] I
would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should
asswage [your grief. ]{16:6} Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged:
and [though] I forbear, what am I eased? {16:7} But now he hath made me
weary: thou hast made desolate all my company. {16:8} And thou hast
filled me with wrinkles, [which] is a witness [against me:] and my
leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face. {16:9} He teareth
[me] in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth;
mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me. {16:10} They have gaped upon me
with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully;
they have gathered themselves together against me. {16:11} God hath
delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the
wicked. {16:12} I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath
also taken [me] by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for
his mark. {16:13} His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my
reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the
ground. {16:14} He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon
me like a giant. {16:15} I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and
defiled my horn in the dust. {16:16} My face is foul with weeping, and
my eyelids is the shadow of death; {16:17} Not for [any] injustice in
mine hands: also my prayer [is] pure. {16:18} O earth, cover not thou
my blood, and let my cry have no place. {16:19} Also now, behold, my
witness [is] in heaven, and my record [is] on high. {16:20} My friends
scorn me: [but] mine eye poureth out [tears] unto God. {16:21} Oh that
one might plead for a man with God, as a man [pleadeth] for his
neighbour! {16:22} When a few years are come, then I shall go the way
[whence] I shall not return.

   {17:1} My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves [are
ready] for me. {17:2} [Are there] not mockers with me? and doth not
mine eye continue in their provocation? {17:3} Lay down now, put me in
a surety with thee; who [is] he [that] will strike hands with me?
{17:4} For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore
shalt thou not exalt [them. ]{17:5} He that speaketh flattery to [his]
friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail. {17:6} He hath made
me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret. {17:7}
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members [are] as a
shadow. {17:8} Upright [men] shall be astonied at this, and the
innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite. {17:9} The
righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands
shall be stronger and stronger. {17:10} But as for you all, do ye
return, and come now: for I cannot find [one] wise [man] among you.
{17:11} My days are past, my purposes are broken off, [even] the
thoughts of my heart. {17:12} They change the night into day: the light
[is] short because of darkness. {17:13} If I wait, the grave [is] mine
house: I have made my bed in the darkness. {17:14} I have said to
corruption, Thou [art] my father: to the worm, [Thou art] my mother,
and my sister. {17:15} And where [is] now my hope? as for my hope, who
shall see it? {17:16} They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when
[our] rest together [is] in the dust.

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

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

   {20:1} Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said, {20:2}
Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for [this] I make
haste. {20:3} I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of
my understanding causeth me to answer. {20:4} Knowest thou [not] this
of old, since man was placed upon earth, {20:5} That the triumphing of
the wicked [is] short, and the joy of the hypocrite [but] for a moment?
{20:6} Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head
reach unto the clouds; {20:7} [Yet] he shall perish for ever like his
own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where [is] he? {20:8} He
shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be
chased away as a vision of the night. {20:9} The eye also [which] saw
him shall [see him] no more; neither shall his place any more behold
him. {20:10} His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands
shall restore their goods. {20:11} His bones are full [of the sin] of
his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust. {20:12} Though
wickedness be sweet in his mouth, [though] he hide it under his tongue;
{20:13} [Though] he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still
within his mouth: {20:14} [Yet] his meat in his bowels is turned, [it
is] the gall of asps within him. {20:15} He hath swallowed down riches,
and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.
{20:16} He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay
him. {20:17} He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of
honey and butter. {20:18} 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. ]{20:19}
Because he hath oppressed [and] hath forsaken the poor; [because] he
hath violently taken away an house which he builded not; {20:20} Surely
he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that
which he desired. {20:21} There shall none of his meat be left;
therefore shall no man look for his goods. {20:22} In the fulness of
his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall
come upon him. {20:23} [When] he is about to fill his belly, [God]
shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain [it] upon him
while he is eating. {20:24} He shall flee from the iron weapon, [and]
the bow of steel shall strike him through. {20:25} It is drawn, and
cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his
gall: terrors [are] upon him. {20:26} All darkness [shall be] hid in
his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill
with him that is left in his tabernacle. {20:27} The heaven shall
reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him. {20:28}
The increase of his house shall depart, [and his goods] shall flow away
in the day of his wrath. {20:29} This [is] the portion of a wicked man
from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.

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

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

   {23:1} Then Job answered and said, {23:2} Even to day [is] my
complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning. {23:3} Oh that
I knew where I might find him! [that] I might come [even] to his seat!
{23:4} I would order [my] cause before him, and fill my mouth with
arguments. {23:5} I would know the words [which] he would answer me,
and understand what he would say unto me. {23:6} Will he plead against
me with [his] great power? No; but he would put [strength] in me.
{23:7} There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be
delivered for ever from my judge. {23:8} Behold, I go forward, but he
[is] not [there;] and backward, but I cannot perceive him: {23:9} On
the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold [him:] he hideth
himself on the right hand, that I cannot see [him: ]{23:10} But he
knoweth the way that I take: [when] he hath tried me, I shall come
forth as gold. {23:11} My foot hath held his steps, his way have I
kept, and not declined. {23:12} Neither have I gone back from the
commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more
than my necessary [food. ]{23:13} But he [is] in one [mind,] and who
can turn him? and [what] his soul desireth, even [that] he doeth.
{23:14} For he performeth [the thing that is] appointed for me: and
many such [things are] with him. {23:15} Therefore am I troubled at his
presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him. {23:16} For God maketh
my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me: {23:17} Because I was not
cut off before the darkness, [neither] hath he covered the darkness
from my face.

   {24:1} Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they
that know him not see his days? {24:2} [Some] remove the landmarks;
they violently take away flocks, and feed [thereof. ]{24:3} They drive
away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
{24:4} They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide
themselves together. {24:5} 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. {24:6} They reap
[every one] his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the
wicked. {24:7} They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that
[they have] no covering in the cold. {24:8} They are wet with the
showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
{24:9} They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of
the poor. {24:10} They cause [him] to go naked without clothing, and
they take away the sheaf [from] the hungry; {24:11} [Which] make oil
within their walls, [and] tread [their] winepresses, and suffer thirst.
{24:12} Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded
crieth out: yet God layeth not folly [to them. ]{24:13} They are of
those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor
abide in the paths thereof. {24:14} The murderer rising with the light
killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief. {24:15} The
eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye
shall see me: and disguiseth [his] face. {24:16} In the dark they dig
through houses, [which] they had marked for themselves in the daytime:
they know not the light. {24:17} For the morning [is] to them even as
the shadow of death: if [one] know [them, they are in] the terrors of
the shadow of death. {24:18} He [is] swift as the waters; their portion
is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.
{24:19} Drought and heat consume the snow waters: [so doth] the grave
[those which] have sinned. {24:20} The womb shall forget him; the worm
shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and
wickedness shall be broken as a tree. {24:21} He evil entreateth the
barren that [beareth] not: and doeth not good to the widow. {24:22} He
draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no [man] is
sure of life. {24:23} [Though] it be given him [to be] in safety,
whereon he resteth; yet his eyes [are] upon their ways. {24:24} They
are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are
taken out of the way as all [other,] and cut off as the tops of the
ears of corn. {24:25} And if [it be] not [so] now, who will make me a
liar, and make my speech nothing worth?

   {25:1} Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, {25:2} Dominion
and fear [are] with him, he maketh peace in his high places. {25:3} Is
there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his light arise?
{25:4} How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean
[that is] born of a woman? {25:5} Behold even to the moon, and it
shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight. {25:6} How much
less man, [that is] a worm? and the son of man, [which is] a worm?

   {26:1} But Job answered and said, {26:2} How hast thou helped [him
that is] without power? [how] savest thou the arm [that hath] no
strength? {26:3} How hast thou counseled [him that hath] no wisdom? and
[how] hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is? {26:4} To whom
hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee? {26:5} Dead
[things] are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.
{26:6} Hell [is] naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.
{26:7} He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, [and] hangeth
the earth upon nothing. {26:8} He bindeth up the waters in his thick
clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them. {26:9} He holdeth back
the face of his throne, [and] spreadeth his cloud upon it. {26:10} He
hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to
an end. {26:11} The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his
reproof. {26:12} He divideth the sea with his power, and by his
understanding he smiteth through the proud. {26:13} By his spirit he
hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent.
{26:14} Lo, these [are] parts of his ways: but how little a portion is
heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?

   {27:1} Moreover Job continued his parable, and said, {27:2} [As] God
liveth, [who] hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, [who] hath
vexed my soul; {27:3} All the while my breath [is] in me, and the
spirit of God [is] in my nostrils; {27:4} My lips shall not speak
wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit. {27:5} God forbid that I should
justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me.
{27:6} My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart
shall not reproach [me] so long as I live. {27:7} Let mine enemy be as
the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous. {27:8}
For what [is] the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when
God taketh away his soul? {27:9} Will God hear his cry when trouble
cometh upon him? {27:10} Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will
he always call upon God? {27:11} I will teach you by the hand of God:
[that] which [is] with the Almighty will I not conceal. {27:12} Behold,
all ye yourselves have seen [it;] why then are ye thus altogether vain?
{27:13} This [is] the portion of a wicked man with God, and the
heritage of oppressors, [which] they shall receive of the Almighty.
{27:14} If his children be multiplied, [it is] for the sword: and his
offspring shall not be satisfied with bread. {27:15} Those that remain
of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep. {27:16}
Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;
{27:17} He may prepare [it,] but the just shall put [it] on, and the
innocent shall divide the silver. {27:18} He buildeth his house as a
moth, and as a booth [that] the keeper maketh. {27:19} The rich man
shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he openeth his eyes, and
he [is] not. {27:20} Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest
stealeth him away in the night. {27:21} The east wind carrieth him
away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.
{27:22} For [God] shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain
flee out of his hand. {27:23} [Men] shall clap their hands at him, and
shall hiss him out of his place.

   {28:1} Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold
[where] they fine [it. ]{28:2} Iron is taken out of the earth, and
brass [is] molten [out of] the stone. {28:3} He setteth an end to
darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and
the shadow of death. {28:4} The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant;
[even the waters] forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are
gone away from men. {28:5} [As for] the earth, out of it cometh bread:
and under it is turned up as it were fire. {28:6} The stones of it
[are] the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold. {28:7} [There
is] a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not
seen: {28:8} The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion
passed by it. {28:9} He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he
overturneth the mountains by the roots. {28:10} He cutteth out rivers
among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing. {28:11} He
bindeth the floods from overflowing; and [the thing that is] hid
bringeth he forth to light. {28:12} But where shall wisdom be found?
and where [is] the place of understanding? {28:13} Man knoweth not the
price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living. {28:14}
The depth saith, It [is] not in me: and the sea saith, [It is] not with
me. {28:15} It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be
weighed [for] the price thereof. {28:16} It cannot be valued with the
gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire. {28:17} The
gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it [shall not
be for] jewels of fine gold. {28:18} No mention shall be made of coral,
or of pearls: for the price of wisdom [is] above rubies. {28:19} The
topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with
pure gold. {28:20} Whence then cometh wisdom? and where [is] the place
of understanding? {28:21} Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living,
and kept close from the fowls of the air. {28:22} Destruction and death
say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears. {28:23} God
understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.
{28:24} For he looketh to the ends of the earth, [and] seeth under the
whole heaven; {28:25} To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth
the waters by measure. {28:26} When he made a decree for the rain, and
a way for the lightning of the thunder: {28:27} Then did he see it, and
declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out. {28:28} And unto
man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that [is] wisdom; and to
depart from evil [is] understanding.

   {29:1} Moreover Job continued his parable, and said, {29:2} Oh that
I were as [in] months past, as [in] the days [when] God preserved me;
{29:3} When his candle shined upon my head, [and when] by his light I
walked [through] darkness; {29:4} As I was in the days of my youth,
when the secret of God [was] upon my tabernacle; {29:5} When the
Almighty [was] yet with me, [when] my children [were] about me; {29:6}
When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers
of oil; {29:7} When I went out to the gate through the city, [when] I
prepared my seat in the street! {29:8} The young men saw me, and hid
themselves: and the aged arose, [and] stood up. {29:9} The princes
refrained talking, and laid [their] hand on their mouth. {29:10} The
nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their
mouth. {29:11} When the ear heard [me,] then it blessed me; and when
the eye saw [me,] it gave witness to me: {29:12} Because I delivered
the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and [him that had] none to
help him. {29:13} The blessing of him that was ready to perish came
upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. {29:14} I put
on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment [was] as a robe and a
diadem. {29:15} I was eyes to the blind, and feet [was] I to the lame.
{29:16} I [was] a father to the poor: and the cause [which] I knew not
I searched out. {29:17} And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked
the spoil out of his teeth. {29:18} Then I said, I shall die in my
nest, and I shall multiply [my] days as the sand. {29:19} My root [was]
spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.
{29:20} My glory [was] fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.
{29:21} Unto me [men] gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my
counsel. {29:22} After my words they spake not again; and my speech
dropped upon them. {29:23} And they waited for me as for the rain; and
they opened their mouth wide [as] for the latter rain. {29:24} [If] I
laughed on them, they believed [it] not; and the light of my
countenance they cast not down. {29:25} I chose out their way, and sat
chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one [that] comforteth the
mourners.

   {30:1} 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. {30:2} Yea, whereto [might] the strength of their hands [profit]
me, in whom old age was perished? {30:3} For want and famine [they
were] solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and
waste. {30:4} Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots [for]
their meat. {30:5} They were driven forth from among [men,] (they cried
after them as [after] a thief;) {30:6} To dwell in the cliffs of the
valleys, [in] caves of the earth, and [in] the rocks. {30:7} Among the
bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.
{30:8} [They were] children of fools, yea, children of base men: they
were viler than the earth. {30:9} And now am I their song, yea, I am
their byword. {30:10} They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare
not to spit in my face. {30:11} Because he hath loosed my cord, and
afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me. {30:12}
Upon [my] right [hand] rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they
raise up against me the ways of their destruction. {30:13} They mar my
path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper. {30:14} They
came [upon me] as a wide breaking in [of waters:] in the desolation
they rolled themselves [upon me. ]{30:15} Terrors are turned upon me:
they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a
cloud. {30:16} And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of
affliction have taken hold upon me. {30:17} My bones are pierced in me
in the night season: and my sinews take no rest. {30:18} By the great
force [of my disease] is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the
collar of my coat. {30:19} He hath cast me into the mire, and I am
become like dust and ashes. {30:20} I cry unto thee, and thou dost not
hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me [not. ]{30:21} Thou art
become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against
me. {30:22} Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride
[upon it,] and dissolvest my substance. {30:23} For I know [that] thou
wilt bring me [to] death, and [to] the house appointed for all living.
{30:24} Howbeit he will not stretch out [his] hand to the grave, though
they cry in his destruction. {30:25} Did not I weep for him that was in
trouble? was [not] my soul grieved for the poor? {30:26} When I looked
for good, then evil came [unto me:] and when I waited for light, there
came darkness. {30:27} My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of
affliction prevented me. {30:28} I went mourning without the sun: I
stood up, [and] I cried in the congregation. {30:29} I am a brother to
dragons, and a companion to owls. {30:30} My skin is black upon me, and
my bones are burned with heat. {30:31} My harp also is [turned] to
mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.

   {31:1} I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think
upon a maid? {31:2} For what portion of God [is there] from above? and
[what] inheritance of the Almighty from on high? {31:3} [Is] not
destruction to the wicked? and a strange [punishment] to the workers of
iniquity? {31:4} Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?
{31:5} If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to
deceit; {31:6} Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know
mine integrity. {31:7} If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine
heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine
hands; {31:8} [Then] let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my
offspring be rooted out. {31:9} If mine heart have been deceived by a
woman, or [if] I have laid wait at my neighbour's door; {31:10} [Then]
let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.
{31:11} For this [is] an heinous crime; yea, it [is] an iniquity [to be
punished by] the judges. {31:12} For it [is] a fire [that] consumeth to
destruction, and would root out all mine increase. {31:13} If I did
despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they
contended with me; {31:14} What then shall I do when God riseth up? and
when he visiteth, what shall I answer him? {31:15} Did not he that made
me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
{31:16} If I have withheld the poor from [their] desire, or have caused
the eyes of the widow to fail; {31:17} Or have eaten my morsel myself
alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof; {31:18} (For from my
youth he was brought up with me, as [with] a father, and I have guided
her from my mother's womb;) {31:19} If I have seen any perish for want
of clothing, or any poor without covering; {31:20} If his loins have
not blessed me, and [if] he were [not] warmed with the fleece of my
sheep; {31:21} If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when
I saw my help in the gate: {31:22} [Then] let mine arm fall from my
shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone. {31:23} For
destruction [from] God [was] a terror to me, and by reason of his
highness I could not endure. {31:24} If I have made gold my hope, or
have said to the fine gold, [Thou art] my confidence; {31:25} If I
rejoiced because my wealth [was] great, and because mine hand had
gotten much; {31:26} If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon
walking [in] brightness; {31:27} And my heart hath been secretly
enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand: {31:28} This also [were] an
iniquity [to be punished by] the judge: for I should have denied the
God [that is] above. {31:29} If I rejoiced at the destruction of him
that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him: {31:30} Neither
have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul. {31:31}
If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we
cannot be satisfied. {31:32} The stranger did not lodge in the street:
[but] I opened my doors to the traveller. {31:33} If I covered my
transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom: {31:34}
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? {31:35} Oh
that one would hear me! behold, my desire [is, that] the Almighty would
answer me, and [that] mine adversary had written a book. {31:36} Surely
I would take it upon my shoulder, [and] bind it [as] a crown to me.
{31:37} I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince
would I go near unto him. {31:38} If my land cry against me, or that
the furrows likewise thereof complain; {31:39} If I have eaten the
fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose
their life: {31:40} Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle
instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.

   {32:1} So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he [was]
righteous in his own eyes. {32:2} Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu
the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram: against Job was
his wrath kindled, because he justified himself rather than God. {32:3}
Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had
found no answer, and yet had condemned Job. {32:4} Now Elihu had waited
till Job had spoken, because they were elder than he. {32:5} When Elihu
saw that [there was] no answer in the mouth of [these] three men, then
his wrath was kindled. {32:6} And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite
answered and said, I [am] young, and ye [are] very old; wherefore I was
afraid, and durst not shew you mine opinion. {32:7} I said, Days should
speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom. {32:8} But [there
is] a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them
understanding. {32:9} Great men are not [always] wise: neither do the
aged understand judgment. {32:10} Therefore I said, Hearken to me; I
also will shew mine opinion. {32:11} Behold, I waited for your words; I
gave ear to your reasons, whilst ye searched out what to say. {32:12}
Yea, I attended unto you, and, behold, [there was] none of you that
convinced Job, or that answered his words: {32:13} Lest ye should say,
We have found out wisdom: God thrusteth him down, not man. {32:14} Now
he hath not directed [his] words against me: neither will I answer him
with your speeches. {32:15} They were amazed, they answered no more:
they left off speaking. {32:16} When I had waited, (for they spake not,
but stood still, [and] answered no more;) {32:17} [I said,] I will
answer also my part, I also will shew mine opinion. {32:18} For I am
full of matter, the spirit within me constraineth me. {32:19} Behold,
my belly [is] as wine [which] hath no vent; it is ready to burst like
new bottles. {32:20} I will speak, that I may be refreshed: I will open
my lips and answer. {32:21} Let me not, I pray you, accept any man's
person, neither let me give flattering titles unto man. {32:22} For I
know not to give flattering titles; [in so doing] my maker would soon
take me away.

   {33:1} Wherefore, Job, I pray thee, hear my speeches, and hearken to
all my words. {33:2} Behold, now I have opened my mouth, my tongue hath
spoken in my mouth. {33:3} My words [shall be of] the uprightness of my
heart: and my lips shall utter knowledge clearly. {33:4} The Spirit of
God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.
{33:5} If thou canst answer me, set [thy words] in order before me,
stand up. {33:6} Behold, I [am] according to thy wish in God's stead: I
also am formed out of the clay. {33:7} Behold, my terror shall not make
thee afraid, neither shall my hand be heavy upon thee. {33:8} Surely
thou hast spoken in mine hearing, and I have heard the voice of [thy]
words, [saying, ]{33:9} I am clean without transgression, I [am]
innocent; neither [is there] iniquity in me. {33:10} Behold, he findeth
occasions against me, he counteth me for his enemy, {33:11} He putteth
my feet in the stocks, he marketh all my paths. {33:12} Behold, [in]
this thou art not just: I will answer thee, that God is greater than
man. {33:13} Why dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not
account of any of his matters. {33:14} For God speaketh once, yea
twice, [yet man] perceiveth it not. {33:15} In a dream, in a vision of
the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the
bed; {33:16} Then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their
instruction, {33:17} That he may withdraw man [from his] purpose, and
hide pride from man. {33:18} He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and
his life from perishing by the sword. {33:19} He is chastened also with
pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong [pain:
]{33:20} So that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat.
{33:21} His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his
bones [that] were not seen stick out. {33:22} Yea, his soul draweth
near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers. {33:23} If there
be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to shew
unto man his uprightness: {33:24} Then he is gracious unto him, and
saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.
{33:25} His flesh shall be fresher than a child's: he shall return to
the days of his youth: {33:26} He shall pray unto God, and he will be
favourable unto him: and he shall see his face with joy: for he will
render unto man his righteousness. {33:27} He looketh upon men, and [if
any] say, I have sinned, and perverted [that which was] right, and it
profited me not; {33:28} He will deliver his soul from going into the
pit, and his life shall see the light. {33:29} Lo, all these [things]
worketh God oftentimes with man, {33:30} To bring back his soul from
the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living. {33:31} Mark
well, O Job, hearken unto me: hold thy peace, and I will speak. {33:32}
If thou hast any thing to say, answer me: speak, for I desire to
justify thee. {33:33} If not, hearken unto me: hold thy peace, and I
shall teach thee wisdom.

   {34:1} Furthermore Elihu answered and said, {34:2} Hear my words, O
ye wise [men;] and give ear unto me, ye that have knowledge. {34:3} For
the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat. {34:4} Let us choose
to us judgment: let us know among ourselves what [is] good. {34:5} For
Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment.
{34:6} Should I lie against my right? my wound [is] incurable without
transgression. {34:7} What man [is] like Job, [who] drinketh up
scorning like water? {34:8} Which goeth in company with the workers of
iniquity, and walketh with wicked men. {34:9} For he hath said, It
profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.
{34:10} Therefore hearken unto me, ye men of understanding: far be it
from God, [that he should do] wickedness; and [from] the Almighty,
[that he should commit] iniquity. {34:11} For the work of a man shall
he render unto him, and cause every man to find according to [his]
ways. {34:12} Yea, surely God will not do wickedly, neither will the
Almighty pervert judgment. {34:13} Who hath given him a charge over the
earth? or who hath disposed the whole world? {34:14} If he set his
heart upon man, [if] he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath;
{34:15} All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto
dust. {34:16} If now [thou hast] understanding, hear this: hearken to
the voice of my words. {34:17} Shall even he that hateth right govern?
and wilt thou condemn him that is most just? {34:18} [Is it fit] to say
to a king, [Thou art] wicked? [and] to princes, [Ye are] ungodly?
{34:19} [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. {34:20} 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. {34:21} For his eyes [are] upon the
ways of man, and he seeth all his goings. {34:22} [There is] no
darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide
themselves. {34:23} For he will not lay upon man more [than right;]
that he should enter into judgment with God. {34:24} He shall break in
pieces mighty men without number, and set others in their stead.
{34:25} Therefore he knoweth their works, and he overturneth [them] in
the night, so that they are destroyed. {34:26} He striketh them as
wicked men in the open sight of others; {34:27} Because they turned
back from him, and would not consider any of his ways: {34:28} So that
they cause the cry of the poor to come unto him, and he heareth the cry
of the afflicted. {34:29} When he giveth quietness, who then can make
trouble? and when he hideth [his] face, who then can behold him?
whether [it be done] against a nation, or against a man only: {34:30}
That the hypocrite reign not, lest the people be ensnared. {34:31}
Surely it is meet to be said unto God, I have borne [chastisement,] I
will not offend [any more: ]{34:32} [That which] I see not teach thou
me: if I have done iniquity, I will do no more. {34:33} [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.
{34:34} Let men of understanding tell me, and let a wise man hearken
unto me. {34:35} Job hath spoken without knowledge, and his words
[were] without wisdom. {34:36} My desire [is that] Job may be tried
unto the end because of [his] answers for wicked men. {34:37} For he
addeth rebellion unto his sin, he clappeth [his hands] among us, and
multiplieth his words against God.

   {35:1} Elihu spake moreover, and said, {35:2} Thinkest thou this to
be right, [that] thou saidst, My righteousness [is] more than God's?
{35:3} For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? [and,]
What profit shall I have, [if I be cleansed] from my sin? {35:4} I will
answer thee, and thy companions with thee. {35:5} Look unto the
heavens, and see; and behold the clouds [which] are higher than thou.
{35:6} If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or [if] thy
transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him? {35:7} If thou
be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?
{35:8} Thy wickedness [may hurt] a man as thou [art;] and thy
righteousness [may profit] the son of man. {35:9} By reason of the
multitude of oppressions they make [the oppressed] to cry: they cry out
by reason of the arm of the mighty. {35:10} But none saith, Where [is]
God my maker, who giveth songs in the night; {35:11} Who teacheth us
more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls
of heaven? {35:12} There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of
the pride of evil men. {35:13} Surely God will not hear vanity, neither
will the Almighty regard it. {35:14} Although thou sayest thou shalt
not see him, [yet] judgment [is] before him; therefore trust thou in
him. {35:15} But now, because [it is] not [so,] he hath visited in his
anger; yet he knoweth [it] not in great extremity: {35:16} Therefore
doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.

   {36:1} Elihu also proceeded, and said, {36:2} Suffer me a little,
and I will shew thee that [I have] yet to speak on God's behalf. {36:3}
I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to
my Maker. {36:4} For truly my words [shall] not [be] false: he that is
perfect in knowledge [is] with thee. {36:5} Behold, God [is] mighty,
and despiseth not [any: he is] mighty in strength [and] wisdom. {36:6}
He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the poor.
{36:7} 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. {36:8} And if [they be] bound in fetters, [and] be
holden in cords of affliction; {36:9} Then he sheweth them their work,
and their transgressions that they have exceeded. {36:10} He openeth
also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from
iniquity. {36:11} If they obey and serve [him,] they shall spend their
days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures. {36:12} But if they
obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without
knowledge. {36:13} But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry
not when he bindeth them. {36:14} They die in youth, and their life
[is] among the unclean. {36:15} He delivereth the poor in his
affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression. {36:16} 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. {36:17} But thou hast fulfilled the judgment
of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold [on thee. ]{36:18}
Because [there is] wrath, [beware] lest he take thee away with [his]
stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee. {36:19} Will he esteem
thy riches? [no,] not gold, nor all the forces of strength. {36:20}
Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place. {36:21}
Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than
affliction. {36:22} Behold, God exalteth by his power: who teacheth
like him? {36:23} Who hath enjoined him his way? or who can say, Thou
hast wrought iniquity? {36:24} Remember that thou magnify his work,
which men behold. {36:25} Every man may see it; man may behold [it]
afar off. {36:26} Behold, God [is] great, and we know [him] not,
neither can the number of his years be searched out. {36:27} For he
maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the
vapour thereof: {36:28} Which the clouds do drop [and] distil upon man
abundantly. {36:29} Also can [any] understand the spreadings of the
clouds, [or] the noise of his tabernacle? {36:30} Behold, he spreadeth
his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea. {36:31} For by
them judgeth he the people; he giveth meat in abundance. {36:32} With
clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it [not to shine] by [the
cloud] that cometh betwixt. {36:33} The noise thereof sheweth
concerning it, the cattle also concerning the vapour.

   {37:1} At this also my heart trembleth, and is moved out of his
place. {37:2} Hear attentively the noise of his voice, and the sound
[that] goeth out of his mouth. {37:3} He directeth it under the whole
heaven, and his lightning unto the ends of the earth. {37:4} After it a
voice roareth: he thundereth with the voice of his excellency; and he
will not stay them when his voice is heard. {37:5} God thundereth
marvellously with his voice; great things doeth he, which we cannot
comprehend. {37:6} For he saith to the snow, Be thou [on] the earth;
likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength.
{37:7} He sealeth up the hand of every man; that all men may know his
work. {37:8} Then the beasts go into dens, and remain in their places.
{37:9} Out of the south cometh the whirlwind: and cold out of the
north. {37:10} By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of
the waters is straitened. {37:11} Also by watering he wearieth the
thick cloud: he scattereth his bright cloud: {37:12} 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. {37:13} He causeth it to
come, whether for correction, or for his land, or for mercy. {37:14}
Hearken unto this, O Job: stand still, and consider the wondrous works
of God. {37:15} Dost thou know when God disposed them, and caused the
light of his cloud to shine? {37:16} Dost thou know the balancings of
the clouds, the wondrous works of him which is perfect in knowledge?
{37:17} How thy garments [are] warm, when he quieteth the earth by the
south [wind? ]{37:18} Hast thou with him spread out the sky, [which is]
strong, [and] as a molten looking glass? {37:19} Teach us what we shall
say unto him; [for] we cannot order [our speech] by reason of darkness.
{37:20} Shall it be told him that I speak? if a man speak, surely he
shall be swallowed up. {37:21} And now [men] see not the bright light
which is in the clouds: but the wind passeth, and cleanseth them.
{37:22} Fair weather cometh out of the north: with God is terrible
majesty. {37:23} [Touching] the Almighty, we cannot find him out: [he
is] excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice: he
will not afflict. {37:24} Men do therefore fear him: he respecteth not
any [that are] wise of heart.

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

   {39:1} Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring
forth? [or] canst thou mark when the hinds do calve? {39:2} Canst thou
number the months [that] they fulfil? or knowest thou the time when
they bring forth? {39:3} They bow themselves, they bring forth their
young ones, they cast out their sorrows. {39:4} Their young ones are in
good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not unto
them. {39:5} Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed
the bands of the wild ass? {39:6} Whose house I have made the
wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings. {39:7} He scorneth the
multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver.
{39:8} The range of the mountains [is] his pasture, and he searcheth
after every green thing. {39:9} Will the unicorn be willing to serve
thee, or abide by thy crib? {39:10} Canst thou bind the unicorn with
his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee?
{39:11} Wilt thou trust him, because his strength [is] great? or wilt
thou leave thy labour to him? {39:12} Wilt thou believe him, that he
will bring home thy seed, and gather [it into] thy barn? {39:13}
[Gavest thou] the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers
unto the ostrich? {39:14} Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and
warmeth them in dust, {39:15} And forgetteth that the foot may crush
them, or that the wild beast may break them. {39:16} She is hardened
against her young ones, as though [they were] not hers: her labour is
in vain without fear; {39:17} Because God hath deprived her of wisdom,
neither hath he imparted to her understanding. {39:18} What time she
lifteth up herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider.
{39:19} Hath thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck
with thunder? {39:20} Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? the
glory of his nostrils [is] terrible. {39:21} He paweth in the valley,
and rejoiceth in [his] strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men.
{39:22} He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted; neither turneth he
back from the sword. {39:23} The quiver rattleth against him, the
glittering spear and the shield. {39:24} He swalloweth the ground with
fierceness and rage: neither believeth he that [it is] the sound of the
trumpet. {39:25} He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha; and he smelleth
the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
{39:26} Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom, [and] stretch her wings toward
the south? {39:27} Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her
nest on high? {39:28} She dwelleth and abideth on the rock, upon the
crag of the rock, and the strong place. {39:29} From thence she seeketh
the prey, [and] her eyes behold afar off. {39:30} Her young ones also
suck up blood: and where the slain [are,] there [is] she.

   {40:1} Moreover the LORD answered Job, and said, {40:2} Shall he
that contendeth with the Almighty instruct [him?] he that reproveth
God, let him answer it.

   {40:3} Then Job answered the LORD, and said, {40:4} Behold, I am
vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.
{40:5} Once have I spoken; but I will not answer: yea, twice; but I
will proceed no further.

   {40:6} Then answered the LORD unto Job out of the whirlwind, and
said, {40:7} Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee,
and declare thou unto me. {40:8} Wilt thou also disannul my judgment?
wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous? {40:9} Hast thou
an arm like God? or canst thou thunder with a voice like him? {40:10}
Deck thyself now [with] majesty and excellency; and array thyself with
glory and beauty. {40:11} Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath: and behold
every one [that is] proud, and abase him. {40:12} Look on every one
[that is] proud, [and] bring him low; and tread down the wicked in
their place. {40:13} Hide them in the dust together; [and] bind their
faces in secret. {40:14} Then will I also confess unto thee that thine
own right hand can save thee.

   {40:15} Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass
as an ox. {40:16} Lo now, his strength [is] in his loins, and his force
[is] in the navel of his belly. {40:17} He moveth his tail like a
cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together. {40:18} His bones
[are as] strong pieces of brass; his bones [are] like bars of iron.
{40:19} He [is] the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make
his sword to approach [unto him. ]{40:20} Surely the mountains bring
him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play. {40:21} He
lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens.
{40:22} The shady trees cover him [with] their shadow; the willows of
the brook compass him about. {40:23} Behold, he drinketh up a river,
[and] hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his
mouth. {40:24} He taketh it with his eyes: [his] nose pierceth through
snares.

   {41:1} Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue
with a cord [which] thou lettest down? {41:2} Canst thou put an hook
into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn? {41:3} Will he
make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft [words] unto
thee? {41:4} Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for
a servant for ever? {41:5} Wilt thou play with him as [with] a bird? or
wilt thou bind him for thy maidens? {41:6} Shall the companions make a
banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants? {41:7} Canst
thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?
{41:8} Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more. {41:9}
Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not [one] be cast down even
at the sight of him? {41:10} None [is so] fierce that dare stir him up:
who then is able to stand before me? {41:11} Who hath prevented me,
that I should repay [him? whatsoever is] under the whole heaven is
mine. {41:12} I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his
comely proportion. {41:13} Who can discover the face of his garment?
[or] who can come [to him] with his double bridle? {41:14} Who can open
the doors of his face? his teeth [are] terrible round about. {41:15}
[His] scales [are his] pride, shut up together [as with] a close seal.
{41:16} One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.
{41:17} They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they
cannot be sundered. {41:18} By his neesings a light doth shine, and his
eyes [are] like the eyelids of the morning. {41:19} Out of his mouth go
burning lamps, [and] sparks of fire leap out. {41:20} Out of his
nostrils goeth smoke, as [out] of a seething pot or caldron. {41:21}
His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth. {41:22}
In his neck remaineth strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before
him. {41:23} The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm
in themselves; they cannot be moved. {41:24} His heart is as firm as a
stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether [millstone. ]{41:25} When
he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings
they purify themselves. {41:26} The sword of him that layeth at him
cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon. {41:27} He
esteemeth iron as straw, [and] brass as rotten wood. {41:28} The arrow
cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him into stubble.
{41:29} Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a
spear. {41:30} Sharp stones [are] under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed
things upon the mire. {41:31} He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he
maketh the sea like a pot of ointment. {41:32} He maketh a path to
shine after him; [one] would think the deep [to be] hoary. {41:33} Upon
earth there is not his like, who is made without fear. {41:34} He
beholdeth all high [things:] he [is] a king over all the children of
pride.

   {42:1} Then Job answered the LORD, and said, {42:2} I know that thou
canst do every [thing,] and [that] no thought can be withholden from
thee. {42:3} Who [is] he that hideth counsel without knowledge?
therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful
for me, which I knew not. {42:4} Hear, I beseech thee, and I will
speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me. {42:5} I have
heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.
{42:6} Wherefore I abhor [myself,] and repent in dust and ashes.

   {42:7} 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. ]{42:8} Therefore
take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant
Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job
shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you [after
your] folly, in that ye have not spoken of me [the thing which is]
right, like my servant Job. {42:9} So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad
the Shuhite [and] Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the
LORD commanded them: the LORD also accepted Job. {42:10} 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. {42:11} 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. {42:12} So the LORD blessed
the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen
thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen,
and a thousand she asses. {42:13} He had also seven sons and three
daughters. {42:14} And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the
name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Keren-happuch.
{42:15} And in all the land were no women found [so] fair as the
daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their
brethren. {42:16} After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and
saw his sons, and his sons' sons, [even] four generations. {42:17} So
Job died, [being] old and full of days.





Joel

   {1:1} The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.
{1:2} 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?
{1:3} Tell ye your children of it, and [let] your children [tell] their
children, and their children another generation. {1:4} That which the
palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust
hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath
left hath the caterpiller eaten. {1:5} 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. {1:6} 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. {1:7} 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.

   {1:8} Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of
her youth. {1:9} The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off
from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD'S ministers, mourn.
{1:10} The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted:
the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth. {1:11} Be ye ashamed, O
ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the
barley; because the harvest of the field is perished. {1:12} 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. {1:13}
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.

   {1:14} 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, {1:15} Alas for the day! for the day of the
LORD [is] at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it
come. {1:16} Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, [yea,] joy and
gladness from the house of our God? {1:17} The seed is rotten under
their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down;
for the corn is withered. {1:18} How do the beasts groan! the herds of
cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of
sheep are made desolate. {1:19} 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. {1:20} 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.

   {2:1} Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy
mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of
the LORD cometh, for [it is] nigh at hand; {2:2} 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. {2:3} 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. {2:4} The appearance of them [is] as the appearance of
horses; and as horsemen, so shall they run. {2:5} Like the noise of
chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a
flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in
battle array. {2:6} Before their face the people shall be much pained:
all faces shall gather blackness. {2:7} 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: {2:8} 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. {2:9} 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. {2:10} 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: {2:11} 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? {2:12} Therefore also now, saith the
LORD, turn ye [even] to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and
with weeping, and with mourning: {2:13} 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. {2:14} 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?

   {2:15} Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn
assembly: {2:16} Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble
the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let
the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her
closet. {2:17} Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between
the 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?

   {2:18} Then will the LORD be jealous for his land, and pity his
people. {2:19} 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: {2:20} 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.

   {2:21} Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the LORD will do
great things. {2:22} 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. {2:23} 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. ]{2:24} And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the fats
shall overflow with wine and oil. {2:25} And I will restore to you the
years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller,
and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you. {2:26} And ye
shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD
your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall
never be ashamed. {2:27} 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.

   {2:28} 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: {2:29} And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in
those days will I pour out my spirit. {2:30} And I will shew wonders in
the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
{2:31} The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood,
before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come. {2:32} And it
shall come to pass, [that] whosoever shall call on the name 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.

   {3:1} For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall
bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, {3:2} I will also
gather all nations, and will bring them down into 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. {3:3} 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.
{3:4} Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all
the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye
recompense me, swiftly [and] speedily will I return your recompence
upon your own head; {3:5} Because ye have taken my silver and my gold,
and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things: {3:6} The
children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto
the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border. {3:7}
Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them,
and will return your recompence upon your own head: {3:8} 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.]

   {3:9} 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: {3:10}
Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears:
let the weak say, I [am] strong. {3:11} Assemble yourselves, and come,
all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither
cause thy mighty ones to come down, O LORD. {3:12} Let the heathen be
wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit
to judge all the heathen round about. {3:13} 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. {3:14} Multitudes,
multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the LORD [is] near
in the valley of decision. {3:15} The sun and the moon shall be
darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining. {3:16} The LORD
also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from 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. {3:17} So
shall ye know that I [am] the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy
mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers
pass through her any more.

   {3:18} And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the mountains
shall 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 of the house of the LORD, and shall water the valley of Shittim.
{3:19} 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. {3:20} But Judah shall
dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation. {3:21} For
I will cleanse their blood [that] I have not cleansed: for the LORD
dwelleth in Zion.





The Gospel According to St. John

   {1:1} In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and
the Word was God. {1:2} The same was in the beginning with God. {1:3}
All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made
that was made. {1:4} In him was life; and the life was the light of
men. {1:5} And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness
comprehended it not.

   {1:6} There was a man sent from God, whose name [was] John. {1:7}
The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all
[men] through him might believe. {1:8} He was not that Light, but [was
sent] to bear witness of that Light. {1:9} [That] was the true Light,
which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. {1:10} He was in
the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
{1:11} He came unto his own, and his own received him not. {1:12} But
as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of
God, [even] to them that believe on his name: {1:13} Which were born,
not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but
of God. {1:14} And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we
beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,)
full of grace and truth.

   {1:15} John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of
whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he
was before me. {1:16} And of his fulness have all we received, and
grace for grace. {1:17} For the law was given by Moses, [but] grace and
truth came by Jesus Christ. {1:18} No man hath seen God at any time;
the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath
declared [him.]

   {1:19} And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests
and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou? {1:20} And he
confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ. {1:21}
And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he saith, I am not.
Art thou that prophet? And he answered, No. {1:22} Then said they unto
him, Who art thou? that we may give an answer to them that sent us.
What sayest thou of thyself? {1:23} He said, I [am] the voice of one
crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said
the prophet Esaias. {1:24} And they which were sent were of the
Pharisees. {1:25} And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest
thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet?
{1:26} John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there
standeth one among you, whom ye know not; {1:27} He it is, who coming
after me is preferred before me, whose shoe's latchet I am not worthy
to unloose. {1:28} These things were done in Bethabara beyond Jordan,
where John was baptizing.

   {1:29} The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith,
Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. {1:30}
This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is preferred
before me: for he was before me. {1:31} And I knew him not: but that he
should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with
water. {1:32} And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending
from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him. {1:33} And I knew him
not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, 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. {1:34} And I saw,
and bare record that this is the Son of God.

   {1:35} Again the next day after John stood, and two of his
disciples; {1:36} And looking upon Jesus as he walked, he saith, Behold
the Lamb of God! {1:37} And the two disciples heard him speak, and they
followed Jesus. {1:38} 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? {1:39} 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. {1:40} One of the
two which heard John [speak,] and followed him, was Andrew, Simon
Peter's brother. {1:41} He first findeth his own brother Simon, and
saith unto him, We have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted,
the Christ. {1:42} 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.

   {1:43} The day following Jesus would go forth into Galilee, and
findeth Philip, and saith unto him, Follow me. {1:44} Now Philip was of
Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter. {1:45} Philip findeth
Nathanael, and saith unto him, We have found him, of whom Moses in the
law, and the prophets, did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.
{1:46} And Nathanael said unto him, Can there any good thing come out
of Nazareth? Philip saith unto him, Come and see. {1:47} Jesus saw
Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold an Israelite indeed,
in whom is no guile! {1:48} Nathanael saith unto him, Whence knowest
thou me? Jesus answered and said unto him, Before that Philip called
thee, when thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee. {1:49} Nathanael
answered and saith unto him, Rabbi, thou art the Son of God; thou art
the King of Israel. {1:50} Jesus answered and said unto him, Because I
said unto thee, I saw thee under the fig tree, believest thou? thou
shalt see greater things than these. {1:51} 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.

   {2:1} And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and
the mother of Jesus was there: {2:2} And both Jesus was called, and his
disciples, to the marriage. {2:3} And when they wanted wine, the mother
of Jesus saith unto him, They have no wine. {2:4} Jesus saith unto her,
Woman, what have I to do with thee? mine hour is not yet come. {2:5}
His mother saith unto the servants, Whatsoever he saith unto you, do
[it. ]{2:6} And there were set there six waterpots of stone, after the
manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins
apiece. {2:7} Jesus saith unto them, Fill the waterpots with water. And
they filled them up to the brim. {2:8} And he saith unto them, Draw out
now, and bear unto the governor of the feast. And they bare [it. ]{2:9}
When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine,
and knew not whence it was: (but the servants which drew the water
knew;) the governor of the feast called the bridegroom, {2:10} 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. {2:11} This beginning of miracles did
Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested forth his glory; and his
disciples believed on him.

   {2:12} After this he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, and
his brethren, and his disciples: and they continued there not many days.

   {2:13} And the Jews' passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to
Jerusalem, {2:14} And found in the temple those that sold oxen and
sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting: {2:15} And when he
had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple,
and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and
overthrew the tables; {2:16} And said unto them that sold doves, Take
these things hence; make not my Father's house an house of merchandise.
{2:17} And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of
thine house hath eaten me up.

   {2:18} Then answered the Jews and said unto him, What sign shewest
thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things? {2:19} Jesus
answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I
will raise it up. {2:20} Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was
this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days? {2:21}
But he spake of the temple of his body. {2:22} When therefore he was
risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this
unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus
had said.

   {2:23} Now when he was in Jerusalem at the passover, in the feast
[day,] many believed in his name, when they saw the miracles which he
did. {2:24} But Jesus did not commit himself unto them, because he knew
all [men, ]{2:25} And needed not that any should testify of man: for he
knew what was in man.

   {3:1} There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of
the Jews: {3:2} 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. {3:3} Jesus
answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a
man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. {3:4} Nicodemus
saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the
second time into his mother's womb, and be born? {3:5} 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. {3:6} That which
is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is
spirit. {3:7} Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.
{3:8} 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. {3:9} Nicodemus answered and
said unto him, How can these things be? {3:10} Jesus answered and said
unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things?
{3:11} Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and
testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. {3:12} If I
have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe,
if I tell you [of] heavenly things? {3:13} And no man hath ascended up
to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, [even] the Son of man
which is in heaven.

   {3:14} And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so
must the Son of man be lifted up: {3:15} That whosoever believeth in
him should not perish, but have eternal life.

   {3:16} 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. {3:17} For God sent not his Son into the world to
condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

   {3:18} He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that
believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the
name of the only begotten Son of God. {3:19} And this is the
condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness
rather than light, because their deeds were evil. {3:20} For every one
that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his
deeds should be reproved. {3:21} But he that doeth truth cometh to the
light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in
God.

   {3:22} After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land
of Judaea; and there he tarried with them, and baptized.

   {3:23} And John also was baptizing in Aenon near to Salim, because
there was much water there: and they came, and were baptized. {3:24}
For John was not yet cast into prison.

   {3:25} Then there arose a question between [some] of John's
disciples and the Jews about purifying. {3:26} And they came unto John,
and said unto him, Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond Jordan, to whom
thou barest witness, behold, the same baptizeth, and all [men] come to
him. {3:27} John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except
it be given him from heaven. {3:28} Ye yourselves bear me witness, that
I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him. {3:29} He
that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the
bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because
of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled. {3:30}
He must increase, but I [must] decrease. {3:31} He that cometh from
above is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaketh of
the earth: he that cometh from heaven is above all. {3:32} And what he
hath seen and heard, that he testifieth; and no man receiveth his
testimony. {3:33} He that hath received his testimony hath set to his
seal that God is true. {3:34} For he whom God hath sent speaketh the
words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure [unto him.
]{3:35} The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his
hand. {3:36} 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.

   {4:1} When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that
Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John, {4:2} (Though Jesus
himself baptized not, but his disciples,) {4:3} He left Judaea, and
departed again into Galilee. {4:4} And he must needs go through
Samaria. {4:5} Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called
Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
{4:6} Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with
[his] journey, sat thus on the well: [and] it was about the sixth hour.
{4:7} There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto
her, Give me to drink. {4:8} (For his disciples were gone away unto the
city to buy meat.) {4:9} 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. {4:10}
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. {4:11} 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? {4:12} Art thou
greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank
thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle? {4:13} Jesus
answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall
thirst again: {4:14} But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall
give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall
be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. {4:15}
The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not,
neither come hither to draw. {4:16} Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy
husband, and come hither. {4:17} The woman answered and said, I have no
husband. Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband:
{4:18} For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is
not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly. {4:19} The woman saith unto
him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet. {4:20} Our fathers
worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place
where men ought to worship. {4:21} Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe
me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at
Jerusalem, worship the Father. {4:22} Ye worship ye know not what: we
know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews. {4:23} But the hour
cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father
in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.
{4:24} God [is] a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship [him]
in spirit and in truth. {4:25} The woman saith unto him, I know that
Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell
us all things. {4:26} Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am
[he.]

   {4:27} 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? {4:28} The woman then left her waterpot, and
went her way into the city, and saith to the men, {4:29} Come, see a
man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?
{4:30} Then they went out of the city, and came unto him.

   {4:31} In the mean while his disciples prayed him, saying, Master,
eat. {4:32} But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not
of. {4:33} Therefore said the disciples one to another, Hath any man
brought him [ought] to eat? {4:34} Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to
do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. {4:35} Say not
ye, There are yet four months, and [then] cometh harvest? behold, I say
unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white
already to harvest. {4:36} And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and
gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that
reapeth may rejoice together. {4:37} And herein is that saying true,
One soweth, and another reapeth. {4:38} I sent you to reap that whereon
ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into
their labours.

   {4:39} And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for
the saying of the woman, which testified, He told me all that ever I
did. {4:40} So when the Samaritans were come unto him, they besought
him that he would tarry with them: and he abode there two days. {4:41}
And many more believed because of his own word; {4:42} 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.

   {4:43} Now after two days he departed thence, and went into Galilee.
{4:44} For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet hath no honour in
his own country. {4:45} 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. {4:46} 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.
{4:47} 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. {4:48} Then said Jesus unto him,
Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe. {4:49} The
nobleman saith unto him, Sir, come down ere my child die. {4:50} 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. {4:51} And as
he was now going down, his servants met him, and told [him,] saying,
Thy son liveth. {4:52} Then enquired he of them the hour when he began
to amend. And they said unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the
fever left him. {4:53} 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. {4:54} This [is] again the second
miracle [that] Jesus did, when he was come out of Judaea into Galilee.

   {5:1} After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to
Jerusalem. {5:2} Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep [market] a
pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five
porches. {5:3} In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of
blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. {5:4} For
an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the
water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in
was made whole of whatsoever disease he had. {5:5} And a certain man
was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years. {5:6} 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? {5:7} 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. {5:8} Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.
{5:9} And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and
walked: and on the same day was the sabbath.

   {5:10} The Jews therefore said unto him that was cured, It is the
sabbath day: it is not lawful for thee to carry [thy] bed. {5:11} He
answered them, He that made me whole, the same said unto me, Take up
thy bed, and walk. {5:12} Then asked they him, What man is that which
said unto thee, Take up thy bed, and walk? {5:13} And he that was
healed wist not who it was: for Jesus had conveyed himself away, a
multitude being in [that] place. {5:14} Afterward Jesus findeth him in
the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no
more, lest a worse thing come unto thee. {5:15} The man departed, and
told the Jews that it was Jesus, which had made him whole. {5:16} And
therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because
he had done these things on the sabbath day.

   {5:17} But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I
work. {5:18} 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. {5:19} 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. {5:20} 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. {5:21} For as
the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth [them;] even so the Son
quickeneth whom he will. {5:22} For the Father judgeth no man, but hath
committed all judgment unto the Son: {5:23} That all [men] should
honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not
the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him. {5:24} 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. {5:25} 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.
{5:26} For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the
Son to have life in himself; {5:27} And hath given him authority to
execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man. {5:28} Marvel not
at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the
graves shall hear his voice, {5:29} And shall come forth; they that
have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done
evil, unto the resurrection of damnation. {5:30} 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.
{5:31} If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true.

   {5:32} There is another that beareth witness of me; and I know that
the witness which he witnesseth of me is true. {5:33} Ye sent unto
John, and he bare witness unto the truth. {5:34} But I receive not
testimony from man: but these things I say, that ye might be saved.
{5:35} He was a burning and a shining light: and ye were willing for a
season to rejoice in his light.

   {5:36} But I have greater witness than [that] of John: for the works
which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do,
bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me. {5:37} 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. {5:38} And ye have not
his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him ye believe not.

   {5:39} Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal
life: and they are they which testify of me. {5:40} And ye will not
come to me, that ye might have life. {5:41} I receive not honour from
men. {5:42} But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you.
{5:43} I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another
shall come in his own name, him ye will receive. {5:44} How can ye
believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour
that [cometh] from God only? {5:45} Do not think that I will accuse you
to the Father: there is [one] that accuseth you, [even] Moses, in whom
ye trust. {5:46} For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me:
for he wrote of me. {5:47} But if ye believe not his writings, how
shall ye believe my words?

   {6:1} After these things Jesus went over the sea of Galilee, which
is [the sea] of Tiberias. {6:2} And a great multitude followed him,
because they saw his miracles which he did on them that were diseased.
{6:3} And Jesus went up into a mountain, and there he sat with his
disciples. {6:4} And the passover, a feast of the Jews, was nigh.

   {6:5} 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? {6:6} And this he said to prove him: for he himself knew
what he would do. {6:7} Philip answered him, Two hundred pennyworth of
bread is not sufficient for them, that every one of them may take a
little. {6:8} One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother,
saith unto him, {6:9} There is a lad here, which hath five barley
loaves, and two small fishes: but what are they among so many? {6:10}
And Jesus said, Make the men sit down. Now there was much grass in the
place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand. {6:11} 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. {6:12} When they were
filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that
remain, that nothing be lost. {6:13} Therefore they gathered [them]
together, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five
barley loaves, which remained over and above unto them that had eaten.
{6:14} Then those men, when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did,
said, This is of a truth that prophet that should come into the world.

   {6:15} When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take
him by force, to make him a king, he departed again into a mountain
himself alone. {6:16} And when even was [now] come, his disciples went
down unto the sea, {6:17} And entered into a ship, and went over the
sea toward Capernaum. And it was now dark, and Jesus was not come to
them. {6:18} And the sea arose by reason of a great wind that blew.
{6:19} 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. {6:20} But he saith unto them, It is I; be not
afraid. {6:21} Then they willingly received him into the ship: and
immediately the ship was at the land whither they went.

   {6:22} The day following, when the people which stood on the other
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;
{6:23} (Howbeit there came other boats from Tiberias nigh unto the
place where they did eat bread, after that the Lord had given thanks:)
{6:24} When the people therefore saw that Jesus was not there, neither
his disciples, they also took shipping, and came to Capernaum, seeking
for Jesus. {6:25} And when they had found him on the other side of the
sea, they said unto him, Rabbi, when camest thou hither? {6:26} Jesus
answered them and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ye seek me, not
because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and
were filled. {6:27} 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. {6:28} Then
said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of
God? {6:29} Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God,
that ye believe on him whom he hath sent. {6:30} They said therefore
unto him, What sign shewest thou then, that we may see, and believe
thee? what dost thou work? {6:31} Our fathers did eat manna in the
desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat. {6:32}
Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave
you not that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread
from heaven. {6:33} For the bread of God is he which cometh down from
heaven, and giveth life unto the world. {6:34} Then said they unto him,
Lord, evermore give us this bread. {6:35} And Jesus said unto them, I
am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he
that believeth on me shall never thirst. {6:36} But I said unto you,
That ye also have seen me, and believe not. {6:37} All that the Father
giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise
cast out. {6:38} For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will,
but the will of him that sent me. {6:39} And this is the Father's will
which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose
nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day. {6:40} 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. {6:41} The Jews then murmured at him, because he
said, I am the bread which came down from heaven. {6:42} And they said,
Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know?
how is it then that he saith, I came down from heaven? {6:43} Jesus
therefore answered and said unto them, Murmur not among yourselves.
{6:44} No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw
him: and I will raise him up at the last day. {6:45} It is written in
the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore
that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me. {6:46}
Not that any man hath seen the Father, save he which is of God, he hath
seen the Father. {6:47} Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that
believeth on me hath everlasting life. {6:48} I am that bread of life.
{6:49} Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
{6:50} This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may
eat thereof, and not die. {6:51} I am the living bread which came down
from heaven: if any 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. {6:52} The Jews therefore strove among themselves,
saying, How can this man give us [his] flesh to eat? {6:53} Then Jesus
said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh
of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. {6:54}
Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I
will raise him up at the last day. {6:55} For my flesh is meat indeed,
and my blood is drink indeed. {6:56} He that eateth my flesh, and
drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him. {6:57} As the living
Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me,
even he shall live by me. {6:58} This is that bread which came down
from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that
eateth of this bread shall live for ever. {6:59} These things said he
in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum. {6:60} Many therefore of
his disciples, when they had heard [this,] said, This is an hard
saying; who can hear it? {6:61} When Jesus knew in himself that his
disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, Doth this offend you?
{6:62} [What] and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was
before? {6:63} It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth
nothing: the words that I speak unto you, [they] are spirit, and [they]
are life. {6:64} 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. {6:65} And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man
can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father.

   {6:66} From that [time] many of his disciples went back, and walked
no more with him. {6:67} Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also
go away? {6:68} Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we
go? thou hast the words of eternal life. {6:69} And we believe and are
sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God. {6:70} Jesus
answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?
{6:71} He spake of Judas Iscariot [the son] of Simon: for he it was
that should betray him, being one of the twelve.

   {7:1} After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not
walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him. {7:2} Now the Jews'
feast of tabernacles was at hand. {7:3} His brethren therefore said
unto him, Depart hence, and go into Judaea, that thy disciples also may
see the works that thou doest. {7:4} For [there is] no man [that] doeth
any thing in secret, and he himself seeketh to be known openly. If thou
do these things, shew thyself to the world. {7:5} For neither did his
brethren believe in him. {7:6} Then Jesus said unto them, My time is
not yet come: but your time is alway ready. {7:7} The world cannot hate
you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof
are evil. {7:8} Go ye up unto this feast: I go not up yet unto this
feast; for my time is not yet full come. {7:9} When he had said these
words unto them, he abode [still] in Galilee.

   {7:10} But when his brethren were gone up, then went he also up unto
the feast, not openly, but as it were in secret. {7:11} Then the Jews
sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he? {7:12} And there was
much murmuring among the people concerning him: for some said, He is a
good man: others said, Nay; but he deceiveth the people. {7:13} Howbeit
no man spake openly of him for fear of the Jews.

   {7:14} Now about the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the
temple, and taught. {7:15} And the Jews marvelled, saying, How knoweth
this man letters, having never learned? {7:16} Jesus answered them, and
said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me. {7:17} If any man
will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God,
or [whether] I speak of myself. {7:18} He that speaketh of himself
seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the
same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him. {7:19} Did not Moses
give you the law, and [yet] none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye
about to kill me? {7:20} The people answered and said, Thou hast a
devil: who goeth about to kill thee? {7:21} Jesus answered and said
unto them, I have done one work, and ye all marvel. {7:22} Moses
therefore gave unto you circumcision; (not because it is of Moses, but
of the fathers;) and ye on the sabbath day circumcise a man. {7:23} If
a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision, that the law of Moses
should not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I have made a man
every whit whole on the sabbath day? {7:24} Judge not according to the
appearance, but judge righteous judgment. {7:25} Then said some of them
of Jerusalem, Is not this he, whom they seek to kill? {7:26} But, lo,
he speaketh boldly, and they say nothing unto him. Do the rulers know
indeed that this is the very Christ? {7:27} Howbeit we know this man
whence he is: but when Christ cometh, no man knoweth whence he is.
{7:28} Then cried Jesus in the temple as he taught, saying, Ye both
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. {7:29} But I know him: for I am
from him, and he hath sent me. {7:30} Then they sought to take him: but
no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come. {7:31} And
many of the people believed on him, and said, When Christ cometh, will
he do more miracles than these which this [man] hath done?

   {7:32} The Pharisees heard that the people murmured such things
concerning him; and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers
to take him. {7:33} Then said Jesus unto them, Yet a little while am I
with you, and [then] I go unto him that sent me. {7:34} Ye shall seek
me, and shall not find [me:] and where I am, [thither] ye cannot come.
{7:35} 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? {7:36} 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? {7:37} 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. {7:38} He that believeth on me, as the
scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living
water. {7:39} (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe
on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet [given;] because
that Jesus was not yet glorified.)

   {7:40} Many of the people therefore, when they heard this saying,
said, Of a truth this is the Prophet. {7:41} Others said, This is the
Christ. But some said, Shall Christ come out of Galilee? {7:42} Hath
not the scripture said, That Christ cometh of the seed of David, and
out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was? {7:43} So there was a
division among the people because of him. {7:44} And some of them would
have taken him; but no man laid hands on him.

   {7:45} Then came the officers to the chief priests and Pharisees;
and they said unto them, Why have ye not brought him? {7:46} The
officers answered, Never man spake like this man. {7:47} Then answered
them the Pharisees, Are ye also deceived? {7:48} Have any of the rulers
or of the Pharisees believed on him? {7:49} But this people who knoweth
not the law are cursed. {7:50} Nicodemus saith unto them, (he that came
to Jesus by night, being one of them,) {7:51} Doth our law judge [any]
man, before it hear him, and know what he doeth? {7:52} They answered
and said unto him, Art thou also of Galilee? Search, and look: for out
of Galilee ariseth no prophet. {7:53} And every man went unto his own
house.

   {8:1} Jesus went unto the mount of Olives. {8:2} 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. {8:3} And the scribes and
Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had
set her in the midst, {8:4} They say unto him, Master, this woman was
taken in adultery, in the very act. {8:5} Now Moses in the law
commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou? {8:6}
This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But
Jesus stooped down, and with [his] finger wrote on the ground, [as
though he heard them not. ]{8:7} 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. {8:8} And again he stooped
down, and wrote on the ground. {8:9} And they which heard [it,] being
convicted by [their own] conscience, went out one by one, beginning at
the eldest, [even] unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the
woman standing in the midst. {8:10} When Jesus had lifted up himself,
and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those
thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee? {8:11} She said, No man,
Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin
no more.

   {8:12} Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of
the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall
have the light of life. {8:13} The Pharisees therefore said unto him,
Thou bearest record of thyself; thy record is not true. {8:14} Jesus
answered and said unto them, Though I bear 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. {8:15} Ye judge after the
flesh; I judge no man. {8:16} And yet if I judge, my judgment is true:
for I am not alone, but I and the Father that sent me. {8:17} It is
also written in your law, that the testimony of two men is true. {8:18}
I am one that bear witness of myself, and the Father that sent me
beareth witness of me. {8:19} Then said they unto him, Where is thy
Father? Jesus answered, Ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had
known me, ye should have known my Father also. {8:20} 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. {8:21} 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. {8:22} Then said the Jews,
Will he kill himself? because he saith, Whither I go, ye cannot come.
{8:23} And he said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye
are of this world; I am not of this world. {8:24} I said therefore unto
you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am
[he,] ye shall die in your sins. {8:25} Then said they unto him, Who
art thou? And Jesus saith unto them, Even [the same] that I said unto
you from the beginning. {8:26} 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. {8:27} They understood not that he
spake to them of the Father. {8:28} 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. {8:29} And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath
not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him. {8:30}
As he spake these words, many believed on him. {8:31} Then said Jesus
to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, [then]
are ye my disciples indeed; {8:32} And ye shall know the truth, and the
truth shall make you free.

   {8:33} They answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and were never in
bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free? {8:34}
Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever
committeth sin is the servant of sin. {8:35} And the servant abideth
not in the house for ever: [but] the Son abideth ever. {8:36} If the
Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed. {8:37} I
know that ye are Abraham's seed; but ye seek to kill me, because my
word hath no place in you. {8:38} I speak that which I have seen with
my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father. {8:39}
They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith
unto them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of
Abraham. {8:40} But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you
the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham. {8:41} Ye
do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of
fornication; we have one Father, [even] God. {8:42} Jesus said unto
them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth
and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me. {8:43} Why
do ye not understand my speech? [even] because ye cannot hear my word.
{8:44} 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. {8:45} And
because I tell [you] the truth, ye believe me not. {8:46} Which of you
convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me?
{8:47} He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear [them]
not, because ye are not of God. {8:48} Then answered the Jews, and said
unto him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil?
{8:49} Jesus answered, I have not a devil; but I honour my Father, and
ye do dishonour me. {8:50} And I seek not mine own glory: there is one
that seeketh and judgeth. {8:51} Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a
man keep my saying, he shall never see death. {8:52} Then said the Jews
unto him, Now we know that thou hast a devil. Abraham is dead, and the
prophets; and thou sayest, If a man keep my saying, he shall never
taste of death. {8:53} Art thou greater than our father Abraham, which
is dead? and the prophets are dead: whom makest thou thyself? {8:54}
Jesus answered, If I honour myself, my honour is nothing: it is my
Father that honoureth me; of whom ye say, that he is your God: {8:55}
Yet ye have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I know
him not, I shall be a liar like unto you: but I know him, and keep his
saying. {8:56} Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw
[it,] and was glad. {8:57} Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not
yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham? {8:58} Jesus said unto
them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am. {8:59}
Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and
went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed
by.

   {9:1} And as [Jesus] passed by, he saw a man which was blind from
[his] birth. {9:2} And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did
sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? {9:3} Jesus
answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the
works of God should be made manifest in him. {9:4} I must work the
works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no
man can work. {9:5} As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the
world. {9:6} 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, {9:7} 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.

   {9:8} The neighbours therefore, and they which before had seen him
that he was blind, said, Is not this he that sat and begged? {9:9} Some
said, This is he: others [said,] He is like him: [but] he said, I am
[he. ]{9:10} Therefore said they unto him, How were thine eyes opened?
{9:11} He answered and said, A man that is called Jesus made clay, 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. {9:12} Then said
they unto him, Where is he? He said, I know not.

   {9:13} They brought to the Pharisees him that aforetime was blind.
{9:14} And it was the sabbath day when Jesus made the clay, and opened
his eyes. {9:15} Then again the Pharisees also asked him how he had
received his sight. He said unto them, He put clay upon mine eyes, and
I washed, and do see. {9:16} Therefore said some of the Pharisees, This
man is not of God, 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. {9:17} They say unto the blind man again, What
sayest thou of him, that he hath opened thine eyes? He said, He is a
prophet. {9:18} But the Jews did not believe concerning him, that he
had been blind, and received his sight, until they called the parents
of him that had received his sight. {9:19} And they asked them, saying,
Is this your son, who ye say was born blind? how then doth he now see?
{9:20} His parents answered them and said, We know that this is our
son, and that he was born blind: {9:21} But by what means he now seeth,
we know not; or who hath opened his eyes, we know not: he is of age;
ask him: he shall speak for himself. {9:22} 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. {9:23} Therefore said his parents, He is of age; ask
him. {9:24} 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.
{9:25} 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. {9:26}
Then said they to him again, What did he to thee? how opened he thine
eyes? {9:27} He answered them, I have told you already, and ye did not
hear: wherefore would ye hear [it] again? will ye also be his
disciples? {9:28} Then they reviled him, and said, Thou art his
disciple; but we are Moses' disciples. {9:29} We know that God spake
unto Moses: [as for] this [fellow,] we know not from whence he is.
{9:30} The man answered and said unto them, Why herein is a marvellous
thing, that ye know not from whence he is, and [yet] he hath opened
mine eyes. {9:31} Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any
man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth. {9:32}
Since the world began was it not heard that any man opened the eyes of
one that was born blind. {9:33} If this man were not of God, he could
do nothing. {9:34} They answered and said unto him, Thou wast
altogether born in sins, and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out.
{9:35} 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? {9:36} He
answered and said, Who is he, Lord, that I might believe on him? {9:37}
And Jesus said unto him, Thou hast both seen him, and it is he that
talketh with thee. {9:38} And he said, Lord, I believe. And he
worshipped him.

   {9:39} 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. {9:40} And [some] of the Pharisees which were with him heard
these words, and said unto him, Are we blind also? {9:41} Jesus said
unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We
see; therefore your sin remaineth.

   {10:1} 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. {10:2} But he that entereth in by the door is the
shepherd of the sheep. {10:3} To him the porter openeth; and the sheep
hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them
out. {10:4} And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before
them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice. {10:5} And a
stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know
not the voice of strangers. {10:6} This parable spake Jesus unto them:
but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them.
{10:7} Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you,
I am the door of the sheep. {10:8} All that ever came before me are
thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them. {10:9} I am the
door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and
out, and find pasture. {10:10} The thief cometh not, but for to steal,
and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and
that they might have [it] more abundantly. {10:11} I am the good
shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. {10:12} 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. {10:13} The hireling
fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.
{10:14} I am the good shepherd, and know my [sheep,] and am known of
mine. {10:15} As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and
I lay down my life for the sheep. {10:16} And other sheep I have, which
are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my
voice; and there shall be one fold, [and] one shepherd. {10:17}
Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I
might take it again. {10:18} No man taketh it from me, but I lay it
down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take
it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.

   {10:19} There was a division therefore again among the Jews for
these sayings. {10:20} And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is
mad; why hear ye him? {10:21} Others said, These are not the words of
him that hath a devil. Can a devil open the eyes of the blind?

   {10:22} And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it
was winter. {10:23} And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's porch.
{10:24} 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.
{10:25} Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works
that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me. {10:26} But ye
believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you.
{10:27} My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
{10:28} And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish,
neither shall any [man] pluck them out of my hand. {10:29} My Father,
which gave [them] me, is greater than all; and no [man] is able to
pluck [them] out of my Father's hand. {10:30} I and [my] Father are
one. {10:31} Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him. {10:32}
Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father;
for which of those works do ye stone me? {10:33} The Jews answered him,
saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and
because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God. {10:34} Jesus
answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?
{10:35} If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the
scripture cannot be broken; {10:36} Say ye of him, whom the Father hath
sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said,
I am the Son of God? {10:37} If I do not the works of my Father,
believe me not. {10:38} 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. {10:39} Therefore they sought again to take him: but he
escaped out of their hand, {10:40} And went away again beyond Jordan
into the place where John at first baptized; and there he abode.
{10:41} And many resorted unto him, and said, John did no miracle: but
all things that John spake of this man were true. {10:42} And many
believed on him there.

   {11:1} Now a certain [man] was sick, [named] Lazarus, of Bethany,
the town of Mary and her sister Martha. {11:2} (It was [that] Mary
which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her
hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.) {11:3} Therefore his sisters
sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.
{11:4} When Jesus heard [that,] he said, This sickness is not unto
death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified
thereby. {11:5} Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.
{11:6} When he had heard therefore that he was sick, he abode two days
still in the same place where he was. {11:7} Then after that saith he
to [his] disciples, Let us go into Judaea again. {11:8} [His] disciples
say unto him, Master, the Jews of late sought to stone thee; and goest
thou thither again? {11:9} Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours
in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he
seeth the light of this world. {11:10} But if a man walk in the night,
he stumbleth, because there is no light in him. {11:11} 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. {11:12} Then
said his disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well. {11:13}
Howbeit Jesus spake of his death: but they thought that he had spoken
of taking of rest in sleep. {11:14} Then said Jesus unto them plainly,
Lazarus is dead. {11:15} And I am glad for your sakes that I was not
there, to the intent ye may believe; nevertheless let us go unto him.
{11:16} Then said Thomas, which is called Didymus, unto his
fellowdisciples, Let us also go, that we may die with him. {11:17} Then
when Jesus came, he found that he had [lain] in the grave four days
already. {11:18} Now Bethany was nigh unto Jerusalem, about fifteen
furlongs off: {11:19} And many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary, to
comfort them concerning their brother. {11:20} Then Martha, as soon as
she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him: but Mary sat [still]
in the house. {11:21} Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst
been here, my brother had not died. {11:22} But I know, that even now,
whatsoever thou wilt ask of God, God will give [it] thee. {11:23} Jesus
saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again. {11:24} Martha saith unto
him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last
day. {11:25} Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life:
he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
{11:26} And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.
Believest thou this? {11:27} She saith unto him, Yea, Lord: I believe
that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the
world. {11:28} And when she had so said, she went her way, and called
Mary her sister secretly, saying, The Master is come, and calleth for
thee. {11:29} As soon as she heard [that,] she arose quickly, and came
unto him. {11:30} Now Jesus was not yet come into the town, but was in
that place where Martha met him. {11:31} The Jews then which were with
her in the house, and comforted her, when they saw Mary, that she rose
up hastily and went out, followed her, saying, She goeth unto the grave
to weep there. {11:32} 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. {11:33} When Jesus therefore saw
her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her, he groaned
in the spirit, and was troubled, {11:34} And said, Where have ye laid
him? They said unto him, Lord, come and see. {11:35} Jesus wept.
{11:36} Then said the Jews, Behold how he loved him! {11:37} 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? {11:38} Jesus
therefore again groaning in himself cometh to the grave. It was a cave,
and a stone lay upon it. {11:39} Jesus said, Take ye away the stone.
Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this
time he stinketh: for he hath been [dead] four days. {11:40} Jesus
saith unto her, Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe,
thou shouldest see the glory of God? {11:41} Then they took away the
stone [from the place] where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up
[his] eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me.
{11:42} 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. {11:43} And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud
voice, Lazarus, come forth. {11:44} 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.
{11:45} Then many of the Jews which came to Mary, and had seen the
things which Jesus did, believed on him. {11:46} But some of them went
their ways to the Pharisees, and told them what things Jesus had done.

   {11:47} Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council,
and said, What do we? for this man doeth many miracles. {11:48} If we
let him thus alone, all [men] will believe on him: and the Romans shall
come and take away both our place and nation. {11:49} And one of them,
[named] Caiaphas, being the high priest that same year, said unto them,
Ye know nothing at all, {11:50} Nor consider that it is expedient for
us, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation
perish not. {11:51} And this spake he not of himself: but being high
priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for that nation;
{11:52} And not for that nation only, but that also he should gather
together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad. {11:53}
Then from that day forth they took counsel together for to put him to
death. {11:54} 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.

   {11:55} And the Jews' passover was nigh at hand: and many went out
of the country up to Jerusalem before the passover, to purify
themselves. {11:56} Then sought they for Jesus, and spake among
themselves, as they stood in the temple, What think ye, that he will
not come to the feast? {11:57} Now both the chief priests and the
Pharisees had given a commandment, that, if any man knew where he were,
he should shew [it,] that they might take him.

   {12:1} Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany,
where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.
{12:2} There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was
one of them that sat at the table with him. {12:3} Then took Mary a
pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of
Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with
the odour of the ointment. {12:4} Then saith one of his disciples,
Judas Iscariot, Simon's [son,] which should betray him, {12:5} Why was
not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?
{12:6} This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was
a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein. {12:7} Then
said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept
this. {12:8} For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not
always. {12:9} 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.

   {12:10} But the chief priests consulted that they might put Lazarus
also to death; {12:11} Because that by reason of him many of the Jews
went away, and believed on Jesus.

   {12:12} On the next day much people that were come to the feast,
when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, {12:13} Took
branches of palm trees, and went forth to meet him, and cried, Hosanna:
Blessed [is] the King of Israel that cometh in the name of the Lord.
{12:14} And Jesus, when he had found a young ass, sat thereon; as it is
written, {12:15} Fear not, daughter of Sion: behold, thy King cometh,
sitting on an ass's colt. {12:16} 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. {12:17} The people therefore that was with him
when he called Lazarus out of his grave, and raised him from the dead,
bare record. {12:18} For this cause the people also met him, for that
they heard that he had done this miracle. {12:19} The Pharisees
therefore said among themselves, Perceive ye how ye prevail nothing?
behold, the world is gone after him.

   {12:20} And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to
worship at the feast: {12:21} The same came therefore to Philip, which
was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sir, we would see
Jesus. {12:22} Philip cometh and telleth Andrew: and again Andrew and
Philip tell Jesus.

   {12:23} And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come, that the
Son of man should be glorified. {12:24} Verily, verily, I say unto you,
Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone:
but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. {12:25} He that loveth his
life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall
keep it unto life eternal. {12:26} If any man serve me, let him follow
me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve
me, him will [my] Father honour. {12:27} Now is my soul troubled; and
what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause
came I unto this hour. {12:28} Father, glorify thy name. Then came
there a voice from heaven, [saying,] I have both glorified [it,] and
will glorify [it] again. {12:29} The people therefore, that stood by,
and heard [it,] said that it thundered: others said, An angel spake to
him. {12:30} Jesus answered and said, This voice came not because of
me, but for your sakes. {12:31} Now is the judgment of this world: now
shall the prince of this world be cast out. {12:32} And I, if I be
lifted up from the earth, will draw all [men] unto me. {12:33} This he
said, signifying what death he should die. {12:34} 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?
{12:35} 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. {12:36} 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.

   {12:37} But though he had done so many miracles before them, yet
they believed not on him: {12:38} That the saying of Esaias the prophet
might be fulfilled, which he spake, Lord, who hath believed our report?
and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed? {12:39} Therefore
they could not believe, because that Esaias said again, {12:40} 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. {12:41} These things said Esaias, when he saw
his glory, and spake of him.

   {12:42} 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: {12:43} For they loved the praise
of men more than the praise of God.

   {12:44} Jesus cried and said, He that believeth on me, believeth not
on me, but on him that sent me. {12:45} And he that seeth me seeth him
that sent me. {12:46} I am come a light into the world, that whosoever
believeth on me should not abide in darkness. {12:47} And if any man
hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to
judge the world, but to save the world. {12:48} 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. {12:49} For I
have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a
commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. {12:50} And I
know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak
therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak.

   {13:1} 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. {13:2} And supper being ended, the devil having now put
into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's [son,] to betray him; {13:3}
Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and
that he was come from God, and went to God; {13:4} He riseth from
supper, and laid aside his garments; and took a towel, and girded
himself. {13:5} After that he poureth water into a bason, and began to
wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe [them] with the towel wherewith
he was girded. {13:6} Then cometh he to Simon Peter: and Peter saith
unto him, Lord, dost thou wash my feet? {13:7} Jesus answered and said
unto him, What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know
hereafter. {13:8} Peter saith unto him, Thou shalt never wash my feet.
Jesus answered him, If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me.
{13:9} Simon Peter saith unto him, Lord, not my feet only, but also
[my] hands and [my] head. {13:10} Jesus saith to him, He that is washed
needeth not save to wash [his] feet, but is clean every whit: and ye
are clean, but not all. {13:11} For he knew who should betray him;
therefore said he, Ye are not all clean. {13:12} So after he had washed
their feet, and had taken his garments, and was set down again, he said
unto them, Know ye what I have done to you? {13:13} Ye call me Master
and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am. {13:14} If I then, [your] Lord
and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's
feet. {13:15} For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I
have done to you. {13:16} Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant
is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he
that sent him. {13:17} If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do
them.

   {13:18} 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. {13:19} Now I tell you before it come,
that, when it is come to pass, ye may believe that I am [he. ]{13:20}
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that receiveth whomsoever I send
receiveth me; and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.
{13:21} 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. {13:22} Then the disciples looked one on another,
doubting of whom he spake. {13:23} Now there was leaning on Jesus'
bosom one of his disciples, whom Jesus loved. {13:24} Simon Peter
therefore beckoned to him, that he should ask who it should be of whom
he spake. {13:25} He then lying on Jesus' breast saith unto him, Lord,
who is it? {13:26} Jesus answered, He it is, to whom I shall give a
sop, when I have dipped [it.] And when he had dipped the sop, he gave
[it] to Judas Iscariot, [the son] of Simon. {13:27} And after the sop
Satan entered into him. Then said Jesus unto him, That thou doest, do
quickly. {13:28} Now no man at the table knew for what intent he spake
this unto him. {13:29} 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. {13:30} He then having received the sop went immediately out: and
it was night.

   {13:31} Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son
of man glorified, and God is glorified in him. {13:32} If God be
glorified in him, God shall also glorify him in himself, and shall
straightway glorify him. {13:33} Little children, yet a little while I
am with you. Ye shall seek me: and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I
go, ye cannot come; so now I say to you. {13:34} A new commandment I
give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye
also love one another. {13:35} By this shall all [men] know that ye are
my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

   {13:36} Simon Peter said unto him, Lord, whither goest thou? Jesus
answered him, Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now; but thou
shalt follow me afterwards. {13:37} Peter said unto him, Lord, why
cannot I follow thee now? I will lay down my life for thy sake. {13:38}
Jesus answered him, Wilt thou lay down thy life for my sake? Verily,
verily, I say unto thee, The cock shall not crow, till thou hast denied
me thrice.

   {14:1} Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe
also in me. {14:2} In my Father's house are many mansions: if [it were]
not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. {14:3}
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive
you unto myself; that where I am, [there] ye may be also. {14:4} And
whither I go ye know, and the way ye know. {14:5} Thomas saith unto
him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?
{14:6} Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no
man cometh unto the Father, but by me. {14:7} If ye had known me, ye
should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and
have seen him. {14:8} Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father,
and it sufficeth us. {14:9} 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? {14:10} 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. {14:11} Believe
me that I [am] in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me
for the very works' sake. {14:12} Verily, verily, I say unto you, He
that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater
[works] than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father. {14:13}
And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father
may be glorified in the Son. {14:14} If ye shall ask any thing in my
name, I will do [it.]

   {14:15} If ye love me, keep my commandments. {14:16} And I will pray
the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide
with you for ever; {14:17} [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. {14:18} I will
not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. {14:19} Yet a little
while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live,
ye shall live also. {14:20} At that day ye shall know that I [am] in my
Father, and ye in me, and I in you. {14:21} 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. {14:22} Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot,
Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto
the world? {14:23} Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me,
he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come
unto him, and make our abode with him. {14:24} 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. {14:25} These things have I spoken unto you,
being [yet] present with you. {14:26} 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. {14:27} 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. {14:28} 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. {14:29} And now I have told you before it come to pass,
that, when it is come to pass, ye might believe. {14:30} Hereafter I
will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and
hath nothing in me. {14:31} But that the world may know that I love the
Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let
us go hence.

   {15:1} I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. {15:2}
Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every
[branch] that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth
more fruit. {15:3} Now ye are clean through the word which I have
spoken unto you. {15:4} 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. {15:5} 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. {15:6} 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. {15:7} If ye abide in
me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall
be done unto you. {15:8} Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear
much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples. {15:9} As the Father hath
loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love. {15:10} If ye
keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my
Father's commandments, and abide in his love. {15:11} These things have
I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and [that] your joy
might be full. {15:12} This is my commandment, That ye love one
another, as I have loved you. {15:13} Greater love hath no man than
this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. {15:14} Ye are my
friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. {15:15} 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. {15:16} 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. {15:17} These things
I command you, that ye love one another. {15:18} If the world hate you,
ye know that [it hated] me before it hated you. {15:19} 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. {15:20} 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. {15:21} But all these things will they do unto you for my name's
sake, because they know not him that sent me. {15:22} If I had not come
and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke
for their sin. {15:23} He that hateth me hateth my Father also. {15:24}
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. {15:25} But [this cometh to pass,] that the word might be
fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.
{15:26} But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from
the Father, [even] the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the
Father, he shall testify of me: {15:27} And ye also shall bear witness,
because ye have been with me from the beginning.

   {16:1} These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be
offended. {16:2} They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the
time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God
service. {16:3} And these things will they do unto you, because they
have not known the Father, nor me. {16:4} But these things have I told
you, that when the time shall come, 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. {16:5} But now I go my way to him that sent me; and none
of you asketh me, Whither goest thou? {16:6} But because I have said
these things unto you, sorrow hath filled your heart. {16:7}
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. {16:8} And when he is come, he
will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:
{16:9} Of sin, because they believe not on me; {16:10} Of
righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more;
{16:11} Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.
{16:12} I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them
now. {16:13} 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. {16:14} He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of
mine, and shall shew [it] unto you. {16:15} All things that the Father
hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall
shew [it] unto you. {16:16} A little while, and ye shall not see me:
and again, a little while, and ye shall see me, because I go to the
Father. {16:17} Then said [some] of his disciples among themselves,
What is this 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? {16:18} They said therefore, What is this that he
saith, A little while? we cannot tell what he saith. {16:19} Now Jesus
knew that they were desirous to ask him, and said unto them, Do ye
enquire among yourselves of that I said, A little while, and ye shall
not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me? {16:20}
Verily, verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the
world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall
be turned into joy. {16:21} A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow,
because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child,
she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into
the world. {16:22} And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you
again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from
you. {16:23} 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. {16:24} Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask,
and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full. {16:25} These things
have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh, when I shall
no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall shew you plainly of the
Father. {16:26} At that day ye shall ask in my name: and I say not unto
you, that I will pray the Father for you: {16:27} For the Father
himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I
came out from God. {16:28} I came forth from the Father, and am come
into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father. {16:29}
His disciples said unto him, Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and
speakest no proverb. {16:30} 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. {16:31} Jesus answered them,
Do ye now believe? {16:32} Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is now come,
that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me
alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me. {16:33}
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.

   {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: {17:2} As thou hast given him power over all flesh,
that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.
{17:3} And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only
true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. {17:4} I have
glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest
me to do. {17:5} And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self
with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. {17:6} I
have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the
world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy
word. {17:7} Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast
given me are of thee. {17:8} 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. {17:9} I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them
which thou hast given me; for they are thine. {17:10} And all mine are
thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them. {17:11} 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. ]{17:12} 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. {17:13} And now come I to thee; and these
things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in
themselves. {17:14} I have given them thy word; and the world hath
hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the
world. {17:15} I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the
world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. {17:16} They
are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. {17:17} Sanctify
them through thy truth: thy word is truth. {17:18} As thou hast sent me
into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world. {17:19}
And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be
sanctified through the truth. {17:20} Neither pray I for these alone,
but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; {17:21}
That they all may be one; as thou, Father, [art] in me, and I in thee,
that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou
hast sent me. {17:22} And the glory which thou gavest me I have given
them; that they may be one, even as we are one: {17:23} I in them, and
thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world
may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast
loved me. {17:24} 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.
{17:25} O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have
known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me. {17:26} 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.

   {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. {18:2} And Judas also, which betrayed him,
knew the place: for Jesus ofttimes resorted thither with his disciples.
{18:3} Judas then, having received a band [of men] and officers from
the chief priests and Pharisees, cometh thither with lanterns and
torches and weapons. {18:4} Jesus therefore, knowing all things that
should come upon him, went forth, and said unto them, Whom seek ye?
{18:5} They answered him, Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus saith unto them, I
am [he.] And Judas also, which betrayed him, stood with them. {18:6} As
soon then as he had said unto them, I am [he,] they went backward, and
fell to the ground. {18:7} Then asked he them again, Whom seek ye? And
they said, Jesus of Nazareth. {18:8} Jesus answered, I have told you
that I am [he:] if therefore ye seek me, let these go their way: {18:9}
That the saying might be fulfilled, which he spake, Of them which thou
gavest me have I lost none. {18:10} Then Simon Peter having a sword
drew it, and smote the high priest's servant, and cut off his right
ear. The servant's name was Malchus. {18:11} 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? {18:12} Then the band and the captain
and officers of the Jews took Jesus, and bound him, {18:13} And led him
away to Annas first; for he was father in law to Caiaphas, which was
the high priest that same year. {18:14} Now Caiaphas was he, which gave
counsel to the Jews, that it was expedient that one man should die for
the people.

   {18:15} 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. {18:16} 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. {18:17} Then saith the damsel that kept the door unto
Peter, Art not thou also [one] of this man's disciples? He saith, I am
not. {18:18} And the servants and officers stood there, who had made a
fire of coals; for it was cold: and they warmed themselves: and Peter
stood with them, and warmed himself.

   {18:19} The high priest then asked Jesus of his disciples, and of
his doctrine. {18:20} 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. {18:21} Why askest
thou me? ask them which heard me, what I have said unto them: behold,
they know what I said. {18:22} And when he had thus spoken, one of the
officers which stood by struck Jesus with the palm of his hand, saying,
Answerest thou the high priest so? {18:23} Jesus answered him, If I
have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil: but if well, why smitest
thou me? {18:24} Now Annas had sent him bound unto Caiaphas the high
priest. {18:25} And Simon Peter stood and warmed himself. They said
therefore unto him, Art not thou also [one] of his disciples? He denied
[it,] and said, I am not. {18:26} One of the servants of the high
priest, being [his] kinsman whose ear Peter cut off, saith, Did not I
see thee in the garden with him? {18:27} Peter then denied again: and
immediately the cock crew.

   {18:28} 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.
{18:29} Pilate then went out unto them, and said, What accusation bring
ye against this man? {18:30} They answered and said unto him, If he
were not a malefactor, we would not have delivered him up unto thee.
{18:31} Then said Pilate unto them, Take ye him, and judge him
according to your law. The Jews therefore said unto him, It is not
lawful for us to put any man to death: {18:32} That the saying of Jesus
might be fulfilled, which he spake, signifying what death he should
die. {18:33} Then Pilate entered into the judgment hall again, and
called Jesus, and said unto him, Art thou the King of the Jews? {18:34}
Jesus answered him, Sayest thou this thing of thyself, or did others
tell it thee of me? {18:35} Pilate answered, Am I a Jew? Thine own
nation and the chief priests have delivered thee unto me: what hast
thou done? {18:36} 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. {18:37} 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.
{18:38} 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. ]{18:39} 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? {18:40} Then cried they all again,
saying, Not this man, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a robber.

   {19:1} Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged [him. ]{19:2}
And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put [it] on his head,
and they put on him a purple robe, {19:3} And said, Hail, King of the
Jews! and they smote him with their hands. {19:4} 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. {19:5} Then came Jesus
forth, wearing the crown of thorns, and the purple robe. And [Pilate]
saith unto them, Behold the man! {19:6} 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. {19:7} The Jews answered him, We have a
law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of
God.

   {19:8} When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he was the more
afraid; {19:9} And went again into the judgment hall, and saith unto
Jesus, Whence art thou? But Jesus gave him no answer. {19:10} Then
saith Pilate unto him, Speakest thou not unto me? knowest thou not that
I have power to crucify thee, and have power to release thee? {19:11}
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. {19:12} 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.

   {19:13} 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. {19:14} And it was the
preparation of the passover, and about the sixth hour: and he saith
unto the Jews, Behold your King! {19:15} But they cried out, Away with
[him,] away with [him,] crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Shall I
crucify your King? The chief priests answered, We have no king but
Caesar. {19:16} Then delivered he him therefore unto them to be
crucified. And they took Jesus, and led [him] away. {19:17} And he
bearing his cross went forth into a place called [the place] of a
skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha: {19:18} Where they
crucified him, and two others with him, on either side one, and Jesus
in the midst.

   {19:19} And Pilate wrote a title, and put [it] on the cross. And the
writing was, JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS. {19:20} This title
then read many of the Jews: for the place where Jesus was crucified was
nigh to the city: and it was written in Hebrew, [and] Greek, [and]
Latin. {19:21} Then said the chief priests of the Jews to Pilate, Write
not, The King of the Jews; but that he said, I am King of the Jews.
{19:22} Pilate answered, What I have written I have written.

   {19:23} 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.
{19:24} 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.

   {19:25} Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his
mother's sister, Mary the [wife] of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene.
{19:26} When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing
by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son!
{19:27} Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother! And from that
hour that disciple took her unto his own [home.]

   {19:28} After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now
accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst.
{19:29} Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a
spunge with vinegar, and put [it] upon hyssop, and put [it] to his
mouth. {19:30} When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said,
It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost. {19:31}
The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the 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. {19:32} Then came the soldiers,
and brake the legs of the first, and of the other which was crucified
with him. {19:33} But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead
already, they brake not his legs: {19:34} But one of the soldiers with
a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.
{19:35} And he that saw [it] bare record, and his record is true: and
he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe. {19:36} For these
things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him
shall not be broken. {19:37} And again another scripture saith, They
shall look on him whom they pierced.

   {19:38} 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. {19:39} And there came also
Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a
mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound [weight. ]{19:40}
Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with
the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury. {19:41} Now in the
place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a
new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid. {19:42} There laid they
Jesus therefore because of the Jews' preparation [day;] for the
sepulchre was nigh at hand.

   {20:1} 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. {20:2} 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. {20:3} Peter therefore went forth, and that other
disciple, and came to the sepulchre. {20:4} So they ran both together:
and the other disciple did outrun Peter, and came first to the
sepulchre. {20:5} And he stooping down, [and looking in,] saw the linen
clothes lying; yet went he not in. {20:6} Then cometh Simon Peter
following him, and went into the sepulchre, and seeth the linen clothes
lie, {20:7} And the napkin, that was about his head, not lying with the
linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself. {20:8} Then
went in also that other disciple, which came first to the sepulchre,
and he saw, and believed. {20:9} For as yet they knew not the
scripture, that he must rise again from the dead. {20:10} Then the
disciples went away again unto their own home.

   {20:11} But Mary stood without at the sepulchre weeping: and as she
wept, she stooped down, [and looked] into the sepulchre, {20:12} And
seeth two angels in white sitting, the one at the head, and the other
at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain. {20:13} 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.
{20:14} And when she had thus said, she turned herself back, and saw
Jesus standing, and knew not that it was Jesus. {20:15} Jesus saith
unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? whom seekest 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.
{20:16} Jesus saith unto her, Mary. She turned herself, and saith unto
him, Rabboni; which is to say, Master. {20:17} Jesus saith unto her,
Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my
brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father;
and [to] my God, and your God. {20:18} Mary Magdalene came and told the
disciples that she had seen the Lord, and [that] he had spoken these
things unto her.

   {20:19} 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. {20:20} 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. {20:21} Then said Jesus to them again, Peace [be]
unto you: as [my] Father hath sent me, even so send I you. {20:22} And
when he had said this, he breathed on [them,] and saith unto them,
Receive ye the Holy Ghost: {20:23} Whose soever sins ye remit, they are
remitted unto them; [and] whose soever [sins] ye retain, they are
retained.

   {20:24} But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with
them when Jesus came. {20:25} The other disciples therefore said unto
him, We have seen the 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.

   {20:26} 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. {20:27} 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. {20:28} And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and
my God. {20:29} Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen
me, thou hast believed: blessed [are] they that have not seen, and
[yet] have believed.

   {20:30} And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his
disciples, which are not written in this book: {20:31} But these are
written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of
God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.

   {21:1} After these things Jesus shewed himself again to the
disciples at the sea of Tiberias; and on this wise shewed he [himself.
]{21:2} There were together Simon Peter, and Thomas called Didymus, and
Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, and the [sons] of Zebedee, and two other
of his disciples. {21:3} 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. {21:4} But
when the morning was now come, Jesus stood on the shore: but the
disciples knew not that it was Jesus. {21:5} Then Jesus saith unto
them, Children, have ye any meat? They answered him, No. {21:6} And he
said unto them, Cast the net on the right side of the ship, and ye
shall find. They cast therefore, and now they were not able to draw it
for the multitude of fishes. {21:7} 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. {21:8} 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. {21:9} As
soon then as they were come to land, they saw a fire of coals there,
and fish laid thereon, and bread. {21:10} Jesus saith unto them, Bring
of the fish which ye have now caught. {21:11} Simon Peter went up, and
drew the net to land full of great fishes, and hundred and fifty and
three: and for all there were so many, yet was not the net broken.
{21:12} Jesus saith unto them, Come [and] dine. And none of the
disciples durst ask him, Who art thou? knowing that it was the Lord.
{21:13} Jesus then cometh, and taketh bread, and giveth them, and fish
likewise. {21:14} This is now the third time that Jesus shewed himself
to his disciples, after that he was risen from the dead.

   {21:15} 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.
{21:16} 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. {21:17} 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. {21:18} Verily, verily, I say unto
thee, When thou wast young, thou girdedst 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. {21:19} This spake he, signifying by what death he should
glorify God. And when he had spoken this, he saith unto him, Follow me.
{21:20} 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? {21:21} Peter seeing him saith to
Jesus, Lord, and what [shall] this man [do? ]{21:22} Jesus saith unto
him, If I will that he tarry till I come, what [is that] to thee?
follow thou me. {21:23} Then went this saying abroad among the
brethren, that 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? {21:24} This is the disciple which testifieth of
these things, and wrote these things: and we know that his testimony is
true. {21:25} And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the
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

   {1:1} Now the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the son of Amittai,
saying, {1:2} Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against
it; for their wickedness is come up before me. {1:3} But Jonah rose up
to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the 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.

   {1:4} 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.
{1:5} 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. {1:6} 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.
{1:7} 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. {1:8} 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? {1:9} 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. ]{1:10} 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.

   {1:11} 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.
{1:12} 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. {1:13} Nevertheless the men rowed
hard to bring [it] to the land; but they could not: for the sea
wrought, and was tempestuous against them. {1:14} 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. {1:15} So they took up
Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea: and the sea ceased from her
raging. {1:16} Then the men feared the LORD exceedingly, and offered a
sacrifice unto the LORD, and made vows.

   {1:17} Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah.
And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

   {2:1} Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish's
belly, {2:2} 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. {2:3} 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. {2:4} Then I said, I am cast out of thy
sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple. {2:5} The waters
compassed me about, [even] to the soul: the depth closed me round
about, the weeds were wrapped about my head. {2:6} I went down to the
bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars [was] about me for
ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.
{2:7} When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my
prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple. {2:8} They that
observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy. {2:9} But I will
sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay [that]
that I have vowed. Salvation [is] of the LORD.

   {2:10} And the LORD spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah
upon the dry [land.]

   {3:1} And the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the second time,
saying, {3:2} Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto
it the preaching that I bid thee. {3:3} So Jonah arose, and went unto
Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an
exceeding great city of three days' journey. {3:4} 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.

   {3:5} 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. {3:6} 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. {3:7} 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: {3:8} 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.
{3:9} Who can tell [if] God will turn and repent, and turn away from
his fierce anger, that we perish not?

   {3:10} And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil
way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do
unto them; and he did [it] not.

   {4:1} But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.
{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. {4:3} Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life
from me; for [it is] better for me to die than to live.

   {4:4} Then said the LORD, Doest thou well to be angry? {4:5} 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. {4:6} 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. {4:7} But God prepared a worm when the morning rose
the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered. {4:8} And it
came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a 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. {4:9} And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for
the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, [even] unto death.
{4:10} Then said the LORD, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the
which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in
a night, and perished in a night: {4:11} And should not I spare
Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand
persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left
hand; and [also] much cattle?





The Book of Joshua

   {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, {1:2} 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. {1:3} Every place
that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto
you, as I said unto Moses. {1:4} From the wilderness and this Lebanon
even unto the great river, 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. {1:5} 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. {1:6} 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.
{1:7} Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe
to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee:
turn not from it [to] the right hand or [to] the left, that thou mayest
prosper whithersoever thou goest. {1:8} This book of the law shall not
depart out of thy mouth; but thou 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. {1:9} 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.

   {1:10} Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people, saying,
{1:11} Pass through the host, and command the people, saying, Prepare
you victuals; for within three days ye shall pass over this Jordan, to
go in to possess the land, which the LORD your God giveth you to
possess it.

   {1:12} And to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to half the
tribe of Manasseh, spake Joshua, saying, {1:13} Remember the word which
Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, saying, The LORD your God
hath given you rest, and hath given you this land. {1:14} 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; {1:15} 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.

   {1:16} And they answered Joshua, saying, All that thou commandest us
we will do, and whithersoever thou sendest us, we will go. {1:17}
According as we hearkened unto Moses in all things, so will we hearken
unto thee: only the LORD thy God be with thee, as he was with Moses.
{1:18} 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.

   {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. {2:2} 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.
{2:3} 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. {2:4} 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: ]{2:5} 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. {2:6} 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. {2:7} 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.

   {2:8} And before they were laid down, she came up unto them upon the
roof; {2:9} 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. {2:10} 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. {2:11} 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. {2:12} 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: {2:13} 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. {2:14} 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. {2:15} 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. {2:16} 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. {2:17} And the men said unto her, We
[will be] blameless of this thine oath which thou hast made us swear.
{2:18} Behold, [when] we come into the land, thou shalt bind this line
of 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. {2:19} 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. {2:20} And if thou utter this our
business, then we will be quit of thine oath which thou hast made us to
swear. {2:21} And she said, According unto your words, so [be] it. And
she sent them away, and they departed: and she bound the scarlet line
in the window. {2:22} 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.

   {2:23} 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: {2:24} 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.

   {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. {3:2} And it came to pass after
three days, that the officers went through the host; {3:3} And they
commanded the people, saying, When ye see the ark of 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. {3:4} 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. {3:5} And Joshua said unto the
people, Sanctify yourselves: for to morrow the LORD will do wonders
among you. {3:6} And Joshua spake unto the priests, saying, Take up the
ark of the covenant, and pass over before the people. And they took up
the ark of the covenant, and went before the people.

   {3:7} 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. {3:8} 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.

   {3:9} And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, Come hither, and
hear the words of the LORD your God. {3:10} And Joshua said, Hereby ye
shall know that the living God [is] 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. {3:11} Behold, the ark of the covenant
of the Lord of all the earth passeth over before you into Jordan.
{3:12} Now therefore take you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel,
out of every tribe a man. {3:13} And it shall come to pass, as soon as
the soles of the feet of the 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.

   {3:14} 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; {3:15} 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,) {3:16} 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. {3:17} 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.

   {4:1} And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed
over Jordan, that the LORD spake unto Joshua, saying, {4:2} Take you
twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man, {4:3} 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. {4:4} Then Joshua called the twelve
men, whom he had prepared of the children of Israel, out of every tribe
a man: {4:5} And Joshua said unto them, Pass over before the ark of the
LORD your God into the midst of Jordan, and take ye up every man of you
a stone upon his shoulder, according unto the number of the tribes of
the children of Israel: {4:6} That this may be a sign among you, [that]
when your children ask [their fathers] in time to come, saying, What
[mean] ye by these stones? {4:7} Then ye shall answer them, That the
waters of Jordan were cut 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. {4:8} 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. {4:9} 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.

   {4:10} For the priests which bare the ark stood in the midst of
Jordan, until every thing 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. {4:11} 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. {4:12} 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: {4:13} About forty thousand prepared for war passed
over before the LORD unto battle, to the plains of Jericho.

   {4:14} On that day the LORD magnified Joshua in the sight of all
Israel; and they feared him, as they feared Moses, all the days of his
life. {4:15} And the LORD spake unto Joshua, saying, {4:16} Command the
priests that bear the ark of the testimony, that they come up out of
Jordan. {4:17} Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, Come ye
up out of Jordan. {4:18} 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.

   {4:19} And the people came up out of Jordan on the tenth [day] of
the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, in the east border of Jericho.
{4:20} And those twelve stones, which they took out of Jordan, did
Joshua pitch in Gilgal. {4:21} And he spake unto the children of
Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to
come, saying, What [mean] these stones? {4:22} Then ye shall let your
children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land. {4:23}
For the LORD your God dried up the waters of Jordan from 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: {4:24} 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.

   {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.

   {5:2} At that time the LORD said unto Joshua, Make thee sharp
knives, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time.
{5:3} And Joshua made him sharp knives, and circumcised the children of
Israel at the hill of the foreskins. {5:4} And this [is] the cause why
Joshua did circumcise: All the people 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. {5:5} 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. {5:6} 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. {5:7} And their children, [whom] he
raised up in their stead, them Joshua circumcised: for they were
uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised them by the way. {5:8}
And it came to pass, when they had done circumcising all the people,
that they abode in their places in the camp, till they were whole.
{5:9} And the LORD said unto Joshua, This day have I rolled away the
reproach of Egypt from off you. Wherefore the name of the place is
called Gilgal unto this day.

   {5:10} And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the
passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains of
Jericho. {5:11} And they did eat of the old corn of the land on the
morrow after the passover, unleavened cakes, and parched [corn] in the
selfsame day.

   {5:12} 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.

   {5:13} 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?

   {5:14} 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? {5:15} 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.

   {6:1} Now Jericho was straitly shut up because of the children of
Israel: none went out, and none came in. {6:2} And the LORD said unto
Joshua, See, I have given into thine hand Jericho, and the king
thereof, [and] the mighty men of valour. {6:3} And ye shall compass the
city, all [ye] men of war, [and] go round about the city once. Thus
shalt thou do six days. {6:4} And seven priests shall bear before the
ark seven trumpets of rams horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass
the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets.
{6:5} 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.

   {6:6} 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. {6:7} 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.

   {6:8} 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.

   {6:9} 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. {6:10} 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. {6:11} So the ark of the LORD compassed
the city, going about [it] once: and they came into the camp, and
lodged in the camp.

   {6:12} And Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up
the ark of the LORD. {6:13} And seven priests bearing seven trumpets of
rams' horns before 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. {6:14} And the second day they compassed the city
once, and returned into the camp: so they did six days. {6:15} And it
came to pass on the seventh day, that they rose early 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. {6:16} 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.

   {6:17} 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. {6:18} And ye, in any wise keep [yourselves] from the accursed
thing, lest ye make [yourselves] accursed, when ye take of the accursed
thing, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it. {6:19} But
all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, [are]
consecrated unto the LORD: they shall come into the treasury of the
LORD. {6:20} 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. {6:21} 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. {6:22} 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. {6:23} And the young men that were spies went in,
and brought 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. {6:24} 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. {6:25} 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. {6:26} 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. {6:27} So the LORD was with Joshua; and his fame was [noised]
throughout all the country.

   {7:1} But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the
accursed thing: 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. {7:2} And
Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which [is] beside Beth-aven, on the
east side of Bethel, and spake unto them, saying, Go up and view the
country. And the men went up and viewed Ai. {7:3} 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. {7:4} So there went
up thither of the people about three thousand men: and they fled before
the men of Ai. {7:5} And the men of Ai smote of them about thirty and
six men: for 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.

   {7:6} 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. {7:7} 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! {7:8} O
Lord, what shall I say, when Israel turneth their backs before their
enemies! {7:9} 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? {7:10} And
the LORD said unto Joshua, Get thee up; wherefore liest thou thus upon
thy face? {7:11} Israel hath sinned, and they have also transgressed my
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. {7:12} 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.
{7:13} 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. {7:14}
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. {7:15} 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.

   {7:16} So Joshua rose up early in the morning, and brought Israel by
their tribes; and the tribe of Judah was taken: {7:17} And he brought
the family of Judah; and he took the family of the Zarhites: and he
brought the family of the Zarhites man by man; and Zabdi was taken:
{7:18} 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. {7:19} 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. {7:20} And Achan
answered Joshua, and said, Indeed I have sinned against the LORD God of
Israel, and thus and thus have I done: {7:21} 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.

   {7:22} So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran unto the tent; and,
behold, [it was] hid in his tent, and the silver under it. {7:23} 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. {7:24} 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. {7:25} 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. {7:26} 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.

   {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: {8:2} 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.

   {8:3} 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. {8:4} 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: {8:5} 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, {8:6} (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. {8:7} Then ye shall rise up
from the ambush, and seize upon the city: for the LORD your God will
deliver it into your hand. {8:8} And it shall be, when ye have taken
the city, [that] ye shall set the city on fire: according to the
commandment of the LORD shall ye do. See, I have commanded you. {8:9}
Joshua therefore sent them forth: and they went to lie in ambush, and
abode between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua lodged
that night among the people. {8:10} 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. {8:11} 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. {8:12} 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. {8:13} 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.

   {8:14} 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. {8:15} And Joshua and all Israel made as if they
were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness. {8:16}
And all the people that [were] in Ai were called together to pursue
after them: and they pursued after Joshua, and were drawn away from the
city. {8:17} 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. {8:18} 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. {8:19} 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. {8:20} 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. {8:21} 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. {8:22} 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. {8:23} And the king of
Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua. {8:24} And it came to
pass, when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai
in the field, in the wilderness wherein they chased them, and when they
were all fallen on the edge of the sword, until they were consumed,
that all the Israelites returned unto Ai, and smote it with the edge of
the sword. {8:25} And [so] it was, [that] all that fell that day, both
of men and women, [were] twelve thousand, [even] all the men of Ai.
{8:26} For Joshua drew not his hand back, wherewith he stretched out
the spear, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.
{8:27} Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took for a
prey unto themselves, according unto the word of the LORD which he
commanded Joshua. {8:28} And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for
ever, [even] a desolation unto this day. {8:29} And the king of Ai he
hanged on a tree until eventide: and as 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.

   {8:30} Then Joshua built an altar unto the LORD God of Israel in
mount Ebal, {8:31} As Moses the servant of the LORD commanded the
children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses,
an altar of whole stones, over which no man hath lift up [any] iron:
and they offered thereon burnt offerings unto the LORD, and sacrificed
peace offerings.

   {8:32} And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of
Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel. {8:33}
And all Israel, and their elders, and officers, and their judges, 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. {8:34} And afterward he read all the words of the law, the
blessings and cursings, according to all that is written in the book of
the law. {8:35} There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which
Joshua read not before all the congregation of Israel, with the women,
and the little ones, and the strangers that were conversant among them.

   {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;
]{9:2} That they gathered themselves together, to fight with Joshua and
with Israel, with one accord.

   {9:3} And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done
unto Jericho and to Ai, {9:4} They did work wilily, and went and made
as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses,
and wine bottles, old, and rent, and bound up; {9:5} And old shoes and
clouted upon their feet, and old garments upon them; and all the bread
of their provision was dry [and] mouldy. {9:6} 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.
{9:7} And the men of Israel said unto the Hivites, Peradventure ye
dwell among us; and how shall we make a league with you? {9:8} And they
said unto Joshua, We [are] thy servants. And Joshua said unto them, Who
[are] ye? and from whence come ye? {9:9} 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, {9:10} And all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites,
that [were] beyond Jordan, to Sihon king of Heshbon, and to Og king of
Bashan, which [was] at Ashtaroth. {9:11} Wherefore our elders and all
the inhabitants of our country spake to us, saying, Take victuals with
you for the journey, and go to meet them, and say unto them, We [are]
your servants: therefore now make ye a league with us. {9:12} This our
bread we took hot [for] our provision out of our houses on the day we
came forth to go unto you; but now, behold, it is dry, and it is
mouldy: {9:13} 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. {9:14} And the men took
of their victuals, and asked not [counsel] at the mouth of the LORD.
{9:15} And Joshua made peace with them, and made a league with them, to
let them live: and the princes of the congregation sware unto them.

   {9:16} 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. {9:17} 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
Kirjath-jearim. {9:18} 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.
{9:19} 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. {9:20} This we will do to them; we will even let them live,
lest wrath be upon us, because of the oath which we sware unto them.
{9:21} And the princes said unto them, Let them live; but let them be
hewers of wood and drawers of water unto all the congregation; as the
princes had promised them.

   {9:22} 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? {9:23} 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. {9:24} 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. {9:25} And now, behold, we [are] in thine hand: as it
seemeth good and right unto thee to do unto us, do. {9:26} And so did
he unto them, and delivered them out of the hand of the children of
Israel, that they slew them not. {9:27} And Joshua made them that day
hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation, and for the
altar of the LORD, even unto this day, in the place which he should
choose.

   {10:1} Now it came to pass, when Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem had
heard 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; {10:2} 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. {10:3} Wherefore
Adoni-zedek 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, {10:4} 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. {10:5} 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.

   {10:6} 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. {10:7} So Joshua
ascended from Gilgal, he, and all the people of war with him, and all
the mighty men of valour.

   {10:8} And the LORD said unto Joshua, Fear them not: for I have
delivered them into thine hand; there shall not a man of them stand
before thee. {10:9} Joshua therefore came unto them suddenly, [and]
went up from Gilgal all night. {10:10} And the LORD discomfited them
before Israel, and slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and
chased them along the way that goeth up to Beth-horon, and smote them
to Azekah, and unto Makkedah. {10:11} And it came to pass, as they fled
from before Israel, [and] were in the going down to Beth-horon, 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.

   {10:12} 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. {10:13} 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.
{10:14} 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.

   {10:15} And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, unto the camp
to Gilgal. {10:16} But these five kings fled, and hid themselves in a
cave at Makkedah. {10:17} And it was told Joshua, saying, The five
kings are found hid in a cave at Makkedah. {10:18} And Joshua said,
Roll great stones upon the mouth of the cave, and set men by it for to
keep them: {10:19} And stay ye not, [but] pursue after your enemies,
and smite the hindmost of them; suffer them not to enter into their
cities: for the LORD your God hath delivered them into your hand.
{10:20} And it came to pass, when Joshua and the children of Israel had
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. {10:21} 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. {10:22} Then said Joshua, Open the mouth of the cave, and bring
out those five kings unto me out of the cave. {10:23} And they did so,
and brought forth those five kings unto him 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. {10:24} 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. {10:25}
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. {10:26} And afterward Joshua smote them, and slew them,
and hanged them on five trees: and they were hanging upon the trees
until the evening. {10:27} 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.

   {10:28} 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. {10:29} Then
Joshua passed from Makkedah, and all Israel with him, unto Libnah, and
fought against Libnah: {10:30} And the LORD delivered it also, and the
king thereof, into the 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.

   {10:31} And Joshua passed from Libnah, and all Israel with him, unto
Lachish, and encamped against it, and fought against it: {10:32} And
the LORD delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel, which took it on
the second day, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the
souls that [were] therein, according to all that he had done to Libnah.

   {10:33} Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua
smote him and his people, until he had left him none remaining.

   {10:34} And from Lachish Joshua passed unto Eglon, and all Israel
with him; and they encamped against it, and fought against it: {10:35}
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. {10:36} And Joshua went
up from Eglon, and all Israel with him, unto Hebron; and they fought
against it: {10:37} And they took it, and smote it with the edge of the
sword, and 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.

   {10:38} And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to Debir; and
fought against it: {10:39} And he took it, and the king thereof, and
all the cities thereof; 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.

   {10:40} 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. {10:41} And Joshua smote them from
Kadesh-barnea even unto Gaza, and all the country of Goshen, even unto
Gibeon. {10:42} And all these kings and their land did Joshua take at
one time, because the LORD God of Israel fought for Israel. {10:43} And
Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, unto the camp to Gilgal.

   {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, {11:2} 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,
{11:3} [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.
{11:4} 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. {11:5} And when all these kings
were met together, they came and pitched together at the waters of
Merom, to fight against Israel.

   {11:6} And the LORD said unto Joshua, Be not afraid because of them:
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. {11:7} So Joshua came, and all the people of war with him,
against them by the waters of Merom suddenly; and they fell upon them.
{11:8} And the LORD delivered them into the hand of Israel, who smote
them, and chased them unto great Zidon, and unto Misrephoth-maim, and
unto the valley of Mizpeh eastward; and they smote them, until they
left them none remaining. {11:9} And Joshua did unto them as the LORD
bade him: he houghed their horses, and burnt their chariots with fire.

   {11:10} And Joshua at that time turned back, and took Hazor, and
smote the king thereof with the sword: for Hazor beforetime was the
head of all those kingdoms. {11:11} And they smote all the souls that
[were] therein with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying [them:]
there was not any left to breathe: and he burnt Hazor with fire.
{11:12} 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.
{11:13} But [as for] the cities that stood still in their strength,
Israel burned none of them, save Hazor only; [that] did Joshua burn.
{11:14} And all the spoil of these cities, and the cattle, the children
of 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.

   {11:15} 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. {11:16} 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; {11:17} [Even] from the mount Halak, that goeth up to Seir,
even unto Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon under mount Hermon: and all
their kings he took, and smote them, and slew them. {11:18} Joshua made
war a long time with all those kings. {11:19} 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. {11:20} 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.

   {11:21} 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. {11:22} There was none of the
Anakims left in the land of the children of Israel: only in Gaza, in
Gath, and in Ashdod, there remained. {11:23} So Joshua took the whole
land, according to all that the LORD 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.

   {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: {12:2} 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;
{12:3} 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
Beth-jeshimoth; and from the south, under Ashdoth-pisgah:

   {12:4} And the coast of Og king of Bashan, [which was] of the
remnant of the giants, that dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei, {12:5} And
reigned in mount Hermon, and in Salcah, and in all Bashan, unto the
border of the Geshurites and the Maachathites, and half Gilead, the
border of Sihon king of Heshbon. {12:6} 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.

   {12:7} And these [are] the kings of the country which Joshua and the
children of Israel smote on this side Jordan on the west, from Baal-gad
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; {12:8} 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:

   {12:9} The king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which [is] beside
Bethel, one; {12:10} The king of Jerusalem, one; the king of Hebron,
one; {12:11} The king of Jarmuth, one; the king of Lachish, one;
{12:12} The king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one; {12:13} The
king of Debir, one; the king of Geder, one; {12:14} The king of Hormah,
one; the king of Arad, one; {12:15} The king of Libnah, one; the king
of Adullam, one; {12:16} The king of Makkedah, one; the king of Bethel,
one; {12:17} The king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, one; {12:18}
The king of Aphek, one; the king of Lasharon, one; {12:19} The king of
Madon, one; the king of Hazor, one; {12:20} The king of Shimron-meron,
one; the king of Achshaph, one; {12:21} The king of Taanach, one; the
king of Megiddo, one; {12:22} The king of Kedesh, one; the king of
Jokneam of Carmel, one; {12:23} The king of Dor in the coast of Dor,
one; the king of the nations of Gilgal, one; {12:24} The king of
Tirzah, one: all the kings thirty and one.

   {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. {13:2} This [is] the land that yet
remaineth: all the borders of the Philistines, and all Geshuri, {13:3}
From Sihor, which [is] before Egypt, even unto the borders of Ekron
northward, [which] is counted to the Canaanite: five lords of the
Philistines; the Gazathites, and the Ashdothites, the Eshkalonites, the
Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avites: {13:4} From the south,
all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that [is] beside the
Sidonians, unto Aphek, to the borders of the Amorites: {13:5} And the
land of the Giblites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrising, from
Baal-gad under mount Hermon unto the entering into Hamath. {13:6} All
the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon unto Misrephoth-maim,
[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. {13:7} Now therefore divide this
land for an inheritance unto the nine tribes, and the half tribe of
Manasseh, {13:8} With whom the Reubenites and the Gadites have received
their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond Jordan eastward,
[even] as Moses the servant of the LORD gave them; {13:9} From Aroer,
that [is] upon the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that [is] in
the midst of the river, and all the plain of Medeba unto Dibon; {13:10}
And all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, which reigned in
Heshbon, unto the border of the children of Ammon; {13:11} And Gilead,
and the border of the Geshurites and Maachathites, and all mount
Hermon, and all Bashan unto Salcah; {13:12} All the kingdom of Og in
Bashan, which reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei, who remained of the
remnant of the giants: for these did Moses smite, and cast them out.
{13:13} 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. {13:14} Only
unto the tribe 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.

   {13:15} And Moses gave unto the tribe of the children of Reuben
[inheritance] according to their families. {13:16} And their coast was
from Aroer, that [is] on the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that
[is] in the midst of the river, and all the plain by Medeba; {13:17}
Heshbon, and all her cities that [are] in the plain; Dibon, and Bamoth-
baal, and Beth-baal-meon, {13:18} And Jahaza, and Kedemoth, and
Mephaath, {13:19} And Kirjathaim, and Sibmah, and Zareth-shahar in the
mount of the valley, {13:20} And Beth- peor, and Ashdoth-pisgah, and
Beth-jeshimoth, {13:21} 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.

   {13:22} Balaam also the son of Beor, the soothsayer, did the
children of Israel slay with the sword among them that were slain by
them. {13:23} 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.
{13:24} And Moses gave [inheritance] unto the tribe of Gad, [even] unto
the children of Gad according to their families. {13:25} And their
coast was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the
children of Ammon, unto Aroer that [is] before Rabbah; {13:26} And from
Heshbon unto Ramath-mizpeh, and Betonim; and from Mahanaim unto the
border of Debir; {13:27} And in the valley, Beth-aram, and Beth-nimrah,
and Succoth, and 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. {13:28} This [is] the
inheritance of the children of Gad after their families, the cities,
and their villages.

   {13:29} And Moses gave [inheritance] unto the half tribe of
Manasseh: and [this] was [the possession] of the half tribe of the
children of Manasseh by their families. {13:30} 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: {13:31}
And half Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og
in Bashan, [were pertaining] unto the children of Machir the son of
Manasseh, even to the one half of the children of Machir by their
families. {13:32} These [are the countries] which Moses did distribute
for inheritance in the plains of Moab, on the other side Jordan, by
Jericho, eastward. {13:33} But unto the tribe of Levi Moses gave not
[any] inheritance: the LORD God of Israel [was] their inheritance, as
he said unto them.

   {14:1} 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. {14:2} By lot
[was] their inheritance, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses,
for the nine tribes, and [for] the half tribe. {14:3} 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.
{14:4} 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. {14:5} As the LORD commanded Moses, so the children of
Israel did, and they divided the land.

   {14:6} Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal: and
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 Kadesh-barnea. {14:7} Forty years old [was] I when Moses the
servant of the LORD sent me from Kadesh-barnea to espy out the land;
and I brought him word again as [it was] in mine heart. {14:8}
Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the
people melt: but I wholly followed the LORD my God. {14:9} And Moses
sware on that day, saying, Surely the land whereon thy feet have
trodden shall be thine inheritance, and thy children's for ever,
because thou hast wholly followed the LORD my God. {14:10} 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. {14:11} 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. {14:12} 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. {14:13} And Joshua blessed him, and gave unto Caleb the son
of Jephunneh Hebron for an inheritance. {14:14} Hebron therefore became
the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite unto this
day, because that he wholly followed the LORD God of Israel. {14:15}
And the name of Hebron before [was] Kirjath-arba; [which Arba was] a
great man among the Anakims. And the land had rest from war.

   {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. {15:2} And their
south border was from the shore of the salt sea, from the bay that
looketh southward: {15:3} And it went out to the south side to
Maaleh-acrabbim, and passed along to Zin, and ascended up on the south
side unto Kadesh-barnea, and passed along to Hezron, and went up to
Adar, and fetched a compass to Karkaa: {15:4} [From thence] it passed
toward Azmon, and went out unto the river of Egypt; and the goings out
of that coast were at the sea: this shall be your south coast. {15:5}
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: {15:6} And the border went up to
Beth-hogla, and passed along by the north of Beth-arabah; and the
border went up to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben: {15:7} And the
border went up toward Debir from the valley of Achor, and so northward,
looking toward Gilgal, [that is] before the going up to Adummim, which
[is] on the south side of the river: and the border passed toward the
waters of En-shemesh, and the goings out thereof were at En-rogel:
{15:8} And the border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom unto
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: {15:9} 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]
Kirjath-jearim: {15:10} 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 Beth- shemesh, and
passed on to Timnah: {15:11} 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. {15:12} 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.

   {15:13} And unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh he gave a part among the
children of Judah, according to the commandment of the LORD to Joshua,
[even] the city of Arba the father of Anak, which [city is] Hebron.
{15:14} And Caleb drove thence the three sons of Anak, Sheshai, and
Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak. {15:15} And he went up thence
to the inhabitants of Debir: and the name of Debir before [was]
Kirjath- sepher.

   {15:16} And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kirjath-sepher, and taketh
it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife. {15:17} And Othniel
the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took it: and he gave him Achsah
his daughter to wife. {15:18} And it came to pass, as she came [unto
him,] that she moved him to ask of her father a field: and she lighted
off [her] ass; and Caleb said unto her, What wouldest thou? {15:19} 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. {15:20} This [is] the inheritance of the tribe of the
children of Judah according to their families. {15:21} And the
uttermost cities of the tribe of the children of Judah toward the coast
of Edom southward were Kabzeel, and Eder, and Jagur, {15:22} And Kinah,
and Dimonah, and Adadah, {15:23} And Kedesh, and Hazor, and Ithnan,
{15:24} Ziph, and Telem, and Bealoth, {15:25} And Hazor, Hadattah, and
Kerioth, [and] Hezron, which [is] Hazor, {15:26} Amam, and Shema, and
Moladah, {15:27} And Hazar-gaddah, and Heshmon, and Beth-palet, {15:28}
And Hazar-shual, and Beer- sheba, and Bizjothjah, {15:29} Baalah, and
Iim, and Azem, {15:30} And Eltolad, and Chesil, and Hormah, {15:31} And
Ziklag, and Madmannah, and Sansannah, {15:32} And Lebaoth, and Shilhim,
and Ain, and Rimmon: all the cities [are] twenty and nine, with their
villages: {15:33} [And] in the valley, Eshtaol, and Zoreah, and Ashnah,
{15:34} And Zanoah, and En- gannim, Tappuah, and Enam, {15:35} Jarmuth,
and Adullam, Socoh, and Azekah, {15:36} And Sharaim, and Adithaim, and
Gederah, and Gederothaim; fourteen cities with their villages: {15:37}
Zenan, and Hadashah, and Migdal-gad, {15:38} And Dilean, and Mizpeh,
and Joktheel, {15:39} Lachish, and Bozkath, and Eglon, {15:40} And
Cabbon, and Lahmam, and Kithlish, {15:41} And Gederoth, Beth-dagon, and
Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen cities with their villages: {15:42}
Libnah, and Ether, and Ashan, {15:43} And Jiphtah, and Ashnah, and
Nezib, {15:44} And Keilah, and Achzib, and Mareshah; nine cities with
their villages: {15:45} Ekron, with her towns and her villages: {15:46}
From Ekron even unto the sea, all that [lay] near Ashdod, with their
villages: {15:47} 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:]

   {15:48} And in the mountains, Shamir, and Jattir, and Socoh, {15:49}
And Dannah, and Kirjath-sannah, which [is] Debir, {15:50} And Anab, and
Eshtemoh, and Anim, {15:51} And Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh; eleven
cities with their villages: {15:52} Arab, and Dumah, and Eshean,
{15:53} And Janum, and Beth-tappuah, and Aphekah, {15:54} And Humtah,
and Kirjath-arba, which [is] Hebron, and Zior; nine cities with their
villages: {15:55} Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Juttah, {15:56} And
Jezreel, and Jokdeam, and Zanoah, {15:57} Cain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten
cities with their villages: {15:58} Halhul, Beth-zur, and Gedor,
{15:59} And Maarath, and Beth-anoth, and Eltekon; six cities with their
villages: {15:60} Kirjath- baal, which [is] Kirjath-jearim, and Rabbah;
two cities with their villages: {15:61} In the wilderness, Beth-arabah,
Middin, and Secacah, {15:62} And Nibshan, and the city of Salt, and
En-gedi; six cities with their villages. {15:63} 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.

   {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, {16:2} And goeth out
from Bethel to Luz, and passeth along unto the borders of Archi to
Ataroth, {16:3} And goeth down westward to the coast of Japhleti, unto
the coast of Beth-horon the nether, and to Gezer: and the goings out
thereof are at the sea. {16:4} So the children of Joseph, Manasseh and
Ephraim, took their inheritance.

   {16:5} 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 Ataroth-addar, unto Beth-horon the upper; {16:6} And the
border went out toward the sea to Michmethah on the north side; and the
border went about eastward unto Taanath-shiloh, and passed by it on the
east to Janohah; {16:7} And it went down from Janohah to Ataroth, and
to Naarath, and came to Jericho, and went out at Jordan. {16:8} The
border went out from Tappuah westward unto the river 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. {16:9} And the
separate cities for the children of Ephraim [were] among the
inheritance of the children of Manasseh, all the cities with their
villages. {16:10} 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.

   {17:1} There was also a lot for the tribe of Manasseh; for he [was]
the firstborn of Joseph; [to wit,] for Machir the firstborn of
Manasseh, the father of Gilead: because he was a man of war, therefore
he had Gilead and Bashan. {17:2} There was also [a lot] for the rest of
the children of Manasseh by 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.

   {17:3} 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. {17:4} 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. {17:5} And there fell ten portions
to Manasseh, beside the land of Gilead and Bashan, which [were] on the
other side Jordan; {17:6} Because the daughters of Manasseh had an
inheritance among his sons: and the rest of Manasseh's sons had the
land of Gilead.

   {17:7} 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 En- tappuah. {17:8} [Now] Manasseh had the land
of Tappuah: but Tappuah on the border of Manasseh [belonged] to the
children of Ephraim; {17:9} 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: {17:10}
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. {17:11} And Manasseh had in Issachar and in
Asher Beth-shean 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. {17:12}
Yet the children of Manasseh could not drive out [the inhabitants of]
those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land. {17:13} Yet
it came to pass, when the children of Israel were waxen strong, that
they put the Canaanites to tribute; but did not utterly drive them out.
{17:14} 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? {17:15}
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. {17:16} 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 Beth-shean and her
towns, and [they] who [are] of the valley of Jezreel. {17:17} 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: ]{17:18} 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.

   {18:1} And the whole congregation of the children of Israel
assembled together at Shiloh, and set up the tabernacle of the
congregation there. And the land was subdued before them. {18:2} And
there remained among the children of Israel seven tribes, which had not
yet received their inheritance. {18:3} And Joshua said unto the
children of Israel, How long [are] ye slack to go to possess the land,
which the LORD God of your fathers hath given you? {18:4} 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. {18:5} 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. {18:6} 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. {18:7} 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.

   {18:8} 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. {18:9} 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.

   {18:10} 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.

   {18:11} 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. {18:12} 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 Beth-aven. {18:13} And the border went over from thence toward Luz,
to the side of Luz, which is Bethel, southward; and the border
descended to Ataroth-adar, near the hill that [lieth] on the south side
of the nether Beth-horon. {18:14} And the border was drawn [thence,]
and compassed the corner of the sea southward, from the hill that
[lieth] before Beth- horon southward; and the goings out thereof were
at Kirjath-baal, which [is] Kirjath- jearim, a city of the children of
Judah: this [was] the west quarter. {18:15} And the south quarter [was]
from the end of Kirjath-jearim, and the border went out on the west,
and went out to the well of waters of Nephtoah: {18:16} 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 En-rogel, {18:17} And was drawn from the
north, and went forth to En-shemesh, 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, {18:18} And passed along toward the
side over against Arabah northward, and went down unto Arabah: {18:19}
And the border passed along to the side of Beth-hoglah 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. {18:20} And Jordan
was the border of it on the east side. This [was] the inheritance of
the children of Benjamin, by the coasts thereof round about, according
to their families. {18:21} Now the cities of the tribe of the children
of Benjamin according to their families were Jericho, and Beth-hoglah,
and the valley of Keziz, {18:22} And Beth-arabah, and Zemaraim, and
Bethel, {18:23} And Avim, and Parah, and Ophrah, {18:24} And
Chephar-haammonai, and Ophni, and Gaba; twelve cities with their
villages: {18:25} Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth, {18:26} And Mizpeh,
and Chephirah, and Mozah, {18:27} And Rekem, and Irpeel, and Taralah,
{18:28} And Zelah, Eleph, and Jebusi, which [is] Jerusalem, Gibeath,
[and] Kirjath; fourteen cities with their villages. This [is] the
inheritance of the children of Benjamin according to their families.

   {19:1} And the second lot came forth to Simeon, [even] for the tribe
of the children of Simeon according to their families: and their
inheritance was within the inheritance of the children of Judah. {19:2}
And they had in their inheritance Beer-sheba, or Sheba, and Moladah,
{19:3} And Hazar-shual, and Balah, and Azem, {19:4} And Eltolad, and
Bethul, and Hormah, {19:5} And Ziklag, and Beth-marcaboth, and
Hazar-susah, {19:6} And Beth-lebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities and
their villages: {19:7} Ain, Remmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities
and their villages: {19:8} And all the villages that [were] round about
these cities to Baalath-beer, Ramath of the south. This is the
inheritance of the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their
families. {19:9} Out of the portion of the children of Judah [was] the
inheritance of 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.

   {19:10} And the third lot came up for the children of Zebulun
according to their families: and the border of their inheritance was
unto Sarid: {19:11} And their border went up toward the sea, and
Maralah, and reached to Dabbasheth, and reached to the river that [is]
before Jokneam; {19:12} And turned from Sarid eastward toward the
sunrising unto the border of Chisloth-tabor, and then goeth out to
daberath, and goeth up to Japhia, {19:13} And from thence passeth on
along on the east to Gittah-hepher, to Ittah-kazin, and goeth out to
Remmon-methoar to Neah; {19:14} And the border compasseth it on the
north side to Hannathon: and the outgoings thereof are in the valley of
Jiphthah-el: {19:15} And Kattath, and Nahallal, and Shimron, and
Idalah, and Bethlehem: twelve cities with their villages. {19:16} This
is the inheritance of the children of Zebulun according to their
families, these cities with their villages.

   {19:17} [And] the fourth lot came out to Issachar, for the children
of Issachar according to their families. {19:18} And their border was
toward Jezreel, and Chesulloth, and Shunem, {19:19} And Haphraim, and
Shihon, and Anaharath, {19:20} And Rabbith, and Kishion, and Abez,
{19:21} And Remeth, and En-gannim, and En-haddah, and Beth-pazzez;
{19:22} And the coast reacheth to Tabor, and Shahazimah, and
Beth-shemesh; and the outgoings of their border were at Jordan: sixteen
cities with their villages. {19:23} This is the inheritance of the
tribe of the children of Issachar according to their families, the
cities and their villages.

   {19:24} And the fifth lot came out for the tribe of the children of
Asher according to their families. {19:25} And their border was
Helkath, and Hali, and Beten, and Achshaph, {19:26} And Alammelech, and
Amad, and Misheal; and reacheth to Carmel westward, and to Shihor-
libnath; {19:27} And turneth toward the sunrising to Beth-dagon, and
reacheth to Zebulun, and to the valley of Jiphthah-el toward the north
side of Beth-emek, and Neiel, and goeth out to Cabul on the left hand,
{19:28} And Hebron, and Rehob, and Hammon, and Kanah, [even] unto great
Zidon; {19:29} And [then] the coast turneth to Ramah, and to the strong
city Tyre; and the coast turneth to Hosah; and the outgoings thereof
are at the sea from the coast to Achzib: {19:30} Ummah also, and Aphek,
and Rehob: twenty and two cities with their villages. {19:31} This [is]
the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Asher according to
their families, these cities with their villages.

   {19:32} The sixth lot came out to the children of Naphtali, [even]
for the children of Naphtali according to their families. {19:33} And
their coast was from Heleph, from Allon to Zaanannim, and Adami, Nekeb,
and Jabneel, unto Lakum; and the outgoings thereof were at Jordan:
{19:34} And [then] the coast turneth westward to Aznoth-tabor, 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. {19:35} And the fenced cities [are] Ziddim, Zer,
and Hammath, Rakkath, and Chinnereth, {19:36} And Adamah, and Ramah,
and Hazor, {19:37} And Kedesh, and Edrei, and En-hazor, {19:38} And
Iron, and Migdal-el, Horem, and Beth-anath, and Beth-shemesh; nineteen
cities with their villages. {19:39} This [is] the inheritance of the
tribe of the children of Naphtali according to their families, the
cities and their villages.

   {19:40} [And] the seventh lot came out for the tribe of the children
of Dan according to their families. {19:41} And the coast of their
inheritance was Zorah, and Eshtaol, and Ir- shemesh, {19:42} And
Shaalabbin, and Ajalon, and Jethlah, {19:43} And Elon, and Thimnathah,
and Ekron, {19:44} And Eltekeh, and Gibbethon, and Baalath, {19:45} And
Jehud, and Bene- berak, and Gath-rimmon, {19:46} And Me-jarkon, and
Rakkon, with the border before Japho. {19:47} 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. {19:48} This [is] the
inheritance of the tribe of the children of Dan according to their
families, these cities with their villages.

   {19:49} When they had made an end of dividing the land for
inheritance by their coasts, the children of Israel gave an inheritance
to Joshua the son of Nun among them: {19:50} According to the word of
the LORD they gave him the city which he asked, [even] Timnath-serah in
mount Ephraim: and he built the city, and dwelt therein. {19:51} These
[are] the inheritances which Eleazar the priest, and 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.

   {20:1} The LORD also spake unto Joshua, saying, {20:2} Speak to the
children of Israel, saying, Appoint out for you cities of refuge,
whereof I spake unto you by the hand of Moses: {20:3} That the slayer
that killeth [any] person unawares [and] unwittingly may flee thither:
and they shall be your refuge from the avenger of blood. {20:4} 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. {20:5} 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. {20:6} 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.

   {20:7} And they appointed Kedesh in Galilee in mount Naphtali, and
Shechem in mount Ephraim, and Kirjath-arba, which [is] Hebron, in the
mountain of Judah. {20:8} And on the other side Jordan by Jericho
eastward, they assigned 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. {20:9} 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.

   {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; {21:2} And they
spake unto them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, The LORD
commanded by the hand of Moses to give us cities to dwell in, with the
suburbs thereof for our cattle. {21:3} And the children of Israel gave
unto the Levites out of their inheritance, at the commandment of the
LORD, these cities and their suburbs. {21:4} And the lot came out for
the families of the Kohathites: and the 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. {21:5} 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. {21:6} 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. {21:7} 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. {21:8} And the children of Israel gave by
lot unto the Levites these cities with their suburbs, as the LORD
commanded by the hand of Moses.

   {21:9} And they gave out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and
out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, these cities which are
[here] mentioned by name, {21:10} 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. {21:11} 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. {21:12}
But the fields of the city, and the villages thereof, gave they to
Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession.

   {21:13} Thus they gave to the children of Aaron the priest Hebron
with her suburbs, [to be] a city of refuge for the slayer; and Libnah
with her suburbs, {21:14} And Jattir with her suburbs, and Eshtemoa
with her suburbs, {21:15} And Holon with her suburbs, and Debir with
her suburbs, {21:16} And Ain with her suburbs, and Juttah with her
suburbs, [and] Beth-shemesh with her suburbs; nine cities out of those
two tribes. {21:17} And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with her
suburbs, Geba with her suburbs, {21:18} Anathoth with her suburbs, and
Almon with her suburbs; four cities. {21:19} All the cities of the
children of Aaron, the priests, [were] thirteen cities with their
suburbs.

   {21:20} And the families of the children of Kohath, the Levites
which remained of the children of Kohath, even they had the cities of
their lot out of the tribe of Ephraim. {21:21} 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, {21:22} And Kibzaim with her
suburbs, and Beth-horon with her suburbs; four cities. {21:23} And out
of the tribe of Dan, Eltekeh with her suburbs, Gibbethon with her
suburbs, {21:24} Aijalon with her suburbs, Gath- rimmon with her
suburbs; four cities. {21:25} And out of the half tribe of Manasseh,
Tanach with her suburbs, and Gath-rimmon with her suburbs; two cities.
{21:26} All the cities [were] ten with their suburbs for the families
of the children of Kohath that remained.

   {21:27} And unto the children of Gershon, of the families of the
Levites, 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
Beesh-terah with her suburbs; two cities. {21:28} And out of the tribe
of Issachar, Kishon with her suburbs, Dabareh with her suburbs, {21:29}
Jarmuth with her suburbs, En-gannim with her suburbs; four cities.
{21:30} And out of the tribe of Asher, Mishal with her suburbs, Abdon
with her suburbs, {21:31} Helkath with her suburbs, and Rehob with her
suburbs; four cities. {21:32} And out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh
in Galilee with her suburbs, [to be] a city of refuge for the slayer;
and Hammoth-dor with her suburbs, and Kartan with her suburbs; three
cities. {21:33} All the cities of the Gershonites according to their
families [were] thirteen cities with their suburbs.

   {21:34} And unto the families of the children of Merari, the rest of
the Levites, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam with her suburbs, and
Kartah with her suburbs, {21:35} Dimnah with her suburbs, Nahalal with
her suburbs; four cities. {21:36} And out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer
with her suburbs, and Jahazah with her suburbs, {21:37} Kedemoth with
her suburbs, and Mephaath with her suburbs; four cities. {21:38} 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, {21:39}
Heshbon with her suburbs, Jazer with her suburbs; four cities in all.
{21:40} 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. {21:41} All the cities of the Levites within the
possession of the children of Israel [were] forty and eight cities with
their suburbs. {21:42} These cities were every one with their suburbs
round about them: thus [were] all these cities.

   {21:43} And the LORD gave unto Israel all the land which he sware to
give unto their fathers; and they possessed it, and dwelt therein.
{21:44} 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. {21:45} There failed not ought of any good thing which the LORD
had spoken unto the house of Israel; all came to pass. {22:1} Then
Joshua called the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of
Manasseh, {22:2} 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: {22:3} 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. {22:4} 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. {22:5} 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. {22:6} So
Joshua blessed them, and sent them away: and they went unto their tents.

   {22:7} Now to the [one] half of the tribe of Manasseh Moses had
given [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,
{22:8} 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.

   {22:9} 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.

   {22:10} 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.

   {22:11} 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. {22:12} And when the
children of Israel heard [of it,] the whole congregation of the
children of Israel gathered themselves together at Shiloh, to go up to
war against them. {22:13} And the children of Israel sent unto the
children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half tribe
of Manasseh, into the land of Gilead, Phinehas the son of Eleazar the
priest, {22:14} 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.

   {22:15} 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, {22:16} 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? {22:17} [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, {22:18} 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. {22:19} 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. {22:20} 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.

   {22:21} 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, {22:22} The LORD God of gods, the LORD God of
gods, he knoweth, and Israel he shall know; if [it be] in rebellion, or
if in transgression against the LORD, (save us not this day,) {22:23}
That we have built us an altar to turn from following the LORD, or if
to offer thereon burnt offering or meat offering, or if to offer peace
offerings thereon, let the LORD himself require it; {22:24} And if we
have not [rather] done it for fear of [this] thing, saying, In time to
come your children might speak unto our children, saying, What have ye
to do with the LORD God of Israel? {22:25} For the LORD hath made
Jordan a border between us and you, ye children of Reuben and children
of Gad; ye have no part in the LORD: so shall your children make our
children cease from fearing the LORD. {22:26} Therefore we said, Let us
now prepare to build us an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for
sacrifice: {22:27} But [that] it [may be] a witness between us, and
you, and our 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. {22:28}
Therefore said we, that it shall be, when they should so say to us or
to our generations in time to come, that we may say [again,] Behold the
pattern of the altar of the LORD, which our fathers made, not for burnt
offerings, nor for sacrifices; but it [is] a witness between us and
you. {22:29} God forbid that we should rebel against the LORD, and turn
this 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.

   {22:30} 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. {22:31} And
Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said unto the children of
Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the children of Manasseh,
This day we perceive that the LORD [is] among us, because ye have not
committed this trespass against the LORD: now ye have delivered the
children of Israel out of the hand of the LORD.

   {22:32} And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, and the princes,
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. {22:33} 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. {22:34} 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.

   {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. {23:2} 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:
{23:3} 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. {23:4} 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. {23:5} 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. {23:6} 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; {23:7} That ye come not among these
nations, these that remain among you; neither make mention of the names
of their gods, nor cause to swear [by them,] neither serve them, nor
bow yourselves unto them: {23:8} But cleave unto the LORD your God, as
ye have done unto this day. {23:9} 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. {23:10} One man of you shall
chase a thousand: for the LORD your God, he [it is] that fighteth for
you, as he hath promised you. {23:11} Take good heed therefore unto
yourselves, that ye love the LORD your God. {23:12} Else if ye do in
any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, [even]
these that remain among you, and shall make marriages with them, and go
in unto them, and they to you: {23:13} 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. {23:14} 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. {23:15}
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. {23:16} 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.

   {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. {24:2} 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. {24:3} 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. {24:4} 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. {24:5} I sent
Moses also and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according to that which I
did among them: and afterward I brought you out. {24:6} 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.
{24:7} 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. {24:8} 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. {24:9} 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: {24:10} But I would not
hearken unto Balaam; therefore he blessed you still: so I delivered you
out of his hand. {24:11} And ye went over Jordan, and came unto
Jericho: and the men 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. {24:12} 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. {24:13} 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.

   {24:14} 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. {24:15} 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. {24:16}
And the people answered and said, God forbid that we should forsake the
LORD, to serve other gods; {24:17} For the LORD our God, he [it is]
that brought us up and our 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: {24:18} 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. {24:19} And Joshua
said unto the people, Ye cannot serve the LORD: for he [is] an holy
God; he [is] a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions nor
your sins. {24:20} If ye forsake the LORD, and serve strange gods, then
he will turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after that he hath done
you good. {24:21} And the people said unto Joshua, Nay; but we will
serve the LORD. {24:22} 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. {24:23} Now therefore put away,
[said he,] the strange gods which [are] among you, and incline your
heart unto the LORD God of Israel. {24:24} And the people said unto
Joshua, The LORD our God will we serve, and his voice will we obey.
{24:25} So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set
them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.

   {24:26} And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God,
and took a great stone, and set it up there under an oak, that [was] by
the sanctuary of the LORD. {24:27} 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. {24:28} So Joshua let the
people depart, every man unto his inheritance.

   {24:29} 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. {24:30} And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in
Timnath-serah, which [is] in mount Ephraim, on the north side of the
hill of Gaash. {24:31} 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.

   {24:32} And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel
brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground
which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for an
hundred pieces of silver: and it became the inheritance of the children
of Joseph. {24:33} And Eleazar the son of Aaron died; and they buried
him in a hill [that pertained to] Phinehas his son, which was given him
in mount Ephraim.





The General Epistle of Jude

   {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: {1:2} Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be
multiplied.

   {1:3} Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the
common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort
[you] that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once
delivered unto the saints. {1:4} For there are certain men crept in
unawares, who were before of 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. {1:5} 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. {1:6} And the angels which kept not their first
estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting
chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. {1:7} Even as
Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving
themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set
forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. {1:8}
Likewise also these [filthy] dreamers defile the flesh, despise
dominion, and speak evil of dignities. {1:9} Yet Michael the archangel,
when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses,
durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord
rebuke thee. {1:10} 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. {1:11} 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. {1:12} 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; {1:13} Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame;
wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for
ever. {1:14} And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of
these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his
saints, {1:15} 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. {1:16} 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.

   {1:17} But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before
of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; {1:18} How that they told you
there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their
own ungodly lusts. {1:19} These be they who separate themselves,
sensual, having not the Spirit. {1:20} But ye, beloved, building up
yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, {1:21}
Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord
Jesus Christ unto eternal life. {1:22} And of some have compassion,
making a difference: {1:23} And others save with fear, pulling [them]
out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.

   {1:24} Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to
present [you] faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding
joy, {1:25} To the only wise God our Saviour, [be] glory and majesty,
dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.





The Book of Judges

   {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? {1:2} And the LORD
said, Judah shall go up: behold, I have delivered the land into his
hand. {1:3} And Judah said unto Simeon his brother, Come up with me
into my lot, that we may fight against the Canaanites; and I likewise
will go with thee into thy lot. So Simeon went with him. {1:4} 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. {1:5}
And they found Adoni-bezek in Bezek: and they fought against him, and
they slew the Canaanites and the Perizzites. {1:6} But Adoni-bezek
fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his
thumbs and his great toes. {1:7} And Adoni-bezek said, Threescore and
ten kings, having their 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. {1:8} 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.

   {1:9} 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. {1:10} And Judah went against the Canaanites that dwelt in
Hebron: (now the name of Hebron before [was] Kirjath- arba:) and they
slew Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai. {1:11} And from thence he went
against the inhabitants of Debir: and the name of Debir before [was]
Kirjath-sepher: {1:12} And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kirjath-sepher,
and taketh it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife. {1:13}
And Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother, took it: and he
gave him Achsah his daughter to wife. {1:14} And it came to pass, when
she came [to him,] that she moved him to ask of her father a field: and
she lighted from off [her] ass; and Caleb said unto her, What wilt
thou? {1:15} 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.

   {1:16} 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. {1:17} 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.
{1:18} Also Judah took Gaza with the coast thereof, and Askelon with
the coast thereof, and Ekron with the coast thereof. {1:19} And the
LORD was with Judah; and he drave out the inhabitants of the mountain;
but could not drive out [the inhabitants of] the valley, because they
had chariots of iron. {1:20} And they gave Hebron unto Caleb, as Moses
said: and he expelled thence the three sons of Anak. {1:21} And the
children of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites that inhabited
Jerusalem; but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Benjamin in
Jerusalem unto this day.

   {1:22} And the house of Joseph, they also went up against Bethel:
and the LORD [was] with them. {1:23} And the house of Joseph sent to
descry Bethel. (Now the name of the city before [was] Luz.) {1:24} And
the spies saw a man come forth out of the city, and they said unto him,
Shew us, we pray thee, the entrance into the city, and we will shew
thee mercy. {1:25} 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. {1:26} 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.

   {1:27} Neither did Manasseh drive out [the inhabitants of]
Beth-shean 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. {1:28} And it came to pass, when Israel was
strong, that they put the Canaanites to tribute, and did not utterly
drive them out.

   {1:29} Neither did Ephraim drive out the Canaanites that dwelt in
Gezer; but the Canaanites dwelt in Gezer among them.

   {1:30} Neither did Zebulun drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, nor
the inhabitants of Nahalol; but the Canaanites dwelt among them, and
became tributaries.

   {1:31} Neither did Asher drive out the inhabitants of Accho, nor the
inhabitants of Zidon, nor of Ahlab, nor of Achzib, nor of Helbah, nor
of Aphik, nor of Rehob: {1:32} But the Asherites dwelt among the
Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: for they did not drive them
out.

   {1:33} Neither did Naphtali drive out the inhabitants of
Beth-shemesh, nor the inhabitants of Beth-anath; but he dwelt among the
Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: nevertheless the inhabitants
of Beth-shemesh and of Beth-anath became tributaries unto them. {1:34}
And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the mountain: for they
would not suffer them to come down to the valley: {1:35} 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. {1:36} And the coast of the Amorites [was] from the going
up to Akrabbim, from the rock, and upward.

   {2:1} 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. {2:2} 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? {2:3} 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. {2:4}
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. {2:5} And they called the name of that place Bochim: and they
sacrificed there unto the LORD.

   {2:6} And when Joshua had let the people go, the children of Israel
went every man unto his inheritance to possess the land. {2:7} And the
people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the
elders that outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great works of the
LORD, that he did for Israel. {2:8} And Joshua the son of Nun, the
servant of the LORD, died, [being] an hundred and ten years old. {2:9}
And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-heres,
in the mount of Ephraim, on the north side of the hill Gaash. {2:10}
And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers: and
there arose another generation after them, which knew not the LORD, nor
yet the works which he had done for Israel.

   {2:11} And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD,
and served Baalim: {2:12} 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. {2:13} And
they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and Ashtaroth.

   {2:14} 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. {2:15} 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.

   {2:16} Nevertheless the LORD raised up judges, which delivered them
out of the hand of those that spoiled them. {2:17} And yet they would
not hearken unto their judges, but they went 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. {2:18} 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. {2:19} And it came to pass, when the judge was dead,
[that] they returned, and corrupted [themselves] more than their
fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down unto
them; they ceased not from their own doings, nor from their stubborn
way.

   {2:20} And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel; and he
said, Because that this people hath transgressed my covenant which I
commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened unto my voice; {2:21} I
also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations
which Joshua left when he died: {2:22} That through them I may prove
Israel, whether they will keep the way of the LORD to walk therein, as
their fathers did keep [it,] or not. {2:23} Therefore the LORD left
those nations, without driving them out hastily; neither delivered he
them into the hand of Joshua.

   {3:1} 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; {3:2} Only that the generations of the children of
Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew
nothing thereof; {3:3} [Namely,] five lords of the Philistines, and all
the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount
Lebanon, from mount Baal-hermon unto the entering in of Hamath. {3:4}
And they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would
hearken unto the commandments of the LORD, which he commanded their
fathers by the hand of Moses.

   {3:5} And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites,
Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites:
{3:6} And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their
daughters to their sons, and served their gods. {3:7} And the children
of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and forgat the LORD their
God, and served Baalim and the groves.

   {3:8} Therefore the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he
sold them into the hand of Chushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia: and
the children of Israel served Chushan-rishathaim eight years. {3:9} And
when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised up a
deliverer to the children of Israel, who delivered them, [even] Othniel
the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother. {3:10} And the Spirit of the
LORD came upon him, and he judged Israel, and went out to war: and the
LORD delivered Chushan- rishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand;
and his hand prevailed against Chushan- rishathaim. {3:11} And the land
had rest forty years. And Othniel the son of Kenaz died.

   {3:12} 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. {3:13} And he
gathered unto him the children of Ammon and Amalek, and went and smote
Israel, and possessed the city of palm trees. {3:14} So the children of
Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years. {3:15} But when
the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised them up a
deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a man lefthanded: and by
him the children of Israel sent a present unto Eglon the king of Moab.
{3:16} But Ehud made him a dagger which had two edges, of a cubit
length; and he did gird it under his raiment upon his right thigh.
{3:17} And he brought the present unto Eglon king of Moab: and Eglon
[was] a very fat man. {3:18} And when he had made an end to offer the
present, he sent away the people that bare the present. {3:19} But he
himself turned again from the quarries that [were] by 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. {3:20} 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. {3:21} And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the
dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly: {3:22} And
the haft also went in after the blade; and the fat closed upon the
blade, so that he could not draw the dagger out of his belly; and the
dirt came out. {3:23} Then Ehud went forth through the porch, and shut
the doors of the parlour upon him, and locked them. {3:24} When he was
gone out, his servants came; and when they saw that, behold, the doors
of the parlour [were] locked, they said, Surely he covereth his feet in
his summer chamber. {3:25} 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. {3:26} And Ehud escaped while they tarried, and
passed beyond the quarries, and escaped unto Seirath. {3:27} And it
came to pass, when he was come, that he blew a trumpet in the mountain
of Ephraim, and the children of Israel went down with him from the
mount, and he before them. {3:28} 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. {3:29} 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. {3:30} So Moab was subdued that day under
the hand of Israel. And the land had rest fourscore years.

   {3:31} And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, which slew of the
Philistines six hundred men with an ox goad: and he also delivered
Israel.

   {4:1} And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the
LORD, when Ehud was dead. {4:2} And the LORD sold them into the hand of
Jabin king of Canaan, that reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose host
[was] Sisera, which dwelt in Harosheth of the Gentiles. {4:3} And the
children of Israel cried unto the LORD: for he had nine hundred
chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children
of Israel.

   {4:4} And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged
Israel at that time. {4:5} And she dwelt under the palm tree of Deborah
between Ramah and Bethel in mount Ephraim: and the children of Israel
came up to her for judgment. {4:6} And she sent and called Barak the
son of Abinoam out of Kedesh-naphtali, 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? {4:7} 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. {4:8} And Barak said
unto her, If thou wilt go with me, then I will go: but if thou wilt not
go with me, [then] I will not go. {4:9} And she said, I will surely go
with thee: notwithstanding the 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.

   {4:10} 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.
{4:11} 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.
{4:12} And they shewed Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam was gone up
to mount Tabor. {4:13} And Sisera gathered together all his chariots,
[even] nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people that [were]
with him, from Harosheth of the Gentiles unto the river of Kishon.
{4:14} 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. {4:15} 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. {4:16} 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. {4:17} 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.

   {4:18} 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. {4:19} 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.
{4:20} 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. {4:21} 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. {4:22}
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. {4:23} So God subdued on that day Jabin the king
of Canaan before the children of Israel. {4:24} And the hand of the
children of Israel prospered, and prevailed against Jabin the king of
Canaan, until they had destroyed Jabin king of Canaan.

   {5:1} Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day,
saying, {5:2} Praise ye the LORD for the avenging of Israel, when the
people willingly offered themselves. {5:3} Hear, O ye kings; give ear,
O ye princes; I, [even] I, will sing unto the LORD; I will sing
[praise] to the LORD God of Israel. {5:4} LORD, when thou wentest out
of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth
trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water. {5:5}
The mountains melted from before the LORD, [even] that Sinai from
before the LORD God of Israel. {5:6} In the days of Shamgar the son of
Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the
travelers walked through byways. {5:7} [The inhabitants of] the
villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose,
that I arose a mother in Israel. {5:8} They chose new gods; then [was]
war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand
in Israel? {5:9} My heart [is] toward the governors of Israel, that
offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless ye the LORD.
{5:10} Speak, ye that ride on white asses, ye that sit in judgment, and
walk by the way. {5:11} [They that are delivered] from the noise of
archers in the places of 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. {5:12} Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake,
utter a song: arise, Barak, and lead thy captivity captive, thou son of
Abinoam. {5:13} Then he made him that remaineth have dominion over the
nobles among the people: the LORD made me have dominion over the
mighty. {5:14} Out of Ephraim [was there] a root of them against
Amalek; after thee, Benjamin, among thy people; out of Machir came down
governors, and out of Zebulun they that handle the pen of the writer.
{5:15} 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. {5:16} Why abodest thou
among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks? For the
divisions of Reuben [there were] great searchings of heart. {5:17}
Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships? Asher
continued on the sea shore, and abode in his breaches. {5:18} Zebulun
and Naphtali [were] a people [that] jeoparded their lives unto the
death in the high places of the field. {5:19} The kings came [and]
fought, then fought the kings of Canaan in Taanach by the waters of
Megiddo; they took no gain of money. {5:20} They fought from heaven;
the stars in their courses fought against Sisera. {5:21} The river of
Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. O my
soul, thou hast trodden down strength. {5:22} Then were the horsehoofs
broken by the means of the pransings, the pransings of their mighty
ones. {5:23} Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the LORD, curse ye
bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of
the LORD, to the help of the LORD against the mighty. {5:24} Blessed
above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall
she be above women in the tent. {5:25} He asked water, [and] she gave
[him] milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish. {5:26} 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. {5:27} At her feet he bowed,
he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed,
there he fell down dead. {5:28} The mother of Sisera looked out at a
window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot [so] long in
coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots? {5:29} Her wise ladies
answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself, {5:30} Have they not
sped? have they [not] divided the prey; to every man a damsel [or] two;
to Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of
needlework, of divers colours of needlework on both sides, [meet] for
the necks of [them that take] the spoil? {5:31} So let all thine
enemies perish, O LORD: but [let] them that love him [be] as the sun
when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.

   {6:1} And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD:
and the LORD delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years. {6:2}
And the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel: [and] because of the
Midianites the children of Israel made them the dens which [are] in the
mountains, and caves, and strong holds. {6:3} 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; {6:4} 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. {6:5} 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. {6:6} And Israel was greatly impoverished because
of the Midianites; and the children of Israel cried unto the LORD.

   {6:7} And it came to pass, when the children of Israel cried unto
the LORD because of the Midianites, {6:8} That the LORD sent a prophet
unto the children of Israel, which 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; {6:9} 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; {6:10} And I said
unto you, I [am] the LORD your God; fear not the gods of the Amorites,
in whose land ye dwell: but ye have not obeyed my voice.

   {6:11} And there came an angel of the LORD, and sat under an oak
which [was] in Ophrah, that [pertained] unto Joash the Abi-ezrite: and
his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide [it] from the
Midianites. {6:12} And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him, and
said unto him, The LORD [is] with thee, thou mighty man of valour.
{6:13} And Gideon said unto him, Oh my Lord, if the LORD be with us,
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. {6:14} 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? {6:15} And he said unto him, Oh my
Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel? behold, my family is poor in
Manasseh, and I [am] the least in my father's house. {6:16} And the
LORD said unto him, Surely I will be with thee, and thou shalt smite
the Midianites as one man. {6:17} And he said unto him, If now I have
found grace in thy sight, then shew me a sign that thou talkest with
me. {6:18} Depart not hence, I pray thee, until I come unto thee, and
bring forth my present, and set [it] before thee. And he said, I will
tarry until thou come again.

   {6:19} 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. ]{6:20} 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.

   {6:21} 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.
{6:22} 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. {6:23} And the LORD said unto him, Peace [be] unto
thee; fear not: thou shalt not die. {6:24} Then Gideon built an altar
there unto the LORD, and called it Jehovah-shalom: unto this day it is
yet in Ophrah of the Abi-ezrites.

   {6:25} And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto
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: {6:26} 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. {6:27} 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.

   {6:28} 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. {6:29} 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. {6:30} 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. {6:31} 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.
{6:32} Therefore on that day he called him Jerubbaal, saying, Let Baal
plead against him, because he hath thrown down his altar.

   {6:33} Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the children
of the east were gathered together, and went over, and pitched in the
valley of Jezreel. {6:34} But the Spirit of the LORD came upon Gideon,
and he blew a trumpet; and Abi-ezer was gathered after him. {6:35} And
he sent messengers throughout all Manasseh; who also was gathered after
him: and he sent messengers unto Asher, and unto Zebulun, and unto
Naphtali; and they came up to meet them.

   {6:36} And Gideon said unto God, If thou wilt save Israel by mine
hand, as thou hast said, {6:37} Behold, I will put a fleece of wool in
the floor; [and] if the dew be 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. {6:38} 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. {6:39} 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. {6:40} And God did so that night: for it was dry upon the
fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.

   {7:1} 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. {7:2} 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. {7:3} 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. {7:4} 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. {7:5} 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. {7:6} 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. {7:7} 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. {7:8} 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.

   {7:9} 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. {7:10} But if thou fear to go down, go thou with Phurah thy
servant down to the host: {7:11} And thou shalt hear what they say; and
afterward shall thine hands be strengthened to go down unto the host.
Then went he down with Phurah his servant unto the outside of the armed
men that [were] in the host. {7:12} And the Midianites and the
Amalekites and all the children of the 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. {7:13} 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. {7:14} 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.

   {7:15} 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. {7:16} 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. {7:17} 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.
{7:18} 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.

   {7:19} 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. {7:20} 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. {7:21} And they stood
every man in his place round about the camp: and all the host ran, and
cried, and fled. {7:22} And the three hundred blew the trumpets, and
the LORD set every man's sword against his fellow, even throughout all
the host: and the host fled to Beth-shittah in Zererath, [and] to the
border of Abel- meholah, unto Tabbath. {7:23} 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.

   {7:24} And Gideon sent messengers throughout all mount Ephraim,
saying, Come down against the Midianites, and take before them the
waters unto Beth-barah and Jordan. Then all the men of Ephraim gathered
themselves together, and took the waters unto Beth-barah and Jordan.
{7:25} 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.

   {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. {8:2} 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 Abi-ezer? {8:3} 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.

   {8:4} And Gideon came to Jordan, [and] passed over, he, and the
three hundred men that [were] with him, faint, yet pursuing [them.
]{8:5} 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.

   {8:6} 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?
{8:7} 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.

   {8:8} 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. ]{8:9} And he spake also unto the men of Penuel, saying, When I
come again in peace, I will break down this tower.

   {8:10} Now Zebah and Zalmunna [were] in Karkor, and their hosts with
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.

   {8:11} 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. {8:12} 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.

   {8:13} And Gideon the son of Joash returned from battle before the
sun [was up, ]{8:14} 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. {8:15} 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? {8:16} And he took the elders of the city, and thorns of the
wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth.
{8:17} And he beat down the tower of Penuel, and slew the men of the
city.

   {8:18} 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. {8:19} 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. {8:20}
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.
{8:21} 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.

   {8:22} 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. {8:23} And Gideon said unto them, I will
not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you: the LORD shall
rule over you.

   {8:24} 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.) {8:25} And they
answered, We will willingly give [them.] And they spread a garment, and
did cast therein every man the earrings of his prey. {8:26} And the
weight of the golden earrings that he requested was a thousand and
seven hundred [shekels] of gold; beside ornaments, and collars, and
purple raiment that [was] on the kings of Midian, and beside the chains
that [were] about their camels' necks. {8:27} And Gideon made an ephod
thereof, and put it in his city, [even] in Ophrah: and all Israel went
thither a whoring after it: which thing became a snare unto Gideon, and
to his house.

   {8:28} 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.

   {8:29} And Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and dwelt in his own
house. {8:30} And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body
begotten: for he had many wives. {8:31} And his concubine that [was] in
Shechem, she also bare him a son, whose name he called Abimelech.

   {8:32} And Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was
buried in the sepulchre of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the
Abi-ezrites. {8:33} And it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was dead,
that the children of Israel turned again, and went a whoring after
Baalim, and made Baal-berith their god. {8:34} 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: {8:35} Neither shewed
they kindness to the house of Jerubbaal, [namely,] Gideon, according to
all the goodness which he had shewed unto Israel.

   {9:1} And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem unto his
mother's brethren, and communed with them, and with all the family of
the house of his mother's father, saying, {9:2} Speak, I pray you, in
the ears of all the men of Shechem, 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. {9:3} And his mother's brethren spake of him
in the ears of all the men of Shechem all these words: and their hearts
inclined to follow Abimelech; for they said, He [is] our brother. {9:4}
And they gave him threescore and ten [pieces] of silver out of the
house of Baal-berith, wherewith Abimelech hired vain and light persons,
which followed him. {9:5} And he went unto his father's house at
Ophrah, and slew his 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. {9:6} 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.

   {9:7} 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. {9:8} The trees went forth [on a time] to anoint a king over them;
and they said unto the olive tree, Reign thou over us. {9:9} 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? {9:10}
And the trees said to the fig tree, Come thou, [and] reign over us.
{9:11} But the fig tree said unto them, Should I forsake my sweetness,
and my good fruit, and go to be promoted over the trees? {9:12} Then
said the trees unto the vine, Come thou, [and] reign over us. {9:13}
And the vine said unto them, Should I leave my wine, which cheereth God
and man, and go to be promoted over the trees? {9:14} Then said all the
trees unto the bramble, Come thou, [and] reign over us. {9:15} 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. {9:16} 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; {9:17}
(For my father fought for you, and adventured his life far, and
delivered you out of the hand of Midian: {9:18} And ye are risen up
against my father's house this day, and have 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;) {9:19} 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: {9:20} 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. {9:21} And Jotham ran away, and fled, and
went to Beer, and dwelt there, for fear of Abimelech his brother.

   {9:22} When Abimelech had reigned three years over Israel, {9:23}
Then God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of Shechem;
and the men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech: {9:24} That
the cruelty [done] to the threescore and ten sons 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. {9:25} 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. {9:26} And Gaal the son of Ebed
came with his brethren, and went over to Shechem: and the men of
Shechem put their confidence in him. {9:27} And they went out into the
fields, and gathered their vineyards, and trode [the grapes,] and made
merry, and went into the house of their god, and did eat and drink, and
cursed Abimelech. {9:28} 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? {9:29} And
would to God this people were under my hand! then would I remove
Abimelech. And he said to Abimelech, Increase thine army, and come out.

   {9:30} And when Zebul the ruler of the city heard the words of Gaal
the son of Ebed, his anger was kindled. {9:31} And he sent messengers
unto Abimelech privily, saying, Behold, Gaal the son of Ebed and his
brethren be come to Shechem; and, behold, they fortify the city against
thee. {9:32} Now therefore up by night, thou and the people that [is]
with thee, and lie in wait in the field: {9:33} And it shall be, [that]
in the morning, as soon as the sun is up, 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.

   {9:34} And Abimelech rose up, and all the people that [were] with
him, by night, and they laid wait against Shechem in four companies.
{9:35} And Gaal the son of Ebed went out, and stood in the entering of
the gate of the city: and Abimelech rose up, and the people that [were]
with him, from lying in wait. {9:36} 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. {9:37} 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. {9:38} 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. {9:39} And Gaal
went out before the men of Shechem, and fought with Abimelech. {9:40}
And Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him, and many were
overthrown [and] wounded, [even] unto the entering of the gate. {9:41}
And Abimelech dwelt at Arumah: and Zebul thrust out Gaal and his
brethren, that they should not dwell in Shechem. {9:42} And it came to
pass on the morrow, that the people went out into the field; and they
told Abimelech. {9:43} And he took the people, and divided them into
three companies, and laid wait in the field, and looked, and, behold,
the people [were] come forth out of the city; and he rose up against
them, and smote them. {9:44} And Abimelech, and the company that [was]
with him, rushed 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. {9:45} 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.

   {9:46} And when all the men of the tower of Shechem heard [that,]
they entered into an hold of the house of the god Berith. {9:47} And it
was told Abimelech, that all the men of the tower of Shechem were
gathered together. {9:48} And Abimelech gat him up to mount Zalmon, he
and all the 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. ]{9:49}
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.

   {9:50} Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez,
and took it. {9:51} But there was a strong tower within the city, and
thither fled all 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. {9:52} And
Abimelech came unto the tower, and fought against it, and went hard
unto the door of the tower to burn it with fire. {9:53} And a certain
woman cast a piece of a millstone upon Abimelech's head, and all to
brake his skull. {9:54} 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 woman slew him. And his young man thrust him through,
and he died. {9:55} And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was
dead, they departed every man unto his place.

   {9:56} Thus God rendered the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did
unto his father, in slaying his seventy brethren: {9:57} And all the
evil of the men of Shechem did God render upon their heads: and upon
them came the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal.

   {10:1} And after Abimelech there arose to defend Israel Tola the son
of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he dwelt in Shamir in
mount Ephraim. {10:2} And he judged Israel twenty and three years, and
died, and was buried in Shamir.

   {10:3} And after him arose Jair, a Gileadite, and judged Israel
twenty and two years. {10:4} And he had thirty sons that rode on thirty
ass colts, and they had thirty cities, which are called Havoth-jair
unto this day, which [are] in the land of Gilead. {10:5} And Jair died,
and was buried in Camon.

   {10:6} 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. {10:7} 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. {10:8} 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. {10:9} 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.

   {10:10} 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. {10:11} 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? {10:12}
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. {10:13}
Yet ye have forsaken me, and served other gods: wherefore I will
deliver you no more. {10:14} Go and cry unto the gods which ye have
chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your tribulation.

   {10:15} And the children of Israel said unto the LORD, We have
sinned: do thou unto us whatsoever seemeth good unto thee; deliver us
only, we pray thee, this day. {10:16} And they put away the strange
gods from among them, and served the LORD: and his soul was grieved for
the misery of Israel. {10:17} Then the children of Ammon were gathered
together, and encamped in Gilead. And the children of Israel assembled
themselves together, and encamped in Mizpeh. {10:18} And the people
[and] princes of Gilead said one to another, What man [is he] that will
begin to fight against the children of Ammon? he shall be head over all
the inhabitants of Gilead.

   {11:1} Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valour, and he
[was] the son of an harlot: and Gilead begat Jephthah. {11:2} And
Gilead's wife bare him sons; and his wife's sons grew up, 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. {11:3} 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.

   {11:4} And it came to pass in process of time, that the children of
Ammon made war against Israel. {11:5} And it was so, that when the
children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to
fetch Jephthah out of the land of Tob: {11:6} And they said unto
Jephthah, Come, and be our captain, that we may fight with the children
of Ammon. {11:7} And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, Did not
ye hate me, and expel me out of my father's house? and why are ye come
unto me now when ye are in distress? {11:8} 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. {11:9} 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? {11:10} And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, The LORD be
witness between us, if we do not so according to thy words. {11:11}
Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him
head and captain over them: and Jephthah uttered all his words before
the LORD in Mizpeh.

   {11:12} 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? {11:13} And the king of the children of
Ammon answered unto the messengers of Jephthah, Because Israel took
away my land, when they came up out of Egypt, from Arnon even unto
Jabbok, and unto Jordan: now therefore restore those [lands] again
peaceably. {11:14} And Jephthah sent messengers again unto the king of
the children of Ammon: {11:15} And said unto him, Thus saith Jephthah,
Israel took not away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of
Ammon: {11:16} But when Israel came up from Egypt, and walked through
the wilderness unto the Red sea, and came to Kadesh; {11:17} Then
Israel sent messengers unto the king of Edom, saying, Let 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. {11:18} 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. {11:19} 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. {11:20} 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. {11:21} 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. {11:22} And they possessed all the coasts
of the Amorites, from Arnon even unto Jabbok, and from the wilderness
even unto Jordan. {11:23} So now the LORD God of Israel hath
dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and shouldest
thou possess it? {11:24} 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. {11:25} 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, {11:26}
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? {11:27} 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. {11:28}
Howbeit the king of the children of Ammon hearkened not unto the words
of Jephthah which he sent him.

   {11:29} Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah, and he
passed over Gilead, and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead, and
from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over [unto] the children of Ammon.
{11:30} And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou shalt
without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands, {11:31}
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.

   {11:32} So Jephthah passed over unto the children of Ammon to fight
against them; and the LORD delivered them into his hands. {11:33} 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.

   {11:34} 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.
{11:35} 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. {11:36} And she said unto him, My father,
[if] thou hast opened thy mouth unto the LORD, do to me according to
that which hath proceeded out of thy mouth; forasmuch as the LORD hath
taken vengeance for thee of thine enemies, [even] of the children of
Ammon. {11:37} And she said unto her father, Let this thing be done for
me: let me alone two months, that I may go up and down upon the
mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my fellows. {11:38} 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. {11:39} 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, {11:40} [That] the
daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the
Gileadite four days in a year.

   {12:1} And the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and went
northward, and said unto Jephthah, Wherefore passedst thou over to
fight against the children of Ammon, and didst not call us to go with
thee? we will burn thine house upon thee with fire. {12:2} And Jephthah
said unto them, I and my people were at great strife with the children
of Ammon; and when I called you, ye delivered me not out of their
hands. {12:3} 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? {12:4} 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. {12:5} 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; {12:6} 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.
{12:7} And Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then died Jephthah the
Gileadite, and was buried in [one of] the cities of Gilead.

   {12:8} And after him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel. {12:9} And he
had thirty sons, and thirty daughters, [whom] he sent abroad, and took
in thirty daughters from abroad for his sons. And he judged Israel
seven years. {12:10} Then died Ibzan, and was buried at Bethlehem.

   {12:11} And after him Elon, a Zebulonite, judged Israel; and he
judged Israel ten years. {12:12} And Elon the Zebulonite died, and was
buried in Aijalon in the country of Zebulun.

   {12:13} And after him Abdon the son of Hillel, a Pirathonite, judged
Israel. {12:14} And he had forty sons and thirty nephews, that rode on
threescore and ten ass colts: and he judged Israel eight years. {12:15}
And Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and was buried in
Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the mount of the Amalekites.

   {13:1} 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.

   {13:2} 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. {13:3} 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. {13:4} Now therefore beware, I pray
thee, and drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean
[thing: ]{13:5} For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no
razor shall 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.

   {13:6} 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: {13:7} 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.

   {13:8} 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. {13:9} 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.
{13:10} 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. {13:11} 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. ]{13:12} And Manoah said, Now let thy
words come to pass. How shall we order the child, and [how] shall we do
unto him? {13:13} And the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah, Of all
that I said unto the woman let her beware. {13:14} She may not eat of
any [thing] that cometh of the vine, neither let her drink wine or
strong drink, nor eat any unclean [thing:] all that I commanded her let
her observe.

   {13:15} 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. {13:16}
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. {13:17} 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? {13:18} And the angel of the LORD said unto him, Why askest
thou thus after my name, seeing it is secret? {13:19} So Manoah took a
kid with a meat offering, and offered [it] upon a rock unto the LORD:
and [the angel] did wonderously; and Manoah and his wife looked on.
{13:20} 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. {13:21} 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. {13:22} And Manoah said unto his wife, We shall surely die,
because we have seen God. {13:23} But his wife said unto him, If the
LORD were pleased to kill us, 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.

   {13:24} And the woman bare a son, and called his name Samson: and
the child grew, and the LORD blessed him. {13:25} And the Spirit of the
LORD began to move him at times in the camp of Dan between Zorah and
Eshtaol.

   {14:1} And Samson went down to Timnath, and saw a woman in Timnath
of the daughters of the Philistines. {14:2} And he came up, and told
his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Timnath of
the daughters of the Philistines: now therefore get her for me to wife.
{14:3} Then his father and his mother said unto him, [Is there] never a
woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that
thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson
said unto his father, Get her for me; for she pleaseth me well. {14:4}
But his father and his mother knew not that it [was] of the LORD, that
he sought an occasion against the Philistines: for at that time the
Philistines had dominion over Israel.

   {14:5} Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to
Timnath, and came to the vineyards of Timnath: and, behold, a young
lion roared against him. {14:6} And the Spirit of the LORD came
mightily upon him, and he rent 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. {14:7} And he went down, and talked with the woman; and
she pleased Samson well.

   {14:8} 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. {14:9} 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.

   {14:10} So his father went down unto the woman: and Samson made
there a feast; for so used the young men to do. {14:11} And it came to
pass, when they saw him, that they brought thirty companions to be with
him.

   {14:12} And Samson said unto them, I will now put forth a riddle
unto 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: {14:13} 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. {14:14}
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. {14:15} 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? ]{14:16} 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?
{14:17} 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. {14:18} 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.

   {14:19} 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. {14:20} But
Samson's wife was [given] to his companion, whom he had used as his
friend.

   {15:1} 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. {15:2} 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.

   {15:3} And Samson said concerning them, Now shall I be more
blameless than the Philistines, though I do them a displeasure. {15:4}
And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands,
and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between two
tails. {15:5} 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.

   {15:6} 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.

   {15:7} And Samson said unto them, Though ye have done this, yet will
I be avenged of you, and after that I will cease. {15:8} And he smote
them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt
in the top of the rock Etam.

   {15:9} Then the Philistines went up, and pitched in Judah, and
spread themselves in Lehi. {15:10} And the men of Judah said, Why are
ye come up against us? And they answered, To bind Samson are we come
up, to do to him as he hath done to us. {15:11} Then three thousand men
of Judah went to the top of the rock 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. {15:12} 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. {15:13} 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.

   {15:14} [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. {15:15} And he found a
new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a
thousand men therewith. {15:16} And Samson said, With the jawbone of an
ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand
men. {15:17} And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking,
that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand, and called that place
Ramath-lehi.

   {15:18} 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? {15:19} 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
En-hakkore, which [is] in Lehi unto this day. {15:20} And he judged
Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.

   {16:1} Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw there an harlot, and went
in unto her. {16:2} [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. {16:3} 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.

   {16:4} And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the
valley of Sorek, whose name [was] Delilah. {16:5} And the lords of the
Philistines came up unto her, and said unto 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.

   {16:6} And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy
great strength [lieth,] and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict
thee. {16:7} 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. {16:8} Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven
green withs which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.
{16:9} 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. {16:10} 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. {16:11} And he said unto
her, If they bind me fast with new ropes that never were occupied, then
shall I be weak, and be as another man. {16:12} Delilah therefore took
new ropes, and bound him therewith, and 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. {16:13} 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. {16:14} 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.

   {16:15} 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. ]{16:16} And it
came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him,
[so] that his soul was vexed unto death; {16:17} 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. {16:18} 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. {16:19} 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. {16:20} 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.

   {16:21} 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. {16:22} Howbeit the hair of his head
began to grow again after he was shaven. {16:23} 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. {16:24} 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. {16:25} 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. {16:26} 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. {16:27} 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. {16:28} 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. {16:29} 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. {16:30} 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. {16:31} 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.

   {17:1} And there was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name [was] Micah.
{17:2} And he said unto his mother, The eleven hundred [shekels] of
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. {17:3} 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. {17:4} 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.
{17:5} 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.
{17:6} In those days [there was] no king in Israel, [but] every man did
[that which was] right in his own eyes.

   {17:7} And there was a young man out of Bethlehemjudah of the family
of Judah, who [was] a Levite, and he sojourned there. {17:8} And the
man departed out of the city from Bethlehemjudah to sojourn where he
could find [a place:] and he came to mount Ephraim to the house of
Micah, as he journeyed. {17:9} And Micah said unto him, Whence comest
thou? And he said unto him, I [am] a Levite of Bethlehemjudah, and I go
to sojourn where I may find [a place. ]{17:10} And Micah said unto him,
Dwell with me, and be unto me a father and a priest, and I will give
thee ten [shekels] of silver by the year, and a suit of apparel, and
thy victuals. So the Levite went in. {17:11} And the Levite was content
to dwell with the man; and the young man was unto him as one of his
sons. {17:12} And Micah consecrated the Levite; and the young man
became his priest, and was in the house of Micah. {17:13} Then said
Micah, Now know I that the LORD will do me good, seeing I have a Levite
to [my] priest.

   {18:1} 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. {18:2} 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. {18:3} 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? {18:4} And he
said unto them, Thus and thus dealeth Micah with me, and hath hired me,
and I am his priest. {18:5} And they said unto him, Ask counsel, we
pray thee, of God, that we may know whether our way which we go shall
be prosperous. {18:6} And the priest said unto them, Go in peace:
before the LORD is your way wherein ye go.

   {18:7} Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the
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.
{18:8} And they came unto their brethren to Zorah and Eshtaol: and
their brethren said unto them, What [say] ye? {18:9} And they said,
Arise, that we may go up against them: for we 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. {18:10} 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.

   {18:11} 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. {18:12} And they went up, and pitched in Kirjath-jearim, in Judah:
wherefore they called that place Mahaneh-dan unto this day: behold, [it
is] behind Kirjath-jearim. {18:13} And they passed thence unto mount
Ephraim, and came unto the house of Micah.

   {18:14} Then answered the five men that went to spy out the country
of 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. {18:15} And they
turned thitherward, and came to the house of the young man the Levite,
[even] unto the house of Micah, and saluted him. {18:16} 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. {18:17} 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. {18:18} 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? {18:19} 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?
{18:20} 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.
{18:21} So they turned and departed, and put the little ones and the
cattle and the carriage before them.

   {18:22} [And] when they were a good way from the house of Micah, the
men that [were] in the houses near to Micah's house were gathered
together, and overtook the children of Dan. {18:23} 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? {18:24} 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? {18:25} 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. {18:26}
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.
{18:27} 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. {18:28} 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 Beth-rehob. And they built a city,
and dwelt therein. {18:29} 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.

   {18:30} 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.
{18:31} And they set them up Micah's graven image, which he made, all
the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.

   {19:1} 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.
{19:2} 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. {19:3} 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. {19:4} 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.

   {19:5} 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. {19:6} 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. {19:7} And when the man rose up to depart, his father in law
urged him: therefore he lodged there again. {19:8} And he arose early
in the morning on the fifth day to depart: and the damsel's father
said, Comfort thine heart, I pray thee. And they tarried until
afternoon, and they did eat both of them. {19:9} 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. {19:10} 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. {19:11} [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. {19:12} 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. {19:13} And he
said unto his servant, Come, and let us draw near to one of these
places to lodge all night, in Gibeah, or in Ramah. {19:14} And they
passed on and went their way; and the sun went down upon them [when
they were] by Gibeah, which [belongeth] to Benjamin. {19:15} And they
turned aside thither, to go in [and] to lodge in Gibeah: 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.

   {19:16} And, behold, there came an old man from his work out of the
field at even, which [was] also of mount Ephraim; and he sojourned in
Gibeah: but the men of the place [were] Benjamites. {19:17} And when he
had lifted up his eyes, he saw a wayfaring man in the street of the
city: and the old man said, Whither goest thou? and whence comest thou?
{19:18} And he said unto him, We [are] passing from Bethlehemjudah
toward the side of mount Ephraim; from thence [am] I: and I went to
Bethlehemjudah, but I [am now] going to the house of the LORD; and
there [is] no man that receiveth me to house. {19:19} Yet there is both
straw and provender for our asses; and there is 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. {19:20} And the old man
said, Peace [be] with thee; howsoever [let] all thy wants [lie] upon
me; only lodge not in the street. {19:21} So he brought him into his
house, and gave provender unto the asses: and they washed their feet,
and did eat and drink.

   {19:22} [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. {19:23} 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. {19:24} 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. {19:25} 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. {19:26} 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. {19:27} 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. {19:28} 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.

   {19:29} 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. {19:30}
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.]

   {20:1} Then all the children of Israel went out, and the
congregation was gathered together as one man, from Dan even to
Beer-sheba, with the land of Gilead, unto the LORD in Mizpeh. {20:2}
And the chief of all the people, [even] of all the tribes of Israel,
presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred
thousand footmen that drew sword. {20:3} (Now the children of Benjamin
heard that the children of Israel were gone up to Mizpeh.) Then said
the children of Israel, Tell [us,] how was this wickedness? {20:4} 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. {20:5} 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. {20:6} 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. {20:7} Behold, ye [are] all children of Israel;
give here your advice and counsel.

   {20:8} And all the people arose as one man, saying, We will not any
[of us] go to his tent, neither will we any [of us] turn into his
house. {20:9} But now this [shall be] the thing which we will do to
Gibeah; [we will go up] by lot against it; {20:10} And we will take ten
men of an hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and an hundred
of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to fetch victual for
the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin,
according to all the folly that they have wrought in Israel. {20:11} So
all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as
one man.

   {20:12} And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of
Benjamin, saying, What wickedness [is] this that is done among you?
{20:13} Now therefore deliver [us] the men, the children of Belial,
which [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: {20:14} But the
children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities
unto Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.
{20:15} 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.
{20:16} Among all this people [there were] seven hundred chosen men
lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair [breadth,] and not
miss. {20:17} And the men of Israel, beside Benjamin, were numbered
four hundred thousand men that drew sword: all these [were] men of war.

   {20:18} 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. {20:19} And the children of Israel
rose up in the morning, and encamped against Gibeah. {20:20} 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. {20:21}
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. {20:22} 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. {20:23} (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.) {20:24} And
the children of Israel came near against the children of Benjamin the
second day. {20:25} And Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah
the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of
Israel again eighteen thousand men; all these drew the sword.

   {20:26} 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. {20:27} And the children of Israel
enquired of the LORD, (for the ark of the covenant of God [was] there
in those days, {20:28} And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of
Aaron, stood 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. {20:29} And Israel set liers in wait round about Gibeah.
{20:30} And the children of Israel went up against the children of
Benjamin on the third day, and put themselves in array against Gibeah,
as at other times. {20:31} And the children of Benjamin went out
against the people, [and] 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. {20:32} 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. {20:33} And all the men of Israel rose up out of
their place, and put themselves in array at Baal-tamar: and the liers
in wait of Israel came forth out of their places, [even] out of the
meadows of Gibeah. {20:34} And there came against Gibeah ten thousand
chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was sore: but they knew
not that evil [was] near them. {20:35} 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. {20:36} 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.
{20:37} 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. {20:38} 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. {20:39} 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. {20:40} 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. {20:41} And when the men of Israel turned again,
the men of Benjamin were amazed: for they saw that evil was come upon
them. {20:42} 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. {20:43} [Thus] they inclosed the Benjamites round about, [and]
chased them, [and] trode them down with ease over against Gibeah toward
the sunrising. {20:44} And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand
men; all these [were] men of valour. {20:45} And they turned and fled
toward the wilderness unto the rock of 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. {20:46} 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. {20:47} But six hundred men
turned and fled to the wilderness unto the rock Rimmon, and abode in
the rock Rimmon four months. {20:48} And the men of Israel turned again
upon the children of 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.

   {21:1} Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpeh, saying, There
shall not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife. {21:2} And
the people came to the house of God, and abode there till even before
God, and lifted up their voices, and wept sore; {21:3} And said, O LORD
God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that there should be
to day one tribe lacking in Israel? {21:4} And it came to pass on the
morrow, that the people rose early, and built there an altar, and
offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. {21:5} 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. {21:6} And the children of Israel
repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe
cut off from Israel this day. {21:7} 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?

   {21:8} 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 Jabesh-gilead to the assembly. {21:9} For the people were
numbered, and, behold, [there were] none of the inhabitants of
Jabesh-gilead there. {21:10} And the congregation sent thither twelve
thousand men of the valiantest, and commanded them, saying, Go and
smite the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword, with
the women and the children. {21:11} And this [is] the thing that ye
shall do, Ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that
hath lain by man. {21:12} And they found among the inhabitants of
Jabesh-gilead four hundred young virgins, that had known no man by
lying with any male: and they brought them unto the camp to Shiloh,
which is in the land of Canaan. {21:13} And the whole congregation sent
[some] to speak to the children of Benjamin that [were] in the rock
Rimmon, and to call peaceably unto them. {21:14} And Benjamin came
again at that time; and they gave them wives which they had saved alive
of the women of Jabesh- gilead: and yet so they sufficed them not.
{21:15} And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that the
LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.

   {21:16} Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do
for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of
Benjamin? {21:17} And they said, [There must be] an inheritance for
them that be escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not destroyed out of
Israel. {21:18} Howbeit we may not give them wives of our daughters:
for the children of Israel have sworn, saying, Cursed [be] he that
giveth a wife to Benjamin. {21:19} Then they said, Behold, [there is] a
feast of the LORD in Shiloh 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. {21:20} Therefore they
commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, Go and lie in wait in the
vineyards; {21:21} And see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh
come out to 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. {21:22} 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. {21:23} 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. {21:24} 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.
{21:25} In those days [there was] no king in Israel: every man did
[that which was] right in his own eyes.





The Book of Judith

   {1:1} In the twelfth year of the reign of Nabuchodonosor, who
reigned in Nineve, the great city; in the days of Arphaxad, which
reigned over the Medes in Ecbatane,

   {1:2} And built in Ecbatane walls round about of stones hewn three
cubits broad and six cubits long, and made the height of the wall
seventy cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits:

   {1:3} And set the towers thereof upon the gates of it an hundred
cubits high, and the breadth thereof in the foundation threescore
cubits:

   {1:4} And he made the gates thereof, even gates that were raised to
the height of seventy cubits, and the breadth of them was forty cubits,
for the going forth of his mighty armies, and for the setting in array
of his footmen:

   {1:5} Even in those days king Nabuchodonosor made war with king
Arphaxad in the great plain, which is the plain in the borders of Ragau.

   {1:6} And there came unto him all they that dwelt in the hill
country, and all that dwelt by Euphrates, and Tigris and Hydaspes, and
the plain of Arioch the king of the Elymeans, and very many nations of
the sons of Chelod, assembled themselves to the battle.

   {1:7} Then Nabuchodonosor king of the Assyrians sent unto all that
dwelt in Persia, and to all that dwelt westward, and to those that
dwelt in Cilicia, and Damascus, and Libanus, and Antilibanus, and to
all that dwelt upon the sea coast,

   {1:8} And to those among the nations that were of Carmel, and
Galaad, and the higher Galilee, and the great plain of Esdrelom,

   {1:9} And to all that were in Samaria and the cities thereof, and
beyond Jordan unto Jerusalem, and Betane, and Chelus, and Kades, and
the river of Egypt, and Taphnes, and Ramesse, and all the land of Gesem,

   {1:10} Until ye come beyond Tanis and Memphis, and to all the
inhabitants of Egypt, until ye come to the borders of Ethiopia.

   {1:11} But all the inhabitants of the land made light of the
commandment of Nabuchodonosor king of the Assyrians, neither went they
with him to the battle; for they were not afraid of him: yea, he was
before them as one man, and they sent away his ambassadors from them
without effect, and with disgrace.

   {1:12} Therefore Nabuchodonosor was very angry with all this
country, and sware by his throne and kingdom, that he would surely be
avenged upon all those coasts of Cilicia, and Damascus, and Syria, and
that he would slay with the sword all the inhabitants of the land of
Moab, and the children of Ammon, and all Judea, and all that were in
Egypt, till ye come to the borders of the two seas.

   {1:13} Then he marched in battle array with his power against king
Arphaxad in the seventeenth year, and he prevailed in his battle: for
he overthrew all the power of Arphaxad, and all his horsemen, and all
his chariots,

   {1:14} And became lord of his cities, and came unto Ecbatane, and
took the towers, and spoiled the streets thereof, and turned the beauty
thereof into shame.

   {1:15} He took also Arphaxad in the mountains of Ragau, and smote
him through with his darts, and destroyed him utterly that day.

   {1:16} So he returned afterward to Nineve, both he and all his
company of sundry nations being a very great multitude of men of war,
and there he took his ease, and banqueted, both he and his army, an
hundred and twenty days.

   {2:1} And in the eighteenth year, the two and twentieth day of the
first month, there was talk in the house of Nabuchodonosor king of the
Assyrians that he should, as he said, avenge himself on all the earth.

   {2:2} So he called unto him all his officers, and all his nobles,
and communicated with them his secret counsel, and concluded the
afflicting of the whole earth out of his own mouth.

   {2:3} Then they decreed to destroy all flesh, that did not obey the
commandment of his mouth.

   {2:4} And when he had ended his counsel, Nabuchodonosor king of the
Assyrians called Holofernes the chief captain of his army, which was
next unto him, and said unto him.

   {2:5} Thus saith the great king, the lord of the whole earth,
Behold, thou shalt go forth from my presence, and take with thee men
that trust in their own strength, of footmen an hundred and twenty
thousand; and the number of horses with their riders twelve thousand.

   {2:6} And thou shalt go against all the west country, because they
disobeyed my commandment.

   {2:7} And thou shalt declare unto that they prepare for me earth and
water: for I will go forth in my wrath against them and will cover the
whole face of the earth with the feet of mine army, and I will give
them for a spoil unto them:

   {2:8} So that their slain shall fill their valleys and brooks and
the river shall be filled with their dead, till it overflow:

   {2:9} And I will lead them captives to the utmost parts of all the
earth.

   {2:10} Thou therefore shalt go forth. and take beforehand for me all
their coasts: and if they will yield themselves unto thee, thou shalt
reserve them for me till the day of their punishment.

   {2:11} But concerning them that rebel, let not thine eye spare them;
but put them to the slaughter, and spoil them wheresoever thou goest.

   {2:12} For as I live, and by the power of my kingdom, whatsoever I
have spoken, that will I do by mine hand.

   {2:13} And take thou heed that thou transgress none of the
commandments of thy lord, but accomplish them fully, as I have
commanded thee, and defer not to do them.

   {2:14} Then Holofernes went forth from the presence of his lord, and
called all the governors and captains, and the officers of the army of
Assur;

   {2:15} And he mustered the chosen men for the battle, as his lord
had commanded him, unto an hundred and twenty thousand, and twelve
thousand archers on horseback;

   {2:16} And he ranged them, as a great army is ordered for the war.

   {2:17} And he took camels and asses for their carriages, a very
great number; and sheep and oxen and goats without number for their
provision:

   {2:18} And plenty of victual for every man of the army, and very
much gold and silver out of the king's house.

   {2:19} Then he went forth and all his power to go before king
Nabuchodonosor in the voyage, and to cover all the face of the earth
westward with their chariots, and horsemen, and their chosen footmen.

   {2:20} A great number also sundry countries came with them like
locusts, and like the sand of the earth: for the multitude was without
number.

   {2:21} And they went forth of Nineve three days' journey toward the
plain of Bectileth, and pitched from Bectileth near the mountain which
is at the left hand of the upper Cilicia.

   {2:22} Then he took all his army, his footmen, and horsemen and
chariots, and went from thence into the hill country;

   {2:23} And destroyed Phud and Lud, and spoiled all the children of
Rasses, and the children of Israel, which were toward the wilderness at
the south of the land of the Chellians.

   {2:24} Then he went over Euphrates, and went through Mesopotamia,
and destroyed all the high cities that were upon the river Arbonai,
till ye come to the sea.

   {2:25} And he took the borders of Cilicia, and killed all that
resisted him, and came to the borders of Japheth, which were toward the
south, over against Arabia.

   {2:26} He compassed also all the children of Madian, and burned up
their tabernacles, and spoiled their sheepcotes.

   {2:27} Then he went down into the plain of Damascus in the time of
wheat harvest, and burnt up all their fields, and destroyed their
flocks and herds, also he spoiled their cities, and utterly wasted
their countries, and smote all their young men with the edge of the
sword.

   {2:28} Therefore the fear and dread of him fell upon all the
inhabitants of the sea coasts, which were in Sidon and Tyrus, and them
that dwelt in Sur and Ocina, and all that dwelt in Jemnaan; and they
that dwelt in Azotus and Ascalon feared him greatly.

   {3:1} So they sent ambassadors unto him to treat of peace, saying,

   {3:2} Behold, we the servants of Nabuchodonosor the great king lie
before thee; use us as shall be good in thy sight.

   {3:3} Behold, our houses, and all our places, and all our fields of
wheat, and flocks, and herds, and all the lodges of our tents lie
before thy face; use them as it pleaseth thee.

   {3:4} Behold, even our cities and the inhabitants thereof are thy
servants; come and deal with them as seemeth good unto thee.

   {3:5} So the men came to Holofernes, and declared unto him after
this manner.

   {3:6} Then came he down toward the sea coast, both he and his army,
and set garrisons in the high cities, and took out of them chosen men
for aid.

   {3:7} So they and all the country round about received them with
garlands, with dances, and with timbrels.

   {3:8} Yet he did cast down their frontiers, and cut down their
groves: for he had decreed to destroy all the gods of the land, that
all nations should worship Nabuchodonosor only, and that all tongues
and tribes should call upon him as god.

   {3:9} Also he came over against Esdraelon near unto Judea, over
against the great strait of Judea.

   {3:10} And he pitched between Geba and Scythopolis, and there he
tarried a whole month, that he might gather together all the carriages
of his army.

   {4:1} Now the children of Israel, that dwelt in Judea, heard all
that Holofernes the chief captain of Nabuchodonosor king of the
Assyrians had done to the nations, and after what manner he had spoiled
all their temples, and brought them to nought.

   {4:2} Therefore they were exceedingly afraid of him, and were
troubled for Jerusalem, and for the temple of the Lord their God:

   {4:3} For they were newly returned from the captivity, and all the
people of Judea were lately gathered together: and the vessels, and the
altar, and the house, were sanctified after the profanation.

   {4:4} Therefore they sent into all the coasts of Samaria, and the
villages and to Bethoron, and Belmen, and Jericho, and to Choba, and
Esora, and to the valley of Salem:

   {4:5} And possessed themselves beforehand of all the tops of the
high mountains, and fortified the villages that were in them, and laid
up victuals for the provision of war: for their fields were of late
reaped.

   {4:6} Also Joacim the high priest, which was in those days in
Jerusalem, wrote to them that dwelt in Bethulia, and Betomestham, which
is over against Esdraelon toward the open country, near to Dothaim,

   {4:7} Charging them to keep the passages of the hill country: for by
them there was an entrance into Judea, and it was easy to stop them
that would come up, because the passage was straight, for two men at
the most.

   {4:8} And the children of Israel did as Joacim the high priest had
commanded them, with the ancients of all the people of Israel, which
dwelt at Jerusalem.

   {4:9} Then every man of Israel cried to God with great fervency, and
with great vehemency did they humble their souls:

   {4:10} Both they, and their wives and their children, and their
cattle, and every stranger and hireling, and their servants bought with
money, put sackcloth upon their loins.

   {4:11} Thus every man and women, and the little children, and the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, fell before the temple, and cast ashes upon
their heads, and spread out their sackcloth before the face of the
Lord: also they put sackcloth about the altar,

   {4:12} And cried to the God of Israel all with one consent
earnestly, that he would not give their children for a prey, and their
wives for a spoil, and the cities of their inheritance to destruction,
and the sanctuary to profanation and reproach, and for the nations to
rejoice at.

   {4:13} So God heard their prayers, and looked upon their
afflictions: for the people fasted many days in all Judea and Jerusalem
before the sanctuary of the Lord Almighty.

   {4:14} And Joacim the high priest, and all the priests that stood
before the Lord, and they which ministered unto the Lord, had their
loins girt with sackcloth, and offered the daily burnt offerings, with
the vows and free gifts of the people,

   {4:15} And had ashes on their mitres, and cried unto the Lord with
all their power, that he would look upon all the house of Israel
graciously.

   {5:1} Then was it declared to Holofernes, the chief captain of the
army of Assur, that the children of Israel had prepared for war, and
had shut up the passages of the hill country, and had fortified all the
tops of the high hills and had laid impediments in the champaign
countries:

   {5:2} Wherewith he was very angry, and called all the princes of
Moab, and the captains of Ammon, and all the governors of the sea coast,

   {5:3} And he said unto them, Tell me now, ye sons of Chanaan, who
this people is, that dwelleth in the hill country, and what are the
cities that they inhabit, and what is the multitude of their army, and
wherein is their power and strength, and what king is set over them, or
captain of their army;

   {5:4} And why have they determined not to come and meet me, more
than all the inhabitants of the west.

   {5:5} Then said Achior, the captain of all the sons of Ammon, Let my
lord now hear a word from the mouth of thy servant, and I will declare
unto thee the truth concerning this people, which dwelleth near thee,
and inhabiteth the hill countries: and there shall no lie come out of
the mouth of thy servant.

   {5:6} This people are descended of the Chaldeans:

   {5:7} And they sojourned heretofore in Mesopotamia, because they
would not follow the gods of their fathers, which were in the land of
Chaldea.

   {5:8} For they left the way of their ancestors, and worshipped the
God of heaven, the God whom they knew: so they cast them out from the
face of their gods, and they fled into Mesopotamia, and sojourned there
many days.

   {5:9} Then their God commanded them to depart from the place where
they sojourned, and to go into the land of Chanaan: where they dwelt,
and were increased with gold and silver, and with very much cattle.

   {5:10} But when a famine covered all the land of Chanaan, they went
down into Egypt, and sojourned there, while they were nourished, and
became there a great multitude, so that one could not number their
nation.

   {5:11} Therefore the king of Egypt rose up against them, and dealt
subtilly with them, and brought them low with labouring in brick, and
made them slaves.

   {5:12} Then they cried unto their God, and he smote all the land of
Egypt with incurable plagues: so the Egyptians cast them out of their
sight.

   {5:13} And God dried the Red sea before them,

   {5:14} And brought them to mount Sina, and Cades-Barne, and cast
forth all that dwelt in the wilderness.

   {5:15} So they dwelt in the land of the Amorites, and they destroyed
by their strength all them of Esebon, and passing over Jordan they
possessed all the hill country.

   {5:16} And they cast forth before them the Chanaanite, the
Pherezite, the Jebusite, and the Sychemite, and all the Gergesites, and
they dwelt in that country many days.

   {5:17} And whilst they sinned not before their God, they prospered,
because the God that hateth iniquity was with them.

   {5:18} But when they departed from the way which he appointed them,
they were destroyed in many battles very sore, and were led captives
into a land that was not their's, and the temple of their God was cast
to the ground, and their cities were taken by the enemies.

   {5:19} But now are they returned to their God, and are come up from
the places where they were scattered, and have possessed Jerusalem,
where their sanctuary is, and are seated in the hill country; for it
was desolate.

   {5:20} Now therefore, my lord and governor, if there be any error
against this people, and they sin against their God, let us consider
that this shall be their ruin, and let us go up, and we shall overcome
them.

   {5:21} But if there be no iniquity in their nation, let my lord now
pass by, lest their Lord defend them, and their God be for them, and we
become a reproach before all the world.

   {5:22} And when Achior had finished these sayings, all the people
standing round about the tent murmured, and the chief men of
Holofernes, and all that dwelt by the sea side, and in Moab, spake that
he should kill him.

   {5:23} For, say they, we will not be afraid of the face of the
children of Israel: for, lo, it is a people that have no strength nor
power for a strong battle

   {5:24} Now therefore, lord Holofernes, we will go up, and they shall
be a prey to be devoured of all thine army.

   {6:1} And when the tumult of men that were about the council was
ceased, Holofernes the chief captain of the army of Assur said unto
Achior and all the Moabites before all the company of other nations,

   {6:2} And who art thou, Achior, and the hirelings of Ephraim, that
thou hast prophesied against us as to day, and hast said, that we
should not make war with the people of Israel, because their God will
defend them? and who is God but Nabuchodonosor?

   {6:3} He will send his power, and will destroy them from the face of
the earth, and their God shall not deliver them: but we his servants
will destroy them as one man; for they are not able to sustain the
power of our horses.

   {6:4} For with them we will tread them under foot, and their
mountains shall be drunken with their blood, and their fields shall be
filled with their dead bodies, and their footsteps shall not be able to
stand before us, for they shall utterly perish, saith king
Nabuchodonosor, lord of all the earth: for he said, None of my words
shall be in vain.

   {6:5} And thou, Achior, an hireling of Ammon, which hast spoken
these words in the day of thine iniquity, shalt see my face no more
from this day, until I take vengeance of this nation that came out of
Egypt.

   {6:6} And then shall the sword of mine army, and the multitude of
them that serve me, pass through thy sides, and thou shalt fall among
their slain, when I return.

   {6:7} Now therefore my servants shall bring thee back into the hill
country, and shall set thee in one of the cities of the passages:

   {6:8} And thou shalt not perish, till thou be destroyed with them.

   {6:9} And if thou persuade thyself in thy mind that they shall be
taken, let not thy countenance fall: I have spoken it, and none of my
words shall be in vain.

   {6:10} Then Holofernes commanded his servants, that waited in his
tent, to take Achior, and bring him to Bethulia, and deliver him into
the hands of the children of Israel.

   {6:11} So his servants took him, and brought him out of the camp
into the plain, and they went from the midst of the plain into the hill
country, and came unto the fountains that were under Bethulia.

   {6:12} And when the men of the city saw them, they took up their
weapons, and went out of the city to the top of the hill: and every man
that used a sling kept them from coming up by casting of stones against
them.

   {6:13} Nevertheless having gotten privily under the hill, they bound
Achior, and cast him down, and left him at the foot of the hill, and
returned to their lord.

   {6:14} But the Israelites descended from their city, and came unto
him, and loosed him, and brought him to Bethulia, and presented him to
the governors of the city:

   {6:15} Which were in those days Ozias the son of Micha, of the tribe
of Simeon, and Chabris the son of Gothoniel, and Charmis the son of
Melchiel.

   {6:16} And they called together all the ancients of the city, and
all their youth ran together, and their women, to the assembly, and
they set Achior in the midst of all their people. Then Ozias asked him
of that which was done.

   {6:17} And he answered and declared unto them the words of the
council of Holofernes, and all the words that he had spoken in the
midst of the princes of Assur, and whatsoever Holofernes had spoken
proudly against the house of Israel.

   {6:18} Then the people fell down and worshipped God, and cried unto
God. saying,

   {6:19} O Lord God of heaven, behold their pride, and pity the low
estate of our nation, and look upon the face of those that are
sanctified unto thee this day.

   {6:20} Then they comforted Achior, and praised him greatly.

   {6:21} And Ozias took him out of the assembly unto his house, and
made a feast to the elders; and they called on the God of Israel all
that night for help.

   {7:1} The next day Holofernes commanded all his army, and all his
people which were come to take his part, that they should remove their
camp against Bethulia, to take aforehand the ascents of the hill
country, and to make war against the children of Israel.

   {7:2} Then their strong men removed their camps in that day, and the
army of the men of war was an hundred and seventy thousand footmen, and
twelve thousand horsemen, beside the baggage, and other men that were
afoot among them, a very great multitude.

   {7:3} And they camped in the valley near unto Bethulia, by the
fountain, and they spread themselves in breadth over Dothaim even to
Belmaim, and in length from Bethulia unto Cynamon, which is over
against Esdraelon.

   {7:4} Now the children of Israel, when they saw the multitude of
them, were greatly troubled, and said every one to his neighbour, Now
will these men lick up the face of the earth; for neither the high
mountains, nor the valleys, nor the hills, are able to bear their
weight.

   {7:5} Then every man took up his weapons of war, and when they had
kindled fires upon their towers, they remained and watched all that
night.

   {7:6} But in the second day Holofernes brought forth all his
horsemen in the sight of the children of Israel which were in Bethulia,

   {7:7} And viewed the passages up to the city, and came to the
fountains of their waters, and took them, and set garrisons of men of
war over them, and he himself removed toward his people.

   {7:8} Then came unto him all the chief of the children of Esau, and
all the governors of the people of Moab, and the captains of the sea
coast, and said,

   {7:9} Let our lord now hear a word, that there be not an overthrow
in thine army.

   {7:10} For this people of the children of Israel do not trust in
their spears, but in the height of the mountains wherein they dwell,
because it is not easy to come up to the tops of their mountains.

   {7:11} Now therefore, my lord, fight not against them in battle
array, and there shall not so much as one man of thy people perish.

   {7:12} Remain in thy camp, and keep all the men of thine army, and
let thy servants get into their hands the fountain of water, which
issueth forth of the foot of the mountain:

   {7:13} For all the inhabitants of Bethulia have their water thence;
so shall thirst kill them, and they shall give up their city, and we
and our people shall go up to the tops of the mountains that are near,
and will camp upon them, to watch that none go out of the city.

   {7:14} So they and their wives and their children shall be consumed
with fire, and before the sword come against them, they shall be
overthrown in the streets where they dwell.

   {7:15} Thus shalt thou render them an evil reward; because they
rebelled, and met not thy person peaceably.

   {7:16} And these words pleased Holofernes and all his servants, and
he appointed to do as they had spoken.

   {7:17} So the camp of the children of Ammon departed, and with them
five thousand of the Assyrians, and they pitched in the valley, and
took the waters, and the fountains of the waters of the children of
Israel.

   {7:18} Then the children of Esau went up with the children of Ammon,
and camped in the hill country over against Dothaim: and they sent some
of them toward the south, and toward the east over against Ekrebel,
which is near unto Chusi, that is upon the brook Mochmur; and the rest
of the army of the Assyrians camped in the plain, and covered the face
of the whole land; and their tents and carriages were pitched to a very
great multitude.

   {7:19} Then the children of Israel cried unto the Lord their God,
because their heart failed, for all their enemies had compassed them
round about, and there was no way to escape out from among them.

   {7:20} Thus all the company of Assur remained about them, both their
footmen, chariots, and horsemen, four and thirty days, so that all
their vessels of water failed all the inhibitants of Bethulia.

   {7:21} And the cisterns were emptied, and they had not water to
drink their fill for one day; for they gave them drink by measure.

   {7:22} Therefore their young children were out of heart, and their
women and young men fainted for thirst, and fell down in the streets of
the city, and by the passages of the gates, and there was no longer any
strength in them.

   {7:23} Then all the people assembled to Ozias, and to the chief of
the city, both young men, and women, and children, and cried with a
loud voice, and said before all the elders,

   {7:24} God be judge between us and you: for ye have done us great
injury, in that ye have not required peace of the children of Assur.

   {7:25} For now we have no helper: but God hath sold us into their
hands, that we should be thrown down before them with thirst and great
destruction.

   {7:26} Now therefore call them unto you, and deliver the whole city
for a spoil to the people of Holofernes, and to all his army.

   {7:27} For it is better for us to be made a spoil unto them, than to
die for thirst: for we will be his servants, that our souls may live,
and not see the death of our infants before our eyes, nor our wives nor
our children to die.

   {7:28} We take to witness against you the heaven and the earth, and
our God and Lord of our fathers, which punisheth us according to our
sins and the sins of our fathers, that he do not according as we have
said this day.

   {7:29} Then there was great weeping with one consent in the midst of
the assembly; and they cried unto the Lord God with a loud voice.

   {7:30} Then said Ozias to them, Brethren, be of good courage, let us
yet endure five days, in the which space the Lord our God may turn his
mercy toward us; for he will not forsake us utterly.

   {7:31} And if these days pass, and there come no help unto us, I
will do according to your word.

   {7:32} And he dispersed the people, every one to their own charge;
and they went unto the walls and towers of their city, and sent the
women and children into their houses: and they were very low brought in
the city.

   {8:1} Now at that time Judith heard thereof, which was the daughter
of Merari, the son of Ox, the son of Joseph, the son of Ozel, the son
of Elcia, the son of Ananias, the son of Gedeon, the son of Raphaim,
the son of Acitho, the son of Eliu, the son of Eliab, the son of
Nathanael, the son of Samael, the son of Salasadal, the son of Israel.

   {8:2} And Manasses was her husband, of her tribe and kindred, who
died in the barley harvest.

   {8:3} For as he stood overseeing them that bound sheaves in the
field, the heat came upon his head, and he fell on his bed, and died in
the city of Bethulia: and they buried him with his fathers in the field
between Dothaim and Balamo.

   {8:4} So Judith was a widow in her house three years and four months.

   {8:5} And she made her a tent upon the top of her house, and put on
sackcloth upon her loins and ware her widow's apparel.

   {8:6} And she fasted all the days of her widowhood, save the eves of
the sabbaths, and the sabbaths, and the eves of the new moons, and the
new moons and the feasts and solemn days of the house of Israel.

   {8:7} She was also of a goodly countenance, and very beautiful to
behold: and her husband Manasses had left her gold, and silver, and
menservants and maidservants, and cattle, and lands; and she remained
upon them.

   {8:8} And there was none that gave her an ill word; as she feared
God greatly.

   {8:9} Now when she heard the evil words of the people against the
governor, that they fainted for lack of water; for Judith had heard all
the words that Ozias had spoken unto them, and that he had sworn to
deliver the city unto the Assyrians after five days;

   {8:10} Then she sent her waitingwoman, that had the government of
all things that she had, to call Ozias and Chabris and Charmis, the
ancients of the city.

   {8:11} And they came unto her, and she said unto them, Hear me now,
O ye governors of the inhabitants of Bethulia: for your words that ye
have spoken before the people this day are not right, touching this
oath which ye made and pronounced between God and you, and have
promised to deliver the city to our enemies, unless within these days
the Lord turn to help you.

   {8:12} And now who are ye that have tempted God this day, and stand
instead of God among the children of men?

   {8:13} And now try the Lord Almighty, but ye shall never know any
thing.

   {8:14} For ye cannot find the depth of the heart of man, neither can
ye perceive the things that he thinketh: then how can ye search out
God, that hath made all these things, and know his mind, or comprehend
his purpose? Nay, my brethren, provoke not the Lord our God to anger.

   {8:15} For if he will not help us within these five days, he hath
power to defend us when he will, even every day, or to destroy us
before our enemies.

   {8:16} Do not bind the counsels of the Lord our God: for God is not
as man, that he may be threatened; neither is he as the son of man,
that he should be wavering.

   {8:17} Therefore let us wait for salvation of him, and call upon him
to help us, and he will hear our voice, if it please him.

   {8:18} For there arose none in our age, neither is there any now in
these days neither tribe, nor family, nor people, nor city among us,
which worship gods made with hands, as hath been aforetime.

   {8:19} For the which cause our fathers were given to the sword, and
for a spoil, and had a great fall before our enemies.

   {8:20} But we know none other god, therefore we trust that he will
not despise us, nor any of our nation.

   {8:21} For if we be taken so, all Judea shall lie waste, and our
sanctuary shall be spoiled; and he will require the profanation thereof
at our mouth.

   {8:22} And the slaughter of our brethren, and the captivity of the
country, and the desolation of our inheritance, will he turn upon our
heads among the Gentiles, wheresoever we shall be in bondage; and we
shall be an offence and a reproach to all them that possess us.

   {8:23} For our servitude shall not be directed to favour: but the
Lord our God shall turn it to dishonour.

   {8:24} Now therefore, O brethren, let us shew an example to our
brethren, because their hearts depend upon us, and the sanctuary, and
the house, and the altar, rest upon us.

   {8:25} Moreover let us give thanks to the Lord our God, which trieth
us, even as he did our fathers.

   {8:26} Remember what things he did to Abraham, and how he tried
Isaac, and what happened to Jacob in Mesopotamia of Syria, when he kept
the sheep of Laban his mother's brother.

   {8:27} For he hath not tried us in the fire, as he did them, for the
examination of their hearts, neither hath he taken vengeance on us: but
the Lord doth scourge them that come near unto him, to admonish them.

   {8:28} Then said Ozias to her, All that thou hast spoken hast thou
spoken with a good heart, and there is none that may gainsay thy words.

   {8:29} For this is not the first day wherein thy wisdom is
manifested; but from the beginning of thy days all the people have
known thy understanding, because the disposition of thine heart is good.

   {8:30} But the people were very thirsty, and compelled us to do unto
them as we have spoken, and to bring an oath upon ourselves, which we
will not break.

   {8:31} Therefore now pray thou for us, because thou art a godly
woman, and the Lord will send us rain to fill our cisterns, and we
shall faint no more.

   {8:32} Then said Judith unto them, Hear me, and I will do a thing,
which shall go throughout all generations to the children of our nation.

   {8:33} Ye shall stand this night in the gate, and I will go forth
with my waitingwoman: and within the days that ye have promised to
deliver the city to our enemies the Lord will visit Israel by mine hand.

   {8:34} But enquire not ye of mine act: for I will not declare it
unto you, till the things be finished that I do.

   {8:35} Then said Ozias and the princes unto her, Go in peace, and
the Lord God be before thee, to take vengeance on our enemies.

   {8:36} So they returned from the tent, and went to their wards.

   {9:1} Judith fell upon her face, and put ashes upon her head, and
uncovered the sackcloth wherewith she was clothed; and about the time
that the incense of that evening was offered in Jerusalem in the house
of the Lord Judith cried with a loud voice, and said,

   {9:2} O Lord God of my father Simeon, to whom thou gavest a sword to
take vengeance of the strangers, who loosened the girdle of a maid to
defile her, and discovered the thigh to her shame, and polluted her
virginity to her reproach; for thou saidst, It shall not be so; and yet
they did so:

   {9:3} Wherefore thou gavest their rulers to be slain, so that they
dyed their bed in blood, being deceived, and smotest the servants with
their lords, and the lords upon their thrones;

   {9:4} And hast given their wives for a prey, and their daughters to
be captives, and all their spoils to be divided among thy dear
children; which were moved with thy zeal, and abhorred the pollution of
their blood, and called upon thee for aid: O God, O my God, hear me
also a widow.

   {9:5} For thou hast wrought not only those things, but also the
things which fell out before, and which ensued after; thou hast thought
upon the things which are now, and which are to come.

   {9:6} Yea, what things thou didst determine were ready at hand, and
said, Lo, we are here: for all thy ways are prepared, and thy judgments
are in thy foreknowledge.

   {9:7} For, behold, the Assyrians are multiplied in their power; they
are exalted with horse and man; they glory in the strength of their
footmen; they trust in shield, and spear, and bow, and sling; and know
not that thou art the Lord that breakest the battles: the Lord is thy
name.

   {9:8} Throw down their strength in thy power, and bring down their
force in thy wrath: for they have purposed to defile thy sanctuary, and
to pollute the tabernacle where thy glorious name resteth and to cast
down with sword the horn of thy altar.

   {9:9} Behold their pride, and send thy wrath upon their heads: give
into mine hand, which am a widow, the power that I have conceived.

   {9:10} Smite by the deceit of my lips the servant with the prince,
and the prince with the servant: break down their stateliness by the
hand of a woman.

   {9:11} For thy power standeth not in multitude nor thy might in
strong men: for thou art a God of the afflicted, an helper of the
oppressed, an upholder of the weak, a protector of the forlorn, a
saviour of them that are without hope.

   {9:12} I pray thee, I pray thee, O God of my father, and God of the
inheritance of Israel, Lord of the heavens and earth, Creator of the
waters, king of every creature, hear thou my prayer:

   {9:13} And make my speech and deceit to be their wound and stripe,
who have purposed cruel things against thy covenant, and thy hallowed
house, and against the top of Sion, and against the house of the
possession of thy children.

   {9:14} And make every nation and tribe to acknowledge that thou art
the God of all power and might, and that there is none other that
protecteth the people of Israel but thou.

   {10:1} Now after that she had ceased to cry unto the God of Israel,
and bad made an end of all these words.

   {10:2} She rose where she had fallen down, and called her maid, and
went down into the house in the which she abode in the sabbath days,
and in her feast days,

   {10:3} And pulled off the sackcloth which she had on, and put off
the garments of her widowhood, and washed her body all over with water,
and anointed herself with precious ointment, and braided the hair of
her head, and put on a tire upon it, and put on her garments of
gladness, wherewith she was clad during the life of Manasses her
husband.

   {10:4} And she took sandals upon her feet, and put about her her
bracelets, and her chains, and her rings, and her earrings, and all her
ornaments, and decked herself bravely, to allure the eyes of all men
that should see her.

   {10:5} Then she gave her maid a bottle of wine, and a cruse of oil,
and filled a bag with parched corn, and lumps of figs, and with fine
bread; so she folded all these things together, and laid them upon her.

   {10:6} Thus they went forth to the gate of the city of Bethulia, and
found standing there Ozias and the ancients of the city, Chabris and
Charmis.

   {10:7} And when they saw her, that her countenance was altered, and
her apparel was changed, they wondered at her beauty very greatly, and
said unto her.

   {10:8} The God, the God of our fathers give thee favour, and
accomplish thine enterprizes to the glory of the children of Israel,
and to the exaltation of Jerusalem. Then they worshipped God.

   {10:9} And she said unto them, Command the gates of the city to be
opened unto me, that I may go forth to accomplish the things whereof ye
have spoken with me. So they commanded the young men to open unto her,
as she had spoken.

   {10:10} And when they had done so, Judith went out, she, and her
maid with her; and the men of the city looked after her, until she was
gone down the mountain, and till she had passed the valley, and could
see her no more.

   {10:11} Thus they went straight forth in the valley: and the first
watch of the Assyrians met her,

   {10:12} And took her, and asked her, Of what people art thou? and
whence comest thou? and whither goest thou? And she said, I am a woman
of the Hebrews, and am fled from them: for they shall be given you to
be consumed:

   {10:13} And I am coming before Holofernes the chief captain of your
army, to declare words of truth; and I will shew him a way, whereby he
shall go, and win all the hill country, without losing the body or life
of any one of his men.

   {10:14} Now when the men heard her words, and beheld her
countenance, they wondered greatly at her beauty, and said unto her,

   {10:15} Thou hast saved thy life, in that thou hast hasted to come
down to the presence of our lord: now therefore come to his tent, and
some of us shall conduct thee, until they have delivered thee to his
hands.

   {10:16} And when thou standest before him, be not afraid in thine
heart, but shew unto him according to thy word; and he will entreat
thee well.

   {10:17} Then they chose out of them an hundred men to accompany her
and her maid; and they brought her to the tent of Holofernes.

   {10:18} Then was there a concourse throughout all the camp: for her
coming was noised among the tents, and they came about her, as she
stood without the tent of Holofernes, till they told him of her.

   {10:19} And they wondered at her beauty, and admired the children of
Israel because of her, and every one said to his neighbour, Who would
despise this people, that have among them such women? surely it is not
good that one man of them be left who being let go might deceive the
whole earth.

   {10:20} And they that lay near Holofernes went out, and all his
servants and they brought her into the tent.

   {10:21} Now Holofernes rested upon his bed under a canopy, which was
woven with purple, and gold, and emeralds, and precious stones.

   {10:22} So they shewed him of her; and he came out before his tent
with silver lamps going before him.

   {10:23} And when Judith was come before him and his servants they
all marvelled at the beauty of her countenance; and she fell down upon
her face, and did reverence unto him: and his servants took her up.

   {11:1} Then said Holofernes unto her, Woman, be of good comfort,
fear not in thine heart: for I never hurt any that was willing to serve
Nabuchodonosor, the king of all the earth.

   {11:2} Now therefore, if thy people that dwelleth in the mountains
had not set light by me, I would not have lifted up my spear against
them: but they have done these things to themselves.

   {11:3} But now tell me wherefore thou art fled from them, and art
come unto us: for thou art come for safeguard; be of good comfort, thou
shalt live this night, and hereafter:

   {11:4} For none shall hurt thee, but entreat thee well, as they do
the servants of king Nabuchodonosor my lord.

   {11:5} Then Judith said unto him, Receive the words of thy servant,
and suffer thine handmaid to speak in thy presence, and I will declare
no lie to my lord this night.

   {11:6} And if thou wilt follow the words of thine handmaid, God will
bring the thing perfectly to pass by thee; and my lord shall not fail
of his purposes.

   {11:7} As Nabuchodonosor king of all the earth liveth, and as his
power liveth, who hath sent thee for the upholding of every living
thing: for not only men shall serve him by thee, but also the beasts of
the field, and the cattle, and the fowls of the air, shall live by thy
power under Nabuchodonosor and all his house.

   {11:8} For we have heard of thy wisdom and thy policies, and it is
reported in all the earth, that thou only art excellent in all the
kingdom, and mighty in knowledge, and wonderful in feats of war.

   {11:9} Now as concerning the matter, which Achior did speak in thy
council, we have heard his words; for the men of Bethulia saved him,
and he declared unto them all that he had spoken unto thee.

   {11:10} Therefore, O lord and governor, respect not his word; but
lay it up in thine heart, for it is true: for our nation shall not be
punished, neither can sword prevail against them, except they sin
against their God.

   {11:11} And now, that my lord be not defeated and frustrate of his
purpose, even death is now fallen upon them, and their sin hath
overtaken them, wherewith they will provoke their God to anger
whensoever they shall do that which is not fit to be done:

   {11:12} For their victuals fail them, and all their water is scant,
and they have determined to lay hands upon their cattle, and purposed
to consume all those things, that God hath forbidden them to eat by his
laws:

   {11:13} And are resolved to spend the firstfruits of the the tenths
of wine and oil, which they had sanctified, and reserved for the
priests that serve in Jerusalem before the face of our God; the which
things it is not lawful for any of the people so much as to touch with
their hands.

   {11:14} For they have sent some to Jerusalem, because they also that
dwell there have done the like, to bring them a licence from the senate.

   {11:15} Now when they shall bring them word, they will forthwith do
it, and they shall be given to thee to be destroyed the same day.

   {11:16} Wherefore I thine handmaid, knowing all this, am fled from
their presence; and God hath sent me to work things with thee, whereat
all the earth shall be astonished, and whosoever shall hear it.

   {11:17} For thy servant is religious, and serveth the God of heaven
day and night: now therefore, my lord, I will remain with thee, and thy
servant will go out by night into the valley, and I will pray unto God,
and he will tell me when they have committed their sins:

   {11:18} And I will come and shew it unto thee: then thou shalt go
forth with all thine army, and there shall be none of them that shall
resist thee.

   {11:19} And I will lead thee through the midst of Judea, until thou
come before Jerusalem; and I will set thy throne in the midst thereof;
and thou shalt drive them as sheep that have no shepherd, and a dog
shall not so much as open his mouth at thee: for these things were told
me according to my foreknowledge, and they were declared unto me, and I
am sent to tell thee.

   {11:20} Then her words pleased Holofernes and all his servants; and
they marvelled at her wisdom, and said,

   {11:21} There is not such a woman from one end of the earth to the
other, both for beauty of face, and wisdom of words.

   {11:22} Likewise Holofernes said unto her. God hath done well to
send thee before the people, that strength might be in our hands and
destruction upon them that lightly regard my lord.

   {11:23} And now thou art both beautiful in thy countenance, and
witty in thy words: surely if thou do as thou hast spoken thy God shall
be my God, and thou shalt dwell in the house of king Nabuchodonosor,
and shalt be renowned through the whole earth.

   {12:1} Then he commanded to bring her in where his plate was set;
and bade that they should prepare for her of his own meats, and that
she should drink of his own wine.

   {12:2} And Judith said, I will not eat thereof, lest there be an
offence: but provision shall be made for me of the things that I have
brought.

   {12:3} Then Holofernes said unto her, If thy provision should fail,
how should we give thee the like? for there be none with us of thy
nation.

   {12:4} Then said Judith unto him As thy soul liveth, my lord, thine
handmaid shall not spend those things that I have, before the Lord work
by mine hand the things that he hath determined.

   {12:5} Then the servants of Holofernes brought her into the tent,
and she slept till midnight, and she arose when it was toward the
morning watch,

   {12:6} And sent to Holofernes, saving, Let my lord now command that
thine handmaid may go forth unto prayer.

   {12:7} Then Holofernes commanded his guard that they should not stay
her: thus she abode in the camp three days, and went out in the night
into the valley of Bethulia, and washed herself in a fountain of water
by the camp.

   {12:8} And when she came out, she besought the Lord God of Israel to
direct her way to the raising up of the children of her people.

   {12:9} So she came in clean, and remained in the tent, until she did
eat her meat at evening.

   {12:10} And in the fourth day Holofernes made a feast to his own
servants only, and called none of the officers to the banquet.

   {12:11} Then said he to Bagoas the eunuch, who had charge over all
that he had, Go now, and persuade this Hebrew woman which is with thee,
that she come unto us, and eat and drink with us.

   {12:12} For, lo, it will be a shame for our person, if we shall let
such a woman go, not having had her company; for if we draw her not
unto us, she will laugh us to scorn.

   {12:13} Then went Bagoas from the presence of Holofernes, and came
to her, and he said, Let not this fair damsel fear to come to my lord,
and to be honoured in his presence, and drink wine, and be merry with
us and be made this day as one of the daughters of the Assyrians, which
serve in the house of Nabuchodonosor.

   {12:14} Then said Judith unto him, Who am I now, that I should
gainsay my lord? surely whatsoever pleaseth him I will do speedily, and
it shall be my joy unto the day of my death.

   {12:15} So she arose, and decked herself with her apparel and all
her woman's attire, and her maid went and laid soft skins on the ground
for her over against Holofernes, which she had received of Bagoas far
her daily use, that she might sit and eat upon them.

   {12:16} Now when Judith came in and sat down, Holofernes his heart
was ravished with her, and his mind was moved, and he desired greatly
her company; for he waited a time to deceive her, from the day that he
had seen her.

   {12:17} Then said Holofernes unto her, Drink now, and be merry with
us.

   {12:18} So Judith said, I will drink now, my lord, because my life
is magnified in me this day more than all the days since I was born.

   {12:19} Then she took and ate and drank before him what her maid had
prepared.

   {12:20} And Holofernes took great delight in her, and drank more
wine than he had drunk at any time in one day since he was born.

   {13:1} Now when the evening was come, his servants made haste to
depart, and Bagoas shut his tent without, and dismissed the waiters
from the presence of his lord; and they went to their beds: for they
were all weary, because the feast had been long.

   {13:2} And Judith was left along in the tent, and Holofernes lying
along upon his bed: for he was filled with wine.

   {13:3} Now Judith had commanded her maid to stand without her
bedchamber, and to wait for her. coming forth, as she did daily: for
she said she would go forth to her prayers, and she spake to Bagoas
according to the same purpose.

   {13:4} So all went forth and none was left in the bedchamber,
neither little nor great. Then Judith, standing by his bed, said in her
heart, O Lord God of all power, look at this present upon the works of
mine hands for the exaltation of Jerusalem.

   {13:5} For now is the time to help thine inheritance, and to execute
thine enterprizes to the destruction of the enemies which are risen
against us.

   {13:6} Then she came to the pillar of the bed, which was at
Holofernes' head, and took down his fauchion from thence,

   {13:7} And approached to his bed, and took hold of the hair of his
head, and said, Strengthen me, O Lord God of Israel, this day.

   {13:8} And she smote twice upon his neck with all her might, and she
took away his head from him.

   {13:9} And tumbled his body down from the bed, and pulled down the
canopy from the pillars; and anon after she went forth, and gave
Holofernes his head to her maid;

   {13:10} And she put it in her bag of meat: so they twain went
together according to their custom unto prayer: and when they passed
the camp, they compassed the valley, and went up the mountain of
Bethulia, and came to the gates thereof.

   {13:11} Then said Judith afar off, to the watchmen at the gate,
Open, open now the gate: God, even our God, is with us, to shew his
power yet in Jerusalem, and his forces against the enemy, as he hath
even done this day.

   {13:12} Now when the men of her city heard her voice, they made
haste to go down to the gate of their city, and they called the elders
of the city.

   {13:13} And then they ran all together, both small and great, for it
was strange unto them that she was come: so they opened the gate, and
received them, and made a fire for a light, and stood round about them.

   {13:14} Then she said to them with a loud voice, Praise, praise God,
praise God, I say, for he hath not taken away his mercy from the house
of Israel, but hath destroyed our enemies by mine hands this night.

   {13:15} So she took the head out of the bag, and shewed it, and said
unto them, behold the head of Holofernes, the chief captain of the army
of Assur, and behold the canopy, wherein he did lie in his drunkenness;
and the Lord hath smitten him by the hand of a woman.

   {13:16} As the Lord liveth, who hath kept me in my way that I went,
my countenance hath deceived him to his destruction, and yet hath he
not committed sin with me, to defile and shame me.

   {13:17} Then all the people were wonderfully astonished, and bowed
themselves and worshipped God, and said with one accord, Blessed be
thou, O our God, which hast this day brought to nought the enemies of
thy people.

   {13:18} Then said Ozias unto her, O daughter, blessed art thou of
the most high God above all the women upon the earth; and blessed be
the Lord God, which hath created the heavens and the earth, which hath
directed thee to the cutting off of the head of the chief of our
enemies.

   {13:19} For this thy confidence shall not depart from the heart of
men, which remember the power of God for ever.

   {13:20} And God turn these things to thee for a perpetual praise, to
visit thee in good things because thou hast not spared thy life for the
affliction of our nation, but hast revenged our ruin, walking a
straight way before our God. And all the people said; So be it, so be
it.

   {14:1} Then said Judith unto them, Hear me now, my brethren, and
take this head, and hang it upon the highest place of your walls.

   {14:2} And so soon as the morning shall appear, and the sun shall
come forth upon the earth, take ye every one his weapons, and go forth
every valiant man out of the city, and set ye a captain over them, as
though ye would go down into the field toward the watch of the
Assyrians; but go not down.

   {14:3} Then they shall take their armour, and shall go into their
camp, and raise up the captains of the army of Assur, and shall run to
the tent of Holofernes, but shall not find him: then fear shall fall
upon them, and they shall flee before your face.

   {14:4} So ye, and all that inhabit the coast of Israel, shall pursue
them, and overthrow them as they go.

   {14:5} But before ye do these things, call me Achior the Ammonite,
that he may see and know him that despised the house of Israel, and
that sent him to us as it were to his death.

   {14:6} Then they called Achior out of the house of Ozias; and when
he was come, and saw the head of Holofernes in a man's hand in the
assembly of the people, he fell down on his face, and his spirit failed.

   {14:7} But when they had recovered him, he fell at Judith's feet,
and reverenced her, and said, Blessed art thou in all the tabernacles
of Juda, and in all nations, which hearing thy name shall be astonished.

   {14:8} Now therefore tell me all the things that thou hast done in
these days. Then Judith declared unto him in the midst of the people
all that she had done, from the day that she went forth until that hour
she spake unto them.

   {14:9} And when she had left off speaking, the people shouted with a
loud voice, and made a joyful noise in their city.

   {14:10} And when Achior had seen all that the God of Israel had
done, he believed in God greatly, and circumcised the flesh of his
foreskin, and was joined unto the house of Israel unto this day.

   {14:11} And as soon as the morning arose, they hanged the head of
Holofernes upon the wall, and every man took his weapons, and they went
forth by bands unto the straits of the mountain.

   {14:12} But when the Assyrians saw them, they sent to their leaders,
which came to their captains and tribunes, and to every one of their
rulers.

   {14:13} So they came to Holofernes' tent, and said to him that had
the charge of all his things, Waken now our lord: for the slaves have
been bold to come down against us to battle, that they may be utterly
destroyed.

   {14:14} Then went in Bagoas, and knocked at the door of the tent;
for he thought that he had slept with Judith.

   {14:15} But because none answered, he opened it, and went into the
bedchamber, and found him cast upon the floor dead, and his head was
taken from him.

   {14:16} Therefore he cried with a loud voice, with weeping, and
sighing, and a mighty cry, and rent his garments.

   {14:17} After he went into the tent where Judith lodged: and when he
found her not, he leaped out to the people, and cried,

   {14:18} These slaves have dealt treacherously; one woman of the
Hebrews hath brought shame upon the house of king Nabuchodonosor: for,
behold, Holofernes lieth upon the ground without a head.

   {14:19} When the captains of the Assyrians' army heard these words,
they rent their coats and their minds were wonderfully troubled, and
there was a cry and a very great noise throughout the camp.

   {15:1} And when they that were in the tents heard, they were
astonished at the thing that was done.

   {15:2} And fear and trembling fell upon them, so that there was no
man that durst abide in the sight of his neighbour, but rushing out all
together, they fled into every way of the plain, and of the hill
country.

   {15:3} They also that had camped in the mountains round about
Bethulia fled away. Then the children of Israel, every one that was a
warrior among them, rushed out upon them.

   {15:4} Then sent Ozias to Betomasthem, and to Bebai, and Chobai, and
Cola and to all the coasts of Israel, such as should tell the things
that were done, and that all should rush forth upon their enemies to
destroy them.

   {15:5} Now when the children of Israel heard it, they all fell upon
them with one consent, and slew them unto Chobai: likewise also they
that came from Jerusalem, and from all the hill country, (for men had
told them what things were done in the camp of their enemies) and they
that were in Galaad, and in Galilee, chased them with a great
slaughter, until they were past Damascus and the borders thereof.

   {15:6} And the residue that dwelt at Bethulia, fell upon the camp of
Assur, and spoiled them, and were greatly enriched.

   {15:7} And the children of Israel that returned from the slaughter
had that which remained; and the villages and the cities, that were in
the mountains and in the plain, gat many spoils: for the multitude was
very great.

   {15:8} Then Joacim the high priest, and the ancients of the children
of Israel that dwelt in Jerusalem, came to behold the good things that
God had shewed to Israel, and to see Judith, and to salute her.

   {15:9} And when they came unto her, they blessed her with one
accord, and said unto her, Thou art the exaltation of Jerusalem, thou
art the great glory of Israel, thou art the great rejoicing of our
nation:

   {15:10} Thou hast done all these things by thine hand: thou hast
done much good to Israel, and God is pleased therewith: blessed be thou
of the Almighty Lord for evermore. And all the people said, So be it.

   {15:11} And the people spoiled the camp the space of thirty days:
and they gave unto Judith Holofernes his tent, and all his plate, and
beds, and vessels, and all his stuff: and she took it and laid it on
her mule; and made ready her carts, and laid them thereon.

   {15:12} Then all the women of Israel ran together to see her, and
blessed her, and made a dance among them for her: and she took branches
in her hand, and gave also to the women that were with her.

   {15:13} And they put a garland of olive upon her and her maid that
was with her, and she went before all the people in the dance, leading
all the women: and all the men of Israel followed in their armour with
garlands, and with songs in their mouths.

   {16:1} Then Judith began to sing this thanksgiving in all Israel,
and all the people sang after her this song of praise.

   {16:2} And Judith said, Begin unto my God with timbrels, sing unto
my Lord with cymbals: tune unto him a new psalm: exalt him, and call
upon his name.

   {16:3} For God breaketh the battles: for among the camps in the
midst of the people he hath delivered me out of the hands of them that
persecuted me.

   {16:4} Assur came out of the mountains from the north, he came with
ten thousands of his army, the multitude whereof stopped the torrents,
and their horsemen have covered the hills.

   {16:5} He bragged that he would burn up my borders, and kill my
young men with the sword, and dash the sucking children against the
ground, and make mine infants as a prey, and my virgins as a spoil.

   {16:6} But the Almighty Lord hath disappointed them by the hand of a
woman.

   {16:7} For the mighty one did not fall by the young men, neither did
the sons of the Titans smite him, nor high giants set upon him: but
Judith the daughter of Merari weakened him with the beauty of her
countenance.

   {16:8} For she put off the garment of her widowhood for the
exaltation of those that were oppressed in Israel, and anointed her
face with ointment, and bound her hair in a tire, and took a linen
garment to deceive him.

   {16:9} Her sandals ravished his eyes, her beauty took his mind
prisoner, and the fauchion passed through his neck.

   {16:10} The Persians quaked at her boldness, and the Medes were
daunted at her hardiness.

   {16:11} Then my afflicted shouted for joy, and my weak ones cried
aloud; but they were astonished: these lifted up their voices, but they
were overthrown.

   {16:12} The sons of the damsels have pierced them through, and
wounded them as fugatives' children: they perished by the battle of the
Lord.

   {16:13} I will sing unto the Lord a new song: O Lord, thou art great
and glorious, wonderful in strength, and invincible.

   {16:14} Let all creatures serve thee: for thou spakest, and they
were made, thou didst send forth thy spirit, and it created them, and
there is none that can resist thy voice.

   {16:15} For the mountains shall be moved from their foundations with
the waters, the rocks shall melt as wax at thy presence: yet thou art
merciful to them that fear thee.

   {16:16} For all sacrifice is too little for a sweet savour unto
thee, and all the fat is not sufficient for thy burnt offering: but he
that feareth the Lord is great at all times.

   {16:17} Woe to the nations that rise up against my kindred! the Lord
Almighty will take vengeance of them in the day of judgment, in putting
fire and worms in their flesh; and they shall feel them, and weep for
ever.

   {16:18} Now as soon as they entered into Jerusalem, they worshipped
the Lord; and as soon as the people were purified, they offered their
burnt offerings, and their free offerings, and their gifts.

   {16:19} Judith also dedicated all the stuff of Holofernes, which the
people had given her, and gave the canopy, which she had taken out of
his bedchamber, for a gift unto the Lord.

   {16:20} So the people continued feasting in Jerusalem before the
sanctuary for the space of three months and Judith remained with them.

   {16:21} After this time every one returned to his own inheritance,
and Judith went to Bethulia, and remained in her own possession, and
was in her time honourable in all the country.

   {16:22} And many desired her, but none knew her all the days of her
life, after that Manasses her husband was dead, and was gathered to his
people.

   {16:23} But she increased more and more in honour, and waxed old in
her husband's house, being an hundred and five years old, and made her
maid free; so she died in Bethulia: and they buried her in the cave of
her husband Manasses.

   {16:24} And the house of Israel lamented her seven days: and before
she died, she did distribute her goods to all them that were nearest of
kindred to Manasses her husband, and to them that were the nearest of
her kindred.

   {16:25} And there was none that made the children of Israel any more
afraid in the days of Judith, nor a long time after her death.





The Lamentations of Jeremiah

   {1:1} 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 {1:2}
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. {1:3} 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. {1:4} 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. {1:5} 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.
{1:6} 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. {1:7} 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. {1:8} 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. {1:9} 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. ]{1:10}
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.
{1:11} 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.

   {1:12} [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.
{1:13} 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. {1:14} The yoke of my
transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, [and] come up
upon my neck: he hath made my strength to fall, the Lord hath delivered
me into [their] hands, [from whom] I am not able to rise up. {1:15} The
Lord hath trodden under foot all my mighty [men] in the midst of me: he
hath called an assembly against me to crush my young men: the Lord hath
trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah, [as] in a winepress. {1:16}
For these [things] I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water,
because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my
children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed. {1:17} 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.

   {1:18} 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. {1:19} 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. {1:20} 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.
{1:21} 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. {1:22} 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.

   {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! {2:2}
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. {2:3} 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. {2:4} 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. {2:5} 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. {2:6} 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. {2:7} 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. {2:8} 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. {2:9} 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. {2:10} 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. {2:11} 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. {2:12} 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. {2:13} What thing
shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O
daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort
thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach is great like the sea:
who can heal thee? {2:14} Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish
things for thee: and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn
away thy captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of
banishment. {2:15} 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? {2:16} 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. ]{2:17} 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.
{2:18} 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. {2:19} 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.

   {2:20} 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?
{2:21} 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.
{2:22} 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.

   {3:1} I [am] the man [that] hath seen affliction by the rod of his
wrath. {3:2} He hath led me, and brought [me into] darkness, but not
[into] light. {3:3} Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand
[against me] all the day. {3:4} My flesh and my skin hath he made old;
he hath broken my bones. {3:5} He hath builded against me, and
compassed [me] with gall and travail. {3:6} He hath set me in dark
places, as [they that be] dead of old. {3:7} He hath hedged me about,
that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy. {3:8} Also when I
cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer. {3:9} He hath inclosed my
ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked. {3:10} He [was]
unto me [as] a bear lying in wait, [and as] a lion in secret places.
{3:11} He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath
made me desolate. {3:12} He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for
the arrow. {3:13} He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into
my reins. {3:14} I was a derision to all my people; [and] their song
all the day. {3:15} He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me
drunken with wormwood. {3:16} He hath also broken my teeth with gravel
stones, he hath covered me with ashes. {3:17} And thou hast removed my
soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity. {3:18} And I said, My
strength and my hope is perished from the LORD: {3:19} Remembering mine
affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. {3:20} My soul
hath [them] still in remembrance, and is humbled in me. {3:21} This I
recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.

   {3:22} [It is of] the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed,
because his compassions fail not. {3:23} [They are] new every morning:
great [is] thy faithfulness. {3:24} The LORD [is] my portion, saith my
soul; therefore will I hope in him. {3:25} The LORD [is] good unto them
that wait for him, to the soul [that] seeketh him. {3:26} [It is] good
that [a man] should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the
LORD. {3:27} [It is] good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
{3:28} He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it
upon him. {3:29} He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may
be hope. {3:30} He giveth [his] cheek to him that smiteth him: he is
filled full with reproach. {3:31} For the Lord will not cast off for
ever: {3:32} But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion
according to the multitude of his mercies. {3:33} For he doth not
afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men. {3:34} To crush under
his feet all the prisoners of the earth, {3:35} To turn aside the right
of a man before the face of the most High, {3:36} To subvert a man in
his cause, the Lord approveth not. {3:37} Who [is] he [that] saith, and
it cometh to pass, [when] the Lord commandeth [it] not? {3:38} Out of
the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good? {3:39}
Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his
sins? {3:40} Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the
LORD. {3:41} Let us lift up our heart with [our] hands unto God in the
heavens. {3:42} We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not
pardoned. {3:43} Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou
hast slain, thou hast not pitied. {3:44} Thou hast covered thyself with
a cloud, that [our] prayer should not pass through. {3:45} Thou hast
made us [as] the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
{3:46} All our enemies have opened their mouths against us. {3:47} Fear
and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction. {3:48} Mine
eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the
daughter of my people. {3:49} Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not,
without any intermission, {3:50} Till the LORD look down, and behold
from heaven. {3:51} Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the
daughters of my city. {3:52} Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird,
without cause. {3:53} They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and
cast a stone upon me. {3:54} Waters flowed over mine head; [then] I
said, I am cut off. {3:55} I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the
low dungeon. {3:56} Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my
breathing, at my cry. {3:57} Thou drewest near in the day [that] I
called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not. {3:58} O Lord, thou hast
pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life. {3:59} O
LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause. {3:60} Thou hast
seen all their vengeance [and] all their imaginations against me.
{3:61} Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, [and] all their
imaginations against me; {3:62} The lips of those that rose up against
me, and their device against me all the day. {3:63} Behold their
sitting down, and their rising up; I [am] their musick.

   {3:64} Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work
of their hands. {3:65} Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.
{3:66} Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of
the LORD.

   {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. {4:2} The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how
are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the
potter! {4:3} Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck
to their young ones: the daughter of my people [is become] cruel, like
the ostriches in the wilderness. {4:4} 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. {4:5} They that did feed
delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in
scarlet embrace dunghills. {4:6} For the punishment of the iniquity of
the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of
Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her.
{4:7} Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk,
they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing [was] of
sapphire: {4:8} Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known
in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it
is become like a stick. {4:9} [They that be] slain with the sword are
better than [they that be] slain with hunger: for these pine away,
stricken through for [want of] the fruits of the field. {4:10} The
hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were
their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people. {4:11} The
LORD hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger,
and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured the foundations
thereof. {4:12} 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.

   {4:13} For the sins of her prophets, [and] the iniquities of her
priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,
{4:14} They have wandered [as] blind [men] in the streets, they have
polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their
garments. {4:15} 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. ]{4:16} 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.
{4:17} 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.
]{4:18} They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end
is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come. {4:19} Our
persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us
upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness. {4:20} 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.

   {4:21} 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.

   {4:22} 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.

   {5:1} Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold
our reproach. {5:2} Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses
to aliens. {5:3} We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers [are] as
widows. {5:4} We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold
unto us. {5:5} Our necks [are] under persecution: we labour, [and] have
no rest. {5:6} We have given the hand [to] the Egyptians, [and to] the
Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. {5:7} Our fathers have sinned,
[and are] not; and we have borne their iniquities. {5:8} Servants have
ruled over us: [there is] none that doth deliver [us] out of their
hand. {5:9} We gat our bread with [the peril of] our lives because of
the sword of the wilderness. {5:10} Our skin was black like an oven
because of the terrible famine. {5:11} They ravished the women in Zion,
[and] the maids in the cities of Judah. {5:12} Princes are hanged up by
their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured. {5:13} They took the
young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood. {5:14} The
elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
{5:15} The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into
mourning. {5:16} The crown is fallen [from] our head: woe unto us, that
we have sinned! {5:17} For this our heart is faint; for these [things]
our eyes are dim. {5:18} Because of the mountain of Zion, which is
desolate, the foxes walk upon it. {5:19} Thou, O LORD, remainest for
ever; thy throne from generation to generation. {5:20} Wherefore dost
thou forget us for ever, [and] forsake us so long time? {5:21} Turn
thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of
old. {5:22} But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth
against us.





The Epistle [or Letter] of Jeremiah [Jeremy]

   {6:1} A copy of an epistle, which Jeremy sent unto them which were
to be led captives into Babylon by the king of the Babylonians, to
certify them, as it was commanded him of God.

   {6:2} Because of the sins which ye have committed before God, ye
shall be led away captives into Babylon by Nabuchodonosor king of the
Babylonians.

   {6:3} So when ye be come unto Babylon, ye shall remain there many
years, and for a long season, namely, seven generations: and after that
I will bring you away peaceably from thence.

   {6:4} Now shall ye see in Babylon gods of silver, and of gold, and
of wood, borne upon shoulders, which cause the nations to fear.

   {6:5} Beware therefore that ye in no wise be like to strangers,
neither be ye and of them, when ye see the multitude before them and
behind them, worshipping them.

   {6:6} But say ye in your hearts, O Lord, we must worship thee.

   {6:7} For mine angel is with you, and I myself caring for your souls.

   {6:8} As for their tongue, it is polished by the workman, and they
themselves are gilded and laid over with silver; yet are they but
false, and cannot speak.

   {6:9} And taking gold, as it were for a virgin that loveth to go
gay, they make crowns for the heads of their gods.

   {6:10} Sometimes also the priests convey from their gods gold and
silver, and bestow it upon themselves.

   {6:11} Yea, they will give thereof to the common harlots, and deck
them as men with garments, [being] gods of silver, and gods of gold,
and wood.

   {6:12} Yet cannot these gods save themselves from rust and moth,
though they be covered with purple raiment.

   {6:13} They wipe their faces because of the dust of the temple, when
there is much upon them.

   {6:14} And he that cannot put to death one that offendeth him
holdeth a sceptre, as though he were a judge of the country.

   {6:15} He hath also in his right hand a dagger and an ax: but cannot
deliver himself from war and thieves.

   {6:16} Whereby they are known not to be gods: therefore fear them
not.

   {6:17} For like as a vessel that a man useth is nothing worth when
it is broken; even so it is with their gods: when they be set up in the
temple, their eyes be full of dust through the feet of them that come
in.

   {6:18} And as the doors are made sure on every side upon him that
offendeth the king, as being committed to suffer death: even so the
priests make fast their temples with doors, with locks, and bars, lest
their gods be spoiled with robbers.

   {6:19} They light them candles, yea, more than for themselves,
whereof they cannot see one.

   {6:20} They are as one of the beams of the temple, yet they say
their hearts are gnawed upon by things creeping out of the earth; and
when they eat them and their clothes, they feel it not.

   {6:21} Their faces are blacked through the smoke that cometh out of
the temple.

   {6:22} Upon their bodies and heads sit bats, swallows, and birds,
and the cats also.

   {6:23} By this ye may know that they are no gods: therefore fear
them not.

   {6:24} Notwithstanding the gold that is about them to make them
beautiful, except they wipe off the rust, they will not shine: for
neither when they were molten did they feel it.

   {6:25} The things wherein there is no breath are bought for a most
high price.

   {6:26} They are borne upon shoulders, having no feet whereby they
declare unto men that they be nothing worth.

   {6:27} They also that serve them are ashamed: for if they fall to
the ground at any time, they cannot rise up again of themselves:
neither, if one set them upright, can they move of themselves: neither,
if they be bowed down, can they make themselves straight: but they set
gifts before them as unto dead men.

   {6:28} As for the things that are sacrificed unto them, their
priests sell and abuse; in like manner their wives lay up part thereof
in salt; but unto the poor and impotent they give nothing of it.

   {6:29} Menstruous women and women in childbed eat their sacrifices:
by these things ye may know that they are no gods: fear them not.

   {6:30} For how can they be called gods? because women set meat
before the gods of silver, gold, and wood.

   {6:31} And the priests sit in their temples, having their clothes
rent, and their heads and beards shaven, and nothing upon their heads.

   {6:32} They roar and cry before their gods, as men do at the feast
when one is dead.

   {6:33} The priests also take off their garments, and clothe their
wives and children.

   {6:34} Whether it be evil that one doeth unto them, or good, they
are not able to recompense it: they can neither set up a king, nor put
him down.

   {6:35} In like manner, they can neither give riches nor money:
though a man make a vow unto them, and keep it not, they will not
require it.

   {6:36} They can save no man from death, neither deliver the weak
from the mighty.

   {6:37} They cannot restore a blind man to his sight, nor help any
man in his distress.

   {6:38} They can shew no mercy to the widow, nor do good to the
fatherless.

   {6:39} Their gods of wood, and which are overlaid with gold and
silver, are like the stones that be hewn out of the mountain: they that
worship them shall be confounded.

   {6:40} How should a man then think and say that they are gods, when
even the Chaldeans themselves dishonour them?

   {6:41} Who if they shall see one dumb that cannot speak, they bring
him, and intreat Bel that he may speak, as though he were able to
understand.

   {6:42} Yet they cannot understand this themselves, and leave them:
for they have no knowledge.

   {6:43} The women also with cords about them, sitting in the ways,
burn bran for perfume: but if any of them, drawn by some that passeth
by, lie with him, she reproacheth her fellow, that she was not thought
as worthy as herself, nor her cord broken.

   {6:44} Whatsoever is done among them is false: how may it then be
thought or said that they are gods?

   {6:45} They are made of carpenters and goldsmiths: they can be
nothing else than the workmen will have them to be.

   {6:46} And they themselves that made them can never continue long;
how should then the things that are made of them be gods?

   {6:47} For they left lies and reproaches to them that come after.

   {6:48} For when there cometh any war or plague upon them, the
priests consult with themselves, where they may be hidden with them.

   {6:49} How then cannot men perceive that they be no gods, which can
neither save themselves from war, nor from plague?

   {6:50} For seeing they be but of wood, and overlaid with silver and
gold, it shall be known hereafter that they are false:

   {6:51} And it shall manifestly appear to all nations and kings that
they are no gods, but the works of men's hands, and that there is no
work of God in them.

   {6:52} Who then may not know that they are no gods?

   {6:53} For neither can they set up a king in the land, nor give rain
unto men.

   {6:54} Neither can they judge their own cause, nor redress a wrong,
being unable: for they are as crows between heaven and earth.

   {6:55} Whereupon when fire falleth upon the house of gods of wood,
or laid over with gold or silver, their priests will flee away, and
escape; but they themselves shall be burned asunder like beams.

   {6:56} Moreover they cannot withstand any king or enemies: how can
it then be thought or said that they be gods?

   {6:57} Neither are those gods of wood, and laid over with silver or
gold, able to escape either from thieves or robbers.

   {6:58} Whose gold, and silver, and garments wherewith they are
clothed, they that are strong take, and go away withal: neither are
they able to help themselves.

   {6:59} Therefore it is better to be a king that sheweth his power,
or else a profitable vessel in an house, which the owner shall have use
of, than such false gods; or to be a door in an house, to keep such
things therein, than such false gods. or a pillar of wood in a a
palace, than such false gods.

   {6:60} For sun, moon, and stars, being bright and sent to do their
offices, are obedient.

   {6:61} In like manner the lightning when it breaketh forth is easy
to be seen; and after the same manner the wind bloweth in every country.

   {6:62} And when God commandeth the clouds to go over the whole
world, they do as they are bidden.

   {6:63} And the fire sent from above to consume hills and woods doeth
as it is commanded: but these are like unto them neither in shew nor
power.

   {6:64} Wherefore it is neither to be supposed nor said that they are
gods, seeing, they are able neither to judge causes, nor to do good
unto men.

   {6:65} Knowing therefore that they are no gods, fear them not,

   {6:66} For they can neither curse nor bless kings:

   {6:67} Neither can they shew signs in the heavens among the heathen,
nor shine as the sun, nor give light as the moon.

   {6:68} The beasts are better than they: for they can get under a
cover and help themselves.

   {6:69} It is then by no means manifest unto us that they are gods:
therefore fear them not.

   {6:70} For as a scarecrow in a garden of cucumbers keepeth nothing:
so are their gods of wood, and laid over with silver and gold.

   {6:71} And likewise their gods of wood, and laid over with silver
and gold, are like to a white thorn in an orchard, that every bird
sitteth upon; as also to a dead body, that is east into the dark.

   {6:72} And ye shall know them to be no gods by the bright purple
that rotteth upon then1: and they themselves afterward shall be eaten,
and shall be a reproach in the country.

   {6:73} Better therefore is the just man that hath none idols: for he
shall be far from reproach.





The Third Book of Moses, called Leviticus

   {1:1} And the LORD called unto Moses, and spake unto him out of the
tabernacle of the congregation, saying, {1:2} 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. {1:3} 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. {1:4} And he shall put his hand upon the
head of the burnt offering; and it shall be accepted for him to make
atonement for him. {1:5} And he shall kill the bullock before the LORD:
and the priests, 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. {1:6} And he shall flay the burnt
offering, and cut it into his pieces. {1:7} And the sons of Aaron the
priest shall put fire upon the altar, and lay the wood in order upon
the fire: {1:8} And the priests, Aaron's sons, shall lay the parts, the
head, and the fat, in order upon the wood that [is] on the fire which
[is] upon the altar: {1:9} 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.

   {1:10} 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. {1:11} 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. {1:12} 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: {1:13} 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.

   {1:14} And if the burnt sacrifice for his offering to the LORD [be]
of fowls, then he shall bring his offering of turtledoves, or of young
pigeons. {1:15} And the priest shall bring it unto the altar, and wring
off his head, and burn [it] on the altar; and the blood thereof shall
be wrung out at the side of the altar: {1:16} 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: {1:17} 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.

   {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: {2:2} 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: {2:3} And the
remnant of the meat offerings [shall be] Aaron's and his sons': [it is]
a thing most holy of the offerings of the LORD made by fire.

   {2:4} And if thou bring an oblation of a meat offering baken in the
oven, [it shall be] unleavened cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, or
unleavened wafers anointed with oil.

   {2:5} And if thy oblation [be] a meat offering [baken] in a pan, it
shall be [of] fine flour unleavened, mingled with oil. {2:6} Thou shalt
part it in pieces, and pour oil thereon: it [is] a meat offering.

   {2:7} And if thy oblation [be] a meat offering [baken] in the frying
pan, it shall be made [of] fine flour with oil. {2:8} And thou shalt
bring the meat offering that is made of these things unto the LORD: and
when it is presented unto the priest, he shall bring it unto the altar.
{2:9} 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. {2:10} 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. {2:11} 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.

   {2:12} 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. {2:13} 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. {2:14} 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. {2:15} And thou shalt put oil upon it, and lay
frankincense thereon: it [is] a meat offering. {2:16} 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.

   {3:1} And if his oblation [be] a sacrifice of peace offering, if he
offer [it] of the herd; whether [it be] a male or female, he shall
offer it without blemish before the LORD. {3:2} And he shall lay his
hand upon the head of his offering, and kill it [at] the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron's sons the priests shall
sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about. {3:3} 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, {3:4} 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. {3:5} 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.

   {3:6} And if his offering for a sacrifice of peace offering unto the
LORD [be] of the flock; male or female, he shall offer it without
blemish. {3:7} If he offer a lamb for his offering, then shall he offer
it before the LORD. {3:8} And he shall lay his hand upon the head of
his offering, and kill it before the tabernacle of the congregation:
and Aaron's sons shall sprinkle the blood thereof round about upon the
altar. {3:9} And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace offering
an offering 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,
{3:10} 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. {3:11} And the priest shall burn it upon the altar: [it
is] the food of the offering made by fire unto the LORD.

   {3:12} And if his offering [be] a goat, then he shall offer it
before the LORD. {3:13} 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.
{3:14} 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, {3:15} 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. {3:16} 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. {3:17} [It
shall be] a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your
dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.

   {4:1} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {4:2} Speak unto the
children of Israel, saying, If a soul shall sin through ignorance
against any of the commandments of the LORD [concerning things] which
ought not to be done, and shall do against any of them: {4:3} If the
priest that is anointed do sin according to the sin of the people; then
let him bring for his sin, which he hath sinned, a young bullock
without blemish unto the LORD for a sin offering. {4:4} 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. {4:5} And the priest that is anointed
shall take of the bullock's blood, and bring it to the tabernacle of
the congregation: {4:6} And the priest shall dip his finger in the
blood, and sprinkle of the blood seven times before the LORD, before
the vail of the sanctuary. {4:7} 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.
{4:8} 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, {4:9} 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, {4:10} 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. {4:11} And the skin of the
bullock, and all his flesh, with his head, and with his legs, and his
inwards, and his dung, {4:12} Even the whole bullock shall he carry
forth without the camp 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.

   {4:13} 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; {4:14}
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. {4:15} 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. {4:16} And
the priest that is anointed shall bring of the bullock's blood to the
tabernacle of the congregation: {4:17} And the priest shall dip his
finger [in some] of the blood, and sprinkle [it] seven times before the
LORD, [even] before the vail. {4:18} And he shall put [some] of the
blood upon the horns of the altar which [is] before the LORD, that [is]
in the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall pour out all the blood
at the bottom of the altar of the burnt offering, which [is at] the
door of the tabernacle of the congregation. {4:19} And he shall take
all his fat from him, and burn [it] upon the altar. {4:20} 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. {4:21} 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.

   {4:22} When a ruler hath sinned, and done [somewhat] through
ignorance [against] any of the commandments of the LORD his God
[concerning things] which should not be done, and is guilty; {4:23} Or
if his sin, wherein he hath sinned, come to his knowledge; he shall
bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a male without blemish: {4:24}
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. {4:25} 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. {4:26} 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.

   {4:27} And if any one of the common people sin through ignorance,
while he doeth [somewhat against] any of the commandments of the LORD
[concerning things] which ought not to be done, and be guilty; {4:28}
Or if his sin, which he hath sinned, come to his knowledge: then he
shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a female without blemish,
for his sin which he hath sinned. {4:29} And he shall lay his hand upon
the head of the sin offering, and slay the sin offering in the place of
the burnt offering. {4:30} And the priest shall take of the blood
thereof 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. {4:31} 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. {4:32} And if he bring a lamb for a sin offering, he
shall bring it a female without blemish. {4:33} 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 {4:34} 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: {4:35} 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.

   {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. {5:2} Or if a soul touch any
unclean thing, whether [it be] a carcase of an unclean beast, or a
carcase of unclean cattle, or the carcase of unclean creeping things,
and [if] it be hidden from him; he also shall be unclean, and guilty.
{5:3} Or if he touch the uncleanness of man, whatsoever uncleanness [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. {5:4} Or if a soul swear,
pronouncing with [his] lips to do evil, or to do good, whatsoever [it
be] that a man shall pronounce with an oath, and it be hid from him;
when he knoweth [of it,] then he shall be guilty in one of these. {5:5}
And it shall be, when he shall be guilty in one of these [things,] that
he shall confess that he hath sinned in that [thing: ]{5:6} And he
shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD for his sin 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. {5:7} And if he be not able to bring a lamb, then
he shall bring for his trespass, which he hath committed, two
turtledoves, or two young pigeons, unto the LORD; one for a sin
offering, and the other for a burnt offering. {5:8} And he shall bring
them unto the priest, who shall offer [that] which [is] for the sin
offering first, and wring off his head from his neck, but shall not
divide [it] asunder: {5:9} 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.
{5:10} 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.

   {5:11} 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. {5:12} 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. {5:13} 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.

   {5:14} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {5:15} If a soul
commit a trespass, and sin through ignorance, in the 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: {5:16} 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.

   {5:17} And if a soul sin, and commit any of these things which are
forbidden to be done by the commandments of the LORD; though he wist
[it] not, yet is he guilty, and shall bear his iniquity. {5:18} And he
shall bring a ram without blemish out of the flock, with 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. {5:19} It [is] a
trespass offering: he hath certainly trespassed against the LORD.

   {6:1} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {6:2} If a soul sin,
and commit a trespass against the LORD, and lie unto his neighbour in
that which was delivered him to keep, or in fellowship, or in a thing
taken away by violence, or hath deceived his neighbour; {6:3} Or have
found that which was lost, and lieth concerning it, and sweareth
falsely; in any of all these that a man doeth, sinning therein: {6:4}
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, {6:5} 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. {6:6} 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: {6:7} 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.

   {6:8} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {6:9} 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. {6:10}
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. {6:11} And he shall put off his garments, and put on
other garments, and carry forth the ashes without the camp unto a clean
place. {6:12} 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. {6:13} The fire shall ever be
burning upon the altar; it shall never go out.

   {6:14} And this [is] the law of the meat offering: the sons of Aaron
shall offer it before the LORD, before the altar. {6:15} And he shall
take of it his handful, of the flour of the meat 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. {6:16} 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. {6:17} It shall not be baken with
leaven. I have given it [unto them for] their portion of my offerings
made by fire; it [is] most holy, as [is] the sin offering, and as the
trespass offering. {6:18} All the males among the children of Aaron
shall eat of it. [It shall be] a statute for ever in your generations
concerning the offerings of the LORD made by fire: every one that
toucheth them shall be holy.

   {6:19} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {6:20} 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. {6:21} 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.
{6:22} 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. {6:23} For every meat offering for the priest shall be wholly
burnt: it shall not be eaten.

   {6:24} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {6:25} 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. {6:26} The priest that
offereth it for sin shall eat it: in the holy place shall it be eaten,
in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation. {6:27} Whatsoever
shall touch the flesh thereof shall be holy: and when there is
sprinkled of the blood thereof upon any garment, thou shalt wash that
whereon it was sprinkled in the holy place. {6:28} But the earthen
vessel wherein it is sodden shall be broken: and if it be sodden in a
brasen pot, it shall be both scoured, and rinsed in water. {6:29} All
the males among the priests shall eat thereof: it [is] most holy.
{6:30} And no sin offering, whereof [any] of the blood is brought into
the tabernacle of the congregation to reconcile [withal] in the holy
[place,] shall be eaten: it shall be burnt in the fire.

   {7:1} Likewise this [is] the law of the trespass offering: it [is]
most holy. {7:2} 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. {7:3} And he shall offer of it all
the fat thereof; the rump, and the fat that covereth the inwards, {7:4}
And the two kidneys, and the fat that [is] on them, which [is] by the
flanks, and the caul [that is] above the liver, with the kidneys, it
shall he take away: {7:5} And the priest shall burn them upon the altar
[for] an offering made by fire unto the LORD: it [is] a trespass
offering. {7:6} Every male among the priests shall eat thereof: it
shall be eaten in the holy place: it [is] most holy. {7:7} As the sin
offering [is,] so [is] the trespass offering: [there is] one law for
them: the priest that maketh atonement therewith shall have [it. ]{7:8}
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. {7:9} 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. {7:10} And every meat offering,
mingled with oil, and dry, shall all the sons of Aaron have, one [as
much] as another. {7:11} And this [is] the law of the sacrifice of
peace offerings, which he shall offer unto the LORD. {7:12} If he offer
it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of
thanksgiving unleavened cakes mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers
anointed with oil, and cakes mingled with oil, of fine flour, fried.
{7:13} Besides the cakes, he shall offer [for] his offering leavened
bread with the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace offerings. {7:14}
And of it he shall offer one out of the whole oblation [for] an heave
offering unto the LORD, [and] it shall be the priest's that sprinkleth
the blood of the peace offerings. {7:15} 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.
{7:16} 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:
{7:17} But the remainder of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day
shall be burnt with fire. {7:18} And if [any] of the flesh of the
sacrifice of his peace offerings be 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. {7:19} 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. {7:20} 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. {7:21} Moreover the soul that
shall touch any unclean [thing, as] the uncleanness of man, or [any]
unclean beast, or any abominable unclean [thing,] and eat of the flesh
of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which [pertain] unto the LORD,
even that soul shall be cut off from his people.

   {7:22} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {7:23} Speak unto the
children of Israel, saying, Ye shall eat no manner of fat, of ox, or of
sheep, or of goat. {7:24} And the fat of the beast that dieth of
itself, and the fat of that which is torn with beasts, may be used in
any other use: but ye shall in no wise eat of it. {7:25} 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. {7:26} Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood,
[whether it be] of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings. {7:27}
Whatsoever soul [it be] that eateth any manner of blood, even that soul
shall be cut off from his people.

   {7:28} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {7:29} Speak unto the
children of Israel, saying, He that offereth the sacrifice of his peace
offerings unto the LORD shall bring his oblation unto the LORD of the
sacrifice of his peace offerings. {7:30} 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. {7:31} And the priest shall burn the fat upon the altar: but the
breast shall be Aaron's and his sons'. {7:32} And the right shoulder
shall ye give unto the priest [for] an heave offering of the sacrifices
of your peace offerings. {7:33} He among the sons of Aaron, that
offereth the blood of the peace offerings, and the fat, shall have the
right shoulder for [his] part. {7:34} 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.

   {7:35} 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; {7:36} 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. {7:37} 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; {7:38} 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.

   {8:1} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {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; {8:3} And gather thou all the congregation together unto the
door of the tabernacle of the congregation. {8:4} And Moses did as the
LORD commanded him; and the assembly was gathered together unto the
door of the tabernacle of the congregation. {8:5} And Moses said unto
the congregation, This [is] the thing which the LORD commanded to be
done. {8:6} And Moses brought Aaron and his sons, and washed them with
water. {8:7} 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. {8:8} And he put the breastplate upon him: also he put
in the breastplate the Urim and the Thummim. {8:9} And he put the mitre
upon his head; also upon the mitre, [even] upon his forefront, did he
put the golden plate, the holy crown; as the LORD commanded Moses.
{8:10} And Moses took the anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle
and all that [was] therein, and sanctified them. {8:11} And he
sprinkled thereof upon the altar seven times, and anointed the altar
and all his vessels, both the laver and his foot, to sanctify them.
{8:12} And he poured of the anointing oil upon Aaron's head, and
anointed him, to sanctify him. {8:13} 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. {8:14} 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. {8:15} 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. {8:16} And he took all the fat that [was] upon
the inwards, and caul [above] the liver, and the two kidneys, and their
fat, and Moses burned [it] upon the altar. {8:17} But the bullock, and
his hide, his flesh, and his dung, he burnt with fire without the camp;
as the LORD commanded Moses.

   {8:18} And he brought the ram for the burnt offering: and Aaron and
his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram. {8:19} And he
killed [it;] and Moses sprinkled the blood upon the altar round about.
{8:20} And he cut the ram into pieces; and Moses burnt the head, and
the pieces, and the fat. {8:21} And he washed the inwards and the legs
in water; and Moses 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.

   {8:22} And he brought the other ram, the ram of consecration: and
Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram. {8:23}
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. {8:24} 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.
{8:25} 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: {8:26} 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: {8:27} And he put all upon Aaron's
hands, and upon his sons' hands, and waved them [for] a wave offering
before the LORD. {8:28} And Moses took them from off their hands, and
burnt [them] on the altar upon the burnt offering: they [were]
consecrations for a sweet savour: it [is] an offering made by fire unto
the LORD. {8:29} 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. {8:30} 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.

   {8:31} 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. {8:32} And that which
remaineth of the flesh and of the bread shall ye burn with fire. {8:33}
And ye shall not go out of the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation [in] seven days, until the days of your consecration be at
an end: for seven days shall he consecrate you. {8:34} As he hath done
this day, [so] the LORD hath commanded to do, to make an atonement for
you. {8:35} Therefore shall ye abide [at] 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. {8:36} So Aaron and his
sons did all things which the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses.

   {9:1} And it came to pass on the eighth day, [that] Moses called
Aaron and his sons, and the elders of Israel; {9:2} And he said unto
Aaron, Take thee a young calf for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt
offering, without blemish, and offer [them] before the LORD. {9:3} 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; {9:4} 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.

   {9:5} And they brought [that] which Moses commanded before the
tabernacle of the congregation: and all the congregation drew near and
stood before the LORD. {9:6} 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. {9:7} 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.

   {9:8} Aaron therefore went unto the altar, and slew the calf of the
sin offering, which [was] for himself. {9:9} And the sons of Aaron
brought the blood unto him: and he dipped 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: {9:10} 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. {9:11} And the flesh and the hide he burnt with
fire without the camp. {9:12} And he slew the burnt offering; and
Aaron's sons presented unto him the blood, which he sprinkled round
about upon the altar. {9:13} And they presented the burnt offering unto
him, with the pieces thereof, and the head: and he burnt [them] upon
the altar. {9:14} And he did wash the inwards and the legs, and burnt
[them] upon the burnt offering on the altar.

   {9:15} And he brought the people's offering, and took the goat,
which [was] the sin offering for the people, and slew it, and offered
it for sin, as the first. {9:16} And he brought the burnt offering, and
offered it according to the manner. {9:17} And he brought the meat
offering, and took an handful thereof, and burnt [it] upon the altar,
beside the burnt sacrifice of the morning. {9:18} 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, {9:19} 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: {9:20} And they put the
fat upon the breasts, and he burnt the fat upon the altar: {9:21} And
the breasts and the right shoulder Aaron waved [for] a wave offering
before the LORD; as Moses commanded. {9:22} And Aaron lifted up his
hand toward the people, and blessed them, and came down from offering
of the sin offering, and the burnt offering, and peace offerings.
{9:23} 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. {9:24} 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.

   {10:1} 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. {10:2} And
there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and they died
before the LORD. {10:3} Then Moses said unto Aaron, This [is it] that
the LORD spake, 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. {10:4} 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. {10:5} So they went near,
and carried them in their coats out of the camp; as Moses had said.
{10:6} And Moses said unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar,
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. {10:7} 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.

   {10:8} And the LORD spake unto Aaron, saying, {10:9} Do not drink
wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into
the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: [it shall be] a
statute for ever throughout your generations: {10:10} And that ye may
put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean;
{10:11} And that ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes
which the LORD hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses.

   {10:12} And Moses spake unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto
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: {10:13} 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. {10:14} 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. {10:15} 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.

   {10:16} 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, {10:17} 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? {10:18}
Behold, the blood of it was not brought in within the holy [place:] ye
should indeed have eaten it in the holy [place,] as I commanded.
{10:19} And Aaron said unto Moses, Behold, this day have they offered
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? {10:20} And when
Moses heard [that,] he was content.

   {11:1} And the LORD spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them,
{11:2} Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, These [are] the
beasts which ye shall eat among all the beasts that [are] on the earth.
{11:3} Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is clovenfooted, [and] cheweth
the cud, among the beasts, that shall ye eat. {11:4} Nevertheless these
shall ye not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the
hoof: [as] the camel, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the
hoof; he is unclean unto you. {11:5} And the coney, because he cheweth
the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he [is] unclean unto you. {11:6}
And the hare, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he
[is] unclean unto you. {11:7} And the swine, though he divide the hoof,
and be clovenfooted, yet he cheweth not the cud; he [is] unclean to
you. {11:8} Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcase shall ye
not touch; they [are] unclean to you.

   {11:9} These shall ye eat of all that [are] in the waters:
whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the
rivers, them shall ye eat. {11:10} 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: {11:11} They shall be even an abomination unto
you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, but ye shall have their carcases
in abomination. {11:12} Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the
waters, that [shall be] an abomination unto you.

   {11:13} And these [are they which ye] shall have in abomination
among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they [are] an abomination:
the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray, {11:14} And the vulture,
and the kite after his kind; {11:15} Every raven after his kind;
{11:16} And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk
after his kind, {11:17} And the little owl, and the cormorant, and the
great owl, {11:18} And the swan, and the pelican, and the gier eagle,
{11:19} And the stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and
the bat. {11:20} All fowls that creep, going upon [all] four, [shall
be] an abomination unto you. {11:21} 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; {11:22} [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. {11:23} But all [other] flying creeping things, which have four
feet, [shall be] an abomination unto you. {11:24} And for these ye
shall be unclean: whosoever toucheth the carcase of them shall be
unclean until the even. {11:25} And whosoever beareth [ought] of the
carcase of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even.
{11:26} [The carcases] of every beast which divideth the hoof, and [is]
not clovenfooted, nor cheweth the cud, [are] unclean unto you: every
one that toucheth them shall be unclean. {11:27} 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. {11:28} And he that beareth the carcase of them shall
wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: they [are] unclean
unto you.

   {11:29} 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, {11:30} And the ferret, and the chameleon, and
the lizard, and the snail, and the mole. {11:31} These [are] unclean to
you among all that creep: whosoever doth touch them, when they be dead,
shall be unclean until the even. {11:32} And upon whatsoever [any] of
them, when they are dead, doth fall, it shall be unclean; whether [it
be] any vessel of wood, or raiment, or skin, or sack, whatsoever vessel
[it be,] wherein [any] work is done, it must be put into water, and it
shall be unclean until the even; so it shall be cleansed. {11:33} And
every earthen vessel, whereinto [any] of them falleth, whatsoever is in
it shall be unclean; and ye shall break it. {11:34} Of all meat which
may be eaten, [that] on which [such] water cometh shall be unclean: and
all drink that may be drunk in every [such] vessel shall be unclean.
{11:35} And every [thing] whereupon [any part] of their carcase falleth
shall be unclean; [whether it be] oven, or ranges for pots, they shall
be broken down: [for] they [are] unclean, and shall be unclean unto
you. {11:36} Nevertheless a fountain or pit, [wherein there is] plenty
of water, shall be clean: but that which toucheth their carcase shall
be unclean. {11:37} And if [any part] of their carcase fall upon any
sowing seed which is to be sown, it [shall be] clean. {11:38} But if
[any] water be put upon the seed, and [any part] of their carcase fall
thereon, it [shall be] unclean unto you. {11:39} And if any beast, of
which ye may eat, die; he that toucheth the carcase thereof shall be
unclean until the even. {11:40} And he that eateth of the carcase of it
shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: he also that
beareth the carcase of it shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until
the even. {11:41} And every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth
[shall be] an abomination; it shall not be eaten. {11:42} Whatsoever
goeth upon the belly, and whatsoever goeth upon [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. {11:43} 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. {11:44} For I [am] the LORD your God: ye
shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I [am]
holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping
thing that creepeth upon the earth. {11:45} For I [am] the LORD that
bringeth you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: ye shall
therefore be holy, for I [am] holy. {11:46} This [is] the law of the
beasts, and of the fowl, and of every living creature that moveth in
the waters, and of every creature that creepeth upon the earth: {11:47}
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.

   {12:1} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {12:2} Speak unto the
children of Israel, saying, If a woman have conceived seed, and born a
man child: then she shall be unclean seven days; according to the days
of the separation for her infirmity shall she be unclean. {12:3} And in
the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised. {12:4}
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. {12:5} 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. {12:6} 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: {12:7} 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. {12:8} 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.

   {13:1} And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, saying, {13:2} When
a man shall have in the skin of his flesh a rising, a scab, or a 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: {13:3} 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. {13:4} 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: {13:5} 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: {13:6} 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. {13:7} 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:
{13:8} And [if] the priest see that, behold, the scab spreadeth in the
skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it [is] a leprosy.

   {13:9} When the plague of leprosy is in a man, then he shall be
brought unto the priest; {13:10} And the priest shall see [him:] and,
behold, [if] the rising [be] white in the skin, and it have turned the
hair white, and [there be] quick raw flesh in the rising; {13:11} 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.
{13:12} 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; {13:13} 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. {13:14} But when raw flesh appeareth in him, he
shall be unclean. {13:15} And the priest shall see the raw flesh, and
pronounce him to be unclean: [for] the raw flesh [is] unclean: it [is]
a leprosy. {13:16} Or if the raw flesh turn again, and be changed unto
white, he shall come unto the priest; {13:17} And the priest shall see
him: and, behold, [if] the plague be turned into white; then the priest
shall pronounce [him] clean [that hath] the plague: he [is] clean.

   {13:18} The flesh also, in which, [even] in the skin thereof, was a
boil, and is healed, {13:19} And in the place of the boil there be a
white rising, or a bright spot, white, and somewhat reddish, and it be
shewed to the priest; {13:20} And if, when the priest seeth it, behold,
it [be] in sight lower than 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. {13:21} 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: {13:22} And if it spread much abroad in the skin,
then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it [is] a plague. {13:23}
But if the bright spot stay in his place, [and] spread not, it [is] a
burning boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.

   {13:24} Or if there be [any] flesh, in the skin whereof [there is] a
hot burning, and the quick [flesh] that burneth have a white bright
spot, somewhat reddish, or white; {13:25} Then the priest shall look
upon it: and, behold, [if] the hair in the 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. {13:26} 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: {13:27} 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. {13:28} 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.

   {13:29} If a man or woman have a plague upon the head or the beard;
{13:30} 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. {13:31} 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:
{13:32} 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; {13:33} 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: {13:34} 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. {13:35} But if the scall spread much in the skin
after his cleansing; {13:36} 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. {13:37} 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.

   {13:38} If a man also or a woman have in the skin of their flesh
bright spots, [even] white bright spots; {13:39} Then the priest shall
look: and, behold, [if] the bright spots in the skin of their flesh
[be] darkish white; it [is] a freckled spot [that] groweth in the skin;
he [is] clean. {13:40} And the man whose hair is fallen off his head,
he [is] bald; [yet is] he clean. {13:41} And he that hath his hair
fallen off from the part of his head toward his face, he [is] forehead
bald: [yet is] he clean. {13:42} And if there be in the bald head, or
bald forehead, a white reddish sore; it [is] a leprosy sprung up in his
bald head, or his bald forehead. {13:43} Then the priest shall look
upon it: and, behold, [if] the rising of the sore [be] white reddish in
his bald head, or in his bald forehead, as the leprosy appeareth in the
skin of the flesh; {13:44} He is a leprous man, he [is] unclean: the
priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean; his plague [is] in his
head. {13:45} And the leper in whom the plague [is,] his clothes shall
be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper
lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean. {13:46} 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.]

   {13:47} The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, [whether
it be] a woollen garment, or a linen garment; {13:48} Whether [it be]
in the warp, or woof; of linen, or of woollen; whether in a skin, or in
any thing made of skin; {13:49} And if the plague be greenish or
reddish in the garment, or in the skin, either in the warp, or in the
woof, or in any thing of skin; it [is] a plague of leprosy, and shall
be shewed unto the priest: {13:50} And the priest shall look upon the
plague, and shut up [it that hath] the plague seven days: {13:51} And
he shall look on the plague on the seventh day: if the plague be spread
in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in a skin, [or]
in any work that is made of skin; the plague [is] a fretting leprosy;
it [is] unclean. {13:52} He shall therefore burn that garment, whether
warp or woof, in 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. {13:53} 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; {13:54} Then the priest shall command that they wash
[the thing] wherein the plague [is,] and he shall shut it up seven days
more: {13:55} 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.
{13:56} 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: {13:57} 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. {13:58} 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. {13:59} This [is] the law of the
plague of leprosy in a garment of woollen or linen, either in the warp,
or woof, or any thing of skins, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce
it unclean.

   {14:1} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {14:2} This shall be
the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: He shall be brought
unto the priest: {14:3} And the priest shall go forth out of the camp;
and the priest shall look, and, behold, [if] the plague of leprosy be
healed in the leper; {14:4} Then shall the priest command to take for
him that is to be cleansed two birds alive [and] clean, and cedar wood,
and scarlet, and hyssop: {14:5} And the priest shall command that one
of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel over running water: {14:6}
As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the
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: {14:7} 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. {14:8} 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. {14:9} 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. {14:10} 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. {14:11} 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: {14:12} 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: {14:13} 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: {14:14} 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: {14:15} And the priest shall take [some] of the
log of oil, and pour [it] into the palm of his own left hand: {14:16}
And the priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that [is] in his
left hand, and shall sprinkle of the oil with his finger seven times
before the LORD: {14:17} 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:
{14:18} 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. {14:19} And the priest
shall offer the sin offering, and make an atonement for him that is to
be cleansed from his uncleanness; and afterward he shall kill the burnt
offering: {14:20} And the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the
meat offering upon the altar: and the priest shall make an atonement
for him, and he shall be clean. {14:21} And if he [be] poor, and cannot
get so much; then he shall take one lamb [for] a trespass offering to
be waved, to make an atonement for him, and one tenth deal of fine
flour mingled with oil for a meat offering, and a log of oil; {14:22}
And two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, such as he is able to get;
and the one shall be a sin offering, and the other a burnt offering.
{14:23} 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. {14:24} 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: {14:25} 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: {14:26} And the priest
shall pour of the oil into the palm of his own left hand: {14:27} And
the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger [some] of the oil that
[is] in his left hand seven times before the LORD: {14:28} And the
priest shall put of the oil that [is] in his hand 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 place of
the blood of the trespass offering: {14:29} 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.
{14:30} And he shall offer the one of the turtledoves, or of the young
pigeons, such as he can get; {14:31} [Even] such as he is able to get,
the one [for] a sin offering, and the 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. {14:32} This [is] the law [of
him] in whom [is] the plague of leprosy, whose hand is not able to get
[that which pertaineth] to his cleansing.

   {14:33} And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
{14:34} When ye be come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you
for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the
land of your possession; {14:35} And he that owneth the house shall
come and tell the priest, saying, It seemeth to me [there is] as it
were a plague in the house: {14:36} Then the priest shall command that
they empty the house, 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: {14:37} 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; {14:38} Then the priest shall go out of the house to the
door of the house, and shut up the house seven days: {14:39} And the
priest shall come again the seventh day, and shall look: and, behold,
[if] the plague be spread in the walls of the house; {14:40} Then the
priest shall command that they take away the stones in which the plague
[is,] and they shall cast them into an unclean place without the city:
{14:41} 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: {14:42} 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. {14:43} 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; {14:44} Then the priest shall come and look, and, behold,
[if] the plague be spread in the house, it [is] a fretting leprosy in
the house: it is unclean. {14:45} And he shall break down the house,
the stones of it, and the timber thereof, and all the morter of the
house; and he shall carry [them] forth out of the city into an unclean
place. {14:46} Moreover he that goeth into the house all the while that
it is shut up shall be unclean until the even. {14:47} And he that
lieth in the house shall wash his clothes; and he that eateth in the
house shall wash his clothes. {14:48} And if the priest shall come in,
and look [upon it,] and, behold, the 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. {14:49} And he shall
take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and
hyssop: {14:50} And he shall kill the one of the birds in an earthen
vessel over running water: {14:51} 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: {14:52} 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: {14:53} 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. {14:54} This [is] the law for all manner of plague of
leprosy, and scall, {14:55} And for the leprosy of a garment, and of a
house, {14:56} And for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot:
{14:57} To teach when [it is] unclean, and when [it is] clean: this
[is] the law of leprosy.

   {15:1} And the LORD spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying, {15:2}
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. {15:3} 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. {15:4} Every bed, whereon he lieth that hath
the issue, is unclean: and every thing, whereon he sitteth, shall be
unclean. {15:5} And whosoever toucheth his bed shall wash his clothes,
and bathe [himself] in water, and be unclean until the even. {15:6} And
he that sitteth on [any] thing whereon he sat that hath the issue shall
wash his clothes, and bathe [himself] in water, and be unclean until
the even. {15:7} 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. {15:8} 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. {15:9} And what saddle soever
he rideth upon that hath the issue shall be unclean. {15:10} 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.
{15:11} 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. {15:12} And the
vessel of earth, that he toucheth which hath the issue, shall be
broken: and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water. {15:13} And
when he that hath an issue is cleansed of his issue; then he shall
number to himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes,
and bathe his flesh in running water, and shall be clean. {15:14} 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: {15:15} 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. {15:16} 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. {15:17} And every garment, and every skin, whereon is
the seed of copulation, shall be washed with water, and be unclean
until the even. {15:18} The woman also with whom man shall lie [with]
seed of copulation, they shall [both] bathe [themselves] in water, and
be unclean until the even.

   {15:19} And if a woman have an issue, [and] her issue in her flesh
be blood, she shall be put apart seven days: and whosoever toucheth her
shall be unclean until the even. {15:20} And every thing that she lieth
upon in her separation shall be unclean: every thing also that she
sitteth upon shall be unclean. {15:21} And whosoever toucheth her bed
shall wash his clothes, and bathe [himself] in water, and be unclean
until the even. {15:22} And whosoever toucheth any thing that she sat
upon shall wash his clothes, and bathe [himself] in water, and be
unclean until the even. {15:23} And if it [be] on [her] bed, or on any
thing whereon she sitteth, when he toucheth it, he shall be unclean
until the even. {15:24} And if any man lie with her at all, and her
flowers be upon him, he shall be unclean seven days; and all the bed
whereon he lieth [shall be] unclean. {15:25} 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. {15:26} 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.
{15:27} And whosoever toucheth those things shall be unclean, and shall
wash his clothes, and bathe [himself] in water, and be unclean until
the even. {15:28} But if she be cleansed of her issue, then she shall
number to herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean.
{15:29} And on the eighth day she shall take unto her two turtles, or
two young pigeons, and bring them unto the priest, to the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation. {15:30} 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. {15:31} 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. {15:32} This [is] the
law of him that hath an issue, and [of him] whose seed goeth from him,
and is defiled therewith; {15:33} And of her that is sick of her
flowers, and of him that hath an issue, of the man, and of the woman,
and of him that lieth with her that is unclean.

   {16:1} And the LORD spake unto Moses after the death of the two sons
of Aaron, when they offered before the LORD, and died; {16:2} And the
LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, 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. {16:3} Thus shall Aaron come into the holy
[place:] with a young bullock for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt
offering. {16:4} He shall put on the holy linen coat, and he shall have
the linen 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. {16:5} 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. {16:6} And Aaron shall offer his bullock of the sin
offering, which [is] for himself, and make an atonement for himself,
and for his house. {16:7} And he shall take the two goats, and present
them before the LORD [at] the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation. {16:8} And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one
lot for the LORD, and the other lot for the scapegoat. {16:9} And Aaron
shall bring the goat upon which the LORD'S lot fell, and offer him
[for] a sin offering. {16:10} But the goat, on which the lot fell to be
the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before the LORD, to make an
atonement with him, [and] to let him go for a scapegoat into the
wilderness. {16:11} 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: {16:12} 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: {16:13} 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: {16:14} 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.

   {16:15} 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: {16:16} And he shall make an
atonement for the holy [place,] because of the uncleanness of the
children of Israel, and because of their transgressions in all their
sins: and so shall he do for the tabernacle of the congregation, that
remaineth among them in the midst of their uncleanness. {16:17} And
there shall be no man in the tabernacle of the congregation when he
goeth in to make an atonement in the holy [place,] until he come out,
and have made an atonement for himself, and for his household, and for
all the congregation of Israel. {16:18} And he shall go out unto the
altar that [is] before the LORD, and 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. {16:19} 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.

   {16:20} 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: {16:21} 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: {16:22} And the goat
shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited: and
he shall let go the goat in the wilderness. {16:23} And Aaron shall
come into the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall put off the
linen garments, which he put on when he went into the holy [place,] and
shall leave them there: {16:24} 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. {16:25} And the fat of the
sin offering shall he burn upon the altar. {16:26} 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. {16:27} And the bullock
[for] the sin offering, and the goat [for] the sin offering, whose
blood was brought in to make atonement in the holy [place,] shall [one]
carry forth without the camp; and they shall burn in the fire their
skins, and their flesh, and their dung. {16:28} And he that burneth
them shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and
afterward he shall come into the camp.

   {16:29} And [this] shall be a statute for ever unto you: [that] in
the seventh month, on the tenth [day] of the month, ye shall afflict
your souls, and do no work at all, [whether it be] one of your own
country, or a stranger that sojourneth among you: {16:30} For on that
day shall [the priest] make an atonement for you, to cleanse you,
[that] ye may be clean from all your sins before the LORD. {16:31} It
[shall be] a sabbath of rest unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls,
by a statute for ever. {16:32} And the priest, whom he shall anoint,
and whom he shall consecrate to minister in the priest's office in his
father's stead, shall make the atonement, and shall put on the linen
clothes, [even] the holy garments: {16:33} And he shall make an
atonement for the holy sanctuary, and he 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. {16:34} 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.

   {17:1} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {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,
{17:3} 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, {17:4} And bringeth it not unto the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation, to offer an offering unto the LORD before the tabernacle
of the LORD; blood shall be imputed unto that man; he hath shed blood;
and that man shall be cut off from among his people: {17:5} To the end
that the children of Israel may bring their sacrifices, 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. {17:6} 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. {17:7} 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.

   {17:8} And thou shalt say unto them, Whatsoever man [there be] of
the house of Israel, or of the strangers which sojourn among you, that
offereth a burnt offering of sacrifice, {17:9} And bringeth it not unto
the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, to offer it unto the
LORD; even that man shall be cut off from among his people.

   {17:10} 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. {17:11} 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. {17:12} 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. {17:13} 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. {17:14}
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. {17:15} And every soul
that eateth that which died [of itself,] or that which was torn [with
beasts, whether it be] one of your own country, or a stranger, he shall
both wash his clothes, and bathe [himself] in water, and be unclean
until the even: then shall he be clean. {17:16} But if he wash [them]
not, nor bathe his flesh; then he shall bear his iniquity.

   {18:1} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {18:2} Speak unto the
children of Israel, and say unto them, I am the LORD your God. {18:3}
After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye 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. {18:4} Ye
shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I
[am] the LORD your God. {18:5} Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and
my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I [am] the LORD.

   {18:6} None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him,
to uncover [their] nakedness: I [am] the LORD. {18:7} The nakedness of
thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother, shalt thou not uncover: she
is thy mother; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness. {18:8} The
nakedness of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy
father's nakedness. {18:9} The nakedness of thy sister, the daughter of
thy father, or daughter of thy mother, [whether she be] born at home,
or born abroad, [even] their nakedness thou shalt not uncover. {18:10}
The nakedness of thy son's daughter, or of thy daughter's daughter,
[even] their nakedness thou shalt not uncover: for theirs [is] thine
own nakedness. {18:11} The nakedness of thy father's wife's daughter,
begotten of thy father, she [is] thy sister, thou shalt not uncover her
nakedness. {18:12} Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's
sister: she [is] thy father's near kinswoman. {18:13} Thou shalt not
uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister: for she [is] thy mother's
near kinswoman. {18:14} Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy
father's brother, thou shalt not approach to his wife: she [is] thine
aunt. {18:15} Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter in
law: she [is] thy son's wife; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.
{18:16} Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's wife: it
[is] thy brother's nakedness. {18:17} Thou shalt not uncover the
nakedness of a woman and her 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. {18:18}
Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex [her,] to uncover
her nakedness, beside the other in her life [time. ]{18:19} Also thou
shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as
she is put apart for her uncleanness. {18:20} Moreover thou shalt not
lie carnally with thy neighbour's wife, to defile thyself with her.
{18:21} And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through [the fire]
to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I [am] the
LORD. {18:22} Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it
[is] abomination. {18:23} 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. {18:24} Defile not ye
yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are
defiled which I cast out before you: {18:25} And the land is defiled:
therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself
vomiteth out her inhabitants. {18:26} Ye shall therefore keep my
statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit [any] of these
abominations; [neither] any of your own nation, nor any stranger that
sojourneth among you: {18:27} (For all these abominations have the men
of the land done, which [were] before you, and the land is defiled;)
{18:28} That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it
spued out the nations that [were] before you. {18:29} For whosoever
shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit
[them] shall be cut off from among their people. {18:30} Therefore
shall ye keep mine ordinance, that [ye] commit not [any one] of these
abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile
not yourselves therein: I [am] the LORD your God.

   {19:1} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {19:2} 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.

   {19:3} Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep
my sabbaths: I [am] the LORD your God.

   {19:4} Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I
[am] the LORD your God.

   {19:5} And if ye offer a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD,
ye shall offer it at your own will. {19:6} It shall be eaten the same
day ye offer it, and on the morrow: and if ought remain until the third
day, it shall be burnt in the fire. {19:7} And if it be eaten at all on
the third day, it [is] abominable; it shall not be accepted. {19:8}
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.

   {19:9} 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. {19:10} 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.

   {19:11} Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to
another.

   {19:12} And ye shall not swear by my name falsely, neither shalt
thou profane the name of thy God: I [am] the LORD.

   {19:13} Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob [him:] the
wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until
the morning.

   {19:14} Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumblingblock
before the blind, but shalt fear thy God: I [am] the LORD.

   {19:15} Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not
respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty:
[but] in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.

   {19:16} 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.

   {19:17} Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt
in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.

   {19:18} 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.

   {19:19} 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.

   {19:20} 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. {19:21} And he shall bring his trespass
offering unto the LORD, unto the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation, [even] a ram for a trespass offering. {19:22} And the
priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass
offering before the LORD for his sin which he hath done: and the sin
which he hath done shall be forgiven him.

   {19:23} 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. {19:24} But in the fourth year all the fruit
thereof shall be holy to praise the LORD [withal. ]{19:25} And in the
fifth year shall ye eat of the fruit thereof, that it may yield unto
you the increase thereof: I [am] the LORD your God.

   {19:26} Ye shall not eat [any thing] with the blood: neither shall
ye use enchantment, nor observe times. {19:27} Ye shall not round the
corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.
{19:28} Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor
print any marks upon you: I [am] the LORD.

   {19:29} Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore;
lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.

   {19:30} Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I
[am] the LORD.

   {19:31} Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek
after wizards, to be defiled by them: I [am] the LORD your God.

   {19:32} Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the
face of the old man, and fear thy God: I [am] the LORD.

   {19:33} And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall
not vex him. {19:34} [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.

   {19:35} Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in
weight, or in measure. {19:36} 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. {19:37} Therefore shall ye
observe all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: I [am] the
LORD.

   {20:1} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {20:2} Again, thou
shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever [he be] of the children
of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth
[any] of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the
people of the land shall stone him with stones. {20:3} And I will set
my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people;
because he hath given of his seed unto Molech, to defile my sanctuary,
and to profane my holy name. {20:4} 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: {20:5} 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.

   {20:6} 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.

   {20:7} Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I [am] the
LORD your God. {20:8} And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: I
[am] the LORD which sanctify you.

   {20:9} For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be
surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood
[shall be] upon him.

   {20:10} 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. {20:11} 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. {20:12} 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. {20:13} If a man also lie
with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an
abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood [shall be]
upon them. {20:14} And if a man take a wife and her mother, it [is]
wickedness: they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they; that there
be no wickedness among you. {20:15} And if a man lie with a beast, he
shall surely be put to death: and ye shall slay the beast. {20:16} And
if a woman approach unto any beast, and lie down thereto, thou shalt
kill the woman, and the beast: they shall surely be put to death; their
blood [shall be] upon them. {20:17} 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. {20:18} 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.
{20:19} 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. {20:20} 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. {20:21} And if a man shall take
his brother's wife, it [is] an unclean thing: he hath uncovered his
brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.

   {20:22} Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my
judgments, and do them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell
therein, spue you not out. {20:23} 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. {20:24} 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. {20:25} 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.
{20:26} And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the LORD [am] holy, and
have severed you from [other] people, that ye should be mine.

   {20:27} A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is
a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with
stones: their blood [shall be] upon them.

   {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: {21:2} 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, {21:3} And for his sister a virgin, that
is nigh unto him, which hath had no husband; for her may he be defiled.
{21:4} [But] he shall not defile himself, [being] a chief man among his
people, to profane himself. {21:5} They shall not make baldness upon
their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor
make any cuttings in their flesh. {21:6} 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. {21:7} 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. {21:8} 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.

   {21:9} And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by
playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with
fire. {21:10} 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;
{21:11} Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for
his father, or for his mother; {21:12} 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. {21:13} And he
shall take a wife in her virginity. {21:14} A widow, or a divorced
woman, or profane, [or] an harlot, these shall he not take: but he
shall take a virgin of his own people to wife. {21:15} Neither shall he
profane his seed among his people: for I the LORD do sanctify him.

   {21:16} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {21:17} Speak unto
Aaron, saying, Whosoever [he be] of thy seed in their generations that
hath [any] blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God.
{21:18} 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, {21:19} Or a man that is brokenfooted, or
brokenhanded, {21:20} Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish
in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken;
{21:21} No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest
shall 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.
{21:22} He shall eat the bread of his God, [both] of the most holy, and
of the holy. {21:23} Only he shall not go in unto the vail, nor come
nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my
sanctuaries: for I the LORD do sanctify them. {21:24} And Moses told
[it] unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel.

   {22:1} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {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.
{22:3} 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. {22:4} 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; {22:5} Or whosoever toucheth any creeping thing, whereby he
may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness,
whatsoever uncleanness he hath; {22:6} The soul which hath touched any
such shall be unclean until even, and shall not eat of the holy things,
unless he wash his flesh with water. {22:7} And when the sun is down,
he shall be clean, and shall afterward eat of the holy things; because
it [is] his food. {22:8} That which dieth of itself, or is torn [with
beasts,] he shall not eat to defile himself therewith: I [am] the LORD.
{22:9} They shall therefore keep mine ordinance, lest they bear sin for
it, and die therefore, if they profane it: I the LORD do sanctify them.
{22:10} There shall no stranger eat [of] the holy thing: a sojourner of
the priest, or an hired servant, shall not eat [of] the holy thing.
{22:11} But if the priest buy [any] soul with his money, he shall eat
of it, and he that is born in his house: they shall eat of his meat.
{22:12} If the priest's daughter also be [married] unto a stranger, she
may not eat of an offering of the holy things. {22:13} But if the
priest's daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and is
returned unto her father's house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her
father's meat: but there shall no stranger eat thereof.

   {22:14} 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. {22:15} And they shall not profane the
holy things of the children of Israel, which they offer unto the LORD;
{22:16} Or suffer them to bear the iniquity of trespass, when they eat
their holy things: for I the LORD do sanctify them.

   {22:17} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {22:18} Speak unto
Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel, and say
unto them, Whatsoever [he be] of the house of Israel, or of the
strangers in Israel, that will offer his oblation for all his vows, and
for all his freewill offerings, which they will offer unto the LORD for
a burnt offering; {22:19} [Ye shall offer] at your own will a male
without blemish, of the beeves, of the sheep, or of the goats. {22:20}
[But] whatsoever hath a blemish, [that] shall ye not offer: for it
shall not be acceptable for you. {22:21} And whosoever offereth a
sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD to accomplish [his] vow, or
a freewill offering in beeves or sheep, it shall be perfect to be
accepted; there shall be no blemish therein. {22:22} Blind, or broken,
or maimed, or having a wen, or scurvy, or scabbed, ye shall not offer
these unto the LORD, nor make an offering by fire of them upon the
altar unto the LORD. {22:23} 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. {22:24} Ye
shall not offer unto the LORD that which is bruised, or crushed, or
broken, or cut; neither shall ye make [any offering thereof] in your
land. {22:25} Neither from a stranger's hand shall ye offer the bread
of your God of any of these; because their corruption [is] in them,
[and] blemishes [be] in them: they shall not be accepted for you.

   {22:26} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {22:27} When a
bullock, or a sheep, or a goat, is brought forth, then it 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. {22:28}
And [whether it be] cow or ewe, ye shall not kill it and her young both
in one day. {22:29} And when ye will offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving
unto the LORD, offer [it] at your own will. {22:30} On the same day it
shall be eaten up; ye shall leave none of it until the morrow: I [am]
the LORD. {22:31} Therefore shall ye keep my commandments, and do them:
I [am] the LORD. {22:32} Neither shall ye profane my holy name; but I
will be hallowed among the children of Israel: I [am] the LORD which
hallow you, {22:33} That brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be
your God: I [am] the LORD.

   {23:1} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {23:2} Speak unto the
children of Israel, and say unto them, [Concerning] the feasts of the
LORD, which ye shall proclaim [to be] holy convocations, [even] these
[are] my feasts. {23:3} Six days shall work be done: but the seventh
day [is] the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work
[therein:] it [is] the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.

   {23:4} These [are] the feasts of the LORD, [even] holy convocations,
which ye shall proclaim in their seasons. {23:5} In the fourteenth
[day] of the first month at even [is] the LORD'S passover. {23:6} 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. {23:7} In
the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile
work therein. {23:8} But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto
the LORD seven days: in the seventh day [is] an holy convocation: ye
shall do no servile work [therein.]

   {23:9} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {23:10} 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:
{23:11} 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. {23:12}
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. {23:13}
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. {23:14} 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.

   {23:15} 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: {23:16} Even unto the morrow after
the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a
new meat offering unto the LORD. {23:17} 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. {23:18} 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. {23:19} Then ye shall sacrifice one kid
of the goats for a sin offering, and two lambs of the first year for a
sacrifice of peace offerings. {23:20} And the priest shall wave them
with the bread of the first fruits [for] a wave offering before the
LORD, with the two lambs: they shall be holy to the LORD for the
priest. {23:21} And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, [that] it
may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work
[therein: it shall be] a statute for ever in all your dwellings
throughout your generations.

   {23:22} And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not
make 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.

   {23:23} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {23:24} Speak unto
the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first
[day] of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of
trumpets, an holy convocation. {23:25} Ye shall do no servile work
[therein:] but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.

   {23:26} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {23:27} Also on the
tenth [day] of this seventh month [there shall be] a day of atonement:
it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your
souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD. {23:28} And ye
shall do no work in that same day: for it [is] a day of atonement, to
make an atonement for you before the LORD your God. {23:29} For
whatsoever soul [it be] that shall not be afflicted in that same day,
he shall be cut off from among his people. {23:30} And whatsoever soul
[it be] that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I
destroy from among his people. {23:31} Ye shall do no manner of work:
[it shall be] a statute for ever throughout your generations in all
your dwellings. {23:32} It [shall be] unto you a sabbath of rest, and
ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth [day] of the month at even,
from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath.

   {23:33} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {23:34} Speak unto
the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month
[shall be] the feast of tabernacles [for] seven days unto the LORD.
{23:35} On the first day [shall be] an holy convocation: ye shall do no
servile work [therein. ]{23:36} Seven days ye shall offer an offering
made by fire unto the 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. ]{23:37} These [are] the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall
proclaim [to be] holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire
unto the LORD, a burnt offering, and a meat offering, a sacrifice, and
drink offerings, every thing upon his day: {23:38} Beside the sabbaths
of the LORD, and beside your gifts, and beside all your vows, and
beside all your freewill offerings, which ye give unto the LORD.
{23:39} 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. {23:40} 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. {23:41} And ye shall keep it a feast unto
the LORD seven days in the year. [It shall be] a statute for ever in
your generations: ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month. {23:42}
Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are Israelites born shall
dwell in booths: {23:43} That your generations may know that I made the
children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the
land of Egypt: I [am] the LORD your God. {23:44} And Moses declared
unto the children of Israel the feasts of the LORD.

   {24:1} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {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. {24:3} 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.
{24:4} He shall order the lamps upon the pure candlestick before the
LORD continually.

   {24:5} And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes
thereof: two tenth deals shall be in one cake. {24:6} And thou shalt
set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before the
LORD. {24:7} And thou shalt put pure frankincense upon [each] row, that
it may be on the bread for a memorial, [even] an offering made by fire
unto the LORD. {24:8} Every sabbath he shall set it in order before the
LORD continually, [being taken] from the children of Israel by an
everlasting covenant. {24:9} And it shall be Aaron's and his sons'; and
they shall eat it in the holy place: for it [is] most holy unto him of
the offerings of the LORD made by fire by a perpetual statute.

   {24:10} 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;
{24:11} 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:)
{24:12} And they put him in ward, that the mind of the LORD might be
shewed them. {24:13} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {24:14}
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. {24:15} And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel,
saying, Whosoever curseth his God shall bear his sin. {24:16} And he
that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely 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.

   {24:17} And he that killeth any man shall surely be put to death.
{24:18} And he that killeth a beast shall make it good; beast for
beast. {24:19} And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he
hath done, so shall it be done to him; {24:20} Breach for breach, eye
for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so
shall it be done to him [again. ]{24:21} And he that killeth a beast,
he shall restore it: and he that killeth a man, he shall be put to
death. {24:22} Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the
stranger, as for one of your own country: for I [am] the LORD your God.

   {24:23} And Moses spake to the children of Israel, that they should
bring 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.

   {25:1} And the LORD spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying, {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. {25:3} Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou
shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof; {25:4} But
in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath
for the LORD: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.
{25:5} 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. {25:6} 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,
{25:7} And for thy cattle, and for the beast that [are] in thy land,
shall all the increase thereof be meat.

   {25:8} And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee,
seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years
shall be unto thee forty and nine years. {25:9} 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. {25:10} 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. {25:11} 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. {25:12} For it [is] the
jubile; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof
out of the field. {25:13} In the year of this jubile ye shall return
every man unto his possession. {25:14} And if thou sell [ought] unto
thy neighbour, or buyest ought of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall not
oppress one another: {25:15} According to the number of years after the
jubile thou shalt buy of thy neighbour, [and] according unto the number
of years of the fruits he shall sell unto thee: {25:16} 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. {25:17} Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou
shalt fear thy God: for I [am] the LORD your God.

   {25:18} Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments,
and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety. {25:19} And the
land shall yield her fruit, and ye shall eat your fill, and dwell
therein in safety. {25:20} And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the
seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase:
{25:21} Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and
it shall bring forth fruit for three years. {25:22} And ye shall sow
the eighth year, and eat [yet] of old fruit until the ninth year; until
her fruits come in ye shall eat [of] the old [store.]

   {25:23} The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land [is] mine;
for ye [are] strangers and sojourners with me. {25:24} And in all the
land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land.

   {25:25} If thy brother be waxen poor, and hath sold away [some] of
his possession, and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then shall he
redeem that which his brother sold. {25:26} And if the man have none to
redeem it, and himself be able to redeem it; {25:27} 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. {25:28} 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. {25:29} 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. {25:30} 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. {25:31}
But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them
shall be counted as the fields of the country: they may be redeemed,
and they shall go out in the jubile. {25:32} Notwithstanding the cities
of the Levites, [and] the houses of the cities of their possession, may
the Levites redeem at any time. {25:33} And if a man purchase of the
Levites, then the house that was 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.
{25:34} But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold;
for it is their perpetual possession.

   {25:35} And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with
thee; then thou shalt relieve him: [yea, though he be] a stranger, or a
sojourner; that he may live with thee. {25:36} Take thou no usury of
him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with
thee. {25:37} Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend
him thy victuals for increase. {25:38} I [am] the LORD your God, which
brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of
Canaan, [and] to be your God.

   {25:39} And if thy brother [that dwelleth] by thee be waxen poor,
and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a
bondservant: {25:40} [But] as an hired servant, [and] as a sojourner,
he shall be with thee, [and] shall serve thee unto the year of jubile:
{25:41} And [then] shall he depart from thee, [both] he and his
children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the
possession of his fathers shall he return. {25:42} For they [are] my
servants, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall
not be sold as bondmen. {25:43} Thou shalt not rule over him with
rigour; but shalt fear thy God. {25:44} 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. {25:45}
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. {25:46} 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.

   {25:47} 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: {25:48} After that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of
his brethren may redeem him: {25:49} Either his uncle, or his uncle's
son, may redeem him, or [any] that is nigh of kin unto him of his
family may redeem him; or if he be able, he may redeem himself. {25:50}
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. {25:51} 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. {25:52} 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. {25:53} [And] as a yearly hired servant shall
he be with him: [and the other] shall not rule with rigour over him in
thy sight. {25:54} And if he be not redeemed in these [years,] then he
shall go out in the year of jubile, [both] he, and his children with
him. {25:55} 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.

   {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.

   {26:2} Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I [am]
the LORD.

   {26:3} If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do
them; {26:4} 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. {26:5} 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. {26:6} 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. {26:7} And ye shall chase your enemies, and
they shall fall before you by the sword. {26:8} 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. {26:9} For
I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you,
and establish my covenant with you. {26:10} And ye shall eat old store,
and bring forth the old because of the new. {26:11} And I will set my
tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you. {26:12} And I
will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people.
{26:13} 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.

   {26:14} But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all
these commandments; {26:15} And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if
your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my
commandments, [but] that ye break my covenant: {26:16} I also will do
this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, 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. {26:17} 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. {26:18} And if ye will not yet for
all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for
your sins. {26:19} And I will break the pride of your power; and I will
make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass: {26:20} And your
strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her
increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.

   {26:21} 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. {26:22} 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. {26:23} And if ye will
not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary unto me;
{26:24} Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you
yet seven times for your sins. {26:25} And I will bring a sword upon
you, that shall avenge the quarrel of [my] covenant: and when ye are
gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among
you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy. {26:26}
[And] when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake
your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver [you] your bread again
by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied. {26:27} And if ye
will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me;
{26:28} Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I,
will chastise you seven times for your sins. {26:29} And ye shall eat
the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.
{26:30} And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images,
and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul
shall abhor you. {26:31} And I will make your cities waste, and bring
your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of
your sweet odours. {26:32} And I will bring the land into desolation:
and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it. {26:33}
And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword
after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.
{26:34} 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. {26:35} As long as it lieth desolate it
shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt
upon it. {26:36} 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. {26:37}
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.
{26:38} And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your
enemies shall eat you up. {26:39} And they that are left of you shall
pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the
iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them. {26:40} 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; {26:41} 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: {26:42} Then will I
remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and
also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the
land. {26:43} The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her
sabbaths, 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.
{26:44} 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. {26:45} 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. {26:46} 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.

   {27:1} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {27:2} 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. {27:3} 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. {27:4} And if it [be] a female, then
thy estimation shall be thirty shekels. {27:5} 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. {27:6} 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. {27:7} 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. {27:8} 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. {27:9} 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. {27:10} 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. {27:11} 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: {27:12} And the priest shall value it, whether it be good
or bad: as thou valuest it, [who art] the priest, so shall it be.
{27:13} But if he will at all redeem it, then he shall add a fifth
[part] thereof unto thy estimation.

   {27:14} And when a man shall sanctify his house [to be] holy unto
the LORD, then the priest shall estimate it, whether it be good or bad:
as the priest shall estimate it, so shall it stand. {27:15} 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.
{27:16} And if a man shall sanctify unto the LORD [some part] of a
field of his possession, then thy estimation shall be according to the
seed thereof: an homer of barley seed [shall be valued] at fifty
shekels of silver. {27:17} If he sanctify his field from the year of
jubile, according to thy estimation it shall stand. {27:18} But if he
sanctify his field after the jubile, then the priest shall 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. {27:19} 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. {27:20} And if he will not redeem the field,
or if he have sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed
any more. {27:21} But the field, when it goeth out in the jubile, shall
be holy unto the LORD, as a field devoted; the possession thereof shall
be the priest's. {27:22} And if [a man] sanctify unto the LORD a field
which he hath bought, which [is] not of the fields of his possession;
{27:23} Then the priest shall reckon unto him the worth of thy
estimation, [even] unto the year of the jubile: and he shall give thine
estimation in that day, [as] a holy thing unto the LORD. {27:24} In the
year of the jubile the field shall return unto him of whom it was
bought, [even] to him to whom the possession of the land [did belong.
]{27:25} And all thy estimations shall be according to the shekel of
the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.

   {27:26} Only the firstling of the beasts, which should be the LORD'S
firstling, no man shall sanctify it; whether [it be] ox, or sheep: it
[is] the LORD'S. {27:27} And if [it be] of an unclean beast, then he
shall redeem it according to thine estimation, and shall add a fifth
[part] of it thereto: or if it be not redeemed, then it shall be sold
according to thy estimation. {27:28} Notwithstanding no devoted thing,
that a man shall devote unto 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. {27:29}
None devoted, which shall be devoted of men, shall be redeemed; [but]
shall surely be put to death. {27:30} And all the tithe of the land,
[whether] of the seed of the land, [or] of the fruit of the tree, [is]
the LORD'S: [it is] holy unto the LORD. {27:31} And if a man will at
all redeem [ought] of his tithes, he shall add thereto the fifth [part]
thereof. {27:32} And concerning the tithe of the herd, or of the flock,
[even] of whatsoever passeth under the rod, the tenth shall be holy
unto the LORD. {27:33} 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. {27:34}
These [are] the commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses for the
children of Israel in mount Sinai.





The Gospel According to St. Luke

   {1:1} Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a
declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us,
{1:2} Even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning
were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word; {1:3} It seemed good to
me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very
first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus, {1:4}
That thou mightest know the certainty of those things, wherein thou
hast been instructed.

   {1:5} There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain
priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife [was] of
the daughters of Aaron, and her name [was] Elisabeth. {1:6} And they
were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and
ordinances of the Lord blameless. {1:7} And they had no child, because
that Elisabeth was barren, and they both were [now] well stricken in
years. {1:8} And it came to pass, that while he executed the priest's
office before God in the order of his course, {1:9} According to the
custom of the priest's office, his lot was to burn incense when he went
into the temple of the Lord. {1:10} And the whole multitude of the
people were praying without at the time of incense. {1:11} And there
appeared unto him an angel of the Lord standing on the right side of
the altar of incense. {1:12} And when Zacharias saw [him,] he was
troubled, and fear fell upon him. {1:13} 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. {1:14} And
thou shalt have joy and gladness; and many shall rejoice at his birth.
{1:15} 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. {1:16} And many of the children of
Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God. {1:17} 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. {1:18} And Zacharias said
unto the angel, Whereby shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my
wife well stricken in years. {1:19} And the angel answering said unto
him, I am Gabriel, that stand in the presence of God; and am sent to
speak unto thee, and to shew thee these glad tidings. {1:20} 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. {1:21} And the people waited
for Zacharias, and marvelled that he tarried so long in the temple.
{1:22} And when he came out, he could not speak unto them: and they
perceived that he had seen a vision in the temple: for he beckoned unto
them, and remained speechless. {1:23} And it came to pass, that, as
soon as the days of his ministration were accomplished, he departed to
his own house. {1:24} And after those days his wife Elisabeth
conceived, and hid herself five months, saying, {1:25} Thus hath the
Lord dealt with me in the days wherein he looked on [me,] to take away
my reproach among men. {1:26} And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel
was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, {1:27} To a
virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David;
and the virgin's name [was] Mary. {1:28} And the angel came in unto
her, and said, Hail, [thou that art] highly favoured, the Lord [is]
with thee: blessed [art] thou among women. {1:29} And when she saw
[him,] she was troubled at his saying, and cast in her mind what manner
of salutation this should be. {1:30} And the angel said unto her, Fear
not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God. {1:31} And, behold,
thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call
his name JESUS. {1:32} He shall be great, and shall be called the Son
of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his
father David: {1:33} And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for
ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end. {1:34} Then said Mary
unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man? {1:35} 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. {1:36} 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. {1:37} For with God nothing shall be impossible.
{1:38} And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me
according to thy word. And the angel departed from her. {1:39} And Mary
arose in those days, and went into the hill country with haste, into a
city of Juda; {1:40} And entered into the house of Zacharias, and
saluted Elisabeth. {1:41} And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth
heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and
Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost: {1:42} And she spake out with
a loud voice, and said, Blessed [art] thou among women, and blessed
[is] the fruit of thy womb. {1:43} And whence [is] this to me, that the
mother of my Lord should come to me? {1:44} For, lo, as soon as the
voice of thy salutation sounded in mine ears, the babe leaped in my
womb for joy. {1:45} And blessed [is] she that believed: for there
shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the
Lord. {1:46} And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord, {1:47} And
my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour. {1:48} For he hath regarded
the low estate of his handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all
generations shall call me blessed. {1:49} For he that is mighty hath
done to me great things; and holy [is] his name. {1:50} And his mercy
[is] on them that fear him from generation to generation. {1:51} He
hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the
imagination of their hearts. {1:52} He hath put down the mighty from
[their] seats, and exalted them of low degree. {1:53} He hath filled
the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away.
{1:54} He hath holpen his servant Israel, in remembrance of [his]
mercy; {1:55} As he spake to our fathers, to Abraham, and to his seed
for ever. {1:56} And Mary abode with her about three months, and
returned to her own house. {1:57} Now Elisabeth's full time came that
she should be delivered; and she brought forth a son. {1:58} And her
neighbours and her cousins heard how the Lord had shewed great mercy
upon her; and they rejoiced with her. {1:59} 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. {1:60} And his mother
answered and said, Not [so;] but he shall be called John. {1:61} And
they said unto her, There is none of thy kindred that is called by this
name. {1:62} And they made signs to his father, how he would have him
called. {1:63} And he asked for a writing table, and wrote, saying, His
name is John. And they marvelled all. {1:64} And his mouth was opened
immediately, and his tongue [loosed,] and he spake, and praised God.
{1:65} And fear came on all that dwelt round about them: and all these
sayings were noised abroad throughout all the hill country of Judaea.
{1:66} 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. {1:67} And his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy
Ghost, and prophesied, saying, {1:68} Blessed [be] the Lord God of
Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people, {1:69} And hath
raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant
David; {1:70} As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have
been since the world began: {1:71} That we should be saved from our
enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us; {1:72} To perform the
mercy [promised] to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant;
{1:73} The oath which he sware to our father Abraham, {1:74} That he
would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our
enemies might serve him without fear, {1:75} In holiness and
righteousness before him, all the days of our life. {1:76} 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; {1:77} To give
knowledge of salvation unto his people by the remission of their sins,
{1:78} Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from
on high hath visited us, {1:79} To give light to them that sit in
darkness and [in] the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way
of peace. {1:80} And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, and
was in the deserts till the day of his shewing unto Israel.

   {2:1} And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a
decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. {2:2}
([And] this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.)
{2:3} And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city. {2:4} 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:) {2:5} To be taxed with Mary his
espoused wife, being great with child. {2:6} And so it was, that, while
they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be
delivered. {2:7} 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. {2:8} And there were in the same country
shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by
night. {2:9} And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the
glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.
{2:10} And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you
good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. {2:11} For
unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is
Christ the Lord. {2:12} And this [shall be] a sign unto you; Ye shall
find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. {2:13}
And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host
praising God, and saying, {2:14} Glory to God in the highest, and on
earth peace, good will toward men. {2:15} And it came to pass, as the
angels were gone away from them 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. {2:16} And they
came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in a
manger. {2:17} And when they had seen [it,] they made known abroad the
saying which was told them concerning this child. {2:18} And all they
that heard [it] wondered at those things which were told them by the
shepherds. {2:19} But Mary kept all these things, and pondered [them]
in her heart. {2:20} And the shepherds returned, glorifying and
praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was
told unto them. {2:21} 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. {2:22} And when
the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were
accomplished, they brought him to Jerusalem, to present [him] to the
Lord; {2:23} (As it is written in the law of the Lord, Every male that
openeth the womb shall be called holy to the Lord;) {2:24} And to offer
a sacrifice according to that which is said in the law of the Lord, A
pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons. {2:25} And, behold, there
was a man in Jerusalem, whose name [was] Simeon; and the same man [was]
just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy
Ghost was upon him. {2:26} And it was revealed unto him by the Holy
Ghost, that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord's
Christ. {2:27} 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, {2:28} Then took he him up in his arms, and blessed God, and
said, {2:29} Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace,
according to thy word: {2:30} For mine eyes have seen thy salvation,
{2:31} Which thou hast prepared before the face of all people; {2:32} A
light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.
{2:33} And Joseph and his mother marvelled at those things which were
spoken of him. {2:34} And Simeon blessed them, and said unto Mary his
mother, Behold, this [child] is set for the fall and rising again of
many in Israel; and for a sign which shall be spoken against; {2:35}
(Yea, a sword shall pierce through thy own soul also,) that the
thoughts of many hearts may be revealed. {2:36} And there was one Anna,
a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of
a great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her
virginity; {2:37} 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. {2:38} 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. {2:39} And when they had
performed all things according to the law of the Lord, they returned
into Galilee, to their own city Nazareth. {2:40} And the child grew,
and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom: and the grace of God
was upon him. {2:41} Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at
the feast of the passover. {2:42} And when he was twelve years old,
they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the feast. {2:43} And
when they had fulfilled the days, as they returned, the child Jesus
tarried behind in Jerusalem; and Joseph and his mother knew not [of it.
]{2:44} But they, supposing him to have been in the company, went a
day's journey; and they sought him among [their] kinsfolk and
acquaintance. {2:45} And when they found him not, they turned back
again to Jerusalem, seeking him. {2:46} And it came to pass, that after
three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the
doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions. {2:47} And all
that heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers. {2:48}
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. {2:49} And he said unto them, How is it that ye
sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business?
{2:50} And they understood not the saying which he spake unto them.
{2:51} 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.
{2:52} And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with
God and man.

   {3:1} 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, {3:2} Annas and
Caiaphas being the high priests, the word of God came unto John the son
of Zacharias in the wilderness. {3:3} And he came into all the country
about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of
sins; {3:4} As it is written in the book of the words of Esaias the
prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye
the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. {3:5} 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; {3:6} And all flesh shall see the salvation of God. {3:7} Then
said he to the multitude that came forth to be baptized of him, O
generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to
come? {3:8} 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. {3:9} 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. {3:10} And the people asked him,
saying, What shall we do then? {3:11} 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. {3:12} Then came also publicans to
be baptized, and said unto him, Master, what shall we do? {3:13} And he
said unto them, Exact no more than that which is appointed you. {3:14}
And the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall we
do? And he said unto them, Do violence to no man, neither accuse [any]
falsely; and be content with your wages. {3:15} And as the people were
in expectation, and all men mused in their hearts of John, whether he
were the Christ, or not; {3:16} John answered, saying unto [them] all,
I indeed baptize you with 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: {3:17} 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. {3:18}
And many other things in his exhortation preached he unto the people.
{3:19} But Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias his
brother Philip's wife, and for all the evils which Herod had done,
{3:20} Added yet this above all, that he shut up John in prison. {3:21}
Now when all the people were baptized, it came to pass, that Jesus also
being baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened, {3:22} 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. {3:23} 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, {3:24} 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, {3:25} 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, {3:26} 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, {3:27} 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, {3:28} 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, {3:29} 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, {3:30} 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, {3:31} 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, {3:32} 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,
{3:33} 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, {3:34} 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, {3:35} 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, {3:36} 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, {3:37} 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, {3:38} Which was [the son] of Enos,
which was [the son] of Seth, which was [the son] of Adam, which was
[the son] of God.

   {4:1} And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan,
and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, {4:2} Being forty days
tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when
they were ended, he afterward hungered. {4:3} And the devil said unto
him, If thou be the Son of God, command this stone that it be made
bread. {4:4} And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man
shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God. {4:5} And the
devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the
kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. {4:6} And the devil said
unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for
that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it. {4:7} If
thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine. {4:8} 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. {4:9} 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: {4:10} For it is written, He shall give his
angels charge over thee, to keep thee: {4:11} And in [their] hands they
shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a
stone. {4:12} And Jesus answering said unto him, It is said, Thou shalt
not tempt the Lord thy God. {4:13} And when the devil had ended all the
temptation, he departed from him for a season.

   {4:14} And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee:
and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about.
{4:15} And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all.

   {4:16} And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and,
as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and
stood up for to read. {4:17} 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, {4:18} The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath
sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the
captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them
that are bruised, {4:19} To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
{4:20} And he closed the book, and he gave [it] again to the minister,
and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were
fastened on him. {4:21} And he began to say unto them, This day is this
scripture fulfilled in your ears. {4:22} 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? {4:23} And he said unto them, Ye
will surely say unto me this proverb, Physician, heal thyself:
whatsoever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy
country. {4:24} And he said, Verily I say unto you, No prophet is
accepted in his own country. {4:25} 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; {4:26} But unto none of them was Elias sent, save unto Sarepta,
[a city] of Sidon, unto a woman [that was] a widow. {4:27} And many
lepers were in Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet; and none of
them was cleansed, saving Naaman the Syrian. {4:28} And all they in the
synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath, {4:29}
And rose up, and thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow
of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast him down
headlong. {4:30} But he passing through the midst of them went his way,
{4:31} And came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and taught them
on the sabbath days. {4:32} And they were astonished at his doctrine:
for his word was with power.

   {4:33} And in the synagogue there was a man, which had a spirit of
an unclean devil, and cried out with a loud voice, {4:34} Saying, Let
[us] alone; what have we to do with thee, [thou] Jesus of Nazareth? art
thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art; the Holy One of God.
{4:35} 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. {4:36} 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. {4:37} And the
fame of him went out into every place of the country round about.

   {4:38} 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. {4:39} And he stood over her, and rebuked the
fever; and it left her: and immediately she arose and ministered unto
them.

   {4:40} Now when the sun was setting, all they that had any sick with
divers diseases brought them unto him; and he laid his hands on every
one of them, and healed them. {4:41} 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.
{4:42} 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. {4:43} And he said unto them, I must
preach the kingdom of God to other cities also: for therefore am I
sent. {4:44} And he preached in the synagogues of Galilee.

   {5:1} And it came to pass, that, as the people pressed upon him to
hear the word of God, he stood by the lake of Gennesaret, {5:2} And saw
two ships standing by the lake: but the fishermen were gone out of
them, and were washing [their] nets. {5:3} And he entered into one of
the ships, which was Simon's, and prayed him that he would thrust out a
little from the land. And he sat down, and taught the people out of the
ship. {5:4} Now when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon, Launch
out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught. {5:5} 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. {5:6} And when they had this done, they inclosed a great multitude
of fishes: and their net brake. {5:7} And they beckoned unto [their]
partners, which were in the other ship, that they should come and help
them. And they came, and filled both the ships, so that they began to
sink. {5:8} When Simon Peter saw [it,] he fell down at Jesus' knees,
saying, Depart from me; for I am a sinful man, O Lord. {5:9} For he was
astonished, and all that were with him, at the draught of the fishes
which they had taken: {5:10} And so [was] also James, and John, the
sons of Zebedee, which were partners with Simon. And Jesus said unto
Simon, Fear not; from henceforth thou shalt catch men. {5:11} And when
they had brought their ships to land, they forsook all, and followed
him.

   {5:12} And it came to pass, when he was in a certain city, behold a
man full of leprosy: who seeing Jesus fell on [his] face, and besought
him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. {5:13} And
he put forth [his] hand, and touched him, saying, I will: be thou
clean. And immediately the leprosy departed from him. {5:14} And he
charged him to tell no man: but go, and shew thyself to the priest, and
offer for thy cleansing, according as Moses commanded, for a testimony
unto them. {5:15} But so much the more went there a fame abroad of him:
and great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by him of
their infirmities.

   {5:16} And he withdrew himself into the wilderness, and prayed.
{5:17} And it came to pass on a certain day, as he was teaching, that
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.

   {5:18} 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. {5:19} 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. {5:20} And when he saw their faith, he said unto
him, Man, thy sins are forgiven thee. {5:21} And the scribes and the
Pharisees began to reason, saying, Who is this which speaketh
blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone? {5:22} But when Jesus
perceived their thoughts, he answering said unto them, What reason ye
in your hearts? {5:23} Whether is easier, to say, Thy sins be forgiven
thee; or to say, Rise up and walk? {5:24} But that ye may know that the
Son of man hath power upon 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. {5:25} And immediately he rose up before them, and
took up that whereon he lay, and departed to his own house, glorifying
God. {5:26} And they were all amazed, and they glorified God, and were
filled with fear, saying, We have seen strange things to day.

   {5:27} And after these things he went forth, and saw a publican,
named Levi, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he said unto him,
Follow me. {5:28} And he left all, rose up, and followed him. {5:29}
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. {5:30} But
their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why
do ye eat and drink with publicans and sinners? {5:31} And Jesus
answering said unto them, They that are whole need not a physician; but
they that are sick. {5:32} I came not to call the righteous, but
sinners to repentance.

   {5:33} 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? {5:34} And he said unto them, Can ye make the
children of the bridechamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them?
{5:35} But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away
from them, and then shall they fast in those days.

   {5:36} 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. {5:37} 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. {5:38} But new wine must be put into new bottles; and both are
preserved. {5:39} No man also having drunk old [wine] straightway
desireth new: for he saith, The old is better.

   {6:1} 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. {6:2} And
certain of the Pharisees said unto them, Why do ye that which is not
lawful to do on the sabbath days? {6:3} And Jesus answering them said,
Have ye not read so much as this, what David did, when himself was an
hungred, and they which were with him; {6:4} 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?
{6:5} And he said unto them, That the Son of man is Lord also of the
sabbath. {6:6} 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. {6:7} And the scribes and Pharisees watched him,
whether he would heal on the sabbath day; that they might find an
accusation against him. {6:8} 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. {6:9} Then said Jesus unto them, I
will ask you one thing; Is it lawful on the sabbath days to do good, or
to do evil? to save life, or to destroy [it? ]{6:10} And looking round
about upon them all, he said unto the man, Stretch forth thy hand. And
he did so: and his hand was restored whole as the other. {6:11} And
they were filled with madness; and communed one with another what they
might do to Jesus. {6:12} And it came to pass in those days, that he
went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to
God.

   {6:13} And when it was day, he called [unto him] his disciples: and
of them he chose twelve, whom also he named apostles; {6:14} Simon,
(whom he also named Peter,) and Andrew his brother, James and John,
Philip and Bartholomew, {6:15} Matthew and Thomas, James the [son] of
Alphaeus, and Simon called Zelotes, {6:16} And Judas [the brother] of
James, and Judas Iscariot, which also was the traitor.

   {6:17} And he came down with them, and stood in the plain, and the
company of his disciples, and a great multitude of people out of all
Judaea and Jerusalem, and from the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, which
came to hear him, and to be healed of their diseases; {6:18} And they
that were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed. {6:19} And
the whole multitude sought to touch him: for there went virtue out of
him, and healed [them] all.

   {6:20} And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said, Blessed
[be ye] poor: for yours is the kingdom of God. {6:21} Blessed [are ye]
that hunger now: for ye shall be filled. Blessed [are ye] that weep
now: for ye shall laugh. {6:22} Blessed are ye, when men shall hate
you, and when they shall separate you [from their company,] and shall
reproach [you,] and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's
sake. {6:23} 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. {6:24} But woe unto you that are rich! for
ye have received your consolation. {6:25} Woe unto you that are full!
for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn
and weep. {6:26} Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you!
for so did their fathers to the false prophets.

   {6:27} But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to
them which hate you, {6:28} Bless them that curse you, and pray for
them which despitefully use you. {6:29} And unto him that smiteth thee
on the [one] cheek offer also the other; and him that taketh away thy
cloke forbid not [to take thy] coat also. {6:30} Give to every man that
asketh of thee; and of him that taketh away thy goods ask [them] not
again. {6:31} And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to
them likewise. {6:32} For if ye love them which love you, what thank
have ye? for sinners also love those that love them. {6:33} And if ye
do good to them which do good to you, what thank have ye? for sinners
also do even the same. {6:34} And if ye lend [to them] of whom ye hope
to receive, what thank have ye? for sinners also lend to sinners, to
receive as much again. {6:35} 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. {6:36} Be ye therefore merciful, as your
Father also is merciful. {6:37} Judge not, and ye shall not be judged:
condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be
forgiven: {6:38} Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure,
pressed 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. {6:39} And he spake a parable unto them, Can
the blind lead the blind? shall they not both fall into the ditch?
{6:40} The disciple is not above his master: but every one that is
perfect shall be as his master. {6:41} And why beholdest thou the mote
that is in thy brother's eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in
thine own eye? {6:42} Either how canst thou say to thy brother,
Brother, let me pull out 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.
{6:43} For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a
corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. {6:44} For every tree is known by
his own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble
bush gather they grapes. {6:45} A good man out of the good treasure of
his heart bringeth forth 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.

   {6:46} And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I
say? {6:47} Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth
them, I will shew you to whom he is like: {6:48} He is like a man which
built an house, and digged deep, and laid 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. {6:49} 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.

   {7:1} Now when he had ended all his sayings in the audience of the
people, he entered into Capernaum. {7:2} And a certain centurion's
servant, who was dear unto him, was sick, and ready to die. {7:3} And
when he heard of Jesus, he sent unto him the elders of the Jews,
beseeching him that he would come and heal his servant. {7:4} And when
they came to Jesus, they besought him instantly, saying, That he was
worthy for whom he should do this: {7:5} For he loveth our nation, and
he hath built us a synagogue. {7:6} 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: {7:7} Wherefore neither thought I
myself worthy to come unto thee: but say in a word, and my servant
shall be healed. {7:8} For I also am a man set under authority, having
under me 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. ]{7:9} 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. {7:10}
And they that were sent, returning to the house, found the servant
whole that had been sick.

   {7:11} And it came to pass the day after, that he went into a city
called Nain; and many of his disciples went with him, and much people.
{7:12} 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. {7:13} And when the
Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said unto her, Weep not.
{7:14} And he came and touched the bier: and they that bare [him] stood
still. And he said, Young man, I say unto thee, Arise. {7:15} And he
that was dead sat up, and began to speak. And he delivered him to his
mother. {7:16} And there came a fear on all: and they glorified God,
saying, That a great prophet is risen up among us; and, That God hath
visited his people. {7:17} And this rumour of him went forth throughout
all Judaea, and throughout all the region round about. {7:18} And the
disciples of John shewed him of all these things.

   {7:19} 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?
{7:20} 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? {7:21} 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. {7:22} 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. {7:23} And
blessed is [he,] whosoever shall not be offended in me.

   {7:24} And when the messengers of John were departed, he began to
speak unto the people concerning John, What went ye out into the
wilderness for to see? A reed shaken with the wind? {7:25} 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. {7:26} But what went ye out for to see? A prophet? Yea, I say
unto you, and much more than a prophet. {7:27} This is [he,] of whom it
is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall
prepare thy way before thee. {7:28} 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.
{7:29} And all the people that heard [him,] and the publicans,
justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John. {7:30} But the
Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves,
being not baptized of him.

   {7:31} And the Lord said, Whereunto then shall I liken the men of
this generation? and to what are they like? {7:32} They are like unto
children sitting in the marketplace, and calling 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. {7:33} For John the Baptist came neither
eating bread nor drinking wine; and ye say, He hath a devil. {7:34} The
Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous
man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners! {7:35} But
wisdom is justified of all her children.

   {7:36} 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.
{7:37} And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she
knew that [Jesus] sat at meat in the Pharisee's house, brought an
alabaster box of ointment, {7:38} And stood at his feet behind [him]
weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe [them]
with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed [them]
with the ointment. {7:39} 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. {7:40} And Jesus answering said unto
him, Simon, I have somewhat to say unto thee. And he saith, Master, say
on. {7:41} There was a certain creditor which had two debtors: the one
owed five hundred pence, and the other fifty. {7:42} And when they had
nothing to pay, he frankly forgave them both. Tell me therefore, which
of them will love him most? {7:43} Simon answered and said, I suppose
that [he,] to whom he forgave most. And he said unto him, Thou hast
rightly judged. {7:44} 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. {7:45} Thou gavest me no kiss: but
this woman since the time I came in hath not ceased to kiss my feet.
{7:46} My head with oil thou didst not anoint: but this woman hath
anointed my feet with ointment. {7:47} Wherefore I say unto thee, Her
sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom
little is forgiven, [the same] loveth little. {7:48} And he said unto
her, Thy sins are forgiven. {7:49} And they that sat at meat with him
began to say within themselves, Who is this that forgiveth sins also?
{7:50} And he said to the woman, Thy faith hath saved thee; go in peace.

   {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, {8:2} And certain women, which
had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities, Mary called Magdalene,
out of whom went seven devils, {8:3} And Joanna the wife of Chuza
Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many others, which ministered unto
him of their substance.

   {8:4} And when much people were gathered together, and were come to
him out of every city, he spake by a parable: {8:5} A sower went out to
sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way side; and it was
trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it. {8:6} And some fell
upon a rock; and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away, because
it lacked moisture. {8:7} And some fell among thorns; and the thorns
sprang up with it, and choked it. {8:8} And other fell on good ground,
and sprang up, and bare fruit an hundredfold. And when he had said
these things, he cried, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. {8:9}
And his disciples asked him, saying, What might this parable be? {8:10}
And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom
of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and
hearing they might not understand. {8:11} Now the parable is this: The
seed is the word of God. {8:12} 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. {8:13} 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. {8:14} 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. {8:15} 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.

   {8:16} No man, when he hath lighted a candle, covereth it with a
vessel, or putteth [it] under a bed; but setteth [it] on a candlestick,
that they which enter in may see the light. {8:17} For nothing is
secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither [any thing] hid, that
shall not be known and come abroad. {8:18} 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.

   {8:19} Then came to him [his] mother and his brethren, and could not
come at him for the press. {8:20} And it was told him [by certain]
which said, Thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to see
thee. {8:21} And he answered and said unto them, My mother and my
brethren are these which hear the word of God, and do it.

   {8:22} 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. {8:23} 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. {8:24} 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. {8:25} 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.

   {8:26} And they arrived at the country of the Gadarenes, which is
over against Galilee. {8:27} 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. {8:28} 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. {8:29} (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.) {8:30} And
Jesus asked him, saying, What is thy name? And he said, Legion: because
many devils were entered into him. {8:31} And they besought him that he
would not command them to go out into the deep. {8:32} And there was
there an herd of many swine feeding on the mountain: and they besought
him that he would suffer them to enter into them. And he suffered them.
{8:33} 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. {8:34} When they that fed [them] saw what was done, they fled,
and went and told [it] in the city and in the country. {8:35} 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. {8:36} They also
which saw [it] told them by what means he that was possessed of the
devils was healed.

   {8:37} Then the whole multitude of the country of the Gadarenes
round 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.
{8:38} Now the man out of whom the devils were departed besought him
that he might be with him: but Jesus sent him away, saying, {8:39}
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. {8:40} And it came to pass, that,
when Jesus was returned, the people [gladly] received him: for they
were all waiting for him.

   {8:41} 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: {8:42} For he had one only
daughter, about twelve years of age, and she lay a dying. But as he
went the people thronged him.

   {8:43} And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had
spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any,
{8:44} Came behind [him,] and touched the border of his garment: and
immediately her issue of blood stanched. {8:45} And Jesus said, Who
touched me? When all denied, Peter and they that were with him said,
Master, the multitude throng thee and press [thee,] and sayest thou,
Who touched me? {8:46} And Jesus said, Somebody hath touched me: for I
perceive that virtue is gone out of me. {8:47} 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. {8:48} And he said unto
her, Daughter, be of good comfort: thy faith hath made thee whole; go
in peace.

   {8:49} While he yet spake, there cometh one from the ruler of the
synagogue's [house,] saying to him, Thy daughter is dead; trouble not
the Master. {8:50} But when Jesus heard [it,] he answered him, saying,
Fear not: believe only, and she shall be made whole. {8:51} And when he
came into the house, he suffered no man to go in, save Peter, and
James, and John, and the father and the mother of the maiden. {8:52}
And all wept, and bewailed her: but he said, Weep not; she is not dead,
but sleepeth. {8:53} And they laughed him to scorn, knowing that she
was dead. {8:54} And he put them all out, and took her by the hand, and
called, saying, Maid, arise. {8:55} And her spirit came again, and she
arose straightway: and he commanded to give her meat. {8:56} And her
parents were astonished: but he charged them that they should tell no
man what was done.

   {9:1} Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them
power and authority over all devils, and to cure diseases. {9:2} And he
sent them to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick. {9:3} And
he said unto them, Take nothing for [your] journey, neither staves, nor
scrip, neither bread, neither money; neither have two coats apiece.
{9:4} And whatsoever house ye enter into, there abide, and thence
depart. {9:5} 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. {9:6} And they departed, and went through the towns,
preaching the gospel, and healing every where.

   {9:7} Now Herod the tetrarch heard of all that was done by him: and
he was perplexed, because that it was said of some, that John was risen
from the dead; {9:8} And of some, that Elias had appeared; and of
others, that one of the old prophets was risen again. {9:9} And Herod
said, John have I beheaded: but who is this, of whom I hear such
things? And he desired to see him.

   {9:10} And the apostles, when they were returned, told him all that
they had done. And he took them, and went aside privately into a desert
place belonging to the city called Bethsaida. {9:11} 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.
{9:12} 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. {9:13} 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. {9:14} For they were
about five thousand men. And he said to his disciples, Make them sit
down by fifties in a company. {9:15} And they did so, and made them all
sit down. {9:16} 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. {9:17} And they did eat, and
were all filled: and there was taken up of fragments that remained to
them twelve baskets.

   {9:18} And it came to pass, as he was alone praying, his disciples
were with him: and he asked them, saying, Whom say the people that I
am? {9:19} They answering said, John the Baptist; but some [say,]
Elias; and others [say,] that one of the old prophets is risen again.
{9:20} He said unto them, But whom say ye that I am? Peter answering
said, The Christ of God. {9:21} And he straitly charged them, and
commanded [them] to tell no man that thing; {9:22} Saying, The Son of
man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders and chief
priests and scribes, and be slain, and be raised the third day.

   {9:23} 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.
{9:24} For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever
will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it. {9:25} For what
is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or
be cast away? {9:26} For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my
words, of him 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. {9:27}
But I tell you of a truth, there be some standing here, which shall not
taste of death, till they see the kingdom of God.

   {9:28} And it came to pass about an eight days after these sayings,
he took Peter and John and James, and went up into a mountain to pray.
{9:29} And as he prayed, the fashion of his countenance was altered,
and his raiment [was] white [and] glistering. {9:30} And, behold, there
talked with him two men, which were Moses and Elias: {9:31} Who
appeared in glory, and spake of his decease which he should accomplish
at Jerusalem. {9:32} But Peter and they that were with him were heavy
with sleep: and when they were awake, they saw his glory, and the two
men that stood with him. {9:33} And it came to pass, as they departed
from him, Peter said unto Jesus, Master, it is good for us to be here:
and let us make three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and
one for Elias: not knowing what he said. {9:34} While he thus spake,
there came a cloud, and overshadowed them: and they feared as they
entered into the cloud. {9:35} And there came a voice out of the cloud,
saying, This is my beloved Son: hear him. {9:36} And when the voice was
past, Jesus was found alone. And they kept [it] close, and told no man
in those days any of those things which they had seen.

   {9:37} And it came to pass, that on the next day, when they were
come down from the hill, much people met him. {9:38} And, behold, a man
of the company cried out, saying, Master, I beseech thee, look upon my
son: for he is mine only child. {9:39} And, lo, a spirit taketh him,
and he suddenly crieth out; and it teareth him that he foameth again,
and bruising him hardly departeth from him. {9:40} And I besought thy
disciples to cast him out; and they could not. {9:41} And Jesus
answering said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I
be with you, and suffer you? Bring thy son hither. {9:42} 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.

   {9:43} 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, {9:44} Let these sayings sink down into your ears:
for the Son of man shall be delivered into the hands of men. {9:45} But
they understood not this saying, and it was hid from them, that they
perceived it not: and they feared to ask him of that saying.

   {9:46} Then there arose a reasoning among them, which of them should
be greatest. {9:47} And Jesus, perceiving the thought of their heart,
took a child, and set him by him, {9:48} And said unto them, Whosoever
shall receive this child in my 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.

   {9:49} 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. {9:50} And Jesus said unto him, Forbid [him] not: for he that is
not against us is for us.

   {9:51} And it came to pass, when the time was come that he should be
received up, he stedfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem, {9:52} And
sent messengers before his face: and they went, and entered into a
village of the Samaritans, to make ready for him. {9:53} And they did
not receive him, because his face was as though he would go to
Jerusalem. {9:54} 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? {9:55} But he turned, and
rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of.
{9:56} For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to
save [them.] And they went to another village.

   {9:57} And it came to pass, that, as they went in the way, a certain
[man] said unto him, Lord, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest.
{9:58} 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.
{9:59} And he said unto another, Follow me. But he said, Lord, suffer
me first to go and bury my father. {9:60} Jesus said unto him, Let the
dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God. {9:61}
And another also said, Lord, I will follow thee; but let me first go
bid them farewell, which are at home at my house. {9:62} And Jesus said
unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back,
is fit for the kingdom of God.

   {10:1} 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. {10:2} 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. {10:3} Go your ways: behold, I send you forth as
lambs among wolves. {10:4} Carry neither purse, nor scrip, nor shoes:
and salute no man by the way. {10:5} And into whatsoever house ye
enter, first say, Peace [be] to this house. {10:6} And if the son of
peace be there, your peace shall rest upon it: if not, it shall turn to
you again. {10:7} And in the same house remain, eating and drinking
such things as they give: for the labourer is worthy of his hire. Go
not from house to house. {10:8} And into whatsoever city ye enter, and
they receive you, eat such things as are set before you: {10:9} And
heal the sick that are therein, and say unto them, The kingdom of God
is come nigh unto you. {10:10} But into whatsoever city ye enter, and
they receive you not, go your ways out into the streets of the same,
and say, {10:11} 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. {10:12} But I say unto you,
that it shall be more tolerable in that day for Sodom, than for that
city. {10:13} 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. {10:14} But it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the
judgment, than for you. {10:15} And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted
to heaven, shalt be thrust down to hell. {10:16} He that heareth you
heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me; and he that
despiseth me despiseth him that sent me.

   {10:17} And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even
the devils are subject unto us through thy name. {10:18} And he said
unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. {10:19}
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. {10:20} Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are
subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in
heaven.

   {10:21} 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. {10:22} 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.]

   {10:23} And he turned him unto [his] disciples, and said privately,
Blessed [are] the eyes which see the things that ye see: {10:24} For I
tell you, that many prophets and kings 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.]

   {10:25} And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him,
saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? {10:26} He
said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou? {10:27}
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. {10:28} And he said unto him,
Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live. {10:29} But he,
willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbour?
{10:30} 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.
{10:31} And by chance there came down a certain priest that way: and
when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. {10:32} And likewise a
Levite, when he was at the place, came and looked [on him,] and passed
by on the other side. {10:33} But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed,
came where he was: and when he saw him, he had compassion [on him,
]{10:34} And went to [him,] and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and
wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took
care of him. {10:35} 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. {10:36} Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbour
unto him that fell among the thieves? {10:37} And he said, He that
shewed mercy on him. Then said Jesus unto him, Go, and do thou likewise.

   {10:38} Now it came to pass, as they went, that he entered into a
certain village: and a certain woman named Martha received him into her
house. {10:39} And she had a sister called Mary, which also sat at
Jesus' feet, and heard his word. {10:40} But Martha was cumbered about
much serving, and came to him, and said, Lord, dost thou not care that
my sister hath left me to serve alone? bid her therefore that she help
me. {10:41} And Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou
art careful and troubled about many things: {10:42} But one thing is
needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken
away from her.

   {11:1} And it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain
place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach
us to pray, as John also taught his disciples. {11:2} 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. {11:3} Give us day by day our daily bread. {11:4} 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. {11:5} 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; {11:6} For
a friend of mine in his journey is come to me, and I have nothing to
set before him? {11:7} And he from within shall answer and say, Trouble
me not: the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I
cannot rise and give thee. {11:8} 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. {11:9} And
I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall
find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. {11:10} For every one
that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that
knocketh it shall be opened. {11:11} If a son shall ask bread of any of
you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if [he ask] a fish,
will he for a fish give him a serpent? {11:12} Or if he shall ask an
egg, will he offer him a scorpion? {11:13} 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?

   {11:14} 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. {11:15} But some of them said, He casteth out devils through
Beelzebub the chief of the devils. {11:16} And others, tempting [him,]
sought of him a sign from heaven. {11:17} But he, knowing their
thoughts, said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is
brought to desolation; and a house [divided] against a house falleth.
{11:18} If Satan also be divided against himself, how shall his kingdom
stand? because ye say that I cast out devils through Beelzebub. {11:19}
And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your sons cast [them]
out? therefore shall they be your judges. {11:20} But if I with the
finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon
you. {11:21} When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are
in peace: {11:22} 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. {11:23} He that is not with me is against me: and
he that gathereth not with me scattereth. {11:24} 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. {11:25} And when he cometh, he findeth [it] swept and
garnished. {11:26} 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.

   {11:27} 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. {11:28}
But he said, Yea rather, blessed [are] they that hear the word of God,
and keep it.

   {11:29} And when the people were gathered thick together, he began
to 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. {11:30} For as
Jonas was a sign unto the Ninevites, so shall also the Son of man be to
this generation. {11:31} The queen of the south shall rise up in the
judgment with 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. {11:32} 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. {11:33} 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. {11:34} 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. {11:35} Take heed therefore that the
light which is in thee be not darkness. {11:36} 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.

   {11:37} And as he spake, a certain Pharisee besought him to dine
with him: and he went in, and sat down to meat. {11:38} And when the
Pharisee saw [it,] he marvelled that he had not first washed before
dinner. {11:39} And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make
clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is
full of ravening and wickedness. {11:40} [Ye] fools, did not he that
made that which is without make that which is within also? {11:41} But
rather give alms of such things as ye have; and, behold, all things are
clean unto you. {11:42} But woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint
and rue and all 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.
{11:43} Woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye love the uppermost seats in the
synagogues, and greetings in the markets. {11:44} Woe unto you, scribes
and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are as graves which appear not, and
the men that walk over [them] are not aware [of them.]

   {11:45} Then answered one of the lawyers, and said unto him, Master,
thus saying thou reproachest us also. {11:46} And he said, Woe unto you
also, [ye] lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne,
and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.
{11:47} Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and
your fathers killed them. {11:48} Truly ye bear witness that ye allow
the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and ye build
their sepulchres. {11:49} Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will
send them prophets and apostles, and [some] of them they shall slay and
persecute: {11:50} That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed
from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;
{11:51} From the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, which
perished between the altar and the temple: verily I say unto you, It
shall be required of this generation. {11:52} Woe unto you, lawyers!
for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in
yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered. {11:53} And as
he said these things unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to
urge [him] vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things:
{11:54} Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his
mouth, that they might accuse him.

   {12:1} In the mean time, when there were gathered together an
innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon
another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of
the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. {12:2} For there is
nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall
not be known. {12:3} Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness
shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear
in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops. {12:4} 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. {12:5} 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. {12:6} Are not five
sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten
before God? {12:7} But even the very hairs of your head are all
numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.
{12:8} Also I say unto you, Whosoever shall confess me before men, him
shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of God: {12:9} But
he that denieth me before men shall be denied before the angels of God.
{12:10} 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. {12:11} And when they bring you unto
the synagogues, and [unto] magistrates, and powers, take ye no thought
how or what thing ye shall answer, or what ye shall say: {12:12} For
the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same hour what ye ought to say.

   {12:13} And one of the company said unto him, Master, speak to my
brother, that he divide the inheritance with me. {12:14} And he said
unto him, Man, who made me a judge or a divider over you? {12:15} 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.
{12:16} And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a
certain rich man brought forth plentifully: {12:17} And he thought
within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where
to bestow my fruits? {12:18} And he said, This will I do: I will pull
down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits
and my goods. {12:19} And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much
goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, [and] be
merry. {12:20} But God said unto him, [Thou] fool, this night thy soul
shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou
hast provided? {12:21} So [is] he that layeth up treasure for himself,
and is not rich toward God.

   {12:22} 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. {12:23} The life is more than meat, and the body
[is more] than raiment. {12:24} 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? {12:25} And which of
you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit? {12:26} If ye
then be not able to do that thing which is least, why take ye thought
for the rest? {12:27} Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not,
they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory
was not arrayed like one of these. {12:28} 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? {12:29}
And seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be
ye of doubtful mind. {12:30} For all these things do the nations of the
world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these
things.

   {12:31} But rather seek ye the kingdom of God; and all these things
shall be added unto you. {12:32} Fear not, little flock; for it is your
Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. {12:33} Sell that ye
have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a
treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth,
neither moth corrupteth. {12:34} For where your treasure is, there will
your heart be also. {12:35} Let your loins be girded about, and [your]
lights burning; {12:36} 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. {12:37} 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. {12:38} And if he
shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find
[them] so, blessed are those servants. {12:39} And this know, that if
the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he
would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken
through. {12:40} Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh
at an hour when ye think not.

   {12:41} Then Peter said unto him, Lord, speakest thou this parable
unto us, or even to all? {12:42} And the Lord said, Who then is that
faithful and wise steward, whom [his] lord shall make ruler over his
household, to give [them their] portion of meat in due season? {12:43}
Blessed [is] that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so
doing. {12:44} Of a truth I say unto you, that he will make him ruler
over all that he hath. {12:45} 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;
{12:46} 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. {12:47}
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. ]{12:48} 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.

   {12:49} I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I if it
be already kindled? {12:50} But I have a baptism to be baptized with;
and how am I straitened till it be accomplished! {12:51} Suppose ye
that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather
division: {12:52} For from henceforth there shall be five in one house
divided, three against two, and two against three. {12:53} The father
shall be divided against the son, and the son against 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.

   {12:54} And he said also to the people, When ye see a cloud rise out
of the west, straightway ye say, There cometh a shower; and so it is.
{12:55} And when [ye see] the south wind blow, ye say, There will be
heat; and it cometh to pass. {12:56} [Ye] hypocrites, ye can discern
the face of the sky and of the earth; but how is it that ye do not
discern this time? {12:57} Yea, and why even of yourselves judge ye not
what is right?

   {12:58} When thou goest with thine adversary to the magistrate, [as
thou 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. {12:59} I tell thee,
thou shalt not depart thence, till thou hast paid the very last mite.

   {13:1} There were present at that season some that told him of the
Galilaeans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.
{13:2} And Jesus answering said unto them, Suppose ye that these
Galilaeans were sinners above all the Galilaeans, because they suffered
such things? {13:3} I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall
all likewise perish. {13:4} 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? {13:5} I tell you, Nay: but, except ye
repent, ye shall all likewise perish.

   {13:6} 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. {13:7} 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? {13:8} And he
answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I
shall dig about it, and dung [it: ]{13:9} And if it bear fruit, [well:]
and if not, [then] after that thou shalt cut it down. {13:10} And he
was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath.

   {13:11} And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of
infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise
lift up [herself. ]{13:12} And when Jesus saw her, he called [her to
him,] and said unto her, Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity.
{13:13} And he laid [his] hands on her: and immediately she was made
straight, and glorified God. {13:14} And the ruler of the synagogue
answered with indignation, because that Jesus had healed on the sabbath
day, and said unto the people, There are six days in which men ought to
work: in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the sabbath day.
{13:15} The Lord then answered him, and said, [Thou] hypocrite, doth
not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or [his] ass from the
stall, and lead [him] away to watering? {13:16} 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? {13:17}
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.

   {13:18} Then said he, Unto what is the kingdom of God like? and
whereunto shall I resemble it? {13:19} It is like a grain of mustard
seed, which a man took, and cast into his garden; and it grew, and
waxed a great tree; and the fowls of the air lodged in the branches of
it. {13:20} And again he said, Whereunto shall I liken the kingdom of
God? {13:21} It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three
measures of meal, till the whole was leavened. {13:22} And he went
through the cities and villages, teaching, and journeying toward
Jerusalem. {13:23} Then said one unto him, Lord, are there few that be
saved? And he said unto them,

   {13:24} Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto
you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able. {13:25} When once
the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye
begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord,
open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not
whence ye are: {13:26} Then shall ye begin to say, We have eaten and
drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets. {13:27} But
he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me,
all [ye] workers of iniquity. {13:28} There shall be weeping and
gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and
all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you [yourselves] thrust
out. {13:29} 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. {13:30} And, behold, there are last which shall be
first, and there are first which shall be last.

   {13:31} The same day there came certain of the Pharisees, saying
unto him, Get thee out, and depart hence: for Herod will kill thee.
{13:32} 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. {13:33} Nevertheless I must walk to day, and to
morrow, and the [day] following: for it cannot be that a prophet perish
out of Jerusalem. {13:34} O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the
prophets, and stonest 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! {13:35} 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.

   {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.
{14:2} And, behold, there was a certain man before him which had the
dropsy. {14:3} And Jesus answering spake unto the lawyers and
Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day? {14:4} And
they held their peace. And he took [him,] and healed him, and let him
go; {14:5} And answered them, saying, Which of you shall have an ass or
an ox fallen into a pit, and will not straightway pull him out on the
sabbath day? {14:6} And they could not answer him again to these things.

   {14:7} And he put forth a parable to those which were bidden, when
he marked how they chose out the chief rooms; saying unto them, {14:8}
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;
{14:9} 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. {14:10}
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. {14:11} For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and
he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

   {14:12} Then said he also to him that bade him, When thou makest a
dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy
kinsmen, nor [thy] rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and
a recompence be made thee. {14:13} But when thou makest a feast, call
the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind: {14:14} And thou shalt be
blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed
at the resurrection of the just.

   {14:15} And when one of them that sat at meat with him heard these
things, he said unto him, Blessed [is] he that shall eat bread in the
kingdom of God. {14:16} Then said he unto him, A certain man made a
great supper, and bade many: {14:17} And sent his servant at supper
time to say to them that were bidden, Come; for all things are now
ready. {14:18} And they all with one [consent] began to make excuse.
The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must
needs go and see it: I pray thee have me excused. {14:19} And another
said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray
thee have me excused. {14:20} And another said, I have married a wife,
and therefore I cannot come. {14:21} 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.
{14:22} And the servant said, Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded,
and yet there is room. {14:23} And the lord said unto the servant, Go
out into the highways and hedges, and compel [them] to come in, that my
house may be filled. {14:24} For I say unto you, That none of those men
which were bidden shall taste of my supper.

   {14:25} And there went great multitudes with him: and he turned, and
said unto them, {14:26} If any [man] come to me, and hate not his
father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters,
yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. {14:27} And
whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my
disciple. {14:28} For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth
not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have [sufficient] to
finish [it? ]{14:29} Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and
is not able to finish [it,] all that behold [it] begin to mock him,
{14:30} Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.
{14:31} 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? {14:32} Or else,
while the other is yet a great way off, he sendeth an ambassage, and
desireth conditions of peace. {14:33} So likewise, whosoever he be of
you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.

   {14:34} Salt [is] good: but if the salt have lost his savour,
wherewith shall it be seasoned? {14:35} It is neither fit for the land,
nor yet for the dunghill; [but] men cast it out. He that hath ears to
hear, let him hear.

   {15:1} Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to
hear him. {15:2} And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This
man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.

   {15:3} And he spake this parable unto them, saying, {15:4} What man
of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave
the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost,
until he find it? {15:5} And when he hath found [it,] he layeth [it] on
his shoulders, rejoicing. {15:6} 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. {15:7} 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.

   {15:8} 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? ]{15:9} 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. {15:10} Likewise,
I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over
one sinner that repenteth.

   {15:11} And he said, A certain man had two sons: {15:12} 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.
{15:13} 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. {15:14} And when he had spent all, there arose a
mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want. {15:15} And he
went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him
into his fields to feed swine. {15:16} And he would fain have filled
his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto
him. {15:17} And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired
servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish
with hunger! {15:18} I will arise and go to my father, and will say
unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,
{15:19} And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of
thy hired servants. {15:20} And he arose, and came to his father. But
when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had
compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him. {15:21} 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. {15:22} 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: {15:23} And
bring hither the fatted calf, and kill [it;] and let us eat, and be
merry: {15:24} For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was
lost, and is found. And they began to be merry. {15:25} Now his elder
son was in the field: and as he came and drew nigh to the house, he
heard musick and dancing. {15:26} And he called one of the servants,
and asked what these things meant. {15:27} 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. {15:28} And he was angry, and would
not go in: therefore came his father out, and intreated him. {15:29}
And he answering said to [his] father, Lo, these many years do I 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: {15:30}
But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living
with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf. {15:31} And he
said unto him, Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is
thine. {15:32} 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.

   {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. {16:2} And he called him, and said unto him, How is
it that I hear this of thee? give an account of thy stewardship; for
thou mayest be no longer steward. {16:3} Then the steward said within
himself, What shall I do? for my lord taketh away from me the
stewardship: I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed. {16:4} I am resolved
what to do, that, when I am put out of the stewardship, they may
receive me into their houses. {16:5} So he called every one of his
lord's debtors [unto him,] and said unto the first, How much owest thou
unto my lord? {16:6} And he said, An hundred measures of oil. And he
said unto him, Take thy bill, and sit down quickly, and write fifty.
{16:7} 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. {16:8} 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. {16:9} 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. {16:10} He
that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and
he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much. {16:11} If
therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will
commit to your trust the true [riches? ]{16:12} And if ye have not been
faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you that which
is your own?

   {16:13} No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate
the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and
despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. {16:14} And the
Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they
derided him. {16:15} And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify
yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is
highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God. {16:16}
The law and the prophets [were] until John: since that time the kingdom
of God is preached, and every man presseth into it. {16:17} And it is
easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to
fail. {16:18} Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another,
committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from
[her] husband committeth adultery.

   {16:19} There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple
and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day: {16:20} And there was
a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of
sores, {16:21} And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from
the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
{16:22} 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; {16:23} And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and
seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. {16:24} And he cried
and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he
may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am
tormented in this flame. {16:25} 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. {16:26}
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. {16:27} Then he said, I pray
thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's
house: {16:28} For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them,
lest they also come into this place of torment. {16:29} Abraham saith
unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them. {16:30}
And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the
dead, they will repent. {16:31} And he said unto him, If they hear not
Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose
from the dead.

   {17:1} Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that
offences will come: but woe [unto him,] through whom they come! {17:2}
It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and
he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little
ones.

   {17:3} Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against
thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him. {17:4} And if he
trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day
turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him. {17:5}
And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith. {17:6} And the
Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye 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. {17:7} 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? {17:8} 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? {17:9} Doth he thank that servant because he
did the things that were commanded him? I trow not. {17:10} So likewise
ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you,
say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty
to do.

   {17:11} And it came to pass, as he went to Jerusalem, that he passed
through the midst of Samaria and Galilee. {17:12} And as he entered
into a certain village, there met him ten men that were lepers, which
stood afar off: {17:13} And they lifted up [their] voices, and said,
Jesus, Master, have mercy on us. {17:14} 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. {17:15} And one of them,
when he saw that he was healed, turned back, and with a loud voice
glorified God, {17:16} And fell down on [his] face at his feet, giving
him thanks: and he was a Samaritan. {17:17} And Jesus answering said,
Were there not ten cleansed? but where [are] the nine? {17:18} There
are not found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger.
{17:19} And he said unto him, Arise, go thy way: thy faith hath made
thee whole.

   {17:20} 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: {17:21} Neither shall they say, Lo here!
or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you. {17:22}
And he said unto the disciples, The days will come, when ye shall
desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not see
[it. ]{17:23} And they shall say to you, See here; or, see there: go
not after [them,] nor follow [them. ]{17:24} For as the lightning, that
lighteneth out of the one [part] under heaven, shineth unto the other
[part] under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day.
{17:25} But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this
generation. {17:26} And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be
also in the days of the Son of man. {17:27} They did eat, they drank,
they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe
entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
{17:28} Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they
drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; {17:29} But
the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone
from heaven, and destroyed [them] all. {17:30} Even thus shall it be in
the day when the Son of man is revealed. {17:31} 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. {17:32} Remember Lot's wife. {17:33}
Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever
shall lose his life shall preserve it. {17:34} I tell you, in that
night there shall be two [men] in one bed; the one shall be taken, and
the other shall be left. {17:35} Two [women] shall be grinding
together; the one shall be taken, and the other left. {17:36} Two [men]
shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
{17:37} 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.

   {18:1} And he spake a parable unto them [to this end,] that men
ought always to pray, and not to faint; {18:2} Saying, There was in a
city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man: {18:3} And
there was a widow in that city; and she came unto him, saying, Avenge
me of mine adversary. {18:4} And he would not for a while: but
afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard
man; {18:5} Yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her,
lest by her continual coming she weary me. {18:6} And the Lord said,
Hear what the unjust judge saith. {18:7} And shall not God avenge his
own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with
them? {18:8} I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless
when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth? {18:9}
And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that
they were righteous, and despised others: {18:10} Two men went up into
the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican.
{18:11} The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank
thee, that I am not as other men [are,] extortioners, unjust,
adulterers, or even as this publican. {18:12} I fast twice in the week,
I give tithes of all that I possess. {18:13} 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. {18:14}
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. {18:15} And they brought unto him
also infants, that he would touch them: but when [his] disciples saw
[it,] they rebuked them. {18:16} 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. {18:17} Verily I say unto you, Whosoever
shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise
enter therein. {18:18} And a certain ruler asked him, saying, Good
Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? {18:19} And Jesus said
unto him, Why callest thou me good? none [is] good, save one, [that
is,] God. {18:20} Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit
adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour
thy father and thy mother. {18:21} And he said, All these have I kept
from my youth up. {18:22} 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. {18:23} And when he heard this, he was very sorrowful:
for he was very rich. {18:24} And when Jesus saw that he was very
sorrowful, he said, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into
the kingdom of God! {18:25} For it is easier for a camel to go through
a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
{18:26} And they that heard [it] said, Who then can be saved? {18:27}
And he said, The things which are impossible with men are possible with
God. {18:28} Then Peter said, Lo, we have left all, and followed thee.
{18:29} 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, {18:30} Who shall not receive manifold
more in this present time, and in the world to come life everlasting.

   {18:31} Then he took [unto him] the twelve, and said unto them,
Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and all things that are written by the
prophets concerning the Son of man shall be accomplished. {18:32} For
he shall be delivered unto the Gentiles, and shall be mocked, and
spitefully entreated, and spitted on: {18:33} And they shall scourge
[him,] and put him to death: and the third day he shall rise again.
{18:34} And they understood none of these things: and this saying was
hid from them, neither knew they the things which were spoken.

   {18:35} And it came to pass, that as he was come nigh unto Jericho,
a certain blind man sat by the way side begging: {18:36} And hearing
the multitude pass by, he asked what it meant. {18:37} And they told
him, that Jesus of Nazareth passeth by. {18:38} And he cried, saying,
Jesus, [thou] Son of David, have mercy on me. {18:39} 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. {18:40} And Jesus
stood, and commanded him to be brought unto him: and when he was come
near, he asked him, {18:41} Saying, What wilt thou that I shall do unto
thee? And he said, Lord, that I may receive my sight. {18:42} And Jesus
said unto him, Receive thy sight: thy faith hath saved thee. {18:43}
And immediately he received his sight, and followed him, glorifying
God: and all the people, when they saw [it,] gave praise unto God.

   {19:1} And [Jesus] entered and passed through Jericho. {19:2} And,
behold, [there was] a man named Zacchaeus, which was the chief among
the publicans, and he was rich. {19:3} And he sought to see Jesus who
he was; and could not for the press, because he was little of stature.
{19:4} And he ran before, and climbed up into a sycomore tree to see
him: for he was to pass that [way. ]{19:5} And when Jesus came to the
place, he looked up, and saw him, and said unto him, Zacchaeus, make
haste, and come down; for to day I must abide at thy house. {19:6} And
he made haste, and came down, and received him joyfully. {19:7} And
when they saw [it,] they all murmured, saying, That he was gone to be
guest with a man that is a sinner. {19:8} And Zacchaeus stood, and said
unto the Lord; Behold, Lord, the 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. {19:9} And Jesus said unto him, This day is
salvation come to this house, forsomuch as he also is a son of Abraham.
{19:10} For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was
lost. {19:11} 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. {19:12} He said
therefore, A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for
himself a kingdom, and to return. {19:13} And he called his ten
servants, and delivered them ten pounds, and said unto them, Occupy
till I come. {19:14} But his citizens hated him, and sent a message
after him, saying, We will not have this [man] to reign over us.
{19:15} And it came to pass, that when he was returned, having received
the kingdom, then he commanded these servants to be called unto him, to
whom he had given the money, that he might know how much every man had
gained by trading. {19:16} Then came the first, saying, Lord, thy pound
hath gained ten pounds. {19:17} And he said unto him, Well, thou good
servant: because thou hast been faithful in a very little, have thou
authority over ten cities. {19:18} And the second came, saying, Lord,
thy pound hath gained five pounds. {19:19} And he said likewise to him,
Be thou also over five cities. {19:20} And another came, saying, Lord,
behold, [here is] thy pound, which I have kept laid up in a napkin:
{19:21} For I feared thee, because thou art an austere man: thou takest
up that thou layedst not down, and reapest that thou didst not sow.
{19:22} 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: {19:23}
Wherefore then gavest not thou my money into the bank, that at my
coming I might have required mine own with usury? {19:24} And he said
unto them that stood by, Take from him the pound, and give [it] to him
that hath ten pounds. {19:25} (And they said unto him, Lord, he hath
ten pounds.) {19:26} 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. {19:27} But those mine enemies, which would not
that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay [them] before me.

   {19:28} And when he had thus spoken, he went before, ascending up to
Jerusalem. {19:29} 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, {19:30} 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. ]{19:31}
And if any man ask you, Why do ye loose [him?] thus shall ye say unto
him, Because the Lord hath need of him. {19:32} And they that were sent
went their way, and found even as he had said unto them. {19:33} And as
they were loosing the colt, the owners thereof said unto them, Why
loose ye the colt? {19:34} And they said, The Lord hath need of him.
{19:35} And they brought him to Jesus: and they cast their garments
upon the colt, and they set Jesus thereon. {19:36} And as he went, they
spread their clothes in the way. {19:37} 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; {19:38} Saying, Blessed [be] the
King that cometh in the name of the Lord: peace in heaven, and glory in
the highest. {19:39} And some of the Pharisees from among the multitude
said unto him, Master, rebuke thy disciples. {19:40} And he answered
and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace,
the stones would immediately cry out.

   {19:41} And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over
it, {19:42} 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. {19:43} 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, {19:44} 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. {19:45} And he went into the temple, and began to cast out
them that sold therein, and them that bought; {19:46} Saying unto them,
It is written, My house is the house of prayer: but ye have made it a
den of thieves. {19:47} And he taught daily in the temple. But the
chief priests and the scribes and the chief of the people sought to
destroy him, {19:48} And could not find what they might do: for all the
people were very attentive to hear him.

   {20:1} 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, {20:2} And
spake unto him, saying, Tell us, by what authority doest thou these
things? or who is he that gave thee this authority? {20:3} And he
answered and said unto them, I will also ask you one thing; and answer
me: {20:4} The baptism of John, was it from heaven, or of men? {20:5}
And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From
heaven; he will say, Why then believed ye him not? {20:6} But and if we
say, Of men; all the people will stone us: for they be persuaded that
John was a prophet. {20:7} And they answered, that they could not tell
whence [it was. ]{20:8} And Jesus said unto them, Neither tell I you by
what authority I do these things. {20:9} 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. {20:10} 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. {20:11} And again he sent another servant: and
they beat him also, and entreated [him] shamefully, and sent [him] away
empty. {20:12} And again he sent a third: and they wounded him also,
and cast [him] out. {20:13} 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. {20:14} 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. {20:15} So they cast him out of
the vineyard, and killed [him.] What therefore shall the lord of the
vineyard do unto them? {20:16} He shall come and destroy these
husbandmen, and shall give the vineyard to others. And when they heard
[it,] they said, God forbid. {20:17} 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? {20:18} Whosoever shall fall
upon that stone shall be broken; but on whomsoever it shall fall, it
will grind him to powder.

   {20:19} And the chief priests and the scribes the same hour sought
to lay hands on him; and they feared the people: for they perceived
that he had spoken this parable against them. {20:20} 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. {20:21} 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: {20:22} Is it lawful for us to give tribute unto Caesar, or no?
{20:23} But he perceived their craftiness, and said unto them, Why
tempt ye me? {20:24} Shew me a penny. Whose image and superscription
hath it? They answered and said, Caesar's. {20:25} And he said unto
them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which be Caesar's, and
unto God the things which be God's. {20:26} And they could not take
hold of his words before the people: and they marvelled at his answer,
and held their peace.

   {20:27} Then came to [him] certain of the Sadducees, which deny that
there is any resurrection; and they asked him, {20:28} Saying, Master,
Moses wrote unto us, If any man's brother die, having a wife, and he
die without children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise
up seed unto his brother. {20:29} There were therefore seven brethren:
and the first took a wife, and died without children. {20:30} And the
second took her to wife, and he died childless. {20:31} And the third
took her; and in like manner the seven also: and they left no children,
and died. {20:32} Last of all the woman died also. {20:33} Therefore in
the resurrection whose wife of them is she? for seven had her to wife.
{20:34} And Jesus answering said unto them, The children of this world
marry, and are given in marriage: {20:35} But they which shall be
accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the
dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage: {20:36} 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. {20:37} 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. {20:38} For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living:
for all live unto him.

   {20:39} Then certain of the scribes answering said, Master, thou
hast well said. {20:40} And after that they durst not ask him any
[question at all. ]{20:41} And he said unto them, How say they that
Christ is David's son? {20:42} And David himself saith in the book of
Psalms, The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, {20:43}
Till I make thine enemies thy footstool. {20:44} David therefore
calleth him Lord, how is he then his son?

   {20:45} Then in the audience of all the people he said unto his
disciples, {20:46} Beware of the scribes, which desire to walk in long
robes, and love greetings in the markets, and the highest seats in the
synagogues, and the chief rooms at feasts; {20:47} Which devour widows'
houses, and for a shew make long prayers: the same shall receive
greater damnation.

   {21:1} And he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts
into the treasury. {21:2} And he saw also a certain poor widow casting
in thither two mites. {21:3} And he said, Of a truth I say unto you,
that this poor widow hath cast in more than they all: {21:4} For all
these have of their abundance cast in unto the offerings of God: but
she of her penury hath cast in all the living that she had.

   {21:5} And as some spake of the temple, how it was adorned with
goodly stones and gifts, he said, {21:6} [As for] these things which ye
behold, the days will come, in the which there shall not be left one
stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down. {21:7} 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? {21:8} And
he said, Take heed that ye be not deceived: for many shall come in my
name, saying, I am [Christ;] and the time draweth near: go ye not
therefore after them. {21:9} But when ye shall hear of wars and
commotions, be not terrified: for these things must first come to pass;
but the end [is] not by and by. {21:10} Then said he unto them, Nation
shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: {21:11} And
great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and
pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from
heaven. {21:12} 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.
{21:13} And it shall turn to you for a testimony. {21:14} Settle [it]
therefore in your hearts, not to meditate before what ye shall answer:
{21:15} For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your
adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist. {21:16} And ye
shall be betrayed both by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolks, and
friends; and [some] of you shall they cause to be put to death. {21:17}
And ye shall be hated of all [men] for my name's sake. {21:18} But
there shall not an hair of your head perish. {21:19} In your patience
possess ye your souls. {21:20} And when ye shall see Jerusalem
compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.
{21:21} Then let them which are in Judaea flee to the mountains; and
let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that
are in the countries enter thereinto. {21:22} For these be the days of
vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled. {21:23}
But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in
those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath
upon this people. {21:24} 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.

   {21:25} 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; {21:26} 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. {21:27} And then shall they see
the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. {21:28}
And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up
your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh. {21:29} And he spake to
them a parable; Behold the fig tree, and all the trees; {21:30} When
they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is
now nigh at hand. {21:31} So likewise ye, when ye see these things come
to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand. {21:32}
Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be
fulfilled. {21:33} Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall
not pass away.

   {21:34} 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. {21:35} For as a snare shall it
come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. {21:36}
Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to
escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before
the Son of man. {21:37} 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. {21:38} And all the people came early in the
morning to him in the temple, for to hear him.

   {22:1} Now the feast of unleavened bread drew nigh, which is called
the Passover. {22:2} And the chief priests and scribes sought how they
might kill him; for they feared the people.

   {22:3} Then entered Satan into Judas surnamed Iscariot, being of the
number of the twelve. {22:4} And he went his way, and communed with the
chief priests and captains, how he might betray him unto them. {22:5}
And they were glad, and covenanted to give him money. {22:6} And he
promised, and sought opportunity to betray him unto them in the absence
of the multitude.

   {22:7} Then came the day of unleavened bread, when the passover must
be killed. {22:8} And he sent Peter and John, saying, Go and prepare us
the passover, that we may eat. {22:9} And they said unto him, Where
wilt thou that we prepare? {22:10} 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.
{22:11} 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? {22:12} And he shall shew you a large upper
room furnished: there make ready. {22:13} And they went, and found as
he had said unto them: and they made ready the passover. {22:14} And
when the hour was come, he sat down, and the twelve apostles with him.
{22:15} And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this
passover with you before I suffer: {22:16} For I say unto you, I will
not any more eat thereof, until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God.
{22:17} And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and said, Take this, and
divide [it] among yourselves: {22:18} For I say unto you, I will not
drink of the fruit of the vine, until the kingdom of God shall come.

   {22:19} And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake [it,] and gave
unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in
remembrance of me. {22:20} Likewise also the cup after supper, saying,
This cup [is] the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.

   {22:21} But, behold, the hand of him that betrayeth me [is] with me
on the table. {22:22} And truly the Son of man goeth, as it was
determined: but woe unto that man by whom he is betrayed! {22:23} And
they began to enquire among themselves, which of them it was that
should do this thing.

   {22:24} And there was also a strife among them, which of them should
be accounted the greatest. {22:25} And he said unto them, The kings of
the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise
authority upon them are called benefactors. {22:26} But ye [shall] not
[be] so: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger;
and he that is chief, as he that doth serve. {22:27} For whether [is]
greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that serveth? [is] not he that
sitteth at meat? but I am among you as he that serveth. {22:28} Ye are
they which have continued with me in my temptations. {22:29} And I
appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me;
{22:30} That ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on
thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

   {22:31} And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired
[to have] you, that he may sift [you] as wheat: {22:32} But I have
prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted,
strengthen thy brethren. {22:33} And he said unto him, Lord, I am ready
to go with thee, both into prison, and to death. {22:34} And he said, I
tell thee, Peter, the cock shall not crow this day, before that thou
shalt thrice deny that thou knowest me. {22:35} And he said unto them,
When I sent you without purse, and scrip, and shoes, lacked ye any
thing? And they said, Nothing. {22:36} 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. {22:37}
For I say unto you, that this that is written must yet be accomplished
in me, And he was reckoned among the transgressors: for the things
concerning me have an end. {22:38} And they said, Lord, behold, here
[are] two swords. And he said unto them, It is enough.

   {22:39} And he came out, and went, as he was wont, to the mount of
Olives; and his disciples also followed him. {22:40} And when he was at
the place, he said unto them, Pray that ye enter not into temptation.
{22:41} And he was withdrawn from them about a stone's cast, and
kneeled down, and prayed, {22:42} Saying, Father, if thou be willing,
remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.
{22:43} And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, strengthening
him. {22:44} And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his
sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
{22:45} And when he rose up from prayer, and was come to his disciples,
he found them sleeping for sorrow, {22:46} And said unto them, Why
sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.

   {22:47} 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. {22:48} But Jesus said unto him, Judas, betrayest
thou the Son of man with a kiss? {22:49} When they which were about him
saw what would follow, they said unto him, Lord, shall we smite with
the sword?

   {22:50} And one of them smote the servant of the high priest, and
cut off his right ear. {22:51} And Jesus answered and said, Suffer ye
thus far. And he touched his ear, and healed him. {22:52} Then Jesus
said unto the chief priests, and captains of the temple, and the
elders, which were come to him, Be ye come out, as against a thief,
with swords and staves? {22:53} 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.

   {22:54} Then took they him, and led [him,] and brought him into the
high priest's house. And Peter followed afar off. {22:55} And when they
had kindled a fire in the midst of the hall, and were set down
together, Peter sat down among them. {22:56} But a certain maid beheld
him as he sat by the fire, and earnestly looked upon him, and said,
This man was also with him. {22:57} And he denied him, saying, Woman, I
know him not. {22:58} And after a little while another saw him, and
said, Thou art also of them. And Peter said, Man, I am not. {22:59} And
about the space of one hour after another confidently affirmed, saying,
Of a truth this [fellow] also was with him: for he is a Galilaean.
{22:60} And Peter said, Man, I know not what thou sayest. And
immediately, while he yet spake, the cock crew. {22:61} And the Lord
turned, and looked upon Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the
Lord, how he had said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny
me thrice. {22:62} And Peter went out, and wept bitterly.

   {22:63} And the men that held Jesus mocked him, and smote [him.
]{22:64} And when they had blindfolded him, they struck him on the
face, and asked him, saying, Prophesy, who is it that smote thee?
{22:65} And many other things blasphemously spake they against him.

   {22:66} 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, {22:67} Art thou the Christ? tell us. And he said unto
them, If I tell you, ye will not believe: {22:68} And if I also ask
[you,] ye will not answer me, nor let [me] go. {22:69} Hereafter shall
the Son of man sit on the right hand of the power of God. {22:70} Then
said they all, Art thou then the Son of God? And he said unto them, Ye
say that I am. {22:71} And they said, What need we any further witness?
for we ourselves have heard of his own mouth.

   {23:1} And the whole multitude of them arose, and led him unto
Pilate. {23:2} And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this
[fellow] perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to
Caesar, saying that he himself is Christ a King. {23:3} And Pilate
asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews? And he answered him
and said, Thou sayest [it. ]{23:4} Then said Pilate to the chief
priests and [to] the people, I find no fault in this man. {23:5} And
they were the more fierce, saying, He stirreth up the people, teaching
throughout all Jewry, beginning from Galilee to this place. {23:6} When
Pilate heard of Galilee, he asked whether the man were a Galilaean.
{23:7} And as soon as he knew that he belonged unto Herod's
jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod, who himself also was at Jerusalem
at that time.

   {23:8} And when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceeding glad: for he was
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.
{23:9} Then he questioned with him in many words; but he answered him
nothing. {23:10} And the chief priests and scribes stood and vehemently
accused him. {23:11} 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.

   {23:12} And the same day Pilate and Herod were made friends
together: for before they were at enmity between themselves.

   {23:13} And Pilate, when he had called together the chief priests
and the rulers and the people, {23:14} Said unto them, Ye have brought
this man unto me, as one that 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: {23:15} No, nor yet Herod:
for I sent you to him; and, lo, nothing worthy of death is done unto
him. {23:16} I will therefore chastise him, and release [him. ]{23:17}
(For of necessity he must release one unto them at the feast.) {23:18}
And they cried out all at once, saying, Away with this [man,] and
release unto us Barabbas: {23:19} (Who for a certain sedition made in
the city, and for murder, was cast into prison.) {23:20} Pilate
therefore, willing to release Jesus, spake again to them. {23:21} But
they cried, saying, Crucify [him,] crucify him. {23:22} And he said
unto them the third time, Why, what evil hath he done? I have found no
cause of death in him: I will therefore chastise him, and let [him] go.
{23:23} And they were instant with loud voices, requiring that he might
be crucified. And the voices of them and of the chief priests
prevailed. {23:24} And Pilate gave sentence that it should be as they
required. {23:25} 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. {23:26} 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.

   {23:27} And there followed him a great company of people, and of
women, which also bewailed and lamented him. {23:28} But Jesus turning
unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for
yourselves, and for your children. {23:29} 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. {23:30} Then
shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills,
Cover us. {23:31} For if they do these things in a green tree, what
shall be done in the dry? {23:32} And there were also two others,
malefactors, led with him to be put to death. {23:33} 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.

   {23:34} Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not
what they do. And they parted his raiment, and cast lots. {23:35} And
the people stood beholding. And the rulers also with them derided
[him,] saying, He saved others; let him save himself, if he be Christ,
the chosen of God. {23:36} And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to
him, and offering him vinegar, {23:37} And saying, If thou be the king
of the Jews, save thyself. {23:38} And a superscription also was
written over him in letters of Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew, THIS IS
THE KING OF THE JEWS.

   {23:39} And one of the malefactors which were hanged railed on him,
saying, If thou be Christ, save thyself and us. {23:40} But the other
answering rebuked him, saying, Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art
in the same condemnation? {23:41} And we indeed justly; for we receive
the due reward of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss.
{23:42} And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into
thy kingdom. {23:43} And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee,
To day shalt thou be with me in paradise. {23:44} And it was about the
sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth
hour. {23:45} And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was
rent in the midst.

   {23:46} 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. {23:47} Now when the centurion saw what was done, he
glorified God, saying, Certainly this was a righteous man. {23:48} And
all the people that came together to that sight, beholding the things
which were done, smote their breasts, and returned. {23:49} And all his
acquaintance, and the women that followed him from Galilee, stood afar
off, beholding these things.

   {23:50} And, behold, [there was] a man named Joseph, a counsellor;
[and he was] a good man, and a just: {23:51} (The same had not
consented to the counsel and deed of them;) [he was] of Arimathaea, a
city of the Jews: who also himself waited for the kingdom of God.
{23:52} This [man] went unto Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus.
{23:53} And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a
sepulchre that was hewn in stone, wherein never man before was laid.
{23:54} And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on.
{23:55} And the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed
after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid. {23:56} And
they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the
sabbath day according to the commandment.

   {24:1} 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. {24:2} And they found the
stone rolled away from the sepulchre. {24:3} And they entered in, and
found not the body of the Lord Jesus. {24:4} And it came to pass, as
they were much perplexed thereabout, behold, two men stood by them in
shining garments: {24:5} And as they were afraid, and bowed down
[their] faces to the earth, they said unto them, Why seek ye the living
among the dead? {24:6} He is not here, but is risen: remember how he
spake unto you when he was yet in Galilee, {24:7} Saying, The Son of
man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified,
and the third day rise again. {24:8} And they remembered his words,
{24:9} And returned from the sepulchre, and told all these things unto
the eleven, and to all the rest. {24:10} It was Mary Magdalene, and
Joanna, and Mary [the mother] of James, and other [women that were]
with them, which told these things unto the apostles. {24:11} And their
words seemed to them as idle tales, and they believed them not. {24:12}
Then arose Peter, and ran unto the sepulchre; and stooping down, he
beheld the linen clothes laid by themselves, and departed, wondering in
himself at that which was come to pass.

   {24:13} And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village
called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem [about] threescore furlongs.
{24:14} And they talked together of all these things which had
happened. {24:15} And it came to pass, that, while they communed
[together] and reasoned, Jesus himself drew near, and went with them.
{24:16} But their eyes were holden that they should not know him.
{24:17} And he said unto them, What manner of communications [are]
these that ye have one to another, as ye walk, and are sad? {24:18} And
the one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answering said unto him, Art
thou only a stranger in Jerusalem, and hast not known the things which
are come to pass there in these days? {24:19} And he said unto them,
What things? And they said unto him, Concerning Jesus of Nazareth,
which was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the
people: {24:20} And how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him
to be condemned to death, and have crucified him. {24:21} But we
trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel: and
beside all this, to day is the third day since these things were done.
{24:22} Yea, and certain women also of our company made us astonished,
which were early at the sepulchre; {24:23} And when they found not his
body, they came, saying, that they had also seen a vision of angels,
which said that he was alive. {24:24} 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. {24:25} Then he said unto them, O fools,
and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken: {24:26}
Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his
glory? {24:27} And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he
expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning
himself. {24:28} And they drew nigh unto the village, whither they
went: and he made as though he would have gone further. {24:29} But
they constrained him, saying, Abide with us: for it is toward evening,
and the day is far spent. And he went in to tarry with them. {24:30}
And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them, he took bread, and
blessed [it,] and brake, and gave to them. {24:31} And their eyes were
opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight. {24:32}
And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while
he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?
{24:33} And they rose up the same hour, and returned to Jerusalem, and
found the eleven gathered together, and them that were with them,
{24:34} Saying, The Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared to Simon.
{24:35} And they told what things [were done] in the way, and how he
was known of them in breaking of bread.

   {24:36} And as they thus spake, Jesus himself stood in the midst of
them, and saith unto them, Peace [be] unto you. {24:37} But they were
terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they had seen a spirit.
{24:38} And he said unto them, Why are ye troubled? and why do thoughts
arise in your hearts? {24:39} Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I
myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as
ye see me have. {24:40} And when he had thus spoken, he shewed them
[his] hands and [his] feet. {24:41} And while they yet believed not for
joy, and wondered, he said unto them, Have ye here any meat? {24:42}
And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb.
{24:43} And he took [it,] and did eat before them. {24:44} 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. {24:45} Then opened he their understanding, that they
might understand the scriptures, {24:46} And said unto them, Thus it is
written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the
dead the third day: {24:47} And that repentance and remission of sins
should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at
Jerusalem. {24:48} And ye are witnesses of these things.

   {24:49} And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but
tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from
on high.

   {24:50} And he led them out as far as to Bethany, and he lifted up
his hands, and blessed them. {24:51} And it came to pass, while he
blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven.
{24:52} And they worshipped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great
joy: {24:53} And were continually in the temple, praising and blessing
God. Amen.





Malachi

   {1:1} The burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi. {1:2}
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,
{1:3} And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste
for the dragons of the wilderness. {1:4} Whereas Edom saith, We are
impoverished, but we will return 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. {1:5} And your eyes shall see,
and ye shall say, The LORD will be magnified from the border of Israel.

   {1:6} A son honoureth [his] father, and a servant his master: if
then I [be] a father, where [is] mine honour? and if I [be] a master,
where [is] my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that
despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name? {1:7}
Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say, Wherein have we
polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the LORD [is] contemptible.
{1:8} And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, [is it] not evil? and if
ye offer 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. {1:9} 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. {1:10} Who [is there] even among you
that would shut the doors [for nought?] neither do ye kindle [fire] on
mine altar for nought. I have no pleasure in you, saith the LORD of
hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand. {1:11} For from
the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the 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.

   {1:12} But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, The table of the
LORD [is] polluted; and the fruit thereof, [even] his meat, [is]
contemptible. {1:13} Ye said also, Behold, what a weariness [is it!]
and ye have snuffed 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. {1:14} 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.

   {2:1} And now, O ye priests, this commandment [is] for you. {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. {2:3} 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. {2:4} And ye shall know
that I have sent this commandment unto you, that my covenant might be
with Levi, saith the LORD of hosts. {2:5} My covenant was with him of
life and peace; and I gave them to him [for] the fear wherewith he
feared me, and was afraid before my name. {2:6} 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. {2:7} 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. {2:8} 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. {2:9}
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. {2:10} Have we not all one father? hath not one God created
us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by
profaning the covenant of our fathers?

   {2:11} Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is
committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the
holiness of the LORD which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a
strange god. {2:12} The LORD will cut off the man that doeth this, the
master and the scholar, out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him that
offereth an offering unto the LORD of hosts. {2:13} 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.

   {2:14} 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. {2:15} 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. {2:16} 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.

   {2:17} 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?

   {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. {3:2} 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' sope: {3:3} 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. {3:4} Then shall the offering of Judah and
Jerusalem be pleasant unto the LORD, as in the days of old, and as in
former years. {3:5} And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will
be a swift 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.
{3:6} For I [am] the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are
not consumed.

   {3:7} 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?

   {3:8} Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein
have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. {3:9} Ye [are] cursed
with a curse: for ye have robbed me, [even] this whole nation. {3:10}
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. ]{3:11} 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. {3:12} And all nations
shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the
LORD of hosts.

   {3:13} Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye
say, What have we spoken [so much] against thee? {3:14} Ye have said,
It [is] vain to serve God: and what profit [is it] that we have kept
his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of
hosts? {3:15} And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work
wickedness are set up; yea, [they that] tempt God are even delivered.

   {3:16} 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. {3:17} 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. {3:18} Then shall ye return, and
discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth
God and him that serveth him not.

   {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.

   {4:2} 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. {4:3} 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.

   {4:4} Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded
unto him in Horeb for all Israel, [with] the statutes and judgments.

   {4:5} Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming
of the great and dreadful day of the LORD: {4:6} And he shall turn the
heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to
their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.





The Prayer of Manasseh, or, The Prayer of Manasses King of Judah

   {1:1} O Lord, Almighty God of our fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob, and of their righteous seed; {1:2} who hast made heaven and
earth, with all the ornament thereof; {1:3} who hast bound the sea by
the word of thy commandment; who hast shut up the deep, and sealed it
by thy terrible and glorious name; {1:4} whom all men fear, and tremble
before thy power; for the majesty of thy glory cannot be borne, and
thine angry threatening toward sinners is importable: {1:5} but thy
merciful promise is unmeasurable and unsearchable; {1:6} for thou art
the most high Lord, of great compassion, longsuffering, very merciful,
and repentest of the evils of men. Thou, O Lord, according to thy great
goodness hast promised repentance and forgiveness to them that have
sinned against thee: and of thine infinite mercies hast appointed
repentance unto sinners, that they may be saved. {1:7} Thou therefore,
O Lord, that art the God of the just, hast not appointed repentance to
the just, as to Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, which have not sinned
against thee; but thou hast appointed repentance unto me that am a
sinner: {1:8} for I have sinned above the number of the sands of the
sea. My transgressions, O Lord, are multiplied: my transgressions are
multiplied, and I am not worthy to behold and see the height of heaven
for the multitude of mine iniquities. {1:9} I am bowed down with many
iron bands, that I cannot lift up mine head, neither have any release:
for I have provoked thy wrath, and done evil before thee: I did not thy
will, neither kept I thy commandments: I have set up abominations, and
have multiplied offences. {1:10} Now therefore I bow the knee of mine
heart, beseeching thee of grace. {1:11} I have sinned, O Lord, I have
sinned, and I acknowledge mine iniquities: {1:12} wherefore, I humbly
beseech thee, forgive me, O Lord, forgive me, and destroy me not with
mine iniquites. Be not angry with me for ever, by reserving evil for
me; neither condemn me to the lower parts of the earth. For thou art
the God, even the God of them that repent; {1:13} and in me thou wilt
shew all thy goodness: for thou wilt save me, that am unworthy,
according to thy great mercy. {1:14} Therefore I will praise thee for
ever all the days of my life: for all the powers of the heavens do
praise thee, and thine is the glory for ever and ever. Amen.





The Gospel According to St. Mark

   {1:1} The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God;
{1:2} As it is written in the prophets, Behold, I send my messenger
before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee. {1:3} The
voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord,
make his paths straight. {1:4} John did baptize in the wilderness, and
preach the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins. {1:5} And
there went out unto him all the land of Judaea, and they of Jerusalem,
and were all baptized of him in the river of Jordan, confessing their
sins. {1:6} 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; {1:7}
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. {1:8}
I indeed have baptized you with water: but he shall baptize you with
the Holy Ghost. {1:9} And it came to pass in those days, that Jesus
came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized of John in Jordan.
{1:10} And straightway coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens
opened, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon him: {1:11} And
there came a voice from heaven, [saying,] Thou art my beloved Son, in
whom I am well pleased. {1:12} And immediately the Spirit driveth him
into the wilderness. {1:13} And he was there in the wilderness forty
days, tempted of Satan; and was with the wild beasts; and the angels
ministered unto him. {1:14} Now after that John was put in prison,
Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God,
{1:15} And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at
hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel. {1:16} Now as he walked by the
sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew his brother casting a net into
the sea: for they were fishers. {1:17} And Jesus said unto them, Come
ye after me, and I will make you to become fishers of men. {1:18} And
straightway they forsook their nets, and followed him. {1:19} 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.
{1:20} And straightway he called them: and they left their father
Zebedee in the ship with the hired servants, and went after him. {1:21}
And they went into Capernaum; and straightway on the sabbath day he
entered into the synagogue, and taught. {1:22} And they were astonished
at his doctrine: for he taught them as one that had authority, and not
as the scribes. {1:23} And there was in their synagogue a man with an
unclean spirit; and he cried out, {1:24} Saying, Let [us] alone; what
have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to
destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God. {1:25} And
Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him. {1:26}
And when the unclean spirit had torn him, and cried with a loud voice,
he came out of him. {1:27} And they were all amazed, insomuch that they
questioned 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. {1:28} And immediately his fame spread
abroad throughout all the region round about Galilee. {1:29} And
forthwith, when they were come out of the synagogue, they entered into
the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John. {1:30} But Simon's
wife's mother lay sick of a fever, and anon they tell him of her.
{1:31} And he came and took her by the hand, and lifted her up; and
immediately the fever left her, and she ministered unto them. {1:32}
And at even, when the sun did set, they brought unto him all that were
diseased, and them that were possessed with devils. {1:33} And all the
city was gathered together at the door. {1:34} 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. {1:35} And in the
morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed
into a solitary place, and there prayed. {1:36} And Simon and they that
were with him followed after him. {1:37} And when they had found him,
they said unto him, All [men] seek for thee. {1:38} And he said unto
them, Let us go into the next towns, that I may preach there also: for
therefore came I forth. {1:39} And he preached in their synagogues
throughout all Galilee, and cast out devils. {1:40} And there came a
leper to him, beseeching him, and kneeling down to him, and saying unto
him, If thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. {1:41} And Jesus, moved
with compassion, put forth [his] hand, and touched him, and saith unto
him, I will; be thou clean. {1:42} And as soon as he had spoken,
immediately the leprosy departed from him, and he was cleansed. {1:43}
And he straitly charged him, and forthwith sent him away; {1:44} 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. {1:45} 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.

   {2:1} And again he entered into Capernaum, after [some] days; and it
was noised that he was in the house. {2:2} And straightway many were
gathered together, insomuch that there was no room to receive [them,]
no, not so much as about the door: and he preached the word unto them.
{2:3} And they come unto him, bringing one sick of the palsy, which was
borne of four. {2:4} And when they could not come nigh unto him for the
press, they 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. {2:5}
When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the sick of the palsy, Son,
thy sins be forgiven thee. {2:6} But there were certain of the scribes
sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts, {2:7} Why doth this [man]
thus speak blasphemies? who can forgive sins but God only? {2:8} And
immediately when Jesus perceived in his spirit that they so reasoned
within themselves, he said unto them, Why reason ye these things in
your hearts? {2:9} Whether is it easier to say to the sick of the
palsy, [Thy] sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and take up thy
bed, and walk? {2:10} But that ye may know that the Son of man hath
power on earth to forgive sins, (he saith to the sick of the palsy,)
{2:11} I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy bed, and go thy way into
thine house. {2:12} 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. {2:13} And he
went forth again by the sea side; and all the multitude resorted unto
him, and he taught them. {2:14} And as he passed by, he saw Levi the
[son] of Alphaeus sitting at the receipt of custom, and said unto him,
Follow me. And he arose and followed him. {2:15} 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. {2:16} 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? {2:17} 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. {2:18} 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? {2:19} 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. {2:20} But the days
will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then
shall they fast in those days. {2:21} 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. {2:22} 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. {2:23} 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. {2:24} And the
Pharisees said unto him, Behold, why do they on the sabbath day that
which is not lawful? {2:25} And he said unto them, Have ye never read
what David did, when he had need, and was an hungred, he, and they that
were with him? {2:26} 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? {2:27} And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man,
and not man for the sabbath: {2:28} Therefore the Son of man is Lord
also of the sabbath.

   {3:1} And he entered again into the synagogue; and there was a man
there which had a withered hand. {3:2} And they watched him, whether he
would heal him on the sabbath day; that they might accuse him. {3:3}
And he saith unto the man which had the withered hand, Stand forth.
{3:4} 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. {3:5} 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. {3:6} And the Pharisees went forth, and
straightway took counsel with the Herodians against him, how they might
destroy him. {3:7} But Jesus withdrew himself with his disciples to the
sea: and a great multitude from Galilee followed him, and from Judaea,
{3:8} And from Jerusalem, and from Idumaea, and [from] beyond Jordan;
and they about Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, when they had heard
what great things he did, came unto him. {3:9} And he spake to his
disciples, that a small ship should wait on him because of the
multitude, lest they should throng him. {3:10} For he had healed many;
insomuch that they pressed upon him for to touch him, as many as had
plagues. {3:11} And unclean spirits, when they saw him, fell down
before him, and cried, saying, Thou art the Son of God. {3:12} And he
straitly charged them that they should not make him known. {3:13} And
he goeth up into a mountain, and calleth [unto him] whom he would: and
they came unto him. {3:14} And he ordained twelve, that they should be
with him, and that he might send them forth to preach, {3:15} And to
have power to heal sicknesses, and to cast out devils: {3:16} And Simon
he surnamed Peter; {3:17} And James the [son] of Zebedee, and John the
brother of James; and he surnamed them Boanerges, which is, The sons of
thunder: {3:18} And Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew,
and Thomas, and James the [son] of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon
the Canaanite, {3:19} And Judas Iscariot, which also betrayed him: and
they went into an house. {3:20} And the multitude cometh together
again, so that they could not so much as eat bread. {3:21} And when his
friends heard [of it,] they went out to lay hold on him: for they said,
He is beside himself.

   {3:22} And the scribes which came down from Jerusalem said, He hath
Beelzebub, and by the prince of the devils casteth he out devils.
{3:23} And he called them [unto him,] and said unto them in parables,
How can Satan cast out Satan? {3:24} And if a kingdom be divided
against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. {3:25} And if a house be
divided against itself, that house cannot stand. {3:26} And if Satan
rise up against himself, and be divided, he cannot stand, but hath an
end. {3:27} No man can enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his
goods, except he will first bind the strong man; and then he will spoil
his house. {3:28} Verily I say unto you, All sins shall be forgiven
unto the sons of men, and blasphemies wherewith soever they shall
blaspheme: {3:29} But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost
hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation: {3:30}
Because they said, He hath an unclean spirit.

   {3:31} There came then his brethren and his mother, and, standing
without, sent unto him, calling him. {3:32} And the multitude sat about
him, and they said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren
without seek for thee. {3:33} And he answered them, saying, Who is my
mother, or my brethren? {3:34} And he looked round about on them which
sat about him, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren! {3:35} For
whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my
sister, and mother.

   {4:1} 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.
{4:2} And he taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in
his doctrine, {4:3} Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow:
{4:4} And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and
the fowls of the air came and devoured it up. {4:5} And some fell on
stony ground, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang
up, because it had no depth of earth: {4:6} But when the sun was up, it
was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away. {4:7} And
some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it
yielded no fruit. {4:8} And other fell on good ground, and did yield
fruit that sprang up and increased; and brought forth, some thirty, and
some sixty, and some an hundred. {4:9} And he said unto them, He that
hath ears to hear, let him hear. {4:10} And when he was alone, they
that were about him with the twelve asked of him the parable. {4:11}
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: {4:12} 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. {4:13}
And he said unto them, Know ye not this parable? and how then will ye
know all parables?

   {4:14} The sower soweth the word. {4:15} 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. {4:16} And these are they likewise which are sown on stony
ground; who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with
gladness; {4:17} And have no root in themselves, and so endure but for
a time: afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the
word's sake, immediately they are offended. {4:18} And these are they
which are sown among thorns; such as hear the word, {4:19} 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.
{4:20} 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.

   {4:21} And he said unto them, Is a candle brought to be put under a
bushel, or under a bed? and not to be set on a candlestick? {4:22} For
there is nothing hid, which shall not be manifested; neither was any
thing kept secret, but that it should come abroad. {4:23} If any man
have ears to hear, let him hear. {4:24} 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. {4:25} For he that
hath, to him shall be given: and he that hath not, from him shall be
taken even that which he hath. {4:26} And he said, So is the kingdom of
God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; {4:27} And should
sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up,
he knoweth not how. {4:28} For the earth bringeth forth fruit of
herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the
ear. {4:29} But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth
in the sickle, because the harvest is come.

   {4:30} And he said, Whereunto shall we liken the kingdom of God? or
with what comparison shall we compare it? {4:31} [It is] like a grain
of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all
the seeds that be in the earth: {4:32} But when it is sown, it groweth
up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great
branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of
it. {4:33} And with many such parables spake he the word unto them, as
they were able to hear [it. ]{4:34} But without a parable spake he not
unto them: and when they were alone, he expounded all things to his
disciples. {4:35} And the same day, when the even was come, he saith
unto them, Let us pass over unto the other side. {4:36} And when they
had sent away the multitude, they took him even as he was in the ship.
And there were also with him other little ships. {4:37} And there arose
a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship, so that it was
now full. {4:38} And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a
pillow: and they awake him, and say unto him, Master, carest thou not
that we perish? {4:39} 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. {4:40} And he said unto them, Why are ye so fearful? how is
it that ye have no faith? {4:41} And they feared exceedingly, and said
one to another, What manner of man is this, that even the wind and the
sea obey him?

   {5:1} And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the
country of the Gadarenes. {5:2} And when he was come out of the ship,
immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean
spirit, {5:3} Who had [his] dwelling among the tombs; and no man could
bind him, no, not with chains: {5:4} Because that he had been often
bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder
by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any [man] tame
him. {5:5} And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in
the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones. {5:6} But when he
saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him, {5:7} 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.
{5:8} For he said unto him, Come out of the man, [thou] unclean spirit.
{5:9} And he asked him, What [is] thy name? And he answered, saying, My
name [is] Legion: for we are many. {5:10} And he besought him much that
he would not send them away out of the country. {5:11} Now there was
there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine feeding. {5:12} And
all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we
may enter into them. {5:13} And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And
the unclean spirits 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. {5:14} 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. {5:15} 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. {5:16} And they that saw [it] told them how it befell to him
that was possessed with the devil, and [also] concerning the swine.
{5:17} And they began to pray him to depart out of their coasts. {5:18}
And when he was come into the ship, he that had been possessed with the
devil prayed him that he might be with him. {5:19} 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. {5:20} And he departed, and began to publish in
Decapolis how great things Jesus had done for him: and all [men] did
marvel. {5:21} 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. {5:22} And, behold, there cometh one of the rulers of the
synagogue, Jairus by name; and when he saw him, he fell at his feet,
{5:23} And besought him greatly, saying, My little daughter lieth at
the point of death: [I pray thee,] come and lay thy hands on her, that
she may be healed; and she shall live. {5:24} And [Jesus] went with
him; and much people followed him, and thronged him. {5:25} And a
certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years, {5:26} And had
suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she
had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse, {5:27} When she
had heard of Jesus, came in the press behind, and touched his garment.
{5:28} For she said, If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole.
{5:29} And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she
felt in [her] body that she was healed of that plague. {5:30} And
Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him,
turned him about in the press, and said, Who touched my clothes? {5:31}
And his disciples said unto him, Thou seest the multitude thronging
thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me? {5:32} And he looked round about
to see her that had done this thing. {5:33} But the woman fearing and
trembling, knowing what was done in her, came and fell down before him,
and told him all the truth. {5:34} And he said unto her, Daughter, thy
faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague.
{5:35} While he yet spake, there came from the ruler of the synagogue's
[house certain] which said, Thy daughter is dead: why troublest thou
the Master any further? {5:36} As soon as Jesus heard the word that was
spoken, he saith unto the ruler of the synagogue, Be not afraid, only
believe. {5:37} And he suffered no man to follow him, save Peter, and
James, and John the brother of James. {5:38} And he cometh to the house
of the ruler of the synagogue, and seeth the tumult, and them that wept
and wailed greatly. {5:39} And when he was come in, he saith unto them,
Why make ye this ado, and weep? the damsel is not dead, but sleepeth.
{5:40} 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. {5:41} And he
took the damsel by the hand, and said unto her, Talitha cumi; which is,
being interpreted, Damsel, I say unto thee, arise. {5:42} And
straightway the damsel arose, and walked; for she was [of the age] of
twelve years. And they were astonished with a great astonishment.
{5:43} And he charged them straitly that no man should know it; and
commanded that something should be given her to eat.

   {6:1} And he went out from thence, and came into his own country;
and his disciples follow him. {6:2} And when the sabbath day was come,
he began to teach in the synagogue: and many hearing [him] were
astonished, saying, From whence hath this [man] these things? and what
wisdom [is] this which is given unto him, that even such mighty works
are wrought by his hands? {6:3} Is not this the carpenter, the son of
Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? and are
not his sisters here with us? And they were offended at him. {6:4} 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. {6:5} And he
could there do no mighty work, save that he laid his hands upon a few
sick folk, and healed [them. ]{6:6} And he marvelled because of their
unbelief. And he went round about the villages, teaching.

   {6:7} And he called [unto him] the twelve, and began to send them
forth by two and two; and gave them power over unclean spirits; {6:8}
And commanded them that they should take nothing for [their] journey,
save a staff only; no scrip, no bread, no money in [their] purse: {6:9}
But [be] shod with sandals; and not put on two coats. {6:10} And he
said unto them, In what place soever ye enter into an house, there
abide till ye depart from that place. {6:11} And whosoever shall not
receive you, nor hear you, when ye 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. {6:12} And they went out, and preached that men
should repent. {6:13} And they cast out many devils, and anointed with
oil many that were sick, and healed [them. ]{6:14} And king Herod heard
[of him;] (for his name was spread abroad:) and he said, That John the
Baptist was risen from the dead, and therefore mighty works do shew
forth themselves in him. {6:15} Others said, That it is Elias. And
others said, That it is a prophet, or as one of the prophets. {6:16}
But when Herod heard [thereof,] he said, It is John, whom I beheaded:
he is risen from the dead. {6:17} For Herod himself had sent forth and
laid hold upon John, and bound him in prison for Herodias' sake, his
brother Philip's wife: for he had married her. {6:18} For John had said
unto Herod, It is not lawful for thee to have thy brother's wife.
{6:19} Therefore Herodias had a quarrel against him, and would have
killed him; but she could not: {6:20} For Herod feared John, knowing
that he was a just man and an holy, and observed him; and when he heard
him, he did many things, and heard him gladly. {6:21} 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; {6:22} 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. {6:23} And he sware
unto her, Whatsoever thou shalt ask of me, I will give [it] thee, unto
the half of my kingdom. {6:24} And she went forth, and said unto her
mother, What shall I ask? And she said, The head of John the Baptist.
{6:25} And she came in straightway with haste unto the king, and asked,
saying, I will that thou give me by and by in a charger the head of
John the Baptist. {6:26} And the king was exceeding sorry; [yet] for
his oath's sake, and for their sakes which sat with him, he would not
reject her. {6:27} And immediately the king sent an executioner, and
commanded his head to be brought: and he went and beheaded him in the
prison, {6:28} And brought his head in a charger, and gave it to the
damsel: and the damsel gave it to her mother. {6:29} And when his
disciples heard [of it,] they came and took up his corpse, and laid it
in a tomb. {6:30} And the apostles gathered themselves together unto
Jesus, and told him all things, both what they had done, and what they
had taught. {6:31} 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. {6:32} And they departed
into a desert place by ship privately. {6:33} 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. {6:34} 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. {6:35} 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: {6:36} 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. {6:37} 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? {6:38} He saith unto
them, How many loaves have ye? go and see. And when they knew, they
say, Five, and two fishes. {6:39} And he commanded them to make all sit
down by companies upon the green grass. {6:40} And they sat down in
ranks, by hundreds, and by fifties. {6:41} 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. {6:42} And they did
all eat, and were filled. {6:43} And they took up twelve baskets full
of the fragments, and of the fishes. {6:44} And they that did eat of
the loaves were about five thousand men. {6:45} 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. {6:46} And
when he had sent them away, he departed into a mountain to pray. {6:47}
And when even was come, the ship was in the midst of the sea, and he
alone on the land. {6:48} And he saw them toiling in rowing; for the
wind was contrary unto them: and about the fourth watch of the night he
cometh unto them, walking upon the sea, and would have passed by them.
{6:49} But when they saw him walking upon the sea, they supposed it had
been a spirit, and cried out: {6:50} For they all saw him, and were
troubled. And immediately he talked with them, and saith unto them, Be
of good cheer: it is I; be not afraid. {6:51} And he went up unto them
into the ship; and the wind ceased: and they were sore amazed in
themselves beyond measure, and wondered. {6:52} For they considered not
[the miracle] of the loaves: for their heart was hardened. {6:53} And
when they had passed over, they came into the land of Gennesaret, and
drew to the shore. {6:54} And when they were come out of the ship,
straightway they knew him, {6:55} And ran through that whole region
round about, and began to carry about in beds those that were sick,
where they heard he was. {6:56} 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.

   {7:1} Then came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the
scribes, which came from Jerusalem. {7:2} And when they saw some of his
disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands,
they found fault. {7:3} For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except
they wash [their] hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the
elders. {7:4} And [when they come] from the market, except they wash,
they eat 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. {7:5} 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? {7:6} He answered and said unto them, Well hath
Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people
honoureth me with [their] lips, but their heart is far from me. {7:7}
Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching [for] doctrines the
commandments of men. {7:8} 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. {7:9} And he said unto them, Full well ye
reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.
{7:10} For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso
curseth father or mother, let him die the death: {7:11} But ye say, If
a man shall say to his father or mother, [It is] Corban, that is to
say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; [he shall
be free. ]{7:12} And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father
or his mother; {7:13} Making the word of God of none effect through
your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do
ye.

   {7:14} And when he had called all the people [unto him,] he said
unto them, Hearken unto me every one [of you,] and understand: {7:15}
There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile
him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile
the man. {7:16} If any man have ears to hear, let him hear. {7:17} And
when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples asked
him concerning the parable. {7:18} And he saith unto them, Are ye so
without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing
from without entereth into the man, [it] cannot defile him; {7:19}
Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth
out into the draught, purging all meats? {7:20} And he said, That which
cometh out of the man, that defileth the man. {7:21} For from within,
out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries,
fornications, murders, {7:22} Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit,
lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: {7:23} All
these evil things come from within, and defile the man.

   {7:24} 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. {7:25} For a [certain] woman, whose young
daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his
feet: {7:26} The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she
besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter.
{7:27} 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. {7:28} And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the
dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs. {7:29} And he said
unto her, For this saying go thy way; the devil is gone out of thy
daughter. {7:30} And when she was come to her house, she found the
devil gone out, and her daughter laid upon the bed.

   {7:31} And again, departing from the coasts of Tyre and Sidon, he
came unto the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the coasts of
Decapolis. {7:32} 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. {7:33} And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his
fingers into his ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue; {7:34} And
looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that
is, Be opened. {7:35} And straightway his ears were opened, and the
string of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain. {7:36} And he
charged them that they should tell no man: but the more he charged
them, so much the more a great deal they published [it; ]{7:37} And
were beyond measure astonished, saying, He hath done all things well:
he maketh both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.

   {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, {8:2} I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now
been with me three days, and have nothing to eat: {8:3} And if I send
them away fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the way: for
divers of them came from far. {8:4} And his disciples answered him,
From whence can a man satisfy these [men] with bread here in the
wilderness? {8:5} And he asked them, How many loaves have ye? And they
said, Seven. {8:6} 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. {8:7} And they had a few small fishes: and he
blessed, and commanded to set them also before [them. ]{8:8} So they
did eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken [meat] that
was left seven baskets. {8:9} And they that had eaten were about four
thousand: and he sent them away. {8:10} And straightway he entered into
a ship with his disciples, and came into the parts of Dalmanutha.
{8:11} And the Pharisees came forth, and began to question with him,
seeking of him a sign from heaven, tempting him. {8:12} And he sighed
deeply in his spirit, and saith, Why doth this generation seek after a
sign? verily I say unto you, There shall no sign be given unto this
generation. {8:13} And he left them, and entering into the ship again
departed to the other side.

   {8:14} Now [the disciples] had forgotten to take bread, neither had
they in the ship with them more than one loaf. {8:15} And he charged
them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and
[of] the leaven of Herod. {8:16} And they reasoned among themselves,
saying, [It is] because we have no bread. {8:17} And when Jesus knew
[it,] he saith unto them, Why reason ye, because ye have no bread?
perceive ye not yet, neither understand? have ye your heart yet
hardened? {8:18} Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not?
and do ye not remember? {8:19} When I brake the five loaves among five
thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? They say unto
him, Twelve. {8:20} And when the seven among four thousand, how many
baskets full of fragments took ye up? And they said, Seven. {8:21} And
he said unto them, How is it that ye do not understand?

   {8:22} And he cometh to Bethsaida; and they bring a blind man unto
him, and besought him to touch him. {8:23} And he took the blind man by
the hand, and led him out of the town; and when he had spit on his
eyes, and put his hands upon him, he asked him if he saw ought. {8:24}
And he looked up, and said, I see men as trees, walking. {8:25} After
that he put [his] hands again upon his eyes, and made him look up: and
he was restored, and saw every man clearly. {8:26} And he sent him away
to his house, saying, Neither go into the town, nor tell [it] to any in
the town.

   {8:27} And Jesus went out, and his disciples, into the towns of
Caesarea Philippi: and by the way he asked his disciples, saying unto
them, Whom do men say that I am? {8:28} And they answered, John the
Baptist: but some [say,] Elias; and others, One of the prophets. {8:29}
And he saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? And Peter answereth
and saith unto him, Thou art the Christ. {8:30} And he charged them
that they should tell no man of him. {8:31} 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. {8:32} And he spake that saying openly.
And Peter took him, and began to rebuke him. {8:33} But when he had
turned about and looked on his disciples, he 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.

   {8:34} 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. {8:35} 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. {8:36}
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and
lose his own soul? {8:37} Or what shall a man give in exchange for his
soul? {8:38} Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words
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.

   {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.

   {9:2} And after six days Jesus taketh [with him] Peter, and James,
and John, and leadeth them up into an high mountain apart by
themselves: and he was transfigured before them. {9:3} And his raiment
became shining, exceeding white as snow; so as no fuller on earth can
white them. {9:4} And there appeared unto them Elias with Moses: and
they were talking with Jesus. {9:5} And Peter answered and said to
Jesus, Master, it is good for us to be here: and let us make three
tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias. {9:6}
For he wist not what to say; for they were sore afraid. {9:7} And there
was a cloud that overshadowed them: and a voice came out of the cloud,
saying, This is my beloved Son: hear him. {9:8} And suddenly, when they
had looked round about, they saw no man any more, save Jesus only with
themselves. {9:9} And as they came down from the mountain, he charged
them that they should tell no man what things they had seen, till the
Son of man were risen from the dead. {9:10} And they kept that saying
with themselves, questioning one with another what the rising from the
dead should mean. {9:11} And they asked him, saying, Why say the
scribes that Elias must first come? {9:12} 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. {9:13} But I say unto you, That Elias is indeed come,
and they have done unto him whatsoever they listed, as it is written of
him.

   {9:14} And when he came to [his] disciples, he saw a great multitude
about them, and the scribes questioning with them. {9:15} And
straightway all the people, when they beheld him, were greatly amazed,
and running to [him] saluted him. {9:16} And he asked the scribes, What
question ye with them? {9:17} And one of the multitude answered and
said, Master, I have brought unto thee my son, which hath a dumb
spirit; {9:18} And wheresoever he taketh him, he teareth him: and he
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. {9:19}
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. {9:20} 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. {9:21} And
he asked his father, How long is it ago since this came unto him? And
he said, Of a child. {9:22} And ofttimes it hath cast him into the
fire, and into the waters, to destroy him: but if thou canst do any
thing, have compassion on us, and help us. {9:23} Jesus said unto him,
If thou canst believe, all things [are] possible to him that believeth.
{9:24} And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with
tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief. {9:25} When Jesus saw
that the people came running together, he rebuked the foul spirit,
saying unto him, [Thou] dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee, come out
of him, and enter no more into him. {9:26} And [the spirit] cried, and
rent him sore, and came out of him: and he was as one dead; insomuch
that many said, He is dead. {9:27} But Jesus took him by the hand, and
lifted him up; and he arose. {9:28} And when he was come into the
house, his disciples asked him privately, Why could not we cast him
out? {9:29} And he said unto them, This kind can come forth by nothing,
but by prayer and fasting.

   {9:30} And they departed thence, and passed through Galilee; and he
would not that any man should know [it. ]{9:31} For he taught his
disciples, and said unto them, The Son of man is delivered into the
hands of men, and they shall kill him; and after that he is killed, he
shall rise the third day. {9:32} But they understood not that saying,
and were afraid to ask him. {9:33} And he came to Capernaum: and being
in the house he asked them, What was it that ye disputed among
yourselves by the way? {9:34} But they held their peace: for by the way
they had disputed among themselves, who [should be] the greatest.
{9:35} And he sat down, and called the twelve, and saith unto them, If
any man desire to be first, [the same] shall be last of all, and
servant of all. {9:36} And he took a child, and set him in the midst of
them: and when he had taken him in his arms, he said unto them, {9:37}
Whosoever shall receive one of such children in my name, receiveth me:
and whosoever shall receive me, receiveth not me, but him that sent me.

   {9:38} 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. {9:39} But Jesus said, Forbid him not: for there
is no man which shall do a miracle in my name, that can lightly speak
evil of me. {9:40} For he that is not against us is on our part. {9:41}
For whosoever shall give you a cup of water to drink in my name,
because ye belong to Christ, verily I say unto you, he shall not lose
his reward. {9:42} 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. {9:43} 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: {9:44} Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is
not quenched. {9:45} 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: {9:46}
Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. {9:47} 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: {9:48} Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not
quenched. {9:49} For every one shall be salted with fire, and every
sacrifice shall be salted with salt. {9:50} Salt [is] good: but if the
salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in
yourselves, and have peace one with another.

   {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.

   {10:2} And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful
for a man to put away [his] wife? tempting him. {10:3} And he answered
and said unto them, What did Moses command you? {10:4} And they said,
Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put [her] away.
{10:5} And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your
heart he wrote you this precept. {10:6} But from the beginning of the
creation God made them male and female. {10:7} For this cause shall a
man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife; {10:8} And
they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one
flesh. {10:9} What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put
asunder. {10:10} And in the house his disciples asked him again of the
same [matter. ]{10:11} And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away
his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her. {10:12}
And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another,
she committeth adultery.

   {10:13} And they brought young children to him, that he should touch
them: and [his] disciples rebuked those that brought [them. ]{10:14}
But when Jesus saw [it,] he was much displeased, and said unto them,
Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of
such is the kingdom of God. {10:15} Verily I say unto you, Whosoever
shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not
enter therein. {10:16} And he took them up in his arms, put [his] hands
upon them, and blessed them.

   {10:17} 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? {10:18} And Jesus said unto him,
Why callest thou me good? [there is] none good but one, [that is,] God.
{10:19} Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not
kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy
father and mother. {10:20} And he answered and said unto him, Master,
all these have I observed from my youth. {10:21} Then Jesus beholding
him loved him, and said unto him, One 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. {10:22}
And he was sad at that saying, and went away grieved: for he had great
possessions.

   {10:23} And Jesus looked round about, and saith unto his disciples,
How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!
{10:24} 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! {10:25} It is
easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich
man to enter into the kingdom of God. {10:26} And they were astonished
out of measure, saying among themselves, Who then can be saved? {10:27}
And Jesus looking upon them saith, With men [it is] impossible, but not
with God: for with God all things are possible.

   {10:28} Then Peter began to say unto him, Lo, we have left all, and
have followed thee. {10:29} And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say
unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or
sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my
sake, and the gospel's, {10:30} But he shall receive an hundredfold now
in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and
children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come
eternal life. {10:31} But many [that are] first shall be last; and the
last first.

   {10:32} And they were in the way going up to Jerusalem; and Jesus
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, {10:33} [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: {10:34} 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.

   {10:35} And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, come unto him,
saying, Master, we would that thou shouldest do for us whatsoever we
shall desire. {10:36} And he said unto them, What would ye that I
should do for you? {10:37} 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. {10:38} 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? {10:39} 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:
{10:40} But to sit on my right hand and on my left hand is not mine to
give; but [it shall be given to them] for whom it is prepared. {10:41}
And when the ten heard [it,] they began to be much displeased with
James and John. {10:42} But Jesus called them [to him,] and saith unto
them, Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles
exercise lordship over them; and their great ones exercise authority
upon them. {10:43} But so shall it not be among you: but whosoever will
be great among you, shall be your minister: {10:44} And whosoever of
you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all. {10:45} For even the
Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give
his life a ransom for many.

   {10:46} And they came to Jericho: and as he went out of Jericho with
his disciples and a great number of people, blind Bartimaeus, the son
of Timaeus, sat by the highway side begging. {10:47} And when he heard
that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out, and say, Jesus,
[thou] Son of David, have mercy on me. {10:48} 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. {10:49} 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. {10:50} And he,
casting away his garment, rose, and came to Jesus. {10:51} 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.
{10:52} 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.

   {11:1} And when they came nigh to Jerusalem, unto Bethphage and
Bethany, at the mount of Olives, he sendeth forth two of his disciples,
{11:2} And saith unto them, Go your way into the village over against
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. ]{11:3} 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. {11:4} 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. {11:5} And certain of them that stood
there said unto them, What do ye, loosing the colt? {11:6} And they
said unto them even as Jesus had commanded: and they let them go.
{11:7} And they brought the colt to Jesus, and cast their garments on
him; and he sat upon him. {11:8} And many spread their garments in the
way: and others cut down branches off the trees, and strawed [them] in
the way. {11:9} And they that went before, and they that followed,
cried, saying, Hosanna; Blessed [is] he that cometh in the name of the
Lord: {11:10} Blessed [be] the kingdom of our father David, that cometh
in the name of the Lord: Hosanna in the highest. {11:11} And Jesus
entered into Jerusalem, and into the temple: and when he had looked
round about upon all things, and now the eventide was come, he went out
unto Bethany with the twelve.

   {11:12} And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was
hungry: {11:13} 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. ]{11:14}
And Jesus answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit of thee hereafter
for ever. And his disciples heard [it.]

   {11:15} And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple,
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; {11:16} And would not suffer that any man should carry
[any] vessel through the temple. {11:17} And he taught, saying unto
them, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the
house of prayer? but ye have made it a den of thieves. {11:18} 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. {11:19} And when even was come, he went out of the city.

   {11:20} And in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree
dried up from the roots. {11:21} And Peter calling to remembrance saith
unto him, Master, behold, the fig tree which thou cursedst is withered
away. {11:22} And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God.
{11:23} 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. {11:24}
Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray,
believe that ye receive [them,] and ye shall have [them. ]{11:25} And
when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your
Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses. {11:26}
But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven
forgive your trespasses.

   {11:27} And they come again to Jerusalem: and as he was walking in
the temple, there come to him the chief priests, and the scribes, and
the elders, {11:28} And say unto him, By what authority doest thou
these things? and who gave thee this authority to do these things?
{11:29} And Jesus answered and said unto them, I will also ask of you
one question, and answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do
these things. {11:30} The baptism of John, was [it] from heaven, or of
men? answer me. {11:31} And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If
we shall say, From heaven; he will say, Why then did ye not believe
him? {11:32} But if we shall say, Of men; they feared the people: for
all [men] counted John, that he was a prophet indeed. {11:33} And they
answered and said unto Jesus, We cannot tell. And Jesus answering saith
unto them, Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things.

   {12:1} And he began to speak unto them by parables. A [certain] man
planted a 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. {12:2} And at the season he sent to the
husbandmen a servant, that he might receive from the husbandmen of the
fruit of the vineyard. {12:3} And they caught [him,] and beat him, and
sent [him] away empty. {12:4} 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. {12:5} And again he sent
another; and him they killed, and many others; beating some, and
killing some. {12:6} Having yet therefore one son, his wellbeloved, he
sent him also last unto them, saying, They will reverence my son.
{12:7} But those husbandmen said among themselves, This is the heir;
come, let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be ours. {12:8} And
they took him, and killed [him,] and cast [him] out of the vineyard.
{12:9} What shall therefore the lord of the vineyard do? he will come
and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard unto others.
{12:10} And have ye not read this scripture; The stone which the
builders rejected is become the head of the corner: {12:11} This was
the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes? {12:12} 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.

   {12:13} And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the
Herodians, to catch him in [his] words. {12:14} And when they were
come, they say unto him, Master, we know 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?
{12:15} 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. ]{12:16} And they brought [it.] And he saith unto them,
Whose [is] this image and superscription? And they said unto him,
Caesar's. {12:17} And Jesus answering said unto them, Render to Caesar
the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's. And
they marvelled at him.

   {12:18} Then come unto him the Sadducees, which say there is no
resurrection; and they asked him, saying, {12:19} Master, Moses wrote
unto us, If a man's brother die, and leave [his] wife [behind him,] and
leave no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up
seed unto his brother. {12:20} Now there were seven brethren: and the
first took a wife, and dying left no seed. {12:21} And the second took
her, and died, neither left he any seed: and the third likewise.
{12:22} And the seven had her, and left no seed: last of all the woman
died also. {12:23} In the resurrection therefore, when they shall rise,
whose wife shall she be of them? for the seven had her to wife. {12:24}
And Jesus answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore err, because ye
know not the scriptures, neither the power of God? {12:25} For when
they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in
marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven. {12:26} 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? {12:27} He is not
the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly
err.

   {12:28} And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning
together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him,
Which is the first commandment of all? {12:29} And Jesus answered him,
The first of all the commandments [is,] Hear, O Israel; The Lord our
God is one Lord: {12:30} And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all
thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all
thy strength: this is the first commandment. {12:31} And the second
[is] like, [namely] this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
There is none other commandment greater than these. {12:32} And the
scribe said unto him, Well, Master, thou hast said the truth: for there
is one God; and there is none other but he: {12:33} 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. {12:34}
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.]

   {12:35} And Jesus answered and said, while he taught in the temple,
How say the scribes that Christ is the Son of David? {12:36} For David
himself said by the Holy Ghost, The Lord said to my Lord, Sit thou on
my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool. {12:37} David
therefore himself calleth him Lord; and whence is he [then] his son?
And the common people heard him gladly.

   {12:38} And he said unto them in his doctrine, Beware of the
scribes, which love to go in long clothing, and [love] salutations in
the marketplaces, {12:39} And the chief seats in the synagogues, and
the uppermost rooms at feasts: {12:40} Which devour widows' houses, and
for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive greater damnation.

   {12:41} And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the
people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in
much. {12:42} And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two
mites, which make a farthing. {12:43} And he called [unto him] his
disciples, and saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That this poor
widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the
treasury: {12:44} 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.

   {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! ]{13:2} 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. {13:3} And as he sat upon the mount of Olives over
against the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him
privately, {13:4} Tell us, when shall these things be? and what [shall
be] the sign when all these things shall be fulfilled? {13:5} And Jesus
answering them began to say, Take heed lest any [man] deceive you:
{13:6} For many shall come in my name, saying, I am [Christ;] and shall
deceive many. {13:7} 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. {13:8} 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.

   {13:9} But take heed to yourselves: for they shall deliver you up to
councils; and in the synagogues ye shall be beaten: and ye shall be
brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony against
them. {13:10} And the gospel must first be published among all nations.
{13:11} 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. {13:12} 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. {13:13} And ye shall be hated of all [men] for my name's sake:
but he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

   {13:14} But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken
of 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: {13:15} And let him that is on the housetop not go down into
the house, neither enter [therein,] to take any thing out of his house:
{13:16} And let him that is in the field not turn back again for to
take up his garment. {13:17} But woe to them that are with child, and
to them that give suck in those days! {13:18} And pray ye that your
flight be not in the winter. {13:19} 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. {13:20} 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.
{13:21} And then if any man shall say to you, Lo, here [is] Christ; or,
lo, [he is] there; believe [him] not: {13:22} For false Christs and
false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce,
if [it were] possible, even the elect. {13:23} But take ye heed:
behold, I have foretold you all things.

   {13:24} But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be
darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, {13:25} And the stars
of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be
shaken. {13:26} And then shall they see the Son of man coming in the
clouds with great power and glory. {13:27} And then shall he send his
angels, and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from
the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven.
{13:28} Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When her branch is yet
tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is near: {13:29}
So ye in like manner, when ye shall see these things come to pass, know
that it is nigh, [even] at the doors. {13:30} Verily I say unto you,
that this generation shall not pass, till all these things be done.
{13:31} Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass
away.

   {13:32} But of that day and [that] hour knoweth no man, no, not the
angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father. {13:33}
Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is. {13:34}
[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. {13:35} Watch ye therefore: for ye
know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight,
or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning: {13:36} Lest coming suddenly
he find you sleeping. {13:37} And what I say unto you I say unto all,
Watch.

   {14:1} 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. {14:2} But they said,
Not on the feast [day,] lest there be an uproar of the people.

   {14:3} And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he
sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of
spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured [it] on his
head. {14:4} And there were some that had indignation within
themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made? {14:5}
For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have
been given to the poor. And they murmured against her. {14:6} And Jesus
said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work
on me. {14:7} For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye
will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always. {14:8} She hath
done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the
burying. {14:9} Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be
preached throughout the whole world, [this] also that she hath done
shall be spoken of for a memorial of her.

   {14:10} And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went unto the chief
priests, to betray him unto them. {14:11} And when they heard [it,]
they were glad, and promised to give him money. And he sought how he
might conveniently betray him.

   {14:12} And the first day of unleavened bread, when they killed the
passover, his disciples said unto him, Where wilt thou that we go and
prepare that thou mayest eat the passover? {14:13} And he sendeth forth
two of his disciples, and saith unto them, Go ye into the city, and
there shall meet you a man bearing a pitcher of water: follow him.
{14:14} 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? {14:15} And he will shew you a large
upper room furnished [and] prepared: there make ready for us. {14:16}
And his disciples went forth, and came into the city, and found as he
had said unto them: and they made ready the passover. {14:17} And in
the evening he cometh with the twelve. {14:18} And as they sat and did
eat, Jesus said, Verily I say unto you, One of you which eateth with me
shall betray me. {14:19} And they began to be sorrowful, and to say
unto him one by one, [Is] it I? and another [said, Is] it I? {14:20}
And he answered and said unto them, [It is] one of the twelve, that
dippeth with me in the dish. {14:21} The Son of man indeed goeth, as it
is written of him: but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is
betrayed! good were it for that man if he had never been born.

   {14:22} 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.
{14:23} And he took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave [it]
to them: and they all drank of it. {14:24} And he said unto them, This
is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many. {14:25}
Verily I say unto you, I will drink no more of the fruit of the vine,
until that day that I drink it new in the kingdom of God.

   {14:26} And when they had sung an hymn, they went out into the mount
of Olives. {14:27} 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. {14:28} But after that I am risen, I
will go before you into Galilee. {14:29} But Peter said unto him,
Although all shall be offended, yet [will] not I. {14:30} 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. {14:31}
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. {14:32} And they
came to a place which was named Gethsemane: and he saith to his
disciples, Sit ye here, while I shall pray. {14:33} And he taketh with
him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be
very heavy; {14:34} And saith unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful
unto death: tarry ye here, and watch. {14:35} And he went forward a
little, and fell on the ground, and prayed that, if it were possible,
the hour might pass from him. {14:36} And he said, Abba, Father, all
things [are] possible unto thee; take away this cup from me:
nevertheless not what I will, but what thou wilt. {14:37} And he
cometh, and findeth them sleeping, and saith unto Peter, Simon,
sleepest thou? couldest not thou watch one hour? {14:38} Watch ye and
pray, lest ye enter into temptation. The spirit truly [is] ready, but
the flesh [is] weak. {14:39} And again he went away, and prayed, and
spake the same words. {14:40} And when he returned, he found them
asleep again, (for their eyes were heavy,) neither wist they what to
answer him. {14:41} And he cometh the third time, and saith unto them,
Sleep on now, and take [your] rest: it is enough, the hour is come;
behold, the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. {14:42}
Rise up, let us go; lo, he that betrayeth me is at hand.

   {14:43} And immediately, while he yet spake, cometh Judas, one of
the twelve, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from
the chief priest and the scribes and the elders. {14:44} 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. {14:45} And as
soon as he was come, he goeth straightway to him, and saith, Master,
master; and kissed him.

   {14:46} And they laid their hands on him, and took him. {14:47} And
one of them that stood by drew a sword, and smote a servant of the high
priest, and cut off his ear. {14:48} And Jesus answered and said unto
them, Are ye come out, as against a thief, with swords and [with]
staves to take me? {14:49} I was daily with you in the temple teaching,
and ye took me not: but the scriptures must be fulfilled. {14:50} And
they all forsook him, and fled. {14:51} 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: {14:52} And he left the linen
cloth, and fled from them naked.

   {14:53} And they led Jesus away to the high priest: and with him
were assembled all the chief priests and the elders and the scribes.
{14:54} 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. {14:55} And the chief priests and all the council sought for
witness against Jesus to put him to death; and found none. {14:56} For
many bare false witness against him, but their witness agreed not
together. {14:57} And there arose certain, and bare false witness
against him, saying, {14:58} 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. {14:59} But neither so did their witness
agree together. {14:60} And the high priest stood up in the midst, and
asked Jesus, saying, Answerest thou nothing? what [is it which] these
witness against thee? {14:61} But he held his peace, and answered
nothing. Again the high priest asked him, and said unto him, Art thou
the Christ, the Son of the Blessed? {14:62} And Jesus said, I am: and
ye shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and
coming in the clouds of heaven. {14:63} Then the high priest rent his
clothes, and saith, What need we any further witnesses? {14:64} Ye have
heard the blasphemy: what think ye? And they all condemned him to be
guilty of death. {14:65} And some began to spit on him, and to cover
his face, and to buffet him, and to say unto him, Prophesy: and the
servants did strike him with the palms of their hands.

   {14:66} And as Peter was beneath in the palace, there cometh one of
the maids of the high priest: {14:67} And when she saw Peter warming
himself, she looked upon him, and said, And thou also wast with Jesus
of Nazareth. {14:68} But he denied, saying, I know not, neither
understand I what thou sayest. And he went out into the porch; and the
cock crew. {14:69} And a maid saw him again, and began to say to them
that stood by, This is [one] of them. {14:70} And he denied it again.
And a little after, they that stood by said again to Peter, Surely thou
art [one] of them: for thou art a Galilaean, and thy speech agreeth
[thereto. ]{14:71} But he began to curse and to swear, [saying,] I know
not this man of whom ye speak. {14:72} 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.

   {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.
{15:2} And Pilate asked him, Art thou the King of the Jews? And he
answering said unto him, Thou sayest [it. ]{15:3} And the chief priests
accused him of many things: but he answered nothing. {15:4} And Pilate
asked him again, saying, Answerest thou nothing? behold how many things
they witness against thee. {15:5} But Jesus yet answered nothing; so
that Pilate marvelled. {15:6} Now at [that] feast he released unto them
one prisoner, whomsoever they desired. {15:7} And there was [one] named
Barabbas, [which lay] bound with them that had made insurrection with
him, who had committed murder in the insurrection. {15:8} And the
multitude crying aloud began to desire [him to do] as he had ever done
unto them. {15:9} But Pilate answered them, saying, Will ye that I
release unto you the King of the Jews? {15:10} For he knew that the
chief priests had delivered him for envy. {15:11} But the chief priests
moved the people, that he should rather release Barabbas unto them.
{15:12} And Pilate answered and said again unto them, What will ye then
that I shall do [unto him] whom ye call the King of the Jews? {15:13}
And they cried out again, Crucify him. {15:14} Then Pilate said unto
them, Why, what evil hath he done? And they cried out the more
exceedingly, Crucify him.

   {15:15} And [so] Pilate, willing to content the people, released
Barabbas unto them, and delivered Jesus, when he had scourged [him,] to
be crucified. {15:16} And the soldiers led him away into the hall,
called Praetorium; and they call together the whole band. {15:17} And
they clothed him with purple, and platted a crown of thorns, and put it
about his [head, ]{15:18} And began to salute him, Hail, King of the
Jews! {15:19} And they smote him on the head with a reed, and did spit
upon him, and bowing [their] knees worshipped him. {15:20} And when
they had mocked him, they took off the purple from him, and put his own
clothes on him, and led him out to crucify him. {15:21} 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. {15:22} And they
bring him unto the place Golgotha, which is, being interpreted, The
place of a skull. {15:23} And they gave him to drink wine mingled with
myrrh: but he received [it] not. {15:24} And when they had crucified
him, they parted his garments, casting lots upon them, what every man
should take. {15:25} And it was the third hour, and they crucified him.
{15:26} And the superscription of his accusation was written over, THE
KING OF THE JEWS. {15:27} And with him they crucify two thieves; the
one on his right hand, and the other on his left. {15:28} And the
scripture was fulfilled, which saith, And he was numbered with the
transgressors. {15:29} And they that passed by railed on him, wagging
their heads, and saying, Ah, thou that destroyest the temple, and
buildest [it] in three days, {15:30} Save thyself, and come down from
the cross. {15:31} Likewise also the chief priests mocking said among
themselves with the scribes, He saved others; himself he cannot save.
{15:32} Let Christ the King of Israel descend now from the cross, that
we may see and believe. And they that were crucified with him reviled
him. {15:33} And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over
the whole land until the ninth hour. {15:34} And at the ninth hour
Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?
which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
{15:35} And some of them that stood by, when they heard [it,] said,
Behold, he calleth Elias. {15:36} And one ran and filled a spunge full
of vinegar, and put [it] on a reed, and gave him to drink, saying, Let
alone; let us see whether Elias will come to take him down. {15:37} And
Jesus cried with a loud voice, and gave up the ghost. {15:38} And the
veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom.

   {15:39} 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. {15:40} 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; {15:41} (Who also, when he was in Galilee,
followed him, and ministered unto him;) and many other women which came
up with him unto Jerusalem.

   {15:42} And now when the even was come, because it was the
preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath, {15:43} 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. {15:44} And Pilate marvelled if he were already dead: and
calling [unto him] the centurion, he asked him whether he had been any
while dead. {15:45} And when he knew [it] of the centurion, he gave the
body to Joseph. {15:46} 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.
{15:47} And Mary Magdalene and Mary [the mother] of Joses beheld where
he was laid.

   {16:1} 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. {16:2} And very early in the morning the first
[day] of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the
sun. {16:3} And they said among themselves, Who shall roll us away the
stone from the door of the sepulchre? {16:4} And when they looked, they
saw that the stone was rolled away: for it was very great. {16:5} And
entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young man sitting on the right
side, clothed in a long white garment; and they were affrighted. {16:6}
And he saith unto them, Be not affrighted: Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth,
which was crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold the place
where they laid him. {16:7} But go your way, tell his disciples and
Peter that he goeth before you into Galilee: there shall ye see him, as
he said unto you. {16:8} 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.

   {16:9} 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. {16:10} [And] she went and told them that had been with him, as
they mourned and wept. {16:11} And they, when they had heard that he
was alive, and had been seen of her, believed not.

   {16:12} After that he appeared in another form unto two of them, as
they walked, and went into the country. {16:13} And they went and told
[it] unto the residue: neither believed they them.

   {16:14} 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. {16:15}
And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel
to every creature. {16:16} He that believeth and is baptized shall be
saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. {16:17} And these
signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out
devils; they shall speak with new tongues; {16:18} 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.

   {16:19} So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received
up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God. {16:20} And they went
forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with [them,] and
confirming the word with signs following. Amen.





The Gospel According to St. Matthew

   {1:1} The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David,
the son of Abraham. {1:2} Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob;
and Jacob begat Judas and his brethren; {1:3} And Judas begat Phares
and Zara of Thamar; and Phares begat Esrom; and Esrom begat Aram; {1:4}
And Aram begat Aminadab; and Aminadab begat Naasson; and Naasson begat
Salmon; {1:5} And Salmon begat Booz of Rachab; and Booz begat Obed of
Ruth; and Obed begat Jesse; {1:6} And Jesse begat David the king; and
David the king begat Solomon of her [that had been the wife] of Urias;
{1:7} And Solomon begat Roboam; and Roboam begat Abia; and Abia begat
Asa; {1:8} And Asa begat Josaphat; and Josaphat begat Joram; and Joram
begat Ozias; {1:9} And Ozias begat Joatham; and Joatham begat Achaz;
and Achaz begat Ezekias; {1:10} And Ezekias begat Manasses; and
Manasses begat Amon; and Amon begat Josias; {1:11} And Josias begat
Jechonias and his brethren, about the time they were carried away to
Babylon: {1:12} And after they were brought to Babylon, Jechonias begat
Salathiel; and Salathiel begat Zorobabel; {1:13} And Zorobabel begat
Abiud; and Abiud begat Eliakim; and Eliakim begat Azor; {1:14} And Azor
begat Sadoc; and Sadoc begat Achim; and Achim begat Eliud; {1:15} And
Eliud begat Eleazar; and Eleazar begat Matthan; and Matthan begat
Jacob; {1:16} And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was
born Jesus, who is called Christ. {1:17} So all the generations from
Abraham to David [are] fourteen 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.

   {1:18} 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. {1:19} Then Joseph her husband,
being a just [man,] and not willing to make her a publick example, was
minded to put her away privily. {1:20} 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. {1:21}
And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS:
for he shall save his people from their sins. {1:22} Now all this was
done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the
prophet, saying, {1:23} Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall
bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being
interpreted is, God with us. {1:24} Then Joseph being raised from sleep
did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him, and took unto him his
wife: {1:25} And knew her not till she had brought forth her firstborn
son: and he called his name JESUS.

   {2:1} Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of
Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,
{2:2} 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. {2:3} When
Herod the king had heard [these things,] he was troubled, and all
Jerusalem with him. {2:4} And when he had gathered all the chief
priests and scribes of the people together, he demanded of them where
Christ should be born. {2:5} And they said unto him, In Bethlehem of
Judaea: for thus it is written by the prophet, {2:6} And thou
Bethlehem, in the land of Juda, art not the least among the princes of
Juda: for out of thee shall come a Governor, that shall rule my people
Israel. {2:7} Then Herod, when he had privily called the wise men,
enquired of them diligently what time the star appeared. {2:8} And he
sent them to Bethlehem, and said, Go and search diligently for the
young child; and when ye have found [him,] bring me word again, that I
may come and worship him also. {2:9} 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. {2:10}
When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy.

   {2:11} 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. {2:12} And being warned of God in a dream
that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own
country another way. {2:13} And when they were departed, behold, the
angel of the Lord 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. {2:14} When he arose, he took the young child and his
mother by night, and departed into Egypt: {2:15} And was there until
the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the
Lord by the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son.

   {2:16} 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. {2:17} Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy
the prophet, saying, {2:18} 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.

   {2:19} But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord
appeareth in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, {2:20} Saying, Arise, and take
the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: for
they are dead which sought the young child's life. {2:21} And he arose,
and took the young child and his mother, and came into the land of
Israel. {2:22} But when he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judaea in
the room of his father Herod, he was afraid to go thither:
notwithstanding, being warned of God in a dream, he turned aside into
the parts of Galilee: {2:23} And he came and dwelt in a city called
Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets,
He shall be called a Nazarene.

   {3:1} In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the
wilderness of Judaea, {3:2} And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of
heaven is at hand. {3:3} For this is he that was spoken of by the
prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness,
Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. {3:4} 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. {3:5} Then went out
to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the region round about
Jordan, {3:6} And were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins.

   {3:7} But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to
his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned
you to flee from the wrath to come? {3:8} Bring forth therefore fruits
meet for repentance: {3:9} And think 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. {3:10} 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.
{3:11} I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that
cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to
bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and [with] fire: {3:12}
Whose fan [is] in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and
gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with
unquenchable fire.

   {3:13} Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be
baptized of him. {3:14} But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be
baptized of thee, and comest thou to me? {3:15} And Jesus answering
said unto him, Suffer [it to be so] now: for thus it becometh us to
fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him. {3:16} And Jesus, when
he was baptized, went up straightway out of 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: {3:17} And lo a voice from heaven,
saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

   {4:1} Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be
tempted of the devil. {4:2} And when he had fasted forty days and forty
nights, he was afterward an hungred. {4:3} And when the tempter came to
him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be
made bread. {4:4} But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall
not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the
mouth of God. {4:5} Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city,
and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, {4:6} And saith unto him,
If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: 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. {4:7} Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not
tempt the Lord thy God. {4:8} Again, the devil taketh him up into an
exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world,
and the glory of them; {4:9} And saith unto him, All these things will
I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me. {4:10} Then saith
Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt
worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. {4:11} Then
the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him.

   {4:12} Now when Jesus had heard that John was cast into prison, he
departed into Galilee; {4:13} And leaving Nazareth, he came and dwelt
in Capernaum, which is upon the sea coast, in the borders of Zabulon
and Nephthalim: {4:14} That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by
Esaias the prophet, saying, {4:15} The land of Zabulon, and the land of
Nephthalim, [by] the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the
Gentiles; {4:16} The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and
to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.
{4:17} From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for
the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

   {4:18} And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren,
Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea:
for they were fishers. {4:19} And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I
will make you fishers of men. {4:20} And they straightway left [their]
nets, and followed him. {4:21} And going on from thence, he saw other
two brethren, James [the son] of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a
ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and he called them.
{4:22} And they immediately left the ship and their father, and
followed him.

   {4:23} 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. {4:24}
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. {4:25} And there
followed him great multitudes of people from Galilee, and [from]
Decapolis, and [from] Jerusalem, and [from] Judaea, and [from] beyond
Jordan.

   {5:1} And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and
when he was set, his disciples came unto him: {5:2} And he opened his
mouth, and taught them, saying, {5:3} Blessed [are] the poor in spirit:
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. {5:4} Blessed [are] they that
mourn: for they shall be comforted. {5:5} Blessed [are] the meek: for
they shall inherit the earth. {5:6} Blessed [are] they which do hunger
and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. {5:7} Blessed
[are] the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. {5:8} Blessed [are]
the pure in heart: for they shall see God. {5:9} Blessed [are] the
peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God. {5:10}
Blessed [are] they which are persecuted for righteousness sake: for
theirs is the kingdom of heaven. {5:11} Blessed are ye, when [men]
shall revile you, and persecute [you,] and shall say all manner of evil
against you falsely, for my sake. {5:12} Rejoice, and be exceeding
glad: for great [is] your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the
prophets which were before you.

   {5:13} Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his
savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for
nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.
{5:14} Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill
cannot be hid. {5:15} 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. {5:16} Let your light so shine before men, that they may see
your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

   {5:17} Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets:
I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. {5:18} For verily I say unto
you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise
pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. {5:19} 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. {5:20} For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall
exceed [the righteousness] of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no
case enter into the kingdom of heaven.

   {5:21} Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou
shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the
judgment: {5:22} But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his
brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and
whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the
council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell
fire. {5:23} Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there
rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee; {5:24} Leave
there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to
thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift. {5:25} 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. {5:26} Verily I say
unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid
the uttermost farthing.

   {5:27} Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou
shalt not commit adultery: {5:28} But I say unto you, That whosoever
looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her
already in his heart. {5:29} 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. {5:30} And if thy right hand offend thee, cut if 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. {5:31} It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife,
let him give her a writing of divorcement: {5:32} But I say unto you,
That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of
fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry
her that is divorced committeth adultery.

   {5:33} 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: {5:34} But I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by
heaven; for it is God's throne: {5:35} Nor by the earth; for it is his
footstool: neither by Jerusalem; for it is the city of the great King.
{5:36} Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not
make one hair white or black. {5:37} But let your communication be,
Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.

   {5:38} Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and
a tooth for a tooth: {5:39} But I say unto you, That ye resist not
evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him
the other also. {5:40} And if any man will sue thee at the law, and
take away thy coat, let him have [thy] cloke also. {5:41} And whosoever
shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain. {5:42} Give to him
that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou
away.

   {5:43} Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy
neighbour, and hate thine enemy. {5:44} But I say unto you, Love your
enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and
pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; {5:45}
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. {5:46} For if ye love them which love you,
what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? {5:47} And if
ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more [than others?] do not
even the publicans so? {5:48} Be ye therefore perfect, even as your
Father which is in heaven is perfect.

   {6:1} Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of
them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.
{6:2} Therefore when thou doest [thine] alms, do not sound a trumpet
before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets,
that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their
reward. {6:3} But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what
thy right hand doeth: {6:4} That thine alms may be in secret: and thy
Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.

   {6:5} And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites
[are:] 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. {6:6} 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. {6:7} But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the
heathen [do:] for they think that they shall be heard for their much
speaking. {6:8} Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father
knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him. {6:9} After
this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed
be thy name. {6:10} Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as [it
is] in heaven. {6:11} Give us this day our daily bread. {6:12} And
forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. {6:13} And lead us not
into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom,
and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen. {6:14} For if ye forgive
men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:
{6:15} But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your
Father forgive your trespasses.

   {6:16} Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad
countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto
men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. {6:17} But
thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face; {6:18}
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.

   {6:19} Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth
and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
{6:20} But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither
moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor
steal: {6:21} For where your treasure is, there will your heart be
also. {6:22} The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye
be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. {6:23} But if thine
eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the
light that is in thee be darkness, how great [is] that darkness!

   {6:24} No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the
one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise
the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. {6:25} 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? {6:26} 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? {6:27} Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his
stature? {6:28} And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the
lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they
spin: {6:29} And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory
was not arrayed like one of these. {6:30} Wherefore, if God so clothe
the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the
oven, [shall he] not much more [clothe] you, O ye of little faith?
{6:31} Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What
shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? {6:32} (For after
all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father
knoweth that ye have need of all these things. {6:33} But seek ye first
the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall
be added unto you. {6:34} Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for
the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto
the day [is] the evil thereof.

   {7:1} Judge not, that ye be not judged. {7:2} For with what judgment
ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall
be measured to you again. {7:3} And why beholdest thou the mote that is
in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own
eye? {7:4} Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the
mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam [is] in thine own eye? {7:5}
Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then
shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.

   {7:6} 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.

   {7:7} Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find;
knock, and it shall be opened unto you: {7:8} For every one that asketh
receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it
shall be opened. {7:9} Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask
bread, will he give him a stone? {7:10} Or if he ask a fish, will he
give him a serpent? {7:11} 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? {7:12} 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.

   {7:13} Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide [is] the gate, and
broad [is] the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be
which go in thereat: {7:14} Because strait [is] the gate, and narrow
[is] the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

   {7:15} Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's
clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. {7:16} Ye shall know
them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of
thistles? {7:17} Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but
a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. {7:18} A good tree cannot
bring forth evil fruit, neither [can] a corrupt tree bring forth good
fruit. {7:19} Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn
down, and cast into the fire. {7:20} Wherefore by their fruits ye shall
know them.

   {7:21} Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter
into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father
which is in heaven. {7:22} Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord,
have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out
devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? {7:23} And then will
I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work
iniquity.

   {7:24} Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth
them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a
rock: {7:25} 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. {7:26} 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: {7:27} 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. {7:28} And it came to pass, when Jesus had
ended these sayings, the people were astonished at his doctrine: {7:29}
For he taught them as [one] having authority, and not as the scribes.

   {8:1} When he was come down from the mountain, great multitudes
followed him. {8:2} And, behold, there came a leper and worshipped him,
saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. {8:3} And Jesus
put forth [his] hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean.
And immediately his leprosy was cleansed. {8:4} And Jesus saith unto
him, See thou tell no man; but go thy way, shew thyself to the priest,
and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them.

   {8:5} And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him
a centurion, beseeching him, {8:6} And saying, Lord, my servant lieth
at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented. {8:7} And Jesus saith
unto him, I will come and heal him. {8:8} 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. {8:9} 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. ]{8:10} 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. {8:11} 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. {8:12}
But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness:
there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. {8:13} 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.

   {8:14} And when Jesus was come into Peter's house, he saw his wife's
mother laid, and sick of a fever. {8:15} And he touched her hand, and
the fever left her: and she arose, and ministered unto them.

   {8:16} When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were
possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with [his] word, and
healed all that were sick: {8:17} That it might be fulfilled which was
spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and
bare [our] sicknesses.

   {8:18} Now when Jesus saw great multitudes about him, he gave
commandment to depart unto the other side. {8:19} And a certain scribe
came, and said unto him, Master, I will follow thee whithersoever thou
goest. {8:20} And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the
birds of the air [have] nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay
[his] head. {8:21} And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord,
suffer me first to go and bury my father. {8:22} But Jesus said unto
him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead.

   {8:23} And when he was entered into a ship, his disciples followed
him. {8:24} And, behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea,
insomuch that the ship was covered with the waves: but he was asleep.
{8:25} And his disciples came to [him,] and awoke him, saying, Lord,
save us: we perish. {8:26} And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful,
O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea;
and there was a great calm. {8:27} But the men marvelled, saying, What
manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him!

   {8:28} And when he was come to the other side into the country of
the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils, coming out of
the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way.
{8:29} 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? {8:30} And there was a good way off from them an herd of many
swine feeding. {8:31} So the devils besought him, saying, If thou cast
us out, suffer us to go away into the herd of swine. {8:32} And he said
unto them, Go. And when they were come out, they 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. {8:33} 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. {8:34}
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.

   {9:1} And he entered into a ship, and passed over, and came into his
own city. {9:2} 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. {9:3}
And, behold, certain of the scribes said within themselves, This [man]
blasphemeth. {9:4} And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, Wherefore
think ye evil in your hearts? {9:5} For whether is easier, to say,
[Thy] sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and walk? {9:6} But that
ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins,
(then saith he to the sick of the palsy,) Arise, take up thy bed, and
go unto thine house. {9:7} And he arose, and departed to his house.
{9:8} But when the multitudes saw [it,] they marvelled, and glorified
God, which had given such power unto men.

   {9:9} And as Jesus passed forth from thence, he saw a man, named
Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he saith unto him,
Follow me. And he arose, and followed him.

   {9:10} 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. {9:11} And when the Pharisees saw [it,] they said unto his
disciples, Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners? {9:12}
But when Jesus heard [that,] he said unto them, They that be whole need
not a physician, but they that are sick. {9:13} But go ye and learn
what [that] meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not
come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

   {9:14} Then came to him the disciples of John, saying, Why do we and
the Pharisees fast oft, but thy disciples fast not? {9:15} And Jesus
said unto them, Can the children of the bridechamber 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. {9:16}
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. {9:17} 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.

   {9:18} While he spake these things unto them, behold, there came a
certain ruler, and worshipped him, saying, My daughter is even now
dead: but come and lay thy hand upon her, and she shall live. {9:19}
And Jesus arose, and followed him, and [so did] his disciples.

   {9:20} And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of
blood twelve years, came behind [him,] and touched the hem of his
garment: {9:21} For she said within herself, If I may but touch his
garment, I shall be whole. {9:22} 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. {9:23} And
when Jesus came into the ruler's house, and saw the minstrels and the
people making a noise, {9:24} He said unto them, Give place: for the
maid is not dead, but sleepeth. And they laughed him to scorn. {9:25}
But when the people were put forth, he went in, and took her by the
hand, and the maid arose. {9:26} And the fame hereof went abroad into
all that land.

   {9:27} And when Jesus departed thence, two blind men followed him,
crying, and saying, [Thou] Son of David, have mercy on us. {9:28} And
when he was come into the house, the blind men came to him: and Jesus
saith unto them, Believe ye that I am able to do this? They said unto
him, Yea, Lord. {9:29} Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to
your faith be it unto you. {9:30} And their eyes were opened; and Jesus
straitly charged them, saying, See [that] no man know [it. ]{9:31} But
they, when they were departed, spread abroad his fame in all that
country.

   {9:32} As they went out, behold, they brought to him a dumb man
possessed with a devil. {9:33} And when the devil was cast out, the
dumb spake: and the multitudes marvelled, saying, It was never so seen
in Israel. {9:34} But the Pharisees said, He casteth out devils through
the prince of the devils. {9:35} 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.

   {9:36} But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion
on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep
having no shepherd. {9:37} Then saith he unto his disciples, The
harvest truly [is] plenteous, but the labourers [are] few; {9:38} Pray
ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers
into his harvest.

   {10:1} 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. {10:2} 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; {10:3} Philip, and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the
publican; James [the son] of Alphaeus, and Lebbaeus, whose surname was
Thaddaeus; {10:4} Simon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot, who also
betrayed him. {10:5} These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them,
saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into [any] city of the
Samaritans enter ye not: {10:6} But go rather to the lost sheep of the
house of Israel. {10:7} And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of
heaven is at hand. {10:8} Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the
dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give. {10:9}
Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses, {10:10} Nor
scrip for [your] journey, neither two coats, neither shoes, nor yet
staves: for the workman is worthy of his meat. {10:11} And into
whatsoever city or town ye shall enter, enquire who in it is worthy;
and there abide till ye go thence. {10:12} And when ye come into an
house, salute it. {10:13} And if the house be worthy, let your peace
come upon it: but if it be not worthy, let your peace return to you.
{10:14} And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when
ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet.
{10:15} Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land
of Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city.

   {10:16} Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be
ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves. {10:17} But
beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they
will scourge you in their synagogues; {10:18} And ye shall be brought
before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them
and the Gentiles. {10:19} But when they deliver you up, take no thought
how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour
what ye shall speak. {10:20} For it is not ye that speak, but the
Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you. {10:21} 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. {10:22} And ye shall be hated of all [men] for my
name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved. {10:23}
But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: for
verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of
Israel, till the Son of man be come. {10:24} The disciple is not above
[his] master, nor the servant above his lord. {10:25} 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? {10:26} Fear them not
therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed;
and hid, that shall not be known. {10:27} What I tell you in darkness,
[that] speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, [that] preach ye
upon the housetops. {10:28} And fear not them which kill the body, but
are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to
destroy both soul and body in hell. {10:29} Are not two sparrows sold
for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without
your Father. {10:30} But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
{10:31} Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.
{10:32} Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I
confess also before my Father which is in heaven. {10:33} But whosoever
shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which
is in heaven. {10:34} Think not that I am come to send peace on earth:
I came not to send peace, but a sword. {10:35} For I am come to set a
man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her
mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. {10:36} And
a man's foes [shall be] they of his own household. {10:37} He that
loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that
loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. {10:38} And he
that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.
{10:39} He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his
life for my sake shall find it.

   {10:40} He that receiveth you receiveth me, and he that receiveth me
receiveth him that sent me. {10:41} He that receiveth a prophet in the
name of a prophet shall receive a prophet's reward; and he that
receiveth a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive
a righteous man's reward. {10:42} And whosoever shall give to drink
unto one of these little ones a cup of cold [water] only in the name of
a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward.

   {11:1} And it came to pass, when Jesus had made an end of commanding
his twelve disciples, he departed thence to teach and to preach in
their cities. {11:2} Now when John had heard in the prison the works of
Christ, he sent two of his disciples, {11:3} And said unto him, Art
thou he that should come, or do we look for another? {11:4} Jesus
answered and said unto them, Go and shew John again those things which
ye do hear and see: {11:5} The blind receive their sight, and the lame
walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised
up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them. {11:6} And blessed
is [he,] whosoever shall not be offended in me.

   {11:7} And as they departed, Jesus began to say unto the multitudes
concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness to see? A reed
shaken with the wind? {11:8} But what went ye out for to see? A man
clothed in soft raiment? behold, they that wear soft [clothing] are in
kings' houses. {11:9} But what went ye out for to see? A prophet? yea,
I say unto you, and more than a prophet. {11:10} For this is [he,] of
whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which
shall prepare thy way before thee. {11:11} 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. {11:12} And from the days of John the Baptist until
now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it
by force. {11:13} For all the prophets and the law prophesied until
John. {11:14} And if ye will receive [it,] this is Elias, which was for
to come. {11:15} He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

   {11:16} But whereunto shall I liken this generation? It is like unto
children sitting in the markets, and calling unto their fellows,
{11:17} And saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we
have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented. {11:18} For John came
neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He hath a devil. {11:19} The
Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man
gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But
wisdom is justified of her children.

   {11:20} Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his
mighty works were done, because they repented not: {11:21} Woe unto
thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works,
which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would
have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. {11:22} But I say unto
you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of
judgment, than for you. {11:23} And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted
unto heaven, shalt be 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. {11:24} But I say unto you, That it shall be
more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for
thee.

   {11:25} At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O
Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things
from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes. {11:26}
Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in thy sight. {11:27} All things
are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the
Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and [he] to
whomsoever the Son will reveal [him.]

   {11:28} Come unto me, all [ye] that labour and are heavy laden, and
I will give you rest. {11:29} Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me;
for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your
souls. {11:30} For my yoke [is] easy, and my burden is light.

   {12:1} 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. {12:2} But when the Pharisees saw [it,] they said unto him,
Behold, thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the
sabbath day. {12:3} But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David
did, when he was an hungred, and they that were with him; {12:4} How he
entered into the house of God, and did eat the shewbread, which was not
lawful for him to eat, neither for them which were with him, but only
for the priests? {12:5} Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the
sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are
blameless? {12:6} But I say unto you, That in this place is [one]
greater than the temple. {12:7} But if ye had known what [this]
meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have
condemned the guiltless. {12:8} For the Son of man is Lord even of the
sabbath day. {12:9} And when he was departed thence, he went into their
synagogue:

   {12:10} 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. {12:11} 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? {12:12} How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore
it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days. {12:13} Then saith he to
the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched [it] forth; and it
was restored whole, like as the other.

   {12:14} Then the Pharisees went out, and held a council against him,
how they might destroy him. {12:15} But when Jesus knew [it,] he
withdrew himself from thence: and great multitudes followed him, and he
healed them all; {12:16} And charged them that they should not make him
known: {12:17} That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias
the prophet, saying, {12:18} Behold my servant, whom I have chosen; my
beloved, in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my spirit upon
him, and he shall shew judgment to the Gentiles. {12:19} He shall not
strive, nor cry; neither shall any man hear his voice in the streets.
{12:20} A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he
not quench, till he send forth judgment unto victory. {12:21} And in
his name shall the Gentiles trust.

   {12:22} 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. {12:23} And all the people were amazed, and said, Is not
this the son of David? {12:24} But when the Pharisees heard [it,] they
said, This [fellow] doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the
prince of the devils. {12:25} And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said
unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to
desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not
stand: {12:26} And if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against
himself; how shall then his kingdom stand? {12:27} And if I by
Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your children cast [them] out?
therefore they shall be your judges. {12:28} But if I cast out devils
by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you. {12:29}
Or else how can one enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his
goods, except he first bind the strong man? and then he will spoil his
house. {12:30} He that is not with me is against me; and he that
gathereth not with me scattereth abroad.

   {12:31} Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy
shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy [against] the [Holy]
Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men. {12:32} 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. {12:33} 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. {12:34} O
generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for
out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. {12:35} 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.
{12:36} But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak,
they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. {12:37} For by
thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be
condemned.

   {12:38} Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered,
saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee. {12:39} But he answered
and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a
sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the
prophet Jonas: {12:40} For as Jonas was three days and three nights in
the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three
nights in the heart of the earth. {12:41} 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. {12:42} 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. {12:43} When the unclean
spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking
rest, and findeth none. {12:44} Then he saith, I will return into my
house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth [it]
empty, swept, and garnished. {12:45} Then goeth he, and taketh with
himself 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. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.

   {12:46} While he yet talked to the people, behold, [his] mother and
his brethren stood without, desiring to speak with him. {12:47} Then
one said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren stand without,
desiring to speak with thee. {12:48} But he answered and said unto him
that told him, Who is my mother? and who are my brethren? {12:49} And
he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, and said, Behold my
mother and my brethren! {12:50} For whosoever shall do the will of my
Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and
mother.

   {13:1} The same day went Jesus out of the house, and sat by the sea
side. {13:2} And great multitudes were gathered together unto him, so
that he went into a ship, and sat; and the whole multitude stood on the
shore. {13:3} And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying,
Behold, a sower went forth to sow; {13:4} And when he sowed, some
[seeds] fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up:
{13:5} Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and
forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth: {13:6}
And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no
root, they withered away. {13:7} And some fell among thorns; and the
thorns sprung up, and choked them: {13:8} But other fell into good
ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold,
some thirtyfold. {13:9} Who hath ears to hear, let him hear. {13:10}
And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them
in parables? {13:11} He answered and said unto them, Because it is
given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to
them it is not given. {13:12} For whosoever hath, to him shall be
given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from
him shall be taken away even that he hath. {13:13} Therefore speak I to
them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear
not, neither do they understand. {13:14} And in them is fulfilled the
prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall
not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:
{13:15} 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. {13:16} But blessed [are] your eyes, for they see: and your
ears, for they hear. {13:17} 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.]

   {13:18} Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower. {13:19} When any
one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth [it] not, then
cometh the wicked [one,] and catcheth away that which was sown in his
heart. This is he which received seed by the way side. {13:20} But he
that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth
the word, and anon with joy receiveth it; {13:21} Yet hath he not root
in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution
ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended. {13:22} He also
that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and
the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the
word, and he becometh unfruitful. {13:23} 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.

   {13:24} Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom
of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field:
{13:25} But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the
wheat, and went his way. {13:26} But when the blade was sprung up, and
brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also. {13:27} So the
servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou
sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares? {13:28} He
said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him,
Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up? {13:29} But he said, Nay;
lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them.
{13:30} Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of
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.

   {13:31} 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: {13:32} 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.

   {13:33} 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. {13:34} All these things spake Jesus
unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto
them: {13:35} That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the
prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things
which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world. {13:36}
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. {13:37} He answered and said unto them, He that
soweth the good seed is the Son of man; {13:38} The field is the world;
the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the
children of the wicked [one; ]{13:39} The enemy that sowed them is the
devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the
angels. {13:40} As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the
fire; so shall it be in the end of this world. {13:41} The Son of man
shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom
all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; {13:42} And shall
cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing
of teeth. {13:43} Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in
the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.

   {13:44} Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a
field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof
goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.

   {13:45} Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man,
seeking goodly pearls: {13:46} Who, when he had found one pearl of
great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.

   {13:47} Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was
cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind: {13:48} Which, when it
was full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and gathered the good into
vessels, but cast the bad away. {13:49} So shall it be at the end of
the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among
the just, {13:50} And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there
shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. {13:51} Jesus saith unto them,
Have ye understood all these things? They say unto him, Yea, Lord.
{13:52} Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe [which is]
instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man [that is] an
householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure [things] new and
old.

   {13:53} And it came to pass, [that] when Jesus had finished these
parables, he departed thence. {13:54} And when he was come into his own
country, he taught them in their synagogue, insomuch that they were
astonished, and said, Whence hath this [man] this wisdom, and [these]
mighty works? {13:55} Is not this the carpenter's son? is not his
mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and
Judas? {13:56} And his sisters, are they not all with us? Whence then
hath this [man] all these things? {13:57} And they were offended in
him. But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, save in
his own country, and in his own house. {13:58} And he did not many
mighty works there because of their unbelief.

   {14:1} At that time Herod the tetrarch heard of the fame of Jesus,
{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.

   {14:3} For Herod had laid hold on John, and bound him, and put [him]
in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife. {14:4} For
John said unto him, It is not lawful for thee to have her. {14:5} And
when he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because
they counted him as a prophet. {14:6} But when Herod's birthday was
kept, the daughter of Herodias danced before them, and pleased Herod.
{14:7} Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatsoever she
would ask. {14:8} And she, being before instructed of her mother, said,
Give me here John Baptist's head in a charger. {14:9} And the king was
sorry: nevertheless for the oath's sake, and them which sat with him at
meat, he commanded [it] to be given [her. ]{14:10} And he sent, and
beheaded John in the prison. {14:11} And his head was brought in a
charger, and given to the damsel: and she brought [it] to her mother.
{14:12} And his disciples came, and took up the body, and buried it,
and went and told Jesus.

   {14:13} When Jesus heard [of it,] he departed thence by ship into a
desert place apart: and when the people had heard [thereof,] they
followed him on foot out of the cities. {14:14} And Jesus went forth,
and saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion toward them,
and he healed their sick.

   {14:15} 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.
{14:16} But Jesus said unto them, They need not depart; give ye them to
eat. {14:17} And they say unto him, We have here but five loaves, and
two fishes. {14:18} He said, Bring them hither to me. {14:19} And he
commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass, and 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. {14:20} And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took
up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full. {14:21} And they
that had eaten were about five thousand men, beside women and children.

   {14:22} And straightway Jesus constrained his disciples to get into
a ship, and to go before him unto the other side, while he sent the
multitudes away. {14:23} 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. {14:24} But the ship was now in the midst of the
sea, tossed with waves: for the wind was contrary. {14:25} And in the
fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them, walking on the sea.
{14:26} And when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were
troubled, saying, It is a spirit; and they cried out for fear. {14:27}
But straightway Jesus spake unto them, saying, Be of good cheer; it is
I; be not afraid. {14:28} And Peter answered him and said, Lord, if it
be thou, bid me come unto thee on the water. {14:29} And he said, Come.
And when Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water,
to go to Jesus. {14:30} But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was
afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me. {14:31}
And immediately Jesus stretched forth [his] hand, and caught him, and
said unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?
{14:32} And when they were come into the ship, the wind ceased. {14:33}
Then they that were in the ship came and worshipped him, saying, Of a
truth thou art the Son of God.

   {14:34} And when they were gone over, they came into the land of
Gennesaret. {14:35} 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; {14:36} And besought him that they might
only touch the hem of his garment: and as many as touched were made
perfectly whole.

   {15:1} Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which were of
Jerusalem, saying, {15:2} Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition
of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.
{15:3} But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress
the commandment of God by your tradition? {15:4} For God commanded,
saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or
mother, let him die the death. {15:5} But ye say, Whosoever shall say
to [his] father or [his] mother, [It is] a gift, by whatsoever thou
mightest be profited by me; {15:6} And honour not his father or his
mother, [he shall be free.] Thus have ye made the commandment of God of
none effect by your tradition. {15:7} [Ye] hypocrites, well did Esaias
prophesy of you, saying, {15:8} This people draweth nigh unto me with
their mouth, and honoureth me with [their] lips; but their heart is far
from me. {15:9} But in vain they do worship me, teaching [for]
doctrines the commandments of men.

   {15:10} And he called the multitude, and said unto them, Hear, and
understand: {15:11} Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man;
but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man. {15:12}
Then came his disciples, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the
Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying? {15:13} But he
answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not
planted, shall be rooted up. {15:14} Let them alone: they be blind
leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall
into the ditch. {15:15} Then answered Peter and said unto him, Declare
unto us this parable. {15:16} And Jesus said, Are ye also yet without
understanding? {15:17} Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever
entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the
draught? {15:18} But those things which proceed out of the mouth come
forth from the heart; and they defile the man. {15:19} For out of the
heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts,
false witness, blasphemies: {15:20} These are [the things] which defile
a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.

   {15:21} Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre
and Sidon. {15:22} 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. {15:23} But
he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him,
saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us. {15:24} But he answered
and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
{15:25} Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me.
{15:26} But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's
bread, and to cast [it] to dogs. {15:27} And she said, Truth, Lord: yet
the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.
{15:28} Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great [is] thy
faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made
whole from that very hour. {15:29} And Jesus departed from thence, and
came nigh unto the sea of Galilee; and went up into a mountain, and sat
down there. {15:30} And great multitudes came unto him, having with
them [those that were] lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and
cast them down at Jesus' feet; and he healed them: {15:31} 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.

   {15:32} Then Jesus called his disciples [unto him,] and said, I have
compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three
days, and have nothing to eat: and I will not send them away fasting,
lest they faint in the way. {15:33} And his disciples say unto him,
Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fill so
great a multitude? {15:34} And Jesus saith unto them, How many loaves
have ye? And they said, Seven, and a few little fishes. {15:35} And he
commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground. {15:36} 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. {15:37} And
they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken
[meat] that was left seven baskets full. {15:38} And they that did eat
were four thousand men, beside women and children. {15:39} And he sent
away the multitude, and took ship, and came into the coasts of Magdala,

   {16:1} The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting
desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven. {16:2} He
answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, [It will be]
fair weather: for the sky is red. {16:3} And in the morning, [It will
be] foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring. O [ye]
hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not
[discern] the signs of the times? {16:4} 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.
{16:5} And when his disciples were come to the other side, they had
forgotten to take bread.

   {16:6} Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven
of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees. {16:7} And they reasoned among
themselves, saying, [It is] because we have taken no bread. {16:8}
[Which] when Jesus perceived, he said unto them, O ye of little faith,
why reason ye among yourselves, because ye have brought no bread?
{16:9} Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of
the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up? {16:10} Neither the
seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?
{16:11} How is it that ye do not understand that I spake [it] not to
you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the
Pharisees and of the Sadducees? {16:12} Then understood they how that
he bade [them] not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine
of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.

   {16:13} When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he
asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?
{16:14} And they said, Some [say that thou art] John the Baptist: some,
Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets. {16:15} He saith
unto them, But whom say ye that I am? {16:16} And Simon Peter answered
and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. {16:17} And
Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for
flesh and blood hath not revealed [it] unto thee, but my Father which
is in heaven. {16:18} 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. {16:19} And I will give unto thee the keys of
the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be
bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be
loosed in heaven. {16:20} Then charged he his disciples that they
should tell no man that he was Jesus the Christ.

   {16:21} From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples,
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. {16:22} Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke
him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee.
{16:23} But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan:
thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be
of God, but those that be of men.

   {16:24} 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.
{16:25} For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever
will lose his life for my sake shall find it. {16:26} For what is a man
profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or
what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? {16:27} 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. {16:28} 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.

   {17:1} And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his
brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart, {17:2} And
was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and
his raiment was white as the light. {17:3} And, behold, there appeared
unto them Moses and Elias talking with him. {17:4} 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. {17:5} 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. {17:6}
And when the disciples heard [it,] they fell on their face, and were
sore afraid. {17:7} And Jesus came and touched them, and said, Arise,
and be not afraid. {17:8} And when they had lifted up their eyes, they
saw no man, save Jesus only. {17:9} 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. {17:10} And his disciples
asked him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elias must first come?
{17:11} And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elias truly shall first
come, and restore all things. {17:12} But I say unto you, That Elias is
come already, and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever
they listed. Likewise shall also the Son of man suffer of them. {17:13}
Then the disciples understood that he spake unto them of John the
Baptist.

   {17:14} And when they were come to the multitude, there came to him
a [certain] man, kneeling down to him, and saying, {17:15} Lord, have
mercy on my son: for he is lunatick, and sore vexed: for ofttimes he
falleth into the fire, and oft into the water. {17:16} And I brought
him to thy disciples, and they could not cure him. {17:17} Then Jesus
answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall
I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him hither to me.
{17:18} And Jesus rebuked the devil; and he departed out of him: and
the child was cured from that very hour. {17:19} Then came the
disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out?
{17:20} And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily
I 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. {17:21} Howbeit this
kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.

   {17:22} And while they abode in Galilee, Jesus said unto them, The
Son of man shall be betrayed into the hands of men: {17:23} And they
shall kill him, and the third day he shall be raised again. And they
were exceeding sorry.

   {17:24} And when they were come to Capernaum, they that received
tribute [money] came to Peter, and said, Doth not your master pay
tribute? {17:25} 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? {17:26} Peter saith unto him, Of strangers. Jesus saith unto
him, Then are the children free. {17:27} Notwithstanding, lest we
should offend them, go thou to the sea, 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.

   {18:1} At the same time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who
is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? {18:2} And Jesus called a
little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them, {18:3} 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. {18:4}
Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same
is greatest in the kingdom of heaven. {18:5} And whoso shall receive
one such little child in my name receiveth me. {18:6} 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.

   {18:7} 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!
{18:8} 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. {18:9} 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. {18:10}
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. {18:11} For the Son of man is come to save that
which was lost. {18:12} How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep,
and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine,
and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray?
{18:13} And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he
rejoiceth more of that [sheep,] than of the ninety and nine which went
not astray. {18:14} Even so it is not the will of your Father which is
in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.

   {18:15} Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and
tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee,
thou hast gained thy brother. {18:16} But if he will not hear [thee,
then] take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three
witnesses every word may be established. {18:17} And if he shall
neglect to hear them, tell [it] unto the church: but if he neglect to
hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.
{18:18} Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall
be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be
loosed in heaven. {18:19} Again I say unto you, That if two of you
shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it
shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven. {18:20} For
where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the
midst of them.

   {18:21} Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my
brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? {18:22}
Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but,
Until seventy times seven.

   {18:23} Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened unto a certain
king, which would take account of his servants. {18:24} And when he had
begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, which owed him ten thousand
talents. {18:25} But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded
him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and
payment to be made. {18:26} The servant therefore fell down, and
worshipped him, saying, Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay
thee all. {18:27} Then the lord of that servant was moved with
compassion, and loosed him, and forgave him the debt. {18:28} But the
same servant went out, and found one of his fellowservants, which owed
him an hundred pence: and he laid hands on him, and took [him] by the
throat, saying, Pay me that thou owest. {18:29} And his fellowservant
fell down at his feet, and besought him, saying, Have patience with me,
and I will pay thee all. {18:30} And he would not: but went and cast
him into prison, till he should pay the debt. {18:31} So when his
fellowservants saw what was done, they were very sorry, and came and
told unto their lord all that was done. {18:32} 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: {18:33} Shouldest not
thou also have had compassion on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity
on thee? {18:34} And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the
tormentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him. {18:35} So
likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your
hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.

   {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; {19:2} And great multitudes followed him; and he healed
them there.

   {19:3} 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?
{19:4} And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he
which made [them] at the beginning made them male and female, {19:5}
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? {19:6} Wherefore
they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined
together, let not man put asunder. {19:7} They say unto him, Why did
Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her
away? {19:8} He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your
hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it
was not so. {19:9} And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his
wife, except [it be] for fornication, and shall marry another,
committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth
commit adultery.

   {19:10} His disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so
with [his] wife, it is not good to marry. {19:11} But he said unto
them, All [men] cannot receive this saying, save [they] to whom it is
given. {19:12} For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from
[their] 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.]

   {19:13} Then were there brought unto him little children, that he
should put [his] hands on them, and pray: and the disciples rebuked
them. {19:14} But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them
not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven. {19:15} And
he laid [his] hands on them, and departed thence.

   {19:16} And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what
good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life? {19:17} And he
said unto him, Why callest thou me good? [there is] none good but one,
[that is,] God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the
commandments. {19:18} 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, {19:19} Honour thy father and [thy]
mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. {19:20} The
young man saith unto him, All these things have I kept from my youth
up: what lack I yet? {19:21} Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be
perfect, go [and] sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou
shalt have treasure in heaven: and come [and] follow me. {19:22} But
when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful: for he
had great possessions.

   {19:23} Then said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you,
That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven. {19:24}
And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the
eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
{19:25} When his disciples heard [it,] they were exceedingly amazed,
saying, Who then can be saved? {19:26} But Jesus beheld [them,] and
said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things
are possible.

   {19:27} Then answered Peter and said unto him, Behold, we have
forsaken all, and followed thee; what shall we have therefore? {19:28}
And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which 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. {19:29} And every one that hath forsaken
houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or
children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold,
and shall inherit everlasting life. {19:30} But many [that are] first
shall be last; and the last [shall be] first.

   {20:1} For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man [that is] an
householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into
his vineyard. {20:2} And when he had agreed with the labourers for a
penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard. {20:3} And he went out
about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace,
{20:4} And said unto them; Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatsoever
is right I will give you. And they went their way. {20:5} Again he went
out about the sixth and ninth hour, and did likewise. {20:6} 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? {20:7} 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.
{20:8} 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. {20:9} And when they came that [were hired]
about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny. {20:10} But
when the first came, they supposed that they should have received more;
and they likewise received every man a penny. {20:11} And when they had
received it, they murmured against the goodman of the house, {20:12}
Saying, These last have wrought [but] one hour, and thou hast made them
equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day. {20:13}
But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong:
didst not thou agree with me for a penny? {20:14} Take [that] thine
[is,] and go thy way: I will give unto this last, even as unto thee.
{20:15} Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is
thine eye evil, because I am good? {20:16} So the last shall be first,
and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.

   {20:17} And Jesus going up to Jerusalem took the twelve disciples
apart in the way, and said unto them, {20:18} Behold, we go up to
Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be betrayed unto the chief priests
and unto the scribes, and they shall condemn him to death, {20:19} And
shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to
crucify [him:] and the third day he shall rise again.

   {20:20} Then came to him the mother of Zebedee's children with her
sons, worshipping [him,] and desiring a certain thing of him. {20:21}
And he said unto her, What wilt thou? She saith unto him, Grant that
these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on
the left, in thy kingdom. {20:22} 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. {20:23} 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.
{20:24} And when the ten heard [it,] they were moved with indignation
against the two brethren. {20:25} 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. {20:26} But
it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you,
let him be your minister; {20:27} And whosoever will be chief among
you, let him be your servant: {20:28} Even as the Son of man came not
to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom
for many. {20:29} And as they departed from Jericho, a great multitude
followed him.

   {20:30} 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. {20:31} 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. {20:32} And Jesus stood
still, and called them, and said, What will ye that I shall do unto
you? {20:33} They say unto him, Lord, that our eyes may be opened.
{20:34} So Jesus had compassion [on them,] and touched their eyes: and
immediately their eyes received sight, and they followed him.

   {21:1} And when they drew nigh unto Jerusalem, and were come to
Bethphage, unto the mount of Olives, then sent Jesus two disciples,
{21:2} 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. {21:3} And if any [man] say ought
unto you, ye shall say, The Lord hath need of them; and straightway he
will send them. {21:4} All this was done, that it might be fulfilled
which was spoken by the prophet, saying, {21:5} Tell ye the daughter of
Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass,
and a colt the foal of an ass. {21:6} And the disciples went, and did
as Jesus commanded them, {21:7} And brought the ass, and the colt, and
put on them their clothes, and they set [him] thereon. {21:8} And a
very great multitude spread their garments in the way; others cut down
branches from the trees, and strawed [them] in the way. {21:9} And the
multitudes that went before, and that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna
to the Son of David: Blessed [is] he that cometh in the name of the
Lord; Hosanna in the highest. {21:10} And when he was come into
Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, Who is this? {21:11} And the
multitude said, This is Jesus the prophet of Nazareth of Galilee.

   {21:12} 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, {21:13} And said
unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer;
but ye have made it a den of thieves. {21:14} And the blind and the
lame came to him in the temple; and he healed them. {21:15} 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, {21:16} 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?

   {21:17} And he left them, and went out of the city into Bethany; and
he lodged there. {21:18} Now in the morning as he returned into the
city, he hungered. {21:19} 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. {21:20} And when the disciples saw [it,] they
marvelled, saying, How soon is the fig tree withered away! {21:21}
Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, If ye 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. {21:22} And all
things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.

   {21:23} 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? {21:24} 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. {21:25} The baptism of John, whence
was it? from heaven, or of men? And they reasoned with themselves,
saying, If we shall say, From heaven; he will say unto us, Why did ye
not then believe him? {21:26} But if we shall say, Of men; we fear the
people; for all hold John as a prophet. {21:27} And they answered
Jesus, and said, We cannot tell. And he said unto them, Neither tell I
you by what authority I do these things.

   {21:28} But what think ye? A [certain] man had two sons; and he came
to the first, and said, Son, go work to day in my vineyard. {21:29} He
answered and said, I will not: but afterward he repented, and went.
{21:30} And he came to the second, and said likewise. And he answered
and said, I [go,] sir: and went not. {21:31} Whether of them twain did
the will of [his] father? They say unto 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. {21:32} 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.

   {21:33} Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which
planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress
in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a
far country: {21:34} And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent
his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of
it. {21:35} And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and
killed another, and stoned another. {21:36} Again, he sent other
servants more than the first: and they did unto them likewise. {21:37}
But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence
my son. {21:38} 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. {21:39} And they caught him, and cast [him] out of
the vineyard, and slew [him. ]{21:40} When the lord therefore of the
vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen? {21:41} They
say unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let
out [his] vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the
fruits in their seasons. {21:42} 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? {21:43} Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom
of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth
the fruits thereof. {21:44} And whosoever shall fall on this stone
shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to
powder. {21:45} And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his
parables, they perceived that he spake of them. {21:46} But when they
sought to lay hands on him, they feared the multitude, because they
took him for a prophet.

   {22:1} And Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables, and
said, {22:2} The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which
made a marriage for his son, {22:3} And sent forth his servants to call
them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come. {22:4}
Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are
bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and [my] fatlings
[are] killed, and all things [are] ready: come unto the marriage.
{22:5} But they made light of [it,] and went their ways, one to his
farm, another to his merchandise: {22:6} And the remnant took his
servants, and entreated [them] spitefully, and slew [them. ]{22:7} But
when the king heard [thereof,] he was wroth: and he sent forth his
armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city. {22:8}
Then saith he to his servants, The wedding is ready, but they which
were bidden were not worthy. {22:9} Go ye therefore into the highways,
and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage. {22:10} So those
servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many
as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with
guests.

   {22:11} And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a
man which had not on a wedding garment: {22:12} And he saith unto him,
Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he
was speechless. {22:13} Then said the king to the servants, Bind him
hand and foot, and take him away, and cast [him] into outer darkness;
there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. {22:14} For many are
called, but few [are] chosen.

   {22:15} Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might
entangle him in [his] talk. {22:16} 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. {22:17} Tell us
therefore, What thinkest thou? Is it lawful to give tribute unto
Caesar, or not? {22:18} But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said,
Why tempt ye me, [ye] hypocrites? {22:19} Shew me the tribute money.
And they brought unto him a penny. {22:20} And he saith unto them,
Whose [is] this image and superscription? {22:21} They say unto him,
Caesar's. Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the
things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's.
{22:22} When they had heard [these words,] they marvelled, and left
him, and went their way.

   {22:23} The same day came to him the Sadducees, which say that there
is no resurrection, and asked him, {22:24} Saying, Master, Moses said,
If a man die, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and
raise up seed unto his brother. {22:25} 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: {22:26} Likewise the
second also, and the third, unto the seventh. {22:27} And last of all
the woman died also. {22:28} Therefore in the resurrection whose wife
shall she be of the seven? for they all had her. {22:29} Jesus answered
and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the
power of God. {22:30} For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor
are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. {22:31}
But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that
which was spoken unto you by God, saying, {22:32} I am the God of
Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God
of the dead, but of the living. {22:33} And when the multitude heard
[this,] they were astonished at his doctrine.

   {22:34} But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the
Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together. {22:35} Then one of
them, [which was] a lawyer, asked [him a question, ]tempting him, and
saying, {22:36} Master, which [is] the great commandment in the law?
{22:37} 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. {22:38} This
is the first and great commandment. {22:39} And the second [is] like
unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. {22:40} On these two
commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

   {22:41} While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked
them, {22:42} Saying, What think ye of Christ? whose son is he? They
say unto him, [The Son] of David. {22:43} He saith unto them, How then
doth David in spirit call him Lord, saying, {22:44} The LORD said unto
my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy
footstool? {22:45} If David then call him Lord, how is he his son?
{22:46} And no man was able to answer him a word, neither durst any
[man] from that day forth ask him any more [questions.]

   {23:1} Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples,
{23:2} Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat: {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. {23:4} 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. {23:5} But all their works they do for to be seen of
men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of
their garments, {23:6} And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the
chief seats in the synagogues, {23:7} And greetings in the markets, and
to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi. {23:8} But be not ye called Rabbi:
for one is your Master, [even] Christ; and all ye are brethren. {23:9}
And call no [man] your father upon the earth: for one is your Father,
which is in heaven. {23:10} Neither be ye called masters: for one is
your Master, [even] Christ. {23:11} But he that is greatest among you
shall be your servant. {23:12} And whosoever shall exalt himself shall
be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.

   {23:13} But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye
shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in
[yourselves,] neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
{23:14} Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour
widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall
receive the greater damnation. {23:15} Woe unto you, scribes and
Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one
proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of
hell than yourselves. {23:16} 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! {23:17} [Ye]
fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that
sanctifieth the gold? {23:18} And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar,
it is nothing; but whosoever sweareth by the gift that is upon it, he
is guilty. {23:19} [Ye] fools and blind: for whether [is] greater, the
gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift? {23:20} Whoso therefore
shall swear by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon.
{23:21} And whoso shall swear by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him
that dwelleth therein. {23:22} And he that shall swear by heaven,
sweareth by the throne of God, and by him that sitteth thereon. {23:23}
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay 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. {23:24} [Ye] blind guides, which strain
at a gnat, and swallow a camel. {23:25} Woe unto you, scribes and
Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of
the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess. {23:26}
[Thou] blind Pharisee, cleanse first that [which is] within the cup and
platter, that the outside of them may be clean also. {23:27} 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. {23:28} Even so ye also
outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of
hypocrisy and iniquity. {23:29} Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the
sepulchres of the righteous, {23:30} And say, If we had been in the
days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the
blood of the prophets. {23:31} Wherefore ye be witnesses unto
yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.
{23:32} Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. {23:33} [Ye]
serpents, [ye] generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of
hell?

   {23:34} 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: {23:35} 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. {23:36} Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon
this generation. {23:37} 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! {23:38} Behold, your
house is left unto you desolate. {23:39} For I say unto you, Ye shall
not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed [is] he that cometh
in the name of the Lord.

   {24:1} And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his
disciples came to [him] for to shew him the buildings of the temple.
{24:2} And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I
say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that
shall not be thrown down.

   {24:3} 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?
{24:4} And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man
deceive you. {24:5} For many shall come in my name, saying, I am
Christ; and shall deceive many. {24:6} 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. {24:7} For nation shall rise
against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be
famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. {24:8} All
these [are] the beginning of sorrows. {24:9} Then shall they deliver
you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of
all nations for my name's sake. {24:10} And then shall many be
offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.
{24:11} And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
{24:12} And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax
cold. {24:13} But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be
saved. {24:14} 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.
{24:15} 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:) {24:16} Then let them which be in Judaea
flee into the mountains: {24:17} Let him which is on the housetop not
come down to take any thing out of his house: {24:18} Neither let him
which is in the field return back to take his clothes. {24:19} And woe
unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those
days! {24:20} But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter,
neither on the sabbath day: {24:21} For then shall be great
tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this
time, no, nor ever shall be. {24:22} And except those days should be
shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake
those days shall be shortened. {24:23} Then if any man shall say unto
you, Lo, here [is] Christ, or there; believe [it] not. {24:24} 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. {24:25} Behold, I have told you before.
{24:26} Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, [he is] in the
desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe
[it] not. {24:27} For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and
shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man
be. {24:28} For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be
gathered together.

   {24:29} 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:
{24:30} 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.
{24:31} 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. {24:32} Now learn a parable of the fig
tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know
that summer is nigh: {24:33} So likewise ye, when ye shall see all
these things, know that it is near, [even] at the doors. {24:34} Verily
I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things
be fulfilled. {24:35} Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words
shall not pass away.

   {24:36} But of that day and hour knoweth no [man,] no, not the
angels of heaven, but my Father only. {24:37} But as the days of Noe
[were,] so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. {24:38} 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, {24:39} And knew not until the flood came, and took them all
away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. {24:40} Then shall
two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
{24:41} Two [women shall be] grinding at the mill; the one shall be
taken, and the other left.

   {24:42} Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth
come. {24:43} 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. {24:44} Therefore be ye
also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
{24:45} Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath
made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season? {24:46}
Blessed [is] that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so
doing. {24:47} Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over
all his goods. {24:48} But and if that evil servant shall say in his
heart, My lord delayeth his coming; {24:49} And shall begin to smite
[his] fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken; {24:50}
The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for
[him,] and in an hour that he is not aware of, {24:51} And shall cut
him asunder, and appoint [him] his portion with the hypocrites: there
shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

   {25:1} Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins,
which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. {25:2}
And five of them were wise, and five [were] foolish. {25:3} They that
[were] foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them: {25:4} But
the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. {25:5} While the
bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. {25:6} And at
midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out
to meet him. {25:7} Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their
lamps. {25:8} And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil;
for our lamps are gone out. {25:9} But the wise answered, saying, [Not
so;] lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them
that sell, and buy for yourselves. {25:10} 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. {25:11} Afterward came also the other
virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. {25:12} But he answered and
said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not. {25:13} Watch therefore,
for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.

   {25:14} 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. {25:15} And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and
to another one; to every man according to his several ability; and
straightway took his journey. {25:16} Then he that had received the
five talents went and traded with the same, and made [them] other five
talents. {25:17} And likewise he that [had received] two, he also
gained other two. {25:18} But he that had received one went and digged
in the earth, and hid his lord's money. {25:19} After a long time the
lord of those servants cometh, and reckoneth with them. {25:20} And so
he that had received five talents came and brought other five talents,
saying, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me five talents: behold, I have
gained beside them five talents more. {25:21} 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. {25:22} 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. {25:23} 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. {25:24} 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:
{25:25} And I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth: lo,
[there] thou hast [that is] thine. {25:26} His lord answered and said
unto him, [Thou] wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap
where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed: {25:27} Thou
oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and [then]
at my coming I should have received mine own with usury. {25:28} Take
therefore the talent from him, and give [it] unto him which hath ten
talents. {25:29} For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he
shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away
even that which he hath. {25:30} And cast ye the unprofitable servant
into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

   {25:31} When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the
holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:
{25:32} 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: {25:33} And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but
the goats on the left. {25:34} 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: {25:35} For I was an hungred,
and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a
stranger, and ye took me in: {25:36} Naked, and ye clothed me: I was
sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me. {25:37}
Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an
hungred, and fed [thee?] or thirsty, and gave [thee] drink? {25:38}
When saw we thee a stranger, and took [thee] in? or naked, and clothed
[thee? ]{25:39} Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto
thee? {25:40} And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say
unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done [it] unto one of the least of these
my brethren, ye have done [it] unto me. {25:41} Then shall he say also
unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting
fire, prepared for the devil and his angels: {25:42} For I was an
hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no
drink: {25:43} I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye
clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not. {25:44}
Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an
hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison,
and did not minister unto thee? {25:45} Then shall he answer them,
saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did [it] not to one of
the least of these, ye did [it] not to me. {25:46} And these shall go
away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.

   {26:1} And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished all these
sayings, he said unto his disciples, {26:2} Ye know that after two days
is [the feast of] the passover, and the Son of man is betrayed to be
crucified. {26:3} Then assembled together the chief priests, and the
scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high
priest, who was called Caiaphas, {26:4} And consulted that they might
take Jesus by subtilty, and kill [him. ]{26:5} But they said, Not on
the feast [day,] lest there be an uproar among the people.

   {26:6} Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the
leper, {26:7} There came unto him a woman having an alabaster box of
very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat [at meat.
]{26:8} But when his disciples saw [it,] they had indignation, saying,
To what purpose [is] this waste? {26:9} For this ointment might have
been sold for much, and given to the poor. {26:10} When Jesus
understood [it,] he said unto them, Why trouble ye the woman? for she
hath wrought a good work upon me. {26:11} For ye have the poor always
with you; but me ye have not always. {26:12} For in that she hath
poured this ointment on my body, she did [it] for my burial. {26:13}
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.

   {26:14} Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the
chief priests, {26:15} 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. {26:16} And from that time he sought opportunity to
betray him.

   {26:17} 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? {26:18} 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. {26:19}
And the disciples did as Jesus had appointed them; and they made ready
the passover. {26:20} Now when the even was come, he sat down with the
twelve. {26:21} And as they did eat, he said, Verily I say unto you,
that one of you shall betray me. {26:22} And they were exceeding
sorrowful, and began every one of them to say unto him, Lord, is it I?
{26:23} And he answered and said, He that dippeth [his] hand with me in
the dish, the same shall betray me. {26:24} The Son of man goeth as it
is written of him: but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is
betrayed! it had been good for that man if he had not been born.
{26:25} Then Judas, which betrayed him, answered and said, Master, is
it I? He said unto him, Thou hast said.

   {26:26} And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed [it,]
and brake [it,] and gave [it] to the disciples, and said, Take, eat;
this is my body. {26:27} And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave
[it] to them, saying, Drink ye all of it; {26:28} For this is my blood
of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
{26:29} But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit
of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's
kingdom. {26:30} And when they had sung an hymn, they went out into the
mount of Olives. {26:31} 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. {26:32}
But after I am risen again, I will go before you into Galilee. {26:33}
Peter answered and said unto him, Though all [men] shall be offended
because of thee, [yet] will I never be offended. {26:34} Jesus said
unto him, Verily I say unto thee, That this night, before the cock
crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. {26:35} Peter said unto him, Though I
should die with thee, yet will I not deny thee. Likewise also said all
the disciples.

   {26:36} Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place called Gethsemane,
and saith unto the disciples, Sit ye here, while I go and pray yonder.
{26:37} And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and
began to be sorrowful and very heavy. {26:38} Then saith he unto them,
My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and
watch with me. {26:39} And he went a little farther, and fell on his
face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup
pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou [wilt. ]{26:40}
And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them asleep, and saith
unto Peter, What, could ye not watch with me one hour? {26:41} Watch
and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed [is]
willing, but the flesh [is] weak. {26:42} 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. {26:43} And he came and
found them asleep again: for their eyes were heavy. {26:44} And he left
them, and went away again, and prayed the third time, saying the same
words. {26:45} Then cometh he to his disciples, and saith unto them,
Sleep on now, and take [your] rest: behold, the hour is at hand, and
the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. {26:46} Rise, let
us be going: behold, he is at hand that doth betray me.

   {26:47} 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. {26:48} Now he that betrayed him gave
them a sign, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he: hold him
fast. {26:49} And forthwith he came to Jesus, and said, Hail, master;
and kissed him. {26:50} And Jesus said unto him, Friend, wherefore art
thou come? Then came they, and laid hands on Jesus, and took him.
{26:51} 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. {26:52} 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. {26:53} Thinkest thou that I cannot now
pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve
legions of angels? {26:54} But how then shall the scriptures be
fulfilled, that thus it must be? {26:55} In that same hour said Jesus
to the multitudes, Are ye come out 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. {26:56} But all this was done, that the
scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples
forsook him, and fled.

   {26:57} And they that had laid hold on Jesus led [him] away to
Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were
assembled. {26:58} But Peter followed him afar off unto the high
priest's palace, and went in, and sat with the servants, to see the
end. {26:59} Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council,
sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death; {26:60} But
found none: yea, though many false witnesses came, [yet] found they
none. At the last came two false witnesses, {26:61} And said, This
[fellow] said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it
in three days. {26:62} And the high priest arose, and said unto him,
Answerest thou nothing? what [is it which] these witness against thee?
{26:63} But Jesus held his peace. And the high priest answered and said
unto him, I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether
thou be the Christ, the Son of God. {26:64} 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. {26:65} Then the high priest rent his clothes, saying, He hath
spoken blasphemy; what further need have we of witnesses? behold, now
ye have heard his blasphemy. {26:66} What think ye? They answered and
said, He is guilty of death. {26:67} Then did they spit in his face,
and buffeted him; and others smote [him] with the palms of their hands,
{26:68} Saying, Prophesy unto us, thou Christ, Who is he that smote
thee?

   {26:69} Now Peter sat without in the palace: and a damsel came unto
him, saying, Thou also wast with Jesus of Galilee. {26:70} But he
denied before [them] all, saying, I know not what thou sayest. {26:71}
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. {26:72} And again he denied with an oath, I do not know the
man. {26:73} 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. {26:74} Then began he to curse and to swear, [saying,]
I know not the man. And immediately the cock crew. {26:75} And Peter
remembered the word of Jesus, which said unto him, Before the cock
crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And he went out, and wept bitterly.

   {27:1} When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders
of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death: {27:2}
And when they had bound him, they led [him] away, and delivered him to
Pontius Pilate the governor.

   {27:3} Then Judas, which had betrayeth him, when he saw that he was
condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of
silver to the chief priests and elders, {27:4} Saying, I have sinned in
that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What [is that]
to us? see thou [to that. ]{27:5} And he cast down the pieces of silver
in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself. {27:6} And
the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said, It is not lawful
for to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood.
{27:7} And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field,
to bury strangers in. {27:8} Wherefore that field was called, The field
of blood, unto this day. {27:9} 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; {27:10} And gave them for the potter's field, as
the Lord appointed me. {27:11} 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. {27:12} And when he was accused of
the chief priests and elders, he answered nothing. {27:13} Then said
Pilate unto him, Hearest thou not how many things they witness against
thee? {27:14} And he answered him to never a word; insomuch that the
governor marvelled greatly. {27:15} Now at [that] feast the governor
was wont to release unto the people a prisoner, whom they would.
{27:16} And they had then a notable prisoner, called Barabbas. {27:17}
Therefore when they were gathered together, Pilate said unto them, Whom
will ye that I release unto you? Barabbas, or Jesus which is called
Christ? {27:18} For he knew that for envy they had delivered him.

   {27:19} 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. {27:20}
But the chief priests and elders persuaded the multitude that they
should ask Barabbas, and destroy Jesus. {27:21} The governor answered
and said unto them, Whether of the twain will ye that I release unto
you? They said, Barabbas. {27:22} Pilate saith unto them, What shall I
do then with Jesus which is called Christ? [They] all say unto him, Let
him be crucified. {27:23} And the governor said, Why, what evil hath he
done? But they cried out the more, saying, Let him be crucified.

   {27:24} When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but [that]
rather a 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. ]{27:25} Then answered all the people, and said, His
blood [be] on us, and on our children.

   {27:26} Then released he Barabbas unto them: and when he had
scourged Jesus, he delivered [him] to be crucified. {27:27} Then the
soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall, and gathered
unto him the whole band [of soldiers. ]{27:28} And they stripped him,
and put on him a scarlet robe.

   {27:29} 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! {27:30} And
they spit upon him, and took the reed, and smote him on the head.
{27:31} 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.
]{27:32} And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by
name: him they compelled to bear his cross. {27:33} And when they were
come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull,

   {27:34} They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when
he had tasted [thereof,] he would not drink. {27:35} And they crucified
him, and parted his garments, casting lots: 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. {27:36} And sitting down they
watched him there; {27:37} And set up over his head his accusation
written, THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS. {27:38} Then were there
two thieves crucified with him, one on the right hand, and another on
the left.

   {27:39} And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads,
{27:40} And saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest [it]
in three days, save thyself. If thou be the Son of God, come down from
the cross. {27:41} Likewise also the chief priests mocking [him,] with
the scribes and elders, said, {27:42} 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. {27:43} He trusted in God; let him
deliver him now, if he will have him: for he said, I am the Son of God.
{27:44} The thieves also, which were crucified with him, cast the same
in his teeth. {27:45} Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over
all the land unto the ninth hour. {27:46} And about the ninth hour
Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that
is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? {27:47} Some of
them that stood there, when they heard [that,] said, This [man] calleth
for Elias. {27:48} And straightway one of them ran, and took a spunge,
and filled [it] with vinegar, and put [it] on a reed, and gave him to
drink. {27:49} The rest said, Let be, let us see whether Elias will
come to save him.

   {27:50} Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up
the ghost. {27:51} 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; {27:52} And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the
saints which slept arose, {27:53} And came out of the graves after his
resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
{27:54} Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching
Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared
greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God. {27:55} And many women
were there beholding afar off, which followed Jesus from Galilee,
ministering unto him: {27:56} Among which was Mary Magdalene, and Mary
the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedee's children.
{27:57} When the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathaea,
named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus' disciple: {27:58} He went to
Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to
be delivered. {27:59} And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it
in a clean linen cloth, {27:60} 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. {27:61} And there was Mary Magdalene, and
the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulchre.

   {27:62} Now the next day, that followed the day of the preparation,
the chief priests and Pharisees came together unto Pilate, {27:63}
Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet
alive, After three days I will rise again. {27:64} Command therefore
that the sepulchre be made sure until the 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. {27:65}
Pilate said unto them, Ye have a watch: go your way, make [it] as sure
as ye can. {27:66} So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing
the stone, and setting a watch.

   {28:1} 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. {28:2} 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. {28:3} His countenance was
like lightning, and his raiment white as snow: {28:4} And for fear of
him the keepers did shake, and became as dead [men. ]{28:5} And the
angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye
seek Jesus, which was crucified. {28:6} He is not here: for he is
risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay. {28:7} And
go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and,
behold, he goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye see him: lo, I
have told you. {28:8} And they departed quickly from the sepulchre with
fear and great joy; and did run to bring his disciples word.

   {28:9} And as they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met
them, saying, All hail. And they came and held him by the feet, and
worshipped him. {28:10} Then said Jesus unto them, Be not afraid: go
tell my brethren that they go into Galilee, and there shall they see me.

   {28:11} 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. {28:12} And when they were assembled with the elders, and
had taken counsel, they gave large money unto the soldiers, {28:13}
Saying, Say ye, His disciples came by night, and stole him [away] while
we slept. {28:14} And if this come to the governor's ears, we will
persuade him, and secure you. {28:15} So they took the money, and did
as they were taught: and this saying is commonly reported among the
Jews until this day.

   {28:16} Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into a
mountain where Jesus had appointed them. {28:17} And when they saw him,
they worshipped him: but some doubted. {28:18} And Jesus came and spake
unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
{28:19} Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the
name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: {28:20}
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

   {1:1} The word of the LORD that came to Micah the Morasthite in the
days of Jotham, Ahaz, [and] Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw
concerning Samaria and Jerusalem. {1:2} Hear, all ye people; hearken, O
earth, and all that therein is: and let the Lord GOD be witness against
you, the Lord from his holy temple. {1:3} For, behold, the LORD cometh
forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high
places of the earth. {1:4} 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. {1:5} For the
transgression of Jacob [is] all this, and for the sins of the house of
Israel. What [is] the transgression of Jacob? [is it] not Samaria? and
what [are] the high places of Judah? [are they] not Jerusalem? {1:6}
Therefore I will make Samaria as an heap of the field, [and] as
plantings of a vineyard: and I will pour down the stones thereof into
the valley, and I will discover the foundations thereof. {1:7} 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. {1:8} Therefore I will wail and
howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the
dragons, and mourning as the owls. {1:9} For her wound [is] incurable;
for it is come unto Judah; he is come unto the gate of my people,
[even] to Jerusalem.

   {1:10} Declare ye [it] not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in the house
of Aphrah roll thyself in the dust. {1:11} Pass ye away, thou
inhabitant of Saphir, having thy shame naked: the inhabitant of Zaanan
came not forth in the mourning of Beth-ezel; he shall receive of you
his standing. {1:12} For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for
good: but evil came down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem.
{1:13} O thou inhabitant of Lachish, bind the chariot to the swift
beast: she [is] the beginning of the sin to the daughter of Zion: for
the transgressions of Israel were found in thee. {1:14} Therefore shalt
thou give presents to Moresheth-gath: the houses of Achzib [shall be] a
lie to the kings of Israel. {1:15} Yet will I bring an heir unto thee,
O inhabitant of Mareshah: he shall come unto Adullam the glory of
Israel. {1:16} Make thee bald, and poll thee for thy delicate children;
enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity
from thee.

   {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. {2:2} 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. {2:3} 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.

   {2:4} In that day shall [one] take up a parable against you, and
lament with a doleful lamentation, [and] say, We be utterly spoiled: he
hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed [it] from
me! turning away he hath divided our fields. {2:5} Therefore thou shalt
have none that shall cast a cord by lot in the congregation of the
LORD. {2:6} Prophesy ye not, [say they to them that] prophesy: they
shall not prophesy to them, [that] they shall not take shame.

   {2:7} O [thou that art] named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of
the LORD straitened? [are] these his doings? do not my words do good to
him that walketh uprightly? {2:8} 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. {2:9} The women of my people have ye
cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken
away my glory for ever. {2:10} Arise ye, and depart; for this [is] not
[your] rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy [you,] even with
a sore destruction. {2:11} 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.

   {2:12} 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. {2:13} 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.

   {3:1} And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes
of the house of Israel; [Is it] not for you to know judgment? {3:2} Who
hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off
them, and their flesh from off their bones; {3:3} 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. {3:4} 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.

   {3:5} 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. {3:6}
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.
{3:7} Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded:
yea, they shall all cover their lips; for [there is] no answer of God.

   {3:8} But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of
judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to
Israel his sin. {3:9} Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of
Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and
pervert all equity. {3:10} They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem
with iniquity. {3:11} 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. {3:12} 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.

   {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. {4:2} 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.

   {4:3} 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. {4:4} 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. ]{4:5} 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. {4:6} 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; {4:7} 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.

   {4:8} 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. {4:9} Now why dost
thou cry out aloud? [is there] no king in thee? is thy counsellor
perished? for pangs have taken thee as a woman in travail. {4:10} Be in
pain, and labour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a 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.

   {4:11} Now also many nations are gathered against thee, that say,
Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion. {4:12} But they
know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand they his counsel:
for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor. {4:13} 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.

   {5:1} Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath
laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod
upon the cheek. {5:2} 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. {5:3} 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.

   {5:4} 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. {5:5} 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. {5:6} 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. {5:7}
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.

   {5:8} And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the
midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a
young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go through, both
treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver. {5:9} Thine
hand shall be lifted up upon thine adversaries, and all thine enemies
shall be cut off. {5:10} And it shall come to pass in that day, saith
the LORD, that I will cut off thy horses out of the midst of thee, and
I will destroy thy chariots: {5:11} And I will cut off the cities of
thy land, and throw down all thy strong holds: {5:12} And I will cut
off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and thou shalt have no [more]
soothsayers: {5:13} Thy graven images also will I cut off, and thy
standing images out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more
worship the work of thine hands. {5:14} And I will pluck up thy groves
out of the midst of thee: so will I destroy thy cities. {5:15} And I
will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the heathen, such as they
have not heard.

   {6:1} Hear ye now what the LORD saith; Arise, contend thou before
the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice. {6:2} Hear ye, O
mountains, the LORD'S controversy, and ye strong foundations of the
earth: for the LORD hath a controversy with his people, and he will
plead with Israel. {6:3} O my people, what have I done unto thee? and
wherein have I wearied thee? testify against me. {6:4} For I brought
thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of
servants; and I sent before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam. {6:5} 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.

   {6:6} 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? {6:7} Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of
rams, [or] with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my
firstborn [for] my transgression, the fruit of my body [for] the sin of
my soul? {6:8} He hath shewed thee, O man, what [is] good; and what
doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and
to walk humbly with thy God? {6:9} 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.

   {6:10} Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the
wicked, and the scant measure [that is] abominable? {6:11} Shall I
count [them] pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of
deceitful weights? {6:12} For the rich men thereof are full of
violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their
tongue [is] deceitful in their mouth. {6:13} Therefore also will I make
[thee] sick in smiting thee, in making [thee] desolate because of thy
sins. {6:14} Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied; and thy casting down
[shall 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. {6:15} 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.

   {6:16} For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the
house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a
desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall
bear the reproach of my people.

   {7:1} Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer
fruits, as the grapegleanings of the vintage: [there is] no cluster to
eat: my soul desired the firstripe fruit. {7:2} The good [man] is
perished out of the earth: and [there is] none upright among men: they
all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.

   {7:3} 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. {7:4} 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.

   {7:5} Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide:
keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom. {7:6} For
the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth up against her
mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law; a man's enemies
[are] the men of his own house. {7:7} Therefore I will look unto the
LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.

   {7:8} Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall
arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD [shall be] a light unto me.
{7:9} I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned
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. {7:10} 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. {7:11} [In] the day that thy walls are to be built,
[in] that day shall the decree be far removed. {7:12} [In] that day
[also] he shall come even to thee from Assyria, and [from] the
fortified cities, and from the fortress even to the river, and from sea
to sea, and [from] mountain to mountain. {7:13} Notwithstanding the
land shall be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the
fruit of their doings.

   {7:14} Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thine heritage,
which dwell solitarily [in] the wood, in the midst of Carmel: let them
feed [in] Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old. {7:15} According to
the days of thy coming out of the land of Egypt will I shew unto him
marvellous [things.]

   {7:16} The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might:
they shall lay [their] hand upon [their] mouth, their ears shall be
deaf. {7:17} 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. {7:18} Who [is] a God
like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the
transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his
anger for ever, because he delighteth [in] mercy. {7:19} He will turn
again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities;
and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea. {7:20}
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

   {1:1} The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the
Elkoshite. {1:2} God [is] jealous, and the LORD revengeth; the LORD
revengeth, and [is] furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his
adversaries, and he reserveth [wrath] for his enemies. {1:3} 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. {1:4} He rebuketh the sea, and
maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and
Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth. {1:5} The mountains
quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his
presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein. {1:6} 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. {1:7} The LORD [is] good, a strong hold in the day of
trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him. {1:8} But with an
overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and
darkness shall pursue his enemies. {1:9} What do ye imagine against the
LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the
second time. {1:10} For while [they be] folden together [as] thorns,
and while they are drunken [as] drunkards, they shall be devoured as
stubble fully dry. {1:11} There is [one] come out of thee, that
imagineth evil against the LORD, a wicked counsellor. {1:12} Thus saith
the LORD: Though [they be] quiet, and likewise many, yet thus shall
they be cut down, when he shall pass through. Though I have afflicted
thee, I will afflict thee no more. {1:13} For now will I break his yoke
from off thee, and will burst thy bonds in sunder. {1:14} 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. {1:15}
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.

   {2:1} He that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy face: keep the
munition, watch the way, make [thy] loins strong, fortify [thy] power
mightily. {2:2} For the LORD hath turned away the excellency of Jacob,
as the excellency of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out,
and marred their vine branches. {2:3} 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. {2:4} 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. {2:5} 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. {2:6} The
gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be dissolved.
{2:7} 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. {2:8} 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. {2:9} 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. {2:10} 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. {2:11} Where [is]
the dwelling of the lions, and the feeding place of the young lions,
where the lion, [even] the old lion, walked, [and] the lion's whelp,
and none made [them] afraid? {2:12} 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. {2:13} 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.

   {3:1} Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies [and] robbery;
the prey departeth not; {3:2} The noise of a whip, and the noise of the
rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping
chariots. {3:3} The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the
glittering spear: and [there is] a multitude of slain, and a great
number of carcases; and [there is] none end of [their] corpses; they
stumble upon their corpses: {3:4} Because of the multitude of the
whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that
selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her
witchcrafts. {3:5} Behold, I [am] against thee, saith the LORD of
hosts; and I will discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will shew
the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame. {3:6} And I will
cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee
as a gazingstock. {3:7} And it shall come to pass, [that] all they that
look upon thee shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste:
who will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for thee? {3:8} 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? {3:9} Ethiopia and Egypt [were] her strength,
and [it was] infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers. {3:10} Yet [was]
she carried away, she went into captivity: her young 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. {3:11}
Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek
strength because of the enemy. {3:12} All thy strong holds [shall be
like] fig trees with the firstripe figs: if they be shaken, they shall
even fall into the mouth of the eater. {3:13} 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. {3:14} Draw thee
waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread
the morter, make strong the brickkiln. {3:15} There shall the fire
devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like
the cankerworm: make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many
as the locusts. {3:16} Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the
stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and fleeth away. {3:17} Thy
crowned [are] as the locusts, and thy captains as the great
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. ]{3:18} 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. ]{3:19} [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?





The Book of Nehemiah

   {1:1} The words of Nehemiah the son of Hachaliah. And it came to
pass in the month Chisleu, in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan
the palace, {1:2} 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.
{1:3} 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.

   {1:4} 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, {1:5} 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: {1:6} 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. {1:7} We have dealt very corruptly against thee, and have not
kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments, which thou
commandedst thy servant Moses. {1:8} Remember, I beseech thee, the word
that thou commandedst thy servant Moses, saying, [If] ye transgress, I
will scatter you abroad among the nations: {1:9} But [if] ye turn unto
me, and keep my commandments, and do 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. {1:10} Now these [are] thy servants and thy
people, whom thou hast redeemed by thy great power, and by thy strong
hand. {1:11} O Lord, I beseech thee, let now thine ear be attentive to
the 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.

   {2:1} And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year
of Artaxerxes the king, [that] wine [was] before him: and I took up the
wine, and gave [it] unto the king. Now I had not been [beforetime] sad
in his presence. {2:2} Wherefore the king said unto me, Why [is] thy
countenance sad, seeing thou [art] not sick? this [is] nothing [else]
but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid, {2:3} And said unto
the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be
sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, [lieth] waste,
and the gates thereof are consumed with fire? {2:4} Then the king said
unto me, For what dost thou make request? So I prayed to the God of
heaven. {2:5} And I said unto the king, If it please the king, and if
thy servant 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. {2:6} 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. {2:7} 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; {2:8} 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.

   {2:9} 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. {2:10} 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.
{2:11} So I came to Jerusalem, and was there three days.

   {2:12} And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither
told I [any] man what my God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem:
neither [was there any] beast with me, save the beast that I rode upon.
{2:13} And I went out by night by the gate of the valley, even before
the 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. {2:14} 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. {2:15} 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. {2:16} 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.

   {2:17} 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. {2:18} 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. ]{2:19} 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? {2:20} 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.

   {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. {3:2} And next unto him builded the men of
Jericho. And next to them builded Zaccur the son of Imri. {3:3} But the
fish gate did the sons of Hassenaah build, who [also] laid the beams
thereof, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars
thereof. {3:4} 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. {3:5} And next unto them the Tekoites repaired; but
their nobles put not their necks to the work of their Lord. {3:6}
Moreover the old gate repaired Jehoiada the son of Paseah, and
Meshullam the son of Besodeiah; they laid the beams thereof, and set up
the doors thereof, and the locks thereof, and the bars thereof. {3:7}
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. {3:8} 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. {3:9} And next unto them repaired
Rephaiah the son of Hur, the ruler of the half part of Jerusalem.
{3:10} And next unto them repaired Jedaiah the son of Harumaph, even
over against his house. And next unto him repaired Hattush the son of
Hashabniah. {3:11} Malchijah the son of Harim, and Hashub the son of
Pahath-moab, repaired the other piece, and the tower of the furnaces.
{3:12} And next unto him repaired Shallum the son of Halohesh, the
ruler of the half part of Jerusalem, he and his daughters. {3:13} The
valley gate repaired Hanun, and the inhabitants of Zanoah; 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. {3:14}
But the dung gate repaired Malchiah the son of Rechab, the ruler of
part of Beth-haccerem; he build it, and set up the doors thereof, the
locks thereof, and the bars thereof. {3:15} But the gate of the
fountain repaired Shallun the son of Col-hozeh, 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. {3:16} After him repaired Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, the ruler
of the half part of Beth-zur, unto [the place] over against the
sepulchres of David, and to the pool that was made, and unto the house
of the mighty. {3:17} 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. {3:18} After him repaired their brethren, Bavai
the son of Henadad, the ruler of the half part of Keilah. {3:19} And
next to him repaired Ezer the son of Jeshua, the ruler of Mizpah,
another piece over against the going up to the armoury at the turning
[of the wall. ]{3:20} 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. {3:21} 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.
{3:22} And after him repaired the priests, the men of the plain. {3:23}
After him repaired Benjamin and Hashub over against their house. After
him repaired Azariah the son of Maaseiah the son of Ananiah by his
house. {3:24} After him repaired Binnui the son of Henadad another
piece, from the house of Azariah unto the turning [of the wall,] even
unto the corner. {3:25} 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. {3:26} Moreover the Nethinims dwelt in Ophel, unto [the
place] over against the water gate toward the east, and the tower that
lieth out. {3:27} After them the Tekoites repaired another piece, over
against the great tower that lieth out, even unto the wall of Ophel.
{3:28} From above the horse gate repaired the priests, every one over
against his house. {3:29} After them repaired Zadok the son of Immer
over against his house. After him repaired also Shemaiah the son of
Shechaniah, the keeper of the east gate. {3:30} 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. {3:31} 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. {3:32} And between
the going up of the corner unto the sheep gate repaired the goldsmiths
and the merchants.

   {4:1} 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. {4:2} 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? {4:3} 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. {4:4}
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:
{4:5} 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. {4:6} So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined
together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work.

   {4:7} But it came to pass, [that] when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and
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, {4:8} And conspired all of them
together to come [and] to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it.
{4:9} Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch
against them day and night, because of them. {4:10} And Judah said, The
strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and [there is] much
rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall. {4:11} 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. {4:12}
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.]

   {4:13} 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. {4:14} 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. {4:15} 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. {4:16} 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. {4:17}
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. {4:18} For the builders, every one
had his sword girded by his side, and [so] builded. And he that sounded
the trumpet [was] by me.

   {4:19} And I said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the
rest of the people, The work [is] great and large, and we are separated
upon the wall, one far from another. {4:20} In what place [therefore]
ye hear the sound of the trumpet, resort ye thither unto us: our God
shall fight for us. {4:21} So we laboured in the work: and half of them
held the spears from the rising of the morning till the stars appeared.
{4:22} Likewise at the same time said I unto the people, Let every one
with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be
a guard to us, and labour on the day. {4:23} 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.

   {5:1} And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives
against their brethren the Jews. {5:2} For there were that said, We,
our sons, and our daughters, [are] many: therefore we take up corn [for
them,] that we may eat, and live. {5:3} [Some] also there were that
said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might
buy corn, because of the dearth. {5:4} There were also that said, We
have borrowed money for the king's tribute, [and that upon] our lands
and vineyards. {5:5} Yet now our flesh [is] as the flesh of our
brethren, our children as 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.

   {5:6} And I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words.
{5:7} 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. {5:8} 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.
]{5:9} 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? {5:10} I likewise, [and] my brethren, and my servants, might
exact of them money and corn: I pray you, let us leave off this usury.
{5:11} Restore, I pray you, to them, even this day, their lands, their
vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses, also the the hundredth
[part] of the money, and of the corn, the wine, and the oil, that ye
exact of them. {5:12} 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. {5:13} 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.

   {5:14} 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. {5:15} 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. {5:16} 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. {5:17} 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. {5:18} 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. {5:19} Think
upon me, my God, for good, [according] to all that I have done for this
people.

   {6:1} 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;) {6:2} 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. {6:3} 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? {6:4} Yet they sent unto me
four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner.
{6:5} Then sent Sanballat his servant unto me in like manner the fifth
time with an open letter in his hand; {6:6} Wherein [was] written, It
is reported among the heathen, and 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. {6:7} And thou hast
also appointed prophets to preach of thee at Jerusalem, saying, [There
is] a king in Judah: and now shall it be reported to the king according
to these words. Come now therefore, and let us take counsel together.
{6:8} Then I sent unto him, saying, There are no such things done as
thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart. {6:9} 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.
{6:10} 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. {6:11} 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. {6:12} 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. {6:13} 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.
{6:14} 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.

   {6:15} So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth [day] of
[the month] Elul, in fifty and two days. {6:16} And it came to pass,
that when all our enemies heard [thereof,] 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.

   {6:17} Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters
unto Tobiah, and [the letters] of Tobiah came unto them. {6:18} For
[there were] many in Judah sworn unto him, because he [was] the son in
law of Shechaniah the son of Arah; and his son Johanan had taken the
daughter of Meshullam the son of Berechiah. {6:19} Also they reported
his good deeds before me, and uttered my words to him. [And] Tobiah
sent letters to put me in fear.

   {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, {7:2} 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. {7:3} 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. {7:4} Now the city [was] large and great: but
the people [were] few therein, and the houses [were] not builded.

   {7:5} And my God put into mine heart to gather together the nobles,
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, {7:6} These [are] the
children of the province, that went up out of the captivity, of those
that had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had
carried away, and came again to Jerusalem and to Judah, every one unto
his city; {7:7} Who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah,
Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah.
The number, [I say,] of the men of the people of Israel [was this;
]{7:8} The children of Parosh, two thousand an hundred seventy and two.
{7:9} The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy and two. {7:10}
The children of Arah, six hundred fifty and two. {7:11} The children of
Pahath-moab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand and eight
hundred [and] eighteen. {7:12} The children of Elam, a thousand two
hundred fifty and four. {7:13} The children of Zattu, eight hundred
forty and five. {7:14} The children of Zaccai, seven hundred and
threescore. {7:15} The children of Binnui, six hundred forty and eight.
{7:16} The children of Bebai, six hundred twenty and eight. {7:17} The
children of Azgad, two thousand three hundred twenty and two. {7:18}
The children of Adonikam, six hundred threescore and seven. {7:19} The
children of Bigvai, two thousand threescore and seven. {7:20} The
children of Adin, six hundred fifty and five. {7:21} The children of
Ater of Hezekiah, ninety and eight. {7:22} The children of Hashum,
three hundred twenty and eight. {7:23} The children of Bezai, three
hundred twenty and four. {7:24} The children of Hariph, an hundred and
twelve. {7:25} The children of Gibeon, ninety and five. {7:26} The men
of Bethlehem and Netophah, an hundred fourscore and eight. {7:27} The
men of Anathoth, an hundred twenty and eight. {7:28} The men of Beth-
azmaveth, forty and two. {7:29} The men of Kirjath-jearim, Chephirah,
and Beeroth, seven hundred forty and three. {7:30} The men of Ramah and
Gaba, six hundred twenty and one. {7:31} The men of Michmas, an hundred
and twenty and two. {7:32} The men of Bethel and Ai, an hundred twenty
and three. {7:33} The men of the other Nebo, fifty and two. {7:34} The
children of the other Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.
{7:35} The children of Harim, three hundred and twenty. {7:36} The
children of Jericho, three hundred forty and five. {7:37} The children
of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred twenty and one. {7:38} The
children of Senaah, three thousand nine hundred and thirty.

   {7:39} The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua,
nine hundred seventy and three. {7:40} The children of Immer, a
thousand fifty and two. {7:41} The children of Pashur, a thousand two
hundred forty and seven. {7:42} The children of Harim, a thousand and
seventeen.

   {7:43} The Levites: the children of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, [and] of the
children of Hodevah, seventy and four.

   {7:44} The singers: the children of Asaph, an hundred forty and
eight.

   {7:45} The porters: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater,
the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita,
the children of Shobai, an hundred thirty and eight.

   {7:46} The Nethinims: the children of Ziha, the children of
Hashupha, the children of Tabbaoth, {7:47} The children of Keros, the
children of Sia, the children of Padon, {7:48} The children of Lebana,
the children of Hagaba, the children of Shalmai, {7:49} The children of
Hanan, the children of Giddel, the children of Gahar, {7:50} The
children of Reaiah, the children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda,
{7:51} The children of Gazzam, the children of Uzza, the children of
Phaseah, {7:52} The children of Besai, the children of Meunim, the
children of Nephishesim, {7:53} The children of Bakbuk, the children of
Hakupha, the children of Harhur, {7:54} The children of Bazlith, the
children of Mehida, the children of Harsha, {7:55} The children of
Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Tamah, {7:56} The
children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha.

   {7:57} The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai,
the children of Sophereth, the children of Perida, {7:58} The children
of Jaala, the children of Darkon, the children of Giddel, {7:59} The
children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of
Pochereth of Zebaim, the children of Amon. {7:60} All the Nethinims,
and the children of Solomon's servants, [were] three hundred ninety and
two. {7:61} And these [were] they which went up [also] from Telmelah,
Telharesha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer: but they could not shew their
father's house, nor their seed, whether they [were] of Israel. {7:62}
The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of
Nekoda, six hundred forty and two.

   {7:63} And of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of
Koz, the children of Barzillai, which took [one] of the daughters of
Barzillai the Gileadite to wife, and was called after their name.
{7:64} 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. {7:65} 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.

   {7:66} The whole congregation together [was] forty and two thousand
three hundred and threescore, {7:67} Beside their manservants and their
maidservants, of whom [there were] seven thousand three hundred thirty
and seven: and they had two hundred forty and five singing men and
singing women. {7:68} Their horses, seven hundred thirty and six: their
mules, two hundred forty and five: {7:69} [Their] camels, four hundred
thirty and five: six thousand seven hundred and twenty asses.

   {7:70} And some of the chief of the fathers gave unto the work. The
Tirshatha gave to the treasure a thousand drams of gold, fifty basons,
five hundred and thirty priests' garments. {7:71} And [some] of the
chief of the fathers gave to the treasure of the work twenty thousand
drams of gold, and two thousand and two hundred pounds of silver.
{7:72} And [that] which the rest of the people gave [was] twenty
thousand drams of gold, and two thousand pounds of silver, and
threescore and seven priests' garments. {7:73} 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.

   {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. {8:2} 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. {8:3} 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. {8:4} 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. {8:5} 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: {8:6} 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. {8:7} Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin,
Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan,
Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law: and
the people [stood] in their place. {8:8} So they read in the book in
the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused [them] to
understand the reading.

   {8:9} And Nehemiah, which [is] the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest
the 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. {8:10}
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. {8:11} So the Levites stilled all the people,
saying, Hold your peace, for the day [is] holy; neither be ye grieved.
{8:12} And all the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to
send portions, and to make great mirth, because they had understood the
words that were declared unto them.

   {8:13} 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. {8:14} And they found
written in the law which the LORD had commanded by Moses, that the
children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh
month: {8:15} And that they should publish and proclaim in all their
cities, and 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.

   {8:16} 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. {8:17} 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. {8:18} 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.

   {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. {9:2} And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all
strangers, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of
their fathers. {9:3} 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.

   {9:4} Then stood up upon the stairs, of the Levites, Jeshua, and
Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, [and] Chenani, and
cried with a loud voice unto the LORD their God. {9:5} Then the
Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah, Sherebiah, Hodijah,
Shebaniah, [and] Pethahiah, said, Stand up [and] bless the LORD your
God for ever and ever: and blessed be thy glorious name, which is
exalted above all blessing and praise. {9:6} Thou, [even] thou, [art]
LORD alone; thou hast made heaven, the 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. {9:7} 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; {9:8} 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: {9:9} And didst
see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry by
the Red sea; {9:10} And shewedst signs and wonders upon Pharaoh, and on
all his 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. {9:11} 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. {9:12} 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. {9:13} 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: {9:14} And
madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and commandedst them precepts,
statutes, and laws, by the hand of Moses thy servant: {9:15} And gavest
them bread from heaven for their hunger, 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.
{9:16} But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their
necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments, {9:17} And refused to
obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that 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. {9:18} 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; {9:19} 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. {9:20} Thou
gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy
manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst. {9:21}
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. {9:22} 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.
{9:23} 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. ]{9:24} 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. {9:25} 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.
{9:26} 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. {9:27} 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. {9:28} But after they had rest, they did
evil again before thee: therefore leftest thou them in the hand 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; {9:29} 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. {9:30} 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. {9:31} Nevertheless for thy great mercies' sake thou didst
not utterly consume them, nor forsake them; for thou [art] a gracious
and merciful God. {9:32} 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. {9:33} Howbeit thou [art] just in all that is brought
upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly: {9:34}
Neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept
thy law, nor hearkened unto thy commandments and thy testimonies,
wherewith thou didst testify against them. {9:35} 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. {9:36} 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: {9:37} 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. {9:38} And because of all this we make a sure
[covenant,] and write [it;] and our princes, Levites, [and] priests,
seal [unto it.]

   {10:1} Now those that sealed [were,] Nehemiah, the Tirshatha, the
son of Hachaliah, and Zidkijah, {10:2} Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah,
{10:3} Pashur, Amariah, Malchijah, {10:4} Hattush, Shebaniah, Malluch,
{10:5} Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah, {10:6} Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch,
{10:7} Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin, {10:8} Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah:
these [were] the priests. {10:9} And the Levites: both Jeshua the son
of Azaniah, Binnui of the sons of Henadad, Kadmiel; {10:10} And their
brethren, Shebaniah, Hodijah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan, {10:11} Micha,
Rehob, Hashabiah, {10:12} Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah, {10:13}
Hodijah, Bani, Beninu. {10:14} The chief of the people; Parosh,
Pahath-moab, Elam, Zatthu, Bani, {10:15} Bunni, Azgad, Bebai, {10:16}
Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin, {10:17} Ater, Hizkijah, Azzur, {10:18} Hodijah,
Hashum, Bezai, {10:19} Hariph, Anathoth, Nebai, {10:20} Magpiash,
Meshullam, Hezir, {10:21} Meshezabeel, Zadok, Jaddua, {10:22} Pelatiah,
Hanan, Anaiah, {10:23} Hoshea, Hananiah, Hashub, {10:24} Hallohesh,
Pileha, Shobek, {10:25} Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah, {10:26} And Ahijah,
Hanan, Anan, {10:27} Malluch, Harim, Baanah.

   {10:28} 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; {10:29} 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; {10:30} And that we would not give our daughters unto the
people of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons: {10:31} And
[if] the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on 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. {10:32} 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; {10:33} 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. {10:34} 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: {10:35} 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: {10:36} 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: {10:37} 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. {10:38} 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. {10:39} 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.

   {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. {11:2} And
the people blessed all the men, that willingly offered themselves to
dwell at Jerusalem.

   {11:3} Now these [are] the chief of the province that dwelt in
Jerusalem: 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. {11:4} And at
Jerusalem dwelt [certain] of the children of Judah, and of the children
of Benjamin. Of the children of Judah; Athaiah the son of Uzziah, the
son of Zechariah, the son of Amariah, the son of Shephatiah, the son of
Mahalaleel, of the children of Perez; {11:5} And Maaseiah the son of
Baruch, the son of Col-hozeh, the son of Hazaiah, the son of Adaiah,
the son of Joiarib, the son of Zechariah, the son of Shiloni. {11:6}
All the sons of Perez that dwelt at Jerusalem [were] four hundred
threescore and eight valiant men. {11:7} And these [are] the sons of
Benjamin; Sallu the son of Meshullam, the son of Joed, the son of
Pedaiah, the son of Kolaiah, the son of Maaseiah, the son of Ithiel,
the son of Jesaiah. {11:8} And after him Gabbai, Sallai, nine hundred
twenty and eight. {11:9} And Joel the son of Zichri [was] their
overseer: and Judah the son of Senuah [was] second over the city.
{11:10} Of the priests: Jedaiah the son of Joiarib, Jachin. {11:11}
Seraiah the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the
son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, [was] the ruler of the house of
God. {11:12} And their brethren that did the work of the house [were]
eight 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, {11:13} 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, {11:14} 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. {11:15} Also
of the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hashub, the son of Azrikam, the son
of Hashabiah, the son of Bunni; {11:16} And Shabbethai and Jozabad, of
the chief of the Levites, [had] the oversight of the outward business
of the house of God. {11:17} And Mattaniah the son of Micha, the son of
Zabdi, the son of Asaph, [was] the principal to begin the thanksgiving
in prayer: and Bakbukiah the second among his brethren, and Abda the
son of Shammua, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun. {11:18} All the
Levites in the holy city [were] two hundred fourscore and four. {11:19}
Moreover the porters, Akkub, Talmon, and their brethren that kept the
gates, [were] an hundred seventy and two.

   {11:20} And the residue of Israel, of the priests, [and] the
Levites, [were] in all the cities of Judah, every one in his
inheritance. {11:21} But the Nethinims dwelt in Ophel: and Ziha and
Gispa [were] over the Nethinims. {11:22} 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. {11:23} For [it
was] the king's commandment concerning them, that a certain portion
should be for the singers, due for every day. {11:24} 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. {11:25} And for
the villages, with their fields, [some] of the children of Judah dwelt
at Kirjath-arba, and [in] the villages thereof, and at Dibon, and in
the villages thereof, and at Jekabzeel, and [in] the villages thereof,
{11:26} And at Jeshua, and at Moladah, and at Beth-phelet, {11:27} And
at Hazar-shual, and at Beer-sheba, and [in] the villages thereof,
{11:28} And at Ziklag, and at Mekonah, and in the villages thereof,
{11:29} And at En-rimmon, and at Zareah, and at Jarmuth, {11:30}
Zanoah, Adullam, and [in] their villages, at Lachish, and the fields
thereof, at Azekah, and [in] the villages thereof. And they dwelt from
Beer-sheba unto the valley of Hinnom. {11:31} The children also of
Benjamin from Geba [dwelt] at Michmash, and Aija, and Bethel, and [in]
their villages, {11:32} [And] at Anathoth, Nob, Ananiah, {11:33} Hazor,
Ramah, Gittaim, {11:34} Hadid, Zeboim, Neballat, {11:35} Lod, and Ono,
the valley of craftsmen. {11:36} And of the Levites [were] divisions
[in] Judah, [and] in Benjamin.

   {12:1} Now these [are] the priests and the Levites that went up with
Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra,
{12:2} Amariah, Malluch, Hattush, {12:3} Shechaniah, Rehum, Meremoth,
{12:4} Iddo, Ginnetho, Abijah, {12:5} Miamin, Maadiah, Bilgah, {12:6}
Shemaiah, and Joiarib, Jedaiah, {12:7} Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah.
These [were] the chief of the priests and of their brethren in the days
of Jeshua. {12:8} Moreover the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel,
Sherebiah, Judah, [and] Mattaniah, [which was] over the thanksgiving,
he and his brethren. {12:9} Also Bakbukiah and Unni, their brethren,
[were] over against them in the watches.

   {12:10} And Jeshua begat Joiakim, Joiakim also begat Eliashib, and
Eliashib begat Joiada, {12:11} And Joiada begat Jonathan, and Jonathan
begat Jaddua. {12:12} And in the days of Joiakim were priests, the
chief of the fathers: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah;
{12:13} Of Ezra, Meshullam; of Amariah, Jehohanan; {12:14} Of Melicu,
Jonathan; of Shebaniah, Joseph; {12:15} Of Harim, Adna; of Meraioth,
Helkai; {12:16} Of Iddo, Zechariah; of Ginnethon, Meshullam; {12:17} Of
Abijah, Zichri; of Miniamin, of Moadiah, Piltai; {12:18} Of Bilgah,
Shammua; of Shemaiah, Jehonathan; {12:19} And of Joiarib, Mattenai; of
Jedaiah, Uzzi; {12:20} Of Sallai, Kallai; of Amok, Eber; {12:21} Of
Hilkiah, Hashabiah; of Jedaiah, Nethaneel.

   {12:22} The Levites in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, and Johanan,
and Jaddua, [were] recorded chief of the fathers: also the priests, to
the reign of Darius the Persian. {12:23} 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. {12:24} 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. {12:25} Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon,
Akkub, [were] porters keeping the ward at the thresholds of the gates.
{12:26} 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.

   {12:27} 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. {12:28} And the
sons of the singers gathered themselves together, both out of the plain
country round about Jerusalem, and from the villages of Netophathi;
{12:29} 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. {12:30} And the priests and the Levites purified themselves,
and purified the people, and the gates, and the wall. {12:31} 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: {12:32} And after them went
Hoshaiah, and half of the princes of Judah, {12:33} And Azariah, Ezra,
and Meshullam, {12:34} Judah, and Benjamin, and Shemaiah, and Jeremiah,
{12:35} And [certain] of the priests' sons with trumpets; [namely,]
Zechariah the son of Jonathan, the son of Shemaiah, the son of
Mattaniah, the son of Michaiah, the son of Zaccur, the son of Asaph:
{12:36} 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. {12:37} 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. {12:38} 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; {12:39} 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. {12:40} 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: {12:41} And the priests; Eliakim,
Maaseiah, Miniamin, Michaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah, [and] Hananiah, with
trumpets; {12:42} And Maaseiah, and Shemaiah, and Eleazar, and Uzzi,
and Jehohanan, and Malchijah, and Elam, and Ezer. And the singers sang
loud, with Jezrahiah [their] overseer. {12:43} 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.

   {12:44} 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. {12:45} And both the
singers and the porters kept the ward of their God, and the ward of the
purification, according to the commandment of David, [and] of Solomon
his son. {12:46} For in the days of David and Asaph of old [there were]
chief of the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgiving unto God.
{12:47} And all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel, and in the days of
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.

   {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; {13:2}
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. {13:3} Now it came to pass, when
they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed
multitude.

   {13:4} And before this, Eliashib the priest, having the oversight of
the chamber of the house of our God, [was] allied unto Tobiah: {13:5}
And he had prepared for him a great chamber, where aforetime 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. {13:6} 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: {13:7} 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. {13:8} And it grieved me sore: therefore I cast
forth all the household stuff of Tobiah out of the chamber. {13:9} Then
I commanded, and they cleansed the chambers: and thither brought I
again the vessels of the house of God, with the meat offering and the
frankincense.

   {13:10} 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. {13:11} 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. {13:12} Then brought all Judah
the tithe of the corn and the new wine and the oil unto the treasuries.
{13:13} And I made treasurers over the treasuries, Shelemiah the
priest, 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. {13:14} 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.

   {13:15} In those days saw I in Judah [some] treading winepresses on
the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses; as also wine,
grapes, and figs, and all [manner of] burdens, which they brought into
Jerusalem on the sabbath day: and I testified [against them] in the day
wherein they sold victuals. {13:16} There dwelt men of Tyre also
therein, which brought fish, and all manner of ware, and sold on the
sabbath unto the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem. {13:17} 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? {13:18} 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. {13:19} 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. {13:20} So the
merchants and sellers of all kind of ware lodged without Jerusalem once
or twice. {13:21} Then I testified against them, and said unto them,
Why lodge ye 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. {13:22}
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.

   {13:23} In those days also saw I Jews [that] had married wives of
Ashdod, of Ammon, [and] of Moab: {13:24} And their children spake half
in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews' language, but
according to the language of each people. {13:25} 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. {13:26} 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. {13:27} Shall we then
hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our
God in marrying strange wives? {13:28} And [one] of the sons of Joiada,
the son of Eliashib the high priest, [was] son in law to Sanballat the
Horonite: therefore I chased him from me. {13:29} Remember them, O my
God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the
priesthood, and of the Levites. {13:30} Thus cleansed I them from all
strangers, and appointed the wards of the priests and the Levites,
every one in his business; {13:31} And for the wood offering, at times
appointed, and for the firstfruits. Remember me, O my God, for good.





The Fourth Book of Moses, called Numbers

   {1:1} And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in
the tabernacle of the congregation, on the first [day] of the second
month, in the second year after they were come out of the land of
Egypt, saying, {1:2} Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the
children of Israel, after their families, by the house of their
fathers, with the number of [their] names, every male by their polls;
{1:3} 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.
{1:4} And with you there shall be a man of every tribe; every one head
of the house of his fathers.

   {1:5} And these [are] the names of the men that shall stand with
you: of [the tribe of] Reuben; Elizur the son of Shedeur. {1:6} Of
Simeon; Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai. {1:7} Of Judah; Nahshon the
son of Amminadab. {1:8} Of Issachar; Nethaneel the son of Zuar. {1:9}
Of Zebulun; Eliab the son of Helon. {1:10} Of the children of Joseph:
of Ephraim; Elishama the son of Ammihud: of Manasseh; Gamaliel the son
of Pedahzur. {1:11} Of Benjamin; Abidan the son of Gideoni. {1:12} Of
Dan; Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai. {1:13} Of Asher; Pagiel the son of
Ocran. {1:14} Of Gad; Eliasaph the son of Deuel. {1:15} Of Naphtali;
Ahira the son of Enan. {1:16} These [were] the renowned of the
congregation, princes of the tribes of their fathers, heads of
thousands in Israel.

   {1:17} And Moses and Aaron took these men which are expressed by
[their] names: {1:18} And they assembled all the congregation together
on the first [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. {1:19} As the LORD commanded Moses, so he numbered them
in the wilderness of Sinai. {1:20} And the children of Reuben, Israel's
eldest son, by their generations, after their families, by the house of
their fathers, 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; {1:21} Those that were numbered of them, [even] of the
tribe of Reuben, [were] forty and six thousand and five hundred.

   {1:22} Of the children of Simeon, by their generations, after 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; {1:23} Those that were numbered of them, [even] of the tribe of
Simeon, [were] fifty and nine thousand and three hundred.

   {1:24} Of the children of Gad, by their generations, after their
families, 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; {1:25} Those that were numbered of them, [even] of the tribe of
Gad, [were] forty and five thousand six hundred and fifty.

   {1:26} Of the children of Judah, by their generations, after their
families, 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; {1:27} Those that were numbered of them, [even] of the tribe of
Judah, [were] threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred.

   {1:28} Of the children of Issachar, by their generations, after
their families, 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; {1:29} Those that were numbered of them, [even] of the
tribe of Issachar, [were] fifty and four thousand and four hundred.

   {1:30} Of the children of Zebulun, by their generations, after their
families, 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; {1:31} Those that were numbered of them, [even] of the tribe of
Zebulun, [were] fifty and seven thousand and four hundred.

   {1:32} Of the children of Joseph, [namely,] of the children of
Ephraim, by their generations, after their families, 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; {1:33} Those
that were numbered of them, [even] of the tribe of Ephraim, [were]
forty thousand and five hundred.

   {1:34} Of the children of Manasseh, by their generations, after
their families, 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; {1:35} Those that were numbered of them, [even] of the
tribe of Manasseh, [were] thirty and two thousand and two hundred.

   {1:36} Of the children of Benjamin, by their generations, after
their families, 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; {1:37} Those that were numbered of them, [even] of the
tribe of Benjamin, [were] thirty and five thousand and four hundred.

   {1:38} Of the children of Dan, by their generations, after their
families, 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; {1:39} Those that were numbered of them, [even] of the tribe of
Dan, [were] threescore and two thousand and seven hundred.

   {1:40} Of the children of Asher, by their generations, after their
families, 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; {1:41} Those that were numbered of them, [even] of the tribe of
Asher, [were] forty and one thousand and five hundred.

   {1:42} Of the children of Naphtali, throughout their generations,
after their families, 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; {1:43} Those that were numbered of them,
[even] of the tribe of Naphtali, [were] fifty and three thousand and
four hundred. {1:44} These [are] those that were numbered, which Moses
and Aaron numbered, and the princes of Israel, [being] twelve men: each
one was for the house of his fathers. {1:45} 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; {1:46} Even all they that were numbered were six hundred
thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.

   {1:47} But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not
numbered among them. {1:48} For the LORD had spoken unto Moses, saying,
{1:49} Only thou shalt not number the tribe of Levi, neither take the
sum of them among the children of Israel: {1:50} But thou shalt appoint
the Levites over the tabernacle of 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. {1:51} 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. {1:52} 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. {1:53} But
the Levites shall pitch round about the tabernacle of testimony, that
there be no wrath upon the congregation of the children of Israel: and
the Levites shall keep the charge of the tabernacle of testimony.
{1:54} And the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD
commanded Moses, so did they.

   {2:1} And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, {2:2}
Every man of the children of Israel shall pitch by his own standard,
with the ensign of their father's house: far off about the tabernacle
of the congregation shall they pitch. {2:3} And on the east side toward
the rising of the sun shall they of the standard of the camp of Judah
pitch throughout their armies: and Nahshon the son of Amminadab [shall
be] captain of the children of Judah. {2:4} And his host, and those
that were numbered of them, [were] threescore and fourteen thousand and
six hundred. {2:5} And those that do pitch next unto him [shall be] the
tribe of Issachar: and Nethaneel the son of Zuar [shall be] captain of
the children of Issachar. {2:6} And his host, and those that were
numbered thereof, [were] fifty and four thousand and four hundred.
{2:7} [Then] the tribe of Zebulun: and Eliab the son of Helon [shall
be] captain of the children of Zebulun. {2:8} And his host, and those
that were numbered thereof, [were] fifty and seven thousand and four
hundred. {2:9} All that were numbered in the camp of Judah [were] an
hundred thousand and fourscore thousand and six thousand and four
hundred, throughout their armies. These shall first set forth.

   {2:10} 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. {2:11} And his host, and
those that were numbered thereof, [were] forty and six thousand and
five hundred. {2:12} And those which pitch by him [shall be] the tribe
of Simeon: and the captain of the children of Simeon [shall be]
Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai. {2:13} And his host, and those that
were numbered of them, [were] fifty and nine thousand and three
hundred. {2:14} Then the tribe of Gad: and the captain of the sons of
Gad [shall be] Eliasaph the son of Reuel. {2:15} And his host, and
those that were numbered of them, [were] forty and five thousand and
six hundred and fifty. {2:16} All that were numbered in the camp of
Reuben [were] an hundred thousand and fifty and one thousand and four
hundred and fifty, throughout their armies. And they shall set forth in
the second rank.

   {2:17} 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.

   {2:18} 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. {2:19} And his host,
and those that were numbered of them, [were] forty thousand and five
hundred. {2:20} And by him [shall be] the tribe of Manasseh: and the
captain of the children of Manasseh [shall be] Gamaliel the son of
Pedahzur. {2:21} And his host, and those that were numbered of them,
[were] thirty and two thousand and two hundred. {2:22} Then the tribe
of Benjamin: and the captain of the sons of Benjamin [shall be] Abidan
the son of Gideoni. {2:23} And his host, and those that were numbered
of them, [were] thirty and five thousand and four hundred. {2:24} All
that were numbered of the camp of Ephraim [were] an hundred thousand
and eight thousand and an hundred, throughout their armies. And they
shall go forward in the third rank.

   {2:25} The standard of the camp of Dan [shall be] on the north side
by their armies: and the captain of the children of Dan [shall be]
Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai. {2:26} And his host, and those that
were numbered of them, [were] threescore and two thousand and seven
hundred. {2:27} 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. {2:28} And his host, and those that were numbered of
them, [were] forty and one thousand and five hundred.

   {2:29} Then the tribe of Naphtali: and the captain of the children
of Naphtali [shall be] Ahira the son of Enan. {2:30} And his host, and
those that were numbered of them, [were] fifty and three thousand and
four hundred. {2:31} All they that were numbered in the camp of Dan
[were] an hundred thousand and fifty and seven thousand and six
hundred. They shall go hindmost with their standards.

   {2:32} 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. {2:33} But the Levites were not
numbered among the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses.
{2:34} And the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD
commanded Moses: so they pitched by their standards, and so they set
forward, every one after their families, according to the house of
their fathers.

   {3:1} These also [are] the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day
[that] the LORD spake with Moses in mount Sinai. {3:2} And these [are]
the names of the sons of Aaron; Nadab the firstborn, and Abihu,
Eleazar, and Ithamar. {3:3} These [are] the names of the sons of Aaron,
the priests which were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the
priest's office. {3:4} And Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD, when
they offered 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.

   {3:5} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {3:6} Bring the tribe
of Levi near, and present them before Aaron the priest, that they may
minister unto him. {3:7} And they shall keep his charge, and the charge
of the whole congregation before the tabernacle of the congregation, to
do the service of the tabernacle. {3:8} And they shall keep all the
instruments of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the charge of
the children of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle. {3:9} And
thou shalt give the Levites unto Aaron and to his sons: they [are]
wholly given unto him out of the children of Israel. {3:10} And thou
shalt appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall wait on their priest's
office: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death. {3:11}
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {3:12} 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; {3:13} 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.

   {3:14} And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai,
saying, {3:15} 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. {3:16} And Moses numbered them according to the
word of the LORD, as he was commanded. {3:17} And these were the sons
of Levi by their names; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari. {3:18} And
these [are] the names of the sons of Gershon by their families; Libni,
and Shimei. {3:19} And the sons of Kohath by their families; Amram, and
Izehar, Hebron, and Uzziel. {3:20} And the sons of Merari by their
families; Mahli, and Mushi. These [are] the families of the Levites
according to the house of their fathers. {3:21} Of Gershon [was] the
family of the Libnites, and the family of the Shimites: these [are] the
families of the Gershonites. {3:22} Those that were numbered of them,
according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward,
[even] those that were numbered of them [were] seven thousand and five
hundred. {3:23} The families of the Gershonites shall pitch behind the
tabernacle westward. {3:24} And the chief of the house of the father of
the Gershonites [shall be] Eliasaph the son of Lael. {3:25} 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, {3:26} 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.

   {3:27} 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.
{3:28} 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. {3:29} The families of the sons of Kohath shall pitch on the
side of the tabernacle southward. {3:30} And the chief of the house of
the father of the families of the Kohathites [shall be] Elizaphan the
son of Uzziel. {3:31} And their charge [shall be] the ark, and the
table, and the candlestick, and the altars, and the vessels of the
sanctuary wherewith they minister, and the hanging, and all the service
thereof. {3:32} 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.

   {3:33} Of Merari [was] the family of the Mahlites, and the family of
the Mushites: these [are] the families of Merari. {3:34} And those that
were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a
month old and upward, [were] six thousand and two hundred. {3:35} 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. {3:36} 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, {3:37} And the pillars
of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their
cords.

   {3:38} But those that encamp before the tabernacle toward the east,
[even] before the tabernacle of the congregation eastward, [shall be]
Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary for
the charge of the children of Israel; and the stranger that cometh nigh
shall be put to death. {3:39} All that were numbered of the Levites,
which Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment of the LORD,
throughout their families, all the males from a month old and upward,
[were] twenty and two thousand.

   {3:40} And the LORD said unto Moses, Number all the firstborn of the
males of the children of Israel from a month old and upward, and take
the number of their names. {3:41} 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. {3:42} And Moses numbered,
as the LORD commanded him, all the firstborn among the children of
Israel. {3:43} And all the firstborn males by the number of names, from
a month old and upward, of those that were numbered of them, were
twenty and two thousand two hundred and threescore and thirteen.

   {3:44} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {3:45} 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. {3:46} 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;
{3:47} 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:) {3:48} And thou shalt give the money, wherewith the odd number
of them is to be redeemed, unto Aaron and to his sons. {3:49} And Moses
took the redemption money of them that were over and above them that
were redeemed by the Levites: {3:50} Of the firstborn of the children
of Israel took he the money; a thousand three hundred and threescore
and five [shekels,] after the shekel of the sanctuary: {3:51} 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.

   {4:1} And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, {4:2}
Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, after
their families, by the house of their fathers, {4:3} From thirty years
old and upward even until fifty years old, all that enter into the
host, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation. {4:4} This
[shall be] the service of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the
congregation, [about] the most holy things:

   {4:5} And when the camp setteth forward, Aaron shall come, and his
sons, and they shall take down the covering vail, and cover the ark of
testimony with it: {4:6} 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. {4:7} 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: {4:8} 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. {4:9} 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: {4:10} And they shall put it and all the vessels thereof
within a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put [it] upon a bar.
{4:11} And upon the golden altar they shall spread a cloth of blue, and
cover it with a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put to the staves
thereof: {4:12} 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: {4:13} And they shall take away the ashes from the
altar, and spread a purple cloth thereon: {4:14} And they shall put
upon it all the vessels thereof, wherewith they 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. {4:15} 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.

   {4:16} 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.

   {4:17} And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, {4:18}
Cut ye not off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among
the Levites: {4:19} But thus do unto them, that they may live, and not
die, when 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: {4:20} But they shall not go in to see when the holy things are
covered, lest they die.

   {4:21} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {4:22} Take also the
sum of the sons of Gershon, throughout the houses of their fathers, by
their families; {4:23} From thirty years old and upward until fifty
years old shalt thou number them; all that enter in to perform the
service, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation. {4:24}
This [is] the service of the families of the Gershonites, to serve, and
for burdens: {4:25} And they shall bear the curtains of the tabernacle,
and the tabernacle of the congregation, his covering, and the covering
of the badgers' skins that [is] above upon it, and the hanging for the
door of the tabernacle of the congregation, {4:26} And the hangings of
the court, and the hanging for the door of 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. {4:27} 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. {4:28} 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.

   {4:29} As for the sons of Merari, thou shalt number them after their
families, by the house of their fathers; {4:30} From thirty years old
and upward even unto fifty years old shalt thou number them, every one
that entereth into the service, to do the work of the tabernacle of the
congregation. {4:31} And this [is] the charge of their burden,
according to all their service in the tabernacle of the congregation;
the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the pillars
thereof, and sockets thereof, {4:32} And the pillars of the court round
about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords, with all
their instruments, and with all their service: and by name ye shall
reckon the instruments of the charge of their burden. {4:33} This [is]
the service of the families of the sons of Merari, according to all
their service, in the tabernacle of the congregation, under the hand of
Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

   {4:34} And Moses and Aaron and the chief of the congregation
numbered the sons of the Kohathites after their families, and after the
house of their fathers, {4:35} 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: {4:36} And those that were
numbered of them by their families were two thousand seven hundred and
fifty. {4:37} These [were] they that were numbered of the families of
the Kohathites, all that might do service in the tabernacle of the
congregation, which Moses and Aaron did number according to the
commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses. {4:38} And those that
were numbered of the sons of Gershon, throughout their families, and by
the house of their fathers, {4:39} 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, {4:40} Even those
that were numbered of them, throughout their families, by the house of
their fathers, were two thousand and six hundred and thirty. {4:41}
These [are] they that were numbered of the families of the sons of
Gershon, of all that might do service in the tabernacle of the
congregation, whom Moses and Aaron did number according to the
commandment of the LORD.

   {4:42} And those that were numbered of the families of the sons of
Merari, throughout their families, by the house of their fathers,
{4:43} 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, {4:44} Even those that were numbered of
them after their families, were three thousand and two hundred. {4:45}
These [be] those that were numbered of the families of the sons of
Merari, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the word of the LORD
by the hand of Moses. {4:46} All those that were numbered of the
Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and the chief of Israel numbered, after
their families, and after the house of their fathers, {4:47} 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, {4:48} Even those that were
numbered of them, were eight thousand and five hundred and fourscore.
{4:49} According to the commandment of the LORD they were 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.

   {5:1} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {5:2} 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:
{5:3} 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. {5:4} 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.

   {5:5} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {5:6} Speak unto the
children of Israel, When a man or woman shall commit any sin that men
commit, to do a trespass against the LORD, and that person be guilty;
{5:7} 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. {5:8} 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. {5:9} And every offering of all the holy things of the
children of Israel, which they bring unto the priest, shall be his.
{5:10} And every man's hallowed things shall be his: whatsoever any man
giveth the priest, it shall be his.

   {5:11} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {5:12} Speak unto the
children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man's wife go aside, and
commit a trespass against him, {5:13} 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; ]{5:14} 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: {5:15} 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. {5:16} And the priest shall bring her
near, and set her before the LORD: {5:17} 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:
{5:18} 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: {5:19} 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: {5:20} 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: {5:21} 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; {5:22} 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.
{5:23} And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall
blot [them] out with the bitter water: {5:24} And he shall cause the
woman to drink the bitter water that causeth the curse: and the water
that causeth the curse shall enter into her, [and become] bitter.
{5:25} 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: {5:26} 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. {5:27} 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. {5:28} And if the woman be
not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive
seed. {5:29} This [is] the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside
[to another] instead of her husband, and is defiled; {5:30} Or when the
spirit of jealousy cometh upon him, and he be jealous over his wife,
and shall set the woman before the LORD, and the priest shall execute
upon her all this law. {5:31} Then shall the man be guiltless from
iniquity, and this woman shall bear her iniquity.

   {6:1} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {6:2} Speak unto the
children of Israel, and say unto them, When either man or woman shall
separate [themselves] to vow a vow of a Nazarite, to separate
[themselves] unto the LORD: {6:3} He shall separate [himself] from wine
and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of
strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat
moist grapes, or dried. {6:4} All the days of his separation shall he
eat nothing that is made of the vine tree, from the kernels even to the
husk. {6:5} All the days of the vow of his separation there shall no
razor 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. {6:6} All the days that he
separateth [himself] unto the LORD he shall come at no dead body. {6:7}
He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother,
for his brother, or for his sister, when they die: because the
consecration of his God [is] upon his head. {6:8} All the days of his
separation he [is] holy unto the LORD. {6:9} 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. {6:10} And on the eighth day he shall bring two
turtles, or two young pigeons, to the priest, to the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation: {6:11} And the priest shall offer the
one for a sin offering, and the other 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. {6:12} 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.

   {6:13} 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: {6:14} 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, {6:15}
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. {6:16} And the priest shall bring
[them] before the LORD, and shall offer his sin offering, and his burnt
offering: {6:17} And he shall offer the ram [for] a sacrifice of peace
offerings unto the LORD, with the basket of unleavened bread: the
priest shall offer also his meat offering, and his drink offering.
{6:18} 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. {6:19} 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: {6:20}
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. {6:21} 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.

   {6:22} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {6:23} Speak unto
Aaron and unto his sons, saying, On this wise ye shall bless the
children of Israel, saying unto them, {6:24} The LORD bless thee, and
keep thee: {6:25} The LORD make his face shine upon thee, and be
gracious unto thee: {6:26} The LORD lift up his countenance upon thee,
and give thee peace. {6:27} And they shall put my name upon the
children of Israel; and I will bless them.

   {7:1} 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; {7:2} 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: {7:3} 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. {7:4} And the LORD spake
unto Moses, saying, {7:5} Take [it] of them, that they may be to do the
service of the tabernacle of the congregation; and thou shalt give them
unto the Levites, to every man according to his service. {7:6} And
Moses took the wagons and the oxen, and gave them unto the Levites.
{7:7} Two wagons and four oxen he gave unto the sons of Gershon,
according to their service: {7:8} And four wagons and eight oxen he
gave unto the sons of Merari, according unto their service, under the
hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest. {7:9} 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.

   {7:10} 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. {7:11} And the LORD said unto Moses, They shall offer
their offering, each prince on his day, for the dedicating of the altar.

   {7:12} And he that offered his offering the first day was Nahshon
the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah: {7:13} And his offering
[was] one silver charger, the weight thereof [was] 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: {7:14} One spoon of ten [shekels] of gold,
full of incense: {7:15} One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the
first year, for a burnt offering: {7:16} One kid of the goats for a sin
offering: {7:17} 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.

   {7:18} On the second day Nethaneel the son of Zuar, prince of
Issachar, did offer: {7:19} He offered [for] his offering 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: {7:20}
One spoon of gold of ten [shekels,] full of incense: {7:21} One young
bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
{7:22} One kid of the goats for a sin offering: {7:23} 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.

   {7:24} On the third day Eliab the son of Helon, prince of the
children of Zebulun, [did offer: ]{7:25} 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: {7:26}
One golden spoon of ten [shekels,] full of incense: {7:27} One young
bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
{7:28} One kid of the goats for a sin offering: {7:29} 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.

   {7:30} On the fourth day Elizur the son of Shedeur, prince of the
children of Reuben, [did offer: ]{7:31} His offering [was] one silver
charger of the weight of 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: {7:32}
One golden spoon of ten [shekels,] full of incense: {7:33} One young
bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
{7:34} One kid of the goats for a sin offering: {7:35} 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.

   {7:36} On the fifth day Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai, prince of
the children of Simeon, [did offer: ]{7:37} 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: {7:38} One golden spoon of ten [shekels,] full of incense:
{7:39} One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a
burnt offering: {7:40} One kid of the goats for a sin offering: {7:41}
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.

   {7:42} On the sixth day Eliasaph the son of Deuel, prince of the
children of Gad, [offered: ]{7:43} His offering [was] one silver
charger of the weight of an hundred 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: {7:44} One
golden spoon of ten [shekels,] full of incense: {7:45} One young
bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
{7:46} One kid of the goats for a sin offering: {7:47} 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.

   {7:48} On the seventh day Elishama the son of Ammihud, prince of the
children of Ephraim, [offered: ]{7:49} 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: {7:50}
One golden spoon of ten [shekels,] full of incense: {7:51} One young
bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
{7:52} one kid of the goats for a sin offering: {7:53} 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.

   {7:54} On the eighth day [offered] Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur,
prince of the children of Manasseh: {7:55} His offering [was] one
silver charger of the weight of 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: {7:56}
One golden spoon of ten [shekels,] full of incense: {7:57} One young
bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
{7:58} One kid of the goats for a sin offering: {7:59} 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.

   {7:60} On the ninth day Abidan the son of Gideoni, prince of the
children of Benjamin, [offered: ]{7:61} 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: {7:62}
One golden spoon of ten [shekels,] full of incense: {7:63} One young
bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
{7:64} One kid of the goats for a sin offering: {7:65} 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.

   {7:66} On the tenth day Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai, prince of
the children of Dan, [offered: ]{7:67} 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: {7:68}
One golden spoon of ten [shekels,] full of incense: {7:69} One young
bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
{7:70} One kid of the goats for a sin offering: {7:71} 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.

   {7:72} On the eleventh day Pagiel the son of Ocran, prince of the
children of Asher, [offered: ]{7:73} 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: {7:74}
One golden spoon of ten [shekels,] full of incense: {7:75} One young
bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
{7:76} One kid of the goats for a sin offering: {7:77} 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.

   {7:78} On the twelfth day Ahira the son of Enan, prince of the
children of Naphtali, [offered: ]{7:79} 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: {7:80}
One golden spoon of ten [shekels,] full of incense: {7:81} One young
bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
{7:82} One kid of the goats for a sin offering: {7:83} 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. {7:84} This [was] the dedication of the altar, in the day when it
was anointed, by the princes of Israel: twelve chargers of silver,
twelve silver bowls, twelve spoons of gold: {7:85} Each charger of
silver [weighing] an hundred and thirty [shekels,] each bowl seventy:
all the silver vessels [weighed] two thousand and four hundred
[shekels,] after the shekel of the sanctuary: {7:86} 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. ]{7:87} 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. {7:88} 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. {7:89} 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.

   {8:1} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {8:2} Speak unto Aaron,
and say unto him, When thou lightest the lamps, the seven lamps shall
give light over against the candlestick. {8:3} And Aaron did so; he
lighted the lamps thereof over against the candlestick, as the LORD
commanded Moses. {8:4} And this work of the candlestick [was of] beaten
gold, unto 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.

   {8:5} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {8:6} Take the Levites
from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them. {8:7} 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. {8:8} 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.
{8:9} 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: {8:10} And thou shalt bring the Levites before the
LORD: and the children of Israel shall put their hands upon the
Levites: {8:11} And Aaron shall offer the Levites before the LORD [for]
an offering of the children of Israel, that they may execute the
service of the LORD. {8:12} 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. {8:13} And thou shalt set the Levites
before Aaron, and before his sons, and offer them [for] an offering
unto the LORD. {8:14} Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among
the children of Israel: and the Levites shall be mine. {8:15} And after
that shall the Levites go in to do the service of the tabernacle of the
congregation: and thou shalt cleanse them, and offer them [for] an
offering. {8:16} 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. {8:17} 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. {8:18} And I have taken the
Levites for all the firstborn of the children of Israel. {8:19} And I
have given the Levites [as] a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among
the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in
the tabernacle of the congregation, and to make an atonement for the
children of Israel: that there be no plague among the children of
Israel, when the children of Israel come nigh unto the sanctuary.
{8:20} And Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children
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. {8:21} 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. {8:22} 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.

   {8:23} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {8:24} 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: {8:25} And from the age of fifty years they shall
cease waiting upon the service [thereof,] and shall serve no more:
{8:26} But shall minister with their brethren in the tabernacle of the
congregation, to keep the charge, and shall do no service. Thus shalt
thou do unto the Levites touching their charge.

   {9:1} 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, {9:2} Let the children of Israel also keep the
passover at his appointed season. {9:3} 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. {9:4} And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, that
they should keep the passover. {9:5} And they kept the passover on the
fourteenth day of the first month at even in the wilderness of Sinai:
according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did the children of
Israel.

   {9:6} 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: {9:7} 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? {9:8} And Moses said
unto them, Stand still, and I will hear what the LORD will command
concerning you.

   {9:9} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {9:10} Speak unto the
children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your posterity
shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or [be] in a journey afar
off, yet he shall keep the passover unto the LORD. {9:11} The
fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep it, [and]
eat it with unleavened bread and bitter [herbs. ]{9:12} They shall
leave none of it unto the morning, nor break any bone of it: according
to all the ordinances of the passover they shall keep it. {9:13} 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. {9:14} And if a stranger
shall sojourn among you, and will keep the passover unto the LORD;
according to the ordinance of the passover, and according to the manner
thereof, so shall he do: ye shall have one ordinance, both for the
stranger, and for him that was born in the land.

   {9:15} And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud
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. {9:16} So it was alway: the cloud covered it [by
day,] and the appearance of fire by night. {9:17} And when the cloud
was taken up from the tabernacle, then after that the children of
Israel journeyed: and in the place where the cloud abode, there the
children of Israel pitched their tents. {9:18} At the commandment of
the LORD the children of Israel journeyed, and at the commandment of
the LORD they pitched: as long as the cloud abode upon the tabernacle
they rested in their tents. {9:19} And when the cloud tarried long upon
the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept the charge
of the LORD, and journeyed not. {9:20} And [so] it was, when the cloud
was a few days upon the tabernacle; according to the commandment of the
LORD they abode in their tents, and according to the commandment of the
LORD they journeyed. {9:21} And [so] it was, when the cloud abode from
even unto the morning, and [that] the cloud was taken up in the
morning, then they journeyed: whether [it was] by day or by night that
the cloud was taken up, they journeyed. {9:22} Or [whether it were] two
days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud tarried upon the
tabernacle, remaining thereon, the children of Israel abode in their
tents, and journeyed not: but when it was taken up, they journeyed.
{9:23} At the commandment of the LORD they rested in the tents, and 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.

   {10:1} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {10:2} Make thee two
trumpets of silver; of a whole piece shalt thou make them: that thou
mayest use them for the calling of the assembly, and for the journeying
of the camps. {10:3} And when they shall blow with them, all the
assembly shall assemble themselves to thee at the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation. {10:4} And if they blow [but] with one
[trumpet,] then the princes, [which are] heads of the thousands of
Israel, shall gather themselves unto thee. {10:5} When ye blow an
alarm, then the camps that lie on the east parts shall go forward.
{10:6} 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. {10:7} But when the congregation is to be gathered
together, ye shall blow, but ye shall not sound an alarm. {10:8} And
the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow with the trumpets; and they
shall be to you for an ordinance for ever throughout your generations.
{10:9} 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. {10:10} 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.

   {10:11} 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. {10:12} And the children of Israel took
their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud rested in
the wilderness of Paran. {10:13} And they first took their journey
according to the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.

   {10:14} In the first [place] went the standard of the camp of the
children of Judah according to their armies: and over his host [was]
Nahshon the son of Amminadab. {10:15} And over the host of the tribe of
the children of Issachar [was] Nethaneel the son of Zuar. {10:16} And
over the host of the tribe of the children of Zebulun [was] Eliab the
son of Helon. {10:17} And the tabernacle was taken down; and the sons
of Gershon and the sons of Merari set forward, bearing the tabernacle.

   {10:18} And the standard of the camp of Reuben set forward according
to their armies: and over his host [was] Elizur the son of Shedeur.
{10:19} And over the host of the tribe of the children of Simeon was
Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai. {10:20} And over the host of the
tribe of the children of Gad was Eliasaph the son of Deuel. {10:21} And
the Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary: and [the other] did
set up the tabernacle against they came.

   {10:22} And the standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set
forward according to their armies: and over his host [was] Elishama the
son of Ammihud. {10:23} And over the host of the tribe of the children
of Manasseh [was] Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur. {10:24} And over the
host of the tribe of the children of Benjamin [was] Abidan the son of
Gideoni.

   {10:25} And the standard of the camp of the children of Dan set
forward, [which was] the rereward of all the camps throughout their
hosts: and over his host [was] Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai. {10:26}
And over the host of the tribe of the children of Asher [was] Pagiel
the son of Ocran. {10:27} And over the host of the tribe of the
children of Naphtali [was] Ahira the son of Enan. {10:28} Thus [were]
the journeyings of the children of Israel according to their armies,
when they set forward.

   {10:29} And Moses said unto Hobab, the son of Raguel the Midianite,
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. {10:30} And he
said unto him, I will not go; but I will depart to mine own land, and
to my kindred. {10:31} And he said, Leave us not, I pray thee;
forasmuch as thou knowest how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and
thou mayest be to us instead of eyes. {10:32} And it shall be, if thou
go with us, yea, it shall be, that what goodness the LORD shall do unto
us, the same will we do unto thee.

   {10:33} 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.
{10:34} And the cloud of the LORD [was] upon them by day, when they
went out of the camp. {10:35} And it came to pass, when the ark set
forward, that Moses said, Rise up, LORD, and let thine enemies be
scattered; and let them that hate thee flee before thee. {10:36} And
when it rested, he said, Return, O LORD, unto the many thousands of
Israel.

   {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. {11:2} And the people cried unto Moses; and when
Moses prayed unto the LORD, the fire was quenched. {11:3} And he called
the name of the place Taberah: because the fire of the LORD burnt among
them.

   {11:4} And the mixt multitude that [was] among them fell a lusting:
and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us
flesh to eat? {11:5} 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: {11:6} But now our soul [is] dried away: [there is]
nothing at all, beside this manna, [before] our eyes. {11:7} And the
manna [was] as coriander seed, and the colour thereof as the colour of
bdellium. {11:8} [And] the people went about, and gathered [it,] and
ground [it] in 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. {11:9} And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna
fell upon it.

   {11:10} 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. {11:11} 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? {11:12} 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? {11:13} Whence should I have
flesh to give unto all this people? for they weep unto me, saying, Give
us flesh, that we may eat. {11:14} I am not able to bear all this
people alone, because [it is] too heavy for me. {11:15} And if thou
deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found
favour in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.

   {11:16} 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. {11:17} 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.
{11:18} 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.
{11:19} Ye shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither
ten days, nor twenty days; {11:20} [But] even a whole month, until it
come out at your nostrils, and it 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? {11:21} 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. {11:22} 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? {11:23} 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.

   {11:24} 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. {11:25} 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.
{11:26} 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. {11:27}
And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do
prophesy in the camp. {11:28} And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of
Moses, [one] of his young men, answered and said, My lord Moses, forbid
them. {11:29} And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake? would
God that all the LORD'S people were prophets, [and] that the LORD would
put his spirit upon them! {11:30} And Moses gat him into the camp, he
and the elders of Israel.

   {11:31} 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. {11:32} 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. {11:33} 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. {11:34} And he called the name of that place
Kibroth-hattaavah: because there they buried the people that lusted.
{11:35} [And] the people journeyed from Kibroth- hattaavah unto
Hazeroth; and abode at Hazeroth.

   {12:1} And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the
Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian
woman. {12:2} And they said, Hath the LORD indeed spoken only by Moses?
hath he not spoken also by us? And the LORD heard [it. ]{12:3} (Now the
man Moses [was] very meek, above all the men which [were] upon the face
of the earth.) {12:4} And the LORD spake suddenly unto Moses, and unto
Aaron, and unto Miriam, Come out ye three unto the tabernacle of the
congregation. And they three came out. {12:5} 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. {12:6} 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. {12:7} My servant Moses [is] not so, who [is] faithful in all
mine house. {12:8} With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even
apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD
shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my
servant Moses? {12:9} And the anger of the LORD was kindled against
them; and he departed. {12:10} 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. {12:11} 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.
{12:12} Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed
when he cometh out of his mother's womb. {12:13} And Moses cried unto
the LORD, saying, Heal her now, O God, I beseech thee.

   {12:14} 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.
]{12:15} And Miriam was shut out from the camp seven days: and the
people journeyed not till Miriam was brought in [again. ]{12:16} And
afterward the people removed from Hazeroth, and pitched in the
wilderness of Paran.

   {13:1} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {13:2} 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. {13:3} 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. {13:4} And these [were] their names: of the
tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur. {13:5} Of the tribe of
Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori. {13:6} Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb
the son of Jephunneh. {13:7} Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of
Joseph. {13:8} Of the tribe of Ephraim, Oshea the son of Nun. {13:9} Of
the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu. {13:10} Of the tribe of
Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi. {13:11} Of the tribe of Joseph,
namely, of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi. {13:12} Of the
tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli. {13:13} Of the tribe of Asher,
Sethur the son of Michael. {13:14} Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the
son of Vophsi. {13:15} Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi.
{13:16} These [are] the names of the men which Moses sent to spy out
the land. And Moses called Oshea the son of Nun Jehoshua.

   {13:17} 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: {13:18} And see the land, what it [is;] and the people that
dwelleth therein, whether they [be] strong or weak, few or many;
{13:19} 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; {13:20} 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.

   {13:21} So they went up, and searched the land from the wilderness
of Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath. {13:22} And they ascended by
the south, and came unto Hebron; where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the
children of Anak, [were.] (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan
in Egypt.) {13:23} 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. {13:24} The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of
the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from
thence. {13:25} And they returned from searching of the land after
forty days.

   {13:26} And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all
the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of
Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the
congregation, and shewed them the fruit of the land. {13:27} And they
told him, and said, We came unto the land whither thou sentest us, and
surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this [is] the fruit of it.
{13:28} 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. {13:29} 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. {13:30} 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. {13:31} But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to
go up against the people; for they are stronger than we. {13:32} And
they brought up an evil report of the land which they had 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. {13:33} And
there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, [which come] of the giants:
and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their
sight.

   {14:1} And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried;
and the people wept that night. {14:2} And all the children of Israel
murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation
said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or
would God we had died in this wilderness! {14:3} And wherefore hath the
LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives
and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return
into Egypt? {14:4} And they said one to another, Let us make a captain,
and let us return into Egypt. {14:5} Then Moses and Aaron fell on their
faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of
Israel.

   {14:6} And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh,
[which were] of them that searched the land, rent their clothes: {14:7}
And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying,
The land, which we passed through to search it, [is] an exceeding good
land. {14:8} If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this
land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey. {14:9}
Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the
land; for they [are] bread for us: their defence is departed from them,
and the LORD [is] with us: fear them not. {14:10} But all the
congregation bade stone them with stones. And the glory of the LORD
appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children
of Israel.

   {14:11} And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will this people
provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the
signs which I have shewed among them? {14:12} I will smite them with
the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater
nation and mightier than they.

   {14:13} And Moses said unto the LORD, Then the Egyptians shall hear
[it,] (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among
them;) {14:14} 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 daytime in a pillar of a cloud,
and in a pillar of fire by night.

   {14:15} Now [if] thou shalt kill [all] this people as one man, then
the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,
{14:16} Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the
land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the
wilderness. {14:17} And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord
be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying, {14:18} The LORD [is]
longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and
transgression, and by no means clearing [the guilty,] visiting the
iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth
[generation. ]{14:19} Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this
people according unto the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou hast
forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now. {14:20} And the LORD
said, I have pardoned according to thy word: {14:21} But [as] truly
[as] I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD.
{14:22} 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; {14:23}
Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers,
neither shall any of them that provoked me see it: {14:24} But my
servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath
followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went;
and his seed shall possess it. {14:25} (Now the Amalekites and the
Canaanites dwelt in the valley.) To morrow turn you, and get you into
the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.

   {14:26} And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
{14:27} 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. {14:28} Say unto them, [As truly
as] I live, saith the LORD, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I
do to you: {14:29} Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all
that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty
years old and upward, which have murmured against me, {14:30} 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. {14:31} 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.
{14:32} But [as for] you, your carcases, they shall fall in this
wilderness. {14:33} And your children shall wander in the wilderness
forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in
the wilderness. {14:34} After the number of the days in which ye
searched the land, [even] forty days, each day for a year, shall ye
bear your iniquities, [even] forty years, and ye shall know my breach
of promise. {14:35} I the LORD have said, I will surely do it unto all
this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this
wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die. {14:36}
And the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who returned, and
made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up a
slander upon the land, {14:37} Even those men that did bring up the
evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD. {14:38}
But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, [which were]
of the men that went to search the land, lived [still. ]{14:39} And
Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and the
people mourned greatly.

   {14:40} And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into
the 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. {14:41} And
Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of the LORD?
but it shall not prosper. {14:42} Go not up, for the LORD [is] not
among you; that ye be not smitten before your enemies. {14:43} For the
Amalekites and the Canaanites [are] there before you, and ye shall fall
by the sword: because ye are turned away from the LORD, therefore the
LORD will not be with you. {14:44} 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. {14:45} Then the Amalekites came down,
and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and
discomfited them, [even] unto Hormah.

   {15:1} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {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, {15:3} And will make an
offering by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering, or a sacrifice in
performing a vow, or in a freewill offering, or in your solemn feasts,
to make a sweet savour unto the LORD, of the herd, or of the flock:
{15:4} Then shall he that offereth his offering unto the LORD bring a
meat offering of a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth [part]
of an hin of oil. {15:5} And the fourth [part] of an hin of wine for a
drink offering shalt thou prepare with the burnt offering or sacrifice,
for one lamb. {15:6} Or for a ram, thou shalt prepare [for] a meat
offering two tenth deals of flour mingled with the third [part] of an
hin of oil. {15:7} And for a drink offering thou shalt offer the third
[part] of an hin of wine, [for] a sweet savour unto the LORD. {15:8}
And when thou preparest a bullock [for] a burnt offering, or [for] a
sacrifice in performing a vow, or peace offerings unto the LORD: {15:9}
Then shall he bring with a bullock a meat offering of three tenth deals
of flour mingled with half an hin of oil. {15:10} And thou shalt bring
for a drink offering half an hin of wine, for an offering made by fire,
of a sweet savour unto the LORD. {15:11} Thus shall it be done for one
bullock, or for one ram, or for a lamb, or a kid. {15:12} According to
the number that ye shall prepare, so shall ye do to every one according
to their number. {15:13} All that are born of the country shall do
these things after this manner, in offering an offering made by fire,
of a sweet savour unto the LORD. {15:14} And if a stranger sojourn with
you, or whosoever [be] among you in your generations, and will offer an
offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD; as ye do, so he
shall do. {15:15} One ordinance [shall be both] for you of the
congregation, and 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. {15:16} One law and one manner shall be
for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you.

   {15:17} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {15:18} Speak unto
the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land
whither I bring you, {15:19} Then it shall be, that, when ye eat of the
bread of the land, ye shall offer up an heave offering unto the LORD.
{15:20} Ye shall offer up a cake of the first of your dough [for] an
heave offering: as [ye do] the heave offering of the threshingfloor, so
shall ye heave it. {15:21} Of the first of your dough ye shall give
unto the LORD an heave offering in your generations.

   {15:22} And if ye have erred, and not observed all these
commandments, which the LORD hath spoken unto Moses, {15:23} [Even all]
that the LORD hath commanded you by the hand of Moses, from the day
that the LORD commanded [Moses,] and henceforward among your
generations; {15:24} 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. {15:25} And the priest shall make an atonement for all the
congregation of the children of Israel, and it shall be forgiven them;
for it is ignorance: and they shall bring their offering, a sacrifice
made by fire unto the LORD, and their sin offering before the LORD, for
their ignorance: {15:26} And it shall be forgiven all the congregation
of the children of Israel, and the stranger that sojourneth among them;
seeing all the people [were] in ignorance.

   {15:27} And if any soul sin through ignorance, then he shall bring a
she goat of the first year for a sin offering. {15:28} And the priest
shall make an atonement for the soul that sinneth ignorantly, when he
sinneth by ignorance before the LORD, to make an atonement for him; and
it shall be forgiven him. {15:29} Ye shall have one law for him that
sinneth through ignorance, [both for] him that is born among the
children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them.

   {15:30} 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. {15:31} 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.

   {15:32} And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness,
they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day. {15:33} And
they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron,
and unto all the congregation. {15:34} And they put him in ward,
because it was not declared what should be done to him. {15:35} And the
LORD said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death: all the
congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp. {15:36} And
all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with
stones, and he died; as the LORD commanded Moses.

   {15:37} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {15:38} Speak unto
the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the
borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they
put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue: {15:39} And it
shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, 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: {15:40} That ye may remember, and do all my commandments, and
be holy unto your God. {15:41} I [am] the LORD your God, which brought
you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I [am] the LORD your God.

   {16:1} 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: ]{16:2} 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:
{16:3} 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? {16:4} And when Moses heard [it,] he fell upon his face:
{16:5} 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. {16:6} This do; Take you censers,
Korah, and all his company; {16:7} 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. {16:8} And Moses said unto Korah, Hear, I
pray you, ye sons of Levi: {16:9} [Seemeth it but] a small thing unto
you, that the God of Israel hath separated you from the congregation of
Israel, to bring you near to himself to do the service of the
tabernacle of the LORD, and to stand before the congregation to
minister unto them? {16:10} And he hath brought thee near [to him,] and
all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee: and seek ye the priesthood
also? {16:11} For which cause [both] thou and all thy company [are]
gathered together against the LORD: and what [is] Aaron, that ye murmur
against him?

   {16:12} And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab:
which said, We will not come up: {16:13} [Is it] a small thing that
thou hast brought us up out of a land that floweth with milk and honey,
to kill us in the wilderness, except thou make thyself altogether a
prince over us? {16:14} 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. {16:15} 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. {16:16} And Moses said unto Korah, Be thou and
all thy company before the LORD, thou, and they, and Aaron, to morrow:
{16:17} And take every man his censer, and put incense in them, and
bring ye before the LORD every man his censer, two hundred and fifty
censers; thou also, and Aaron, each [of you] his censer. {16:18} 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. {16:19} 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. {16:20} And
the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, {16:21} Separate
yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a
moment. {16:22} And they fell upon their faces, and said, O God, the
God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be
wroth with all the congregation?

   {16:23} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {16:24} Speak unto
the congregation, saying, Get you up from about the tabernacle of
Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. {16:25} And Moses rose up and went unto
Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Israel followed him. {16:26} And
he spake unto the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from the
tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest ye be
consumed in all their sins. {16:27} 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. {16:28} 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. {16:29} 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. {16:30} 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.

   {16:31} 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:
{16:32} 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. {16:33} 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. {16:34} And all Israel that
[were] round about them fled at the cry of them: for they said, Lest
the earth swallow us up [also. ]{16:35} And there came out a fire from
the LORD, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered
incense.

   {16:36} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {16:37} 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.
{16:38} 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. {16:39} 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: {16:40} [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.

   {16:41} 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. {16:42} 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. {16:43} And Moses
and Aaron came before the tabernacle of the congregation.

   {16:44} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {16:45} Get you up
from among this congregation, that I may consume them as in a moment.
And they fell upon their faces.

   {16:46} And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire
therein 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. {16:47} 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. {16:48} And he stood between the dead and the
living; and the plague was stayed. {16:49} Now they that died in the
plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, beside them that died
about the matter of Korah. {16:50} And Aaron returned unto Moses unto
the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and the plague was
stayed.

   {17:1} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {17:2} 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. {17:3} And thou shalt write Aaron's name upon the rod of Levi:
for one rod [shall be] for the head of the house of their fathers.
{17:4} And thou shalt lay them up in the tabernacle of the congregation
before the testimony, where I will meet with you. {17:5} And it shall
come to pass, [that] the man's rod, whom I shall choose, shall blossom:
and I will make to cease from me the murmurings of the children of
Israel, whereby they murmur against you.

   {17:6} 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. {17:7} And Moses laid up the rods before the LORD in
the tabernacle of witness. {17:8} 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. {17:9} 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.

   {17:10} 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.
{17:11} And Moses did [so:] as the LORD commanded him, so did he.
{17:12} And the children of Israel spake unto Moses, saying, Behold, we
die, we perish, we all perish. {17:13} Whosoever cometh any thing near
unto the tabernacle of the LORD shall die: shall we be consumed with
dying?

   {18:1} 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.
{18:2} 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. {18:3} 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. {18:4} 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. {18:5} 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. {18:6} 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. {18:7}
Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priest's office
for every thing 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.

   {18:8} 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. {18:9} 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.
{18:10} In the most holy [place] shalt thou eat it; every male shall
eat it: it shall be holy unto thee. {18:11} And this [is] thine; the
heave offering of their gift, with all the wave 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. {18:12} 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. {18:13} [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. {18:14} Every thing devoted in Israel shall be thine. {18:15}
Every thing that openeth the matrix in all flesh, which they bring unto
the LORD, [whether it be] of men or beasts, shall be thine:
nevertheless the firstborn of man shalt thou surely redeem, and the
firstling of unclean beasts shalt thou redeem. {18:16} And those that
are to be redeemed from a month old shalt thou redeem, according to
thine estimation, for the money of five shekels, after the shekel of
the sanctuary, which [is] twenty gerahs. {18:17} 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. {18:18} And the flesh of them shall be
thine, as the wave breast and as the right shoulder are thine. {18:19}
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.

   {18:20} 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.
{18:21} 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. {18:22} Neither must
the children of Israel henceforth come nigh the tabernacle of the
congregation, lest they bear sin, and die. {18:23} But the Levites
shall do the service of the tabernacle of 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. {18:24} 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.

   {18:25} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {18:26} 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. {18:27} 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. {18:28} 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. {18:29} 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. {18:30} 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. {18:31} And ye
shall eat it in every place, ye and your households: for it [is] your
reward for your service in the tabernacle of the congregation. {18:32}
And ye shall bear no sin by reason of it, when ye have heaved from it
the best of it: neither shall ye pollute the holy things of the
children of Israel, lest ye die.

   {19:1} And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, {19:2}
This [is] the ordinance of the law which the LORD hath commanded,
saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red
heifer without spot, wherein [is] no blemish, [and] upon which never
came yoke: {19:3} And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest, that
he may bring her forth without the camp, and [one] shall slay her
before his face: {19:4} And Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood
with his finger, and sprinkle of her blood directly before the
tabernacle of the congregation seven times: {19:5} And [one] shall burn
the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with
her dung, shall he burn: {19:6} And the priest shall take cedar wood,
and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast [it] into the midst of the burning of
the heifer. {19:7} Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall
bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp,
and the priest shall be unclean until the even. {19:8} And he that
burneth her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in
water, and shall be unclean until the even. {19:9} 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. {19:10} 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.

   {19:11} He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean
seven days. {19:12} 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. {19:13}
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. {19:14} 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. {19:15} And every open vessel, which hath no covering bound
upon it, [is] unclean. {19:16} And whosoever toucheth one that is slain
with a sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or
a grave, shall be unclean seven days. {19:17} And for an unclean
[person] they shall take of the ashes of the burnt heifer of
purification for sin, and running water shall be put thereto in a
vessel: {19:18} 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: {19:19} 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.
{19:20} 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. {19:21}
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. {19:22} And
whatsoever the unclean [person] toucheth shall be unclean; and the soul
that toucheth [it] shall be unclean until even.

   {20:1} 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. {20:2}
And there was no water for the congregation: and they gathered
themselves together against Moses and against Aaron. {20:3} And the
people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died
when our brethren died before the LORD! {20:4} And why have ye brought
up the congregation of the LORD into this wilderness, that we and our
cattle should die there? {20:5} And wherefore have ye made us to come
up out of Egypt, to bring us in unto this evil place? it [is] no place
of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither [is]
there any water to drink. {20:6} And Moses and Aaron went from the
presence of the assembly unto the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation, and they fell upon their faces: and the glory of the LORD
appeared unto them.

   {20:7} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {20:8} 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. {20:9} And
Moses took the rod from before the LORD, as he commanded him. {20:10}
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? {20:11} 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.]

   {20:12} And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed
me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore
ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given
them. {20:13} This [is] the water of Meribah; because the children of
Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in them.

   {20:14} And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto the king of Edom,
Thus saith thy brother Israel, Thou knowest all the travail that hath
befallen us: {20:15} How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we have
dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians vexed us, and our
fathers: {20:16} 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: {20:17} 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.
{20:18} And Edom said unto him, Thou shalt not pass by me, lest I come
out against thee with the sword. {20:19} And the children of Israel
said unto him, We will go by the high way: and if I and my cattle drink
of thy water, then I will pay for it: I will only, without [doing] any
thing [else,] go through on my feet. {20:20} And he said, Thou shalt
not go through. And Edom came out against him with much people, and
with a strong hand. {20:21} Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage
through his border: wherefore Israel turned away from him.

   {20:22} And the children of Israel, [even] the whole congregation,
journeyed from Kadesh, and came unto mount Hor. {20:23} And the LORD
spake unto Moses and Aaron in mount Hor, by the coast of the land of
Edom, saying, {20:24} Aaron shall be gathered unto his people: for he
shall not enter into the land which I have given unto the children of
Israel, because ye rebelled against my word at the water of Meribah.
{20:25} Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up unto mount
Hor: {20:26} 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. {20:27} And Moses did as the LORD commanded: and they went up
into mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation. {20:28} And Moses
stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son; and
Aaron died there in the top of the mount: and Moses and Eleazar came
down from the mount. {20:29} And when all the congregation saw that
Aaron was dead, they mourned for Aaron thirty days, [even] all the
house of Israel.

   {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. {21:2} 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. {21:3}
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.

   {21:4} 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. {21:5} And the people spake against
God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to
die in the wilderness? for [there is] no bread, neither [is there any]
water; and our soul loatheth this light bread. {21:6} And the LORD sent
fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much
people of Israel died.

   {21:7} Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned,
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. {21:8} 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. {21:9} 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.

   {21:10} And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in
Oboth. {21:11} And they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched at
Ije-abarim, in the wilderness which [is] before Moab, toward the
sunrising.

   {21:12} From thence they removed, and pitched in the valley of
Zared. {21:13} From thence they removed, and pitched on the other side
of 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. {21:14} Wherefore it is said in the book of the wars of the
LORD, What he did in the Red sea, and in the brooks of Arnon, {21:15}
And at the stream of the brooks that goeth down to the dwelling of Ar,
and lieth upon the border of Moab. {21:16} And from thence [they went]
to Beer: that [is] the well whereof the LORD spake unto Moses, Gather
the people together, and I will give them water.

   {21:17} Then Israel sang this song, Spring up, O well; sing ye unto
it: {21:18} 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: {21:19} And from Mattanah
to Nahaliel: and from Nahaliel to Bamoth: {21:20} And from Bamoth [in]
the valley, that [is] in the country of Moab, to the top of Pisgah,
which looketh toward Jeshimon.

   {21:21} And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites,
saying, {21:22} 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. {21:23} 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. {21:24} 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. {21:25} And Israel took all these cities: and Israel dwelt in
all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all the villages
thereof. {21:26} For Heshbon [was] the city of Sihon the king of the
Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all
his land out of his hand, even unto Arnon. {21:27} Wherefore they that
speak in proverbs say, Come into Heshbon, let the city of Sihon be
built and prepared: {21:28} For there is a fire gone out of Heshbon, a
flame from the city of Sihon: it hath consumed Ar of Moab, [and] the
lords of the high places of Arnon. {21:29} 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. {21:30}
We have shot at them; Heshbon is perished even unto Dibon, and we have
laid them waste even unto Nophah, which [reacheth] unto Medeba.

   {21:31} Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites. {21:32} And
Moses sent to spy out Jaazer, and they took the villages thereof, and
drove out the Amorites that [were] there.

   {21:33} And they turned and went up by the way of Bashan: and Og the
king of Bashan went out against them, he, and all his people, to the
battle at Edrei. {21:34} 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. {21:35} So they smote him, and his
sons, and all his people, until there was none left him alive: and they
possessed his land.

   {22:1} And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in the
plains of Moab on this side Jordan [by] Jericho.

   {22:2} And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to
the Amorites. {22:3} And Moab was sore afraid of the people, because
they [were] many: and Moab was distressed because of the children of
Israel. {22:4} And Moab said unto the elders of Midian, Now shall this
company 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. {22:5} 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: {22:6} 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. {22:7} 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.
{22:8} 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. {22:9} And God came unto Balaam, and said, What
men [are] these with thee? {22:10} And Balaam said unto God, Balak the
son of Zippor, king of Moab, hath sent unto me, [saying, ]{22:11}
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. {22:12} And God said unto Balaam,
Thou shalt not go with them; thou shalt not curse the people: for they
[are] blessed. {22:13} And Balaam rose up in the morning, and said unto
the princes of Balak, Get you into your land: for the LORD refuseth to
give me leave to go with you. {22:14} And the princes of Moab rose up,
and they went unto Balak, and said, Balaam refuseth to come with us.

   {22:15} And Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honourable
than they. {22:16} 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: {22:17} 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. {22:18} 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. {22:19} Now therefore, I pray you, tarry ye also here this night,
that I may know what the LORD will say unto me more. {22:20} And God
came unto Balaam at night, and said unto him, If the 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. {22:21} And Balaam rose up in the
morning, and saddled his ass, and went with the princes of Moab.

   {22:22} And God's anger was kindled because he went: and the angel
of the LORD stood in the way for an adversary against him. Now he was
riding upon his ass, and his two servants [were] with him. {22:23} And
the ass saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way, 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.
{22:24} But the angel of the LORD stood in a path of the vineyards, a
wall [being] on this side, and a wall on that side. {22:25} And when
the ass saw the angel of the LORD, she thrust herself unto the wall,
and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall: and he smote her again.
{22:26} 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. {22:27} 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. {22:28} 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? {22:29} 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. {22:30} 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. {22:31} 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. {22:32} 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: {22:33} 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. {22:34} 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. {22:35} 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.

   {22:36} 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. {22:37} 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? {22:38} 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. {22:39} And Balaam went with Balak, and they came unto
Kirjath-huzoth. {22:40} And Balak offered oxen and sheep, and sent to
Balaam, and to the princes that [were] with him. {22:41} And it came to
pass on the morrow, that Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the
high places of Baal, that thence he might see the utmost [part] of the
people.

   {23:1} And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and
prepare me here seven oxen and seven rams. {23:2} And Balak did as
Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on [every] altar a
bullock and a ram. {23:3} And Balaam said unto Balak, Stand by thy
burnt offering, and I 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. {23:4} 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. {23:5} And the LORD put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said,
Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak. {23:6} And he returned
unto him, and, lo, he stood by his burnt sacrifice, he, and all the
princes of Moab. {23:7} And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the
king of Moab hath brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the
east, [saying,] Come, curse me Jacob, and come, defy Israel. {23:8} How
shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defy, [whom]
the LORD hath not defied? {23:9} For from the top of the rocks I see
him, and from the hills I behold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone,
and shall not be reckoned among the nations. {23:10} 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!
{23:11} 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. {23:12} And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to
speak that which the LORD hath put in my mouth? {23:13} And Balak said
unto him, Come, I pray thee, with me unto 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.

   {23:14} 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. {23:15} And he said unto Balak, Stand here by thy burnt
offering, while I meet [the LORD] yonder. {23:16} And the LORD met
Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Go again unto Balak, and
say thus. {23:17} And when he came to him, behold, he stood by his
burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said unto
him, What hath the LORD spoken? {23:18} And he took up his parable, and
said, Rise up, Balak, and hear; hearken unto me, thou son of Zippor:
{23:19} God [is] not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man,
that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do [it?] or hath
he spoken, and shall he not make it good? {23:20} Behold, I have
received [commandment] to bless: and he hath blessed; and I cannot
reverse it. {23:21} He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath
he seen perverseness in Israel: the LORD his God [is] with him, and the
shout of a king [is] among them. {23:22} God brought them out of Egypt;
he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn. {23:23} 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! {23:24} 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.

   {23:25} And Balak said unto Balaam, Neither curse them at all, nor
bless them at all. {23:26} But Balaam answered and said unto Balak,
Told not I thee, saying, All that the LORD speaketh, that I must do?

   {23:27} And Balak said unto Balaam, Come, I pray thee, I will bring
thee unto another place; peradventure it will please God that thou
mayest curse me them from thence. {23:28} And Balak brought Balaam unto
the top of Peor, that looketh toward Jeshimon. {23:29} And Balaam said
unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven
bullocks and seven rams. {23:30} And Balak did as Balaam had said, and
offered a bullock and a ram on [every] altar.

   {24:1} 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. {24:2} 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. {24:3} And he took up his parable, and
said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open
hath said: {24:4} 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: {24:5} How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, [and] thy
tabernacles, O Israel! {24:6} As the valleys are they spread forth, as
gardens by the river's side, as the trees of lign aloes which the LORD
hath planted, [and] as cedar trees beside the waters. {24:7} 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. {24:8} 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. {24:9} 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.

   {24:10} 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. {24:11} 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. {24:12} And Balaam said unto Balak, Spake I not also to
thy messengers which thou sentest unto me, saying, {24:13} If Balak
would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the
commandment of the LORD, to do [either] good or bad of mine own mind;
[but] what the LORD saith, that will I speak? {24:14} And now, behold,
I go unto my people: come [therefore, and] I will advertise thee what
this people shall do to thy people in the latter days.

   {24:15} And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor
hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said: {24:16} 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: {24:17} 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. {24:18} And Edom shall be a
possession, Seir also shall be a possession for his enemies; and Israel
shall do valiantly. {24:19} Out of Jacob shall come he that shall have
dominion, and shall destroy him that remaineth of the city.

   {24:20} And when he looked on Amalek, he took up his parable, and
said, Amalek [was] the first of the nations; but his latter end [shall
be] that he perish for ever. {24:21} And he looked on the Kenites, and
took up his parable, and said, Strong is thy dwellingplace, and thou
puttest thy nest in a rock. {24:22} Nevertheless the Kenite shall be
wasted, until Asshur shall carry thee away captive. {24:23} And he took
up his parable, and said, Alas, who shall live when God doeth this!
{24:24} And ships [shall come] from the coast of Chittim, and shall
afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber, and he also shall perish for
ever. {24:25} And Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his place:
and Balak also went his way.

   {25:1} And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit
whoredom with the daughters of Moab. {25:2} And they called the people
unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed
down to their gods. {25:3} And Israel joined himself unto Baal-peor:
and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel. {25:4} And the
LORD said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them
up before the LORD against the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD
may be turned away from Israel. {25:5} And Moses said unto the judges
of Israel, Slay ye every one his men that were joined unto Baal-peor.

   {25:6} And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought
unto 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. {25:7}
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; {25:8} 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. {25:9}
And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.

   {25:10} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {25:11} 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.
{25:12} Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace:
{25:13} And he shall have it, and his seed after him, [even] the
covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was zealous for his
God, and made an atonement for the children of Israel. {25:14} Now the
name of the Israelite that was slain, [even] that was slain with the
Midianitish woman, [was] Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a chief
house among the Simeonites. {25:15} 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.

   {25:16} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {25:17} Vex the
Midianites, and smite them: {25:18} 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.

   {26:1} And it came to pass after the plague, that the LORD spake
unto Moses and unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying, {26:2}
Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from
twenty years old and upward, throughout their fathers' house, all that
are able to go to war in Israel. {26:3} And Moses and Eleazar the
priest spake with them in the plains of Moab by Jordan [near] Jericho,
saying, {26:4} [Take the sum of the people,] from twenty years old and
upward; as the LORD commanded Moses and the children of Israel, which
went forth out of the land of Egypt.

   {26:5} 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: {26:6} Of Hezron, the family of the
Hezronites: of Carmi, the family of the Carmites. {26:7} These [are]
the families of the Reubenites: and they that were numbered of them
were forty and three thousand and seven hundred and thirty. {26:8} And
the sons of Pallu; Eliab. {26:9} 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: {26:10} 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. {26:11} Notwithstanding the children
of Korah died not.

   {26:12} The sons of Simeon after their families: of Nemuel, the
family of the Nemuelites: of Jamin, the family of the Jaminites: of
Jachin, the family of the Jachinites: {26:13} Of Zerah, the family of
the Zarhites: of Shaul, the family of the Shaulites. {26:14} These
[are] the families of the Simeonites, twenty and two thousand and two
hundred.

   {26:15} The children of Gad after their families: of Zephon, the
family of the Zephonites: of Haggi, the family of the Haggites: of
Shuni, the family of the Shunites: {26:16} Of Ozni, the family of the
Oznites: of Eri, the family of the Erites: {26:17} Of Arod, the family
of the Arodites: of Areli, the family of the Arelites. {26:18} These
[are] the families of the children of Gad according to those that were
numbered of them, forty thousand and five hundred.

   {26:19} The sons of Judah [were] Er and Onan: and Er and Onan died
in the land of Canaan. {26:20} And the sons of Judah after their
families were; of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites: of Pharez, the
family of the Pharzites: of Zerah, the family of the Zarhites. {26:21}
And the sons of Pharez were; of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites:
of Hamul, the family of the Hamulites. {26:22} These [are] the families
of Judah according to those that were numbered of them, threescore and
sixteen thousand and five hundred.

   {26:23} [Of] the sons of Issachar after their families: [of] Tola,
the family of the Tolaites: of Pua, the family of the Punites: {26:24}
Of Jashub, the family of the Jashubites: of Shimron, the family of the
Shimronites. {26:25} These [are] the families of Issachar according to
those that were numbered of them, threescore and four thousand and
three hundred.

   {26:26} [Of] the sons of Zebulun after their families: of Sered, the
family of the Sardites: of Elon, the family of the Elonites: of
Jahleel, the family of the Jahleelites. {26:27} These [are] the
families of the Zebulunites according to those that were numbered of
them, threescore thousand and five hundred.

   {26:28} The sons of Joseph after their families [were] Manasseh and
Ephraim. {26:29} Of the sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the
Machirites: and Machir begat Gilead: of Gilead [come] the family of the
Gileadites. {26:30} These [are] the sons of Gilead: [of] Jeezer, the
family of the Jeezerites: of Helek, the family of the Helekites:
{26:31} And [of] Asriel, the family of the Asrielites: and [of]
Shechem, the family of the Shechemites: {26:32} And [of] Shemida, the
family of the Shemidaites: and [of] Hepher, the family of the
Hepherites.

   {26:33} And Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters:
and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad [were] Mahlah, and Noah,
Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. {26:34} These [are] the families of
Manasseh, and those that were numbered of them, fifty and two thousand
and seven hundred.

   {26:35} These [are] the sons of Ephraim after their families: of
Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthalhites: of Becher, the family of the
Bachrites: of Tahan, the family of the Tahanites. {26:36} And these
[are] the sons of Shuthelah: of Eran, the family of the Eranites.
{26:37} 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.

   {26:38} 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: {26:39} Of Shupham, the family of
the Shuphamites: of Hupham, the family of the Huphamites. {26:40} And
the sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman: [of Ard,] the family of the
Ardites: [and] of Naaman, the family of the Naamites. {26:41} These
[are] the sons of Benjamin after their families: and they that were
numbered of them [were] forty and five thousand and six hundred.

   {26:42} 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. {26:43} All the families of the Shuhamites, according
to those that were numbered of them, [were] threescore and four
thousand and four hundred.

   {26:44} [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. {26:45} Of the sons of Beriah: of
Heber, the family of the Heberites: of Malchiel, the family of the
Malchielites. {26:46} And the name of the daughter of Asher [was]
Sarah. {26:47} These [are] the families of the sons of Asher according
to those that were numbered of them; [who were] fifty and three
thousand and four hundred.

   {26:48} [Of] the sons of Naphtali after their families: of Jahzeel,
the family of the Jahzeelites: of Guni, the family of the Gunites:
{26:49} Of Jezer, the family of the Jezerites: of Shillem, the family
of the Shillemites. {26:50} 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. {26:51} These [were] the
numbered of the children of Israel, six hundred thousand and a thousand
seven hundred and thirty.

   {26:52} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {26:53} Unto these
the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of
names. {26:54} To many thou shalt give the more inheritance, and to few
thou shalt give the less inheritance: to every one shall his
inheritance be given according to those that were numbered of him.
{26:55} Notwithstanding the land shall be divided by lot: according to
the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit. {26:56}
According to the lot shall the possession thereof be divided between
many and few.

   {26:57} And these [are] they that were numbered of the Levites after
their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites: of Kohath,
the family of the Kohathites: of Merari, the family of the Merarites.
{26:58} These [are] the families of the Levites: the family of the
Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the
family of the Mushites, the family of the Korathites. And Kohath begat
Amram. {26:59} 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. {26:60} And unto
Aaron was born Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. {26:61} And
Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before the LORD.
{26:62} And those that were numbered of them were twenty and three
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.

   {26:63} These [are] they that were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the
priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by
Jordan [near] Jericho. {26:64} But among these there was not a man of
them whom Moses and Aaron the priest numbered, when they numbered the
children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai. {26:65} 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.

   {27:1} Then came the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the
son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families
of Manasseh the son of Joseph: and these are the names of his
daughters; Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah. {27:2} And
they stood before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and before the
princes and all the congregation, [by] the door of the tabernacle of
the congregation, saying, {27:3} Our father died in the wilderness, and
he was not in the company of them that gathered themselves together
against the LORD in the company of Korah; but died in his own sin, and
had no sons. {27:4} Why should the name of our father be done away from
among his family, because he hath no son? Give unto us [therefore] a
possession among the brethren of our father. {27:5} And Moses brought
their cause before the LORD.

   {27:6} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {27:7} The daughters
of Zelophehad speak right: thou shalt surely give them a possession of
an inheritance among their father's brethren; and thou shalt cause the
inheritance of their father to pass unto them. {27:8} And thou shalt
speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a man die, and have no
son, then ye shall cause his inheritance to pass unto his daughter.
{27:9} And if he have no daughter, then ye shall give his inheritance
unto his brethren. {27:10} And if he have no brethren, then ye shall
give his inheritance unto his father's brethren. {27:11} And if his
father have no brethren, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his
kinsman that is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it: and
it shall be unto the children of Israel a statute of judgment, as the
LORD commanded Moses.

   {27:12} And the LORD said unto Moses, Get thee up into this mount
Abarim, and see the land which I have given unto the children of
Israel. {27:13} And when thou hast seen it, thou also shalt be gathered
unto thy people, as Aaron thy brother was gathered. {27:14} For ye
rebelled against my commandment in the desert of Zin, in the strife of
the congregation, to sanctify me at the water before their eyes: that
[is] the water of Meribah in Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.

   {27:15} And Moses spake unto the LORD, saying, {27:16} Let the LORD,
the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation,
{27:17} 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.

   {27:18} 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;
{27:19} And set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the
congregation; and give him a charge in their sight. {27:20} And thou
shalt put some of thine honour upon him, that all the congregation of
the children of Israel may be obedient. {27:21} And he shall stand
before Eleazar the priest, who shall ask [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. {27:22} And Moses did as the LORD
commanded him: and he took Joshua, and set him before Eleazar the
priest, and before all the congregation: {27:23} And he laid his hands
upon him, and gave him a charge, as the LORD commanded by the hand of
Moses.

   {28:1} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {28:2} Command the
children of Israel, and say unto them, My offering, [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. {28:3} 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. {28:4} The one lamb shalt thou offer in the
morning, and the other lamb shalt thou offer at even; {28:5} And a
tenth [part] of an ephah of flour for a meat offering, mingled with the
fourth [part] of an hin of beaten oil. {28:6} [It is] a continual burnt
offering, which was ordained in mount Sinai for a sweet savour, a
sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD. {28:7} And the drink offering
thereof [shall be] the fourth [part] of an hin for the one lamb: in the
holy [place] shalt thou cause the strong wine to be poured unto the
LORD [for] a drink offering. {28:8} 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.

   {28:9} 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: {28:10} [This is] the burnt
offering of every sabbath, beside the continual burnt offering, and his
drink offering.

   {28:11} And in the beginnings of your months ye shall offer a burnt
offering unto the LORD; two young bullocks, and one ram, seven lambs of
the first year without spot; {28:12} 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;
{28:13} 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. {28:14} 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.
{28:15} 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. {28:16} And in the fourteenth day of the first month [is] the
passover of the LORD. {28:17} And in the fifteenth day of this month
[is] the feast: seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten. {28:18} In
the first day [shall be] an holy convocation; ye shall do no manner of
servile work [therein: ]{28:19} But ye shall offer a sacrifice made by
fire [for] a burnt offering unto the LORD; two young bullocks, and one
ram, and seven lambs of the first year: they shall be unto you without
blemish: {28:20} 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; {28:21} A several tenth deal shalt thou offer for
every lamb, throughout the seven lambs: {28:22} And one goat [for] a
sin offering, to make an atonement for you. {28:23} Ye shall offer
these beside the burnt offering in the morning, which [is] for a
continual burnt offering. {28:24} After this manner ye shall offer
daily, throughout the seven days, 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. {28:25} And on the
seventh day ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile
work.

   {28:26} Also in the day of the firstfruits, when ye bring a new meat
offering unto the LORD, after your weeks [be out,] ye shall have an
holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work: {28:27} 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; {28:28} And their
meat offering of flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals unto one
bullock, two tenth deals unto one ram, {28:29} A several tenth deal
unto one lamb, throughout the seven lambs; {28:30} [And] one kid of the
goats, to make an atonement for you. {28:31} Ye shall offer [them]
beside the continual burnt offering, and his meat offering, (they shall
be unto you without blemish) and their drink offerings.

   {29:1} And in the seventh month, on the first [day] of the month, ye
shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work: it is a
day of blowing the trumpets unto you. {29:2} And ye shall offer a burnt
offering for a sweet savour unto the LORD; one young bullock, one ram,
[and] seven lambs of the first year without blemish: {29:3} And their
meat offering [shall be of] flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals
for a bullock, [and] two tenth deals for a ram, {29:4} And one tenth
deal for one lamb, throughout the seven lambs: {29:5} And one kid of
the goats [for] a sin offering, to make an atonement for you: {29:6}
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.

   {29:7} 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: ]{29:8} 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: {29:9}
And their meat offering [shall be of] flour mingled with oil, three
tenth deals to a bullock, [and] two tenth deals to one ram, {29:10} A
several tenth deal for one lamb, throughout the seven lambs: {29:11}
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.

   {29:12} And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month ye shall have
an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work, and ye shall keep a
feast unto the LORD seven days: {29:13} And ye shall offer a burnt
offering, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD;
thirteen young bullocks, two rams, [and] fourteen lambs of the first
year; they shall be without blemish: {29:14} 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, {29:15} And a several tenth deal to each lamb of the fourteen
lambs: {29:16} And one kid of the goats [for] a sin offering; beside
the continual burnt offering, his meat offering, and his drink offering.

   {29:17} And on the second day [ye shall offer] twelve young
bullocks, two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year without spot:
{29:18} And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the
bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, [shall be] according to
their number, after the manner: {29:19} And one kid of the goats [for]
a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, and the meat
offering thereof, and their drink offerings.

   {29:20} And on the third day eleven bullocks, two rams, fourteen
lambs of the first year without blemish; {29:21} And their meat
offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and
for the lambs, [shall be] according to their number, after the manner:
{29:22} And one goat [for] a sin offering; beside the continual burnt
offering, and his meat offering, and his drink offering.

   {29:23} And on the fourth day ten bullocks, two rams, [and] fourteen
lambs of the first year without blemish: {29:24} Their meat offering
and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the
lambs, [shall be] according to their number, after the manner: {29:25}
And one kid of the goats [for] a sin offering; beside the continual
burnt offering, his meat offering, and his drink offering.

   {29:26} And on the fifth day nine bullocks, two rams, [and] fourteen
lambs of the first year without spot: {29:27} And their meat offering
and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the
lambs, [shall be] according to their number, after the manner: {29:28}
And one goat [for] a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering,
and his meat offering, and his drink offering.

   {29:29} And on the sixth day eight bullocks, two rams, [and]
fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish: {29:30} And their
meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams,
and for the lambs, [shall be] according to their number, after the
manner: {29:31} And one goat [for] a sin offering; beside the continual
burnt offering, his meat offering, and his drink offering.

   {29:32} And on the seventh day seven bullocks, two rams, [and]
fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish: {29:33} And their
meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams,
and for the lambs, [shall be] according to their number, after the
manner: {29:34} And one goat [for] a sin offering; beside the continual
burnt offering, his meat offering, and his drink offering.

   {29:35} On the eighth day ye shall have a solemn assembly: ye shall
do no servile work [therein: ]{29:36} But ye shall offer a burnt
offering, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD:
one bullock, one ram, seven lambs of the first year without blemish:
{29:37} Their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullock,
for the ram, and for the lambs, [shall be] according to their number,
after the manner: {29:38} And one goat [for] a sin offering; beside the
continual burnt offering, and his meat offering, and his drink
offering. {29:39} 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. {29:40} And Moses told the children of
Israel according to all that the LORD commanded Moses.

   {30:1} And Moses spake unto the heads of the tribes concerning the
children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the LORD hath
commanded. {30:2} 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. {30:3} If a woman
also vow a vow unto the LORD, and bind [herself] by a bond, [being] in
her father's house in her youth; {30:4} And her father hear her vow,
and her bond wherewith she hath 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. {30:5} 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. {30:6} And if she
had at all an husband, when she vowed, or uttered ought out of her
lips, wherewith she bound her soul; {30:7} And her husband heard [it,]
and held his peace at her in the day that he heard [it:] then her vows
shall stand, and her bonds wherewith she bound her soul shall stand.
{30:8} 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. {30:9} But every vow of a widow, and of her
that is divorced, wherewith they have bound their souls, shall stand
against her. {30:10} And if she vowed in her husband's house, or bound
her soul by a bond with an oath; {30:11} And her husband heard [it,]
and held his peace at her, [and] disallowed her not: then all her vows
shall stand, and every bond wherewith she bound her soul shall stand.
{30:12} But if her husband hath utterly made them void on the day he
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. {30:13} Every vow,
and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish
it, or her husband may make it void. {30:14} But if her husband
altogether hold his peace at her from day to 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.
]{30:15} But if he shall any ways make them void after that he hath
heard [them;] then he shall bear her iniquity. {30:16} These [are] the
statutes, which the LORD commanded Moses, between a man and his wife,
between the father and his daughter, [being yet] in her youth in her
father's house.

   {31:1} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {31:2} Avenge the
children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shalt thou be gathered
unto thy people. {31:3} And Moses spake unto the people, saying, Arm
some of yourselves unto the war, and let them go against the
Midianites, and avenge the LORD of Midian. {31:4} Of every tribe a
thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall ye send to the
war. {31:5} So there were delivered out of the thousands of Israel, a
thousand of [every] tribe, twelve thousand armed for war. {31:6} And
Moses sent them to the war, a thousand of [every] tribe, them and
Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the holy
instruments, and the trumpets to blow in his hand. {31:7} And they
warred against the Midianites, as the LORD commanded Moses; and they
slew all the males. {31:8} And they slew the kings of Midian, beside
the rest of them that 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. {31:9} 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. {31:10}
And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, and all their
goodly castles, with fire. {31:11} And they took all the spoil, and all
the prey, [both] of men and of beasts. {31:12} 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.

   {31:13} And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of
the congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp. {31:14} And
Moses was wroth with the officers of the host, [with] the captains over
thousands, and captains over hundreds, which came from the battle.
{31:15} And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive?
{31:16} Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the
counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of
Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD.
{31:17} Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill
every woman that hath known man by lying with him. {31:18} But all the
women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive
for yourselves. {31:19} And do ye abide without the camp seven days:
whosoever hath killed any person, and whosoever hath touched any slain,
purify [both] yourselves and your captives on the third day, and on the
seventh day. {31:20} And purify all [your] raiment, and all that is
made of skins, and all work of goats' [hair,] and all things made of
wood.

   {31:21} And Eleazar the priest said unto the men of war which went
to the battle, This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD
commanded Moses; {31:22} Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the
iron, the tin, and the lead, {31:23} 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. {31:24}
And ye shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and ye shall be
clean, and afterward ye shall come into the camp.

   {31:25} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {31:26} 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: {31:27}
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: {31:28}
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: {31:29} Take [it] of their
half, and give [it] unto Eleazar the priest, [for] an heave offering of
the LORD. {31:30} And of the children of Israel's half, thou shalt take
one portion of 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. {31:31} And Moses
and Eleazar the priest did as the LORD commanded Moses. {31:32} 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,
{31:33} And threescore and twelve thousand beeves, {31:34} And
threescore and one thousand asses, {31:35} And thirty and two thousand
persons in all, of women that had not known man by lying with him.
{31:36} And the half, [which was] the portion of them that went out to
war, was in number three hundred thousand and seven and thirty thousand
and five hundred sheep: {31:37} And the LORD'S tribute of the sheep was
six hundred and threescore and fifteen. {31:38} And the beeves [were]
thirty and six thousand; of which the LORD'S tribute [was] threescore
and twelve. {31:39} And the asses [were] thirty thousand and five
hundred; of which the LORD'S tribute [was] threescore and one. {31:40}
And the persons [were] sixteen thousand; of which the LORD'S tribute
[was] thirty and two persons. {31:41} And Moses gave the tribute,
[which was] the LORD'S heave offering, unto Eleazar the priest, as the
LORD commanded Moses. {31:42} And of the children of Israel's half,
which Moses divided from the men that warred, {31:43} (Now the half
[that pertained unto] the congregation was three hundred thousand and
thirty thousand [and] seven thousand and five hundred sheep, {31:44}
And thirty and six thousand beeves, {31:45} And thirty thousand asses
and five hundred, {31:46} And sixteen thousand persons;) {31:47} Even
of the children of Israel's half, Moses took one portion of 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.

   {31:48} And the officers which [were] over thousands of the host,
the captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, came near unto
Moses: {31:49} And they said unto Moses, Thy servants have taken the
sum of the men of war which [are] under our charge, and there lacketh
not one man of us. {31:50} 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. {31:51} And Moses and Eleazar the priest took
the gold of them, [even] all wrought jewels. {31:52} And all the gold
of the offering that they offered up to the LORD, of the captains of
thousands, and of the captains of hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven
hundred and fifty shekels. {31:53} ([For] the men of war had taken
spoil, every man for himself.) {31:54} And Moses and Eleazar the priest
took the gold of the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought
it into the tabernacle of the congregation, [for] a memorial for the
children of Israel before the LORD.

   {32:1} 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;
{32:2} 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, {32:3} Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah,
and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Shebam, and Nebo, and Beon, {32:4} [Even]
the country which the LORD smote before the congregation of Israel,
[is] a land for cattle, and thy servants have cattle: {32:5} Wherefore,
said they, if we have found grace in thy sight, let this land be given
unto thy servants for a possession, [and] bring us not over Jordan.

   {32:6} And Moses said unto the children of Gad and to the children
of Reuben, Shall your brethren go to war, and shall ye sit here? {32:7}
And wherefore discourage ye the heart of the children of Israel from
going over into the land which the LORD hath given them? {32:8} Thus
did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.
{32:9} For when they went up unto the valley of Eshcol, and saw the
land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they
should not go into the land which the LORD had given them. {32:10} And
the LORD'S anger was kindled the same time, and he sware, saying,
{32:11} 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:
{32:12} Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite, and Joshua the
son of Nun: for they have wholly followed the LORD. {32:13} And the
LORD'S anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the
wilderness forty years, until all the generation, that had done evil in
the sight of the LORD, was consumed. {32:14} 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. {32:15} For if ye turn away
from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and ye
shall destroy all this people.

   {32:16} And they came near unto him, and said, We will build
sheepfolds here for our cattle, and cities for our little ones: {32:17}
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.
{32:18} We will not return unto our houses, until the children of
Israel have inherited every man his inheritance. {32:19} For we will
not inherit with them on yonder side Jordan, or forward; because our
inheritance is fallen to us on this side Jordan eastward.

   {32:20} And Moses said unto them, If ye will do this thing, if ye
will go armed before the LORD to war, {32:21} And will go all of you
armed over Jordan before the LORD, until he hath driven out his enemies
from before him, {32:22} And the land be subdued before the LORD: then
afterward ye shall return, and be guiltless before the LORD, and before
Israel; and this land shall be your possession before the LORD. {32:23}
But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the LORD: and
be sure your sin will find you out. {32:24} Build you cities for your
little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which hath proceeded
out of your mouth. {32:25} And the children of Gad and the children of
Reuben spake unto Moses, saying, Thy servants will do as my lord
commandeth. {32:26} Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our
cattle, shall be there in the cities of Gilead: {32:27} But thy
servants will pass over, every man armed for war, before the LORD to
battle, as my lord saith. {32:28} So concerning them Moses commanded
Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the chief fathers of
the tribes of the children of Israel: {32:29} 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: {32:30} But if they will not pass over with you
armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.
{32:31} And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered,
saying, As the LORD hath said unto thy servants, so will we do. {32:32}
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.
{32:33} 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.

   {32:34} And the children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,
{32:35} And Atroth, Shophan, and Jaazer, and Jogbehah, {32:36} And
Beth-nimrah, and Beth-haran, fenced cities: and folds for sheep.
{32:37} And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and
Kirjathaim, {32:38} And Nebo, and Baal-meon, (their names being
changed,) and Shibmah: and gave other names unto the cities which they
builded. {32:39} And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to
Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorite which [was] in it.
{32:40} And Moses gave Gilead unto Machir the son of Manasseh; and he
dwelt therein. {32:41} And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the
small towns thereof, and called them Havoth-jair. {32:42} And Nobah
went and took Kenath, and the villages thereof, and called it Nobah,
after his own name.

   {33:1} 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. {33:2} 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. {33:3} 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. {33:4} For the Egyptians
buried all [their] firstborn, which the LORD had smitten among them:
upon their gods also the LORD executed judgments. {33:5} And the
children of Israel removed from Rameses, and pitched in Succoth. {33:6}
And they departed from Succoth, and pitched in Etham, which [is] in the
edge of the wilderness. {33:7} And they removed from Etham, and turned
again unto Pi-hahiroth, which [is] before Baal- zephon: and they
pitched before Migdol. {33:8} And they departed from before
Pi-hahiroth, and passed through the midst of the sea into the
wilderness, and went three days' journey in the wilderness of Etham,
and pitched in Marah. {33:9} 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. {33:10} And they removed from
Elim, and encamped by the Red sea. {33:11} And they removed from the
Red sea, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin. {33:12} And they took
their journey out of the wilderness of Sin, and encamped in Dophkah.
{33:13} And they departed from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush. {33:14}
And they removed from Alush, and encamped at Rephidim, where was no
water for the people to drink. {33:15} And they departed from Rephidim,
and pitched in the wilderness of Sinai. {33:16} And they removed from
the desert of Sinai, and pitched at Kibroth-hattaavah. {33:17} And they
departed from Kibroth-hattaavah, and encamped at Hazeroth. {33:18} And
they departed from Hazeroth, and pitched in Rithmah. {33:19} And they
departed from Rithmah, and pitched at Rimmon-parez. {33:20} And they
departed from Rimmon-parez, and pitched in Libnah. {33:21} And they
removed from Libnah, and pitched at Rissah. {33:22} And they journeyed
from Rissah, and pitched in Kehelathah. {33:23} And they went from
Kehelathah, and pitched in mount Shapher. {33:24} And they removed from
mount Shapher, and encamped in Haradah. {33:25} And they removed from
Haradah, and pitched in Makheloth. {33:26} And they removed from
Makheloth, and encamped at Tahath. {33:27} And they departed from
Tahath, and pitched at Tarah. {33:28} And they removed from Tarah, and
pitched in Mithcah. {33:29} And they went from Mithcah, and pitched in
Hashmonah. {33:30} And they departed from Hashmonah, and encamped at
Moseroth. {33:31} And they departed from Moseroth, and pitched in
Bene-jaakan. {33:32} And they removed from Bene-jaakan, and encamped at
Hor-hagidgad. {33:33} And they went from Hor-hagidgad, and pitched in
Jotbathah. {33:34} And they removed from Jotbathah, and encamped at
Ebronah. {33:35} And they departed from Ebronah, and encamped at
Ezion-gaber. {33:36} And they removed from Ezion-gaber, and pitched in
the wilderness of Zin, which [is] Kadesh. {33:37} And they removed from
Kadesh, and pitched in mount Hor, in the edge of the land of Edom.
{33:38} And Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor at the 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. {33:39} And Aaron [was] an hundred and twenty and three
years old when he died in mount Hor. {33:40} And king Arad the
Canaanite, which dwelt in the south in the land of Canaan, heard of the
coming of the children of Israel. {33:41} And they departed from mount
Hor, and pitched in Zalmonah. {33:42} And they departed from Zalmonah,
and pitched in Punon. {33:43} And they departed from Punon, and pitched
in Oboth. {33:44} And they departed from Oboth, and pitched in
Ije-abarim, in the border of Moab. {33:45} And they departed from Iim,
and pitched in Dibon-gad. {33:46} And they removed from Dibon-gad, and
encamped in Almon-diblathaim. {33:47} And they removed from
Almon-diblathaim, and pitched in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo.
{33:48} And they departed from the mountains of Abarim, and pitched in
the plains of Moab by Jordan [near] Jericho. {33:49} And they pitched
by Jordan, from Beth- jesimoth [even] unto Abel-shittim in the plains
of Moab.

   {33:50} And the LORD spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by
Jordan [near] Jericho, saying, {33:51} Speak unto the children of
Israel, and say unto them, When ye are passed over Jordan into the land
of Canaan; {33:52} Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the
land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all
their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places:
{33:53} And ye shall dispossess [the inhabitants] of the land, and
dwell therein: for I have given you the land to possess it. {33:54} And
ye shall divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your 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. {33:55} 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. {33:56} Moreover it shall come to pass, [that] I shall do unto
you, as I thought to do unto them.

   {34:1} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {34:2} Command the
children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye 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:) {34:3} 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: {34:4} 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 Kadesh-barnea, and shall go on to
Hazar-addar, and pass on to Azmon: {34:5} And the border shall fetch a
compass from Azmon unto the river of Egypt, and the goings out of it
shall be at the sea. {34:6} And [as for] the western border, ye shall
even have the great sea for a border: this shall be your west border.
{34:7} And this shall be your north border: from the great sea ye shall
point out for you mount Hor: {34:8} From mount Hor ye shall point out
[your border] unto the entrance of Hamath; and the goings forth of the
border shall be to Zedad:

   {34:9} And the border shall go on to Ziphron, and the goings out of
it shall be at Hazar- enan: this shall be your north border. {34:10}
And ye shall point out your east border from Hazar-enan to Shepham:
{34:11} 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: {34:12} 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. {34:13} 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: {34:14} 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: {34:15} The two tribes and the half tribe
have received their inheritance on this side Jordan [near] Jericho
eastward, toward the sunrising. {34:16} And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying, {34:17} These [are] the names of the men which shall divide the
land unto you: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun. {34:18}
And ye shall take one prince of every tribe, to divide the land by
inheritance. {34:19} And the names of the men [are] these: Of the tribe
of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh. {34:20} And of the tribe of the
children of Simeon, Shemuel the son of Ammihud. {34:21} Of the tribe of
Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chislon. {34:22} And the prince of the
tribe of the children of Dan, Bukki the son of Jogli. {34:23} The
prince of the children of Joseph, for the tribe of the children of
Manasseh, Hanniel the son of Ephod. {34:24} And the prince of the tribe
of the children of Ephraim, Kemuel the son of Shiphtan. {34:25} And the
prince of the tribe of the children of Zebulun, Elizaphan the son of
Parnach. {34:26} And the prince of the tribe of the children of
Issachar, Paltiel the son of Azzan. {34:27} And the prince of the tribe
of the children of Asher, Ahihud the son of Shelomi. {34:28} And the
prince of the tribe of the children of Naphtali, Pedahel the son of
Ammihud. {34:29} These [are they] whom the LORD commanded to divide the
inheritance unto the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.

   {35:1} And the LORD spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan
[near] Jericho, saying, {35:2} 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. {35:3} 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. {35:4} 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. {35:5} 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. {35:6} 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. {35:7} [So] all the cities which ye shall give to
the Levites [shall be] forty and eight cities: them [shall ye give]
with their suburbs. {35:8} And the cities which ye shall give [shall
be] of the possession of 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.

   {35:9} And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, {35:10} Speak unto the
children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come over Jordan into
the land of Canaan; {35:11} 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. {35:12} 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. {35:13} And of these
cities which ye shall give six cities shall ye have for refuge. {35:14}
Ye shall give three cities on this side Jordan, and three cities shall
ye give in the land of Canaan, [which] shall be cities of refuge.
{35:15} These six cities shall be a refuge, [both] for the children of
Israel, and for the stranger, and for the sojourner among them: that
every one that killeth any person unawares may flee thither. {35:16}
And if he smite him with an instrument of iron, so that he die, he [is]
a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death. {35:17} And if
he smite him with throwing a stone, wherewith he may die, and he die,
he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death. {35:18} Or
[if] he smite him with an hand weapon of wood, wherewith he may die,
and he die, he [is] a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to
death. {35:19} The revenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer:
when he meeteth him, he shall slay him. {35:20} But if he thrust him of
hatred, or hurl at him by laying of wait, that he die; {35:21} Or in
enmity smite him with his hand, that he die: he that smote [him] shall
surely be put to death; [for] he [is] a murderer: the revenger of blood
shall slay the murderer, when he meeteth him. {35:22} But if he thrust
him suddenly without enmity, or have cast upon him any thing without
laying of wait, {35:23} Or with any stone, wherewith a man may die,
seeing [him] not, and cast [it] upon him, that he die, and [was] not
his enemy, neither sought his harm: {35:24} Then the congregation shall
judge between the slayer and the revenger of blood according to these
judgments: {35:25} And the congregation shall deliver the slayer out of
the hand of 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. {35:26} But if the slayer shall at any time come without the
border of the city of his refuge, whither he was fled; {35:27} And the
revenger of blood find him without the borders of the city of his
refuge, and the revenger of blood kill the slayer; he shall not be
guilty of blood: {35:28} 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. {35:29} So these [things] shall be for a statute of
judgment unto you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
{35:30} Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be put to death by
the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any
person [to cause him] to die. {35:31} Moreover ye shall take no
satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which [is] guilty of death:
but he shall be surely put to death. {35:32} And ye shall take no
satisfaction for him that is fled to the city of his refuge, that he
should come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest.
{35:33} 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. {35:34} Defile not
therefore the land which ye shall inhabit, wherein I dwell: for I the
LORD dwell among the children of Israel.

   {36:1} 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: {36:2} And they
said, The LORD commanded my lord to give the land for an inheritance by
lot to the children of Israel: and my lord was commanded by the LORD to
give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother unto his daughters.
{36:3} And if they be married to any of the sons of the [other] tribes
of the children of Israel, then shall their inheritance be taken from
the inheritance of our fathers, and shall be put to the inheritance of
the tribe whereunto they are received: so shall it be taken from the
lot of our inheritance. {36:4} And when the jubile of the children of
Israel shall be, then shall 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. {36:5} 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. {36:6} This is the thing which the LORD doth command concerning
the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them marry to whom they think
best; only to the family of the tribe of their father shall they marry.
{36:7} So shall not the inheritance of the children of Israel remove
from tribe to tribe: for every one of the children of Israel shall keep
himself to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers. {36:8} 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. {36:9} 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. {36:10}
Even as the LORD commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad:
{36:11} For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the
daughters of Zelophehad, were married unto their father's brothers'
sons: {36:12} [And] they were married into the families of the sons of
Manasseh the son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in the tribe
of the family of their father. {36:13} These [are] the commandments and
the judgments, which the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses unto the
children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan [near] Jericho.





Obadiah

   {1:1} 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.
{1:2} Behold, I have made thee small among the heathen: thou art
greatly despised.

   {1:3} 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? {1:4} 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. {1:5} 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? {1:6} How are [the
things] of Esau searched out! [how] are his hidden things sought up!
{1:7} All the men of thy confederacy have brought thee [even] to the
border: the men that were at peace with thee have deceived thee, [and]
prevailed against thee; [they that eat] thy bread have laid a wound
under thee: [there is] none understanding in him. {1:8} Shall I not in
that day, saith the LORD, even destroy the wise [men] out of Edom, and
understanding out of the mount of Esau? {1:9} And thy mighty [men,] O
Teman, shall be dismayed, to the end that every one of the mount of
Esau may be cut off by slaughter.

   {1:10} For [thy] violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall
cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever. {1:11} In the day that
thou stoodest on the other side, in the day that the strangers carried
away captive his forces, and foreigners entered into his gates, and
cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou [wast] as one of them. {1:12} But
thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in 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. {1:13} 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; {1:14} 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. {1:15} 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. {1:16} 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.

   {1:17} But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be
holiness; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.
{1:18} And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph
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. ]{1:19} 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. {1:20} 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. {1:21} And saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge the
mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the LORD'S.





The Epistle of Paul to Philemon

   {1:1} Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ, and Timothy our brother,
unto Philemon our dearly beloved, and fellowlabourer, {1:2} And to
[our] beloved Apphia, and Archippus our fellowsoldier, and to the
church in thy house: {1:3} Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father
and the Lord Jesus Christ.

   {1:4} I thank my God, making mention of thee always in my prayers,
{1:5} Hearing of thy love and faith, which thou hast toward the Lord
Jesus, and toward all saints; {1:6} That the communication of thy faith
may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is
in you in Christ Jesus. {1:7} For we have great joy and consolation in
thy love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee,
brother. {1:8} Wherefore, though I might be much bold in Christ to
enjoin thee that which is convenient, {1:9} Yet for love's sake I
rather beseech [thee,] being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also
a prisoner of Jesus Christ. {1:10} I beseech thee for my son Onesimus,
whom I have begotten in my bonds: {1:11} Which in time past was to thee
unprofitable, but now profitable to thee and to me: {1:12} Whom I have
sent again: thou therefore receive him, that is, mine own bowels:
{1:13} Whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might
have ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel: {1:14} But without
thy mind would I do nothing; that thy benefit should not be as it were
of necessity, but willingly. {1:15} For perhaps he therefore departed
for a season, that thou shouldest receive him for ever; {1:16} Not now
as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved, specially to me,
but how much more unto thee, both in the flesh, and in the Lord? {1:17}
If thou count me therefore a partner, receive him as myself. {1:18} If
he hath wronged thee, or oweth [thee] ought, put that on mine account;
{1:19} 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. {1:20} Yea, brother, let me have joy of thee in the Lord:
refresh my bowels in the Lord.

   {1:21} Having confidence in thy obedience I wrote unto thee, knowing
that thou wilt also do more than I say. {1:22} But withal prepare me
also a lodging: for I trust that through your prayers I shall be given
unto you.

   {1:23} There salute thee Epaphras, my fellowprisoner in Christ
Jesus; {1:24} Marcus, Aristarchus, Demas, Lucas, my fellowlabourers.

   {1:25} The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [be] with your spirit.
Amen.





The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Philippians

   {1:1} Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the
saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and
deacons: {1:2} Grace [be] unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and
[from] the Lord Jesus Christ. {1:3} I thank my God upon every
remembrance of you, {1:4} Always in every prayer of mine for you all
making request with joy, {1:5} For your fellowship in the gospel from
the first day until now; {1:6} Being confident of this very thing, that
he which hath begun a good work in you will perform [it] until the day
of Jesus Christ: {1:7} Even as it is meet for me to think this of you
all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and
in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers of
my grace. {1:8} For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all
in the bowels of Jesus Christ. {1:9} And this I pray, that your love
may abound yet more and more in knowledge and [in] all judgment; {1:10}
That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere
and without offence till the day of Christ; {1:11} Being filled with
the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory
and praise of God.

   {1:12} But I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things
[which happened] unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of
the gospel; {1:13} So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the
palace, and in all other [places; ]{1:14} And many of the brethren in
the Lord, waxing confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the
word without fear. {1:15} Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and
strife; and some also of good will: {1:16} The one preach Christ of
contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds:
{1:17} But the other of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of
the gospel. {1:18} What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in
pretence, or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice,
yea, and will rejoice. {1:19} For I know that this shall turn to my
salvation through your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus
Christ, {1:20} According to my earnest expectation and [my] hope, that
in 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. {1:21} For to me to live [is] Christ, and to die
[is] gain. {1:22} But if I live in the flesh, this [is] the fruit of my
labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not. {1:23} For I am in a strait
betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is
far better: {1:24} Nevertheless to abide in the flesh [is] more needful
for you. {1:25} And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide
and continue with you all for your furtherance and joy of faith; {1:26}
That your rejoicing may be more abundant in Jesus Christ for me by my
coming to you again. {1:27} Only let your conversation be as it
becometh the gospel of 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;
{1:28} And in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them
an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of
God. {1:29} For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only
to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake; {1:30} Having the
same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear [to be] in me.

   {2:1} If [there be] therefore any consolation in Christ, if any
comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and
mercies, {2:2} Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same
love, [being] of one accord, of one mind. {2:3} [Let] nothing [be done]
through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem
other better than themselves. {2:4} Look not every man on his own
things, but every man also on the things of others. {2:5} Let this mind
be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: {2:6} Who, being in the form
of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: {2:7} But made
himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and
was made in the likeness of men: {2:8} And being found in fashion as a
man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death
of the cross. {2:9} Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and
given him a name which is above every name: {2:10} That at the name of
Jesus every knee should bow, of [things] in heaven, and [things] in
earth, and [things] under the earth; {2:11} And [that] every tongue
should confess that Jesus Christ [is] Lord, to the glory of God the
Father.

   {2:12} Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my
presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own
salvation with fear and trembling. {2:13} For it is God which worketh
in you both to will and to do of [his] good pleasure. {2:14} Do all
things without murmurings and disputings: {2:15} That ye may be
blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst
of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the
world; {2:16} Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the
day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.
{2:17} Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your
faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all. {2:18} For the same cause also
do ye joy, and rejoice with me.

   {2:19} But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timotheus shortly unto
you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state. {2:20}
For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally care for your state.
{2:21} For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's.
{2:22} But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he
hath served with me in the gospel. {2:23} Him therefore I hope to send
presently, so soon as I shall see how it will go with me. {2:24} But I
trust in the Lord that I also myself shall come shortly. {2:25} Yet I
supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, and
companion in labour, and fellow soldier, but your messenger, and he
that ministered to my wants. {2:26} For he longed after you all, and
was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had been sick.
{2:27} For indeed he was sick nigh unto death: but God had mercy on
him; and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow
upon sorrow. {2:28} I sent him therefore the more carefully, that, when
ye see him again, ye may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.
{2:29} Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness; and hold
such in reputation: {2:30} Because for the work of Christ he was nigh
unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service
toward me.

   {3:1} Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same
things to you, to me indeed [is] not grievous, but for you [it is] safe.

   {3:2} Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the
concision. {3:3} For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the
spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the
flesh. {3:4} Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any
other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I
more: {3:5} Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, [of]
the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a
Pharisee; {3:6} Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the
righteousness which is in the law, blameless. {3:7} But what things
were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. {3:8} 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, {3:9} 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: {3:10} That I may know him, and the power of
his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made
conformable unto his death; {3:11} If by any means I might attain unto
the resurrection of the dead. {3:12} Not as though I had already
attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I
may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
{3:13} Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but [this] one
thing [I do,] forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching
forth unto those things which are before, {3:14} I press toward the
mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. {3:15}
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.
{3:16} Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by
the same rule, let us mind the same thing. {3:17} Brethren, be
followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for
an ensample. {3:18} (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and
now tell you even weeping, [that they are] the enemies of the cross of
Christ: {3:19} Whose end [is] destruction, whose God [is their] belly,
and [whose] glory [is] in their shame, who mind earthly things.) {3:20}
For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the
Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: {3:21} Who shall change our vile body,
that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the
working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.

   {4:1} Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy
and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, [my] dearly beloved. {4:2} I
beseech Euodias, and beseech Syntyche, that they be of the same mind in
the Lord. {4:3} And I intreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those
women which laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and
[with] other my fellowlabourers, whose names [are] in the book of life.
{4:4} Rejoice in the Lord alway: [and] again I say, Rejoice. {4:5} Let
your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord [is] at hand. {4:6} Be
careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with
thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. {4:7} And the
peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts
and minds through Christ Jesus. {4:8} Finally, brethren, whatsoever
things are true, whatsoever things [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. {4:9}
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.

   {4:10} But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at the last your
care of me hath flourished again; wherein ye were also careful, but ye
lacked opportunity. {4:11} Not that I speak in respect of want: for I
have learned, in whatsoever state I am, [therewith] to be content.
{4:12} I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every
where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be
hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. {4:13} I can do all things
through Christ which strengtheneth me. {4:14} Notwithstanding ye have
well done, that ye did communicate with my affliction. {4:15} Now ye
Philippians know also, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I
departed from Macedonia, no church communicated with me as concerning
giving and receiving, but ye only. {4:16} For even in Thessalonica ye
sent once and again unto my necessity. {4:17} Not because I desire a
gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account. {4:18} 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. {4:19} But my God shall
supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
{4:20} Now unto God and our Father [be] glory for ever and ever. Amen.

   {4:21} Salute every saint in Christ Jesus. The brethren which are
with me greet you. {4:22} All the saints salute you, chiefly they that
are of Caesar's household.

   {4:23} The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [be] with you all. Amen.





The Proverbs

   {1:1} The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;
{1:2} To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of
understanding; {1:3} To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and
judgment, and equity; {1:4} To give subtilty to the simple, to the
young man knowledge and discretion. {1:5} A wise [man] will hear, and
will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto
wise counsels: {1:6} To understand a proverb, and the interpretation;
the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.

   {1:7} The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of knowledge: [but]
fools despise wisdom and instruction. {1:8} My son, hear the
instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: {1:9}
For they [shall be] an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains
about thy neck.

   {1:10} My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. {1:11} If
they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily
for the innocent without cause: {1:12} Let us swallow them up alive as
the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: {1:13} We
shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
{1:14} Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse: {1:15} My
son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their
path: {1:16} For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
{1:17} Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
{1:18} And they lay wait for their [own] blood; they lurk privily for
their [own] lives. {1:19} So [are] the ways of every one that is greedy
of gain; [which] taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

   {1:20} Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:
{1:21} She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of
the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, [saying, ]{1:22} How
long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight
in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? {1:23} Turn you at my
reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known
my words unto you.

   {1:24} Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out
my hand, and no man regarded; {1:25} But ye have set at nought all my
counsel, and would none of my reproof: {1:26} I also will laugh at your
calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; {1:27} When your fear
cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when
distress and anguish cometh upon you. {1:28} Then shall they call upon
me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not
find me: {1:29} For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the
fear of the LORD: {1:30} They would none of my counsel: they despised
all my reproof. {1:31} Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their
own way, and be filled with their own devices. {1:32} For the turning
away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall
destroy them. {1:33} But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely,
and shall be quiet from fear of evil.

   {2:1} My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my
commandments with thee; {2:2} So that thou incline thine ear unto
wisdom, [and] apply thine heart to understanding; {2:3} Yea, if thou
criest after knowledge, [and] liftest up thy voice for understanding;
{2:4} If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as [for] hid
treasures; {2:5} Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and
find the knowledge of God. {2:6} For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his
mouth [cometh] knowledge and understanding. {2:7} He layeth up sound
wisdom for the righteous: [he is] a buckler to them that walk
uprightly. {2:8} He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the
way of his saints. {2:9} Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and
judgment, and equity; [yea,] every good path.

   {2:10} When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is
pleasant unto thy soul; {2:11} Discretion shall preserve thee,
understanding shall keep thee: {2:12} To deliver thee from the way of
the evil [man,] from the man that speaketh froward things; {2:13} Who
leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness; {2:14}
Who rejoice to do evil, [and] delight in the frowardness of the wicked;
{2:15} Whose ways [are] crooked, and [they] froward in their paths:
{2:16} To deliver thee from the strange woman, [even] from the stranger
[which] flattereth with her words; {2:17} Which forsaketh the guide of
her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God. {2:18} For her house
inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead. {2:19} None that go
unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.
{2:20} That thou mayest walk in the way of good [men,] and keep the
paths of the righteous. {2:21} For the upright shall dwell in the land,
and the perfect shall remain in it. {2:22} But the wicked shall be cut
off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.

   {3:1} My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my
commandments: {3:2} For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall
they add to thee. {3:3} Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them
about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart: {3:4} So
shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and
man.

   {3:5} Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto
thine own understanding. {3:6} In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he
shall direct thy paths.

   {3:7} Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from
evil. {3:8} It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.
{3:9} Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of
all thine increase: {3:10} So shall thy barns be filled with plenty,
and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.

   {3:11} My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be
weary of his correction: {3:12} For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth;
even as a father the son [in whom] he delighteth.

   {3:13} Happy [is] the man [that] findeth wisdom, and the man [that]
getteth understanding. {3:14} For the merchandise of it [is] better
than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.
{3:15} She [is] more precious than rubies: and all the things thou
canst desire are not to be compared unto her. {3:16} Length of days
[is] in her right hand; [and] in her left hand riches and honour.
{3:17} Her ways [are] ways of pleasantness, and all her paths [are]
peace. {3:18} She [is] a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her:
and happy [is every one] that retaineth her. {3:19} The LORD by wisdom
hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the
heavens. {3:20} By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the
clouds drop down the dew.

   {3:21} My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound
wisdom and discretion: {3:22} So shall they be life unto thy soul, and
grace to thy neck. {3:23} Then shalt thou walk in thy way safely, and
thy foot shall not stumble. {3:24} When thou liest down, thou shalt not
be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.
{3:25} Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the
wicked, when it cometh. {3:26} For the LORD shall be thy confidence,
and shall keep thy foot from being taken.

   {3:27} Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in
the power of thine hand to do [it. ]{3:28} Say not unto thy neighbour,
Go, and come again, and to morrow I will give; when thou hast it by
thee. {3:29} Devise not evil against thy neighbour, seeing he dwelleth
securely by thee.

   {3:30} Strive not with a man without cause, if he have done thee no
harm.

   {3:31} Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.
{3:32} For the froward [is] abomination to the LORD: but his secret
[is] with the righteous.

   {3:33} The curse of the LORD [is] in the house of the wicked: but he
blesseth the habitation of the just. {3:34} Surely he scorneth the
scorners: but he giveth grace unto the lowly. {3:35} The wise shall
inherit glory: but shame shall be the promotion of fools.

   {4:1} Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to
know understanding. {4:2} For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not
my law. {4:3} For I was my father's son, tender and only [beloved] in
the sight of my mother. {4:4} He taught me also, and said unto me, Let
thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live. {4:5} Get
wisdom, get understanding: forget [it] not; neither decline from the
words of my mouth. {4:6} Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee:
love her, and she shall keep thee. {4:7} Wisdom [is] the principal
thing; [therefore] get wisdom: and with all thy getting get
understanding. {4:8} Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall
bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her. {4:9} She shall give
to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver
to thee. {4:10} Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years
of thy life shall be many. {4:11} I have taught thee in the way of
wisdom; I have led thee in right paths. {4:12} When thou goest, thy
steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not
stumble. {4:13} Take fast hold of instruction; let [her] not go: keep
her; for she [is] thy life.

   {4:14} Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way
of evil [men. ]{4:15} Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass
away. {4:16} For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and
their sleep is taken away, unless they cause [some] to fall. {4:17} For
they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
{4:18} But the path of the just [is] as the shining light, that shineth
more and more unto the perfect day. {4:19} The way of the wicked [is]
as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.

   {4:20} My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my
sayings. {4:21} Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the
midst of thine heart. {4:22} For they [are] life unto those that find
them, and health to all their flesh.

   {4:23} Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it [are] the
issues of life. {4:24} Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse
lips put far from thee. {4:25} Let thine eyes look right on, and let
thine eyelids look straight before thee. {4:26} Ponder the path of thy
feet, and let all thy ways be established. {4:27} Turn not to the right
hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.

   {5:1} My son, attend unto my wisdom, [and] bow thine ear to my
understanding: {5:2} That thou mayest regard discretion, and [that] thy
lips may keep knowledge.

   {5:3} For the lips of a strange woman drop [as] an honeycomb, and
her mouth [is] smoother than oil: {5:4} But her end is bitter as
wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword. {5:5} Her feet go down to death;
her steps take hold on hell. {5:6} Lest thou shouldest ponder the path
of life, her ways are moveable, [that] thou canst not know [them.
]{5:7} Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the
words of my mouth. {5:8} Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh
the door of her house: {5:9} Lest thou give thine honour unto others,
and thy years unto the cruel: {5:10} Lest strangers be filled with thy
wealth; and thy labours [be] in the house of a stranger; {5:11} And
thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
{5:12} And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised
reproof; {5:13} And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor
inclined mine ear to them that instructed me! {5:14} I was almost in
all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.

   {5:15} Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out
of thine own well. {5:16} Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, [and]
rivers of waters in the streets. {5:17} Let them be only thine own, and
not strangers' with thee. {5:18} Let thy fountain be blessed: and
rejoice with the wife of thy youth. {5:19} [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. {5:20} And why wilt thou, my
son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a
stranger? {5:21} For the ways of man [are] before the eyes of the LORD,
and he pondereth all his goings.

   {5:22} His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he
shall be holden with the cords of his sins. {5:23} He shall die without
instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

   {6:1} My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, [if] thou hast
stricken thy hand with a stranger, {6:2} Thou art snared with the words
of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth. {6:3} Do this
now, my son, deliver thyself, when thou art come into the hand of thy
friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend. {6:4} Give not
sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids. {6:5} Deliver
thyself as a roe from the hand [of the hunter,] and as a bird from the
hand of the fowler.

   {6:6} Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:
{6:7} Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, {6:8} Provideth her
meat in the summer, [and] gathereth her food in the harvest. {6:9} How
long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy
sleep? {6:10} [Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding
of the hands to sleep: {6:11} So shall thy poverty come as one that
travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.

   {6:12} A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.
{6:13} He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth
with his fingers; {6:14} Frowardness [is] in his heart, he deviseth
mischief continually; he soweth discord. {6:15} Therefore shall his
calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.

   {6:16} These six [things] doth the LORD hate: yea, seven [are] an
abomination unto him: {6:17} A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands
that shed innocent blood, {6:18} An heart that deviseth wicked
imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, {6:19} A false
witness [that] speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.

   {6:20} My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the
law of thy mother: {6:21} Bind them continually upon thine heart, [and]
tie them about thy neck. {6:22} When thou goest, it shall lead thee;
when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and [when] thou awakest, it
shall talk with thee. {6:23} For the commandment [is] a lamp; and the
law [is] light; and reproofs of instruction [are] the way of life:
{6:24} To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the
tongue of a strange woman. {6:25} Lust not after her beauty in thine
heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids. {6:26} For by means
of a whorish woman [a man is brought] to a piece of bread: and the
adulteress will hunt for the precious life. {6:27} Can a man take fire
in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? {6:28} Can one go upon hot
coals, and his feet not be burned? {6:29} So he that goeth in to his
neighbour's wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent. {6:30}
[Men] do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he
is hungry; {6:31} But [if] he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he
shall give all the substance of his house. {6:32} [But] whoso
committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he [that] doeth
it destroyeth his own soul. {6:33} A wound and dishonour shall he get;
and his reproach shall not be wiped away. {6:34} For jealousy [is] the
rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
{6:35} He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content,
though thou givest many gifts.

   {7:1} My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
{7:2} Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine
eye. {7:3} Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of
thine heart. {7:4} Say unto wisdom, Thou [art] my sister; and call
understanding [thy] kinswoman: {7:5} That they may keep thee from the
strange woman, from the stranger [which] flattereth with her words.

   {7:6} For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,
{7:7} And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a
young man void of understanding, {7:8} Passing through the street near
her corner; and he went the way to her house, {7:9} In the twilight, in
the evening, in the black and dark night: {7:10} And, behold, there met
him a woman [with] the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart. {7:11}
(She [is] loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house: {7:12}
Now [is she] without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every
corner.) {7:13} So she caught him, and kissed him, [and] with an
impudent face said unto him, {7:14} [I have] peace offerings with me;
this day have I payed my vows. {7:15} Therefore came I forth to meet
thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee. {7:16} I have
decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved [works,] with
fine linen of Egypt. {7:17} I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes,
and cinnamon. {7:18} Come, let us take our fill of love until the
morning: let us solace ourselves with loves. {7:19} For the goodman
[is] not at home, he is gone a long journey: {7:20} He hath taken a bag
of money with him, [and] will come home at the day appointed. {7:21}
With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering
of her lips she forced him. {7:22} He goeth after her straightway, as
an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the
stocks; {7:23} Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth
to the snare, and knoweth not that it [is] for his life.

   {7:24} Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to
the words of my mouth. {7:25} Let not thine heart decline to her ways,
go not astray in her paths. {7:26} For she hath cast down many wounded:
yea, many strong [men] have been slain by her. {7:27} Her house [is]
the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.

   {8:1} Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice?
{8:2} She standeth in the top of high places, by the way in the places
of the paths. {8:3} She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city,
at the coming in at the doors. {8:4} Unto you, O men, I call; and my
voice [is] to the sons of man. {8:5} O ye simple, understand wisdom:
and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart. {8:6} Hear; for I will
speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips [shall be] right
things. {8:7} For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness [is] an
abomination to my lips. {8:8} All the words of my mouth [are] in
righteousness; [there is] nothing froward or perverse in them. {8:9}
They [are] all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that
find knowledge. {8:10} Receive my instruction, and not silver; and
knowledge rather than choice gold. {8:11} For wisdom [is] better than
rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared
to it. {8:12} I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of
witty inventions. {8:13} The fear of the LORD [is] to hate evil: pride,
and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
{8:14} Counsel [is] mine, and sound wisdom: I [am] understanding; I
have strength. {8:15} By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.
{8:16} By me princes rule, and nobles, [even] all the judges of the
earth. {8:17} I love them that love me; and those that seek me early
shall find me. {8:18} Riches and honour [are] with me; [yea,] durable
riches and righteousness. {8:19} My fruit [is] better than gold, yea,
than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver. {8:20} I lead in the
way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment: {8:21}
That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will
fill their treasures. {8:22} The LORD possessed me in the beginning of
his way, before his works of old. {8:23} I was set up from everlasting,
from the beginning, or ever the earth was. {8:24} When [there were] no
depths, I was brought forth; when [there were] no fountains abounding
with water. {8:25} Before the mountains were settled, before the hills
was I brought forth: {8:26} While as yet he had not made the earth, nor
the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world. {8:27} When
he prepared the heavens, I [was] there: when he set a compass upon the
face of the depth: {8:28} When he established the clouds above: when he
strengthened the fountains of the deep: {8:29} When he gave to the sea
his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he
appointed the foundations of the earth: {8:30} Then I was by him, [as]
one brought up [with him:] and I was daily [his] delight, rejoicing
always before him; {8:31} Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth;
and my delights [were] with the sons of men. {8:32} Now therefore
hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed [are they that] keep my
ways. {8:33} Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not. {8:34}
Blessed [is] the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates,
waiting at the posts of my doors. {8:35} For whoso findeth me findeth
life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD. {8:36} But he that sinneth
against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.

   {9:1} Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven
pillars: {9:2} She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine;
she hath also furnished her table. {9:3} She hath sent forth her
maidens: she crieth upon the highest places of the city, {9:4} Whoso
[is] simple, let him turn in hither: [as for] him that wanteth
understanding, she saith to him, {9:5} Come, eat of my bread, and drink
of the wine [which] I have mingled. {9:6} Forsake the foolish, and
live; and go in the way of understanding. {9:7} He that reproveth a
scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked [man
getteth] himself a blot. {9:8} Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate
thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee. {9:9} Give
[instruction] to a wise [man,] and he will be yet wiser: teach a just
[man,] and he will increase in learning. {9:10} The fear of the LORD
[is] the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy [is]
understanding. {9:11} For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the
years of thy life shall be increased. {9:12} If thou be wise, thou
shalt be wise for thyself: but [if] thou scornest, thou alone shalt
bear [it.]

   {9:13} A foolish woman [is] clamorous: [she is] simple, and knoweth
nothing. {9:14} For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in
the high places of the city, {9:15} To call passengers who go right on
their ways: {9:16} Whoso [is] simple, let him turn in hither: and [as
for] him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him, {9:17} Stolen
waters are sweet, and bread [eaten] in secret is pleasant. {9:18} But
he knoweth not that the dead [are] there; [and that] her guests [are]
in the depths of hell.

   {10:1} The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but
a foolish son [is] the heaviness of his mother. {10:2} Treasures of
wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.
{10:3} The LORD will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish:
but he casteth away the substance of the wicked. {10:4} He becometh
poor that dealeth [with] a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent
maketh rich. {10:5} He that gathereth in summer [is] a wise son: [but]
he that sleepeth in harvest [is] a son that causeth shame. {10:6}
Blessings [are] upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the
mouth of the wicked. {10:7} The memory of the just is blessed: but the
name of the wicked shall rot. {10:8} The wise in heart will receive
commandments: but a prating fool shall fall. {10:9} He that walketh
uprightly walketh surely: but he that perverteth his ways shall be
known. {10:10} He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a
prating fool shall fall. {10:11} The mouth of a righteous [man is] a
well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked. {10:12}
Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins. {10:13} In the
lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but a rod [is] for
the back of him that is void of understanding. {10:14} Wise [men] lay
up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish [is] near destruction.
{10:15} The rich man's wealth [is] his strong city: the destruction of
the poor [is] their poverty. {10:16} The labour of the righteous
[tendeth] to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin. {10:17} He [is in]
the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof
erreth. {10:18} He that hideth hatred [with] lying lips, and he that
uttereth a slander, [is] a fool. {10:19} In the multitude of words
there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips [is] wise.
{10:20} The tongue of the just [is as] choice silver: the heart of the
wicked [is] little worth. {10:21} The lips of the righteous feed many:
but fools die for want of wisdom. {10:22} The blessing of the LORD, it
maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it. {10:23} [It is] as sport
to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom.
{10:24} The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him: but the desire
of the righteous shall be granted. {10:25} As the whirlwind passeth, so
[is] the wicked no [more:] but the righteous [is] an everlasting
foundation. {10:26} As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes,
so [is] the sluggard to them that send him. {10:27} The fear of the
LORD prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.
{10:28} The hope of the righteous [shall be] gladness: but the
expectation of the wicked shall perish. {10:29} The way of the LORD
[is] strength to the upright: but destruction [shall be] to the workers
of iniquity. {10:30} The righteous shall never be removed: but the
wicked shall not inhabit the earth. {10:31} The mouth of the just
bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be cut out. {10:32}
The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the
wicked [speaketh] frowardness.

   {11:1} A false balance [is] abomination to the LORD: but a just
weight [is] his delight. {11:2} [When] pride cometh, then cometh shame:
but with the lowly [is] wisdom. {11:3} The integrity of the upright
shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy
them. {11:4} Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness
delivereth from death. {11:5} The righteousness of the perfect shall
direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness. {11:6}
The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors
shall be taken in [their own] naughtiness. {11:7} When a wicked man
dieth, [his] expectation shall perish: and the hope of unjust [men]
perisheth. {11:8} The righteous is delivered out of trouble, and the
wicked cometh in his stead. {11:9} An hypocrite with [his] mouth
destroyeth his neighbour: but through knowledge shall the just be
delivered. {11:10} When it goeth well with the righteous, the city
rejoiceth: and when the wicked perish, [there is] shouting. {11:11} By
the blessing of the upright the city is exalted: but it is overthrown
by the mouth of the wicked. {11:12} He that is void of wisdom despiseth
his neighbour: but a man of understanding holdeth his peace. {11:13} A
talebearer revealeth secrets: but he that is of a faithful spirit
concealeth the matter. {11:14} Where no counsel [is,] the people fall:
but in the multitude of counsellors [there is] safety. {11:15} He that
is surety for a stranger shall smart [for it:] and he that hateth
suretiship is sure. {11:16} A gracious woman retaineth honour: and
strong [men] retain riches. {11:17} The merciful man doeth good to his
own soul: but [he that is] cruel troubleth his own flesh. {11:18} The
wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to him that soweth righteousness
[shall be] a sure reward. {11:19} As righteousness [tendeth] to life:
so he that pursueth evil [pursueth it] to his own death. {11:20} They
that are of a froward heart [are] abomination to the LORD: but [such as
are] upright in [their] way [are] his delight. {11:21} [Though] hand
[join] in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the seed of the
righteous shall be delivered. {11:22} [As] a jewel of gold in a swine's
snout, [so is] a fair woman which is without discretion. {11:23} The
desire of the righteous [is] only good: [but] the expectation of the
wicked [is] wrath. {11:24} There is that scattereth, and yet
increaseth; and [there is] that withholdeth more than is meet, but [it
tendeth] to poverty. {11:25} The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he
that watereth shall be watered also himself. {11:26} He that
withholdeth corn, the people shall curse him: but blessing [shall be]
upon the head of him that selleth [it. ]{11:27} He that diligently
seeketh good procureth favour: but he that seeketh mischief, it shall
come unto him. {11:28} He that trusteth in his riches shall fall: but
the righteous shall flourish as a branch. {11:29} He that troubleth his
own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool [shall be] servant to
the wise of heart. {11:30} The fruit of the righteous [is] a tree of
life; and he that winneth souls [is] wise. {11:31} Behold, the
righteous shall be recompensed in the earth: much more the wicked and
the sinner.

   {12:1} Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth
reproof [is] brutish. {12:2} A good [man] obtaineth favour of the LORD:
but a man of wicked devices will he condemn. {12:3} A man shall not be
established by wickedness: but the root of the righteous shall not be
moved. {12:4} A virtuous woman [is] a crown to her husband: but she
that maketh ashamed [is] as rottenness in his bones. {12:5} The
thoughts of the righteous [are] right: [but] the counsels of the wicked
[are] deceit. {12:6} The words of the wicked [are] to lie in wait for
blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. {12:7} The
wicked are overthrown, and [are] not: but the house of the righteous
shall stand. {12:8} A man shall be commended according to his wisdom:
but he that is of a perverse heart shall be despised. {12:9} [He that
is] despised, and hath a servant, [is] better than he that honoureth
himself, and lacketh bread. {12:10} A righteous [man] regardeth the
life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked [are] cruel.
{12:11} He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he
that followeth vain [persons is] void of understanding. {12:12} The
wicked desireth the net of evil [men:] but the root of the righteous
yieldeth [fruit. ]{12:13} The wicked is snared by the transgression of
[his] lips: but the just shall come out of trouble. {12:14} A man shall
be satisfied with good by the fruit of [his] mouth: and the recompense
of a man's hands shall be rendered unto him. {12:15} The way of a fool
[is] right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel [is]
wise. {12:16} A fool's wrath is presently known: but a prudent [man]
covereth shame. {12:17} [He that] speaketh truth sheweth forth
righteousness: but a false witness deceit. {12:18} There is that
speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise [is]
health. {12:19} The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a
lying tongue [is] but for a moment. {12:20} Deceit [is] in the heart of
them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace [is] joy.
{12:21} There shall no evil happen to the just: but the wicked shall be
filled with mischief. {12:22} Lying lips [are] abomination to the LORD:
but they that deal truly [are] his delight. {12:23} A prudent man
concealeth knowledge: but the heart of fools proclaimeth foolishness.
{12:24} The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful
shall be under tribute. {12:25} Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it
stoop: but a good word maketh it glad. {12:26} The righteous [is] more
excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.
{12:27} The slothful [man] roasteth not that which he took in hunting:
but the substance of a diligent man [is] precious. {12:28} In the way
of righteousness [is] life; and [in] the pathway [thereof there is] no
death.

   {13:1} A wise son [heareth] his father's instruction: but a scorner
heareth not rebuke. {13:2} A man shall eat good by the fruit of [his]
mouth: but the soul of the transgressors [shall eat] violence. {13:3}
He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: [but] he that openeth wide
his lips shall have destruction. {13:4} The soul of the sluggard
desireth, and [hath] nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be
made fat. {13:5} A righteous [man] hateth lying: but a wicked [man] is
loathsome, and cometh to shame. {13:6} Righteousness keepeth [him that
is] upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner. {13:7}
There is that maketh himself rich, yet [hath] nothing: [there is] that
maketh himself poor, yet [hath] great riches. {13:8} The ransom of a
man's life [are] his riches: but the poor heareth not rebuke. {13:9}
The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall
be put out. {13:10} Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well
advised [is] wisdom. {13:11} Wealth [gotten] by vanity shall be
diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase. {13:12}
Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but [when] the desire cometh, [it
is] a tree of life. {13:13} Whoso despiseth the word shall be
destroyed: but he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded.
{13:14} The law of the wise [is] a fountain of life, to depart from the
snares of death. {13:15} Good understanding giveth favour: but the way
of transgressors [is] hard. {13:16} Every prudent [man] dealeth with
knowledge: but a fool layeth open [his] folly. {13:17} A wicked
messenger falleth into mischief: but a faithful ambassador [is] health.
{13:18} Poverty and shame [shall be to] him that refuseth instruction:
but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured. {13:19} The desire
accomplished is sweet to the soul: but [it is] abomination to fools to
depart from evil. {13:20} He that walketh with wise [men] shall be
wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed. {13:21} Evil
pursueth sinners: but to the righteous good shall be repaid. {13:22} A
good [man] leaveth an inheritance to his children's children: and the
wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just. {13:23} Much food [is in]
the tillage of the poor: but there is [that is] destroyed for want of
judgment. {13:24} He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that
loveth him chasteneth him betimes. {13:25} The righteous eateth to the
satisfying of his soul: but the belly of the wicked shall want.

   {14:1} Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh
it down with her hands. {14:2} He that walketh in his uprightness
feareth the LORD: but [he that is] perverse in his ways despiseth him.
{14:3} In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride: but the lips of
the wise shall preserve them. {14:4} Where no oxen [are,] the crib [is]
clean: but much increase [is] by the strength of the ox. {14:5} A
faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies.
{14:6} A scorner seeketh wisdom, and [findeth it] not: but knowledge
[is] easy unto him that understandeth. {14:7} Go from the presence of a
foolish man, when thou perceivest not [in him] the lips of knowledge.
{14:8} The wisdom of the prudent [is] to understand his way: but the
folly of fools [is] deceit. {14:9} Fools make a mock at sin: but among
the righteous [there is] favour. {14:10} The heart knoweth his own
bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy. {14:11}
The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tabernacle of the
upright shall flourish. {14:12} There is a way which seemeth right unto
a man, but the end thereof [are] the ways of death. {14:13} Even in
laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth [is]
heaviness. {14:14} The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own
ways: and a good man [shall be satisfied] from himself. {14:15} The
simple believeth every word: but the prudent [man] looketh well to his
going. {14:16} A wise [man] feareth, and departeth from evil: but the
fool rageth, and is confident. {14:17} [He that is] soon angry dealeth
foolishly: and a man of wicked devices is hated. {14:18} The simple
inherit folly: but the prudent are crowned with knowledge. {14:19} The
evil bow before the good; and the wicked at the gates of the righteous.
{14:20} The poor is hated even of his own neighbour: but the rich
[hath] many friends. {14:21} He that despiseth his neighbour sinneth:
but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy [is] he. {14:22} Do they not
err that devise evil? but mercy and truth [shall be] to them that
devise good. {14:23} In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the
lips [tendeth] only to penury. {14:24} The crown of the wise is their
riches: [but] the foolishness of fools [is] folly. {14:25} A true
witness delivereth souls: but a deceitful [witness] speaketh lies.
{14:26} In the fear of the LORD [is] strong confidence: and his
children shall have a place of refuge. {14:27} The fear of the LORD
[is] a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death. {14:28} In
the multitude of people [is] the king's honour: but in the want of
people [is] the destruction of the prince. {14:29} [He that is] slow to
wrath [is] of great understanding: but [he that is] hasty of spirit
exalteth folly. {14:30} A sound heart [is] the life of the flesh: but
envy the rottenness of the bones. {14:31} He that oppresseth the poor
reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the
poor. {14:32} The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the
righteous hath hope in his death. {14:33} Wisdom resteth in the heart
of him that hath understanding: but [that which is] in the midst of
fools is made known. {14:34} Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin
[is] a reproach to any people. {14:35} The king's favour [is] toward a
wise servant: but his wrath is [against] him that causeth shame.

   {15:1} A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up
anger. {15:2} The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: but the
mouth of fools poureth out foolishness. {15:3} The eyes of the LORD
[are] in every place, beholding the evil and the good. {15:4} A
wholesome tongue [is] a tree of life: but perverseness therein [is] a
breach in the spirit. {15:5} A fool despiseth his father's instruction:
but he that regardeth reproof is prudent. {15:6} In the house of the
righteous [is] much treasure: but in the revenues of the wicked is
trouble. {15:7} The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart
of the foolish [doeth] not so. {15:8} The sacrifice of the wicked [is]
an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright [is] his
delight. {15:9} The way of the wicked [is] an abomination unto the
LORD: but he loveth him that followeth after righteousness. {15:10}
Correction [is] grievous unto him that forsaketh the way: [and] he that
hateth reproof shall die. {15:11} Hell and destruction [are] before the
LORD: how much more then the hearts of the children of men? {15:12} A
scorner loveth not one that reproveth him: neither will he go unto the
wise. {15:13} A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by
sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken. {15:14} The heart of him that
hath understanding seeketh knowledge: but the mouth of fools feedeth on
foolishness. {15:15} All the days of the afflicted [are] evil: but he
that is of a merry heart [hath] a continual feast. {15:16} Better [is]
little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble
therewith. {15:17} Better [is] a dinner of herbs where love is, than a
stalled ox and hatred therewith. {15:18} A wrathful man stirreth up
strife: but [he that is] slow to anger appeaseth strife. {15:19} The
way of the slothful [man is] as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the
righteous [is] made plain. {15:20} A wise son maketh a glad father: but
a foolish man despiseth his mother. {15:21} Folly [is] joy to [him that
is] destitute of wisdom: but a man of understanding walketh uprightly.
{15:22} Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude
of counsellors they are established. {15:23} A man hath joy by the
answer of his mouth: and a word [spoken] in due season, how good [is
it! ]{15:24} The way of life [is] above to the wise, that he may depart
from hell beneath. {15:25} The LORD will destroy the house of the
proud: but he will establish the border of the widow. {15:26} The
thoughts of the wicked [are] an abomination to the LORD: but [the
words] of the pure [are] pleasant words. {15:27} He that is greedy of
gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live.
{15:28} The heart of the righteous studieth to answer: but the mouth of
the wicked poureth out evil things. {15:29} The LORD [is] far from the
wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous. {15:30} The light
of the eyes rejoiceth the heart: [and] a good report maketh the bones
fat. {15:31} The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the
wise. {15:32} He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul: but
he that heareth reproof getteth understanding. {15:33} The fear of the
LORD [is] the instruction of wisdom; and before honour [is] humility.

   {16:1} The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the
tongue, [is] from the LORD. {16:2} All the ways of a man [are] clean in
his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits. {16:3} Commit thy
works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established. {16:4} The
LORD hath made all [things] for himself: yea, even the wicked for the
day of evil. {16:5} Every one [that is] proud in heart [is] an
abomination to the LORD: [though] hand [join] in hand, he shall not be
unpunished. {16:6} By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the
fear of the LORD [men] depart from evil. {16:7} When a man's ways
please the LORD, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.
{16:8} Better [is] a little with righteousness than great revenues
without right. {16:9} A man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD
directeth his steps. {16:10} A divine sentence [is] in the lips of the
king: his mouth transgresseth not in judgment. {16:11} A just weight
and balance [are] the LORD'S: all the weights of the bag [are] his
work. {16:12} [It is] an abomination to kings to commit wickedness: for
the throne is established by righteousness. {16:13} Righteous lips
[are] the delight of kings; and they love him that speaketh right.
{16:14} The wrath of a king [is as] messengers of death: but a wise man
will pacify it. {16:15} In the light of the king's countenance [is]
life; and his favour [is] as a cloud of the latter rain. {16:16} How
much better [is it] to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding
rather to be chosen than silver! {16:17} The highway of the upright
[is] to depart from evil: he that keepeth his way preserveth his soul.
{16:18} Pride [goeth] before destruction, and an haughty spirit before
a fall. {16:19} Better [it is to be] of an humble spirit with the
lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud. {16:20} He that
handleth a matter wisely shall find good: and whoso trusteth in the
LORD, happy [is] he. {16:21} The wise in heart shall be called prudent:
and the sweetness of the lips increaseth learning. {16:22}
Understanding [is] a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the
instruction of fools [is] folly. {16:23} The heart of the wise teacheth
his mouth, and addeth learning to his lips. {16:24} Pleasant words [are
as] an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones. {16:25}
There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof [are]
the ways of death. {16:26} He that laboureth laboureth for himself; for
his mouth craveth it of him. {16:27} An ungodly man diggeth up evil:
and in his lips [there is] as a burning fire. {16:28} A froward man
soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends. {16:29} A
violent man enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him into the way [that
is] not good. {16:30} He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things:
moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass. {16:31} The hoary head [is] a
crown of glory, [if] it be found in the way of righteousness. {16:32}
[He that is] slow to anger [is] better than the mighty; and he that
ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city. {16:33} The lot is cast
into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof [is] of the LORD.

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

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

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

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

   {21:1} The king's heart [is] in the hand of the LORD, [as] the
rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will. {21:2} Every way
of a man [is] right in his own eyes: but the LORD pondereth the hearts.
{21:3} To do justice and judgment [is] more acceptable to the LORD than
sacrifice. {21:4} An high look, and a proud heart, [and] the plowing of
the wicked, [is] sin. {21:5} The thoughts of the diligent [tend] only
to plenteousness; but of every one [that is] hasty only to want. {21:6}
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue [is] a vanity tossed to and
fro of them that seek death. {21:7} The robbery of the wicked shall
destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment. {21:8} The way of man
[is] froward and strange: but [as for] the pure, his work [is] right.
{21:9} [It is] better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a
brawling woman in a wide house. {21:10} The soul of the wicked desireth
evil: his neighbour findeth no favour in his eyes. {21:11} When the
scorner is punished, the simple is made wise: and when the wise is
instructed, he receiveth knowledge. {21:12} The righteous [man] wisely
considereth the house of the wicked: [but God] overthroweth the wicked
for [their] wickedness. {21:13} Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of
the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard. {21:14} A
gift in secret pacifieth anger: and a reward in the bosom strong wrath.
{21:15} [It is] joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction [shall
be] to the workers of iniquity. {21:16} The man that wandereth out of
the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.
{21:17} He that loveth pleasure [shall be] a poor man: he that loveth
wine and oil shall not be rich. {21:18} The wicked [shall be] a ransom
for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright. {21:19} [It
is] better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an
angry woman. {21:20} [There is] treasure to be desired and oil in the
dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man spendeth it up. {21:21} He that
followeth after righteousness and mercy findeth life, righteousness,
and honour. {21:22} A wise [man] scaleth the city of the mighty, and
casteth down the strength of the confidence thereof. {21:23} Whoso
keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.
{21:24} Proud [and] haughty scorner [is] his name, who dealeth in proud
wrath. {21:25} The desire of the slothful killeth him; for his hands
refuse to labour. {21:26} He coveteth greedily all the day long: but
the righteous giveth and spareth not. {21:27} The sacrifice of the
wicked [is] abomination: how much more, [when] he bringeth it with a
wicked mind? {21:28} A false witness shall perish: but the man that
heareth speaketh constantly. {21:29} A wicked man hardeneth his face:
but [as for] the upright, he directeth his way. {21:30} [There is] no
wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD. {21:31} The
horse [is] prepared against the day of battle: but safety [is] of the
LORD.

   {22:1} A [good] name [is] rather to be chosen than great riches,
[and] loving favour rather than silver and gold. {22:2} The rich and
poor meet together: the LORD [is] the maker of them all. {22:3} A
prudent [man] foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple
pass on, and are punished. {22:4} By humility [and] the fear of the
LORD [are] riches, and honour, and life. {22:5} Thorns [and] snares
[are] in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be
far from them. {22:6} Train up a child in the way he should go: and
when he is old, he will not depart from it. {22:7} The rich ruleth over
the poor, and the borrower [is] servant to the lender. {22:8} He that
soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.
{22:9} He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of
his bread to the poor. {22:10} Cast out the scorner, and contention
shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease. {22:11} He that
loveth pureness of heart, [for] the grace of his lips the king [shall
be] his friend. {22:12} The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge, and he
overthroweth the words of the transgressor. {22:13} The slothful [man]
saith, [There is] a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.
{22:14} The mouth of strange women [is] a deep pit: he that is abhorred
of the LORD shall fall therein. {22:15} Foolishness [is] bound in the
heart of a child; [but] the rod of correction shall drive it far from
him. {22:16} He that oppresseth the poor to increase his [riches, and]
he that giveth to the rich, [shall] surely [come] to want. {22:17} Bow
down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart
unto my knowledge. {22:18} For [it is] a pleasant thing if thou keep
them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips. {22:19} That
thy trust may be in the LORD, I have made known to thee this day, even
to thee. {22:20} Have not I written to thee excellent things in
counsels and knowledge, {22:21} 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? {22:22} Rob not the poor, because he
[is] poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate: {22:23} For the
LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled
them. {22:24} Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious
man thou shalt not go: {22:25} Lest thou learn his ways, and get a
snare to thy soul. {22:26} Be not thou [one] of them that strike hands,
[or] of them that are sureties for debts. {22:27} If thou hast nothing
to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee? {22:28} Remove
not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set. {22:29} Seest
thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he
shall not stand before mean [men.]

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

   {24:1} Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be
with them. {24:2} For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips
talk of mischief. {24:3} Through wisdom is an house builded; and by
understanding it is established: {24:4} And by knowledge shall the
chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant riches. {24:5} A wise
man [is] strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength. {24:6}
For by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war: and in multitude of
counsellors [there is] safety. {24:7} Wisdom [is] too high for a fool:
he openeth not his mouth in the gate. {24:8} He that deviseth to do
evil shall be called a mischievous person. {24:9} The thought of
foolishness [is] sin: and the scorner [is] an abomination to men.
{24:10} [If] thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength [is]
small. {24:11} If thou forbear to deliver [them that are] drawn unto
death, and [those that are] ready to be slain; {24:12} If thou sayest,
Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that 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? {24:13} My son,
eat thou honey, because [it is] good; and the honeycomb, [which is]
sweet to thy taste: {24:14} So [shall] the knowledge of wisdom [be]
unto thy soul: when thou hast found [it,] then there shall be a reward,
and thy expectation shall not be cut off. {24:15} Lay not wait, O
wicked [man,] against the dwelling of the righteous; spoil not his
resting place: {24:16} For a just [man] falleth seven times, and riseth
up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief. {24:17} Rejoice not
when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he
stumbleth: {24:18} Lest the LORD see [it,] and it displease him, and he
turn away his wrath from him. {24:19} Fret not thyself because of evil
[men,] neither be thou envious at the wicked; {24:20} For there shall
be no reward to the evil [man;] the candle of the wicked shall be put
out. {24:21} My son, fear thou the LORD and the king: [and] meddle not
with them that are given to change: {24:22} For their calamity shall
rise suddenly; and who knoweth the ruin of them both? {24:23} These
[things] also [belong] to the wise. [It is] not good to have respect of
persons in judgment. {24:24} He that saith unto the wicked, Thou [art]
righteous; him shall the people curse, nations shall abhor him: {24:25}
But to them that rebuke [him] shall be delight, and a good blessing
shall come upon them. {24:26} [Every man] shall kiss [his] lips that
giveth a right answer. {24:27} Prepare thy work without, and make it
fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thine house. {24:28}
Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive [not]
with thy lips. {24:29} Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to
me: I will render to the man according to his work. {24:30} I went by
the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of
understanding; {24:31} And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns,
[and] nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof
was broken down. {24:32} Then I saw, [and] considered [it] well: I
looked upon [it, and] received instruction. {24:33} [Yet] a little
sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
{24:34} So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want
as an armed man.

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

   {26:1} As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not
seemly for a fool. {26:2} As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by
flying, so the curse causeless shall not come. {26:3} A whip for the
horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back. {26:4}
Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto
him. {26:5} Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in
his own conceit. {26:6} He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool
cutteth off the feet, [and] drinketh damage. {26:7} The legs of the
lame are not equal: so [is] a parable in the mouth of fools. {26:8} As
he that bindeth a stone in a sling, so [is] he that giveth honour to a
fool. {26:9} [As] a thorn goeth up into the hand of a drunkard, so [is]
a parable in the mouth of fools. {26:10} The great [God] that formed
all [things] both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors.
{26:11} As a dog returneth to his vomit, [so] a fool returneth to his
folly. {26:12} Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? [there is]
more hope of a fool than of him. {26:13} The slothful [man] saith,
[There is] a lion in the way; a lion [is] in the streets. {26:14} [As]
the door turneth upon his hinges, so [doth] the slothful upon his bed.
{26:15} The slothful hideth his hand in [his] bosom; it grieveth him to
bring it again to his mouth. {26:16} The sluggard [is] wiser in his own
conceit than seven men that can render a reason. {26:17} He that
passeth by, [and] meddleth with strife [belonging] not to him, [is
like] one that taketh a dog by the ears. {26:18} As a mad [man] who
casteth firebrands, arrows, and death, {26:19} So [is] the man [that]
deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Am not I in sport? {26:20} Where no
wood is, [there] the fire goeth out: so where [there is] no talebearer,
the strife ceaseth. {26:21} [As] coals [are] to burning coals, and wood
to fire; so [is] a contentious man to kindle strife. {26:22} The words
of a talebearer [are] as wounds, and they go down into the innermost
parts of the belly. {26:23} Burning lips and a wicked heart [are like]
a potsherd covered with silver dross. {26:24} He that hateth
dissembleth with his lips, and layeth up deceit within him; {26:25}
When he speaketh fair, believe him not: for [there are] seven
abominations in his heart. {26:26} [Whose] hatred is covered by deceit,
his wickedness shall be shewed before the [whole] congregation. {26:27}
Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it
will return upon him. {26:28} A lying tongue hateth [those that are]
afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth worketh ruin.

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

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

   {29:1} He, that being often reproved hardeneth [his] neck, shall
suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy. {29:2} When the
righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked
beareth rule, the people mourn. {29:3} Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth
his father: but he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth [his]
substance. {29:4} The king by judgment establisheth the land: but he
that receiveth gifts overthroweth it. {29:5} A man that flattereth his
neighbour spreadeth a net for his feet. {29:6} In the transgression of
an evil man [there is] a snare: but the righteous doth sing and
rejoice. {29:7} The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: [but]
the wicked regardeth not to know [it. ]{29:8} Scornful men bring a city
into a snare: but wise [men] turn away wrath. {29:9} [If] a wise man
contendeth with a foolish man, whether he rage or laugh, [there is] no
rest. {29:10} The bloodthirsty hate the upright: but the just seek his
soul. {29:11} A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise [man] keepeth it
in till afterwards. {29:12} If a ruler hearken to lies, all his
servants [are] wicked. {29:13} The poor and the deceitful man meet
together: the LORD lighteneth both their eyes. {29:14} The king that
faithfully judgeth the poor, his throne shall be established for ever.
{29:15} The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left [to himself]
bringeth his mother to shame. {29:16} When the wicked are multiplied,
transgression increaseth: but the righteous shall see their fall.
{29:17} Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall
give delight unto thy soul. {29:18} Where [there is] no vision, the
people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy [is] he. {29:19} A
servant will not be corrected by words: for though he understand he
will not answer. {29:20} Seest thou a man [that is] hasty in his words?
[there is] more hope of a fool than of him. {29:21} He that delicately
bringeth up his servant from a child shall have him become [his] son at
the length. {29:22} An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man
aboundeth in transgression. {29:23} A man's pride shall bring him low:
but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit. {29:24} Whoso is partner
with a thief hateth his own soul: he heareth cursing, and bewrayeth
[it] not. {29:25} The fear of man bringeth a snare: but whoso putteth
his trust in the LORD shall be safe. {29:26} Many seek the ruler's
favour; but [every] man's judgment [cometh] from the LORD. {29:27} An
unjust man [is] an abomination to the just: and [he that is] upright in
the way [is] abomination to the wicked.

   {30:1} The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, [even] the prophecy: the
man spake unto Ithiel, even unto Ithiel and Ucal, {30:2} Surely I [am]
more brutish than [any] man, and have not the understanding of a man.
{30:3} I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy.
{30:4} Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath
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? {30:5} Every word of God
[is] pure: he [is] a shield unto them that put their trust in him.
{30:6} Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be
found a liar. {30:7} Two [things] have I required of thee; deny me
[them] not before I die: {30:8} Remove far from me vanity and lies:
give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for
me: {30:9} Lest I be full, and deny [thee,] and say, Who [is] the LORD?
or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God [in vain.
]{30:10} Accuse not a servant unto his master, lest he curse thee, and
thou be found guilty. {30:11} [There is] a generation [that] curseth
their father, and doth not bless their mother. {30:12} [There is] a
generation [that are] pure in their own eyes, and [yet] is not washed
from their filthiness. {30:13} [There is] a generation, O how lofty are
their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up. {30:14} [There is] a
generation, whose teeth [are as] swords, and their jaw teeth [as]
knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from
[among] men. {30:15} The horseleach hath two daughters, [crying,] Give,
give. There are three [things that are] never satisfied, [yea,] four
[things] say not, [It is] enough: {30:16} The grave; and the barren
womb; the earth [that] is not filled with water; and the fire [that]
saith not, [It is] enough. {30:17} The eye [that] mocketh at [his]
father, and despiseth to obey [his] mother, the ravens of the valley
shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it. {30:18} There be
three [things which] are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know
not: {30:19} The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon
a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man
with a maid. {30:20} Such [is] the way of an adulterous woman; she
eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.
{30:21} For three [things] the earth is disquieted, and for four
[which] it cannot bear: {30:22} For a servant when he reigneth; and a
fool when he is filled with meat; {30:23} For an odious [woman] when
she is married; and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress. {30:24}
There be four [things which are] little upon the earth, but they [are]
exceeding wise: {30:25} The ants [are] a people not strong, yet they
prepare their meat in the summer; {30:26} The conies [are but] a feeble
folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks; {30:27} The locusts have
no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands; {30:28} The spider
taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings' palaces. {30:29} There be
three [things] which go well, yea, four are comely in going: {30:30} A
lion [which is] strongest among beasts, and turneth not away for any;
{30:31} A greyhound; an he goat also; and a king, against whom [there
is] no rising up. {30:32} If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up
thyself, or if thou hast thought evil, [lay] thine hand upon thy mouth.
{30:33} Surely the churning of milk bringeth forth butter, and the
wringing of the nose bringeth forth blood: so the forcing of wrath
bringeth forth strife.

   {31:1} The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught
him. {31:2} What, my son? and what, the son of my womb? and what, the
son of my vows? {31:3} Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways
to that which destroyeth kings. {31:4} [It is] not for kings, O Lemuel,
[it is] not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink:
{31:5} Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of
any of the afflicted. {31:6} Give strong drink unto him that is ready
to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts. {31:7} Let him
drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more. {31:8}
Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed
to destruction. {31:9} Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the
cause of the poor and needy.

   {31:10} Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price [is] far above
rubies. {31:11} The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so
that he shall have no need of spoil. {31:12} She will do him good and
not evil all the days of her life. {31:13} She seeketh wool, and flax,
and worketh willingly with her hands. {31:14} She is like the
merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar. {31:15} She riseth
also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a
portion to her maidens. {31:16} She considereth a field, and buyeth it:
with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard. {31:17} She
girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms. {31:18}
She perceiveth that her merchandise [is] good: her candle goeth not out
by night. {31:19} She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands
hold the distaff. {31:20} She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea,
she reacheth forth her hands to the needy. {31:21} She is not afraid of
the snow for her household: for all her household [are] clothed with
scarlet. {31:22} She maketh herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing
[is] silk and purple. {31:23} Her husband is known in the gates, when
he sitteth among the elders of the land. {31:24} She maketh fine linen,
and selleth [it;] and delivereth girdles unto the merchant. {31:25}
Strength and honour [are] her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time
to come. {31:26} She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue
[is] the law of kindness. {31:27} She looketh well to the ways of her
household, and eateth not the bread of idleness. {31:28} Her children
arise up, and call her blessed; her husband [also,] and he praiseth
her. {31:29} Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest
them all. {31:30} Favour [is] deceitful, and beauty [is] vain: [but] a
woman [that] feareth the LORD, she shall be praised. {31:31} Give her
of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the
gates.





The Book of Psalms

   Book I


Psalm 1

{1:1} 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.
{1:2} But his delight [is] in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth
      he meditate day and night.
{1:3} And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that
      bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not
      wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
{1:4} The ungodly [are] not so: but [are] like the chaff which the wind
      driveth away.
{1:5} Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor
      sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
{1:6} For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the
      ungodly shall perish.



Psalm 2

{2:1} Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?

{2:2} The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take
      counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed,
      [saying,]
{2:3} Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from
      us.
{2:4} He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have
      them in derision.
{2:5} Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his
      sore displeasure.
{2:6} Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
{2:7} I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou [art]
      my Son; this day have I begotten thee.
{2:8} Ask of me, and I shall give [thee] the heathen [for] thine
      inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth [for] thy
      possession.
{2:9} Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in
      pieces like a potter's vessel.
{2:10} Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of
      the earth.
{2:11} Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
{2:12} 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

A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son.



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


Psalm 4

To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm of David.



   {4:1} Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast
      enlarged me [when I was] in distress; have mercy upon me, and
      hear my prayer.
{4:2} 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.
{4:3} But know that the LORD hath set apart him that is godly for
      himself: the LORD will hear when I call unto him.
{4:4} Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your
      bed, and be still. Selah.
{4:5} Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the
      LORD.
{4:6} [There be] many that say, Who will shew us [any] good? LORD, lift
      thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.
{4:7} Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time [that]
      their corn and their wine increased.
{4:8} I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD, only
      makest me dwell in safety.


Psalm 5

To the chief Musician upon Nehiloth, A Psalm of David.



   {5:1} Give ear to my words, O LORD, consider my meditation.
{5:2} Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God: for unto
      thee will I pray.
{5:3} My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning
      will I direct [my prayer] unto thee, and will look up.
{5:4} For thou [art] not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness:
      neither shall evil dwell with thee.
{5:5} The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers
      of iniquity.
{5:6} Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor
      the bloody and deceitful man.
{5:7} But as for me, I will come [into] thy house in the multitude of
      thy mercy: [and] in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy
      temple.
{5:8} Lead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies;
      make thy way straight before my face.
{5:9} For [there is] no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part
      [is] very wickedness; their throat [is] an open sepulchre; they
      flatter with their tongue.
{5:10} Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels;
      cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they
      have rebelled against thee.
{5:11} 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.
{5:12} For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou
      compass him as [with] a shield.


Psalm 6

To the chief Musician on Neginoth upon Sheminith, A Psalm of David.



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


Psalm 7

Shiggaion of David, which he sang unto the LORD, concerning the words
of Cush the Benjamite.



   {7:1} O Lord my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all
      them that persecute me, and deliver me:
{7:2} Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending [it] in pieces, while
      [there is] none to deliver.
{7:3} O LORD my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my
      hands;
{7:4} If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea,
      I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy:)
{7:5} Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take [it;] yea, let him
      tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the
      dust. Selah.
{7:6} 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.
{7:7} So shall the congregation of the people compass thee about: for
      their sakes therefore return thou on high.
{7:8} The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to
      my righteousness, and according to mine integrity [that is] in me.
{7:9} Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish
      the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.
{7:10} My defence [is] of God, which saveth the upright in heart.
{7:11} God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry [with the wicked]
      every day.
{7:12} If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow,
      and made it ready.
{7:13} He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he
      ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.
{7:14} Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived
      mischief, and brought forth falsehood.
{7:15} He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch
      [which] he made.
{7:16} His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent
      dealing shall come down upon his own pate.
{7:17} I will praise the LORD according to his righteousness: and will
      sing praise to the name of the LORD most high.


Psalm 8

To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of David.



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


Psalm 9

To the chief Musician upon Muthlabben, A Psalm of David.



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


Psalm 10

{10:1} Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? [why] hidest thou [thyself]
      in times of trouble?
{10:2} The wicked in [his] pride doth persecute the poor: let them be
      taken in the devices that they have imagined.
{10:3} For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the
      covetous, [whom] the LORD abhorreth.
{10:4} The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek
      [after God:] God [is] not in all his thoughts.
{10:5} His ways are always grievous; thy judgments [are] far above out
      of his sight: [as for] all his enemies, he puffeth at them.
{10:6} He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for [I shall]
      never [be] in adversity.
{10:7} His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his
      tongue [is] mischief and vanity.
{10:8} He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret
      places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set
      against the poor.
{10:9} 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.
{10:10} He croucheth, [and] humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by
      his strong ones.
{10:11} He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his
      face; he will never see [it.]
{10:12} Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble.
{10:13} Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his
      heart, Thou wilt not require [it.]
{10:14} Thou hast seen [it;] for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to
      requite [it] with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto
      thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.
{10:15} Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil [man:] seek out
      his wickedness [till] thou find none.
{10:16} The LORD [is] King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished
      out of his land.
{10:17} LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt
      prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:
{10:18} To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the
      earth may no more oppress.


Psalm 11

To the chief Musician, A [Psalm] of David.



   {11:1} In the LORD put I my trust: How say ye to my soul, Flee [as]
      a bird to your mountain?
{11:2} 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.
{11:3} If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?
{11:4} The LORD [is] in his holy temple, the LORD'S throne [is] in
      heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.
{11:5} The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that
      loveth violence his soul hateth.
{11:6} Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an
      horrible tempest: [this shall be] the portion of their cup.
{11:7} For the righteous LORD loveth righteousness; his countenance
      doth behold the upright.


Psalm 12

To the chief Musician upon Sheminith, A Psalm of David.



   {12:1} Help, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail
      from among the children of men.
{12:2} They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: [with]
      flattering lips [and] with a double heart do they speak.
{12:3} The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, [and] the tongue
      that speaketh proud things:
{12:4} Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips [are]
      our own: who [is] lord over us?
{12:5} For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy,
      now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set [him] in safety
      [from him that] puffeth at him.
{12:6} The words of the LORD [are] pure words: [as] silver tried in a
      furnace of earth, purified seven times.
{12:7} Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this
      generation for ever.
{12:8} The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.


Psalm 13

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.



   {13:1} How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt
      thou hide thy face from me?
{13:2} How long shall I take counsel in my soul, [having] sorrow in my
      heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?
{13:3} Consider [and] hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I
      sleep the [sleep of] death;
{13:4} Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; [and] those
      that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.
{13:5} But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy
      salvation.
{13:6} I will sing unto the LORD, because he hath dealt bountifully
      with me.


Psalm 14

To the chief Musician, A [Psalm] of David.



   {14:1} The fool hath said in his heart, [There is] no God. They are
      corrupt, they have done abominable works, [there is] none that
      doeth good.
{14:2} The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to
      see if there were any that did understand, [and] seek God.
{14:3} They are all gone aside, they are [all] together become filthy:
      [there is] none that doeth good, no, not one.
{14:4} Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my
      people [as] they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.
{14:5} There were they in great fear: for God [is] in the generation of
      the righteous.
{14:6} Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD [is]
      his refuge.
{14:7} 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

A Psalm of David.



   {15:1} LORD, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in
      thy holy hill?
{15:2} He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and
      speaketh the truth in his heart.
{15:3} [He that] backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his
      neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.
{15:4} In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them
      that fear the LORD. [He that] sweareth to [his own] hurt, and
      changeth not.
{15:5} [He that] putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward
      against the innocent. He that doeth these [things] shall never be
      moved.


Psalm 16

Michtam of David.



   {16:1} Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust.
{16:2} [O my soul,] thou hast said unto the LORD, Thou [art] my Lord:
      my goodness [extendeth] not to thee;
{16:3} [But] to the saints that [are] in the earth, and [to] the
      excellent, in whom [is] all my delight.
{16:4} Their sorrows shall be multiplied [that] hasten [after] another
      [god:] their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take
      up their names into my lips.
{16:5} The LORD [is] the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup:
      thou maintainest my lot.
{16:6} The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant [places;] yea, I have a
      goodly heritage.
{16:7} I will bless the LORD, who hath given me counsel: my reins also
      instruct me in the night seasons.
{16:8} I have set the LORD always before me: because [he is] at my
      right hand, I shall not be moved.
{16:9} Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh
      also shall rest in hope.
{16:10} For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou
      suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
{16:11} Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence [is]
      fulness of joy; at thy right hand [there are] pleasures for
      evermore.


Psalm 17

A Prayer of David.



   {17:1} Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my
      prayer, [that goeth] not out of feigned lips.
{17:2} Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; let thine eyes
      behold the things that are equal.
{17:3} Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited [me] in the
      night; thou hast tried me, [and] shalt find nothing; I am
      purposed [that] my mouth shall not transgress.
{17:4} Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept
      [me from] the paths of the destroyer.
{17:5} Hold up my goings in thy paths, [that] my footsteps slip not.
{17:6} I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, O God: incline
      thine ear unto me, [and hear] my speech.
{17:7} Shew thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou that savest by thy
      right hand them which put their trust [in thee] from those that
      rise up [against them.]
{17:8} Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy
      wings,
{17:9} From the wicked that oppress me, [from] my deadly enemies, [who]
      compass me about.
{17:10} They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak
      proudly.
{17:11} They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their
      eyes bowing down to the earth;
{17:12} Like as a lion [that] is greedy of his prey, and as it were a
      young lion lurking in secret places.
{17:13} Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul
      from the wicked, [which is] thy sword:
{17:14} From men [which are] thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world,
      [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.
{17:15} As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be
      satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.


Psalm 18

To the chief Musician, A [Psalm] of David, the servant of the LORD, who
spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day [that] the LORD
delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of
Saul: And he said,



   {18:1} I will love thee, O LORD, my strength.
{18:2} The LORD [is] my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my
      God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn
      of my salvation, [and] my high tower.
{18:3} I will call upon the LORD, [who is worthy] to be praised: so
      shall I be saved from mine enemies.
{18:4} The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men
      made me afraid.
{18:5} The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death
      prevented me.
{18:6} 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.
{18:7} Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the
      hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.
{18:8} There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his
      mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
{18:9} He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness [was]
      under his feet.
{18:10} And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon
      the wings of the wind.
{18:11} He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him
      [were] dark waters [and] thick clouds of the skies.
{18:12} At the brightness [that was] before him his thick clouds
      passed, hail [stones] and coals of fire.
{18:13} The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave
      his voice; hail [stones] and coals of fire.
{18:14} Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot
      out lightnings, and discomfited them.
{18:15} Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of
      the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of
      the breath of thy nostrils.
{18:16} He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.
{18:17} He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated
      me: for they were too strong for me.
{18:18} They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was
      my stay.
{18:19} He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me,
      because he delighted in me.
{18:20} The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according
      to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
{18:21} For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly
      departed from my God.
{18:22} For all his judgments [were] before me, and I did not put away
      his statutes from me.
{18:23} I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine
      iniquity.
{18:24} Therefore hath the LORD recompensed me according to my
      righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his
      eyesight.
{18:25} With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an
      upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright;
{18:26} With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward
      thou wilt shew thyself froward.
{18:27} For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down
      high looks.
{18:28} For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten
      my darkness.
{18:29} For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I
      leaped over a wall.
{18:30} [As for] God, his way [is] perfect: the word of the LORD is
      tried: he [is] a buckler to all those that trust in him.
{18:31} For who [is] God save the LORD? or who [is] a rock save our God?
{18:32} [It is] God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way
      perfect.
{18:33} He maketh my feet like hinds' [feet,] and setteth me upon my
      high places.
{18:34} He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken
      by mine arms.
{18:35} 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.
{18:36} Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip.
{18:37} I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I
      turn again till they were consumed.
{18:38} I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are
      fallen under my feet.
{18:39} For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle: thou
      hast subdued under me those that rose up against me.
{18:40} Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies; that I might
      destroy them that hate me.
{18:41} They cried, but [there was] none to save [them: even] unto the
      LORD, but he answered them not.
{18:42} Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did
      cast them out as the dirt in the streets.
{18:43} Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; [and]
      thou hast made me the head of the heathen: a people [whom] I have
      not known shall serve me.
{18:44} As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers
      shall submit themselves unto me.
{18:45} The strangers shall fade away, and be afraid out of their close
      places.
{18:46} The LORD liveth; and blessed [be] my rock; and let the God of
      my salvation be exalted.
{18:47} [It is] God that avengeth me, and subdueth the people under me.
{18:48} He delivereth me from mine enemies: yea, thou liftest me up
      above those that rise up against me: thou hast delivered me from
      the violent man.
{18:49} Therefore will I give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the
      heathen, and sing praises unto thy name.
{18:50} Great deliverance giveth he to his king; and sheweth mercy to
      his anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore.


Psalm 19

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.



   {19:1} The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament
      sheweth his handywork.
{19:2} Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth
      knowledge.
{19:3} [There is] no speech nor language, [where] their voice is not
      heard.
{19:4} 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,
{19:5} Which [is] as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, [and]
      rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race.
{19:6} 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.
{19:7} The law of the LORD [is] perfect, converting the soul: the
      testimony of the LORD [is] sure, making wise the simple.
{19:8} The statutes of the LORD [are] right, rejoicing the heart: the
      commandment of the LORD [is] pure, enlightening the eyes.
{19:9} The fear of the LORD [is] clean, enduring for ever: the
      judgments of the LORD [are] true [and] righteous altogether.
{19:10} More to be desired [are they] than gold, yea, than much fine
      gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
{19:11} Moreover by them is thy servant warned: [and] in keeping of
      them [there is] great reward.
{19:12} Who can understand [his] errors? cleanse thou me from secret
      [faults.]
{19:13} 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.
{19:14} Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be
      acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.


Psalm 20

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.



   {20:1} The LORD hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God
      of Jacob defend thee;
{20:2} Send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of
      Zion;
{20:3} Remember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt sacrifice;
      Selah.
{20:4} Grant thee according to thine own heart, and fulfil all thy
      counsel.
{20:5} We will rejoice in thy salvation, and in the name of our God we
      will set up [our] banners: the LORD fulfil all thy petitions.
{20:6} 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.
{20:7} Some [trust] in chariots, and some in horses: but we will
      remember the name of the LORD our God.
{20:8} They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand
      upright.
{20:9} Save, LORD: let the king hear us when we call.


Psalm 21

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.



   {21:1} The king shall joy in thy strength, O LORD; and in thy
      salvation how greatly shall he rejoice!
{21:2} Thou hast given him his heart's desire, and hast not withholden
      the request of his lips. Selah.
{21:3} For thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness: thou
      settest a crown of pure gold on his head.
{21:4} He asked life of thee, [and] thou gavest [it] him, [even] length
      of days for ever and ever.
{21:5} His glory [is] great in thy salvation: honour and majesty hast
      thou laid upon him.
{21:6} For thou hast made him most blessed for ever: thou hast made him
      exceeding glad with thy countenance.
{21:7} For the king trusteth in the LORD, and through the mercy of the
      most High he shall not be moved.
{21:8} Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies: thy right hand
      shall find out those that hate thee.
{21:9} Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger:
      the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall
      devour them.
{21:10} Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed
      from among the children of men.
{21:11} For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a
      mischievous device, [which] they are not able [to perform.]
{21:12} Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, [when] thou
      shalt make ready [thine arrows] upon thy strings against the face
      of them.
{21:13} Be thou exalted, LORD, in thine own strength: [so] will we sing
      and praise thy power.


Psalm 22

To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, A Psalm of David.



   {22:1} My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? [why art thou so]
      far from helping me, [and from] the words of my roaring?
{22:2} O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the
      night season, and am not silent.
{22:3} But thou [art] holy, [O thou] that inhabitest the praises of
      Israel.
{22:4} Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst
      deliver them.
{22:5} They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee,
      and were not confounded.
{22:6} But I [am] a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised
      of the people.
{22:7} All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip,
      they shake the head [saying,]
{22:8} He trusted on the LORD [that] he would deliver him: let him
      deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
{22:9} But thou [art] he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make
      me hope [when I was] upon my mother's breasts.
{22:10} I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou [art] my God from my
      mother's belly.
{22:11} Be not far from me; for trouble [is] near; for [there is] none
      to help.
{22:12} Many bulls have compassed me: strong [bulls] of Bashan have
      beset me round.
{22:13} They gaped upon me [with] their mouths, [as] a ravening and a
      roaring lion.
{22:14} I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint:
      my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
{22:15} My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth
      to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
{22:16} For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have
      inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
{22:17} I may tell all my bones: they look [and] stare upon me.
{22:18} They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.
{22:19} But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee
      to help me.
{22:20} Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of
      the dog.
{22:21} Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the
      horns of the unicorns.
{22:22} I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the
      congregation will I praise thee.
{22:23} Ye that fear the LORD, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob,
      glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel.
{22:24} For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the
      afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he
      cried unto him, he heard.
{22:25} My praise [shall be] of thee in the great congregation: I will
      pay my vows before them that fear him.
{22:26} The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD
      that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.
{22:27} All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the
      LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before
      thee.
{22:28} For the kingdom [is] the LORD'S: and he [is] the governor among
      the nations.
{22:29} 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.
{22:30} A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a
      generation.
{22:31} They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a
      people that shall be born, that he hath done [this.]


Psalm 23

A Psalm of David.



   {23:1} The LORD [is] my shepherd; I shall not want.
{23:2} He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside
      the still waters.
{23:3} He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of
      righteousness for his name's sake.
{23:4} Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I
      will fear no evil: for thou [art] with me; thy rod and thy staff
      they comfort me.
{23:5} Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine
      enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
{23:6} Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my
      life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.


Psalm 24

A Psalm of David.



   {24:1} The earth [is] the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof; the
      world, and they that dwell therein.
{24:2} For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon
      the floods.
{24:3} Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand
      in his holy place?
{24:4} He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted
      up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
{24:5} He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness
      from the God of his salvation.
{24:6} This [is] the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy
      face, O Jacob. Selah.
{24:7} Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye
      everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
{24:8} Who [is] this King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the
      LORD mighty in battle.
{24:9} Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift [them] up, ye
      everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
{24:10} Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he [is] the King
      of glory. Selah.


Psalm 25

A [Psalm] of David.



   {25:1} Unto thee, O LORD, do I lift up my soul.
{25:2} O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine
      enemies triumph over me.
{25:3} Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed: let them be ashamed
      which transgress without cause.
{25:4} Shew me thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths.
{25:5} Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou [art] the God of my
      salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.
{25:6} Remember, O LORD, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses;
      for they [have been] ever of old.
{25:7} Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions:
      according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness' sake, O
      LORD.
{25:8} Good and upright [is] the LORD: therefore will he teach sinners
      in the way.
{25:9} The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach
      his way.
{25:10} All the paths of the LORD [are] mercy and truth unto such as
      keep his covenant and his testimonies.
{25:11} For thy name's sake, O LORD, pardon mine iniquity; for it [is]
      great.
{25:12} What man [is] he that feareth the LORD? him shall he teach in
      the way [that] he shall choose.
{25:13} His soul shall dwell at ease; and his seed shall inherit the
      earth.
{25:14} The secret of the LORD [is] with them that fear him; and he
      will shew them his covenant.
{25:15} Mine eyes [are] ever toward the LORD; for he shall pluck my
      feet out of the net.
{25:16} Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I [am] desolate
      and afflicted.
{25:17} The troubles of my heart are enlarged: [O] bring thou me out of
      my distresses.
{25:18} Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.
{25:19} Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with
      cruel hatred.
{25:20} O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I
      put my trust in thee.
{25:21} Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.
{25:22} Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles.


Psalm 26

A [Psalm] of David.



   {26:1} Judge me, O LORD; for I have walked in mine integrity: I have
      trusted also in the LORD; [therefore] I shall not slide.
{26:2} Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.
{26:3} For thy lovingkindness [is] before mine eyes: and I have walked
      in thy truth.
{26:4} I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with
      dissemblers.
{26:5} I have hated the congregation of evildoers; and will not sit
      with the wicked.
{26:6} I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine
      altar, O LORD:
{26:7} That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of
      all thy wondrous works.
{26:8} LORD, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place
      where thine honour dwelleth.
{26:9} Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men:
{26:10} In whose hands [is] mischief, and their right hand is full of
      bribes.
{26:11} But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity: redeem me, and be
      merciful unto me.
{26:12} My foot standeth in an even place: in the congregations will I
      bless the LORD.


Psalm 27

A [Psalm] of David.



   {27:1} The LORD [is] my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear?
      the LORD [is] the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
{27:2} When the wicked, [even] mine enemies and my foes, came upon me
      to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.
{27:3} Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not
      fear: though war should rise against me, in this [will] I [be]
      confident.
{27:4} 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.
{27:5} 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.
{27:6} 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.
{27:7} Hear, O LORD, [when] I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon
      me, and answer me.
{27:8} [When thou saidst,] Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee,
      Thy face, LORD, will I seek.
{27:9} Hide not thy face [far] from me; put not thy servant away in
      anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me,
      O God of my salvation.
{27:10} When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will
      take me up.
{27:11} Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because
      of mine enemies.
{27:12} Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false
      witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out
      cruelty.
{27:13} [I had fainted,] unless I had believed to see the goodness of
      the LORD in the land of the living.
{27:14} Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen
      thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.


Psalm 28

A [Psalm] of David.



   {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.
{28:2} Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I
      lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
{28:3} Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of
      iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief
      [is] in their hearts.
{28:4} Give them according to their deeds, and according to the
      wickedness of their endeavours: give them after the work of their
      hands; render to them their desert.
{28:5} Because they regard not the works of the LORD, nor the operation
      of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up.
{28:6} Blessed [be] the LORD, because he hath heard the voice of my
      supplications.
{28:7} The LORD [is] my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in
      him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and
      with my song will I praise him.
{28:8} The LORD [is] their strength, and he [is] the saving strength of
      his anointed.
{28:9} Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: feed them also,
      and lift them up for ever.


Psalm 29

A Psalm of David.



   {29:1} Give unto the LORD, O ye mighty, give unto the LORD glory and
      strength.
{29:2} Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name; worship the LORD
      in the beauty of holiness.
{29:3} The voice of the LORD [is] upon the waters: the God of glory
      thundereth: the LORD [is] upon many waters.
{29:4} The voice of the LORD [is] powerful; the voice of the LORD [is]
      full of majesty.
{29:5} The voice of the LORD breaketh the cedars; yea, the LORD
      breaketh the cedars of Lebanon.
{29:6} He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like
      a young unicorn.
{29:7} The voice of the LORD divideth the flames of fire.
{29:8} The voice of the LORD shaketh the wilderness; the LORD shaketh
      the wilderness of Kadesh.
{29:9} The voice of the LORD maketh the hinds to calve, and discovereth
      the forests: and in his temple doth every one speak of [his]
      glory.
{29:10} The LORD sitteth upon the flood; yea, the LORD sitteth King for
      ever.
{29:11} The LORD will give strength unto his people; the LORD will
      bless his people with peace.


Psalm 30

A Psalm [and] Song [at] the dedication of the house of David.



   {30:1} I will extol thee, O LORD; for thou hast lifted me up, and
      hast not made my foes to rejoice over me.
{30:2} O LORD my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me.
{30:3} O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast
      kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
{30:4} Sing unto the LORD, O ye saints of his, and give thanks at the
      remembrance of his holiness.
{30:5} For his anger [endureth but] a moment; in his favour is life:
      weeping may endure for a night, but joy [cometh] in the morning.
{30:6} And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved.
{30:7} LORD, by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand strong:
      thou didst hide thy face, [and] I was troubled.
{30:8} I cried to thee, O LORD; and unto the LORD I made supplication.
{30:9} What profit [is there] in my blood, when I go down to the pit?
      Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?
{30:10} Hear, O LORD, and have mercy upon me: LORD, be thou my helper.
{30:11} Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put
      off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;
{30:12} To the end that [my] glory may sing praise to thee, and not be
      silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks unto thee for ever.


Psalm 31

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.



   {31:1} In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed:
      deliver me in thy righteousness.
{31:2} Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong
      rock, for an house of defence to save me.
{31:3} For thou [art] my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name's
      sake lead me, and guide me.
{31:4} Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for
      thou [art] my strength.
{31:5} Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O
      LORD God of truth.
{31:6} I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the
      LORD.
{31:7} I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast
      considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;
{31:8} And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast
      set my feet in a large room.
{31:9} Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is
      consumed with grief, [yea,] my soul and my belly.
{31:10} For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my
      strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are
      consumed.
{31:11} I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among
      my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see
      me without fled from me.
{31:12} I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken
      vessel.
{31:13} 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.
{31:14} But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou [art] my God.
{31:15} My times [are] in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine
      enemies, and from them that persecute me.
{31:16} Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy
      mercies' sake.
{31:17} 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.
{31:18} Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous
      things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
{31:19} [Oh] how great [is] thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for
      them that fear thee; [which] thou hast wrought for them that
      trust in thee before the sons of men!
{31:20} 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.
{31:21} Blessed [be] the LORD: for he hath shewed me his marvellous
      kindness in a strong city.
{31:22} For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes:
      nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I
      cried unto thee.
{31:23} O love the LORD, all ye his saints: [for] the LORD preserveth
      the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.
{31:24} Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye
      that hope in the LORD.


Psalm 32

A [Psalm] of David, Maschil.



   {32:1} Blessed [is he whose] transgression [is] forgiven, [whose]
      sin [is] covered.
{32:2} Blessed [is] the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity,
      and in whose spirit [there is] no guile.
{32:3} When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all
      the day long.
{32:4} For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is
      turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
{32:5} I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not
      hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and
      thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.
{32:6} For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time
      when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters
      they shall not come nigh unto him.
{32:7} Thou [art] my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble;
      thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.
{32:8} I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt
      go: I will guide thee with mine eye.
{32:9} Be ye not as the horse, [or] as the mule, [which] have no
      understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle,
      lest they come near unto thee.
{32:10} Many sorrows [shall be] to the wicked: but he that trusteth in
      the LORD, mercy shall compass him about.
{32:11} Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for
      joy, all [ye that are] upright in heart.


Psalm 33

{33:1} Rejoice in the LORD, O ye righteous: [for] praise is comely for
      the upright.
{33:2} Praise the LORD with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery [and]
      an instrument of ten strings.
{33:3} Sing unto him a new song; play skilfully with a loud noise.
{33:4} For the word of the LORD [is] right; and all his works [are
      done] in truth.
{33:5} He loveth righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the
      goodness of the LORD.
{33:6} By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host
      of them by the breath of his mouth.
{33:7} He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he
      layeth up the depth in storehouses.
{33:8} Let all the earth fear the LORD: let all the inhabitants of the
      world stand in awe of him.
{33:9} For he spake, and it was [done;] he commanded, and it stood fast.
{33:10} The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he
      maketh the devices of the people of none effect.
{33:11} The counsel of the LORD standeth for ever, the thoughts of his
      heart to all generations.
{33:12} Blessed [is] the nation whose God [is] the LORD: [and] the
      people [whom] he hath chosen for his own inheritance.
{33:13} The LORD looketh from heaven; he beholdeth all the sons of men.
{33:14} From the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the
      inhabitants of the earth.
{33:15} He fashioneth their hearts alike; he considereth all their
      works.
{33:16} There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty
      man is not delivered by much strength.
{33:17} An horse [is] a vain thing for safety: neither shall he deliver
      [any] by his great strength.
{33:18} Behold, the eye of the LORD [is] upon them that fear him, upon
      them that hope in his mercy;
{33:19} To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in
      famine.
{33:20} Our soul waiteth for the LORD: he [is] our help and our shield.
{33:21} For our heart shall rejoice in him, because we have trusted in
      his holy name.
{33:22} Let thy mercy, O LORD, be upon us, according as we hope in thee.


Psalm 34

A [Psalm] of David, when he changed his behaviour before Abimelech; who
drove him away, and he departed.



   {34:1} I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise [shall]
      continually [be] in my mouth.
{34:2} My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear
      [thereof,] and be glad.
{34:3} O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together.
{34:4} I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my
      fears.
{34:5} They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were
      not ashamed.
{34:6} This poor man cried, and the LORD heard [him,] and saved him out
      of all his troubles.
{34:7} The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him,
      and delivereth them.
{34:8} O taste and see that the LORD [is] good: blessed [is] the man
      [that] trusteth in him.
{34:9} O fear the LORD, ye his saints: for [there is] no want to them
      that fear him.
{34:10} The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek
      the LORD shall not want any good [thing.]
{34:11} Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear
      of the LORD.
{34:12} What man [is he that] desireth life, [and] loveth [many] days,
      that he may see good?
{34:13} Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
{34:14} Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.
{34:15} The eyes of the LORD [are] upon the righteous, and his ears
      [are open] unto their cry.
{34:16} The face of the LORD [is] against them that do evil, to cut off
      the remembrance of them from the earth.
{34:17} [The righteous] cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them
      out of all their troubles.
{34:18} The LORD [is] nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and
      saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.
{34:19} Many [are] the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD
      delivereth him out of them all.
{34:20} He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.
{34:21} Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous
      shall be desolate.
{34:22} The LORD redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them
      that trust in him shall be desolate.


Psalm 35

A [Psalm] of David.



   {35:1} Plead [my cause,] O LORD, with them that strive with me:
      fight against them that fight against me.
{35:2} Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help.
{35:3} Draw out also the spear, and stop [the way] against them that
      persecute me: say unto my soul, I [am] thy salvation.
{35:4} Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul:
      let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my
      hurt.
{35:5} Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the
      LORD chase [them.]
{35:6} Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the
      LORD persecute them.
{35:7} For without cause have they hid for me their net [in] a pit,
      [which] without cause they have digged for my soul.
{35:8} Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that
      he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him
      fall.
{35:9} And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall rejoice in his
      salvation.
{35:10} 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?
{35:11} False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge [things]
      that I knew not.
{35:12} They rewarded me evil for good [to] the spoiling of my soul.
{35:13} 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.
{35:14} I behaved myself as though [he had been] my friend [or]
      brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth [for his]
      mother.
{35:15} But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves
      together: [yea,] the abjects gathered themselves together against
      me, and I knew [it] not; they did tear [me,] and ceased not:
{35:16} With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with
      their teeth.
{35:17} Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their
      destructions, my darling from the lions.
{35:18} I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will
      praise thee among much people.
{35:19} Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me:
      [neither] let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.
{35:20} For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters
      against [them that are] quiet in the land.
{35:21} Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, [and] said, Aha,
      aha, our eye hath seen [it.]
{35:22} [This] thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord, be not
      far from me.
{35:23} Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, [even] unto my
      cause, my God and my Lord.
{35:24} Judge me, O LORD my God, according to thy righteousness; and
      let them not rejoice over me.
{35:25} Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let
      them not say, We have swallowed him up.
{35:26} Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that
      rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and
      dishonour that magnify [themselves] against me.
{35:27} 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.
{35:28} And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness [and] of thy
      praise all the day long.


Psalm 36

To the chief Musician, A [Psalm] of David, the servant of the LORD.



   {36:1} The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, [that
      there is] no fear of God before his eyes.
{36:2} For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be
      found to be hateful.
{36:3} The words of his mouth [are] iniquity and deceit: he hath left
      off to be wise, [and] to do good.
{36:4} He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way
      [that is] not good; he abhorreth not evil.
{36:5} Thy mercy, O LORD, [is] in the heavens; [and] thy faithfulness
      [reacheth] unto the clouds.
{36:6} Thy righteousness [is] like the great mountains; thy judgments
      [are] a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.
{36:7} How excellent [is] thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the
      children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.
{36:8} They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy
      house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy
      pleasures.
{36:9} For with thee [is] the fountain of life: in thy light shall we
      see light.
{36:10} O continue thy lovingkindness unto them that know thee; and thy
      righteousness to the upright in heart.
{36:11} Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand
      of the wicked remove me.
{36:12} There are the workers of iniquity fallen: they are cast down,
      and shall not be able to rise.


Psalm 37

A [Psalm] of David.



   {37:1} Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou
      envious against the workers of iniquity.
{37:2} For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as
      the green herb.
{37:3} Trust in the LORD, and do good; [so] shalt thou dwell in the
      land, and verily thou shalt be fed.
{37:4} Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the
      desires of thine heart.
{37:5} Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall
      bring [it] to pass.
{37:6} And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy
      judgment as the noonday.
{37:7} Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself
      because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who
      bringeth wicked devices to pass.
{37:8} Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any
      wise to do evil.
{37:9} For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the
      LORD, they shall inherit the earth.
{37:10} For yet a little while, and the wicked [shall] not [be:] yea,
      thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it [shall] not [be.]
{37:11} But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight
      themselves in the abundance of peace.
{37:12} The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him
      with his teeth.
{37:13} The Lord shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is
      coming.
{37:14} 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.
{37:15} Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows
      shall be broken.
{37:16} A little that a righteous man hath [is] better than the riches
      of many wicked.
{37:17} For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the LORD
      upholdeth the righteous.
{37:18} The LORD knoweth the days of the upright: and their inheritance
      shall be for ever.
{37:19} They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of
      famine they shall be satisfied.
{37:20} But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD [shall
      be] as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall
      they consume away.
{37:21} The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous
      sheweth mercy, and giveth.
{37:22} For [such as be] blessed of him shall inherit the earth; and
      [they that be] cursed of him shall be cut off.
{37:23} The steps of a [good] man are ordered by the LORD: and he
      delighteth in his way.
{37:24} Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD
      upholdeth [him with] his hand.
{37:25} I have been young, and [now] am old; yet have I not seen the
      righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
{37:26} [He is] ever merciful, and lendeth; and his seed [is] blessed.
{37:27} Depart from evil, and do good; and dwell for evermore.
{37:28} 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.
{37:29} The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein for
      ever.
{37:30} The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue
      talketh of judgment.
{37:31} The law of his God [is] in his heart; none of his steps shall
      slide.
{37:32} The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.
{37:33} The LORD will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when
      he is judged.
{37:34} 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.]
{37:35} I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself
      like a green bay tree.
{37:36} Yet he passed away, and, lo, he [was] not: yea, I sought him,
      but he could not be found.
{37:37} Mark the perfect [man,] and behold the upright: for the end of
      [that] man [is] peace.
{37:38} But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of
      the wicked shall be cut off.
{37:39} But the salvation of the righteous [is] of the LORD: [he is]
      their strength in the time of trouble.
{37:40} And the LORD shall help them and deliver them: he shall deliver
      them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him.


Psalm 38

A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance.



   {38:1} O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy
      hot displeasure.
{38:2} For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.
{38:3} [There is] no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger;
      neither [is there any] rest in my bones because of my sin.
{38:4} For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden
      they are too heavy for me.
{38:5} My wounds stink [and] are corrupt because of my foolishness.
{38:6} I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the
      day long.
{38:7} For my loins are filled with a loathsome [disease:] and [there
      is] no soundness in my flesh.
{38:8} I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the
      disquietness of my heart.
{38:9} Lord, all my desire [is] before thee; and my groaning is not hid
      from thee.
{38:10} My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of
      mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
{38:11} My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my
      kinsmen stand afar off.
{38:12} They also that seek after my life lay snares [for me:] and they
      that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits
      all the day long.
{38:13} But I, as a deaf [man,] heard not; and [I was] as a dumb man
      [that] openeth not his mouth.
{38:14} Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth [are]
      no reproofs.
{38:15} For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.
{38:16} For I said, [Hear me,] lest [otherwise] they should rejoice
      over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify [themselves] against
      me.
{38:17} For I [am] ready to halt, and my sorrow [is] continually before
      me.
{38:18} For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.
{38:19} But mine enemies [are] lively, [and] they are strong: and they
      that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
{38:20} They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries;
      because I follow [the thing that] good [is.]
{38:21} Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me.
{38:22} Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.


Psalm 39

To the chief Musician, [even] to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David.



   {39:1} I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my
      tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is
      before me.
{39:2} I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, [even] from good; and
      my sorrow was stirred.
{39:3} My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned:
      [then] spake I with my tongue,
{39:4} LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what
      it [is; that] I may know how frail I [am.]
{39:5} Behold, thou hast made my days [as] an handbreadth; and mine age
      [is] as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state
      [is] altogether vanity. Selah.
{39:6} Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are
      disquieted in vain: he heapeth up [riches,] and knoweth not who
      shall gather them.
{39:7} And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope [is] in thee.
{39:8} Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach
      of the foolish.
{39:9} I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst [it.]
{39:10} Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of
      thine hand.
{39:11} 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.
{39:12} Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy
      peace at my tears: for I [am] a stranger with thee, [and] a
      sojourner, as all my fathers [were.]
{39:13} O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and
      be no more.


Psalm 40

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.



   {40:1} I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and
      heard my cry.
{40:2} He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry
      clay, and set my feet upon a rock, [and] established my goings.
{40:3} And he hath put a new song in my mouth, [even] praise unto our
      God: many shall see [it,] and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.
{40:4} Blessed [is] that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and
      respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
{40:5} Many, O LORD my God, [are] thy wonderful works [which] thou hast
      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.
{40:6} Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast
      thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not
      required.
{40:7} Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book [it is]
      written of me,
{40:8} I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law [is] within my
      heart.
{40:9} I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I
      have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.
{40:10} I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have
      declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed
      thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation.
{40:11} Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy
      lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.
{40:12} For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine 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.
{40:13} Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help
      me.
{40:14} 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.
{40:15} Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto
      me, Aha, aha.
{40:16} Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let
      such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.
{40:17} But I [am] poor and needy; [yet] the Lord thinketh upon me:
      thou [art] my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.


Psalm 41

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.



   {41:1} Blessed [is] he that considereth the poor: the LORD will
      deliver him in time of trouble.
{41:2} 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.
{41:3} The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou
      wilt make all his bed in his sickness.
{41:4} I said, LORD, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have
      sinned against thee.
{41:5} Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name
      perish?
{41:6} And if he come to see [me,] he speaketh vanity: his heart
      gathereth iniquity to itself; [when] he goeth abroad, he telleth
      [it.]
{41:7} All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they
      devise my hurt.
{41:8} An evil disease, [say they,] cleaveth fast unto him: and [now]
      that he lieth he shall rise up no more.
{41:9} Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat
      of my bread, hath lifted up [his] heel against me.
{41:10} But thou, O LORD, be merciful unto me, and raise me up, that I
      may requite them.
{41:11} By this I know that thou favourest me, because mine enemy doth
      not triumph over me.
{41:12} And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, and settest
      me before thy face for ever.
{41:13} Blessed [be] the LORD God of Israel from everlasting, and to
      everlasting. Amen, and Amen.

Book II

Psalm 42

To the chief Musician, Maschil, for the sons of Korah.



   {42:1} As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my
      soul after thee, O God.
{42:2} My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come
      and appear before God?
{42:3} My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually
      say unto me, Where [is] thy God?
{42:4} When I remember these [things,] I pour out my soul in me: for I
      had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of
      God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept
      holyday.
{42:5} Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why [art] thou disquieted
      in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him [for] the
      help of his countenance.
{42:6} 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.
{42:7} Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy
      waves and thy billows are gone over me.
{42:8} [Yet] the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime,
      and in the night his song [shall be] with me, [and] my prayer
      unto the God of my life.
{42:9} I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go
      I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
{42:10} [As] with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while
      they say daily unto me, Where [is] thy God?
{42:11} Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted
      within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, [who is]
      the health of my countenance, and my God.


Psalm 43

{43:1} Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O
      deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
{43:2} For thou [art] the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me
      off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
{43:3} O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them
      bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.
{43:4} Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy:
      yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God.
{43:5} Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted
      within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, [who is] the
      health of my countenance, and my God.


Psalm 44

To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil.



   {44:1} We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us,
      [what] work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.
{44:2} [How] thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and
      plantedst them; [how] thou didst afflict the people, and cast
      them out.
{44:3} 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.
{44:4} Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.
{44:5} Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name
      will we tread them under that rise up against us.
{44:6} For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.
{44:7} But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to
      shame that hated us.
{44:8} In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever.
      Selah.
{44:9} But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth
      with our armies.
{44:10} Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate
      us spoil for themselves.
{44:11} Thou hast given us like sheep [appointed] for meat; and hast
      scattered us among the heathen.
{44:12} Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase [thy
      wealth] by their price.
{44:13} Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a
      derision to them that are round about us.
{44:14} Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the
      head among the people.
{44:15} My confusion [is] continually before me, and the shame of my
      face hath covered me,
{44:16} For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by
      reason of the enemy and avenger.
{44:17} All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee,
      neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.
{44:18} Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined
      from thy way;
{44:19} Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and
      covered us with the shadow of death.
{44:20} If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our
      hands to a strange god;
{44:21} Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of
      the heart.
{44:22} Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are
      counted as sheep for the slaughter.
{44:23} Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast [us] not off for
      ever.
{44:24} Wherefore hidest thou thy face, [and] forgettest our affliction
      and our oppression?
{44:25} For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto
      the earth.
{44:26} Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake.


Psalm 45

To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, for the sons of Korah, Maschil,
A Song of loves.



   {45:1} My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things
      which I have made touching the king: my tongue [is] the pen of a
      ready writer.
{45:2} Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into
      thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.
{45:3} Gird thy sword upon [thy] thigh, O [most] mighty, with thy glory
      and thy majesty.
{45:4} And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and
      meekness [and] righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee
      terrible things.
{45:5} Thine arrows [are] sharp in the heart of the king's enemies;
      [whereby] the people fall under thee.
{45:6} Thy throne, O God, [is] for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy
      kingdom [is] a right sceptre.
{45:7} Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God,
      thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy
      fellows.
{45:8} All thy garments [smell] of myrrh, and aloes, [and] cassia, out
      of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.
{45:9} Kings' daughters [were] among thy honourable women: upon thy
      right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.
{45:10} Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear;
      forget also thine own people, and thy father's house;
{45:11} So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he [is] thy
      Lord; and worship thou him.
{45:12} And the daughter of Tyre [shall be there] with a gift; [even]
      the rich among the people shall intreat thy favour.
{45:13} The king's daughter [is] all glorious within: her clothing [is]
      of wrought gold.
{45:14} She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework:
      the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto
      thee.
{45:15} With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall
      enter into the king's palace.
{45:16} Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest
      make princes in all the earth.
{45:17} I will make thy name to be remembered in all generations:
      therefore shall the people praise thee for ever and ever.


Psalm 46

To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, A Song upon Alamoth.



   {46:1} God [is] our refuge and strength, a very present help in
      trouble.
{46:2} Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and
      though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;
{46:3} [Though] the waters thereof roar [and] be troubled, [though] the
      mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.
{46:4} [There is] a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city
      of God, the holy [place] of the tabernacles of the most High.
{46:5} God [is] in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall
      help her, [and that] right early.
{46:6} The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his
      voice, the earth melted.
{46:7} The LORD of hosts [is] with us; the God of Jacob [is] our
      refuge. Selah.
{46:8} Come, behold the works of the LORD, what desolations he hath
      made in the earth.
{46:9} He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh
      the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot
      in the fire.
{46:10} Be still, and know that I [am] God: I will be exalted among the
      heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
{46:11} The LORD of hosts [is] with us; the God of Jacob [is] our
      refuge. Selah.


Psalm 47

To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.



   {47:1} O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the
      voice of triumph.
{47:2} For the LORD most high [is] terrible; [he is] a great King over
      all the earth.
{47:3} He shall subdue the people under us, and the nations under our
      feet.
{47:4} He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob
      whom he loved. Selah.
{47:5} God is gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a
      trumpet.
{47:6} Sing praises to God, sing praises: sing praises unto our King,
      sing praises.
{47:7} For God [is] the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with
      understanding.
{47:8} God reigneth over the heathen: God sitteth upon the throne of
      his holiness.
{47:9} 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

A Song [and] Psalm for the sons of Korah.



   {48:1} Great [is] the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of
      our God, [in] the mountain of his holiness.
{48:2} Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, [is] mount
      Zion, [on] the sides of the north, the city of the great King.
{48:3} God is known in her palaces for a refuge.
{48:4} For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together.
{48:5} They saw [it, and] so they marvelled; they were troubled, [and]
      hasted away.
{48:6} Fear took hold upon them there, [and] pain, as of a woman in
      travail.
{48:7} Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.
{48:8} As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of
      hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever.
      Selah.
{48:9} We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of
      thy temple.
{48:10} According to thy name, O God, so [is] thy praise unto the ends
      of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness.
{48:11} Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad,
      because of thy judgments.
{48:12} Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers
      thereof.
{48:13} Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may
      tell [it] to the generation following.
{48:14} For this God [is] our God for ever and ever: he will be our
      guide [even] unto death.


Psalm 49

To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.



   {49:1} Hear this, all [ye] people; give ear, all [ye] inhabitants of
      the world:
{49:2} Both low and high, rich and poor, together.
{49:3} My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart
      [shall be] of understanding.
{49:4} I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying
      upon the harp.
{49:5} Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, [when] the iniquity
      of my heels shall compass me about?
{49:6} They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the
      multitude of their riches;
{49:7} None [of them] can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to
      God a ransom for him:
{49:8} (For the redemption of their soul [is] precious, and it ceaseth
      for ever:)
{49:9} That he should still live for ever, [and] not see corruption.
{49:10} For he seeth [that] wise men die, likewise the fool and the
      brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.
{49:11} Their inward thought [is, that] their houses [shall continue]
      for ever, [and] their dwelling places to all generations; they
      call [their] lands after their own names.
{49:12} Nevertheless man [being] in honour abideth not: he is like the
      beasts [that] perish.
{49:13} This their way [is] their folly: yet their posterity approve
      their sayings. Selah.
{49:14} 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.
{49:15} But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he
      shall receive me. Selah.
{49:16} Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his
      house is increased;
{49:17} For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall
      not descend after him.
{49:18} Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and [men] will
      praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself.
{49:19} He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never
      see light.
{49:20} Man [that is] in honour, and understandeth not, is like the
      beasts [that] perish.


Psalm 50

A Psalm of Asaph.



   {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.
{50:2} Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.
{50:3} Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall
      devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about
      him.
{50:4} He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that
      he may judge his people.
{50:5} Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a
      covenant with me by sacrifice.
{50:6} And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God [is]
      judge himself. Selah.
{50:7} Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will
      testify against thee: I [am] God, [even] thy God.
{50:8} I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt
      offerings, [to have been] continually before me.
{50:9} I will take no bullock out of thy house, [nor] he goats out of
      thy folds.
{50:10} For every beast of the forest [is] mine, [and] the cattle upon
      a thousand hills.
{50:11} I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of
      the field [are] mine.
{50:12} If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world [is]
      mine, and the fulness thereof.
{50:13} Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
{50:14} Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most
      High:
{50:15} And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee,
      and thou shalt glorify me.
{50:16} But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare
      my statutes, or [that] thou shouldest take my covenant in thy
      mouth?
{50:17} Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind
      thee.
{50:18} When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and
      hast been partaker with adulterers.
{50:19} Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
{50:20} Thou sittest [and] speakest against thy brother; thou
      slanderest thine own mother's son.
{50:21} These [things] hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou
      thoughtest that I was altogether [such an one] as thyself: [but]
      I will reprove thee, and set [them] in order before thine eyes.
{50:22} Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear [you] in
      pieces, and [there be] none to deliver.
{50:23} Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth
      [his] conversation [aright] will I shew the salvation of God.


Psalm 51

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came
unto him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.



   {51:1} Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness:
      according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my
      transgressions.
{51:2} Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
{51:3} For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin [is] ever before
      me.
{51:4} 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.
{51:5} Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother
      conceive me.
{51:6} Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the
      hidden [part] thou shalt make me to know wisdom.
{51:7} Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall
      be whiter than snow.
{51:8} Make me to hear joy and gladness; [that] the bones [which] thou
      hast broken may rejoice.
{51:9} Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.
{51:10} Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit
      within me.
{51:11} Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy
      spirit from me.
{51:12} Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me [with
      thy] free spirit.
{51:13} [Then] will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall
      be converted unto thee.
{51:14} Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my
      salvation: [and] my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.
{51:15} O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy
      praise.
{51:16} For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give [it:] thou
      delightest not in burnt offering.
{51:17} The sacrifices of God [are] a broken spirit: a broken and a
      contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
{51:18} Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of
      Jerusalem.
{51:19} 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.


Psalm 52

To the chief Musician, Maschil, A [Psalm] of David, when Doeg the
Edomite came and told Saul, and said unto him, David is come to the
house of Ahimelech.



   {52:1} Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the
      goodness of God [endureth ]continually.
{52:2} Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp rasor, working
      deceitfully.
{52:3} Thou lovest evil more than good; [and] lying rather than to
      speak righteousness. Selah.
{52:4} Thou lovest all devouring words, O [thou] deceitful tongue.
{52:5} 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.
{52:6} The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him:
{52:7} Lo, [this is] the man [that] made not God his strength; but
      trusted in the abundance of his riches, [and] strengthened
      himself in his wickedness.
{52:8} But I [am] like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust
      in the mercy of God for ever and ever.
{52:9} I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done [it:] and I
      will wait on thy name; for [it is] good before thy saints.


Psalm 53

To the chief Musician upon Mahalath, Maschil, A [Psalm] of David.



   {53:1} The fool hath said in his heart, [There is] no God. Corrupt
      are they, and have done abominable iniquity: [there is] none that
      doeth good.
{53:2} God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if
      there were [any] that did understand, that did seek God.
{53:3} Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become
      filthy; [there is] none that doeth good, no, not one.
{53:4} Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people
      [as] they eat bread: they have not called upon God.
{53:5} 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.
{53:6} 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

To the chief Musician on Neginoth, Maschil, A [Psalm] of David, when
the Ziphims came and said to Saul, Doth not David hide himself with us?



   {54:1} Save me, O God, by thy name, and judge me by thy strength.
{54:2} Hear my prayer, O God; give ear to the words of my mouth.
{54:3} For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after
      my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.
{54:4} Behold, God [is] mine helper: the Lord [is] with them that
      uphold my soul.
{54:5} He shall reward evil unto mine enemies: cut them off in thy
      truth.
{54:6} I will freely sacrifice unto thee: I will praise thy name, O
      LORD; for [it is] good.
{54:7} For he hath delivered me out of all trouble: and mine eye hath
      seen [his desire] upon mine enemies.


Psalm 55

To the chief Musician on Neginoth, Maschil, A [Psalm] of David.



   {55:1} Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my
      supplication.
{55:2} Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a
      noise;
{55:3} 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.
{55:4} My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are
      fallen upon me.
{55:5} Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath
      overwhelmed me.
{55:6} And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! [for then] would I
      fly away, and be at rest.
{55:7} Lo, [then] would I wander far off, [and] remain in the
      wilderness. Selah.
{55:8} I would hasten my escape from the windy storm [and] tempest.
{55:9} Destroy, O Lord, [and] divide their tongues: for I have seen
      violence and strife in the city.
{55:10} Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief
      also and sorrow [are] in the midst of it.
{55:11} Wickedness [is] in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart
      not from her streets.
{55:12} For [it was] not an enemy [that] reproached me; then I could
      have borne [it:] neither [was it] he that hated me [that] did
      magnify [himself] against me; then I would have hid myself from
      him:
{55:13} But [it was] thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine
      acquaintance.
{55:14} We took sweet counsel together, [and] walked unto the house of
      God in company.
{55:15} Let death seize upon them, [and] let them go down quick into
      hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, [and] among them.
{55:16} As for me, I will call upon God; and the LORD shall save me.
{55:17} Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud:
      and he shall hear my voice.
{55:18} He hath delivered my soul in peace from the battle [that was]
      against me: for there were many with me.
{55:19} God shall hear, and afflict them, even he that abideth of old.
      Selah. Because they have no changes, therefore they fear not God.
{55:20} He hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with
      him: he hath broken his covenant.
{55:21} [The words] of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war
      [was] in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet [were]
      they drawn swords.
{55:22} Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he
      shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.
{55:23} But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of
      destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half
      their days; but I will trust in thee.


Psalm 56

To the chief Musician upon Jonathelemrechokim, Michtam of David, when
the Philistines took him in Gath.



   {56:1} Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he
      fighting daily oppresseth me.
{56:2} Mine enemies would daily swallow [me] up: for [they be] many
      that fight against me, O thou most High.
{56:3} What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.
{56:4} In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I
      will not fear what flesh can do unto me.
{56:5} Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts [are] against
      me for evil.
{56:6} They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark
      my steps, when they wait for my soul.
{56:7} Shall they escape by iniquity? in [thine] anger cast down the
      people, O God.
{56:8} Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle:
      [are they] not in thy book?
{56:9} When I cry [unto thee,] then shall mine enemies turn back: this
      I know; for God [is] for me.
{56:10} In God will I praise [his] word: in the LORD will I praise
      [his] word.
{56:11} In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can
      do unto me.
{56:12} Thy vows [are] upon me, O God: I will render praises unto thee.
{56:13} 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

To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David, when he fled from
Saul in the cave.



   {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.
{57:2} I will cry unto God most high; unto God that performeth [all
      things] for me.
{57:3} He shall send from heaven, and save [from] the reproach of him
      that would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth his mercy
      and his truth.
{57:4} 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.
{57:5} Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; [let] thy glory [be]
      above all the earth.
{57:6} They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down:
      they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are
      fallen [themselves.] Selah.
{57:7} My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and
      give praise.
{57:8} Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I [myself] will
      awake early.
{57:9} I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people: I will sing unto
      thee among the nations.
{57:10} For thy mercy is great unto the heavens, and thy truth unto the
      clouds.
{57:11} Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: [let] thy glory [be]
      above all the earth.


Psalm 58

To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David.



   {58:1} Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge
      uprightly, O ye sons of men?
{58:2} Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your
      hands in the earth.
{58:3} The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon
      as they be born, speaking lies.
{58:4} Their poison [is] like the poison of a serpent: [they are] like
      the deaf adder [that] stoppeth her ear;
{58:5} Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never
      so wisely.
{58:6} Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great
      teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
{58:7} Let them melt away as waters [which] run continually: [when] he
      bendeth [his bow to shoot] his arrows, let them be as cut in
      pieces.
{58:8} 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.
{58:9} Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as
      with a whirlwind, both living, and in [his] wrath.
{58:10} The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he
      shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
{58:11} So that a man shall say, Verily [there is] a reward for the
      righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.


Psalm 59

To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David; when Saul sent,
and they watched the house to kill him.



   {59:1} Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God: defend me from them
      that rise up against me.
{59:2} Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody
      men.
{59:3} 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.
{59:4} They run and prepare themselves without [my] fault: awake to
      help me, and behold.
{59:5} Thou therefore, O LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to
      visit all the heathen: be not merciful to any wicked
      transgressors. Selah.
{59:6} They return at evening: they make a noise like a dog, and go
      round about the city.
{59:7} Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords [are] in their
      lips: for who, [say they,] doth hear?
{59:8} But thou, O LORD, shalt laugh at them; thou shalt have all the
      heathen in derision.
{59:9} [Because of] his strength will I wait upon thee: for God [is] my
      defence.
{59:10} The God of my mercy shall prevent me: God shall let me see [my
      desire] upon mine enemies.
{59:11} Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by thy
      power; and bring them down, O Lord our shield.
{59:12} [For] the sin of their mouth [and] the words of their lips let
      them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying
      [which] they speak.
{59:13} 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.
{59:14} And at evening let them return; [and] let them make a noise
      like a dog, and go round about the city.
{59:15} Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not
      satisfied.
{59:16} 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.
{59:17} Unto thee, O my strength, will I sing: for God [is] my defence,
      [and] the God of my mercy.


Psalm 60

To the chief Musician upon Shushan-eduth, Michtam of David, to teach;
when he strove with Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah, when Joab
returned, and smote of Edom in the valley of salt twelve thousand.



   {60:1} O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou
      hast been displeased; O turn thyself to us again.
{60:2} Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heal
      the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.
{60:3} Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to
      drink the wine of astonishment.
{60:4} Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that it may be
      displayed because of the truth. Selah.
{60:5} That thy beloved may be delivered; save [with] thy right hand,
      and hear me.
{60:6} God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide
      Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.
{60:7} Gilead [is] mine, and Manasseh [is] mine; Ephraim also [is] the
      strength of mine head; Judah [is] my lawgiver;
{60:8} Moab [is] my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe:
      Philistia, triumph thou because of me.
{60:9} Who will bring me [into] the strong city? who will lead me into
      Edom?
{60:10} [Wilt] not thou, O God, [which] hadst cast us off? and [thou,]
      O God, [which] didst not go out with our armies?
{60:11} Give us help from trouble: for vain [is] the help of man.
{60:12} Through God we shall do valiantly: for he [it is that] shall
      tread down our enemies.


Psalm 61

To the chief Musician upon Neginah, A [Psalm] of David.



   {61:1} Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer.
{61:2} From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is
      overwhelmed: lead me to the rock [that] is higher than I.
{61:3} For thou hast been a shelter for me, [and] a strong tower from
      the enemy.
{61:4} I will abide in thy tabernacle for ever: I will trust in the
      covert of thy wings. Selah.
{61:5} For thou, O God, hast heard my vows: thou hast given [me] the
      heritage of those that fear thy name.
{61:6} Thou wilt prolong the king's life: [and] his years as many
      generations.
{61:7} He shall abide before God for ever: O prepare mercy and truth,
      [which] may preserve him.
{61:8} So will I sing praise unto thy name for ever, that I may daily
      perform my vows.


Psalm 62

To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David.



   {62:1} Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him [cometh] my
      salvation.
{62:2} He only [is] my rock and my salvation; [he is] my defence; I
      shall not be greatly moved.
{62:3} 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.
{62:4} They only consult to cast [him] down from his excellency: they
      delight in lies: they bless with their mouth, but they curse
      inwardly. Selah.
{62:5} My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation [is] from
      him.
{62:6} He only [is] my rock and my salvation: [he is] my defence; I
      shall not be moved.
{62:7} In God [is] my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength,
      [and] my refuge, [is] in God.
{62:8} Trust in him at all times; [ye] people, pour out your heart
      before him: God [is] a refuge for us. Selah.
{62:9} Surely men of low degree [are] vanity, [and] men of high degree
      [are] a lie: to be laid in the balance, they [are] altogether
      [lighter] than vanity.
{62:10} Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if
      riches increase, set not your heart [upon them.]
{62:11} God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power
      [belongeth] unto God.
{62:12} Also unto thee, O Lord, [belongeth] mercy: for thou renderest
      to every man according to his work.


Psalm 63

A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah.



   {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;
{63:2} To see thy power and thy glory, so [as] I have seen thee in the
      sanctuary.
{63:3} Because thy lovingkindness [is] better than life, my lips shall
      praise thee.
{63:4} Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in
      thy name.
{63:5} My soul shall be satisfied as [with] marrow and fatness; and my
      mouth shall praise [thee] with joyful lips:
{63:6} When I remember thee upon my bed, [and] meditate on thee in the
      [night] watches.
{63:7} Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy
      wings will I rejoice.
{63:8} My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me.
{63:9} But those [that] seek my soul, to destroy [it,] shall go into
      the lower parts of the earth.
{63:10} They shall fall by the sword: they shall be a portion for foxes.
{63:11} 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

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.



   {64:1} Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from
      fear of the enemy.
{64:2} Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the
      insurrection of the workers of iniquity:
{64:3} Who whet their tongue like a sword, [and] bend [their bows to
      shoot] their arrows, [even] bitter words:
{64:4} That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they
      shoot at him, and fear not.
{64:5} They encourage themselves [in] an evil matter: they commune of
      laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?
{64:6} They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search:
      both the inward [thought] of every one [of them,] and the heart,
      [is] deep.
{64:7} But God shall shoot at them [with] an arrow; suddenly shall they
      be wounded.
{64:8} So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all
      that see them shall flee away.
{64:9} And all men shall fear, and shall declare the work of God; for
      they shall wisely consider of his doing.
{64:10} The righteous shall be glad in the LORD, and shall trust in
      him; and all the upright in heart shall glory.


Psalm 65

To the chief Musician, A Psalm [and] Song of David.



   {65:1} Praise waiteth for thee, O God, in Sion: and unto thee shall
      the vow be performed.
{65:2} O thou that hearest prayer, unto thee shall all flesh come.
{65:3} Iniquities prevail against me: [as for] our transgressions, thou
      shalt purge them away.
{65:4} Blessed [is the man whom] thou choosest, and causest to 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.
{65:5} 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:
{65:6} Which by his strength setteth fast the mountains; [being] girded
      with power:
{65:7} Which stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves,
      and the tumult of the people.
{65:8} They also that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid at thy
      tokens: thou makest the outgoings of the morning and evening to
      rejoice.
{65:9} 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.
{65:10} Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: thou settlest the
      furrows thereof: thou makest it soft with showers: thou blessest
      the springing thereof.
{65:11} Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop
      fatness.
{65:12} They drop [upon] the pastures of the wilderness: and the little
      hills rejoice on every side.
{65:13} The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are
      covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.


Psalm 66

To the chief Musician, A Song [or] Psalm.



   {66:1} Make a joyful noise unto God, all ye lands:
{66:2} Sing forth the honour of his name: make his praise glorious.
{66:3} Say unto God, How terrible [art thou in] thy works! through the
      greatness of thy power shall thine enemies submit themselves unto
      thee.
{66:4} All the earth shall worship thee, and shall sing unto thee; they
      shall sing [to] thy name. Selah.
{66:5} Come and see the works of God: [he is] terrible [in his] doing
      toward the children of men.
{66:6} He turned the sea into dry [land:] they went through the flood
      on foot: there did we rejoice in him.
{66:7} He ruleth by his power for ever; his eyes behold the nations:
      let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah.
{66:8} O bless our God, ye people, and make the voice of his praise to
      be heard:
{66:9} Which holdeth our soul in life, and suffereth not our feet to be
      moved.
{66:10} For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver
      is tried.
{66:11} Thou broughtest us into the net; thou laidst affliction upon
      our loins.
{66:12} 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.]
{66:13} I will go into thy house with burnt offerings: I will pay thee
      my vows,
{66:14} Which my lips have uttered, and my mouth hath spoken, when I
      was in trouble.
{66:15} I will offer unto thee burnt sacrifices of fatlings, with the
      incense of rams; I will offer bullocks with goats. Selah.
{66:16} Come [and] hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what
      he hath done for my soul.
{66:17} I cried unto him with my mouth, and he was extolled with my
      tongue.
{66:18} If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear [me:]
{66:19} [But] verily God hath heard [me;] he hath attended to the voice
      of my prayer.
{66:20} Blessed [be] God, which hath not turned away my prayer, nor his
      mercy from me.


Psalm 67

To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm [or] Song.



   {67:1} God be merciful unto us, and bless us; [and] cause his face
      to shine upon us; Selah.
{67:2} That thy way may be known upon earth, thy saving health among
      all nations.
{67:3} Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise
      thee.
{67:4} O let the nations be glad and sing for joy: for thou shalt judge
      the people righteously, and govern the nations upon earth. Selah.
{67:5} Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise
      thee.
{67:6} [Then] shall the earth yield her increase; [and] God, [even] our
      own God, shall bless us.
{67:7} God shall bless us; and all the ends of the earth shall fear him.


Psalm 68

To the chief Musician, A Psalm [or] Song of David.



   {68:1} Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also
      that hate him flee before him.
{68:2} As smoke is driven away, [so] drive [them] away: as wax melteth
      before the fire, [so] let the wicked perish at the presence of
      God.
{68:3} But let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before God: yea,
      let them exceedingly rejoice.
{68:4} Sing unto God, sing praises to his name: extol him that rideth
      upon the heavens by his name JAH, and rejoice before him.
{68:5} A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, [is] God
      in his holy habitation.
{68:6} God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those
      which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry
      [land.]
{68:7} O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, when thou
      didst march through the wilderness; Selah:
{68:8} The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence of
      God: [even] Sinai itself [was moved] at the presence of God, the
      God of Israel.
{68:9} Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, whereby thou didst
      confirm thine inheritance, when it was weary.
{68:10} Thy congregation hath dwelt therein: thou, O God, hast prepared
      of thy goodness for the poor.
{68:11} The Lord gave the word: great [was] the company of those that
      published [it.]
{68:12} Kings of armies did flee apace: and she that tarried at home
      divided the spoil.
{68:13} Though ye have lien among the pots, [yet shall ye be as] the
      wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow
      gold.
{68:14} When the Almighty scattered kings in it, it was [white] as snow
      in Salmon.
{68:15} The hill of God [is as] the hill of Bashan; an high hill [as]
      the hill of Bashan.
{68:16} Why leap ye, ye high hills? [this is] the hill [which] God
      desireth to dwell in; yea, the LORD will dwell [in it] for ever.
{68:17} The chariots of God [are] twenty thousand, [even] thousands of
      angels: the Lord [is] among them, [as in] Sinai, in the holy
      [place.]
{68:18} Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive:
      thou hast received gifts for men; yea, [for] the rebellious also,
      that the LORD God might dwell [among them.]
{68:19} Blessed [be] the Lord, [who] daily loadeth us [with benefits,
      even] the God of our salvation. Selah.
{68:20} [He that is] our God [is] the God of salvation; and unto God
      the Lord [belong] the issues from death.
{68:21} But God shall wound the head of his enemies, [and] the hairy
      scalp of such an one as goeth on still in his trespasses.
{68:22} The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring [my
      people] again from the depths of the sea:
{68:23} That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of [thine] enemies,
      [and] the tongue of thy dogs in the same.
{68:24} They have seen thy goings, O God; [even] the goings of my God,
      my King, in the sanctuary.
{68:25} The singers went before, the players on instruments [followed]
      after; among [them were] the damsels playing with timbrels.
{68:26} Bless ye God in the congregations, [even] the Lord, from the
      fountain of Israel.
{68:27} There [is] little Benjamin [with] their ruler, the princes of
      Judah [and] their council, the princes of Zebulun, [and] the
      princes of Naphtali.
{68:28} Thy God hath commanded thy strength: strengthen, O God, that
      which thou hast wrought for us.
{68:29} Because of thy temple at Jerusalem shall kings bring presents
      unto thee.
{68:30} 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.
{68:31} Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch
      out her hands unto God.
{68:32} Sing unto God, ye kingdoms of the earth; O sing praises unto
      the Lord; Selah:
{68:33} To him that rideth upon the heavens of heavens, [which were] of
      old; lo, he doth send out his voice, [and that] a mighty voice.
{68:34} Ascribe ye strength unto God: his excellency [is] over Israel,
      and his strength [is] in the clouds.
{68:35} O God, [thou art] terrible out of thy holy places: the God of
      Israel [is] he that giveth strength and power unto [his] people.
      Blessed [be] God.


Psalm 69

To chief Musician upon Shoshannim, A [Psalm] of David.



   {69:1} Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto [my] soul.
{69:2} I sink in deep mire, where [there is] no standing: I am come
      into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
{69:3} I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail
      while I wait for my God.
{69:4} They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of
      mine head: they that would destroy me, [being] mine enemies
      wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored [that] which I took not
      away.
{69:5} O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from
      thee.
{69:6} 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.
{69:7} Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered
      my face.
{69:8} I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my
      mother's children.
{69:9} For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches
      of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.
{69:10} When I wept, [and chastened] my soul with fasting, that was to
      my reproach.
{69:11} I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to
      them.
{69:12} They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I [was] the
      song of the drunkards.
{69:13} 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.
{69:14} 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.
{69:15} Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep
      swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
{69:16} Hear me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness [is] good: turn unto me
      according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.
{69:17} And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble:
      hear me speedily.
{69:18} Draw nigh unto my soul, [and] redeem it: deliver me because of
      mine enemies.
{69:19} Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour:
      mine adversaries [are] all before thee.
{69:20} Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and
      I looked [for some] to take pity, but [there was] none; and for
      comforters, but I found none.
{69:21} They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave
      me vinegar to drink.
{69:22} Let their table become a snare before them: and [that which
      should have been] for [their] welfare, [let it become] a trap.
{69:23} Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their
      loins continually to shake.
{69:24} Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful
      anger take hold of them.
{69:25} Let their habitation be desolate; [and] let none dwell in their
      tents.
{69:26} For they persecute [him] whom thou hast smitten; and they talk
      to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.
{69:27} Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into
      thy righteousness.
{69:28} Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be
      written with the righteous.
{69:29} But I [am] poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me
      up on high.
{69:30} I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him
      with thanksgiving.
{69:31} [This] also shall please the LORD better than an ox [or]
      bullock that hath horns and hoofs.
{69:32} The humble shall see [this, and] be glad: and your heart shall
      live that seek God.
{69:33} For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.
{69:34} Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing
      that moveth therein.
{69:35} For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah:
      that they may dwell there, and have it in possession.
{69:36} The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that
      love his name shall dwell therein.


Psalm 70

To the chief Musician, A [Psalm] of David, to bring to remembrance.



   {70:1} [Make haste,] O God, to deliver me; make haste to help me, O
      LORD.
{70:2} Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let
      them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my
      hurt.
{70:3} Let them be turned back for a reward of their shame that say,
      Aha, aha.
{70:4} Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: and
      let such as love thy salvation say continually, Let God be
      magnified.
{70:5} But I [am] poor and needy: make haste unto me, O God: thou [art]
      my help and my deliverer; O LORD, make no tarrying.


Psalm 71

{71:1} In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me never be put to
      confusion.
{71:2} Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline
      thine ear unto me, and save me.
{71:3} Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually
      resort: thou hast given commandment to save me; for thou [art] my
      rock and my fortress.
{71:4} Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the
      hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.
{71:5} For thou [art] my hope, O Lord GOD: [thou art] my trust from my
      youth.
{71:6} By thee have I been holden up from the womb: thou art he that
      took me out of my mother's bowels: my praise [shall be]
      continually of thee.
{71:7} I am as a wonder unto many; but thou [art] my strong refuge.
{71:8} Let my mouth be filled [with] thy praise [and with] thy honour
      all the day.
{71:9} Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my
      strength faileth.
{71:10} For mine enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for
      my soul take counsel together,
{71:11} Saying, God hath forsaken him: persecute and take him; for
      [there is] none to deliver [him.]
{71:12} O God, be not far from me: O my God, make haste for my help.
{71:13} Let them be confounded [and] consumed that are adversaries to
      my soul; let them be covered [with] reproach and dishonour that
      seek my hurt.
{71:14} But I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and
      more.
{71:15} My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousness [and] thy salvation
      all the day; for I know not the numbers [thereof.]
{71:16} I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD: I will make mention
      of thy righteousness, [even] of thine only.
{71:17} O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I
      declared thy wondrous works.
{71:18} Now also when I am old and greyheaded, O God, forsake me not;
      until I have shewed thy strength unto [this] generation, [and]
      thy power to every one [that] is to come.
{71:19} Thy righteousness also, O God, [is] very high, who hast done
      great things: O God, who [is] like unto thee!
{71:20} [Thou,] which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt
      quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of
      the earth.
{71:21} Thou shalt increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side.
{71:22} 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.
{71:23} My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto thee; and my
      soul, which thou hast redeemed.
{71:24} My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day
      long: for they are confounded, for they are brought unto shame,
      that seek my hurt.


Psalm 72

A [Psalm] for Solomon.



   {72:1} Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness
      unto the king's son.
{72:2} He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with
      judgment.
{72:3} The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little
      hills, by righteousness.
{72:4} He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the
      children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.
{72:5} They shall fear thee as long as the sun and moon endure,
      throughout all generations.
{72:6} He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers
      [that] water the earth.
{72:7} In his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace
      so long as the moon endureth.
{72:8} He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river
      unto the ends of the earth.
{72:9} They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his
      enemies shall lick the dust.
{72:10} The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents:
      the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.
{72:11} Yea, all kings shall fall down before him: all nations shall
      serve him.
{72:12} For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also,
      and [him] that hath no helper.
{72:13} He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save the souls of
      the needy.
{72:14} He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and
      precious shall their blood be in his sight.
{72:15} And he shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of
      Sheba: prayer also shall be made for him continually; [and] daily
      shall he be praised.
{72:16} 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.
{72:17} 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.
{72:18} Blessed [be] the LORD God, the God of Israel, who only doeth
      wondrous things.
{72:19} And blessed [be] his glorious name for ever: and let the whole
      earth be filled [with] his glory; Amen, and Amen.
{72:20} The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended.

Book III

Psalm 73

A Psalm of Asaph.



   {73:1} Truly God [is] good to Israel, [even] to such as are of a
      clean heart.
{73:2} But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh
      slipped.
{73:3} For I was envious at the foolish, [when] I saw the prosperity of
      the wicked.
{73:4} For [there are] no bands in their death: but their strength [is]
      firm.
{73:5} They [are] not in trouble [as other] men; neither are they
      plagued like [other] men.
{73:6} Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence
      covereth them [as] a garment.
{73:7} Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart
      could wish.
{73:8} They are corrupt, and speak wickedly [concerning] oppression:
      they speak loftily.
{73:9} They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue
      walketh through the earth.
{73:10} Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full [cup]
      are wrung out to them.
{73:11} And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the
      most High?
{73:12} Behold, these [are] the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they
      increase [in] riches.
{73:13} Verily I have cleansed my heart [in] vain, and washed my hands
      in innocency.
{73:14} For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every
      morning.
{73:15} If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend [against]
      the generation of thy children.
{73:16} When I thought to know this, it [was] too painful for me;
{73:17} Until I went into the sanctuary of God; [then] understood I
      their end.
{73:18} Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst
      them down into destruction.
{73:19} How are they [brought] into desolation, as in a moment! they
      are utterly consumed with terrors.
{73:20} As a dream when [one] awaketh; [so,] O Lord, when thou awakest,
      thou shalt despise their image.
{73:21} Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.
{73:22} So foolish [was] I, and ignorant: I was [as] a beast before
      thee.
{73:23} Nevertheless I [am] continually with thee: thou hast holden
      [me] by my right hand.
{73:24} Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me
      [to] glory.
{73:25} Whom have I in heaven [but thee?] and [there is] none upon
      earth [that] I desire beside thee.
{73:26} My flesh and my heart faileth: [but] God [is] the strength of
      my heart, and my portion for ever.
{73:27} For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast
      destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.
{73:28} But [it is] good for me to draw near to God: I have put my
      trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all thy works.


Psalm 74

Maschil of Asaph.



   {74:1} O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? [why] doth thine
      anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?
{74:2} Remember thy congregation, [which] thou hast purchased of old;
      the rod of thine inheritance, [which] thou hast redeemed; this
      mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.
{74:3} Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; [even] all
      [that] the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.
{74:4} Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set
      up their ensigns [for] signs.
{74:5} [A man] was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the
      thick trees.
{74:6} But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with
      axes and hammers.
{74:7} They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled [by
      casting down] the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.
{74:8} They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they
      have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.
{74:9} We see not our signs: [there is] no more any prophet: neither
      [is there] among us any that knoweth how long.
{74:10} O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy
      blaspheme thy name for ever?
{74:11} Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck [it]
      out of thy bosom.
{74:12} For God [is] my King of old, working salvation in the midst of
      the earth.
{74:13} Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the
      heads of the dragons in the waters.
{74:14} Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, [and] gavest him
      [to be] meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
{74:15} Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up
      mighty rivers.
{74:16} The day [is] thine, the night also [is] thine: thou hast
      prepared the light and the sun.
{74:17} Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made
      summer and winter.
{74:18} Remember this, [that] the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and
      [that] the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.
{74:19} O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude [of
      the wicked:] forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.
{74:20} Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the
      earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
{74:21} O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy
      praise thy name.
{74:22} Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish
      man reproacheth thee daily.
{74:23} Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that
      rise up against thee increaseth continually.


Psalm 75

To the chief Musician, Altaschith, A Psalm [or] Song of Asaph.



   {75:1} Unto thee, O God, do we give thanks, [unto thee] do we give
      thanks: for [that] thy name is near thy wondrous works declare.
{75:2} When I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly.
{75:3} The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear
      up the pillars of it. Selah.
{75:4} I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked,
      Lift not up the horn:
{75:5} Lift not up your horn on high: speak [not with] a stiff neck.
{75:6} For promotion [cometh] neither from the east, nor from the west,
      nor from the south.
{75:7} But God [is] the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up
      another.
{75:8} For in the hand of the LORD [there is] a cup, and the wine is
      red; it 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.]
{75:9} But I will declare for ever; I will sing praises to the God of
      Jacob.
{75:10} All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; [but] the
      horns of the righteous shall be exalted.


Psalm 76

To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm [or] Song of Asaph.



   {76:1} In Judah [is] God known: his name [is] great in Israel.
{76:2} In Salem also is his tabernacle, and his dwelling place in Zion.
{76:3} There brake he the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword,
      and the battle. Selah.
{76:4} Thou [art] more glorious [and] excellent than the mountains of
      prey.
{76:5} The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and
      none of the men of might have found their hands.
{76:6} At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are
      cast into a dead sleep.
{76:7} Thou, [even] thou, [art] to be feared: and who may stand in thy
      sight when once thou art angry?
{76:8} Thou didst cause judgment to be heard from heaven; the earth
      feared, and was still,
{76:9} When God arose to judgment, to save all the meek of the earth.
      Selah.
{76:10} Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of
      wrath shalt thou restrain.
{76:11} Vow, and pay unto the LORD your God: let all that be round
      about him bring presents unto him that ought to be feared.
{76:12} He shall cut off the spirit of princes: [he is] terrible to the
      kings of the earth.


Psalm 77

To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun, A Psalm of Asaph.



   {77:1} I cried unto God with my voice, [even] unto God with my
      voice; and he gave ear unto me.
{77:2} In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the
      night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.
{77:3} I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit
      was overwhelmed. Selah.
{77:4} Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot
      speak.
{77:5} I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.
{77:6} I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine
      own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.
{77:7} Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no
      more?
{77:8} Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth [his] promise fail for
      evermore?
{77:9} Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his
      tender mercies? Selah.
{77:10} And I said, This [is] my infirmity: [but I will remember] the
      years of the right hand of the most High.
{77:11} I will remember the works of the LORD: surely I will remember
      thy wonders of old.
{77:12} I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings.
{77:13} Thy way, O God, [is] in the sanctuary: who [is so] great a God
      as [our] God?
{77:14} Thou [art] the God that doest wonders: thou hast declared thy
      strength among the people.
{77:15} Thou hast with [thine] arm redeemed thy people, the sons of
      Jacob and Joseph. Selah.
{77:16} The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were
      afraid: the depths also were troubled.
{77:17} The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thine
      arrows also went abroad.
{77:18} The voice of thy thunder [was] in the heaven: the lightnings
      lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.
{77:19} Thy way [is] in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and
      thy footsteps are not known.
{77:20} Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and
      Aaron.


Psalm 78

Maschil of Asaph.



   {78:1} Give ear, O my people, [to] my law: incline your ears to the
      words of my mouth.
{78:2} I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of
      old:
{78:3} Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
{78:4} We will not hide [them] from their children, shewing to the
      generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and
      his wonderful works that he hath done.
{78:5} For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in
      Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make
      them known to their children:
{78:6} That the generation to come might know [them, even] the children
      [which] should be born; [who] should arise and declare [them] to
      their children:
{78:7} That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works
      of God, but keep his commandments:
{78:8} And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious
      generation; a generation [that] set not their heart aright, and
      whose spirit was not stedfast with God.
{78:9} The children of Ephraim, [being] armed, [and] carrying bows,
      turned back in the day of battle.
{78:10} They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his
      law;
{78:11} And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them.
{78:12} Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the
      land of Egypt, [in] the field of Zoan.
{78:13} He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he
      made the waters to stand as an heap.
{78:14} In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night
      with a light of fire.
{78:15} He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave [them] drink as
      [out of] the great depths.
{78:16} He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to
      run down like rivers.
{78:17} And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High
      in the wilderness.
{78:18} And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their
      lust.
{78:19} Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table
      in the wilderness?
{78:20} 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?
{78:21} Therefore the LORD heard [this,] and was wroth: so a fire was
      kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;
{78:22} Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his
      salvation:
{78:23} Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the
      doors of heaven,
{78:24} And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them
      of the corn of heaven.
{78:25} Man did eat angels' food: he sent them meat to the full.
{78:26} He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power
      he brought in the south wind.
{78:27} He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls
      like as the sand of the sea:
{78:28} And he let [it] fall in the midst of their camp, round about
      their habitations.
{78:29} So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their
      own desire;
{78:30} They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat
      [was] yet in their mouths,
{78:31} The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them,
      and smote down the chosen [men] of Israel.
{78:32} For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his
      wondrous works.
{78:33} Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years
      in trouble.
{78:34} When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and
      enquired early after God.
{78:35} And they remembered that God [was] their rock, and the high God
      their redeemer.
{78:36} Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they
      lied unto him with their tongues.
{78:37} For their heart was not right with him, neither were they
      stedfast in his covenant.
{78:38} 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.
{78:39} For he remembered that they [were but] flesh; a wind that
      passeth away, and cometh not again.
{78:40} How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, [and] grieve
      him in the desert!
{78:41} Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One
      of Israel.
{78:42} They remembered not his hand, [nor] the day when he delivered
      them from the enemy.
{78:43} How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the
      field of Zoan:
{78:44} And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that
      they could not drink.
{78:45} He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them;
      and frogs, which destroyed them.
{78:46} He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their
      labour unto the locust.
{78:47} He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees
      with frost.
{78:48} He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to
      hot thunderbolts.
{78:49} He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and
      indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels [among them.]
{78:50} He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from
      death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;
{78:51} And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of [their]
      strength in the tabernacles of Ham:
{78:52} But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them
      in the wilderness like a flock.
{78:53} And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea
      overwhelmed their enemies.
{78:54} And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, [even to]
      this mountain, [which] his right hand had purchased.
{78:55} He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an
      inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in
      their tents.
{78:56} Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not
      his testimonies:
{78:57} But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers:
      they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
{78:58} For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and
      moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
{78:59} When God heard [this,] he was wroth, and greatly abhorred
      Israel:
{78:60} So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent [which]
      he placed among men;
{78:61} And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into
      the enemy's hand.
{78:62} He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with
      his inheritance.
{78:63} The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not
      given to marriage.
{78:64} Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no
      lamentation.
{78:65} Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, [and] like a mighty
      man that shouteth by reason of wine.
{78:66} And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a
      perpetual reproach.
{78:67} Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the
      tribe of Ephraim:
{78:68} But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.
{78:69} And he built his sanctuary like high [palaces,] like the earth
      which he hath established for ever.
{78:70} He chose David also his servant, and took him from the
      sheepfolds:
{78:71} From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed
      Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.
{78:72} So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and
      guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.


Psalm 79

A Psalm of Asaph.



   {79:1} O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy
      temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.
{79:2} The dead bodies of thy servants have they given [to be] meat
      unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the
      beasts of the earth.
{79:3} Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and
      [there was] none to bury [them.]
{79:4} We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision
      to them that are round about us.
{79:5} How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy
      burn like fire?
{79:6} Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee,
      and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.
{79:7} For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.
{79:8} O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender
      mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low.
{79:9} Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and
      deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name's sake.
{79:10} 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.
{79:11} Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to
      the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed
      to die;
{79:12} And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their
      reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.
{79:13} So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thanks
      for ever: we will shew forth thy praise to all generations.


Psalm 80

To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim-Eduth, A Psalm of Asaph.



   {80:1} Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like
      a flock; thou that dwellest [between] the cherubims, shine forth.
{80:2} Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength,
      and come [and] save us.
{80:3} Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall
      be saved.
{80:4} O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the
      prayer of thy people?
{80:5} Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears
      to drink in great measure.
{80:6} Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies
      laugh among themselves.
{80:7} Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and
      we shall be saved.
{80:8} Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the
      heathen, and planted it.
{80:9} Thou preparedst [room] before it, and didst cause it to take
      deep root, and it filled the land.
{80:10} The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs
      thereof [were like] the goodly cedars.
{80:11} She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the
      river.
{80:12} Why hast thou [then] broken down her hedges, so that all they
      which pass by the way do pluck her?
{80:13} The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of
      the field doth devour it.
{80:14} Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven,
      and behold, and visit this vine;
{80:15} And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the
      branch [that] thou madest strong for thyself.
{80:16} [It is] burned with fire, [it is] cut down: they perish at the
      rebuke of thy countenance.
{80:17} Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of
      man [whom] thou madest strong for thyself.
{80:18} So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call
      upon thy name.
{80:19} Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine;
      and we shall be saved.


Psalm 81

To the chief Musician upon Gittith, a Psalm of Asaph.



   {81:1} Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto
      the God of Jacob.
{81:2} Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp
      with the psaltery.
{81:3} Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on
      our solemn feast day.
{81:4} For this [was] a statute for Israel, [and] a law of the God of
      Jacob.
{81:5} This he ordained in Joseph [for] a testimony, when he went out
      through the land of Egypt: [where] I heard a language [that] I
      understood not.
{81:6} I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered
      from the pots.
{81:7} Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee
      in the secret place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters of
      Meribah. Selah.
{81:8} Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if
      thou wilt hearken unto me;
{81:9} There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou
      worship any strange god.
{81:10} I [am] the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of
      Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
{81:11} But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would
      none of me.
{81:12} So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: [and] they
      walked in their own counsels.
{81:13} Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, [and] Israel had
      walked in my ways!
{81:14} I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand
      against their adversaries.
{81:15} The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto
      him: but their time should have endured for ever.
{81:16} He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and
      with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.


Psalm 82

A Psalm of Asaph.



   {82:1} God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth
      among the gods.
{82:2} How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the
      wicked? Selah.
{82:3} Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and
      needy.
{82:4} Deliver the poor and needy: rid [them] out of the hand of the
      wicked.
{82:5} They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in
      darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.
{82:6} I have said, Ye [are] gods; and all of you [are] children of the
      most High.
{82:7} But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.
{82:8} Arise, O God, judge the earth: for thou shalt inherit all
      nations.


Psalm 83

A Song [or] Psalm of Asaph.



   {83:1} Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not
      still, O God.
{83:2} For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee
      have lifted up the head.
{83:3} They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted
      against thy hidden ones.
{83:4} They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from [being] a
      nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
{83:5} For they have consulted together with one consent: they are
      confederate against thee:
{83:6} The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the
      Hagarenes;
{83:7} Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the
      inhabitants of Tyre;
{83:8} Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of
      Lot. Selah.
{83:9} Do unto them as [unto] the Midianites; as [to] Sisera, as [to]
      Jabin, at the brook of Kison:
{83:10} [Which] perished at Endor: they became [as] dung for the earth.
{83:11} Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their
      princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:
{83:12} Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in
      possession.
{83:13} O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the
      wind.
{83:14} As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the
      mountains on fire;
{83:15} So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with
      thy storm.
{83:16} Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O
      LORD.
{83:17} Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be
      put to shame, and perish:
{83:18} That [men] may know that thou, whose name alone [is] JEHOVAH,
      [art] the most high over all the earth.


Psalm 84

To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.



   {84:1} How amiable [are] thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!
{84:2} My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD:
      my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.
{84:3} Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for
      herself, where she may lay her young, [even] thine altars, O LORD
      of hosts, my King, and my God.
{84:4} Blessed [are] they that dwell in thy house: they will be still
      praising thee. Selah.
{84:5} Blessed [is] the man whose strength [is] in thee; in whose heart
      [are] the ways [of them.]
{84:6} [Who] passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the
      rain also filleth the pools.
{84:7} They go from strength to strength, [every one of them] in Zion
      appeareth before God.
{84:8} O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob.
      Selah.
{84:9} Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine
      anointed.
{84:10} For a day in thy courts [is] better than a thousand. I had
      rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in
      the tents of wickedness.
{84:11} For the LORD God [is] a sun and shield: the LORD will give
      grace and glory: no good [thing] will he withhold from them that
      walk uprightly.
{84:12} O LORD of hosts, blessed [is] the man that trusteth in thee.


Psalm 85

To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.



   {85:1} LORD, thou hast been favourable unto thy land: thou hast
      brought back the captivity of Jacob.
{85:2} Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou hast covered
      all their sin. Selah.
{85:3} Thou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou hast turned [thyself]
      from the fierceness of thine anger.
{85:4} Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us
      to cease.
{85:5} Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt thou draw out thine
      anger to all generations?
{85:6} Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in
      thee?
{85:7} Shew us thy mercy, O LORD, and grant us thy salvation.
{85:8} 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.
{85:9} Surely his salvation [is] nigh them that fear him; that glory
      may dwell in our land.
{85:10} Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have
      kissed [each other.]
{85:11} Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall
      look down from heaven.
{85:12} Yea, the LORD shall give [that which is] good; and our land
      shall yield her increase.
{85:13} Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set [us] in the
      way of his steps.


Psalm 86

A Prayer of David.



   {86:1} Bow down thine ear, O LORD, hear me: for I [am] poor and
      needy.
{86:2} Preserve my soul; for I [am] holy: O thou my God, save thy
      servant that trusteth in thee.
{86:3} Be merciful unto me, O Lord: for I cry unto thee daily.
{86:4} Rejoice the soul of thy servant: for unto thee, O Lord, do I
      lift up my soul.
{86:5} For thou, Lord, [art] good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous
      in mercy unto all them that call upon thee.
{86:6} Give ear, O LORD, unto my prayer; and attend to the voice of my
      supplications.
{86:7} In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee: for thou wilt
      answer me.
{86:8} Among the gods [there is] none like unto thee, O Lord; neither
      [are there any works] like unto thy works.
{86:9} All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before
      thee, O Lord; and shall glorify thy name.
{86:10} For thou [art] great, and doest wondrous things: thou [art] God
      alone.
{86:11} Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth: unite my
      heart to fear thy name.
{86:12} I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart: and I
      will glorify thy name for evermore.
{86:13} For great [is] thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my
      soul from the lowest hell.
{86:14} O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of
      violent [men] have sought after my soul; and have not set thee
      before them.
{86:15} But thou, O Lord, [art] a God full of compassion, and gracious,
      longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.
{86:16} O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength unto
      thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid.
{86:17} Show me a token for good; that they which hate me may see [it,]
      and be ashamed: because thou, LORD, hast helped me, and comforted
      me.


Psalm 87

A Psalm [or] Song for the sons of Korah.



   {87:1} His foundation [is] in the holy mountains.
{87:2} The LORD loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of
      Jacob.
{87:3} Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah.
{87:4} I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me:
      behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this [man] was born
      there.
{87:5} And of Zion it shall be said, This and [that man] was born in
      her: and the highest himself shall establish her.
{87:6} The LORD shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this
      man was born there. Selah.
{87:7} As well the singers as the players on instruments [shall be
      there:] all my springs [are] in thee.


Psalm 88

A Song [or] Psalm for the sons of Korah, to the chief Musician upon
Mahalath Leannoth, Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite.



   {88:1} O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day [and] night
      before thee:
{88:2} Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry;
{88:3} For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto
      the grave.
{88:4} I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man
      [that hath] no strength:
{88:5} Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom
      thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.
{88:6} Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
{88:7} Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted [me] with
      all thy waves. Selah.
{88:8} Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made
      me an abomination unto them: [I am] shut up, and I cannot come
      forth.
{88:9} Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called
      daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.
{88:10} Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise [and]
      praise thee? Selah.
{88:11} Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? [or] thy
      faithfulness in destruction?
{88:12} Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness
      in the land of forgetfulness?
{88:13} But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my
      prayer prevent thee.
{88:14} LORD, why castest thou off my soul? [why] hidest thou thy face
      from me?
{88:15} I [am] afflicted and ready to die from [my] youth up: [while] I
      suffer thy terrors I am distracted.
{88:16} Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.
{88:17} They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me
      about together.
{88:18} Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, [and] mine
      acquaintance into darkness.


Psalm 89

Maschil of Ethan the Ezrahite.



   {89:1} I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my
      mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.
{89:2} For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy
      faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens.
{89:3} I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David
      my servant,
{89:4} Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to
      all generations. Selah.
{89:5} And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O LORD: thy
      faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints.
{89:6} For who in the heaven can be compared unto the LORD? [who] among
      the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the LORD?
{89:7} God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and
      to be had in reverence of all [them that are] about him.
{89:8} O LORD God of hosts, who [is] a strong LORD like unto thee? or
      to thy faithfulness round about thee?
{89:9} Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise,
      thou stillest them.
{89:10} Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; thou
      hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm.
{89:11} The heavens [are] thine, the earth also [is] thine: [as for]
      the world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.
{89:12} The north and the south thou hast created them: Tabor and
      Hermon shall rejoice in thy name.
{89:13} Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is thy hand, [and] high is thy
      right hand.
{89:14} Justice and judgment [are] the habitation of thy throne: mercy
      and truth shall go before thy face.
{89:15} Blessed [is] the people that know the joyful sound: they shall
      walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance.
{89:16} In thy name shall they rejoice all the day: and in thy
      righteousness shall they be exalted.
{89:17} For thou [art] the glory of their strength: and in thy favour
      our horn shall be exalted.
{89:18} For the LORD [is] our defence; and the Holy One of Israel [is]
      our king.
{89:19} 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.
{89:20} I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed
      him:
{89:21} With whom my hand shall be established: mine arm also shall
      strengthen him.
{89:22} The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness
      afflict him.
{89:23} And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them
      that hate him.
{89:24} But my faithfulness and my mercy [shall be] with him: and in my
      name shall his horn be exalted.
{89:25} I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the
      rivers.
{89:26} He shall cry unto me, Thou [art] my father, my God, and the
      rock of my salvation.
{89:27} Also I will make him [my] firstborn, higher than the kings of
      the earth.
{89:28} My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant
      shall stand fast with him.
{89:29} His seed also will I make [to endure] for ever, and his throne
      as the days of heaven.
{89:30} If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;
{89:31} If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;
{89:32} Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their
      iniquity with stripes.
{89:33} Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from
      him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.
{89:34} My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone
      out of my lips.
{89:35} Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David.
{89:36} His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun
      before me.
{89:37} It shall be established for ever as the moon, and [as] a
      faithful witness in heaven. Selah.
{89:38} But thou hast cast off and abhorred, thou hast been wroth with
      thine anointed.
{89:39} Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast
      profaned his crown [by casting it] to the ground.
{89:40} Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his
      strong holds to ruin.
{89:41} All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach to his
      neighbours.
{89:42} Thou hast set up the right hand of his adversaries; thou hast
      made all his enemies to rejoice.
{89:43} Thou hast also turned the edge of his sword, and hast not made
      him to stand in the battle.
{89:44} Thou hast made his glory to cease, and cast his throne down to
      the ground.
{89:45} The days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hast covered
      him with shame. Selah.
{89:46} How long, LORD? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy
      wrath burn like fire?
{89:47} Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men
      in vain?
{89:48} What man [is he that] liveth, and shall not see death? shall he
      deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.
{89:49} Lord, where [are] thy former lovingkindnesses, [which] thou
      swarest unto David in thy truth?
{89:50} Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; [how] I do bear
      in my bosom [the reproach of] all the mighty people;
{89:51} Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O LORD; wherewith they
      have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.
{89:52} Blessed [be] the LORD for evermore. Amen, and Amen.

Book IV

Psalm 90

A Prayer of Moses the man of God.



   {90:1} LORD, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.
{90:2} Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst
      formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to
      everlasting, thou [art] God.
{90:3} Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children
      of men.
{90:4} For a thousand years in thy sight [are but] as yesterday when it
      is past, and [as] a watch in the night.
{90:5} Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are [as] a sleep:
      in the morning [they are] like grass [which] groweth up.
{90:6} In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it
      is cut down, and withereth.
{90:7} For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we
      troubled.
{90:8} Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret [sins] in
      the light of thy countenance.
{90:9} For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our
      years as a tale [that is told.]
{90:10} The days of our years [are] threescore years and ten; and if by
      reason of strength [they be] fourscore years, yet [is] their
      strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly
      away.
{90:11} Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy
      fear, [so is] thy wrath.
{90:12} So teach [us] to number our days, that we may apply [our]
      hearts unto wisdom.
{90:13} Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy
      servants.
{90:14} O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be
      glad all our days.
{90:15} Make us glad according to the days [wherein] thou hast
      afflicted us, [and] the years [wherein] we have seen evil.
{90:16} Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their
      children.
{90:17} 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

{91:1} He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall
      abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
{91:2} I will say of the LORD, [He is] my refuge and my fortress: my
      God; in him will I trust.
{91:3} Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, [and]
      from the noisome pestilence.
{91:4} He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt
      thou trust: his truth [shall be thy] shield and buckler.
{91:5} Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; [nor] for the
      arrow [that] flieth by day;
{91:6} [Nor] for the pestilence [that] walketh in darkness; [nor] for
      the destruction [that] wasteth at noonday.
{91:7} A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right
      hand; [but] it shall not come nigh thee.
{91:8} Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the
      wicked.
{91:9} Because thou hast made the LORD, [which is] my refuge, [even]
      the most High, thy habitation;
{91:10} There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come
      nigh thy dwelling.
{91:11} For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in
      all thy ways.
{91:12} They shall bear thee up in [their] hands, lest thou dash thy
      foot against a stone.
{91:13} Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and
      the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.
{91:14} Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver
      him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.
{91:15} He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I [will be] with
      him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.
{91:16} With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.


Psalm 92

A Psalm [or] Song for the sabbath day.



   {92:1} [It is a] good [thing] to give thanks unto the LORD, and to
      sing praises unto thy name, O most High:
{92:2} To shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, and thy
      faithfulness every night,
{92:3} Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the psaltery; upon
      the harp with a solemn sound.
{92:4} For thou, LORD, hast made me glad through thy work: I will
      triumph in the works of thy hands.
{92:5} O LORD, how great are thy works! [and] thy thoughts are very
      deep.
{92:6} A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.
{92:7} When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of
      iniquity do flourish; [it is] that they shall be destroyed for
      ever:
{92:8} But thou, LORD, [art most] high for evermore.
{92:9} For, lo, thine enemies, O LORD, for, lo, thine enemies shall
      perish; all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.
{92:10} But my horn shalt thou exalt like [the horn of] an unicorn: I
      shall be anointed with fresh oil.
{92:11} Mine eye also shall see [my desire] on mine enemies, [and] mine
      ears shall hear [my desire] of the wicked that rise up against me.
{92:12} The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow
      like a cedar in Lebanon.
{92:13} Those that be planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish
      in the courts of our God.
{92:14} They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be
      fat and flourishing;
{92:15} To shew that the LORD [is] upright: [he is] my rock, and [there
      is] no unrighteousness in him.


Psalm 93

{93:1} The LORD reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is
      clothed with strength, [wherewith] he hath girded himself: the
      world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved.
{93:2} Thy throne [is] established of old: thou [art] from everlasting.
{93:3} The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up
      their voice; the floods lift up their waves.

{93:4} The LORD on high [is] mightier than the noise of many waters,
      [yea, than] the mighty waves of the sea.
{93:5} Thy testimonies are very sure: holiness becometh thine house, O
      LORD, for ever.


Psalm 94

{94:1} O LORD God, to whom vengeance belongeth; O God, to whom
      vengeance belongeth, shew thyself.
{94:2} Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: render a reward to the
      proud.
{94:3} LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked
      triumph?
{94:4} [How long] shall they utter [and] speak hard things? [and] all
      the workers of iniquity boast themselves?
{94:5} They break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and afflict thine
      heritage.
{94:6} They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.
{94:7} Yet they say, The LORD shall not see, neither shall the God of
      Jacob regard [it.]
{94:8} Understand, ye brutish among the people: and [ye] fools, when
      will ye be wise?
{94:9} He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the
      eye, shall he not see?
{94:10} He that chastiseth the heathen, shall not he correct? he that
      teacheth man knowledge, [shall not he know?]
{94:11} The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, that they [are] vanity.
{94:12} Blessed [is] the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest
      him out of thy law;
{94:13} That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity,
      until the pit be digged for the wicked.
{94:14} For the LORD will not cast off his people, neither will he
      forsake his inheritance.
{94:15} But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the
      upright in heart shall follow it.
{94:16} Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? [or] who will
      stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?
{94:17} Unless the LORD [had been] my help, my soul had almost dwelt in
      silence.
{94:18} When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O LORD, held me up.
{94:19} In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight
      my soul.
{94:20} Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which
      frameth mischief by a law?
{94:21} They gather themselves together against the soul of the
      righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.
{94:22} But the LORD is my defence; and my God [is] the rock of my
      refuge.
{94:23} 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

{95:1} O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to
      the rock of our salvation.
{95:2} Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a
      joyful noise unto him with psalms.
{95:3} For the LORD [is] a great God, and a great King above all gods.
{95:4} In his hand [are] the deep places of the earth: the strength of
      the hills [is] his also.
{95:5} The sea [is] his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry
      [land.]
{95:6} O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the
      LORD our maker.
{95:7} For he [is] our God; and we [are] the people of his pasture, and
      the sheep of his hand. To day if ye will hear his voice,
{95:8} Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, [and as in] the
      day of temptation in the wilderness:
{95:9} When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
{95:10} 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:
{95:11} Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into
      my rest.


Psalm 96

{96:1} O sing unto the LORD a new song: sing unto the LORD, all the
      earth.
{96:2} Sing unto the LORD, bless his name; shew forth his salvation
      from day to day.
{96:3} Declare his glory among the heathen, his wonders among all
      people.
{96:4} For the LORD [is] great, and greatly to be praised: he [is] to
      be feared above all gods.
{96:5} For all the gods of the nations [are] idols: but the LORD made
      the heavens.
{96:6} Honour and majesty [are] before him: strength and beauty [are]
      in his sanctuary.
{96:7} Give unto the LORD, O ye kindreds of the people, give unto the
      LORD glory and strength.
{96:8} Give unto the LORD the glory [due unto] his name: bring an
      offering, and come into his courts.
{96:9} O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness: fear before him,
      all the earth.
{96:10} Say among the heathen [that] the LORD reigneth: the world also
      shall be established that it shall not be moved: he shall judge
      the people righteously.
{96:11} Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; let the sea
      roar, and the fulness thereof.
{96:12} Let the field be joyful, and all that [is] therein: then shall
      all the trees of the wood rejoice
{96:13} Before the LORD: for he cometh, for he cometh to judge the
      earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the
      people with his truth.


Psalm 97

{97:1} The LORD reigneth; let the earth rejoice; let the multitude of
      isles be glad [thereof.]
{97:2} Clouds and darkness [are] round about him: righteousness and
      judgment [are] the habitation of his throne.
{97:3} A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about.
{97:4} His lightnings enlightened the world: the earth saw, and
      trembled.
{97:5} The hills melted like wax at the presence of the LORD, at the
      presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
{97:6} The heavens declare his righteousness, and all the people see
      his glory.
{97:7} Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast
      themselves of idols: worship him, all [ye] gods.
{97:8} Zion heard, and was glad; and the daughters of Judah rejoiced
      because of thy judgments, O LORD.
{97:9} For thou, LORD, [art] high above all the earth: thou art exalted
      far above all gods.
{97:10} Ye that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of
      his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.
{97:11} Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright
      in heart.
{97:12} Rejoice in the LORD, ye righteous; and give thanks at the
      remembrance of his holiness.


Psalm 98

A 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.
{98:2} The LORD hath made known his salvation: his righteousness hath
      he openly shewed in the sight of the heathen.
{98:3} He hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of
      Israel: all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our
      God.
{98:4} Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all the earth: make a loud
      noise, and rejoice, and sing praise.
{98:5} Sing unto the LORD with the harp; with the harp, and the voice
      of a psalm.
{98:6} With trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyful noise before the
      LORD, the King.
{98:7} Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they
      that dwell therein.
{98:8} Let the floods clap [their] hands: let the hills be joyful
      together
{98:9} Before the LORD; for he cometh to judge the earth: with
      righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with
      equity.


Psalm 99

{99:1} The LORD reigneth; let the people tremble: he sitteth [between]
      the cherubims; let the earth be moved.
{99:2} The LORD [is] great in Zion; and he [is] high above all the
      people.
{99:3} Let them praise thy great and terrible name; [for] it [is] holy.
{99:4} The king's strength also loveth judgment; thou dost establish
      equity, thou executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob.
{99:5} Exalt ye the LORD our God, and worship at his footstool; [for]
      he [is] holy.
{99:6} Moses and Aaron among his priests, and Samuel among them that
      call upon his name; they called upon the LORD, and he answered
      them.
{99:7} He spake unto them in the cloudy pillar: they kept his
      testimonies, and the ordinance [that] he gave them.
{99:8} Thou answeredst them, O LORD our God: thou wast a God that
      forgavest them, though thou tookest vengeance of their inventions.
{99:9} Exalt the LORD our God, and worship at his holy hill; for the
      LORD our God [is] holy.


Psalm 100

A Psalm of praise.



   {100:1} Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands.
{100:2} Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with
      singing.
{100:3} 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.
{100:4} Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, [and] into his courts
      with praise: be thankful unto him, [and] bless his name.
{100:5} For the LORD [is] good; his mercy [is] everlasting; and his
      truth [endureth] to all generations.


Psalm 101

A Psalm of David.



   {101:1} I will sing of mercy and judgment: unto thee, O LORD, will I
      sing.
{101:2} I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when wilt thou
      come unto me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.
{101:3} I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of
      them that turn aside; [it] shall not cleave to me.
{101:4} A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked
      [person.]
{101:5} Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him
      that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.
{101:6} Mine eyes [shall be] upon the faithful of the land, that they
      may dwell with me: he that walketh in a perfect way, he shall
      serve me.
{101:7} He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that
      telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.
{101:8} I will early destroy all the wicked of the land; that I may cut
      off all wicked doers from the city of the LORD.


Psalm 102

A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed, and poureth out his
complaint before the LORD.



   {102:1} Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto thee.
{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.
{102:3} For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as
      an hearth.
{102:4} My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget
      to eat my bread.
{102:5} By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my
      skin.
{102:6} I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the
      desert.
{102:7} I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.
{102:8} Mine enemies reproach me all the day; [and] they that are mad
      against me are sworn against me.
{102:9} For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with
      weeping,
{102:10} Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast
      lifted me up, and cast me down.
{102:11} My days [are] like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered
      like grass.
{102:12} But thou, O LORD, shalt endure for ever; and thy remembrance
      unto all generations.
{102:13} Thou shalt arise, [and] have mercy upon Zion: for the time to
      favour her, yea, the set time, is come.
{102:14} For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour the
      dust thereof.
{102:15} So the heathen shall fear the name of the LORD, and all the
      kings of the earth thy glory.
{102:16} When the LORD shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his
      glory.
{102:17} He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise
      their prayer.
{102:18} This shall be written for the generation to come: and the
      people which shall be created shall praise the LORD.
{102:19} For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from
      heaven did the LORD behold the earth;
{102:20} To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are
      appointed to death;
{102:21} To declare the name of the LORD in Zion, and his praise in
      Jerusalem;
{102:22} When the people are gathered together, and the kingdoms, to
      serve the LORD.
{102:23} He weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days.
{102:24} I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days:
      thy years [are] throughout all generations.
{102:25} Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the
      heavens [are] the work of thy hands.
{102:26} They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them
      shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change
      them, and they shall be changed:
{102:27} But thou [art] the same, and thy years shall have no end.
{102:28} The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed
      shall be established before thee.


Psalm 103

A [Psalm] of David.



   {103:1} Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me,
      [bless] his holy name.
{103:2} Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:
{103:3} Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy
      diseases;
{103:4} Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with
      lovingkindness and tender mercies;
{103:5} Who satisfieth thy mouth with good [things; so that] thy youth
      is renewed like the eagle's.
{103:6} The LORD executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are
      oppressed.
{103:7} He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children
      of Israel.
{103:8} The LORD [is] merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and
      plenteous in mercy.
{103:9} He will not always chide: neither will he keep [his anger] for
      ever.
{103:10} He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us
      according to our iniquities.
{103:11} For as the heaven is high above the earth, [so] great is his
      mercy toward them that fear him.
{103:12} As far as the east is from the west, [so] far hath he removed
      our transgressions from us.
{103:13} Like as a father pitieth [his] children, [so] the LORD pitieth
      them that fear him.
{103:14} For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we [are] dust.
{103:15} [As for] man, his days [are] as grass: as a flower of the
      field, so he flourisheth.
{103:16} For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place
      thereof shall know it no more.
{103:17} But the mercy of the LORD [is] from everlasting to everlasting
      upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children's
      children;
{103:18} To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his
      commandments to do them.
{103:19} The LORD hath prepared his throne in the heavens; and his
      kingdom ruleth over all.
{103:20} Bless the LORD, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do
      his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word.
{103:21} Bless ye the LORD, all [ye] his hosts; [ye] ministers of his,
      that do his pleasure.
{103:22} Bless the LORD, all his works in all places of his dominion:
      bless the LORD, O my soul.


Psalm 104

{104:1} Bless the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, thou art very great;
      thou art clothed with honour and majesty.
{104:2} Who coverest [thyself] with light as [with] a garment: who
      stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:
{104:3} Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh
      the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind:
{104:4} Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire:
{104:5} [Who] laid the foundations of the earth, [that] it should not
      be removed for ever.
{104:6} Thou coveredst it with the deep as [with] a garment: the waters
      stood above the mountains.
{104:7} At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they
      hasted away.
{104:8} They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto
      the place which thou hast founded for them.
{104:9} Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they
      turn not again to cover the earth.
{104:10} He sendeth the springs into the valleys, [which] run among the
      hills.
{104:11} They give drink to every beast of the field: the wild asses
      quench their thirst.
{104:12} By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation,
      [which] sing among the branches.
{104:13} He watereth the hills from his chambers: the earth is
      satisfied with the fruit of thy works.
{104:14} He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the
      service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;
{104:15} And wine [that] maketh glad the heart of man, [and] oil to
      make [his] face to shine, and bread [which] strengtheneth man's
      heart.
{104:16} The trees of the LORD are full [of sap;] the cedars of
      Lebanon, which he hath planted;
{104:17} Where the birds make their nests: [as for] the stork, the fir
      trees [are] her house.
{104:18} The high hills [are] a refuge for the wild goats; [and] the
      rocks for the conies.
{104:19} He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going
      down.
{104:20} Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts
      of the forest do creep [forth.]
{104:21} The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat
      from God.
{104:22} The sun ariseth, they gather themselves together, and lay them
      down in their dens.
{104:23} Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the
      evening.
{104:24} O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made
      them all: the earth is full of thy riches.
{104:25} [So is] this great and wide sea, wherein [are] things creeping
      innumerable, both small and great beasts.
{104:26} There go the ships: [there is] that leviathan, [whom] thou
      hast made to play therein.
{104:27} These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give [them] their
      meat in due season.
{104:28} [That] thou givest them they gather: thou openest thine hand,
      they are filled with good.
{104:29} Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away
      their breath, they die, and return to their dust.
{104:30} Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou
      renewest the face of the earth.
{104:31} The glory of the LORD shall endure for ever: the LORD shall
      rejoice in his works.
{104:32} He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth: he toucheth the
      hills, and they smoke.
{104:33} I will sing unto the LORD as long as I live: I will sing
      praise to my God while I have my being.
{104:34} My meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the
      LORD.
{104:35} Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth, and let the
      wicked be no more. Bless thou the LORD, O my soul. Praise ye the
      LORD.


Psalm 105

{105:1} O give thanks unto the LORD; call upon his name: make known his
      deeds among the people.
{105:2} Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him: talk ye of all his
      wondrous works.
{105:3} Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that
      seek the LORD.
{105:4} Seek the LORD, and his strength: seek his face evermore.
{105:5} Remember his marvellous works that he hath done; his wonders,
      and the judgments of his mouth;
{105:6} O ye seed of Abraham his servant, ye children of Jacob his
      chosen.
{105:7} He [is] the LORD our God: his judgments [are] in all the earth.
{105:8} He hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word [which] he
      commanded to a thousand generations.
{105:9} Which [covenant] he made with Abraham, and his oath unto Isaac;
{105:10} And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law, [and] to Israel
      [for] an everlasting covenant:
{105:11} Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of
      your inheritance:
{105:12} When they were [but] a few men in number; yea, very few, and
      strangers in it.
{105:13} When they went from one nation to another, from [one] kingdom
      to another people;
{105:14} He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings
      for their sakes;
{105:15} [Saying,] Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.
{105:16} Moreover he called for a famine upon the land: he brake the
      whole staff of bread.
{105:17} He sent a man before them, [even] Joseph, [who] was sold for a
      servant:
{105:18} Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron:
{105:19} Until the time that his word came: the word of the LORD tried
      him.
{105:20} The king sent and loosed him; [even] the ruler of the people,
      and let him go free.
{105:21} He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all his substance:
{105:22} To bind his princes at his pleasure; and teach his senators
      wisdom.
{105:23} Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land
      of Ham.
{105:24} And he increased his people greatly; and made them stronger
      than their enemies.
{105:25} He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtilly
      with his servants.
{105:26} He sent Moses his servant; [and] Aaron whom he had chosen.
{105:27} They shewed his signs among them, and wonders in the land of
      Ham.
{105:28} He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not
      against his word.
{105:29} He turned their waters into blood, and slew their fish.
{105:30} Their land brought forth frogs in abundance, in the chambers
      of their kings.
{105:31} He spake, and there came divers sorts of flies, [and] lice in
      all their coasts.
{105:32} He gave them hail for rain, [and] flaming fire in their land.
{105:33} He smote their vines also and their fig trees; and brake the
      trees of their coasts.
{105:34} He spake, and the locusts came, and caterpillers, and that
      without number,
{105:35} And did eat up all the herbs in their land, and devoured the
      fruit of their ground.
{105:36} He smote also all the firstborn in their land, the chief of
      all their strength.
{105:37} He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and [there
      was] not one feeble [person] among their tribes.
{105:38} Egypt was glad when they departed: for the fear of them fell
      upon them.
{105:39} He spread a cloud for a covering; and fire to give light in
      the night.
{105:40} [The people] asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them
      with the bread of heaven.
{105:41} He opened the rock, and the waters gushed out; they ran in the
      dry places [like] a river.
{105:42} For he remembered his holy promise, [and] Abraham his servant.
{105:43} And he brought forth his people with joy, [and] his chosen
      with gladness:
{105:44} And gave them the lands of the heathen: and they inherited the
      labour of the people;
{105:45} That they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws.
      Praise ye the LORD.


Psalm 106

{106:1} Praise ye the LORD. O give thanks unto the LORD; for [he is]
      good: for his mercy [endureth] for ever.
{106:2} Who can utter the mighty acts of the LORD? [who] can shew forth
      all his praise?
{106:3} Blessed [are] they that keep judgment, [and] he that doeth
      righteousness at all times.
{106:4} Remember me, O LORD, with the favour [that thou bearest unto]
      thy people: O visit me with thy salvation;
{106:5} That I may see the good of thy chosen, that I may rejoice in
      the gladness of thy nation, that I may glory with thine
      inheritance.
{106:6} We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we
      have done wickedly.
{106:7} Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they
      remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked [him]
      at the sea, [even] at the Red sea.
{106:8} Nevertheless he saved them for his name's sake, that he might
      make his mighty power to be known.
{106:9} He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up: so he led
      them through the depths, as through the wilderness.
{106:10} And he saved them from the hand of him that hated [them,] and
      redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
{106:11} And the waters covered their enemies: there was not one of
      them left.
{106:12} Then believed they his words; they sang his praise.
{106:13} They soon forgat his works; they waited not for his counsel:
{106:14} But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in
      the desert.
{106:15} And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their
      soul.
{106:16} They envied Moses also in the camp, [and] Aaron the saint of
      the LORD.
{106:17} The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the
      company of Abiram.
{106:18} And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up
      the wicked.
{106:19} They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image.
{106:20} Thus they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox
      that eateth grass.
{106:21} They forgat God their saviour, which had done great things in
      Egypt;
{106:22} Wondrous works in the land of Ham, [and] terrible things by
      the Red sea.
{106:23} 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.]
{106:24} Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his
      word:
{106:25} But murmured in their tents, [and] hearkened not unto the
      voice of the LORD.
{106:26} Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow
      them in the wilderness:
{106:27} To overthrow their seed also among the nations, and to scatter
      them in the lands.
{106:28} They joined themselves also unto Baal-peor, and ate the
      sacrifices of the dead.
{106:29} Thus they provoked [him] to anger with their inventions: and
      the plague brake in upon them.
{106:30} Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment: and [so] the
      plague was stayed.
{106:31} And that was counted unto him for righteousness unto all
      generations for evermore.
{106:32} They angered [him] also at the waters of strife, so that it
      went ill with Moses for their sakes:
{106:33} Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spake unadvisedly
      with his lips.
{106:34} They did not destroy the nations, concerning whom the LORD
      commanded them:
{106:35} But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works.
{106:36} And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them.
{106:37} Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto
      devils,
{106:38} 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.
{106:39} Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a
      whoring with their own inventions.
{106:40} Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his
      people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance.
{106:41} And he gave them into the hand of the heathen; and they that
      hated them ruled over them.
{106:42} Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were brought into
      subjection under their hand.
{106:43} Many times did he deliver them; but they provoked [him] with
      their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity.
{106:44} Nevertheless he regarded their affliction, when he heard their
      cry:
{106:45} And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented
      according to the multitude of his mercies.
{106:46} He made them also to be pitied of all those that carried them
      captives.
{106:47} 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.
{106:48} Blessed [be] the Lord God of Israel from everlasting to
      everlasting: and let all the people say, Amen. Praise ye the LORD.

Book V

Psalm 107

{107:1} O give thanks unto the LORD, for [he is] good: for his mercy
      [endureth] for ever.
{107:2} Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom he hath redeemed from
      the hand of the enemy;
{107:3} And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the
      west, from the north, and from the south.
{107:4} They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found
      no city to dwell in.
{107:5} Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.
{107:6} Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, [and] he
      delivered them out of their distresses.
{107:7} And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a
      city of habitation.
{107:8} Oh that [men] would praise the LORD [for] his goodness, and
      [for] his wonderful works to the children of men!
{107:9} For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul
      with goodness.
{107:10} Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, [being]
      bound in affliction and iron;
{107:11} Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned
      the counsel of the most High:
{107:12} Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell
      down, and [there was] none to help.
{107:13} Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, [and] he saved
      them out of their distresses.
{107:14} He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and
      brake their bands in sunder.
{107:15} Oh that [men] would praise the LORD [for] his goodness, and
      [for] his wonderful works to the children of men!
{107:16} For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of
      iron in sunder.
{107:17} Fools because of their transgression, and because of their
      iniquities, are afflicted.
{107:18} Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near
      unto the gates of death.
{107:19} Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, [and] he saveth
      them out of their distresses.
{107:20} He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered [them] from
      their destructions.
{107:21} Oh that [men] would praise the LORD [for] his goodness, and
      [for] his wonderful works to the children of men!
{107:22} And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and
      declare his works with rejoicing.
{107:23} They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in
      great waters;
{107:24} These see the works of the LORD, and his wonders in the deep.
{107:25} For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth
      up the waves thereof.
{107:26} They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths:
      their soul is melted because of trouble.
{107:27} They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are
      at their wit's end.
{107:28} Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he bringeth
      them out of their distresses.
{107:29} He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are
      still.
{107:30} Then are they glad because they be quiet; so he bringeth them
      unto their desired haven.
{107:31} Oh that [men] would praise the LORD [for] his goodness, and
      [for] his wonderful works to the children of men!
{107:32} Let them exalt him also in the congregation of the people, and
      praise him in the assembly of the elders.
{107:33} He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into
      dry ground;
{107:34} A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them
      that dwell therein.
{107:35} He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry
      ground into watersprings.
{107:36} And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare
      a city for habitation;
{107:37} And sow the fields, and plant vineyards, which may yield
      fruits of increase.
{107:38} He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly;
      and suffereth not their cattle to decrease.
{107:39} Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression,
      affliction, and sorrow.
{107:40} He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander
      in the wilderness, [where there is] no way.
{107:41} Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction, and maketh
      [him] families like a flock.
{107:42} The righteous shall see [it,] and rejoice: and all iniquity
      shall stop her mouth.
{107:43} Whoso [is] wise, and will observe these [things,] even they
      shall understand the lovingkindness of the LORD.


Psalm 108

A Song [or] Psalm of David.



   {108:1} O God, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give praise, even
      with my glory.
{108:2} Awake, psaltery and harp: I [myself] will awake early.
{108:3} I will praise thee, O LORD, among the people: and I will sing
      praises unto thee among the nations.
{108:4} For thy mercy [is] great above the heavens: and thy truth
      [reacheth] unto the clouds.
{108:5} Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: and thy glory above
      all the earth;
{108:6} That thy beloved may be delivered: save [with] thy right hand,
      and answer me.
{108:7} God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide
      Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.
{108:8} Gilead [is] mine; Manasseh [is] mine; Ephraim also [is] the
      strength of mine head; Judah [is] my lawgiver;
{108:9} Moab [is] my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe; over
      Philistia will I triumph.
{108:10} Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into
      Edom?
{108:11} [Wilt] not [thou,] O God, [who] hast cast us off? and wilt not
      thou, O God, go forth with our hosts?
{108:12} Give us help from trouble: for vain [is] the help of man.
{108:13} Through God we shall do valiantly: for he [it is that] shall
      tread down our enemies.


Psalm 109

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.



   {109:1} Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;
{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.
{109:3} They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought
      against me without a cause.
{109:4} For my love they are my adversaries: but I [give myself unto]
      prayer.
{109:5} And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
{109:6} Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his
      right hand.
{109:7} When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his
      prayer become sin.
{109:8} Let his days be few; [and] let another take his office.
{109:9} Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
{109:10} Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them
      seek [their bread] also out of their desolate places.
{109:11} Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the
      strangers spoil his labour.
{109:12} Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there
      be any to favour his fatherless children.
{109:13} Let his posterity be cut off; [and] in the generation
      following let their name be blotted out.
{109:14} Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD;
      and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
{109:15} Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off
      the memory of them from the earth.
{109:16} Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted
      the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in
      heart.
{109:17} As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted
      not in blessing, so let it be far from him.
{109:18} As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment,
      so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his
      bones.
{109:19} Let it be unto him as the garment [which] covereth him, and
      for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.
{109:20} [Let] this [be] the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD,
      and of them that speak evil against my soul.
{109:21} But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy name's sake:
      because thy mercy [is] good, deliver thou me.
{109:22} For I [am] poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
{109:23} I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up
      and down as the locust.
{109:24} My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of
      fatness.
{109:25} I became also a reproach unto them: [when] they looked upon me
      they shaked their heads.
{109:26} Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy mercy:
{109:27} That they may know that this [is] thy hand; [that] thou, LORD,
      hast done it.
{109:28} Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be
      ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.
{109:29} Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover
      themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.
{109:30} I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; yea, I will
      praise him among the multitude.
{109:31} For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save
      [him] from those that condemn his soul.


Psalm 110

A Psalm of David.



   {110:1} The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until
      I make thine enemies thy footstool.
{110:2} The LORD shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule
      thou in the midst of thine enemies.
{110:3} Thy people [shall be] willing in the day of thy power, in the
      beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the
      dew of thy youth.
{110:4} The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou [art] a priest
      for ever after the order of Melchizedek.
{110:5} The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the
      day of his wrath.
{110:6} He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill [the places]
      with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many
      countries.
{110:7} He shall drink of the brook in the way: therefore shall he lift
      up the head.


Psalm 111

{111:1} Praise ye the LORD. I will praise the LORD with [my] whole
      heart, in the assembly of the upright, and [in] the congregation.
{111:2} The works of the LORD [are] great, sought out of all them that
      have pleasure therein.
{111:3} His work [is] honourable and glorious: and his righteousness
      endureth for ever.
{111:4} He hath made his wonderful works to be remembered: the LORD
      [is] gracious and full of compassion.
{111:5} He hath given meat unto them that fear him: he will ever be
      mindful of his covenant.
{111:6} He hath shewed his people the power of his works, that he may
      give them the heritage of the heathen.
{111:7} The works of his hands [are] verity and judgment; all his
      commandments [are] sure.
{111:8} They stand fast for ever and ever, [and are] done in truth and
      uprightness.
{111:9} He sent redemption unto his people: he hath commanded his
      covenant for ever: holy and reverend [is] his name.
{111:10} The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of wisdom: a good
      understanding have all they that do [his commandments:] his
      praise endureth for ever.


Psalm 112

{112:1} Praise ye the LORD. Blessed [is] the man [that] feareth the
      LORD, [that] delighteth greatly in his commandments.
{112:2} His seed shall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the
      upright shall be blessed.
{112:3} Wealth and riches [shall be] in his house: and his
      righteousness endureth for ever.
{112:4} Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness: [he is]
      gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.
{112:5} A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth: he will guide his
      affairs with discretion.
{112:6} Surely he shall not be moved for ever: the righteous shall be
      in everlasting remembrance.
{112:7} He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed,
      trusting in the LORD.
{112:8} His heart [is] established, he shall not be afraid, until he
      see [his desire] upon his enemies.
{112:9} He hath dispersed, he hath given to the poor; his righteousness
      endureth for ever; his horn shall be exalted with honour.
{112:10} The wicked shall see [it,] and be grieved; he shall gnash with
      his teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.


Psalm 113

{113:1} Praise ye the LORD. Praise, O ye servants of the LORD, praise
      the name of the LORD.
{113:2} Blessed be the name of the LORD from this time forth and for
      evermore.
{113:3} From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the
      LORD'S name [is] to be praised.
{113:4} The LORD [is] high above all nations, [and] his glory above the
      heavens.
{113:5} Who [is] like unto the LORD our God, who dwelleth on high,
{113:6} Who humbleth [himself] to behold [the things that are] in
      heaven, and in the earth!
{113:7} He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, [and] lifteth the needy
      out of the dunghill;
{113:8} That he may set [him] with princes, [even] with the princes of
      his people.
{113:9} He maketh the barren woman to keep house, [and to be] a joyful
      mother of children. Praise ye the LORD.


Psalm 114

{114:1} When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people
      of strange language;
{114:2} Judah was his sanctuary, [and] Israel his dominion.
{114:3} The sea saw [it,] and fled: Jordan was driven back.
{114:4} The mountains skipped like rams, [and] the little hills like
      lambs.
{114:5} What [ailed] thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan,
      [that] thou wast driven back?
{114:6} Ye mountains, [that] ye skipped like rams; [and] ye little
      hills, like lambs?
{114:7} Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the
      presence of the God of Jacob;
{114:8} Which turned the rock [into] a standing water, the flint into a
      fountain of waters.


Psalm 115

{115:1} Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory,
      for thy mercy, [and] for thy truth's sake.
{115:2} Wherefore should the heathen say, Where [is] now their God?
{115:3} But our God [is] in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he
      hath pleased.
{115:4} Their idols [are] silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
{115:5} They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they
      see not:
{115:6} They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they
      smell not:
{115:7} They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they
      walk not: neither speak they through their throat.
{115:8} They that make them are like unto them; [so is] every one that
      trusteth in them.
{115:9} O Israel, trust thou in the LORD: he [is] their help and their
      shield.
{115:10} O house of Aaron, trust in the LORD: he [is] their help and
      their shield.
{115:11} Ye that fear the LORD, trust in the LORD: he [is] their help
      and their shield.
{115:12} The LORD hath been mindful of us: he will bless [us;] he will
      bless the house of Israel; he will bless the house of Aaron.
{115:13} He will bless them that fear the LORD, [both] small and great.
{115:14} The LORD shall increase you more and more, you and your
      children.
{115:15} Ye [are] blessed of the LORD which made heaven and earth.
{115:16} The heaven, [even] the heavens, [are] the LORD'S: but the
      earth hath he given to the children of men.
{115:17} The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into
      silence.
{115:18} But we will bless the LORD from this time forth and for
      evermore. Praise the LORD.


Psalm 116

{116:1} I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice [and] my
      supplications.
{116:2} Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call
      upon [him] as long as I live.
{116:3} The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat
      hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
{116:4} Then called I upon the name of the LORD; O LORD, I beseech
      thee, deliver my soul.
{116:5} Gracious [is] the LORD, and righteous; yea, our God [is]
      merciful.
{116:6} The LORD preserveth the simple: I was brought low, and he
      helped me.
{116:7} Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for the LORD hath dealt
      bountifully with thee.
{116:8} For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from
      tears, [and] my feet from falling.
{116:9} I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living.
{116:10} I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted:
{116:11} I said in my haste, All men [are] liars.
{116:12} What shall I render unto the LORD [for] all his benefits
      toward me?
{116:13} I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of
      the LORD.
{116:14} I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all
      his people.
{116:15} Precious in the sight of the LORD [is] the death of his saints.
{116:16} O LORD, truly I [am] thy servant; I [am] thy servant, [and]
      the son of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds.
{116:17} I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will
      call upon the name of the LORD.
{116:18} I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all
      his people,
{116:19} In the courts of the LORD'S house, in the midst of thee, O
      Jerusalem. Praise ye the LORD.


Psalm 117

{117:1} O praise the LORD, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people.
{117:2} For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of
      the LORD [endureth] for ever. Praise ye the LORD.


Psalm 118

{118:1} O give thanks unto the LORD; for [he is] good: because his
      mercy [endureth] for ever.
{118:2} Let Israel now say, that his mercy [endureth] for ever.
{118:3} Let the house of Aaron now say, that his mercy [endureth] for
      ever.
{118:4} Let them now that fear the LORD say, that his mercy [endureth]
      for ever.
{118:5} I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, [and
      set me] in a large place.
{118:6} The LORD [is] on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto
      me?
{118:7} The LORD taketh my part with them that help me: therefore shall
      I see [my desire] upon them that hate me.
{118:8} [It is] better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in
      man.
{118:9} [It is] better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in
      princes.
{118:10} All nations compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD
      will I destroy them.
{118:11} They compassed me about; yea, they compassed me about: but in
      the name of the LORD I will destroy them.
{118:12} They compassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the
      fire of thorns: for in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.
{118:13} Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall: but the LORD
      helped me.
{118:14} The LORD [is] my strength and song, and is become my salvation.
{118:15} The voice of rejoicing and salvation [is] in the tabernacles
      of the righteous: the right hand of the LORD doeth valiantly.
{118:16} The right hand of the LORD is exalted: the right hand of the
      LORD doeth valiantly.
{118:17} I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD.
{118:18} The LORD hath chastened me sore: but he hath not given me over
      unto death.
{118:19} Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them,
      [and] I will praise the LORD:
{118:20} This gate of the LORD, into which the righteous shall enter.
{118:21} I will praise thee: for thou hast heard me, and art become my
      salvation.
{118:22} The stone [which] the builders refused is become the head
      [stone] of the corner.
{118:23} This is the LORD'S doing; it [is] marvellous in our eyes.
{118:24} This [is] the day [which] the LORD hath made; we will rejoice
      and be glad in it.
{118:25} Save now, I beseech thee, O LORD: O LORD, I beseech thee, send
      now prosperity.
{118:26} Blessed [be] he that cometh in the name of the LORD: we have
      blessed you out of the house of the LORD.
{118:27} God [is] the LORD, which hath shewed us light: bind the
      sacrifice with cords, [even] unto the horns of the altar.
{118:28} Thou [art] my God, and I will praise thee: [thou art] my God,
      I will exalt thee.
{118:29} O give thanks unto the LORD; for [he is] good: for his mercy
      [endureth] for ever.


Psalm 119

ALEPH.



   {119:1} Blessed [are] the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law
      of the LORD.
{119:2} Blessed [are] they that keep his testimonies, [and that] seek
      him with the whole heart.
{119:3} They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways.
{119:4} Thou hast commanded [us] to keep thy precepts diligently.
{119:5} O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!
{119:6} Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy
      commandments.
{119:7} I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have
      learned thy righteous judgments.
{119:8} I will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly.

BETH.

{119:9} Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed
      [thereto] according to thy word.
{119:10} With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander
      from thy commandments.
{119:11} Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin
      against thee.
{119:12} Blessed [art] thou, O LORD: teach me thy statutes.
{119:13} With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth.
{119:14} I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as [much as] in
      all riches.
{119:15} I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy
      ways.
{119:16} I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy
      word.

GIMEL.

{119:17} Deal bountifully with thy servant, [that] I may live, and keep
      thy word.
{119:18} Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of
      thy law.
{119:19} I [am] a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from
      me.
{119:20} My soul breaketh for the longing [that it hath] unto thy
      judgments at all times.
{119:21} Thou hast rebuked the proud [that are] cursed, which do err
      from thy commandments.
{119:22} Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept thy
      testimonies.
{119:23} Princes also did sit [and] speak against me: [but] thy servant
      did meditate in thy statutes.
{119:24} Thy testimonies also [are] my delight [and] my counsellors.

DALETH.

{119:25} My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to
      thy word.
{119:26} I have declared my ways, and thou heardest me: teach me thy
      statutes.
{119:27} Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talk
      of thy wondrous works.
{119:28} My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according
      unto thy word.
{119:29} Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law
      graciously.
{119:30} I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid
      [before me.]
{119:31} I have stuck unto thy testimonies: O LORD, put me not to shame.
{119:32} I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt
      enlarge my heart.

HE.

{119:33} Teach me, O LORD, the way of thy statutes; and I shall keep it
      [unto] the end.
{119:34} Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall
      observe it with [my] whole heart.
{119:35} Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do
      I delight.
{119:36} Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness.
{119:37} Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; [and] quicken thou
      me in thy way.
{119:38} Stablish thy word unto thy servant, who [is devoted] to thy
      fear.
{119:39} Turn away my reproach which I fear: for thy judgments [are]
      good.
{119:40} Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy
      righteousness.

VAU.

{119:41} Let thy mercies come also unto me, O LORD, [even] thy
      salvation, according to thy word.
{119:42} So shall I have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth me:
      for I trust in thy word.
{119:43} And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth; for I
      have hoped in thy judgments.
{119:44} So shall I keep thy law continually for ever and ever.
{119:45} And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts.
{119:46} I will speak of thy testimonies also before kings, and will
      not be ashamed.
{119:47} And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have
      loved.
{119:48} My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I
      have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes.

ZAIN

{119:49} Remember the word unto thy servant, upon which thou hast
      caused me to hope.
{119:50} This [is] my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath
      quickened me.
{119:51} The proud have had me greatly in derision: [yet] have I not
      declined from thy law.
{119:52} I remembered thy judgments of old, O LORD; and have comforted
      myself.
{119:53} Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that
      forsake thy law.
{119:54} Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
{119:55} I have remembered thy name, O LORD, in the night, and have
      kept thy law.
{119:56} This I had, because I kept thy precepts.

CHETH.

{119:57} [Thou art] my portion, O LORD: I have said that I would keep
      thy words.
{119:58} I intreated thy favour with [my] whole heart: be merciful unto
      me according to thy word.
{119:59} I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.
{119:60} I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments.
{119:61} The bands of the wicked have robbed me: [but] I have not
      forgotten thy law.
{119:62} At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of
      thy righteous judgments.
{119:63} I [am] a companion of all [them] that fear thee, and of them
      that keep thy precepts.
{119:64} The earth, O LORD, is full of thy mercy: teach me thy statutes.

TETH.

{119:65} Thou hast dealt well with thy servant, O LORD, according unto
      thy word.
{119:66} Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed thy
      commandments.
{119:67} Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy
      word.
{119:68} Thou [art] good, and doest good; teach me thy statutes.
{119:69} The proud have forged a lie against me: [but] I will keep thy
      precepts with [my] whole heart.
{119:70} Their heart is as fat as grease; [but] I delight in thy law.
{119:71} [It is] good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might
      learn thy statutes.
{119:72} The law of thy mouth [is] better unto me than thousands of
      gold and silver.

JOD.

{119:73} Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me
      understanding, that I may learn thy commandments.
{119:74} They that fear thee will be glad when they see me; because I
      have hoped in thy word.
{119:75} I know, O LORD, that thy judgments [are] right, and that
      [thou] in faithfulness hast afflicted me.
{119:76} Let, I pray thee, thy merciful kindness be for my comfort,
      according to thy word unto thy servant.
{119:77} Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live: for thy
      law [is] my delight.
{119:78} Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me
      without a cause: [but] I will meditate in thy precepts.
{119:79} Let those that fear thee turn unto me, and those that have
      known thy testimonies.
{119:80} Let my heart be sound in thy statutes; that I be not ashamed.

CAPH.

{119:81} My soul fainteth for thy salvation: [but] I hope in thy word.
{119:82} Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?
{119:83} For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; [yet] do I not
      forget thy statutes.
{119:84} How many [are] the days of thy servant? when wilt thou execute
      judgment on them that persecute me?
{119:85} The proud have digged pits for me, which [are] not after thy
      law.
{119:86} All thy commandments [are] faithful: they persecute me
      wrongfully; help thou me.
{119:87} They had almost consumed me upon earth; but I forsook not thy
      precepts.
{119:88} Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the
      testimony of thy mouth.

LAMED.

{119:89} For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven.
{119:90} Thy faithfulness [is] unto all generations: thou hast
      established the earth, and it abideth.
{119:91} They continue this day according to thine ordinances: for all
      [are] thy servants.
{119:92} Unless thy law [had been] my delights, I should then have
      perished in mine affliction.
{119:93} I will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast
      quickened me.
{119:94} I [am] thine, save me; for I have sought thy precepts.
{119:95} The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: [but] I will
      consider thy testimonies.
{119:96} I have seen an end of all perfection: [but] thy commandment
      [is] exceeding broad.

MEM.

{119:97} O how love I thy law! it [is] my meditation all the day.
{119:98} Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine
      enemies: for they [are] ever with me.
{119:99} I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy
      testimonies [are] my meditation.
{119:100} I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy
      precepts.
{119:101} I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might
      keep thy word.
{119:102} I have not departed from thy judgments: for thou hast taught
      me.
{119:103} How sweet are thy words unto my taste! [yea, sweeter] than
      honey to my mouth!
{119:104} Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate
      every false way.

NUN.

{119:105} Thy word [is] a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
{119:106} I have sworn, and I will perform [it,] that I will keep thy
      righteous judgments.
{119:107} I am afflicted very much: quicken me, O LORD, according unto
      thy word.
{119:108} Accept, I beseech thee, the freewill offerings of my mouth, O
      LORD, and teach me thy judgments.
{119:109} My soul [is] continually in my hand: yet do I not forget thy
      law.
{119:110} The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy
      precepts.
{119:111} Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever: for
      they [are] the rejoicing of my heart.
{119:112} I have inclined mine heart to perform thy statutes alway,
      [even unto] the end.

SAMECH.

{119:113} I hate [vain] thoughts: but thy law do I love.
{119:114} Thou [art] my hiding place and my shield: I hope in thy word.
{119:115} Depart from me, ye evildoers: for I will keep the
      commandments of my God.
{119:116} Uphold me according unto thy word, that I may live: and let
      me not be ashamed of my hope.
{119:117} Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe: and I will have respect
      unto thy statutes continually.
{119:118} Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes:
      for their deceit [is] falsehood.
{119:119} Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth [like] dross:
      therefore I love thy testimonies.
{119:120} My flesh trembleth for fear of thee; and I am afraid of thy
      judgments.

AIN.

{119:121} I have done judgment and justice: leave me not to mine
      oppressors.
{119:122} Be surety for thy servant for good: let not the proud oppress
      me.
{119:123} Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the word of thy
      righteousness.
{119:124} Deal with thy servant according unto thy mercy, and teach me
      thy statutes.
{119:125} I [am] thy servant; give me understanding, that I may know
      thy testimonies.
{119:126} [It is] time for [thee,] LORD, to work: [for] they have made
      void thy law.
{119:127} Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine
      gold.
{119:128} Therefore I esteem all [thy] precepts [concerning] all
      [things to be] right; [and] I hate every false way.

PE.

{119:129} Thy testimonies [are] wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep
      them.
{119:130} The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth
      understanding unto the simple.
{119:131} I opened my mouth, and panted: for I longed for thy
      commandments.
{119:132} Look thou upon me, and be merciful unto me, as thou usest to
      do unto those that love thy name.
{119:133} Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have
      dominion over me.
{119:134} Deliver me from the oppression of man: so will I keep thy
      precepts.
{119:135} Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; and teach me thy
      statutes.
{119:136} Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not
      thy law.

TZADDE.

{119:137} Righteous [art] thou, O LORD, and upright [are] thy judgments.
{119:138} Thy testimonies [that] thou hast commanded [are] righteous
      and very faithful.
{119:139} My zeal hath consumed me, because mine enemies have forgotten
      thy words.
{119:140} Thy word [is] very pure: therefore thy servant loveth it.
{119:141} I [am] small and despised: [yet] do not I forget thy precepts.
{119:142} Thy righteousness [is] an everlasting righteousness, and thy
      law [is] the truth.
{119:143} Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: [yet] thy
      commandments [are] my delights.
{119:144} The righteousness of thy testimonies [is] everlasting: give
      me understanding, and I shall live.

KOPH.

{119:145} I cried with [my] whole heart; hear me, O LORD: I will keep
      thy statutes.
{119:146} I cried unto thee; save me, and I shall keep thy testimonies.
{119:147} I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in
      thy word.
{119:148} Mine eyes prevent the [night] watches, that I might meditate
      in thy word.
{119:149} Hear my voice according unto thy lovingkindness: O LORD,
      quicken me according to thy judgment.
{119:150} They draw nigh that follow after mischief: they are far from
      thy law.
{119:151} Thou [art] near, O LORD; and all thy commandments [are] truth.
{119:152} Concerning thy testimonies, I have known of old that thou
      hast founded them for ever.

RESH.

{119:153} Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget
      thy law.
{119:154} Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy
      word.
{119:155} Salvation [is] far from the wicked: for they seek not thy
      statutes.
{119:156} Great [are] thy tender mercies, O LORD: quicken me according
      to thy judgments.
{119:157} Many [are] my persecutors and mine enemies; [yet] do I not
      decline from thy testimonies.
{119:158} I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they
      kept not thy word.
{119:159} Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD,
      according to thy lovingkindness.
{119:160} Thy word [is] true [from] the beginning: and every one of thy
      righteous judgments [endureth] for ever.

SCHIN.

{119:161} Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart
      standeth in awe of thy word.
{119:162} I rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great spoil.
{119:163} I hate and abhor lying: [but] thy law do I love.
{119:164} Seven times a day do I praise thee because of thy righteous
      judgments.
{119:165} Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall
      offend them.
{119:166} LORD, I have hoped for thy salvation, and done thy
      commandments.
{119:167} My soul hath kept thy testimonies; and I love them
      exceedingly.
{119:168} I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies: for all my ways
      [are] before thee.

TAU.

{119:169} Let my cry come near before thee, O LORD: give me
      understanding according to thy word.
{119:170} Let my supplication come before thee: deliver me according to
      thy word.
{119:171} My lips shall utter praise, when thou hast taught me thy
      statutes.
{119:172} My tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments
      [are] righteousness.
{119:173} Let thine hand help me; for I have chosen thy precepts.
{119:174} I have longed for thy salvation, O LORD; and thy law [is] my
      delight.
{119:175} Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee; and let thy
      judgments help me.
{119:176} I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I
      do not forget thy commandments.


Psalm 120

A Song of degrees.



   {120:1} In my distress I cried unto the LORD, and he heard me.
{120:2} Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, [and] from a
      deceitful tongue.
{120:3} What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee,
      thou false tongue?
{120:4} Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.
{120:5} Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, [that] I dwell in the
      tents of Kedar!
{120:6} My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace.
{120:7} I [am for] peace: but when I speak, they [are] for war.


Psalm 121

A Song of degrees.



   {121:1} I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh
      my help.
{121:2} My help [cometh] from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.
{121:3} He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee
      will not slumber.
{121:4} Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
{121:5} The LORD [is] thy keeper: the LORD [is] thy shade upon thy
      right hand.
{121:6} The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.
{121:7} The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve
      thy soul.
{121:8} The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from
      this time forth, and even for evermore.


Psalm 122

A Song of degrees of David.



   {122:1} I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house
      of the LORD.
{122:2} Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem.
{122:3} Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together:
{122:4} Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, unto the
      testimony of Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the LORD.
{122:5} For there are set thrones of judgment, the thrones of the house
      of David.
{122:6} Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love
      thee.
{122:7} Peace be within thy walls, [and] prosperity within thy palaces.
{122:8} For my brethren and companions' sakes, I will now say, Peace
      [be] within thee.
{122:9} Because of the house of the LORD our God I will seek thy good.


Psalm 123

A Song of degrees.



   {123:1} Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the
      heavens.
{123:2} Behold, as the eyes of servants [look] unto the hand of their
      masters, [and] as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her
      mistress; so our eyes [wait] upon the LORD our God, until that he
      have mercy upon us.
{123:3} Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are
      exceedingly filled with contempt.
{123:4} Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that
      are at ease, [and] with the contempt of the proud.


Psalm 124

A Song of degrees of David.



   {124:1} If [it had not been] the LORD who was on our side, now may
      Israel say;
{124:2} If [it had not been] the LORD who was on our side, when men
      rose up against us:
{124:3} Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was
      kindled against us:
{124:4} Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over
      our soul:
{124:5} Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.
{124:6} Blessed [be] the LORD, who hath not given us [as] a prey to
      their teeth.
{124:7} Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers:
      the snare is broken, and we are escaped.
{124:8} Our help [is] in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and
      earth.


Psalm 125

A Song of degrees.



   {125:1} They that trust in the LORD [shall be] as mount Zion,
      [which] cannot be removed, [but] abideth for ever.
{125:2} As the mountains [are] round about Jerusalem, so the LORD [is]
      round about his people from henceforth even for ever.
{125:3} For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the
      righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands unto iniquity.
{125:4} Do good, O LORD, unto [those that be] good, and [to them that
      are] upright in their hearts.
{125:5} As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD
      shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: [but] peace
      [shall be] upon Israel.


Psalm 126

A Song of degrees.



   {126:1} When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were
      like them that dream.
{126:2} 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.
{126:3} The LORD hath done great things for us; [whereof] we are glad.
{126:4} Turn again our captivity, O LORD, as the streams in the south.
{126:5} They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.
{126:6} He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall
      doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves [with
      him.]


Psalm 127

A Song of degrees for Solomon.



   {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.
{127:2} [It is] vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat
      the bread of sorrows: [for] so he giveth his beloved sleep.
{127:3} Lo, children [are] an heritage of the LORD: [and] the fruit of
      the womb [is his] reward.
{127:4} As arrows [are] in the hand of a mighty man; so [are] children
      of the youth.
{127:5} 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

A Song of degrees.



   {128:1} Blessed [is] every one that feareth the LORD; that walketh
      in his ways.
{128:2} For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy [shalt]
      thou [be,] and [it shall be] well with thee.
{128:3} Thy wife [shall be] as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine
      house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
{128:4} Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the
      LORD.
{128:5} The LORD shall bless thee out of Zion: and thou shalt see the
      good of Jerusalem all the days of thy life.
{128:6} Yea, thou shalt see thy children's children, [and] peace upon
      Israel.


Psalm 129

A Song of degrees.



   {129:1} Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel
      now say:
{129:2} Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have
      not prevailed against me.
{129:3} The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.
{129:4} The LORD [is] righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the
      wicked.
{129:5} Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.
{129:6} Let them be as the grass [upon] the housetops, which withereth
      afore it groweth up:
{129:7} Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth
      sheaves his bosom.
{129:8} Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the LORD [be]
      upon you: we bless you in the name of the LORD.


Psalm 130

A Song of degrees.



   {130:1} Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O LORD.
{130:2} Lord, hear my voice: let thine ears be attentive to the voice
      of my supplications.
{130:3} If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall
      stand?
{130:4} But [there is] forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be
      feared.
{130:5} I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I
      hope.
{130:6} My soul [waiteth] for the Lord more than they that watch for
      the morning: [I say, more than] they that watch for the morning.
{130:7} Let Israel hope in the LORD: for with the LORD [there is]
      mercy, and with him [is] plenteous redemption.
{130:8} And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.


Psalm 131

A Song of degrees of David.



   {131:1} LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither
      do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for
      me.
{131:2} Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is
      weaned of his mother: my soul [is] even as a weaned child.
{131:3} Let Israel hope in the LORD from henceforth and for ever.


Psalm 132

A Song of degrees.



   {132:1} LORD, remember David, [and] all his afflictions:
{132:2} How he sware unto the LORD, [and] vowed unto the mighty [God]
      of Jacob;
{132:3} Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go
      up into my bed;
{132:4} I will not give sleep to mine eyes, [or] slumber to mine
      eyelids,
{132:5} Until I find out a place for the LORD, an habitation for the
      mighty [God] of Jacob.
{132:6} Lo, we heard of it at Ephratah: we found it in the fields of
      the wood.
{132:7} We will go into his tabernacles: we will worship at his
      footstool.
{132:8} Arise, O LORD, into thy rest; thou, and the ark of thy strength.
{132:9} Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness; and let thy
      saints shout for joy.
{132:10} For thy servant David's sake turn not away the face of thine
      anointed.
{132:11} The LORD hath sworn [in] truth unto David; he will not turn
      from it; Of the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy throne.
{132:12} If thy children will keep my covenant and my testimony that I
      shall teach them, their children shall also sit upon thy throne
      for evermore.
{132:13} For the LORD hath chosen Zion; he hath desired [it] for his
      habitation.
{132:14} This [is] my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have
      desired it.
{132:15} I will abundantly bless her provision: I will satisfy her poor
      with bread.
{132:16} I will also clothe her priests with salvation: and her saints
      shall shout aloud for joy.
{132:17} There will I make the horn of David to bud: I have ordained a
      lamp for mine anointed.
{132:18} His enemies will I clothe with shame: but upon himself shall
      his crown flourish.


Psalm 133

A Song of degrees of David.



   {133:1} Behold, how good and how pleasant [it is] for brethren to
      dwell together in unity!
{133:2} [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;
{133:3} 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.


Psalm 134

A Song of degrees.



   {134:1} Behold, bless ye the LORD, all [ye] servants of the LORD,
      which by night stand in the house of the LORD.
{134:2} Lift up your hands [in] the sanctuary, and bless the LORD.
{134:3} The LORD that made heaven and earth bless thee out of Zion.


Psalm 135

{135:1} Praise ye the LORD. Praise ye the name of the LORD; praise
      [him,] O ye servants of the LORD.
{135:2} Ye that stand in the house of the LORD, in the courts of the
      house of our God,
{135:3} Praise the LORD; for the LORD [is] good: sing praises unto his
      name; for [it is] pleasant.
{135:4} For the LORD hath chosen Jacob unto himself, [and] Israel for
      his peculiar treasure.
{135:5} For I know that the LORD [is] great, and [that] our Lord [is]
      above all gods.
{135:6} Whatsoever the LORD pleased, [that] did he in heaven, and in
      earth, in the seas, and all deep places.
{135:7} He causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he
      maketh lightnings for the rain; he bringeth the wind out of his
      treasuries.
{135:8} Who smote the firstborn of Egypt, both of man and beast.
{135:9} [Who] sent tokens and wonders into the midst of thee, O Egypt,
      upon Pharaoh, and upon all his servants.
{135:10} Who smote great nations, and slew mighty kings;
{135:11} Sihon king of the Amorites, and Og king of Bashan, and all the
      kingdoms of Canaan:
{135:12} And gave their land [for] an heritage, an heritage unto Israel
      his people.
{135:13} Thy name, O LORD, [endureth] for ever; [and] thy memorial, O
      LORD, throughout all generations.
{135:14} For the LORD will judge his people, and he will repent himself
      concerning his servants.
{135:15} The idols of the heathen [are] silver and gold, the work of
      men's hands.
{135:16} They have mouths, but they speak not; eyes have they, but they
      see not;
{135:17} They have ears, but they hear not; neither is there [any]
      breath in their mouths.
{135:18} They that make them are like unto them: [so is] every one that
      trusteth in them.
{135:19} Bless the LORD, O house of Israel: bless the LORD, O house of
      Aaron:
{135:20} Bless the LORD, O house of Levi: ye that fear the LORD, bless
      the LORD.
{135:21} Blessed be the LORD out of Zion, which dwelleth at Jerusalem.
      Praise ye the LORD.


Psalm 136

{136:1} O give thanks unto the LORD; for [he is] good: for his mercy
      [endureth] for ever.
{136:2} O give thanks unto the God of gods: for his mercy [endureth]
      for ever.
{136:3} O give thanks to the Lord of lords: for his mercy [endureth]
      for ever.
{136:4} To him who alone doeth great wonders: for his mercy [endureth]
      for ever.
{136:5} To him that by wisdom made the heavens: for his mercy
      [endureth] for ever.
{136:6} To him that stretched out the earth above the waters: for his
      mercy [endureth] for ever.
{136:7} To him that made great lights: for his mercy [endureth] for
      ever:
{136:8} The sun to rule by day: for his mercy [endureth] for ever:
{136:9} The moon and stars to rule by night: for his mercy [endureth]
      for ever.
{136:10} To him that smote Egypt in their firstborn: for his mercy
      [endureth] for ever:
{136:11} And brought out Israel from among them: for his mercy
      [endureth] for ever:
{136:12} With a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm: for his
      mercy [endureth] for ever.
{136:13} To him which divided the Red sea into parts: for his mercy
      [endureth] for ever:
{136:14} And made Israel to pass through the midst of it: for his mercy
      [endureth] for ever:
{136:15} But overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red sea: for his
      mercy [endureth] for ever.
{136:16} To him which led his people through the wilderness: for his
      mercy [endureth] for ever.
{136:17} To him which smote great kings: for his mercy [endureth] for
      ever:
{136:18} And slew famous kings: for his mercy [endureth] for ever:
{136:19} Sihon king of the Amorites: for his mercy [endureth] for ever:
{136:20} And Og the king of Bashan: for his mercy [endureth] for ever:
{136:21} And gave their land for an heritage: for his mercy [endureth]
      for ever:
{136:22} [Even] an heritage unto Israel his servant: for his mercy
      [endureth] for ever.
{136:23} Who remembered us in our low estate: for his mercy [endureth]
      for ever:
{136:24} And hath redeemed us from our enemies: for his mercy
      [endureth] for ever.
{136:25} Who giveth food to all flesh: for his mercy [endureth] for
      ever.
{136:26} O give thanks unto the God of heaven: for his mercy [endureth]
      for ever.


Psalm 137

{137:1} By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when
      we remembered Zion.
{137:2} We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.
{137:3} For there they that carried us away captive required of us a
      song; and they that wasted us [required of us] mirth, [saying,]
      Sing us [one] of the songs of Zion.
{137:4} How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a strange land?
{137:5} If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget [her
      cunning.]
{137:6} If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of
      my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
{137:7} Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem;
      who said, Rase [it,] rase [it, even] to the foundation thereof.
{137:8} O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy [shall he
      be,] that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.
{137:9} Happy [shall he be,] that taketh and dasheth thy little ones
      against the stones.


Psalm 138

A [Psalm] of David.



   {138:1} I will praise thee with my whole heart: before the gods will
      I sing praise unto thee.
{138:2} 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.
{138:3} In the day when I cried thou answeredst me, [and]
      strengthenedst me [with] strength in my soul.
{138:4} All the kings of the earth shall praise thee, O LORD, when they
      hear the words of thy mouth.
{138:5} Yea, they shall sing in the ways of the LORD: for great [is]
      the glory of the LORD.
{138:6} Though the LORD [be] high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly:
      but the proud he knoweth afar off.
{138:7} Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me:
      thou shalt stretch forth thine hand against the wrath of mine
      enemies, and thy right hand shall save me.
{138:8} 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

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.



   {139:1} O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known [me.]
{139:2} Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou
      understandest my thought afar off.
{139:3} Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted
      [with] all my ways.
{139:4} For [there is] not a word in my tongue, [but,] lo, O LORD, thou
      knowest it altogether.
{139:5} Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon
      me.
{139:6} [Such] knowledge [is] too wonderful for me; it is high, I
      cannot [attain] unto it.
{139:7} Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee
      from thy presence?
{139:8} If I ascend up into heaven, thou [art] there: if I make my bed
      in hell, behold, thou [art there.]
{139:9} [If] I take the wings of the morning, [and] dwell in the
      uttermost parts of the sea;
{139:10} Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall
      hold me.
{139:11} If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night
      shall be light about me.
{139:12} Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth
      as the day: the darkness and the light [are] both alike [to thee.]
{139:13} For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my
      mother's womb.
{139:14} I will praise thee; for I am fearfully [and] wonderfully made:
      marvellous [are] thy works; and [that] my soul knoweth right well.
{139:15} My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret,
      [and] curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
{139:16} Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in
      thy book all [my members] were written, [which] in continuance
      were fashioned, when [as yet there was] none of them.
{139:17} How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great
      is the sum of them!
{139:18} [If] I should count them, they are more in number than the
      sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.
{139:19} Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me
      therefore, ye bloody men.
{139:20} For they speak against thee wickedly, [and] thine enemies take
      [thy name] in vain.
{139:21} Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I
      grieved with those that rise up against thee?
{139:22} I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.
{139:23} Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my
      thoughts:
{139:24} And see if [there be any] wicked way in me, and lead me in the
      way everlasting.


Psalm 140

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.



   {140:1} Deliver me, O LORD, from the evil man: preserve me from the
      violent man;
{140:2} Which imagine mischiefs in [their] heart; continually are they
      gathered together [for] war.
{140:3} They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders'
      poison [is] under their lips. Selah.
{140:4} Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from
      the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my goings.
{140:5} The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread
      a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.
{140:6} I said unto the LORD, Thou [art] my God: hear the voice of my
      supplications, O LORD.
{140:7} O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou hast covered
      my head in the day of battle.
{140:8} Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked: further not his
      wicked device; [lest] they exalt themselves. Selah.
{140:9} [As for] the head of those that compass me about, let the
      mischief of their own lips cover them.
{140:10} Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the
      fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again.
{140:11} Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil
      shall hunt the violent man to overthrow [him.]
{140:12} I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted,
      [and] the right of the poor.
{140:13} Surely the righteous shall give thanks unto thy name: the
      upright shall dwell in thy presence.


Psalm 141

A Psalm of David.



   {141:1} LORD, I cry unto thee: make haste unto me; give ear unto my
      voice, when I cry unto thee.
{141:2} Let my prayer be set forth before thee [as] incense; [and] the
      lifting up of my hands [as] the evening sacrifice.
{141:3} Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
{141:4} 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.
{141:5} 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.
{141:6} When their judges are overthrown in stony places, they shall
      hear my words; for they are sweet.
{141:7} Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one
      cutteth and cleaveth [wood] upon the earth.
{141:8} But mine eyes [are] unto thee, O GOD the Lord: in thee is my
      trust; leave not my soul destitute.
{141:9} Keep me from the snares [which] they have laid for me, and the
      gins of the workers of iniquity.
{141:10} Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst that I withal
      escape.


Psalm 142

Maschil of David; A Prayer when he was in the cave.



   {142:1} I cried unto the LORD with my voice; with my voice unto the
      LORD did I make my supplication.
{142:2} I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my
      trouble.
{142:3} 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.
{142:4} 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.
{142:5} I cried unto thee, O LORD: I said, Thou [art] my refuge [and]
      my portion in the land of the living.
{142:6} Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from
      my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.
{142:7} Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name: the
      righteous shall compass me about; for thou shalt deal bountifully
      with me.


Psalm 143

A Psalm of David.



   {143:1} Hear my prayer, O LORD, give ear to my supplications: in thy
      faithfulness answer me, [and] in thy righteousness.
{143:2} And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight
      shall no man living be justified.
{143:3} For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life
      down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as
      those that have been long dead.
{143:4} Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within
      me is desolate.
{143:5} I remember the days of old; I meditate on all thy works; I muse
      on the work of thy hands.
{143:6} I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul [thirsteth] after
      thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.
{143:7} Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face
      from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.
{143:8} 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.
{143:9} Deliver me, O LORD, from mine enemies: I flee unto thee to hide
      me.
{143:10} Teach me to do thy will; for thou [art] my God: thy spirit
      [is] good; lead me into the land of uprightness.
{143:11} Quicken me, O LORD, for thy name's sake: for thy
      righteousness' sake bring my soul out of trouble.
{143:12} And of thy mercy cut off mine enemies, and destroy all them
      that afflict my soul: for I [am] thy servant.


Psalm 144

A [Psalm] of David.



   {144:1} Blessed [be] the LORD my strength, which teacheth my hands
      to war, [and] my fingers to fight:
{144:2} My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer;
      my shield, and [he] in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under
      me.
{144:3} LORD, what [is] man, that thou takest knowledge of him! [or]
      the son of man, that thou makest account of him!
{144:4} Man is like to vanity: his days [are] as a shadow that passeth
      away.
{144:5} Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains,
      and they shall smoke.
{144:6} Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows,
      and destroy them.
{144:7} Send thine hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great
      waters, from the hand of strange children;
{144:8} Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand [is] a right
      hand of falsehood.
{144:9} I will sing a new song unto thee, O God: upon a psaltery [and]
      an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee.
{144:10} [It is he] that giveth salvation unto kings: who delivereth
      David his servant from the hurtful sword.
{144:11} Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children,
      whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand [is] a right
      hand of falsehood:
{144:12} That our sons [may be] as plants grown up in their youth;
      [that] our daughters [may be] as corner stones, polished [after]
      the similitude of a palace:
{144:13} [That] our garners [may be] full, affording all manner of
      store: [that] our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten
      thousands in our streets:
{144:14} [That] our oxen [may be] strong to labour; [that there be] no
      breaking in, nor going out; that [there be] no complaining in our
      streets.
{144:15} Happy [is that] people, that is in such a case: [yea,] happy
      [is that] people, whose God [is] the LORD.


Psalm 145

David's [Psalm] of praise.



   {145:1} I will extol thee, my God, O king; and I will bless thy name
      for ever and ever.
{145:2} Every day will I bless thee; and I will praise thy name for
      ever and ever.
{145:3} Great [is] the LORD, and greatly to be praised; and his
      greatness [is] unsearchable.
{145:4} One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall
      declare thy mighty acts.
{145:5} I will speak of the glorious honour of thy majesty, and of thy
      wondrous works.
{145:6} And [men] shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts: and I
      will declare thy greatness.
{145:7} They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness,
      and shall sing of thy righteousness.
{145:8} The LORD [is] gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger,
      and of great mercy.
{145:9} The LORD [is] good to all: and his tender mercies [are] over
      all his works.
{145:10} All thy works shall praise thee, O LORD; and thy saints shall
      bless thee.
{145:11} They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom, and talk of thy
      power;
{145:12} To make known to the sons of men his mighty acts, and the
      glorious majesty of his kingdom.
{145:13} Thy kingdom [is] an everlasting kingdom, and thy dominion
      [endureth] throughout all generations.
{145:14} The LORD upholdeth all that fall, and raiseth up all [those
      that be] bowed down.
{145:15} The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their
      meat in due season.
{145:16} Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every
      living thing.
{145:17} The LORD [is] righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his
      works.
{145:18} The LORD [is] nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all
      that call upon him in truth.
{145:19} He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him: he also will
      hear their cry, and will save them.
{145:20} The LORD preserveth all them that love him: but all the wicked
      will he destroy.
{145:21} My mouth shall speak the praise of the LORD: and let all flesh
      bless his holy name for ever and ever.


Psalm 146

{146:1} Praise ye the LORD. Praise the LORD, O my soul.
{146:2} While I live will I praise the LORD: I will sing praises unto
      my God while I have any being.
{146:3} Put not your trust in princes, [nor] in the son of man, in whom
      [there is] no help.
{146:4} His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very
      day his thoughts perish.
{146:5} Happy [is he] that [hath] the God of Jacob for his help, whose
      hope [is] in the LORD his God:
{146:6} Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein
      [is:] which keepeth truth for ever:
{146:7} Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food
      to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners:
{146:8} The LORD openeth [the eyes of] the blind: the LORD raiseth them
      that are bowed down: the LORD loveth the righteous:
{146:9} The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless
      and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
{146:10} The LORD shall reign for ever, [even] thy God, O Zion, unto
      all generations. Praise ye the LORD.


Psalm 147

{147:1} Praise ye the LORD: for [it is] good to sing praises unto our
      God; for [it is] pleasant; [and] praise is comely.
{147:2} The LORD doth build up Jerusalem: he gathereth together the
      outcasts of Israel.
{147:3} He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.
{147:4} He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by
      [their] names.
{147:5} Great [is] our Lord, and of great power: his understanding [is]
      infinite.
{147:6} The LORD lifteth up the meek: he casteth the wicked down to the
      ground.
{147:7} Sing unto the LORD with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp
      unto our God:
{147:8} Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the
      earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.
{147:9} He giveth to the beast his food, [and] to the young ravens
      which cry.
{147:10} He delighteth not in the strength of the horse: he taketh not
      pleasure in the legs of a man.
{147:11} The LORD taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those that
      hope in his mercy.
{147:12} Praise the LORD, O Jerusalem; praise thy God, O Zion.
{147:13} For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; he hath
      blessed thy children within thee.
{147:14} He maketh peace [in] thy borders, [and] filleth thee with the
      finest of the wheat.
{147:15} He sendeth forth his commandment [upon] earth: his word
      runneth very swiftly.
{147:16} He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the hoar frost like
      ashes.
{147:17} He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before
      his cold?
{147:18} He sendeth out his word, and melteth them: he causeth his wind
      to blow, [and] the waters flow.
{147:19} He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments
      unto Israel.
{147:20} He hath not dealt so with any nation: and [as for his]
      judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye the LORD.


Psalm 148

{148:1} Praise ye the LORD. Praise ye the LORD from the heavens: praise
      him in the heights.
{148:2} Praise ye him, all his angels: praise ye him, all his hosts.
{148:3} Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars of light.
{148:4} Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that [be]
      above the heavens.
{148:5} Let them praise the name of the LORD: for he commanded, and
      they were created.
{148:6} He hath also stablished them for ever and ever: he hath made a
      decree which shall not pass.
{148:7} Praise the LORD from the earth, ye dragons, and all deeps:
{148:8} Fire, and hail; snow, and vapours; stormy wind fulfilling his
      word:
{148:9} Mountains, and all hills; fruitful trees, and all cedars:
{148:10} Beasts, and all cattle; creeping things, and flying fowl:
{148:11} Kings of the earth, and all people; princes, and all judges of
      the earth:
{148:12} Both young men, and maidens; old men, and children:
{148:13} Let them praise the name of the LORD: for his name alone is
      excellent; his glory [is] above the earth and heaven.
{148:14} He also exalteth the horn of his people, the praise of all his
      saints; [even] of the children of Israel, a people near unto him.
      Praise ye the LORD.


Psalm 149

{149:1} Praise ye the LORD. Sing unto the LORD a new song, [and] his
      praise in the congregation of saints.
{149:2} Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: let the children of
      Zion be joyful in their King.
{149:3} Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises
      unto him with the timbrel and harp.
{149:4} For the LORD taketh pleasure in his people: he will beautify
      the meek with salvation.
{149:5} Let the saints be joyful in glory: let them sing aloud upon
      their beds.
{149:6} [Let] the high [praises] of God [be] in their mouth, and a
      twoedged sword in their hand;
{149:7} To execute vengeance upon the heathen, [and] punishments upon
      the people;
{149:8} To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters
      of iron;
{149:9} To execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all
      his saints. Praise ye the LORD.


Psalm 150

{150:1} Praise ye the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in
      the firmament of his power.
{150:2} Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his
      excellent greatness.
{150:3} Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the
      psaltery and harp.
{150:4} Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed
      instruments and organs.
{150:5} Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high
      sounding cymbals.
{150:6} Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD. Praise ye the
      LORD.



The Revelation of St. John the Divine

   {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: {1:2} Who
bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ,
and of all things that he saw. {1:3} Blessed [is] he that readeth, and
they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which
are written therein: for the time [is] at hand. {1:4} 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; {1:5} 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, {1:6} And hath made us kings and
priests unto God and his Father; to him [be] glory and dominion for
ever and ever. Amen. {1:7} Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye
shall see him, and they [also] which pierced him: and all kindreds of
the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen. {1:8} 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.

   {1:9} 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. {1:10} I was in the Spirit on the Lord's
day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, {1:11} Saying,
I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What 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.
{1:12} And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being
turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks; {1:13} And in the midst of the
seven candlesticks [one] like unto the Son of man, clothed with a
garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.
{1:14} His head and [his] hairs [were] white like wool, as white as
snow; and his eyes [were] as a flame of fire; {1:15} And his feet like
unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the
sound of many waters. {1:16} And he had in his right hand seven stars:
and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance
[was] as the sun shineth in his strength. {1:17} 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: {1:18} I [am] he that
liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and
have the keys of hell and of death.

   {1:19} Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which
are, and the things which shall be hereafter; {1:20} The mystery of the
seven stars which thou sawest in my right 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.

   {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; {2:2} 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: {2:3} And hast borne, and hast
patience, and for my name's sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted.
{2:4} Nevertheless I have [somewhat] against thee, because thou hast
left thy first love. {2:5} Remember therefore from whence thou art
fallen, and repent, 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. {2:6} But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of
the Nicolaitanes, which I also hate. {2:7} He that hath an ear, let him
hear what the Spirit saith unto the 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.

   {2:8} And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things
saith the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive; {2:9} 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. {2:10} 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. {2:11} He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith
unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second
death.

   {2:12} And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These
things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two edges; {2:13} I
know thy works, and where thou dwellest, [even] where Satan's 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. {2:14} 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.
{2:15} So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the
Nicolaitanes, which thing I hate. {2:16} Repent; or else I will come
unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my
mouth. {2:17} He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith
unto the 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.]

   {2:18} 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; {2:19} 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. {2:20} Notwithstanding I have a
few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel,
which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants
to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols. {2:21}
And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented
not. {2:22} Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit
adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their
deeds. {2:23} 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. {2:24}
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. {2:25} But that which ye
have [already] hold fast till I come. {2:26} And he that overcometh,
and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the
nations: {2:27} And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the
vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received
of my Father. {2:28} And I will give him the morning star. {2:29} He
that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.

   {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.
{3:2} Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are
ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God. {3:3}
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. {3:4}
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.
{3:5} 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. {3:6} He that
hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.

   {3:7} 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; {3:8} 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. {3:9} 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. {3:10} 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. {3:11} Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which
thou hast, that no man take thy crown. {3:12} Him that overcometh will
I make a pillar in the temple of my God, 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. {3:13} He that
hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.

   {3:14} 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; {3:15} I know thy works, that thou
art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. {3:16} So then
because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee
out of my mouth. {3:17} Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased
with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art
wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: {3:18} 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. {3:19} As many as I love, I rebuke and
chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. {3:20} 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. {3:21} 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. {3:22} He
that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.

   {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. {4:2} And immediately I was in the
spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and [one] sat on the
throne. {4:3} And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a
sardine stone: and [there was] a rainbow round about the throne, in
sight like unto an emerald. {4:4} 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. {4:5} 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. {4:6} 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. {4:7} 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. {4:8} 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. {4:9}
And when those beasts give glory and honour and thanks to him that sat
on the throne, who liveth for ever and ever, {4:10} 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, {4:11} 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.

   {5:1} And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a
book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals. {5:2}
And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy
to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof? {5:3} And no man in
heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the
book, neither to look thereon. {5:4} And I wept much, because no man
was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon.
{5:5} And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion
of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the
book, and to loose the seven seals thereof. {5:6} 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. {5:7} And he came and took the book out of the right hand of
him that sat upon the throne. {5:8} And when he had taken the book, the
four beasts and four [and] 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. {5:9} 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; {5:10} And hast made us
unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth. {5:11}
And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the
throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten
thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands; {5:12} 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. {5:13} 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. {5:14} And the four beasts said, Amen. And the four
[and] twenty elders fell down and worshipped him that liveth for ever
and ever.

   {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. {6:2} 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. {6:3} And when he had opened the second
seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see. {6:4} And there went
out another horse [that was] red: and [power] was 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. {6:5} 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. {6:6} 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. {6:7}
And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth
beast say, Come and see. {6:8} And I looked, and behold a pale horse:
and his name that sat on 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. {6:9} 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: {6:10} 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? {6:11} 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. {6:12} 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; {6:13} And the stars of heaven
fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when
she is shaken of a mighty wind. {6:14} And the heaven departed as a
scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were
moved out of their places. {6:15} 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; {6:16} 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: {6:17} For the great day of his
wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?

   {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.
{7:2} 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, {7:3} Saying, Hurt
not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the
servants of our God in their foreheads. {7:4} And I heard the number of
them which were sealed: [and there were] sealed an hundred [and] forty
[and] four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel. {7:5}
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. {7:6} Of the tribe of Aser [were] sealed twelve
thousand. Of the tribe of Nepthalim [were] sealed twelve thousand. Of
the tribe of Manasses [were] sealed twelve thousand. {7:7} Of the tribe
of Simeon [were] sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Levi [were]
sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Issachar [were] sealed twelve
thousand. {7:8} Of the tribe of Zabulon [were] sealed twelve thousand.
Of the tribe of Joseph [were] sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of
Benjamin [were] sealed twelve thousand. {7:9} After this I beheld, and,
lo, a great multitude, which no man could 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; {7:10}
And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth
upon the throne, and unto the Lamb. {7:11} And all the angels stood
round about the throne, and [about] the elders and the four beasts, and
fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God, {7:12}
Saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and
honour, and power, and might, [be] unto our God for ever and ever.
Amen. {7:13} And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are
these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they? {7:14}
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. {7:15} 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. {7:16} They
shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun
light on them, nor any heat. {7:17} For the Lamb which is in the midst
of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living
fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.

   {8:1} And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in
heaven about the space of half an hour. {8:2} And I saw the seven
angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets.
{8:3} And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden
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. {8:4} And the smoke of the incense, [which came]
with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the
angel's hand. {8:5} And the angel took the censer, and filled it with
fire of the altar, and cast [it] into the earth: and there were voices,
and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake. {8:6} And the seven
angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.

   {8:7} 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. {8:8} 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;
{8:9} 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. {8:10}
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; {8:11} 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. {8:12} 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.

   {8:13} 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!

   {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.
{9:2} 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. {9:3} 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. {9:4} 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. {9:5} 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.
{9:6} And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it;
and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them. {9:7} And the
shapes of the locusts [were] like unto horses prepared unto battle; and
on their heads [were] as it were crowns like gold, and their faces
[were] as the faces of men. {9:8} And they had hair as the hair of
women, and their teeth were as [the teeth] of lions. {9:9} And they had
breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their
wings [was] as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.
{9:10} And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in
their tails: and their power [was] to hurt men five months. {9:11} 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. {9:12} One woe is past; [and,] behold, there
come two woes more hereafter.

   {9:13} And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the
four horns of the golden altar which is before God, {9:14} Saying to
the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are
bound in the great river Euphrates. {9:15} And the four angels were
loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a
year, for to slay the third part of men. {9:16} And the number of the
army of the horsemen [were] two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard
the number of them. {9:17} And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and
them that sat on 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. {9:18} 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. {9:19}
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.
{9:20} 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: {9:21} Neither
repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their
fornication, nor of their thefts.

   {10:1} 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: {10:2} And he had in
his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea,
and [his] left [foot] on the earth, {10:3} And cried with a loud voice,
as [when] a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered
their voices. {10:4} And when the seven thunders had uttered their
voices, I was 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. {10:5} And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and
upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven, {10:6} And sware by him
that liveth for ever and ever, who created 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: {10:7} But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when
he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he
hath declared to his servants the prophets. {10:8} And the voice which
I heard from heaven spake unto me again, 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. {10:9} 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. {10:10} 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. {10:11} And he said
unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and
tongues, and kings.

   {11:1} 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. {11:2} 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. {11:3} And I will give [power] unto my two witnesses, and they
shall prophesy a thousand two hundred [and] threescore days, clothed in
sackcloth. {11:4} These are the two olive trees, and the two
candlesticks standing before the God of the earth. {11:5} And if any
man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth
their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be
killed. {11:6} 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.
{11:7} 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. {11:8} 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. {11:9} 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. {11:10} 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. {11:11} 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. {11:12} And they heard a great voice
from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to
heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them. {11:13} And the same
hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth 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. {11:14} The
second woe is past; [and,] behold, the third woe cometh quickly.
{11:15} 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.
{11:16} And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their
seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God, {11:17} Saying, We
give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to
come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast
reigned. {11:18} 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. {11:19} 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.

   {12:1} And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed
with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of
twelve stars: {12:2} And she being with child cried, travailing in
birth, and pained to be delivered. {12:3} 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. {12:4} 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. {12:5} 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. {12:6} 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. {12:7} And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought
against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, {12:8} And
prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. {12:9}
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. {12:10} 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. {12:11} 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. {12:12} 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. {12:13} And when the dragon saw that he was cast
unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man
[child. ]{12:14} And to the woman were given two wings of a great
eagle, that 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. {12:15} And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as
a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of
the flood. {12:16} And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened
her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his
mouth. {12:17} 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.

   {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. {13:2} 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. {13:3} 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. {13:4} 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? {13:5} 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. {13:6} And he opened his mouth in
blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and
them that dwell in heaven. {13:7} 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. {13:8} 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. {13:9} If any
man have an ear, let him hear. {13:10} He that leadeth into captivity
shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed
with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.
{13:11} And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he
had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. {13:12} And he
exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the
earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose
deadly wound was healed. {13:13} And he doeth great wonders, so that he
maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
{13:14} And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by [the means of]
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. {13:15} 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. {13:16} And he causeth
all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a
mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: {13:17} And that no
man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the
beast, or the number of his name. {13:18} Here is wisdom. Let him that
hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number
of a man; and his number [is] Six hundred threescore [and] six.

   {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. {14:2} 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: {14:3} 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. {14:4} 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. {14:5} And in their mouth was found no guile: for
they are without fault before the throne of God.

   {14:6} And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having
the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and
to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, {14:7} 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. {14:8} 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.
{14:9} 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, {14:10} 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:
{14:11} 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. {14:12} Here is
the patience of the saints: here [are] they that keep the commandments
of God, and the faith of Jesus. {14:13} And I heard a voice from heaven
saying unto me, Write, Blessed [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.

   {14:14} 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. {14:15} 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. {14:16} And he that sat on the
cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped.
{14:17} And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, he
also having a sharp sickle. {14:18} And another angel came out from the
altar, which had power 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.
{14:19} 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. {14:20} 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.

   {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. {15:2} 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. {15:3} 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. {15:4} 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. {15:5} And after that I looked, and, behold, the temple of
the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened: {15:6} And the
seven angels came out of the temple, having the seven plagues, clothed
in pure and white linen, and having their breasts girded with golden
girdles. {15:7} 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. {15:8} 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.

   {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. {16:2} 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. {16:3} 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. {16:4} And the third angel poured out his vial upon the
rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood. {16:5} And I
heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which
art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus. {16:6} For
they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given
them blood to drink; for they are worthy. {16:7} And I heard another
out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous
[are] thy judgments. {16:8} And the fourth angel poured out his vial
upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
{16:9} And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name
of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to
give him glory. {16:10} 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, {16:11} And blasphemed the God of heaven
because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their
deeds. {16:12} And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great
river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of
the kings of the east might be prepared. {16:13} And I saw three
unclean spirits like frogs [come] out of the mouth of the dragon, and
out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false
prophet. {16:14} 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. {16:15}
Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed [is] he that watcheth, and keepeth
his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame. {16:16} And
he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue
Armageddon. {16:17} 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. {16:18} 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. {16:19} 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. {16:20} And every island fled away, and the mountains were
not found. {16:21} 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.

   {17:1} 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: {17:2} 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. {17:3} So he carried me away in the spirit
into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured
beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
{17:4} And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and
decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in
her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: {17:5}
And upon her forehead [was] a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT,
THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. {17:6} And I saw
the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of
the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great
admiration. {17:7} 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. {17:8} 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. {17:9} And here [is] the mind which hath wisdom. The
seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth. {17:10}
And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, [and] the other
is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.
{17:11} And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and
is of the seven, and goeth into perdition. {17:12} And the ten horns
which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet;
but receive power as kings one hour with the beast. {17:13} These have
one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
{17:14} These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome
them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are
with him [are] called, and chosen, and faithful. {17:15} And he saith
unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are
peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues. {17:16} 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. {17:17} 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. {17:18} And the woman which thou
sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.

   {18:1} And after these things I saw another angel come down from
heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.
{18:2} 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. {18:3} 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. {18:4} 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. {18:5} For her sins
have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
{18:6} Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double
according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her
double. {18:7} 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. {18:8}
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. {18:9} 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,
{18:10} 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. {18:11} And the merchants of the earth shall weep and
mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more: {18:12}
The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of
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, {18:13} 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. {18:14} 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. {18:15} The merchants of these things, which were made
rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping
and wailing, {18:16} 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! {18:17} 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,
{18:18} And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What
[city is] like unto this great city! {18:19} And they cast dust on
their heads, and cried, weeping and 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. {18:20}
Rejoice over her, [thou] heaven, and [ye] holy apostles and prophets;
for God hath avenged you on her. {18:21} 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. {18:22} And the voice of harpers, and
musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all
in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft [he be,] shall be found
any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more
at all in thee; {18:23} And the light of a candle shall shine no more
at all in thee; 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. {18:24}
And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all
that were slain upon the earth.

   {19:1} 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: {19:2} 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. {19:3} And again they said, Alleluia. And her smoke rose
up for ever and ever. {19:4} And the four and twenty elders and the
four beasts fell down and worshipped God that sat on the throne,
saying, Amen; Alleluia. {19:5} And a voice came out of the throne,
saying, Praise our God, all ye his servants, and ye that fear him, both
small and great. {19:6} And I heard as it were the voice of a great
multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty
thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.
{19:7} Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the
marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.
{19:8} 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.
{19:9} 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. {19:10} 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. {19:11} 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.
{19:12} 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.
{19:13} And he [was] clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his
name is called The Word of God. {19:14} And the armies [which were] in
heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and
clean. {19:15} And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it
he should 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. {19:16} And he hath on [his] vesture and on his thigh a name
written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.

   {19:17} And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a
loud 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;
{19:18} 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. {19:19} 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. {19:20} 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. {19:21} 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.

   {20:1} And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of
the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. {20:2} And he laid
hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan,
and bound him a thousand years, {20:3} And cast him into the bottomless
pit, and shut him up, and set a 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. {20:4} 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.
{20:5} But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand
years were finished. This [is] the first resurrection. {20:6} Blessed
and holy [is] he that hath part in the first resurrection: on 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. {20:7} And when the
thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,
{20:8} And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four
quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to
battle: the number of whom [is] as the sand of the sea. {20:9} 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. {20:10} 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.

   {20:11} 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. {20:12} 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.
{20:13} 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. {20:14} And death and hell were
cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. {20:15} And
whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the
lake of fire.

   {21:1} 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. {21:2}
And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out
of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. {21:3} And I
heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the 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. {21:4}
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. {21:5} 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. {21:6} 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. {21:7} He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and
I will be his God, and he shall be my son. {21:8} But the fearful, and
unbelieving, and the abominable, and 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.

   {21:9} 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. {21:10} And
he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and
shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven
from God, {21:11} Having the glory of God: and her light [was] like
unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal;
{21:12} And had a wall great and high, [and] had twelve gates, and at
the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are [the
names] of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel: {21:13} On the
east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates;
and on the west three gates. {21:14} And the wall of the city had
twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the
Lamb. {21:15} And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure
the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof. {21:16} And the
city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and
he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The
length and the breadth and the height of it are equal. {21:17} 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. {21:18} And
the building of the wall of it was [of] jasper: and the city [was] pure
gold, like unto clear glass. {21:19} And the foundations of the wall of
the city [were] garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first
foundation [was] jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony;
the fourth, an emerald; {21:20} The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth,
sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a
topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth,
an amethyst. {21:21} 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. {21:22} And I saw no temple
therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.
{21:23} 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. {21:24} 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. {21:25} And the gates of it shall not be shut
at all by day: for there shall be no night there. {21:26} And they
shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it. {21:27} And
there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither
[whatsoever] worketh abomination, or [maketh] a lie: but they which are
written in the Lamb's book of life.

   {22:1} And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as
crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. {22:2} In
the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, [was
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. {22:3} 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: {22:4} And they shall see his face; and his name
[shall be] in their foreheads. {22:5} 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.

   {22:6} 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. {22:7} Behold, I come
quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this
book. {22:8} And I John saw these things, and heard [them.] And when I
had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel
which shewed me these things. {22:9} 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.
{22:10} And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of
this book: for the time is at hand. {22:11} He that is unjust, let him
be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and
he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy,
let him be holy still. {22:12} And, behold, I come quickly; and my
reward [is] with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.
{22:13} I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and
the last. {22:14} 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. {22:15} For without [are] dogs, and sorcerers, and
whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and
maketh a lie.

   {22:16} I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these
things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, [and]
the bright and morning star.

   {22:17} 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.

   {22:18} 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: {22:19}
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.

   {22:20} He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come
quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.

   {22:21} The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [be] with you all. Amen.



The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans

   {1:1} Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called [to be] an apostle,
separated unto the gospel of God, {1:2} (Which he had promised afore by
his prophets in the holy scriptures,) {1:3} Concerning his Son Jesus
Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the
flesh; {1:4} And declared [to be] the Son of God with power, according
to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead: {1:5} By
whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith
among all nations, for his name: {1:6} Among whom are ye also the
called of Jesus Christ: {1:7} To all that be in Rome, beloved of God,
called [to be] saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and
the Lord Jesus Christ.

   {1:8} First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that
your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world. {1:9} For God is my
witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that
without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers; {1:10}
Making request, if by any means now at length I might have a prosperous
journey by the will of God to come unto you. {1:11} For I long to see
you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may
be established; {1:12} That is, that I may be comforted together with
you by the mutual faith both of you and me. {1:13} Now I would not have
you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you,
(but was let hitherto,) that I might have some fruit among you also,
even as among other Gentiles. {1:14} I am debtor both to the Greeks,
and to the Barbarians; both to the wise, and to the unwise. {1:15} So,
as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at
Rome also. {1:16} For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it
is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the
Jew first, and also to the Greek. {1:17} For therein is the
righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written,
The just shall live by faith.

   {1:18} For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all
ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in
unrighteousness; {1:19} Because that which may be known of God is
manifest in them; for God hath shewed [it] unto them. {1:20} For the
invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly
seen, being understood by the things that are made, [even] his eternal
power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: {1:21} 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. {1:22} Professing themselves to be wise, they
became fools, {1:23} And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God
into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and
fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.

   {1:24} Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the
lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between
themselves: {1:25} Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and
worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is
blessed for ever. Amen. {1:26} For this cause God gave them up unto
vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into
that which is against nature: {1:27} 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. {1:28} 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; {1:29} Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication,
wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate,
deceit, malignity; whisperers, {1:30} Backbiters, haters of God,
despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to
parents, {1:31} Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without
natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: {1:32} Who knowing the
judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of
death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

   {2:1} Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that
judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for
thou that judgest doest the same things. {2:2} But we are sure that the
judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such
things. {2:3} And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do
such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of
God? {2:4} Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance
and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to
repentance? {2:5} 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; {2:6} Who will render to
every man according to his deeds: {2:7} To them who by patient
continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality,
eternal life: {2:8} But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey
the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, {2:9}
Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the
Jew first, and also of the Gentile; {2:10} But glory, honour, and
peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to
the Gentile: {2:11} For there is no respect of persons with God. {2:12}
For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law:
and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;
{2:13} (For not the hearers of the law [are] just before God, but the
doers of the law shall be justified. {2:14} For when the Gentiles,
which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law,
these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: {2:15} 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;) {2:16} In the day when God shall judge the
secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.

   {2:17} Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and
makest thy boast of God, {2:18} And knowest [his] will, and approvest
the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;
{2:19} And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a
light of them which are in darkness, {2:20} An instructor of the
foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of
the truth in the law. {2:21} Thou therefore which teachest another,
teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal,
dost thou steal? {2:22} Thou that sayest a man should not commit
adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost
thou commit sacrilege? {2:23} Thou that makest thy boast of the law,
through breaking the law dishonourest thou God? {2:24} For the name of
God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.
{2:25} For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if
thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.
{2:26} Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the
law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision? {2:27}
And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law,
judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law?
{2:28} For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither [is that]
circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: {2:29} But he [is] a Jew,
which is one inwardly; and circumcision [is that] of the heart, in the
spirit, [and] not in the letter; whose praise [is] not of men, but of
God.

   {3:1} What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit [is there] of
circumcision? {3:2} Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them
were committed the oracles of God. {3:3} For what if some did not
believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?
{3:4} God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is
written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest
overcome when thou art judged. {3:5} But if our unrighteousness commend
the righteousness of God, what shall we say? [Is] God unrighteous who
taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man) {3:6} God forbid: for then how
shall God judge the world? {3:7} For if the truth of God hath more
abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a
sinner? {3:8} And not [rather,] (as we be slanderously reported, and as
some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose
damnation is just.

   {3:9} 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;
{3:10} As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: {3:11}
There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
{3:12} They are all gone out of the way, they are together become
unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. {3:13} Their
throat [is] an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used
deceit; the poison of asps [is] under their lips: {3:14} Whose mouth
[is] full of cursing and bitterness: {3:15} Their feet [are] swift to
shed blood: {3:16} Destruction and misery [are] in their ways: {3:17}
And the way of peace have they not known: {3:18} There is no fear of
God before their eyes.

   {3:19} 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. {3:20} Therefore by the deeds
of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the
law [is] the knowledge of sin.

   {3:21} But now the righteousness of God without the law is
manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; {3:22} Even
the righteousness of God [which is] by faith of Jesus Christ unto all
and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: {3:23} For
all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; {3:24} Being
justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ
Jesus: {3:25} 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; {3:26} To declare,
[I say,] at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the
justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. {3:27} Where [is] boasting
then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of
faith. {3:28} Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith
without the deeds of the law. {3:29} [Is he] the God of the Jews only?
[is he] not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also: {3:30}
Seeing [it is] one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith,
and uncircumcision through faith. {3:31} Do we then make void the law
through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.

   {4:1} What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining
to the flesh, hath found? {4:2} For if Abraham were justified by works,
he hath [whereof] to glory; but not before God. {4:3} For what saith
the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for
righteousness. {4:4} Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned
of grace, but of debt. {4:5} But to him that worketh not, but believeth
on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for
righteousness. {4:6} Even as David also describeth the blessedness of
the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works, {4:7}
[Saying,] Blessed [are] they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose
sins are covered. {4:8} Blessed [is] the man to whom the Lord will not
impute sin. {4:9} [Cometh] this blessedness then upon the circumcision
[only,] or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was
reckoned to Abraham for righteousness. {4:10} How was it then reckoned?
when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision,
but in uncircumcision. {4:11} And he received the sign of circumcision,
a seal of the righteousness of the faith which [he had yet] being
uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe,
though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed
unto them also: {4:12} And the father of circumcision to them who are
not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that
faith of our father Abraham, which [he had] being [yet] uncircumcised.
{4:13} For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, [was]
not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the
righteousness of faith. {4:14} For if they which are of the law [be]
heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect: {4:15}
Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, [there is] no
transgression. {4:16} 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, {4:17} (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. {4:18} 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. {4:19} 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: {4:20} He
staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in
faith, giving glory to God; {4:21} And being fully persuaded that, what
he had promised, he was able also to perform. {4:22} And therefore it
was imputed to him for righteousness. {4:23} Now it was not written for
his sake alone, that it was imputed to him; {4:24} But for us also, to
whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our
Lord from the dead; {4:25} Who was delivered for our offences, and was
raised again for our justification.

   {5:1} Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God
through our Lord Jesus Christ: {5:2} By whom also we have access by
faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the
glory of God. {5:3} And not only [so,] but we glory in tribulations
also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; {5:4} And patience,
experience; and experience, hope: {5:5} 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. {5:6} For when we were yet without strength, in
due time Christ died for the ungodly. {5:7} For scarcely for a
righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would
even dare to die. {5:8} But God commendeth his love toward us, in that,
while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. {5:9} Much more then,
being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through
him. {5:10} For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by
the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by
his life. {5:11} And not only [so,] but we also joy in God through our
Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.

   {5:12} Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and
death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have
sinned: {5:13} (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not
imputed when there is no law. {5:14} Nevertheless death reigned from
Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude
of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.
{5:15} 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. {5:16} And not as [it was] by one that sinned, [so
is] the gift: for the judgment [was] by one to condemnation, but the
free gift [is] of many offences unto justification. {5:17} For if by
one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive
abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life
by one, Jesus Christ.) {5:18} Therefore as by the offence of one
[judgment came] upon all men to condemnation; even so by the
righteousness of one [the free gift came] upon all men unto
justification of life. {5:19} For as by one man's disobedience many
were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made
righteous. {5:20} Moreover the law entered, that the offence might
abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound: {5:21} That
as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through
righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.

   {6:1} What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace
may abound? {6:2} God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live
any longer therein? {6:3} Know ye not, that so many of us as were
baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? {6:4}
Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as
Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so
we also should walk in newness of life. {6:5} For if we have been
planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also [in the
likeness of his] resurrection: {6:6} Knowing this, that our old man is
crucified with [him,] that the body of sin might be destroyed, that
henceforth we should not serve sin. {6:7} For he that is dead is freed
from sin. {6:8} Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall
also live with him: {6:9} Knowing that Christ being raised from the
dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him. {6:10} For in
that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth
unto God. {6:11} Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed
unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. {6:12} Let
not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in
the lusts thereof. {6:13} Neither yield ye your members [as]
instruments of 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. {6:14} For sin shall not have
dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
{6:15} What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but
under grace? God forbid. {6:16} Know ye not, that to whom ye yield
yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey;
whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? {6:17}
But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have
obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.
{6:18} Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of
righteousness. {6:19} I speak after the manner of men because of the
infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants
to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your
members servants to righteousness unto holiness. {6:20} For when ye
were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness. {6:21} What
fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the
end of those things [is] death. {6:22} But now being made free from
sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and
the end everlasting life. {6:23} For the wages of sin [is] death; but
the gift of God [is] eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

   {7:1} Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the
law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?
{7:2} For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to [her]
husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed
from the law of [her] husband. {7:3} So then if, while [her] husband
liveth, she be married to another 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. {7:4}
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. {7:5}
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. {7:6} 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.

   {7:7} 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. {7:8} But sin, taking occasion by
the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without
the law sin [was] dead. {7:9} For I was alive without the law once: but
when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. {7:10} And the
commandment, which [was ordained] to life, I found [to be] unto death.
{7:11} For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by
it slew [me. ]{7:12} Wherefore the law [is] holy, and the commandment
holy, and just, and good. {7:13} 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. {7:14} For we know that the law is spiritual: but I
am carnal, sold under sin. {7:15} For that which I do I allow not: for
what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. {7:16} If then
I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that [it is] good.
{7:17} Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in
me. {7:18} For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no
good thing: for to will is present with me; but [how] to perform that
which is good I find not. {7:19} For the good that I would I do not:
but the evil which I would not, that I do. {7:20} Now if I do that I
would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
{7:21} I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present
with me. {7:22} For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
{7:23} But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of
my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in
my members. {7:24} O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from
the body of this death? {7:25} 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.

   {8:1} [There is] therefore now no condemnation to them which are in
Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. {8:2}
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free
from the law of sin and death. {8:3} For what the law could not do, in
that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the
likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
{8:4} That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who
walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. {8:5} For they that are
after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are
after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. {8:6} For to be carnally
minded [is] death; but to be spiritually minded [is] life and peace.
{8:7} Because the carnal mind [is] enmity against God: for it is not
subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. {8:8} So then they
that are in the flesh cannot please God. {8:9} 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. {8:10}
And if Christ [be] in you, the body [is] dead because of sin; but the
Spirit [is] life because of righteousness. {8:11} But if the Spirit of
him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up
Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his
Spirit that dwelleth in you.

   {8:12} Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to
live after the flesh. {8:13} For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall
die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye
shall live. {8:14} For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they
are the sons of God. {8:15} For ye have not received the spirit of
bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption,
whereby we cry, Abba, Father. {8:16} The Spirit itself beareth witness
with our spirit, that we are the children of God: {8:17} And if
children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so
be that we suffer with [him,] that we may be also glorified together.

   {8:18} For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time [are]
not worthy [to be compared] with the glory which shall be revealed in
us. {8:19} For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the
manifestation of the sons of God. {8:20} For the creature was made
subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath
subjected [the same] in hope, {8:21} Because the creature itself also
shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious
liberty of the children of God. {8:22} For we know that the whole
creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. {8:23} And
not only [they,] but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the
Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the
adoption, [to wit,] the redemption of our body. {8:24} For we are saved
by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why
doth he yet hope for? {8:25} But if we hope for that we see not, [then]
do we with patience wait for [it. ]{8:26} 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. {8:27} 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. {8:28} 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. {8:29} 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.
{8:30} Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom
he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also
glorified. {8:31} What shall we then say to these things? If God [be]
for us, who [can be] against us? {8:32} He that spared not his own Son,
but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely
give us all things? {8:33} Who shall lay any thing to the charge of
God's elect? [It is] God that justifieth. {8:34} 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. {8:35} Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? [shall]
tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or
peril, or sword? {8:36} As it is written, For thy sake we are killed
all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. {8:37}
Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that
loved us. {8:38} For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor
angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things
to come, {8:39} Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be
able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our
Lord.

   {9:1} I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also
bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, {9:2} That I have great heaviness
and continual sorrow in my heart. {9:3} For I could wish that myself
were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the
flesh: {9:4} Who are Israelites; to whom [pertaineth] the adoption, and
the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the
service [of God,] and the promises; {9:5} Whose [are] the fathers, and
of whom as concerning the flesh Christ [came,] who is over all, God
blessed for ever. Amen.

   {9:6} Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they
[are] not all Israel, which are of Israel: {9:7} Neither, because they
are the seed of Abraham, [are they] all children: but, In Isaac shall
thy seed be called. {9:8} That is, They which are the children of the
flesh, these [are] not the children of God: but the children of the
promise are counted for the seed. {9:9} For this [is] the word of
promise, At this time will I come, and Sarah shall have a son. {9:10}
And not only [this;] but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, [even]
by our father Isaac; {9:11} (For [the children] being not yet born,
neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according
to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;) {9:12}
It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. {9:13} As it
is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.

   {9:14} What shall we say then? [Is there] unrighteousness with God?
God forbid. {9:15} For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I
will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have
compassion. {9:16} So then [it is] not of him that willeth, nor of him
that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy. {9:17} For the scripture
saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same 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. {9:18} Therefore hath he mercy on whom he
will [have mercy,] and whom he will he hardeneth. {9:19} Thou wilt say
then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his
will? {9:20} Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God?
Shall the thing formed say to him that formed [it,] Why hast thou made
me thus? {9:21} Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same
lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour? {9:22}
[What] if God, willing to shew [his] wrath, and to make his power
known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to
destruction: {9:23} And that he might make known the riches of his
glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,
{9:24} Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of
the Gentiles? {9:25} As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my
people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not
beloved. {9:26} And it shall come to pass, [that] in the place where it
was said unto them, Ye [are] not my people; there shall they be called
the children of the living God. {9:27} 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: {9:28} For he will finish the work,
and cut [it] short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord
make upon the earth. {9:29} 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. {9:30} What shall we say then? That the Gentiles,
which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness,
even the righteousness which is of faith. {9:31} But Israel, which
followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law
of righteousness. {9:32} Wherefore? Because [they sought it] not by
faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at
that stumblingstone; {9:33} As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a
stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him
shall not be ashamed.

   {10:1} Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is,
that they might be saved. {10:2} For I bear them record that they have
a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. {10:3} For they being
ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own
righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of
God. {10:4} For Christ [is] the end of the law for righteousness to
every one that believeth. {10:5} For Moses describeth the righteousness
which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live
by them. {10:6} But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on
this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that
is, to bring Christ down [from above:]) {10:7} Or, Who shall descend
into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.)
{10:8} But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, [even] in thy mouth,
and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; {10:9}
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt
believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou
shalt be saved. {10:10} For with the heart man believeth unto
righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
{10:11} For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not
be ashamed. {10:12} 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.
{10:13} For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be
saved. {10:14} 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? {10:15} 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! {10:16} But they have not all obeyed the
gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report? {10:17}
So then faith [cometh] by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
{10:18} 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. {10:19}
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. {10:20} 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. {10:21} But to Israel he saith, All day long I have
stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.

   {11:1} I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I
also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, [of] the tribe of
Benjamin. {11:2} God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew.
Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh
intercession to God against Israel, saying, {11:3} Lord, they have
killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone,
and they seek my life. {11:4} But what saith the answer of God unto
him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed
the knee to [the image of] Baal. {11:5} Even so then at this present
time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace. {11:6}
And if by grace, then [is it] no more of works: otherwise grace is no
more grace. But if [it be] of works, then is it no more grace:
otherwise work is no more work.

   {11:7} What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh
for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded
{11:8} (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. {11:9} And David saith, Let their table be made a
snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:
{11:10} Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down
their back alway. {11:11} I say then, Have they stumbled that they
should fall? God forbid: but [rather] through their fall salvation [is
come] unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy. {11:12} 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?

   {11:13} For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of
the Gentiles, I magnify mine office: {11:14} If by any means I may
provoke to emulation [them which are] my flesh, and might save some of
them. {11:15} For if the casting away of them [be] the reconciling of
the world, what [shall] the receiving [of them be,] but life from the
dead? {11:16} For if the firstfruit [be] holy, the lump [is] also
[holy:] and if the root [be] holy, so [are] the branches. {11:17} And
if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive
tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root
and fatness of the olive tree; {11:18} Boast not against the branches.
But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.
{11:19} Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might
be graffed in. {11:20} Well; because of unbelief they were broken off,
and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear: {11:21} For if
God spared not the natural branches, [take heed] lest he also spare not
thee. {11:22} Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on
them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue
in [his] goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off. {11:23} And
they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in:
for God is able to graff them in again. {11:24} For if thou wert cut
out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed
contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these,
which be the natural [branches,] be graffed into their own olive tree?

   {11:25} For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of
this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that
blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the
Gentiles be come in. {11:26} And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is
written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn
away ungodliness from Jacob: {11:27} For this [is] my covenant unto
them, when I shall take away their sins. {11:28} As concerning the
gospel, [they are] enemies for your sakes: but as touching the
election, [they are] beloved for the fathers' sakes. {11:29} For the
gifts and calling of God [are] without repentance. {11:30} For as ye in
times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through
their unbelief: {11:31} Even so have these also now not believed, that
through your mercy they also may obtain mercy. {11:32} For God hath
concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.

   {11:33} O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge
of God! how unsearchable [are] his judgments, and his ways past finding
out! {11:34} For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been
his counsellor? {11:35} Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be
recompensed unto him again? {11:36} For of him, and through him, and to
him, [are] all things: to whom [be] glory for ever. Amen.

   {12:1} I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God,
that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto
God, [which is] your reasonable service. {12:2} And be not conformed to
this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye
may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

   {12:3} 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. {12:4} For as we have many members in one body,
and all members have not the same office: {12:5} So we, [being] many,
are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another. {12:6}
Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us,
whether prophecy, [let us prophesy] according to the proportion of
faith; {12:7} Or ministry, [let us wait] on [our] ministering: or he
that teacheth, on teaching; {12:8} 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.

   {12:9} [Let] love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is
evil; cleave to that which is good. {12:10} [Be] kindly affectioned one
to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;
{12:11} Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
{12:12} Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant
in prayer; {12:13} Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to
hospitality. {12:14} Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse
not. {12:15} Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that
weep. {12:16} [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. {12:17} Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things
honest in the sight of all men. {12:18} If it be possible, as much as
lieth in you, live peaceably with all men. {12:19} Dearly beloved,
avenge not yourselves, but [rather] give place unto wrath: for it is
written, Vengeance [is] mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. {12:20}
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.
{12:21} Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.

   {13:1} Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there
is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. {13:2}
Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of
God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation. {13:3}
For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou
then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt
have praise of the same: {13:4} 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. {13:5} Wherefore [ye] must
needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.
{13:6} For for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God's
ministers, attending continually upon this very thing. {13:7} Render
therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute [is due;] custom
to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour. {13:8} Owe no
man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath
fulfilled the law. {13:9} For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery,
Thou shalt not kill, Thou 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. {13:10} Love worketh no ill to his neighbour:
therefore love [is] the fulfilling of the law. {13:11} And that,
knowing the time, that now [it is] high time to awake out of sleep: for
now [is] our salvation nearer than when we believed. {13:12} The night
is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works
of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. {13:13} Let us walk
honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in
chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. {13:14} But put
ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to
[fulfil] the lusts [thereof.]

   {14:1} Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, [but] not to
doubtful disputations. {14:2} For one believeth that he may eat all
things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs. {14:3} Let not him that
eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not
judge him that eateth: for God hath received him. {14:4} 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.
{14:5} One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every
day [alike.] Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind. {14:6}
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. {14:7}
For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself. {14:8}
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.
{14:9} For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he
might be Lord both of the dead and living. {14:10} But why dost thou
judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we
shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. {14:11} For it is
written, [As] I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and
every tongue shall confess to God. {14:12} So then every one of us
shall give account of himself to God. {14:13} 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. {14:14} I
know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that [there is] nothing
unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean,
to him [it is] unclean. {14:15} But if thy brother be grieved with
[thy] meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy
meat, for whom Christ died. {14:16} Let not then your good be evil
spoken of: {14:17} For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but
righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. {14:18} For he
that in these things serveth Christ [is] acceptable to God, and
approved of men. {14:19} Let us therefore follow after the things which
make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another. {14:20} For
meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed [are] pure; but [it
is] evil for that man who eateth with offence. {14:21} [It is] good
neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor [any thing] whereby thy
brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak. {14:22} Hast thou
faith? have [it] to thyself before God. Happy [is] he that condemneth
not himself in that thing which he alloweth. {14:23} And he that
doubteth is damned if he eat, because [he eateth] not of faith: for
whatsoever [is] not of faith is sin.

   {15:1} We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the
weak, and not to please ourselves. {15:2} Let every one of us please
[his] neighbour for [his] good to edification. {15:3} For even Christ
pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that
reproached thee fell on me. {15:4} For whatsoever things were written
aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and
comfort of the scriptures might have hope. {15:5} Now the God of
patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another
according to Christ Jesus: {15:6} That ye may with one mind [and] one
mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

   {15:7} Wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ also received us
to the glory of God. {15:8} Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister
of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises
[made] unto the fathers: {15:9} 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. {15:10} And again he
saith, Rejoice, ye Gentiles, with his people. {15:11} And again, Praise
the Lord, all ye Gentiles; and laud him, all ye people. {15:12} 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.
{15:13} 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. {15:14} 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. {15:15} 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, {15:16} 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. {15:17} I have therefore whereof I may
glory through Jesus Christ in those things which pertain to God.
{15:18} For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which
Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient, by word
and deed, {15:19} 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. {15:20} Yea, so have I
strived to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should
build upon another man's foundation: {15:21} But as it is written, To
whom he was not spoken of, they shall see: and they that have not heard
shall understand. {15:22} For which cause also I have been much
hindered from coming to you. {15:23} But now having no more place in
these parts, and having a great desire these many years to come unto
you; {15:24} Whensoever I take my journey into Spain, I will come to
you: for I trust to see you in my journey, and to be brought on my way
thitherward by you, if first I be somewhat filled with your [company.
]{15:25} But now I go unto Jerusalem to minister unto the saints.
{15:26} For it hath pleased them of Macedonia and Achaia to make a
certain contribution for the poor saints which are at Jerusalem.
{15:27} It hath pleased them verily; and their debtors they are. For if
the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, their
duty is also to minister unto them in carnal things. {15:28} When
therefore I have performed this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I
will come by you into Spain. {15:29} And I am sure that, when I come
unto you, I shall come in the fulness of the blessing of the gospel of
Christ.

   {15:30} Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ's
sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me
in [your] prayers to God for me; {15:31} 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; {15:32} That I may come
unto you with joy by the will of God, and may with you be refreshed.
{15:33} Now the God of peace [be] with you all. Amen.

   {16:1} I commend unto you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of
the church which is at Cenchrea: {16:2} 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. {16:3} Greet Priscilla and Aquila my helpers in Christ
Jesus: {16:4} 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.
{16:5} Likewise [greet] the church that is in their house. Salute my
wellbeloved Epaenetus, who is the firstfruits of Achaia unto Christ.
{16:6} Greet Mary, who bestowed much labour on us. {16:7} Salute
Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen, and my fellowprisoners, who are of
note among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me. {16:8}
Greet Amplias my beloved in the Lord. {16:9} Salute Urbane, our helper
in Christ, and Stachys my beloved. {16:10} Salute Apelles approved in
Christ. Salute them which are of Aristobulus' [household. ]{16:11}
Salute Herodion my kinsman. Greet them that be of the [household] of
Narcissus, which are in the Lord. {16:12} Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa,
who labour in the Lord. Salute the beloved Persis, which laboured much
in the Lord. {16:13} Salute Rufus chosen in the Lord, and his mother
and mine. {16:14} Salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes,
and the brethren which are with them. {16:15} Salute Philologus, and
Julia, Nereus, and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints which
are with them. {16:16} Salute one another with an holy kiss. The
churches of Christ salute you.

   {16:17} Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions
and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid
them. {16:18} 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. {16:19} 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. {16:20} And
the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace
of our Lord Jesus Christ [be] with you. Amen.

   {16:21} Timotheus my workfellow, and Lucius, and Jason, and
Sosipater, my kinsmen, salute you. {16:22} I Tertius, who wrote [this]
epistle, salute you in the Lord. {16:23} Gaius mine host, and of the
whole church, saluteth you. Erastus the chamberlain of the city
saluteth you, and Quartus a brother. {16:24} The grace of our Lord
Jesus Christ [be] with you all. Amen.

   {16:25} Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my
gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation
of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began, {16:26}
But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets,
according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all
nations for the obedience of faith: {16:27} To God only wise, [be]
glory through Jesus Christ for ever. Amen.





The Book of Ruth

   {1:1} Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that
there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehemjudah
went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two
sons. {1:2} And the name of the man [was] Elimelech, and the name of
his 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. {1:3} And Elimelech Naomi's husband died; and she
was left, and her two sons. {1:4} 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. {1:5} And Mahlon and
Chilion died also both of them; and the woman was left of her two sons
and her husband.

   {1:6} Then she arose with her daughters in law, that she might
return 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.
{1:7} 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. {1:8} 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. {1:9} 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. {1:10} And
they said unto her, Surely we will return with thee unto thy people.
{1:11} 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? {1:12} Turn again, my daughters, go [your way;] for I am too
old to have an husband. If I should say, I have hope, [if] I should
have an husband also to night, and should also bear sons; {1:13} Would
ye tarry for them till they were grown? would ye stay for them from
having husbands? nay, my daughters; for it grieveth me much for your
sakes that the hand of the LORD is gone out against me. {1:14} And they
lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her mother in
law; but Ruth clave unto her. {1:15} And she said, Behold, thy sister
in law is gone back unto her people, and unto her gods: return thou
after thy sister in law. {1:16} 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: {1:17} 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. {1:18} When she saw that she was stedfastly
minded to go with her, then she left speaking unto her.

   {1:19} So they two went until they came to Bethlehem. And it came to
pass, when they were come to Bethlehem, that all the city was moved
about them, and they said, [Is] this Naomi? {1:20} And she said unto
them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very
bitterly with me. {1:21} I went out full, and the LORD hath brought me
home again empty: why [then] call ye me Naomi, seeing the LORD hath
testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me? {1:22} 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.

   {2:1} And Naomi had a kinsman of her husband's, a mighty man of
wealth, of the family of Elimelech; and his name [was] Boaz. {2:2} And
Ruth the Moabitess said unto Naomi, Let me now go to the field, and
glean ears of corn after [him] in whose sight I shall find grace. And
she said unto her, Go, my daughter. {2:3} 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.

   {2:4} And behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said unto the
reapers, The LORD [be] with you. And they answered him, The LORD bless
thee. {2:5} Then said Boaz unto his servant that was set over the
reapers, Whose damsel [is] this? {2:6} And the servant that was set
over the reapers answered and said, It [is] the Moabitish damsel that
came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab: {2:7} 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. {2:8} 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: {2:9} [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. {2:10} 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? {2:11} 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. {2:12} 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. {2:13} 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. {2:14} 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. {2:15} 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: {2:16} And let fall also
[some] of the handfuls of purpose for her, and leave [them,] that she
may glean [them,] and rebuke her not. {2:17} So she gleaned in the
field until even, and beat out that she had gleaned: and it was about
an ephah of barley.

   {2:18} And she took [it] up, and went into the city: and her mother
in law saw what she had gleaned: and she brought forth, and gave to her
that she had reserved after she was sufficed. {2:19} 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. {2:20} 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. {2:21} 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. {2:22} 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.
{2:23} 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.

   {3:1} Then Naomi her mother in law said unto her, My daughter, shall
I not seek rest for thee, that it may be well with thee? {3:2} And now
[is] not Boaz of our kindred, with whose maidens thou wast? Behold, he
winnoweth barley to night in the threshingfloor. {3:3} Wash thyself
therefore, and anoint thee, and put thy raiment upon thee, and get thee
down to the floor: [but] make not thyself known unto the man, until he
shall have done eating and drinking. {3:4} 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. {3:5} And she said unto her, All that thou
sayest unto me I will do.

   {3:6} And she went down unto the floor, and did according to all
that her mother in law bade her. {3:7} And when Boaz had eaten and
drunk, and his heart was merry, 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.

   {3:8} And it came to pass at midnight, that the man was afraid, and
turned himself: and, behold, a woman lay at his feet. {3:9} And he
said, Who [art] thou? And she answered, I [am] Ruth thine handmaid:
spread therefore thy skirt over thine handmaid; for thou [art] a near
kinsman. {3:10} 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. {3:11} 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. {3:12} And now it is true that I [am thy]
near kinsman: howbeit there is a kinsman nearer than I. {3:13} Tarry
this night, and it shall be in the morning, [that] if he will 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.

   {3:14} 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. {3:15} 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. {3:16} 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. {3:17} And she said, These six [measures] of barley gave he me;
for he said to me, Go not empty unto thy mother in law. {3:18} Then
said she, Sit still, my daughter, until thou know how the matter will
fall: for the man will not be in rest, until he have finished the thing
this day.

   {4:1} 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. {4:2} And he took ten men of the elders of the city, and said,
Sit ye down here. And they sat down. {4:3} And he said unto the
kinsman, Naomi, that is come again out of the country of Moab, selleth
a parcel of land, which [was] our brother Elimelech's: {4:4} 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. ]{4:5} 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.

   {4:6} And the kinsman said, I cannot redeem [it] for myself, lest I
mar mine own inheritance: redeem thou my right to thyself; for I cannot
redeem it. {4:7} Now this [was the manner] in former time in Israel
concerning redeeming and concerning changing, for to confirm all
things; a man plucked off his shoe, and gave [it] to his neighbour: and
this [was] a testimony in Israel. {4:8} Therefore the kinsman said unto
Boaz, Buy [it] for thee. So he drew off his shoe.

   {4:9} And Boaz said unto the elders, and [unto] all the people, Ye
[are] witnesses this day, that I have bought all that [was]
Elimelech's, and all that [was] Chilion's and Mahlon's, of the hand of
Naomi. {4:10} Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I
purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his
inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his
brethren, and from the gate of his place: ye [are] witnesses this day.
{4:11} And all the people that [were] in the gate, and the elders,
said, [We 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:
{4:12} 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.

   {4:13} 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. {4:14} 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.
{4:15} 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. {4:16} And
Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse unto
it. {4:17} And the women her neighbours gave it a name, saying, There
is a son born to Naomi; and they called his name Obed: he [is] the
father of Jesse, the father of David.

   {4:18} Now these [are] the generations of Pharez: Pharez begat
Hezron, {4:19} And Hezron begat Ram, and Ram begat Amminadab, {4:20}
And Amminadab begat Nahshon, and Nahshon begat Salmon, {4:21} And
Salmon begat Boaz, and Boaz begat Obed, {4:22} And Obed begat Jesse,
and Jesse begat David.





The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach,or Ecclesiasticus

   A Prologue made by an uncertain Author

   This Jesus was the son of Sirach, and grandchild to Jesus of the
same name with him: this man therefore lived in the latter times, after
the people had been led away captive, and called home a again, and
almost after all the prophets. Now his grandfather Jesus, as he himself
witnesseth, was a man of great diligence and wisdom among the Hebrews,
who did not only gather the grave and short sentences of wise men, that
had been before him, but himself also uttered some of his own, full of
much understanding and wisdom. When as therefore the first Jesus died,
leaving this book almost perfected, Sirach his son receiving it after
him left it to his own son Jesus, who, having gotten it into his hands,
compiled it all orderly into one volume, and called it Wisdom,
intituling it both by his own name, his father's name, and his
grandfather's; alluring the hearer by the very name of Wisdom to have a
greater love to the study of this book. It containeth therefore wise
sayings, dark sentences, and parables, and certain particular ancient
godly stories of men that pleased God; also his prayer and song;
moreover, what benefits God had vouchsafed his people, and what plagues
he had heaped upon their enemies. This Jesus did imitate Solomon, and
was no less famous for wisdom and learning, both being indeed a man of
great learning, and so reputed also.

   The Prologue of the Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach.

   Whereas many and great things have been delivered unto us by the law
and the prophets, and by others that have followed their steps, for the
which things Israel ought to be commended for learning and wisdom; and
whereof not only the readers must needs become skilful themselves, but
also they that desire to learn be able to profit them which are
without, both by speaking and writing: my grandfather Jesus, when he
had much given himself to the reading of the law, and the prophets, and
other books of our fathers, and had gotten therein good judgment, was
drawn on also himself to write something pertaining to learning and
wisdom; to the intent that those which are desirous to learn, and are
addicted to these things, might profit much more in living according to
the law. Wherefore let me intreat you to read it with favour and
attention, and to pardon us, wherein we may seem to come short of some
words, which we have laboured to interpret. For the same things uttered
in Hebrew, and translated into another tongue, have not the same force
in them: and not only these things, but the law itself, and the
prophets, and the rest of the books, have no small difference, when
they are spoken in their own language. For in the eight and thirtieth
year coming into Egypt, when Euergetes was king, and continuing there
some time, I found a book of no small learning: therefore I thought it
most necessary for me to bestow some diligence and travail to interpret
it; using great watchfulness and skill in that space to bring the book
to an end, and set it forth for them also, which in a strange country
are willing to learn, being prepared before in manners to live after
the law.

   {1:1} All wisdom cometh from the Lord, and is with him for ever.

   {1:2} Who can number the sand of the sea, and the drops of rain, and
the days of eternity?

   {1:3} Who can find out the height of heaven, and the breadth of the
earth, and the deep, and wisdom?

   {1:4} Wisdom hath been created before all things, and the
understanding of prudence from everlasting.

   {1:5} The word of God most high is the fountain of wisdom; and her
ways are everlasting commandments.

   {1:6} To whom hath the root of wisdom been revealed? or who hath
known her wise counsels?

   {1:7} [Unto whom hath the knowledge of wisdom been made manifest?
and who hath understood her great experience?]

   {1:8} There is one wise and greatly to be feared, the Lord sitting
upon his throne.

   {1:9} He created her, and saw her, and numbered her, and poured her
out upon all his works.

   {1:10} She is with all flesh according to his gift, and he hath
given her to them that love him.

   {1:11} The fear of the Lord is honour, and glory, and gladness, and
a crown of rejoicing.

   {1:12} The fear of the Lord maketh a merry heart, and giveth joy,
and gladness, and a long life.

   {1:13} Whoso feareth the Lord, it shall go well with him at the
last, and he shall find favour in the day of his death.

   {1:14} To fear the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and it was
created with the faithful in the womb.

   {1:15} She hath built an everlasting foundation with men, and she
shall continue with their seed.

   {1:16} To fear the Lord is fulness of wisdom, and filleth men with
her fruits.

   {1:17} She filleth all their house with things desirable, and the
garners with her increase.

   {1:18} The fear of the Lord is a crown of wisdom, making peace and
perfect health to flourish; both which are the gifts of God: and it
enlargeth their rejoicing that love him.

   {1:19} Wisdom raineth down skill and knowledge of understanding
standing, and exalteth them to honour that hold her fast.

   {1:20} The root of wisdom is to fear the Lord, and the branches
thereof are long life.

   {1:21} The fear of the Lord driveth away sins: and where it is
present, it turneth away wrath.

   {1:22} A furious man cannot be justified; for the sway of his fury
shall be his destruction.

   {1:23} A patient man will tear for a time, and afterward joy shall
spring up unto him.

   {1:24} He will hide his words for a time, and the lips of many shall
declare his wisdom.

   {1:25} The parables of knowledge are in the treasures of wisdom: but
godliness is an abomination to a sinner.

   {1:26} If thou desire wisdom, keep the commandments, and the Lord
shall give her unto thee.

   {1:27} For the fear of the Lord is wisdom and instruction: and faith
and meekness are his delight.

   {1:28} Distrust not the fear of the Lord when thou art poor: and
come not unto him with a double heart.

   {1:29} Be not an hypocrite in the sight of men, and take good heed
what thou speakest.

   {1:30} Exalt not thyself, lest thou fall, and bring dishonour upon
thy soul, and so God discover thy secrets, and cast thee down in the
midst of the congregation, because thou camest not in truth to the fear
of the Lord, but thy heart is full of deceit.

   {2:1} My son, if thou come to serve the Lord, prepare thy soul for
temptation.

   {2:2} Set thy heart aright, and constantly endure, and make not
haste in time of trouble.

   {2:3} Cleave unto him, and depart not away, that thou mayest be
increased at thy last end.

   {2:4} Whatsoever is brought upon thee take cheerfully, and be
patient when thou art changed to a low estate.

   {2:5} For gold is tried in the fire, and acceptable men in the
furnace of adversity.

   {2:6} Believe in him, and he will help thee; order thy way aright,
and trust in him.

   {2:7} Ye that fear the Lord, wait for his mercy; and go not aside,
lest ye fall.

   {2:8} Ye that fear the Lord, believe him; and your reward shall not
fail.

   {2:9} Ye that fear the Lord, hope for good, and for everlasting joy
and mercy.

   {2:10} Look at the generations of old, and see; did ever any trust
in the Lord, and was confounded? or did any abide in his fear, and was
forsaken? or whom did he ever despise, that called upon him?

   {2:11} For the Lord is full of compassion and mercy, longsuffering,
and very pitiful, and forgiveth sins, and saveth in time of affliction.

   {2:12} Woe be to fearful hearts, and faint hands, and the sinner
that goeth two ways!

   {2:13} Woe unto him that is fainthearted! for he believeth not;
therefore shall he not be defended.

   {2:14} Woe unto you that have lost patience! and what will ye do
when the Lord shall visit you?

   {2:15} They that fear the Lord will not disobey his Word; and they
that love him will keep his ways.

   {2:16} They that fear the Lord will seek that which is well,
pleasing unto him; and they that love him shall be filled with the law.

   {2:17} They that fear the Lord will prepare their hearts, and humble
their souls in his sight,

   {2:18} Saying, We will fall into the hands of the Lord, and not into
the hands of men: for as his majesty is, so is his mercy.

   {3:1} Hear me your father, O children, and do thereafter, that ye
may be safe.

   {3:2} For the Lord hath given the father honour over the children,
and hath confirmed the authority of the mother over the sons.

   {3:3} Whoso honoureth his father maketh an atonement for his sins:

   {3:4} And he that honoureth his mother is as one that layeth up
treasure.

   {3:5} Whoso honoureth his father shall have joy of his own children;
and when he maketh his prayer, he shall be heard.

   {3:6} He that honoureth his father shall have a long life; and he
that is obedient unto the Lord shall be a comfort to his mother.

   {3:7} He that feareth the Lord will honour his father, and will do
service unto his parents, as to his masters.

   {3:8} Honour thy father and mother both in word and deed, that a
blessing may come upon thee from them.

   {3:9} For the blessing of the father establisheth the houses of
children; but the curse of the mother rooteth out foundations.

   {3:10} Glory not in the dishonour of thy father; for thy father's
dishonour is no glory unto thee.

   {3:11} For the glory of a man is from the honour of his father; and
a mother in dishonour is a reproach to the children.

   {3:12} My son, help thy father in his age, and grieve him not as
long as he liveth.

   {3:13} And if his understanding fail, have patience with him; and
despise him not when thou art in thy full strength.

   {3:14} For the relieving of thy father shall not be forgotten: and
instead of sins it shall be added to build thee up.

   {3:15} In the day of thine affliction it shall be remembered; thy
sins also shall melt away, as the ice in the fair warm weather.

   {3:16} He that forsaketh his father is as a blasphemer; and he that
angereth his mother is cursed: of God.

   {3:17} My son, go on with thy business in meekness; so shalt thou be
beloved of him that is approved.

   {3:18} The greater thou art, the more humble thyself, and thou shalt
find favour before the Lord.

   {3:19} Many are in high place, and of renown: but mysteries are
revealed unto the meek.

   {3:20} For the power of the Lord is great, and he is honoured of the
lowly.

   {3:21} Seek not out things that are too hard for thee, neither
search the things that are above thy strength.

   {3:22} But what is commanded thee, think thereupon with reverence,
for it is not needful for thee to see with thine eyes the things that
are in secret.

   {3:23} Be not curious in unnecessary matters: for more things are
shewed unto thee than men understand.

   {3:24} For many are deceived by their own vain opinion; and an evil
suspicion hath overthrown their judgment.

   {3:25} Without eyes thou shalt want light: profess not the knowledge
therefore that thou hast not.

   {3:26} A stubborn heart shall fare evil at the last; and he that
loveth danger shall perish therein.

   {3:27} An obstinate heart shall be laden with sorrows; and the
wicked man shall heap sin upon sin.

   {3:28} In the punishment of the proud there is no remedy; for the
plant of wickedness hath taken root in him.

   {3:29} The heart of the prudent will understand a parable; and an
attentive ear is the desire of a wise man.

   {3:30} Water will quench a flaming fire; and alms maketh an
atonement for sins.

   {3:31} And he that requiteth good turns is mindful of that which may
come hereafter; and when he falleth, he shall find a stay.

   {4:1} My son, defraud not the poor of his living, and make not the
needy eyes to wait long.

   {4:2} Make not an hungry soul sorrowful; neither provoke a man in
his distress.

   {4:3} Add not more trouble to an heart that is vexed; and defer not
to give to him that is in need.

   {4:4} Reject not the supplication of the afflicted; neither turn
away thy face from a poor man.

   {4:5} Turn not away thine eye from the needy, and give him none
occasion to curse thee:

   {4:6} For if he curse thee in the bitterness of his soul, his prayer
shall be heard of him that made him.

   {4:7} Get thyself the love of the congregation, and bow thy head to
a great man.

   {4:8} Let it not grieve thee to bow down thine ear to the poor, and
give him a friendly answer with meekness.

   {4:9} Deliver him that suffereth wrong from the hand of the
oppressor; and be not fainthearted when thou sittest in judgment.

   {4:10} Be as a father unto the fatherless, and instead of an husband
unto their mother: so shalt thou be as the son of the most High, and he
shall love thee more than thy mother doth.

   {4:11} Wisdom exalteth her children, and layeth hold of them that
seek her.

   {4:12} He that loveth her loveth life; and they that seek to her
early shall be filled with joy.

   {4:13} He that holdeth her fast shall inherit glory; and wheresoever
she entereth, the Lord will bless.

   {4:14} They that serve her shall minister to the Holy One: and them
that love her the Lord doth love.

   {4:15} Whoso giveth ear unto her shall judge the nations: and he
that attendeth unto her shall dwell securely.

   {4:16} If a man commit himself unto her, he shall inherit her; and
his generation shall hold her in possession.

   {4:17} For at the first she will walk with him by crooked ways, and
bring fear and dread upon him, and torment him with her discipline,
until she may trust his soul, and try him by her laws.

   {4:18} Then will she return the straight way unto him, and comfort
him, and shew him her secrets.

   {4:19} But if he go wrong, she will forsake him, and give him over
to his own ruin.

   {4:20} Observe the opportunity, and beware of evil; and be not
ashamed when it concerneth thy soul.

   {4:21} For there is a shame that bringeth sin; and there is a shame
which is glory and grace.

   {4:22} Accept no person against thy soul, and let not the reverence
of any man cause thee to fall.

   {4:23} And refrain not to speak, when there is occasion to do good,
and hide not thy wisdom in her beauty.

   {4:24} For by speech wisdom shall be known: and learning by the word
of the tongue.

   {4:25} In no wise speak against the truth; but be abashed of the
error of thine ignorance.

   {4:26} Be not ashamed to confess thy sins; and force not the course
of the river.

   {4:27} Make not thyself an underling to a foolish man; neither
accept the person of the mighty.

   {4:28} Strive for the truth unto death, and the Lord shall fight for
thee.

   {4:29} Be not hasty in thy tongue, and in thy deeds slack and remiss.

   {4:30} Be not as a lion in thy house, nor frantick among thy
servants.

   {4:31} Let not thine hand be stretched out to receive, and shut when
thou shouldest repay.

   {5:1} Set thy heart upon thy goods; and say not, I have enough for
my life.

   {5:2} Follow not thine own mind and thy strength, to walk in the
ways of thy heart:

   {5:3} And say not, Who shall controul me for my works? for the Lord
will surely revenge thy pride.

   {5:4} Say not, I have sinned, and what harm hath happened unto me?
for the Lord is longsuffering, he will in no wise let thee go.

   {5:5} Concerning propitiation, be not without fear to add sin unto
sin:

   {5:6} And say not His mercy is great; he will be pacified for the
multitude of my sins: for mercy and wrath come from him, and his
indignation resteth upon sinners.

   {5:7} Make no tarrying to turn to the Lord, and put not off from day
to day: for suddenly shall the wrath of the Lord come forth, and in thy
security thou shalt be destroyed, and perish in the day of vengeance.

   {5:8} Set not thine heart upon goods unjustly gotten, for they shall
not profit thee in the day of calamity.

   {5:9} Winnow not with every wind, and go not into every way: for so
doth the sinner that hath a double tongue.

   {5:10} Be stedfast in thy understanding; and let thy word be the
same.

   {5:11} Be swift to hear; and let thy life be sincere; and with
patience give answer.

   {5:12} If thou hast understanding, answer thy neighbour; if not, lay
thy hand upon thy mouth.

   {5:13} Honour and shame is in talk: and the tongue of man is his
fall.

   {5:14} Be not called a whisperer, and lie not in wait with thy
tongue: for a foul shame is upon the thief, and an evil condemnation
upon the double tongue.

   {5:15} Be not ignorant of any thing in a great matter or a small.

   {6:1} Instead of a friend become not an enemy; for [thereby] thou
shalt inherit an ill name, shame, and reproach: even so shall a sinner
that hath a double tongue.

   {6:2} Extol not thyself in the counsel of thine own heart; that thy
soul be not torn in pieces as a bull [straying alone.]

   {6:3} Thou shalt eat up thy leaves, and lose thy fruit, and leave
thyself as a dry tree.

   {6:4} A wicked soul shall destroy him that hath it, and shall make
him to be laughed to scorn of his enemies.

   {6:5} Sweet language will multiply friends: and a fairspeaking
tongue will increase kind greetings.

   {6:6} Be in peace with many: nevertheless have but one counsellor of
a thousand.

   {6:7} If thou wouldest get a friend, prove him first and be not
hasty to credit him.

   {6:8} For some man is a friend for his own occasion, and will not
abide in the day of thy trouble.

   {6:9} And there is a friend, who being turned to enmity, and strife
will discover thy reproach.

   {6:10} Again, some friend is a companion at the table, and will not
continue in the day of thy affliction.

   {6:11} But in thy prosperity he will be as thyself, and will be bold
over thy servants.

   {6:12} If thou be brought low, he will be against thee, and will
hide himself from thy face.

   {6:13} Separate thyself from thine enemies, and take heed of thy
friends.

   {6:14} A faithfull friend is a strong defence: and he that hath
found such an one hath found a treasure.

   {6:15} Nothing doth countervail a faithful friend, and his
excellency is invaluable.

   {6:16} A faithful friend is the medicine of life; and they that fear
the Lord shall find him.

   {6:17} Whoso feareth the Lord shall direct his friendship aright:
for as he is, so shall his neighbour be also.

   {6:18} My son, gather instruction from thy youth up: so shalt thou
find wisdom till thine old age.

   {6:19} Come unto her as one that ploweth and soweth, and wait for
her good fruits: for thou shalt not toil much in labouring about her,
but thou shalt eat of her fruits right soon.

   {6:20} She is very unpleasant to the unlearned: he that is without
understanding will not remain with her.

   {6:21} She will lie upon him as a mighty stone of trial; and he will
cast her from him ere it be long.

   {6:22} For wisdom is according to her name, and she is not manifest
unto many.

   {6:23} Give ear, my son, receive my advice, and refuse not my
counsel,

   {6:24} And put thy feet into her fetters, and thy neck into her
chain.

   {6:25} Bow down thy shoulder, and bear her, and be not grieved with
her bonds.

   {6:26} Come unto her with thy whole heart, and keep her ways with
all thy power.

   {6:27} Search, and seek, and she shall be made known unto thee: and
when thou hast got hold of her, let her not go.

   {6:28} For at the last thou shalt find her rest, and that shall be
turned to thy joy.

   {6:29} Then shall her fetters be a strong defence for thee, and her
chains a robe of glory.

   {6:30} For there is a golden ornament upon her, and her bands are
purple lace.

   {6:31} Thou shalt put her on as a robe of honour, and shalt put her
about thee as a crown of joy.

   {6:32} My son, if thou wilt, thou shalt be taught: and if thou wilt
apply thy mind, thou shalt be prudent.

   {6:33} If thou love to hear, thou shalt receive understanding: and
if thou bow thine ear, thou shalt be wise,

   {6:34} Stand in the multitude of the elders; and cleave unto him
that is wise.

   {6:35} Be willing to hear every godly discourse; and let not the
parables of understanding escape thee.

   {6:36} And if thou seest a man of understanding, get thee betimes
unto him, and let thy foot wear the steps of his door.

   {6:37} Let thy mind be upon the ordinances of the Lord and meditate
continually in his commandments: he shall establish thine heart, and
give thee wisdom at thine owns desire.

   {7:1} Do no evil, so shall no harm come unto thee.

   {7:2} Depart from the unjust, and iniquity shall turn away from thee.

   {7:3} My son, sow not upon the furrows of unrighteousness, and thou
shalt not reap them sevenfold.

   {7:4} Seek not of the Lord preeminence, neither of the king the seat
of honour.

   {7:5} justify not thyself before the Lord; and boast not of thy
wisdom before the king.

   {7:6} Seek not to be judge, being not able to take away iniquity;
lest at any time thou fear the person of the mighty, an stumblingblock
in the way of thy uprightness.

   {7:7} Offend not against the multitude of a city, and then thou
shalt not cast thyself down among the people.

   {7:8} Bind not one sin upon another; for in one thou shalt not be
unpunished.

   {7:9} Say not, God will look upon the multitude of my oblations, and
when I offer to the most high God, he will accept it.

   {7:10} Be not fainthearted when thou makest thy prayer, and neglect
not to give alms.

   {7:11} Laugh no man to scorn in the bitterness of his soul: for
there is one which humbleth and exalteth.

   {7:12} Devise not a lie against thy brother; neither do the like to
thy friend.

   {7:13} Use not to make any manner of lie: for the custom thereof is
not good.

   {7:14} Use not many words in a multitude of elders, and make not
much babbling when thou prayest.

   {7:15} Hate not laborious work, neither husbandry, which the most
High hath ordained.

   {7:16} Number not thyself among the multitude of sinners, but
remember that wrath will not tarry long.

   {7:17} Humble thyself greatly: for the vengeance of the ungodly is
fire and worms.

   {7:18} Change not a friend for any good by no means; neither a
faithful brother for the gold of Ophir.

   {7:19} Forego not a wise and good woman: for her grace is above gold.

   {7:20} Whereas thy servant worketh truly, entreat him not evil. nor
the hireling that bestoweth himself wholly for thee.

   {7:21} Let thy soul love a good servant, and defraud him not of
liberty.

   {7:22} Hast thou cattle? have an eye to them: and if they be for thy
profit, keep them with thee.

   {7:23} Hast thou children? instruct them, and bow down their neck
from their youth.

   {7:24} Hast thou daughters? have a care of their body, and shew not
thyself cheerful toward them.

   {7:25} Marry thy daughter, and so shalt thou have performed a
weighty matter: but give her to a man of understanding.

   {7:26} Hast thou a wife after thy mind? forsake her not: but give
not thyself over to a light woman.

   {7:27} Honour thy father with thy whole heart, and forget not the
sorrows of thy mother.

   {7:28} Remember that thou wast begotten of them; and how canst thou
recompense them the things that they have done for thee?

   {7:29} Fear the Lord with all thy soul, and reverence his priests.

   {7:30} Love him that made thee with all thy strength, and forsake
not his ministers.

   {7:31} Fear the Lord, and honor the priest; and give him his
portion, as it is commanded thee; the firstfruits, and the trespass
offering, and the gift of the shoulders, and the sacrifice of
sanctification, and the firstfruits of the holy things.

   {7:32} And stretch thine hand unto the poor, that thy blessing may
be perfected.

   {7:33} A gift hath grace in the sight of every man living; and for
the dead detain it not.

   {7:34} Fail not to be with them that weep, and mourn with them that
mourn.

   {7:35} Be not slow to visit the sick: for that shall make thee to be
beloved.

   {7:36} Whatsoever thou takest in hand, remember the end, and thou
shalt never do amiss.

   {8:1} Strive not with a mighty man' lest thou fall into his hands.

   {8:2} Be not at variance with a rich man, lest he overweigh thee:
for gold hath destroyed many, and perverted the hearts of kings.

   {8:3} Strive not with a man that is full of tongue, and heap not
wood upon his fire.

   {8:4} Jest not with a rude man, lest thy ancestors be disgraced.

   {8:5} Reproach not a man that turneth from sin, but remember that we
are all worthy of punishment.

   {8:6} Dishonour not a man in his old age: for even some of us wax
old.

   {8:7} Rejoice not over thy greatest enemy being dead, but remember
that we die all.

   {8:8} Despise not the discourse of the wise, but acquaint thyself
with their proverbs: for of them thou shalt learn instruction, and how
to serve great men with ease.

   {8:9} Miss not the discourse of the elders: for they also learned of
their fathers, and of them thou shalt learn understanding, and to give
answer as need requireth.

   {8:10} Kindle not the coals of a sinner, lest thou be burnt with the
flame of his fire.

   {8:11} Rise not up [in anger] at the presence of an injurious
person, lest he lie in wait to entrap thee in thy words

   {8:12} Lend not unto him that is mightier than thyself; for if thou
lendest him, count it but lost.

   {8:13} Be not surety above thy power: for if thou be surety, take
care to pay it.

   {8:14} Go not to law with a judge; for they will judge for him
according to his honour.

   {8:15} Travel not by the way with a bold fellow, lest he become
grievous unto thee: for he will do according to his own will, and thou
shalt perish with him through his folly.

   {8:16} Strive not with an angry man, and go not with him into a
solitary place: for blood is as nothing in his sight, and where there
is no help, he will overthrow thee.

   {8:17} Consult not with a fool; for he cannot keep counsel.

   {8:18} Do no secret thing before a stranger; for thou knowest not
what he will bring forth.

   {8:19} Open not thine heart to every man, lest he requite thee with
a shrewd turn.

   {9:1} Be not jealous over the wife of thy bosom, and teach her not
an evil lesson against thyself.

   {9:2} Give not thy soul unto a woman to set her foot upon thy
substance.

   {9:3} Meet not with an harlot, lest thou fall into her snares.

   {9:4} Use not much the company of a woman that is a singer, lest
thou be taken with her attempts.

   {9:5} Gaze not on a maid, that thou fall not by those things that
are precious in her.

   {9:6} Give not thy soul unto harlots, that thou lose not thine
inheritance.

   {9:7} Look not round about thee in the streets of the city, neither
wander thou in the solitary place thereof.

   {9:8} Turn away thine eye from a beautiful woman, and look not upon
another's beauty; for many have been deceived by the beauty of a woman;
for herewith love is kindled as a fire.

   {9:9} Sit not at all with another man's wife, nor sit down with her
in thine arms, and spend not thy money with her at the wine; lest thine
heart incline unto her, and so through thy desire thou fall into
destruction.

   {9:10} Forsake not an old friend; for the new is not comparable to
him: a new friend is as new wine; when it is old, thou shalt drink it
with pleasure.

   {9:11} Envy not the glory of a sinner: for thou knowest not what
shall be his end.

   {9:12} Delight not in the thing that the ungodly have pleasure in;
but remember they shall not go unpunished unto their grave.

   {9:13} Keep thee far from the man that hath power to kill; so shalt
thou not doubt the fear of death: and if thou come unto him, make no
fault, lest he take away thy life presently: remember that thou goest
in the midst of snares, and that thou walkest upon the battlements of
the city.

   {9:14} As near as thou canst, guess at thy neighbour, and consult
with the wise.

   {9:15} Let thy talk be with the wise, and all thy communication in
the law of the most High.

   {9:16} And let just men eat and drink with thee; and let thy
glorying be in the fear of the Lord.

   {9:17} For the hand of the artificer the work shall be commended:
and the wise ruler of the people for his speech.

   {9:18} A man of an ill tongue is dangerous in his city; and he that
is rash in his talk shall be hated.

   {10:1} A wise judge will instruct his people; and the government of
a prudent man is well ordered.

   {10:2} As the judge of the people is himself, so are his officers;
and what manner of man the ruler of the city is, such are all they that
dwell therein.

   {10:3} An unwise king destroyeth his people; but through the
prudence of them which are in authority the city shall be inhabited.

   {10:4} The power of the earth is in the hand of the Lord, and in due
time he will set over it one that is profitable.

   {10:5} In the hand of God is the prosperity of man: and upon the
person of the scribe shall he lay his honour.

   {10:6} Bear not hatred to thy neighbour for every wrong; and do
nothing at all by injurious practices.

   {10:7} Pride is hateful before God and man: and by both doth one
commit iniquity.

   {10:8} Because of unrighteous dealings, injuries, and riches got by
deceit, the kingdom is translated from one people to another.

   {10:9} Why is earth and ashes proud? There is not a more wicked
thing than a covetous man: for such an one setteth his own soul to
sale; because while he liveth he casteth away his bowels.

   {10:10} The physician cutteth off a long disease; and he that is to
day a king to morrow shall die.

   {10:11} For when a man is dead, he shall inherit creeping things,
beasts, and worms.

   {10:12} The beginning of pride is when one departeth from God, and
his heart is turned away from his Maker.

   {10:13} For pride is the beginning of sin, and he that hath it shall
pour out abomination: and therefore the Lord brought upon them strange
calamities, and overthrew them utterly.

   {10:14} The Lord hath cast down the thrones of proud princes, and
set up the meek in their stead.

   {10:15} The Lord hath plucked up the roots of the proud nations, and
planted the lowly in their place.

   {10:16} The Lord overthrew countries of the heathen, and destroyed
them to the foundations of the earth.

   {10:17} He took some of them away, and destroyed them, and hath made
their memorial to cease from the earth.

   {10:18} Pride was not made for men, nor furious anger for them that
are born of a woman.

   {10:19} They that fear the Lord are a sure seed, and they that love
him an honourable plant: they that regard not the law are a
dishonourable seed; they that transgress the commandments are a
deceivable seed.

   {10:20} Among brethren he that is chief is honorable; so are they
that fear the Lord in his eyes.

   {10:21} The fear of the Lord goeth before the obtaining of
authority: but roughness and pride is the losing thereof.

   {10:22} Whether he be rich, noble, or poor, their glory is the fear
of the Lord.

   {10:23} It is not meet to despise the poor man that hath
understanding; neither is it convenient to magnify a sinful man.

   {10:24} Great men, and judges, and potentates, shall be honoured;
yet is there none of them greater than he that feareth the Lord.

   {10:25} Unto the servant that is wise shall they that are free do
service: and he that hath knowledge will not grudge when he is reformed.

   {10:26} Be not overwise in doing thy business; and boast not thyself
in the time of thy distress.

   {10:27} Better is he that laboureth, and aboundeth in all things,
than he that boasteth himself, and wanteth bread.

   {10:28} My son, glorify thy soul in meekness, and give it honour
according to the dignity thereof.

   {10:29} Who will justify him that sinneth against his own soul? and
who will honour him that dishonoureth his own life?

   {10:30} The poor man is honoured for his skill, and the rich man is
honoured for his riches.

   {10:31} He that is honoured in poverty, how much more in riches? and
he that is dishonourable in riches, how much more in poverty?

   {11:1} Wisdom lifteth up the head of him that is of low degree, and
maketh him to sit among great men.

   {11:2} Commend not a man for his beauty; neither abhor a man for his
outward appearance.

   {11:3} The bee is little among such as fly; but her fruit is the
chief of sweet things.

   {11:4} Boast not of thy clothing and raiment, and exalt not thyself
in the day of honour: for the works of the Lord are wonderful, and his
works among men are hidden.

   {11:5} Many kings have sat down upon the ground; and one that was
never thought of hath worn the crown.

   {11:6} Many mighty men have been greatly disgraced; and the
honourable delivered into other men's hands.

   {11:7} Blame not before thou hast examined the truth: understand
first, and then rebuke.

   {11:8} Answer not before thou hast heard the cause: neither
interrupt men in the midst of their talk.

   {11:9} Strive not in a matter that concerneth thee not; and sit not
in judgment with sinners.

   {11:10} My son, meddle not with many matters: for if thou meddle
much, thou shalt not be innocent; and if thou follow after, thou shalt
not obtain, neither shalt thou escape by fleeing.

   {11:11} There is one that laboureth, and taketh pains, and maketh
haste, and is so much the more behind.

   {11:12} Again, there is another that is slow, and hath need of help,
wanting ability, and full of poverty; yet the eye of the Lord looked
upon him for good, and set him up from his low estate,

   {11:13} And lifted up his head from misery; so that many that saw
from him is peace over all the

   {11:14} Prosperity and adversity, life and death, poverty and
riches, come of the Lord.

   {11:15} Wisdom, knowledge, and understanding of the law, are of the
Lord: love, and the way of good works, are from him.

   {11:16} Error and darkness had their beginning together with
sinners: and evil shall wax old with them that glory therein.

   {11:17} The gift of the Lord remaineth with the ungodly, and his
favour bringeth prosperity for ever.

   {11:18} There is that waxeth rich by his wariness and pinching, and
this his the portion of his reward:

   {11:19} Whereas he saith, I have found rest, and now will eat
continually of my goods; and yet he knoweth not what time shall come
upon him, and that he must leave those things to others, and die.

   {11:20} Be stedfast in thy covenant, and be conversant therein, and
wax old in thy work.

   {11:21} Marvel not at the works of sinners; but trust in the Lord,
and abide in thy labour: for it is an easy thing in the sight of the
Lord on the sudden to make a poor man rich.

   {11:22} The blessing of the Lord is in the reward of the godly, and
suddenly he maketh his blessing flourish.

   {11:23} Say not, What profit is there of my service? and what good
things shall I have hereafter?

   {11:24} Again, say not, I have enough, and possess many things, and
what evil shall I have hereafter?

   {11:25} In the day of prosperity there is a forgetfulness of
affliction: and in the day of affliction there is no more remembrance
of prosperity.

   {11:26} For it is an easy thing unto the Lord in the day of death to
reward a man according to his ways.

   {11:27} The affliction of an hour maketh a man forget pleasure: and
in his end his deeds shall be discovered.

   {11:28} Judge none blessed before his death: for a man shall be
known in his children.

   {11:29} Bring not every man into thine house: for the deceitful man
hath many trains.

   {11:30} Like as a partridge taken [and kept] in a cage, so is the
heart of the proud; and like as a spy, watcheth he for thy fall:

   {11:31} For he lieth in wait, and turneth good into evil, and in
things worthy praise will lay blame upon thee.

   {11:32} Of a spark of fire a heap of coals is kindled: and a sinful
man layeth wait for blood.

   {11:33} Take heed of a mischievous man, for he worketh wickedness;
lest he bring upon thee a perpetual blot.

   {11:34} Receive a stranger into thine house, and he will disturb
thee, and turn thee out of thine own.

   {12:1} When thou wilt do good know to whom thou doest it; so shalt
thou be thanked for thy benefits.

   {12:2} Do good to the godly man, and thou shalt find a recompence;
and if not from him, yet from the most High.

   {12:3} There can no good come to him that is always occupied in
evil, nor to him that giveth no alms.

   {12:4} Give to the godly man, and help not a sinner.

   {12:5} Do well unto him that is lowly, but give not to the ungodly:
hold back thy bread, and give it not unto him, lest he overmaster thee
thereby: for [else] thou shalt receive twice as much evil for all the
good thou shalt have done unto him.

   {12:6} For the most High hateth sinners, and will repay vengeance
unto the ungodly, and keepeth them against the mighty day of their
punishment.

   {12:7} Give unto the good, and help not the sinner.

   {12:8} A friend cannot be known in prosperity: and an enemy cannot
be hidden in adversity.

   {12:9} In the prosperity of a man enemies will be grieved: but in
his adversity even a friend will depart.

   {12:10} Never trust thine enemy: for like as iron rusteth, so is his
wickedness.

   {12:11} Though he humble himself, and go crouching, yet take good
heed and beware of him, and thou shalt be unto him as if thou hadst
wiped a lookingglass, and thou shalt know that his rust hath not been
altogether wiped away.

   {12:12} Set him not by thee, lest, when he hath overthrown thee, he
stand up in thy place; neither let him sit at thy right hand, lest he
seek to take thy seat, and thou at the last remember my words, and be
pricked therewith.

   {12:13} Who will pity a charmer that is bitten with a serpent, or
any such as come nigh wild beasts?

   {12:14} So one that goeth to a sinner, and is defiled with him in
his sins, who will pity?

   {12:15} For a while he will abide with thee, but if thou begin to
fall, he will not tarry.

   {12:16} An enemy speaketh sweetly with his lips, but in his heart he
imagineth how to throw thee into a pit: he will weep with his eyes, but
if he find opportunity, he will not be satisfied with blood.

   {12:17} If adversity come upon thee, thou shalt find him there
first; and though he pretend to help thee, yet shall he undermine thee.

   {12:18} He will shake his head, and clap his hands, and whisper
much, and change his countenance.

   {13:1} He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith; and he
that hath fellowship with a proud man shall be like unto him.

   {13:2} Burden not thyself above thy power while thou livest; and
have no fellowship with one that is mightier and richer than thyself:
for how agree the kettle and the earthen pot together? for if the one
be smitten against the other, it shall be broken.

   {13:3} The rich man hath done wrong, and yet he threateneth withal:
the poor is wronged, and he must intreat also.

   {13:4} If thou be for his profit, he will use thee: but if thou have
nothing, he will forsake thee.

   {13:5} If thou have any thing, he will live with thee: yea, he will
make thee bare, and will not be sorry for it.

   {13:6} If he have need of thee, he will deceive thee, and smile upon
thee, and put thee in hope; he will speak thee fair, and say, What
wantest thou?

   {13:7} And he will shame thee by his meats, until he have drawn thee
dry twice or thrice, and at the last he will laugh thee to scorn
afterward, when he seeth thee, he will forsake thee, and shake his head
at thee.

   {13:8} Beware that thou be not deceived and brought down in thy
jollity.

   {13:9} If thou be invited of a mighty man, withdraw thyself, and so
much the more will he invite thee.

   {13:10} Press thou not upon him, lest thou be put back; stand not
far off, lest thou be forgotten.

   {13:11} Affect not to be made equal unto him in talk, and believe
not his many words: for with much communication will he tempt thee, and
smiling upon thee will get out thy secrets:

   {13:12} But cruelly he will lay up thy words, and will not spare to
do thee hurt, and to put thee in prison.

   {13:13} Observe, and take good heed, for thou walkest in peril of
thy overthrowing: when thou hearest these things, awake in thy sleep.

   {13:14} Love the Lord all thy life, and call upon him for thy
salvation.

   {13:15} Every beast loveth his like, and every man loveth his
neighbor.

   {13:16} All flesh consorteth according to kind, and a man will
cleave to his like.

   {13:17} What fellowship hath the wolf with the lamb? so the sinner
with the godly.

   {13:18} What agreement is there between the hyena and a dog? and
what peace between the rich and the poor?

   {13:19} As the wild ass is the lion's prey in the wilderness: so the
rich eat up the poor.

   {13:20} As the proud hate humility: so doth the rich abhor the poor.

   {13:21} A rich man beginning to fall is held up of his friends: but
a poor man being down is thrust away by his friends.

   {13:22} When a rich man is fallen, he hath many helpers: he speaketh
things not to be spoken, and yet men justify him: the poor man slipped,
and yet they rebuked him too; he spake wisely, and could have no place.

   {13:23} When a rich man speaketh, every man holdeth his tongue, and,
look, what he saith, they extol it to the clouds: but if the poor man
speak, they say, What fellow is this? and if he stumble, they will help
to overthrow him.

   {13:24} Riches are good unto him that hath no sin, and poverty is
evil in the mouth of the ungodly.

   {13:25} The heart of a man changeth his countenance, whether it be
for good or evil: and a merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.

   {13:26} A cheerful countenance is a token of a heart that is in
prosperity; and the finding out of parables is a wearisome labour of
the mind.

   {14:1} Blessed is the man that hath not slipped with his mouth, and
is not pricked with the multitude of sins.

   {14:2} Blessed is he whose conscience hath not condemned him, and
who is not fallen from his hope in the Lord.

   {14:3} Riches are not comely for a niggard: and what should an
envious man do with money?

   {14:4} He that gathereth by defrauding his own soul gathereth for
others, that shall spend his goods riotously.

   {14:5} He that is evil to himself, to whom will he be good? he shall
not take pleasure in his goods.

   {14:6} There is none worse than he that envieth himself; and this is
a recompence of his wickedness.

   {14:7} And if he doeth good, he doeth it unwillingly; and at the
last he will declare his wickedness.

   {14:8} The envious man hath a wicked eye; he turneth away his face,
and despiseth men.

   {14:9} A covetous man's eye is not satisfied with his portion; and
the iniquity of the wicked drieth up his soul.

   {14:10} A wicked eye envieth [his] bread, and he is a niggard at his
table.

   {14:11} My son, according to thy ability do good to thyself, and
give the Lord his due offering.

   {14:12} Remember that death will not be long in coming, and that the
covenant of the grave is not shewed unto thee.

   {14:13} Do good unto thy friend before thou die, and according to
thy ability stretch out thy hand and give to him.

   {14:14} Defraud not thyself of the good day, and let not the part of
a good desire overpass thee.

   {14:15} Shalt thou not leave thy travails unto another? and thy
labours to be divided by lot?

   {14:16} Give, and take, and sanctify thy soul; for there is no
seeking of dainties in the grave.

   {14:17} All flesh waxeth old as a garment: for the covenant from the
beginning is, Thou shalt die the death.

   {14:18} As of the green leaves on a thick tree, some fall, and some
grow; so is the generation of flesh and blood, one cometh to an end,
and another is born.

   {14:19} Every work rotteth and consumeth away, and the worker
thereof shall go withal.

   {14:20} Blessed is the man that doth meditate good things in wisdom,
and that reasoneth of holy things by his understanding. ing.

   {14:21} He that considereth her ways in his heart shall also have
understanding in her secrets.

   {14:22} Go after her as one that traceth, and lie in wait in her
ways.

   {14:23} He that prieth in at her windows shall also hearken at her
doors.

   {14:24} He that doth lodge near her house shall also fasten a pin in
her walls.

   {14:25} He shall pitch his tent nigh unto her, and shall lodge in a
lodging where good things are.

   {14:26} He shall set his children under her shelter, and shall lodge
under her branches.

   {14:27} By her he shall be covered from heat, and in her glory shall
he dwell.

   {15:1} He that feareth the Lord will do good, and he that hath the
knowledge of the law shall obtain her.

   {15:2} And as a mother shall she meet him, and receive him as a wife
married of a virgin.

   {15:3} With the bread of understanding shall she feed him, and give
him the water of wisdom to drink.

   {15:4} He shall be stayed upon her, and shall not be moved; and
shall rely upon her, and shall not be confounded.

   {15:5} She shall exalt him above his neighbours, and in the midst of
the congregation shall she open his mouth.

   {15:6} He shall find joy and a crown of gladness, and she shall
cause him to inherit an everlasting name.

   {15:7} But foolish men shall not attain unto her, and sinners shall
not see her.

   {15:8} For she is far from pride, and men that are liars cannot
remember her.

   {15:9} Praise is not seemly in the mouth of a sinner, for it was not
sent him of the Lord.

   {15:10} For praise shall be uttered in wisdom, and the Lord will
prosper it.

   {15:11} Say not thou, It is through the Lord that I fell away: for
thou oughtest not to do the things that he hateth.

   {15:12} Say not thou, He hath caused me to err: for he hath no need
of the sinful man.

   {15:13} The Lord hateth all abomination; and they that fear God love
it not.

   {15:14} He himself made man from the beginning, and left him in the
hand of his counsel;

   {15:15} If thou wilt, to keep the commandments, and to perform
acceptable faithfulness.

   {15:16} He hath set fire and water before thee: stretch forth thy
hand unto whether thou wilt.

   {15:17} Before man is life and death; and whether him liketh shall
be given him.

   {15:18} For the wisdom of the Lord is great, and he is mighty in
power, and beholdeth all things:

   {15:19} And his eyes are upon them that fear him, and he knoweth
every work of man.

   {15:20} He hath commanded no man to do wickedly, neither hath he
given any man licence to sin.

   {16:1} Desire not a multitude of unprofitable children, neither
delight in ungodly sons.

   {16:2} Though they multiply, rejoice not in them, except the fear of
the Lord be with them.

   {16:3} Trust not thou in their life, neither respect their
multitude: for one that is just is better than a thousand; and better
it is to die without children, than to have them that are ungodly.

   {16:4} For by one that hath understanding shall the city be
replenished: but the kindred of the wicked shall speedily become
desolate.

   {16:5} Many such things have I seen with mine eyes, and mine ear
hath heard greater things than these.

   {16:6} In the congregation of the ungodly shall a fire be kindled;
and in a rebellious nation wrath is set on fire.

   {16:7} He was not pacified toward the old giants, who fell away in
the strength of their foolishness.

   {16:8} Neither spared he the place where Lot sojourned, but abhorred
them for their pride.

   {16:9} He pitied not the people of perdition, who were taken away in
their sins:

   {16:10} Nor the six hundred thousand footmen, who were gathered
together in the hardness of their hearts.

   {16:11} And if there be one stiffnecked among the people, it is
marvel if he escape unpunished: for mercy and wrath are with him; he is
mighty to forgive, and to pour out displeasure.

   {16:12} As his mercy is great, so is his correction also: he judgeth
a man according to his works

   {16:13} The sinner shall not escape with his spoils: and the
patience of the godly shall not be frustrate.

   {16:14} Make way for every work of mercy: for every man shall find
according to his works.

   {16:15} The Lord hardened Pharaoh, that he should not know him, that
his powerful works might be known to the world.

   {16:16} His mercy is manifest to every creature; and he hath
separated his light from the darkness with an adamant.

   {16:17} Say not thou, I will hide myself from the Lord: shall any
remember me from above? I shall not be remembered among so many people:
for what is my soul among such an infinite number of creatures?

   {16:18} Behold, the heaven, and the heaven of heavens, the deep, and
the earth, and all that therein is, shall be moved when he shall visit.

   {16:19} The mountains also and foundations of the earth be shaken
with trembling, when the Lord looketh upon them.

   {16:20} No heart can think upon these things worthily: and who is
able to conceive his ways?

   {16:21} It is a tempest which no man can see: for the most part of
his works are hid.

   {16:22} Who can declare the works of his justice? or who can endure
them? for his covenant is afar off, and the trial of all things is in
the end.

   {16:23} He that wanteth understanding will think upon vain things:
and a foolish man erring imagineth follies.

   {16:24} by son, hearken unto me, and learn knowledge, and mark my
words with thy heart.

   {16:25} I will shew forth doctrine in weight, and declare his
knowledge exactly.

   {16:26} The works of the Lord are done in judgment from the
beginning: and from the time he made them he disposed the parts thereof.

   {16:27} He garnished his works for ever, and in his hand are the
chief of them unto all generations: they neither labour, nor are weary,
nor cease from their works.

   {16:28} None of them hindereth another, and they shall never disobey
his word.

   {16:29} After this the Lord looked upon the earth, and filled it
with his blessings.

   {16:30} With all manner of living things hath he covered the face
thereof; and they shall return into it again.

   {17:1} The Lord created man of the earth, and turned him into it
again.

   {17:2} He gave them few days, and a short time, and power also over
the things therein.

   {17:3} He endued them with strength by themselves, and made them
according to his image,

   {17:4} And put the fear of man upon all flesh, and gave him dominion
over beasts and fowls.

   {17:5} They received the use of the five operations of the Lord, and
in the sixth place he imparted them understanding, and in the seventh
speech, an interpreter of the cogitations thereof.

   {17:6} Counsel, and a tongue, and eyes, ears, and a heart, gave he
them to understand.

   {17:7} Withal he filled them with the knowledge of understanding,
and shewed them good and evil.

   {17:8} He set his eye upon their hearts, that he might shew them the
greatness of his works.

   {17:9} He gave them to glory in his marvellous acts for ever, that
they might declare his works with understanding.

   {17:10} And the elect shall praise his holy name.

   {17:11} Beside this he gave them knowledge, and the law of life for
an heritage.

   {17:12} He made an everlasting covenant with them, and shewed them
his judgments.

   {17:13} Their eyes saw the majesty of his glory, and their ears
heard his glorious voice.

   {17:14} And he said unto them, Beware of all unrighteousness; and he
gave every man commandment concerning his neighbour.

   {17:15} Their ways are ever before him, and shall not be hid from
his eyes.

   {17:16} Every man from his youth is given to evil; neither could
they make to themselves fleshy hearts for stony.

   {17:17} For in the division of the nations of the whole earth he set
a ruler over every people; but Israel is the Lord's portion:

   {17:18} Whom, being his firstborn, he nourisheth with discipline,
and giving him the light of his love doth not forsake him.

   {17:19} Therefore all their works are as the sun before him, and his
eyes are continually upon their ways.

   {17:20} None of their unrighteous deeds are hid from him, but all
their sins are before the Lord

   {17:21} But the Lord being gracious and knowing his workmanship,
neither left nor forsook them, but spared them.

   {17:22} The alms of a man is as a signet with him, and he will keep
the good deeds of man as the apple of the eye, and give repentance to
his sons and daughters.

   {17:23} Afterwards he will rise up and reward them, and render their
recompence upon their heads.

   {17:24} But unto them that repent, he granted them return, and
comforted those that failed in patience.

   {17:25} Return unto the Lord, and forsake thy sins, make thy prayer
before his face, and offend less.

   {17:26} Turn again to the most High, and turn away from iniquity:
for he will lead thee out of darkness into the light of health, and
hate thou abomination vehemently.

   {17:27} Who shall praise the most High in the grave, instead of them
which live and give thanks?

   {17:28} Thanksgiving perisheth from the dead, as from one that is
not: the living and sound in heart shall praise the Lord.

   {17:29} How great is the lovingkindness of the Lord our God, and his
compassion unto such as turn unto him in holiness!

   {17:30} For all things cannot be in men, because the son of man is
not immortal.

   {17:31} What is brighter than the sun? yet the light thereof
faileth; and flesh and blood will imagine evil.

   {17:32} He vieweth the power of the height of heaven; and all men
are but earth and ashes.

   {18:1} He that liveth for ever Hath created all things in general.

   {18:2} The Lord only is righteous, and there is none other but he,

   {18:3} Who governeth the world with the palm of his hand, and all
things obey his will: for he is the King of all, by his power dividing
holy things among them from profane.

   {18:4} To whom hath he given power to declare his works? and who
shall find out his noble acts?

   {18:5} Who shall number the strength of his majesty? and who shall
also tell out his mercies?

   {18:6} As for the wondrous works of the Lord, there may nothing be
taken from them, neither may any thing be put unto them, neither can
the ground of them be found out.

   {18:7} When a man hath done, then he beginneth; and when he leaveth
off, then he shall be doubtful.

   {18:8} What is man, and whereto serveth he? what is his good, and
what is his evil?

   {18:9} The number of a man's days at the most are an hundred years.

   {18:10} As a drop of water unto the sea, and a gravelstone in
comparison of the sand; so are a thousand years to the days of eternity.

   {18:11} Therefore is God patient with them, and poureth forth his
mercy upon them.

   {18:12} He saw and perceived their end to be evil; therefore he
multiplied his compassion.

   {18:13} The mercy of man is toward his neighbour; but the mercy of
the Lord is upon all flesh: he reproveth, and nurtureth, and teacheth
and bringeth again, as a shepherd his flock.

   {18:14} He hath mercy on them that receive discipline, and that
diligently seek after his judgments.

   {18:15} My son, blemish not thy good deeds, neither use
uncomfortable words when thou givest any thing.

   {18:16} Shall not the dew asswage the heat? so is a word better than
a gift.

   {18:17} Lo, is not a word better than a gift? but both are with a
gracious man.

   {18:18} A fool will upbraid churlishly, and a gift of the envious
consumeth the eyes.

   {18:19} Learn before thou speak, and use physick or ever thou be
sick.

   {18:20} Before judgment examine thyself, and in the day of
visitation thou shalt find mercy.

   {18:21} Humble thyself before thou be sick, and in the time of sins
shew repentance.

   {18:22} Let nothing hinder thee to pay thy vow in due time, and
defer not until death to be justified.

   {18:23} Before thou prayest, prepare thyself; and be not as one that
tempteth the Lord.

   {18:24} Think upon the wrath that shall be at the end, and the time
of vengeance, when he shall turn away his face.

   {18:25} When thou hast enough, remember the time of hunger: and when
thou art rich, think upon poverty and need.

   {18:26} From the morning until the evening the time is changed, and
all things are soon done before the Lord.

   {18:27} A wise man will fear in every thing, and in the day of
sinning he will beware of offence: but a fool will not observe time.

   {18:28} Every man of understanding knoweth wisdom, and will give
praise unto him that found her.

   {18:29} They that were of understanding in sayings became also wise
themselves, and poured forth exquisite parables.

   {18:30} Go not after thy lusts, but refrain thyself from thine
appetites.

   {18:31} If thou givest thy soul the desires that please her, she
will make thee a laughingstock to thine enemies that malign thee.

   {18:32} Take not pleasure in much good cheer, neither be tied to the
expence thereof.

   {18:33} Be not made a beggar by banqueting upon borrowing, when thou
hast nothing in thy purse: for thou shalt lie in wait for thine own
life, and be talked on.

   {19:1} A labouring man that A is given to drunkenness shall not be
rich: and he that contemneth small things shall fall by little and
little.

   {19:2} Wine and women will make men of understanding to fall away:
and he that cleaveth to harlots will become impudent.

   {19:3} Moths and worms shall have him to heritage, and a bold man
shall be taken away.

   {19:4} He that is hasty to give credit is lightminded; and he that
sinneth shall offend against his own soul.

   {19:5} Whoso taketh pleasure in wickedness shall be condemned: but
he that resisteth pleasures crowneth his life.

   {19:6} He that can rule his tongue shall live without strife; and he
that hateth babbling shall have less evil.

   {19:7} Rehearse not unto another that which is told unto thee, and
thou shalt fare never the worse.

   {19:8} Whether it be to friend or foe, talk not of other men's
lives; and if thou canst without offence, reveal them not.

   {19:9} For he heard and observed thee, and when time cometh he will
hate thee.

   {19:10} If thou hast heard a word, let it die with thee; and be
bold, it will not burst thee.

   {19:11} A fool travaileth with a word, as a woman in labour of a
child.

   {19:12} As an arrow that sticketh in a man's thigh, so is a word
within a fool's belly.

   {19:13} Admonish a friend, it may be he hath not done it: and if he
have done it, that he do it no more.

   {19:14} Admonish thy friend, it may be he hath not said it: and if
he have, that he speak it not again.

   {19:15} Admonish a friend: for many times it is a slander, and
believe not every tale.

   {19:16} There is one that slippeth in his speech, but not from his
heart; and who is he that hath not offended with his tongue?

   {19:17} Admonish thy neighbour before thou threaten him; and not
being angry, give place to the law of the most High.

   {19:18} The fear of the Lord is the first step to be accepted [of
him,] and wisdom obtaineth his love.

   {19:19} The knowledge of the commandments of the Lord is the
doctrine of life: and they that do things that please him shall receive
the fruit of the tree of immortality.

   {19:20} The fear of the Lord is all wisdom; and in all wisdom is the
performance of the law, and the knowledge of his omnipotency.

   {19:21} If a servant say to his master, I will not do as it pleaseth
thee; though afterward he do it, he angereth him that nourisheth him.

   {19:22} The knowledge of wickedness is not wisdom, neither at any
time the counsel of sinners prudence.

   {19:23} There is a wickedness, and the same an abomination; and
there is a fool wanting in wisdom.

   {19:24} He that hath small understanding, and feareth God, is better
than one that hath much wisdom, and transgresseth the law of the most
High.

   {19:25} There is an exquisite subtilty, and the same is unjust; and
there is one that turneth aside to make judgment appear; and there is a
wise man that justifieth in judgment.

   {19:26} There is a wicked man that hangeth down his head sadly; but
inwardly he is full of deceit,

   {19:27} Casting down his countenance, and making as if he heard not:
where he is not known, he will do thee a mischief before thou be aware.

   {19:28} And if for want of power he be hindered from sinning, yet
when he findeth opportunity he will do evil.

   {19:29} A man may be known by his look, and one that hath
understanding by his countenance, when thou meetest him.

   {19:30} A man's attire, and excessive laughter, and gait, shew what
he is.

   {20:1} There is a reproof that is not comely: again, some man
holdeth his tongue, and he is wise.

   {20:2} It is much better to reprove, than to be angry secretly: and
he that confesseth his fault shall be preserved from hurt.

   {20:3} How good is it, when thou art reproved, to shew repentance!
for so shalt thou escape wilful sin.

   {20:4} As is the lust of an eunuch to deflower a virgin; so is he
that executeth judgment with violence.

   {20:5} There is one that keepeth silence, and is found wise: and
another by much babbling becometh hateful.

   {20:6} Some man holdeth his tongue, because he hath not to answer:
and some keepeth silence, knowing his time.

   {20:7} A wise man will hold his tongue till he see opportunity: but
a babbler and a fool will regard no time.

   {20:8} He that useth many words shall be abhorred; and he that
taketh to himself authority therein shall be hated.

   {20:9} There is a sinner that hath good success in evil things; and
there is a gain that turneth to loss.

   {20:10} There is a gift that shall not profit thee; and there is a
gift whose recompence is double.

   {20:11} There is an abasement because of glory; and there is that
lifteth up his head from a low estate.

   {20:12} There is that buyeth much for a little, and repayeth it
sevenfold.

   {20:13} A wise man by his words maketh him beloved: but the graces
of fools shall be poured out.

   {20:14} The gift of a fool shall do thee no good when thou hast it;
neither yet of the envious for his necessity: for he looketh to receive
many things for one.

   {20:15} He giveth little, and upbraideth much; he openeth his mouth
like a crier; to day he lendeth, and to morrow will he ask it again:
such an one is to be hated of God and man.

   {20:16} The fool saith, I have no friends, I have no thank for all
my good deeds, and they that eat my bread speak evil of me.

   {20:17} How oft, and of how many shall he be laughed to scorn! for
he knoweth not aright what it is to have; and it is all one unto him as
if he had it not.

   {20:18} To slip upon a pavement is better than to slip with the
tongue: so the fall of the wicked shall come speedily.

   {20:19} An unseasonable tale will always be in the mouth of the
unwise.

   {20:20} A wise sentence shall be rejected when it cometh out of a
fool's mouth; for he will not speak it in due season.

   {20:21} There is that is hindered from sinning through want: and
when he taketh rest, he shall not be troubled.

   {20:22} There is that destroyeth his own soul through bashfulness,
and by accepting of persons overthroweth himself.

   {20:23} There is that for bashfulness promiseth to his friend, and
maketh him his enemy for nothing.

   {20:24} A lie is a foul blot in a man, yet it is continually in the
mouth of the untaught.

   {20:25} A thief is better than a man that is accustomed to lie: but
they both shall have destruction to heritage.

   {20:26} The disposition of a liar is dishonourable, and his shame is
ever with him.

   {20:27} A wise man shall promote himself to honour with his words:
and he that hath understanding will please great men.

   {20:28} He that tilleth his land shall increase his heap: and he
that pleaseth great men shall get pardon for iniquity.

   {20:29} Presents and gifts blind the eyes of the wise, and stop up
his mouth that he cannot reprove.

   {20:30} Wisdom that is hid, and treasure that is hoarded up, what
profit is in them both?

   {20:31} Better is he that hideth his folly than a man that hideth
his wisdom.

   {20:32} Necessary patience in seeking ing the Lord is better than he
that leadeth his life without a guide.

   {21:1} My son, hast thou sinned? do so no more, but ask pardon for
thy former sins.

   {21:2} Flee from sin as from the face of a serpent: for if thou
comest too near it, it will bite thee: the teeth thereof are as the
teeth of a lion, slaying the souls of men.

   {21:3} All iniquity is as a two edged sword, the wounds whereof
cannot be healed.

   {21:4} To terrify and do wrong will waste riches: thus the house of
proud men shall be made desolate.

   {21:5} A prayer out of a poor man's mouth reacheth to the ears of
God, and his judgment cometh speedily.

   {21:6} He that hateth to be reproved is in the way of sinners: but
he that feareth the Lord will repent from his heart.

   {21:7} An eloquent man is known far and near; but a man of
understanding knoweth when he slippeth.

   {21:8} He that buildeth his house with other men's money is like one
that gathereth himself stones for the tomb of his burial.

   {21:9} The congregation of the wicked is like tow wrapped together:
and the end of them is a flame of fire to destroy them.

   {21:10} The way of sinners is made plain with stones, but at the end
thereof is the pit of hell.

   {21:11} He that keepeth the law of the Lord getteth the
understanding thereof: and the perfection of the fear of the Lord is
wisdom.

   {21:12} He that is not wise will not be taught: but there is a
wisdom which multiplieth bitterness.

   {21:13} The knowledge of a wise man shall abound like a flood: and
his counsel is like a pure fountain of life.

   {21:14} The inner parts of a fool are like a broken vessel, and he
will hold no knowledge as long as he liveth.

   {21:15} If a skilful man hear a wise word, he will commend it, and
add unto it: but as soon as one of no understanding heareth it, it
displeaseth him, and he casteth it behind his back.

   {21:16} The talking of a fool is like a burden in the way: but grace
shall be found in the lips of the wise.

   {21:17} They enquire at the mouth of the wise man in the
congregation, and they shall ponder his words in their heart.

   {21:18} As is a house that is destroyed, so is wisdom to a fool: and
the knowledge of the unwise is as talk without sense.

   {21:19} Doctrine unto fools is as fetters on the feet, and like
manacles on the right hand.

   {21:20} A fool lifteth up his voice with laughter; but a wise man
doth scarce smile a little.

   {21:21} Learning is unto a wise man as an ornament of gold, and like
a bracelet upon his right arm.

   {21:22} A foolish man's foot is soon in his [neighbour's] house: but
a man of experience is ashamed of him.

   {21:23} A fool will peep in at the door into the house: but he that
is well nurtured will stand without.

   {21:24} It is the rudeness of a man to hearken at the door: but a
wise man will be grieved with the disgrace.

   {21:25} The lips of talkers will be telling such things as pertain
not unto them: but the words of such as have understanding are weighed
in the balance.

   {21:26} The heart of fools is in their mouth: but the mouth of the
wise is in their heart.

   {21:27} When the ungodly curseth Satan, he curseth his own soul.

   {21:28} A whisperer defileth his own soul, and is hated wheresoever
he dwelleth.

   {22:1} A slothful man is compared to a filthy stone, and every one
will hiss him out to his disgrace.

   {22:2} A slothful man is compared to the filth of a dunghill: every
man that takes it up will shake his hand.

   {22:3} An evilnurtured man is the dishonour of his father that begat
him: and a [foolish] daughter is born to his loss.

   {22:4} A wise daughter shall bring an inheritance to her husband:
but she that liveth dishonestly is her father's heaviness.

   {22:5} She that is bold dishonoureth both her father and her
husband, but they both shall despise her.

   {22:6} A tale out of season [is as] musick in mourning: but stripes
and correction of wisdom are never out of time.

   {22:7} Whoso teacheth a fool is as one that glueth a potsherd
together, and as he that waketh one from a sound sleep.

   {22:8} He that telleth a tale to a fool speaketh to one in a
slumber: when he hath told his tale, he will say, What is the matter?

   {22:9} If children live honestly, and have wherewithal, they shall
cover the baseness of their parents.

   {22:10} But children, being haughty, through disdain and want of
nurture do stain the nobility of their kindred.

   {22:11} Weep for the dead, for he hath lost the light: and weep for
the fool, for he wanteth understanding: make little weeping for the
dead, for he is at rest: but the life of the fool is worse than death.

   {22:12} Seven days do men mourn for him that is dead; but for a fool
and an ungodly man all the days of his life.

   {22:13} Talk not much with a fool, and go not to him that hath no
understanding: beware of him, lest thou have trouble, and thou shalt
never be defiled with his fooleries: depart from him, and thou shalt
find rest, and never be disquieted with madness.

   {22:14} What is heavier than lead? and what is the name thereof, but
a fool?

   {22:15} Sand, and salt, and a mass of iron, is easier to bear, than
a man without understanding.

   {22:16} As timber girt and bound together in a building cannot be
loosed with shaking: so the heart that is stablished by advised counsel
shall fear at no time.

   {22:17} A heart settled upon a thought of understanding is as a fair
plaistering on the wall of a gallery.

   {22:18} Pales set on an high place will never stand against the
wind: so a fearful heart in the imagination of a fool cannot stand
against any fear.

   {22:19} He that pricketh the eye will make tears to fall: and he
that pricketh the heart maketh it to shew her knowledge.

   {22:20} Whoso casteth a stone at the birds frayeth them away: and he
that upbraideth his friend breaketh friendship.

   {22:21} Though thou drewest a sword at thy friend, yet despair not:
for there may be a returning [to favour.]

   {22:22} If thou hast opened thy mouth against thy friend, fear not;
for there may be a reconciliation: except for upbraiding, or pride, or
disclosing of secrets, or a treacherous wound: for for these things
every friend will depart.

   {22:23} Be faithful to thy neighbour in his poverty, that thou
mayest rejoice in his prosperity: abide stedfast unto him in the time
of his trouble, that thou mayest be heir with him in his heritage: for
a mean estate is not always to be contemned: nor the rich that is
foolish to be had in admiration.

   {22:24} As the vapour and smoke of a furnace goeth before the fire;
so reviling before blood.

   {22:25} I will not be ashamed to defend a friend; neither will I
hide myself from him.

   {22:26} And if any evil happen unto me by him, every one that
heareth it will beware of him.

   {22:27} Who shall set a watch before my mouth, and a seal of wisdom
upon my lips, that I fall not suddenly by them, and that my tongue
destroy me not?

   {23:1} O Lord, Father and Governor of all my whole life, leave me
not to their counsels, and let me not fall by them.

   {23:2} Who will set scourges over my thoughts, and the discipline of
wisdom over mine heart? that they spare me not for mine ignorances, and
it pass not by my sins:

   {23:3} Lest mine ignorances increase, and my sins abound to my
destruction, and I fall before mine adversaries, and mine enemy rejoice
over me, whose hope is far from thy mercy.

   {23:4} O Lord, Father and God of my life, give me not a proud look,
but turn away from thy servants always a haughty mind.

   {23:5} Turn away from me vain hopes and concupiscence, and thou
shalt hold him up that is desirous always to serve thee.

   {23:6} Let not the greediness of the belly nor lust of the flesh
take hold of me; and give not over me thy servant into an impudent mind.

   {23:7} Hear, O ye children, the discipline of the mouth: he that
keepeth it shall never be taken in his lips.

   {23:8} The sinner shall be left in his foolishness: both the evil
speaker and the proud shall fall thereby.

   {23:9} Accustom not thy mouth to swearing; neither use thyself to
the naming of the Holy One.

   {23:10} For as a servant that is continually beaten shall not be
without a blue mark: so he that sweareth and nameth God continually
shall not be faultless.

   {23:11} A man that useth much swearing shall be filled with
iniquity, and the plague shall never depart from his house: if he shall
offend, his sin shall be upon him: and if he acknowledge not his sin,
he maketh a double offence: and if he swear in vain, he shall not be
innocent, but his house shall be full of calamities.

   {23:12} There is a word that is clothed about with death: God grant
that it be not found in the heritage of Jacob; for all such things
shall be far from the godly, and they shall not wallow in their sins.

   {23:13} Use not thy mouth to intemperate swearing, for therein is
the word of sin.

   {23:14} Remember thy father and thy mother, when thou sittest among
great men. Be not forgetful before them, and so thou by thy custom
become a fool, and wish that thou hadst not been born, and curse they
day of thy nativity.

   {23:15} The man that is accustomed to opprobrious words will never
be reformed all the days of his life.

   {23:16} Two sorts of men multiply sin, and the third will bring
wrath: a hot mind is as a burning fire, it will never be quenched till
it be consumed: a fornicator in the body of his flesh will never cease
till he hath kindled a fire.

   {23:17} All bread is sweet to a whoremonger, he will not leave off
till he die.

   {23:18} A man that breaketh wedlock, saying thus in his heart, Who
seeth me? I am compassed about with darkness, the walls cover me, and
no body seeth me; what need I to fear? the most High will not remember
my sins:

   {23:19} Such a man only feareth the eyes of men, and knoweth not
that the eyes of the Lord are ten thousand times brighter than the sun,
beholding all the ways of men, and considering the most secret parts.

   {23:20} He knew all things ere ever they were created; so also after
they were perfected he looked upon them all.

   {23:21} This man shall be punished in the streets of the city, and
where he suspecteth not he shall be taken.

   {23:22} Thus shall it go also with the wife that leaveth her
husband, and bringeth in an heir by another.

   {23:23} For first, she hath disobeyed the law of the most High; and
secondly, she hath trespassed against her own husband; and thirdly, she
hath played the whore in adultery, and brought children by another man.

   {23:24} She shall be brought out into the congregation, and
inquisition shall be made of her children.

   {23:25} Her children shall not take root, and her branches shall
bring forth no fruit.

   {23:26} She shall leave her memory to be cursed, and her reproach
shall not be blotted out.

   {23:27} And they that remain shall know that there is nothing better
than the fear of the Lord, and that there is nothing sweeter than to
take heed unto the commandments of the Lord.

   {23:28} It is great glory to follow the Lord, and to be received of
him is long life.

   {24:1} Wisdom shall praise herself, and shall glory in the midst of
her people.

   {24:2} In the congregation of the most High shall she open her
mouth, and triumph before his power.

   {24:3} I came out of the mouth of the most High, and covered the
earth as a cloud.

   {24:4} I dwelt in high places, and my throne is in a cloudy pillar.

   {24:5} I alone compassed the circuit of heaven, and walked in the
bottom of the deep.

   {24:6} In the waves of the sea and in all the earth, and in every
people and nation, I got a possession.

   {24:7} With all these I sought rest: and in whose inheritance shall
I abide?

   {24:8} So the Creator of all things gave me a commandment, and he
that made me caused my tabernacle to rest, and said, Let thy dwelling
be in Jacob, and thine inheritance in Israel.

   {24:9} He created me from the beginning before the world, and I
shall never fail.

   {24:10} In the holy tabernacle I served before him; and so was I
established in Sion.

   {24:11} Likewise in the beloved city he gave me rest, and in
Jerusalem was my power.

   {24:12} And I took root in an honourable people, even in the portion
of the Lord's inheritance.

   {24:13} I was exalted like a cedar in Libanus, and as a cypress tree
upon the mountains of Hermon.

   {24:14} I was exalted like a palm tree in En-gaddi, and as a rose
plant in Jericho, as a fair olive tree in a pleasant field, and grew up
as a plane tree by the water.

   {24:15} I gave a sweet smell like cinnamon and aspalathus, and I
yielded a pleasant odour like the best myrrh, as galbanum, and onyx,
and sweet storax, and as the fume of frankincense in the tabernacle.

   {24:16} As the turpentine tree I stretched out my branches, and my
branches are the branches of honour and grace.

   {24:17} As the vine brought I forth pleasant savour, and my flowers
are the fruit of honour and riches.

   {24:18} I am the mother of fair love, and fear, and knowledge, and
holy hope: I therefore, being eternal, am given to all my children
which are named of him.

   {24:19} Come unto me, all ye that be desirous of me, and fill
yourselves with my fruits.

   {24:20} For my memorial is sweeter than honey, and mine inheritance
than the honeycomb.

   {24:21} They that eat me shall yet be hungry, and they that drink me
shall yet be thirsty.

   {24:22} He that obeyeth me shall never be confounded, and they that
work by me shall not do amiss.

   {24:23} All these things are the book of the covenant of the most
high God, even the law which Moses commanded for an heritage unto the
congregations of Jacob.

   {24:24} Faint not to be strong in the Lord; that he may confirm you,
cleave unto him: for the Lord Almighty is God alone, and beside him
there is no other Saviour.

   {24:25} He filleth all things with his wisdom, as Phison and as
Tigris in the time of the new fruits.

   {24:26} He maketh the understanding to abound like Euphrates, and as
Jordan in the time of the harvest.

   {24:27} He maketh the doctrine of knowledge appear as the light, and
as Geon in the time of vintage.

   {24:28} The first man knew her not perfectly: no more shall the last
find her out.

   {24:29} For her thoughts are more than the sea, and her counsels
profounder than the great deep.

   {24:30} I also came out as a brook from a river, and as a conduit
into a garden.

   {24:31} I said, I will water my best garden, and will water
abundantly my garden bed: and, lo, my brook became a river, and my
river became a sea.

   {24:32} I will yet make doctrine to shine as the morning, and will
send forth her light afar off.

   {24:33} I will yet pour out doctrine as prophecy, and leave it to
all ages for ever.

   {24:34} Behold that I have not laboured for myself only, but for all
them that seek wisdom.

   {25:1} In three things I was beautified, and stood up beautiful both
before God and men: the unity of brethren, the love of neighbours, a
man and a wife that agree together.

   {25:2} Three sorts of men my soul hateth, and I am greatly offended
at their life: a poor man that is proud, a rich man that is a liar, and
an old adulterer that doateth.

   {25:3} If thou hast gathered nothing in thy youth, how canst thou
find any thing in thine age?

   {25:4} O how comely a thing is judgment for gray hairs, and for
ancient men to know counsel!

   {25:5} O how comely is the wisdom of old men, and understanding and
counsel to men of honour.

   {25:6} Much experience is the crown of old men, and the fear of God
is their glory.

   {25:7} There be nine things which I have judged in mine heart to be
happy, and the tenth I will utter with my tongue: A man that hath joy
of his children; and he that liveth to see the fall of his enemy:

   {25:8} Well is him that dwelleth with a wife of understanding, and
that hath not slipped with his tongue, and that hath not served a man
more unworthy than himself:

   {25:9} Well is him that hath found prudence, and he that speaketh in
the ears of them that will hear:

   {25:10} O how great is he that findeth wisdom! yet is there none
above him that feareth the Lord.

   {25:11} But the love of the Lord passeth all things for
illumination: he that holdeth it, whereto shall he be likened?

   {25:12} The fear of the Lord is the beginning of his love: and faith
is the beginning of cleaving unto him.

   {25:13} [Give me] any plague, but the plague of the heart: and any
wickedness, but the wickedness of a woman:

   {25:14} And any affliction, but the affliction from them that hate
me: and any revenge, but the revenge of enemies.

   {25:15} There is no head above the head of a serpent; and there is
no wrath above the wrath of an enemy.

   {25:16} I had rather dwell with a lion and a dragon, than to keep
house with a wicked woman.

   {25:17} The wickedness of a woman changeth her face, and darkeneth
her countenance like sackcloth.

   {25:18} Her husband shall sit among his neighbours; and when he
heareth it shall sigh bitterly.

   {25:19} All wickedness is but little to the wickedness of a woman:
let the portion of a sinner fall upon her.

   {25:20} As the climbing up a sandy way is to the feet of the aged,
so is a wife full of words to a quiet man.

   {25:21} Stumble not at the beauty of a woman, and desire her not for
pleasure.

   {25:22} A woman, if she maintain her husband, is full of anger,
impudence, and much reproach.

   {25:23} A wicked woman abateth the courage, maketh an heavy
countenance and a wounded heart: a woman that will not comfort her
husband in distress maketh weak hands and feeble knees.

   {25:24} Of the woman came the beginning of sin, and through her we
all die.

   {25:25} Give the water no passage; neither a wicked woman liberty to
gad abroad.

   {25:26} If she go not as thou wouldest have her, cut her off from
thy flesh, and give her a bill of divorce, and let her go.

   {26:1} Blessed is the man that hath a virtuous wife, for the number
of his days shall be double.

   {26:2} A virtuous woman rejoiceth her husband, and he shall fulfil
the years of his life in peace.

   {26:3} A good wife is a good portion, which shall be given in the
portion of them that fear the Lord.

   {26:4} Whether a man be rich or poor, if he have a good heart toward
the Lord, he shall at all times rejoice with a cheerful countenance.

   {26:5} There be three things that mine heart feareth; and for the
fourth I was sore afraid: the slander of a city, the gathering together
of an unruly multitude, and a false accusation: all these are worse
than death.

   {26:6} But a grief of heart and sorrow is a woman that is jealous
over another woman, and a scourge of the tongue which communicateth
with all.

   {26:7} An evil wife is a yoke shaken to and fro: he that hath hold
of her is as though he held a scorpion.

   {26:8} A drunken woman and a gadder abroad causeth great anger, and
she will not cover her own shame.

   {26:9} The whoredom of a woman may be known in her haughty looks and
eyelids.

   {26:10} If thy daughter be shameless, keep her in straitly, lest she
abuse herself through overmuch liberty.

   {26:11} Watch over an impudent eye: and marvel not if she trespass
against thee.

   {26:12} She will open her mouth, as a thirsty traveller when he hath
found a fountain, and drink of every water near her: by every hedge
will she sit down, and open her quiver against every arrow.

   {26:13} The grace of a wife delighteth her husband, and her
discretion will fatten his bones.

   {26:14} A silent and loving woman is a gift of the Lord; and there
is nothing so much worth as a mind well instructed.

   {26:15} A shamefaced and faithful woman is a double grace, and her
continent mind cannot be valued.

   {26:16} As the sun when it ariseth in the high heaven; so is the
beauty of a good wife in the ordering of her house.

   {26:17} As the clear light is upon the holy candlestick; so is the
beauty of the face in ripe age.

   {26:18} As the golden pillars are upon the sockets of silver; so are
the fair feet with a constant heart.

   {26:19} My son, keep the flower of thine age sound; and give not thy
strength to strangers.

   {26:20} When thou hast gotten a fruitful possession through all the
field, sow it with thine own seed, trusting in the goodness of thy
stock.

   {26:21} So thy race which thou leavest shall be magnified, having
the confidence of their good descent.

   {26:22} An harlot shall be accounted as spittle; but a married woman
is a tower against death to her husband.

   {26:23} A wicked woman is given as a portion to a wicked man: but a
godly woman is given to him that feareth the Lord.

   {26:24} A dishonest woman contemneth shame: but an honest woman will
reverence her husband.

   {26:25} A shameless woman shall be counted as a dog; but she that is
shamefaced will fear the Lord.

   {26:26} A woman that honoureth her husband shall be judged wise of
all; but she that dishonoureth him in her pride shall be counted
ungodly of all.

   {26:27} A loud crying woman and a scold shall be sought out to drive
away the enemies.

   {26:28} There be two things that grieve my heart; and the third
maketh me angry: a man of war that suffereth poverty; and men of
understanding that are not set by; and one that returneth from
righteousness to sin; the Lord prepareth such an one for the sword.

   {26:29} A merchant shall hardly keep himself from doing wrong; and
an huckster shall not be freed from sin.

   {27:1} Many have sinned for a small matter; and he that seeketh for
abundance will turn his eyes away.

   {27:2} As a nail sticketh fast between the joinings of the stones;
so doth sin stick close between buying and selling.

   {27:3} Unless a man hold himself diligently in the fear of the Lord,
his house shall soon be overthrown.

   {27:4} As when one sifteth with a sieve, the refuse remaineth; so
the filth of man in his talk.

   {27:5} The furnace proveth the potter's vessels; so the trial of man
is in his reasoning.

   {27:6} The fruit declareth if the tree have been dressed; so is the
utterance of a conceit in the heart of man.

   {27:7} Praise no man before thou hearest him speak; for this is the
trial of men.

   {27:8} If thou followest righteousness, thou shalt obtain her, and
put her on, as a glorious long robe.

   {27:9} The birds will resort unto their like; so will truth return
unto them that practise in her.

   {27:10} As the lion lieth in wait for the prey; so sin for them that
work iniquity.

   {27:11} The discourse of a godly man is always with wisdom; but a
fool changeth as the moon.

   {27:12} If thou be among the indiscreet, observe the time; but be
continually among men of understanding.

   {27:13} The discourse of fools is irksome, and their sport is the
wantonness of sin.

   {27:14} The talk of him that sweareth much maketh the hair stand
upright; and their brawls make one stop his ears.

   {27:15} The strife of the proud is bloodshedding, and their
revilings are grievous to the ear.

   {27:16} Whoso discovereth secrets loseth his credit; and shall never
find friend to his mind.

   {27:17} Love thy friend, and be faithful unto him: but if thou
betrayest his secrets, follow no more after him.

   {27:18} For as a man hath destroyed his enemy; so hast thou lost the
love of thy neighbor.

   {27:19} As one that letteth a bird go out of his hand, so hast thou
let thy neighbour go, and shalt not get him again

   {27:20} Follow after him no more, for he is too far off; he is as a
roe escaped out of the snare.

   {27:21} As for a wound, it may be bound up; and after reviling there
may be reconcilement: but he that betrayeth secrets is without hope.

   {27:22} He that winketh with the eyes worketh evil: and he that
knoweth him will depart from him.

   {27:23} When thou art present, he will speak sweetly, and will
admire thy words: but at the last he will writhe his mouth, and slander
thy sayings.

   {27:24} I have hated many things, but nothing like him; for the Lord
will hate him.

   {27:25} Whoso casteth a stone on high casteth it on his own head;
and a deceitful stroke shall make wounds.

   {27:26} Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that setteth
a trap shall be taken therein.

   {27:27} He that worketh mischief, it shall fall upon him, and he
shall not know whence it cometh.

   {27:28} Mockery and reproach are from the proud; but vengeance, as a
lion, shall lie in wait for them.

   {27:29} They that rejoice at the fall of the righteous shall be
taken in the snare; and anguish shall consume them before they die.

   {27:30} Malice and wrath, even these are abominations; and the
sinful man shall have them both.

   {28:1} He that revengeth shall find vengeance from the Lord, and he
will surely keep his sins [in remembrance.]

   {28:2} Forgive thy neighbour the hurt that he hath done unto thee,
so shall thy sins also be forgiven when thou prayest.

   {28:3} One man beareth hatred against another, and doth he seek
pardon from the Lord?

   {28:4} He sheweth no mercy to a man, which is like himself: and doth
he ask forgiveness of his own sins?

   {28:5} If he that is but flesh nourish hatred, who will intreat for
pardon of his sins?

   {28:6} Remember thy end, and let enmity cease; [remember] corruption
and death, and abide in the commandments.

   {28:7} Remember the commandments, and bear no malice to thy
neighbour: [remember] the covenant of the Highest, and wink at
ignorance.

   {28:8} Abstain from strife, and thou shalt diminish thy sins: for a
furious man will kindle strife,

   {28:9} A sinful man disquieteth friends, and maketh debate among
them that be at peace.

   {28:10} As the matter of the fire is, so it burneth: and as a man's
strength is, so is his wrath; and according to his riches his anger
riseth; and the stronger they are which contend, the more they will be
inflamed.

   {28:11} An hasty contention kindleth a fire: and an hasty fighting
sheddeth blood.

   {28:12} If thou blow the spark, it shall burn: if thou spit upon it,
it shall be quenched: and both these come out of thy mouth.

   {28:13} Curse the whisperer and doubletongued: for such have
destroyed many that were at peace.

   {28:14} A backbiting tongue hath disquieted many, and driven them
from nation to nation: strong cities hath it pulled down, and
overthrown the houses of great men.

   {28:15} A backbiting tongue hath cast out virtuous women, and
deprived them of their labours.

   {28:16} Whoso hearkeneth unto it shall never find rest, and never
dwell quietly.

   {28:17} The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh: but the
stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones.

   {28:18} Many have fallen by the edge of the sword: but not so many
as have fallen by the tongue.

   {28:19} Well is he that is defended through the venom thereof; who
hath not drawn the yoke thereof, nor hath been bound in her bands.

   {28:20} For the yoke thereof is a yoke of iron, and the bands
thereof are bands of brass.

   {28:21} The death thereof is an evil death, the grave were better
than it.

   {28:22} It shall not have rule over them that fear God, neither
shall they be burned with the flame thereof.

   {28:23} Such as forsake the Lord shall fall into it; and it shall
burn in them, and not be quenched; it shall be sent upon them as a
lion, and devour them as a leopard.

   {28:24} Look that thou hedge thy possession about with thorns, and
bind up thy silver and gold,

   {28:25} And weigh thy words in a balance, and make a door and bar
for thy mouth.

   {28:26} Beware thou slide not by it, lest thou fall before him that
lieth in wait.

   {29:1} He that is merciful will lend unto his neighbour; and he that
strengtheneth his hand keepeth the commandments.

   {29:2} Lend to thy neighbour in time of his need, and pay thou thy
neighbour again in due season.

   {29:3} Keep thy word, and deal faithfully with him, and thou shalt
always find the thing that is necessary for thee.

   {29:4} Many, when a thing was lent them, reckoned it to be found,
and put them to trouble that helped them.

   {29:5} Till he hath received, he will kiss a man's hand; and for his
neighbour's money he will speak submissly: but when he should repay, he
will prolong the time, and return words of grief, and complain of the
time.

   {29:6} If he prevail, he shall hardly receive the half, and he will
count as if he had found it: if not, he hath deprived him of his money,
and he hath gotten him an enemy without cause: he payeth him with
cursings and railings; and for honour he will pay him disgrace.

   {29:7} Many therefore have refused to lend for other men's ill
dealing, fearing to be defrauded.

   {29:8} Yet have thou patience with a man in poor estate, and delay
not to shew him mercy.

   {29:9} Help the poor for the commandment's sake, and turn him not
away because of his poverty.

   {29:10} Lose thy money for thy brother and thy friend, and let it
not rust under a stone to be lost.

   {29:11} Lay up thy treasure according to the commandments of the
most High, and it shall bring thee more profit than gold.

   {29:12} Shut up alms in thy storehouses: and it shall deliver thee
from all affliction.

   {29:13} It shall fight for thee against thine enemies better than a
mighty shield and strong spear.

   {29:14} An honest man is surety for his neighbour: but he that is
impudent will forsake him.

   {29:15} Forget not the friendship of thy surety, for he hath given
his life for thee.

   {29:16} A sinner will overthrow the good estate of his surety:

   {29:17} And he that is of an unthankful mind will leave him [in
danger] that delivered him.

   {29:18} Suretiship hath undone many of good estate, and shaken them
as a wave of the sea: mighty men hath it driven from their houses, so
that they wandered among strange nations.

   {29:19} A wicked man transgressing the commandments of the Lord
shall fall into suretiship: and he that undertaketh and followeth other
men's business for gain shall fall into suits.

   {29:20} Help thy neighbour according to thy power, and beware that
thou thyself fall not into the same.

   {29:21} The chief thing for life is water, and bread, and clothing,
and an house to cover shame.

   {29:22} Better is the life of a poor man in a mean cottage, than
delicate fare in another man's house.

   {29:23} Be it little or much, hold thee contented, that thou hear
not the reproach of thy house.

   {29:24} For it is a miserable life to go from house to house: for
where thou art a stranger, thou darest not open thy mouth.

   {29:25} Thou shalt entertain, and feast, and have no thanks:
moreover thou shalt hear bitter words:

   {29:26} Come, thou stranger, and furnish a table, and feed me of
that thou hast ready.

   {29:27} Give place, thou stranger, to an honourable man; my brother
cometh to be lodged, and I have need of mine house.

   {29:28} These things are grievous to a man of understanding; the
upbraiding of houseroom, and reproaching of the lender.

   {30:1} He that loveth his son causeth him oft to feel the rod, that
he may have joy of him in the end.

   {30:2} He that chastiseth his son shall have joy in him, and shall
rejoice of him among his acquaintance.

   {30:3} He that teacheth his son grieveth the enemy: and before his
friends he shall rejoice of him.

   {30:4} Though his father die, yet he is as though he were not dead:
for he hath left one behind him that is like himself.

   {30:5} While he lived, he saw and rejoiced in him: and when he died,
he was not sorrowful.

   {30:6} He left behind him an avenger against his enemies, and one
that shall requite kindness to his friends.

   {30:7} He that maketh too much of his son shall bind up his wounds;
and his bowels will be troubled at every cry.

   {30:8} An horse not broken becometh headstrong: and a child left to
himself will be wilful.

   {30:9} Cocker thy child, and he shall make thee afraid: play with
him, and he will bring thee to heaviness.

   {30:10} Laugh not with him, lest thou have sorrow with him, and lest
thou gnash thy teeth in the end.

   {30:11} Give him no liberty in his youth, and wink not at his
follies.

   {30:12} Bow down his neck while he is young, and beat him on the
sides while he is a child, lest he wax stubborn, and be disobedient
unto thee, and so bring sorrow to thine heart.

   {30:13} Chastise thy son, and hold him to labour, lest his lewd
behaviour be an offence unto thee.

   {30:14} Better is the poor, being sound and strong of constitution,
than a rich man that is afflicted in his body.

   {30:15} Health and good estate of body are above all gold, and a
strong body above infinite wealth.

   {30:16} There is no riches above a sound body, and no joy above the
joy of the heart.

   {30:17} Death is better than a bitter life or continual sickness.

   {30:18} Delicates poured upon a mouth shut up are as messes of meat
set upon a grave.

   {30:19} What good doeth the offering unto an idol? for neither can
it eat nor smell: so is he that is persecuted of the Lord.

   {30:20} He seeth with his eyes and groaneth, as an eunuch that
embraceth a virgin and sigheth.

   {30:21} Give not over thy mind to heaviness, and afflict not thyself
in thine own counsel.

   {30:22} The gladness of the heart is the life of man, and the
joyfulness of a man prolongeth his days.

   {30:23} Love thine own soul, and comfort thy heart, remove sorrow
far from thee: for sorrow hath killed many, and there is no profit
therein.

   {30:24} Envy and wrath shorten the life, and carefulness bringeth
age before the time.

   {30:25} A cheerful and good heart will have a care of his meat and
diet.

   {31:1} Watching for riches consumeth the flesh, and the care thereof
driveth away sleep.

   {31:2} Watching care will not let a man slumber, as a sore disease
breaketh sleep,

   {31:3} The rich hath great labour in gathering riches together; and
when he resteth, he is filled with his delicates.

   {31:4} The poor laboureth in his poor estate; and when he leaveth
off, he is still needy.

   {31:5} He that loveth gold shall not be justified, and he that
followeth corruption shall have enough thereof.

   {31:6} Gold hath been the ruin of many, and their destruction was
present.

   {31:7} It is a stumblingblock unto them that sacrifice unto it, and
every fool shall be taken therewith.

   {31:8} Blessed is the rich that is found without blemish, and hath
not gone after gold.

   {31:9} Who is he? and we will call him blessed: for wonderful things
hath he done among his people.

   {31:10} Who hath been tried thereby, and found perfect? then let him
glory. Who might offend, and hath not offended? or done evil, and hath
not done it?

   {31:11} His goods shall be established, and the congregation shall
declare his alms.

   {31:12} If thou sit at a bountiful table, be not greedy upon it, and
say not, There is much meat on it.

   {31:13} Remember that a wicked eye is an evil thing: and what is
created more wicked than an eye? therefore it weepeth upon every
occasion.

   {31:14} Stretch not thine hand whithersoever it looketh, and thrust
it not with him into the dish.

   {31:15} Judge not thy neighbour by thyself: and be discreet in every
point.

   {31:16} Eat as it becometh a man, those things which are set before
thee; and devour note, lest thou be hated.

   {31:17} Leave off first for manners' sake; and be not unsatiable,
lest thou offend.

   {31:18} When thou sittest among many, reach not thine hand out first
of all.

   {31:19} A very little is sufficient for a man well nurtured, and he
fetcheth not his wind short upon his bed.

   {31:20} Sound sleep cometh of moderate eating: he riseth early, and
his wits are with him: but the pain of watching, and choler, and pangs
of the belly, are with an unsatiable man.

   {31:21} And if thou hast been forced to eat, arise, go forth, vomit,
and thou shalt have rest.

   {31:22} My son, hear me, and despise me not, and at the last thou
shalt find as I told thee: in all thy works be quick, so shall there no
sickness come unto thee.

   {31:23} Whoso is liberal of his meat, men shall speak well of him;
and the report of his good housekeeping will be believed.

   {31:24} But against him that is a niggard of his meat the whole city
shall murmur; and the testimonies of his niggardness shall not be
doubted of.

   {31:25} Shew not thy valiantness in wine; for wine hath destroyed
many.

   {31:26} The furnace proveth the edge by dipping: so doth wine the
hearts of the proud by drunkeness.

   {31:27} Wine is as good as life to a man, if it be drunk moderately:
what life is then to a man that is without wine? for it was made to
make men glad.

   {31:28} Wine measurably drunk and in season bringeth gladness of the
heart, and cheerfulness of the mind:

   {31:29} But wine drunken with excess maketh bitterness of the mind,
with brawling and quarrelling.

   {31:30} Drunkenness increaseth the rage of a fool till he offend: it
diminisheth strength, and maketh wounds.

   {31:31} Rebuke not thy neighbour at the wine, and despise him not in
his mirth: give him no despiteful words, and press not upon him with
urging him [to drink.]

   {32:1} If thou be made the master [of a feast,] lift not thyself up,
but be among them as one of the rest; take diligent care for them, and
so sit down.

   {32:2} And when thou hast done all thy office, take thy place, that
thou mayest be merry with them, and receive a crown for thy well
ordering of the feast.

   {32:3} Speak, thou that art the elder, for it becometh thee, but
with sound judgment; and hinder not musick.

   {32:4} Pour not out words where there is a musician, and shew not
forth wisdom out of time.

   {32:5} A concert of musick in a banquet of wine is as a signet of
carbuncle set in gold.

   {32:6} As a signet of an emerald set in a work of gold, so is the
melody of musick with pleasant wine.

   {32:7} Speak, young man, if there be need of thee: and yet scarcely
when thou art twice asked.

   {32:8} Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in few words; be
as one that knoweth and yet holdeth his tongue.

   {32:9} If thou be among great men, make not thyself equal with them;
and when ancient men are in place, use not many words.

   {32:10} Before the thunder goeth lightning; and before a shamefaced
man shall go favour.

   {32:11} Rise up betimes, and be not the last; but get thee home
without delay.

   {32:12} There take thy pastime, and do what thou wilt: but sin not
by proud speech.

   {32:13} And for these things bless him that made thee, and hath
replenished thee with his good things.

   {32:14} Whoso feareth the Lord will receive his discipline; and they
that seek him early shall find favour.

   {32:15} He that seeketh the law shall be filled therewith: but the
hypocrite will be offended thereat.

   {32:16} They that fear the Lord shall find judgment, and shall
kindle justice as a light.

   {32:17} A sinful man will not be reproved, but findeth an excuse
according to his will.

   {32:18} A man of counsel will be considerate; but a strange and
proud man is not daunted with fear, even when of himself he hath done
without counsel.

   {32:19} Do nothing without advice; and when thou hast once done,
repent not.

   {32:20} Go not in a way wherein thou mayest fall, and stumble not
among the stones.

   {32:21} Be not confident in a plain way.

   {32:22} And beware of thine own children.

   {32:23} In every good work trust thy own soul; for this is the
keeping of the commandments.

   {32:24} He that believeth in the Lord taketh heed to the
commandment; and he that trusteth in him shall fare never the worse.

   {33:1} There shall no evil happen unto him that feareth the Lord;
but in temptation even again he will deliver him.

   {33:2} A wise man hateth not the law; but he that is an hypocrite
therein is as a ship in a storm.

   {33:3} A man of understanding trusteth in the law; and the law is
faithful unto him, as an oracle.

   {33:4} Prepare what to say, and so thou shalt be heard: and bind up
instruction, and then make answer.

   {33:5} The heart of the foolish is like a cartwheel; and his
thoughts are like a rolling axletree.

   {33:6} A stallion horse is as a mocking friend, he neigheth under
every one that sitteth upon him.

   {33:7} Why doth one day excel another, when as all the light of
every day in the year is of the sun?

   {33:8} By the knowledge of the Lord they were distinguished: and he
altered seasons and feasts.

   {33:9} Some of them hath he made high days, and hallowed them, and
some of them hath he made ordinary days.

   {33:10} And all men are from the ground, and Adam was created of
earth:

   {33:11} In much knowledge the Lord hath divided them, and made their
ways diverse.

   {33:12} Some of them hath he blessed and exalted and some of them he
sanctified, and set near himself: but some of them hath he cursed and
brought low, and turned out of their places.

   {33:13} As the clay is in the potter's hand, to fashion it at his
pleasure: so man is in the hand of him that made him, to render to them
as liketh him best.

   {33:14} Good is set against evil, and life against death: so is the
godly against the sinner, and the sinner against the godly.

   {33:15} So look upon all the works of the most High; and there are
two and two, one against another.

   {33:16} I awaked up last of all, as one that gathereth after the
grapegatherers: by the blessing of the Lord I profited, and tred my
winepress like a gatherer of grapes.

   {33:17} Consider that I laboured not for myself only, but for all
them that seek learning.

   {33:18} Hear me, O ye great men of the people, and hearken with your
ears, ye rulers of the congregation.

   {33:19} Give not thy son and wife, thy brother and friend, power
over thee while thou livest, and give not thy goods to another: lest it
repent thee, and thou intreat for the same again.

   {33:20} As long as thou livest and hast breath in thee, give not
thyself over to any.

   {33:21} For better it is that thy children should seek to thee, than
that thou shouldest stand to their courtesy.

   {33:22} In all thy works keep to thyself the preeminence; leave not
a stain in thine honour.

   {33:23} At the time when thou shalt end thy days, and finish thy
life, distribute thine inheritance.

   {33:24} Fodder, a wand, and burdens, are for the ass; and bread,
correction, and work, for a servant. .

   {33:25} If thou set thy servant to labour, thou shalt find rest: but
if thou let him go idle, he shall seek liberty.

   {33:26} A yoke and a collar do bow the neck: so are tortures and
torments for an evil servant.

   {33:27} Send him to labour, that he be not idle; for idleness
teacheth much evil.

   {33:28} Set him to work, as is fit for him: if he be not obedient,
put on more heavy fetters.

   {33:29} But be not excessive toward any; and without discretion do
nothing.

   {33:30} If thou have a servant, let him be unto thee as thyself,
because thou hast bought him with a price.

   {33:31} If thou have a servant, entreat him as a brother: for thou
hast need of him, as of thine own soul: if thou entreat him evil, and
he run from thee, which way wilt thou go to seek him?

   {34:1} The hopes of a man void of understanding are vain and false:
and dreams lift up fools.

   {34:2} Whoso regardeth dreams is like him that catcheth at a shadow,
and followeth after the wind.

   {34:3} The vision of dreams is the resemblance of one thing to
another, even as the likeness of a face to a face.

   {34:4} Of an unclean thing what can be cleansed? and from that thing
which is false what truth can come?

   {34:5} Divinations, and soothsayings, and dreams, are vain: and the
heart fancieth, as a woman's heart in travail.

   {34:6} If they be not sent from the most High in thy visitation, set
not thy heart upon them.

   {34:7} For dreams have deceived many, and they have failed that put
their trust in them.

   {34:8} The law shall be found perfect without lies: and wisdom is
perfection to a faithful mouth.

   {34:9} A man that hath travelled knoweth many things; and he that
hath much experience will declare wisdom.

   {34:10} He that hath no experience knoweth little: but he that hath
travelled is full of prudence.

   {34:11} When I travelled, I saw many things; and I understand more
than I can express.

   {34:12} I was ofttimes in danger of death: yet I was delivered
because of these things.

   {34:13} The spirit of those that fear the Lord shall live; for their
hope is in him that saveth them.

   {34:14} Whoso feareth the Lord shall not fear nor be afraid; for he
is his hope.

   {34:15} Blessed is the soul of him that feareth the Lord: to whom
doth he look? and who is his strength?

   {34:16} For the eyes of the Lord are upon them that love him, he is
their mighty protection and strong stay, a defence from heat, and a
cover from the sun at noon, a preservation from stumbling, and an help
from falling.

   {34:17} He raiseth up the soul, and lighteneth the eyes: he giveth
health, life, and blessing.

   {34:18} He that sacrificeth of a thing wrongfully gotten, his
offering is ridiculous; and the gifts of unjust men are not accepted.

   {34:19} The most High is not pleased with the offerings of the
wicked; neither is he pacified for sin by the multitude of sacrifices.

   {34:20} Whoso bringeth an offering of the goods of the poor doeth as
one that killeth the son before his father's eyes.

   {34:21} The bread of the needy is their life: he that defraudeth him
thereof is a man of blood.

   {34:22} He that taketh away his neighbour's living slayeth him; and
he that defraudeth the labourer of his hire is a bloodshedder.

   {34:23} When one buildeth, and another pulleth down, what profit
have they then but labour?

   {34:24} When one prayeth, and another curseth, whose voice will the
Lord hear?

   {34:25} He that washeth himself after the touching of a dead body,
if he touch it again, what availeth his washing?

   {34:26} So is it with a man that fasteth for his sins, and goeth
again, and doeth the same: who will hear his prayer? or what doth his
humbling profit him?

   {35:1} He that keepeth the law bringeth offerings enough: he that
taketh heed to the commandment offereth a peace offering.

   {35:2} He that requiteth a goodturn offereth fine flour; and he that
giveth alms sacrificeth praise.

   {35:3} To depart from wickedness is a thing pleasing to the Lord;
and to forsake unrighteousness is a propitiation.

   {35:4} Thou shalt not appear empty before the Lord.

   {35:5} For all these things [are to be done] because of the
commandment.

   {35:6} The offering of the righteous maketh the altar fat, and the
sweet savour thereof is before the most High.

   {35:7} The sacrifice of a just man is acceptable. and the memorial
thereof shall never be forgotten.

   {35:8} Give the Lord his honour with a good eye, and diminish not
the firstfruits of thine hands.

   {35:9} In all thy gifts shew a cheerful countenance, and dedicate
thy tithes with gladness.

   {35:10} Give unto the most High according as he hath enriched thee;
and as thou hast gotten, give with a cheerful eye.

   {35:11} For the Lord recompenseth, and will give thee seven times as
much.

   {35:12} Do not think to corrupt with gifts; for such he will not
receive: and trust not to unrighteous sacrifices; for the Lord is
judge, and with him is no respect of persons.

   {35:13} He will not accept any person against a poor man, but will
hear the prayer of the oppressed.

   {35:14} He will not despise the supplication of the fatherless; nor
the widow, when she poureth out her complaint.

   {35:15} Do not the tears run down the widow's cheeks? and is not her
cry against him that causeth them to fall?

   {35:16} He that serveth the Lord shall be accepted with favour, and
his prayer shall reach unto the clouds.

   {35:17} The prayer of the humble pierceth the clouds: and till it
come nigh, he will not be comforted; and will not depart, till the most
High shall behold to judge righteously, and execute judgment.

   {35:18} For the Lord will not be slack, neither will the Mighty be
patient toward them, till he have smitten in sunder the loins of the
unmerciful, and repayed vengeance to the heathen; till he have taken
away the multitude of the proud, and broken the sceptre of the
unrighteous;

   {35:19} Till he have rendered to every man according to his deeds,
and to the works of men according to their devices; till he have judged
the cause of his people, and made them to rejoice in his mercy.

   {35:20} Mercy is seasonable in the time of affliction, as clouds of
rain in the time of drought.

   {36:1} Have mercy upon us, O Lord God of all, and behold us:

   {36:2} And send thy fear upon all the nations that seek not after
thee.

   {36:3} Lift up thy hand against the strange nations, and let them
see thy power.

   {36:4} As thou wast sanctified in us before them: so be thou
magnified among them before us.

   {36:5} And let them know thee, as we have known thee, that there is
no God but only thou, O God.

   {36:6} Shew new signs, and make other strange wonders: glorify thy
hand and thy right arm, that they may set forth thy wondrous works.

   {36:7} Raise up indignation, and pour out wrath: take away the
adversary, and destroy the enemy.

   {36:8} Sake the time short, remember the covenant, and let them
declare thy wonderful works.

   {36:9} Let him that escapeth be consumed by the rage of the fire;
and let them perish that oppress the people.

   {36:10} Smite in sunder the heads of the rulers of the heathen, that
say, There is none other but we.

   {36:11} Gather all the tribes of Jacob together, and inherit thou
them, as from the beginning.

   {36:12} O Lord, have mercy upon the people that is called by thy
name, and upon Israel, whom thou hast named thy firstborn.

   {36:13} O be merciful unto Jerusalem, thy holy city, the place of
thy rest.

   {36:14} Fill Sion with thine unspeakable oracles, and thy people
with thy glory:

   {36:15} Give testimony unto those that thou hast possessed from the
beginning, and raise up prophets that have been in thy name.

   {36:16} Reward them that wait for thee, and let thy prophets be
found faithful.

   {36:17} O Lord, hear the prayer of thy servants, according to the
blessing of Aaron over thy people, that all they which dwell upon the
earth may know that thou art the Lord, the eternal God.

   {36:18} The belly devoureth all meats, yet is one meat better than
another.

   {36:19} As the palate tasteth divers kinds of venison: so doth an
heart of understanding false speeches.

   {36:20} A froward heart causeth heaviness: but a man of experience
will recompense him.

   {36:21} A woman will receive every man, yet is one daughter better
than another.

   {36:22} The beauty of a woman cheereth the countenance, and a man
loveth nothing better.

   {36:23} If there be kindness, meekness, and comfort, in her tongue,
then is not her husband like other men.

   {36:24} He that getteth a wife beginneth a possession, a help like
unto himself, and a pillar of rest.

   {36:25} Where no hedge is, there the possession is spoiled: and he
that hath no wife will wander up and down mourning.

   {36:26} Who will trust a thief well appointed, that skippeth from
city to city? so [who will believe] a man that hath no house, and
lodgeth wheresoever the night taketh him?

   {37:1} Every friend saith, I am his friend also: but there is a
friend, which is only a friend in name.

   {37:2} Is it not a grief unto death, when a companion and friend is
turned to an enemy?

   {37:3} O wicked imagination, whence camest thou in to cover the
earth with deceit?

   {37:4} There is a companion, which rejoiceth in the prosperity of a
friend, but in the time of trouble will be against him.

   {37:5} There is a companion, which helpeth his friend for the belly,
and taketh up the buckler against the enemy.

   {37:6} Forget not thy friend in thy mind, and be not unmindful of
him in thy riches.

   {37:7} Every counsellor extolleth counsel; but there is some that
counselleth for himself.

   {37:8} Beware of a counsellor, and know before what need he hath;
for he will counsel for himself; lest he cast the lot upon thee,

   {37:9} And say unto thee, Thy way is good: and afterward he stand on
the other side, to see what shall befall thee.

   {37:10} Consult not with one that suspecteth thee: and hide thy
counsel from such as envy thee.

   {37:11} Neither consult with a woman touching her of whom she is
jealous; neither with a coward in matters of war; nor with a merchant
concerning exchange; nor with a buyer of selling; nor with an envious
man of thankfulness; nor with an unmerciful man touching kindness; nor
with the slothful for any work; nor with an hireling for a year of
finishing work; nor with an idle servant of much business: hearken not
unto these in any matter of counsel.

   {37:12} But be continually with a godly man, whom thou knowest to
keep the commandments of the Lord, whose, mind is according to thy
mind, and will sorrow with thee, if thou shalt miscarry.

   {37:13} And let the counsel of thine own heart stand: for there is
no man more faithful unto thee than it.

   {37:14} For a man's mind is sometime wont to tell him more than
seven watchmen, that sit above in an high tower.

   {37:15} And above all this pray to the most High, that he will
direct thy way in truth.

   {37:16} Let reason go before every enterprize, and counsel before
every action.

   {37:17} The countenance is a sign of changing of the heart.

   {37:18} Four manner of things appear: good and evil, life and death:
but the tongue ruleth over them continually.

   {37:19} There is one that is wise and teacheth many, and yet is
unprofitable to himself.

   {37:20} There is one that sheweth wisdom in words, and is hated: he
shall be destitute of all food.

   {37:21} For grace is not given, him from the Lord, because he is
deprived of all wisdom.

   {37:22} Another is wise to himself; and the fruits of understanding
are commendable in his mouth.

   {37:23} A wise man instructeth his people; and the fruits of his
understanding fail not.

   {37:24} A wise man shall be filled with blessing; and all they that
see him shall count him happy.

   {37:25} The days of the life of man may be numbered: but the days of
Israel are innumerable.

   {37:26} A wise man shall inherit glory among his people, and his
name shall be perpetual.

   {37:27} My son, prove thy soul in thy life, and see what is evil for
it, and give not that unto it.

   {37:28} For all things are not profitable for all men, neither hath
every soul pleasure in every thing.

   {37:29} Be not unsatiable in any dainty thing, nor too greedy upon
meats:

   {37:30} For excess of meats bringeth sickness, and surfeiting will
turn into choler.

   {37:31} By surfeiting have many perished; but he that taketh heed
prolongeth his life.

   {38:1} Honour a physician with the honour due unto him for the uses
which ye may have of him: for the Lord hath created him.

   {38:2} For of the most High cometh healing, and he shall receive
honour of the king.

   {38:3} The skill of the physician shall lift up his head: and in the
sight of great men he shall be in admiration.

   {38:4} The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth; and he that
is wise will not abhor them.

   {38:5} Was not the water made sweet with wood, that the virtue
thereof might be known?

   {38:6} And he hath given men skill, that he might be honoured in his
marvellous works.

   {38:7} With such doth he heal [men,] and taketh away their pains.

   {38:8} Of such doth the apothecary make a confection; and of his
works there is no end; and from him is peace over all the earth,

   {38:9} My son, in thy sickness be not negligent: but pray unto the
Lord, and he will make thee whole.

   {38:10} Leave off from sin, and order thine hands aright, and
cleanse thy heart from all wickedness.

   {38:11} Give a sweet savour, and a memorial of fine flour; and make
a fat offering, as not being.

   {38:12} Then give place to the physician, for the Lord hath created
him: let him not go from thee, for thou hast need of him.

   {38:13} There is a time when in their hands there is good success.

   {38:14} For they shall also pray unto the Lord, that he would
prosper that, which they give for ease and remedy to prolong life.

   {38:15} He that sinneth before his Maker, let him fall into the hand
of the physician.

   {38:16} My son, let tears fall down over the dead, and begin to
lament, as if thou hadst suffered great harm thyself; and then cover
his body according to the custom, and neglect not his burial.

   {38:17} Weep bitterly, and make great moan, and use lamentation, as
he is worthy, and that a day or two, lest thou be evil spoken of: and
then comfort thyself for thy heaviness.

   {38:18} For of heaviness cometh death, and the heaviness of the
heart breaketh strength.

   {38:19} In affliction also sorrow remaineth: and the life of the
poor is the curse of the heart.

   {38:20} Take no heaviness to heart: drive it away, and member the
last end.

   {38:21} Forget it not, for there is no turning again: thou shalt not
do him good, but hurt thyself.

   {38:22} Remember my judgment: for thine also shall be so; yesterday
for me, and to day for thee.

   {38:23} When the dead is at rest, let his remembrance rest; and be
comforted for him, when his Spirit is departed from him.

   {38:24} The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of
leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise.

   {38:25} How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and that
glorieth in the goad, that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their
labours, and whose talk is of bullocks?

   {38:26} He giveth his mind to make furrows; and is diligent to give
the kine fodder.

   {38:27} So every carpenter and workmaster, that laboureth night and
day: and they that cut and grave seals, and are diligent to make great
variety, and give themselves to counterfeit imagery, and watch to
finish a work:

   {38:28} The smith also sitting by the anvil, and considering the
iron work, the vapour of the fire wasteth his flesh, and he fighteth
with the heat of the furnace: the noise of the hammer and the anvil is
ever in his ears, and his eyes look still upon the pattern of the thing
that he maketh; he setteth his mind to finish his work, and watcheth to
polish it perfectly:

   {38:29} So doth the potter sitting at his work, and turning the
wheel about with his feet, who is alway carefully set at his work, and
maketh all his work by number;

   {38:30} He fashioneth the clay with his arm, and boweth down his
strength before his feet; he applieth himself to lead it over; and he
is diligent to make clean the furnace:

   {38:31} All these trust to their hands: and every one is wise in his
work.

   {38:32} Without these cannot a city be inhabited: and they shall not
dwell where they will, nor go up and down:

   {38:33} They shall not be sought for in publick counsel, nor sit
high in the congregation: they shall not sit on the judges' seat, nor
understand the sentence of judgment: they cannot declare justice and
judgment; and they shall not be found where parables are spoken.

   {38:34} But they will maintain the state of the world, and [all]
their desire is in the work of their craft.

   {39:1} But he that giveth his mind to the law of the most High, and
is occupied in the meditation thereof, will seek out the wisdom of all
the ancient, and be occupied in prophecies.

   {39:2} He will keep the sayings of the renowned men: and where
subtil parables are, he will be there also.

   {39:3} He will seek out the secrets of grave sentences, and be
conversant in dark parables.

   {39:4} He shall serve among great men, and appear before princes: he
will travel through strange countries; for he hath tried the good and
the evil among men.

   {39:5} He will give his heart to resort early to the Lord that made
him, and will pray before the most High, and will open his mouth in
prayer, and make supplication for his sins.

   {39:6} When the great Lord will, he shall be filled with the spirit
of understanding: he shall pour out wise sentences, and give thanks
unto the Lord in his prayer.

   {39:7} He shall direct his counsel and knowledge, and in his secrets
shall he meditate.

   {39:8} He shall shew forth that which he hath learned, and shall
glory in the law of the covenant of the Lord.

   {39:9} Many shall commend his understanding; and so long as the
world endureth, it shall not be blotted out; his memorial shall not
depart away, and his name shall live from generation to generation.

   {39:10} Nations shall shew forth his wisdom, and the congregation
shall declare his praise.

   {39:11} If he die, he shall leave a greater name than a thousand:
and if he live, he shall increase it.

   {39:12} Yet have I more to say, which I have thought upon; for I am
filled as the moon at the full.

   {39:13} Hearken unto me, ye holy children, and bud forth as a rose
growing by the brook of the field:

   {39:14} And give ye a sweet savour as frankincense, and flourish as
a lily, send forth a smell, and sing a song of praise, bless the Lord
in all his works.

   {39:15} Magnify his name, and shew forth his praise with the songs
of your lips, and with harps, and in praising him ye shall say after
this manner:

   {39:16} All the works of the Lord are exceeding good, and whatsoever
he commandeth shall be accomplished in due season.

   {39:17} And none may say, What is this? wherefore is that? for at
time convenient they shall all be sought out: at his commandment the
waters stood as an heap, and at the words of his mouth the receptacles
of waters.

   {39:18} At his commandment is done whatsoever pleaseth him; and none
can hinder, when he will save.

   {39:19} The works of all flesh are before him, and nothing can be
hid from his eyes.

   {39:20} He seeth from everlasting to everlasting; and there is
nothing wonderful before him.

   {39:21} A man need not to say, What is this? wherefore is that? for
he hath made all things for their uses.

   {39:22} His blessing covered the dry land as a river, and watered it
as a flood.

   {39:23} As he hath turned the waters into saltness: so shall the
heathen inherit his wrath.

   {39:24} As his ways are plain unto the holy; so are they
stumblingblocks unto the wicked.

   {39:25} For the good are good things created from the beginning: so
evil things for sinners.

   {39:26} The principal things for the whole use of man's life are
water, fire, iron, and salt, flour of wheat, honey, milk, and the blood
of the grape, and oil, and clothing.

   {39:27} All these things are for good to the godly: so to the
sinners they are turned into evil.

   {39:28} There be spirits that are created for vengeance, which in
their fury lay on sore strokes; in the time of destruction they pour
out their force, and appease the wrath of him that made them.

   {39:29} Fire, and hail, and famine, and death, all these were
created for vengeance;

   {39:30} Teeth of wild beasts, and scorpions, serpents, and the sword
punishing the wicked to destruction.

   {39:31} They shall rejoice in his commandment, and they shall be
ready upon earth, when need is; and when their time is come, they shall
not transgress his word.

   {39:32} Therefore from the beginning I was resolved, and thought
upon these things, and have left them in writing.

   {39:33} All the works of the Lord are good: and he will give every
needful thing in due season.

   {39:34} So that a man cannot say, This is worse than that: for in
time they shall all be well approved.

   {39:35} And therefore praise ye the Lord with the whole heart and
mouth, and bless the name of the Lord.

   {40:1} Great travail is created for every man, and an heavy yoke is
upon the sons of Adam, from the day that they go out of their mother's
womb, till the day that they return to the mother of all things.

   {40:2} Their imagination of things to come, and the day of death,
[trouble] their thoughts, and [cause] fear of heart;

   {40:3} From him that sitteth on a throne of glory, unto him that is
humbled in earth and ashes;

   {40:4} From him that weareth purple and a crown, unto him that is
clothed with a linen frock.

   {40:5} Wrath, and envy, trouble, and unquietness, fear of death, and
anger, and strife, and in the time of rest upon his bed his night
sleep, do change his knowledge.

   {40:6} A little or nothing is his rest, and afterward he is in his
sleep, as in a day of keeping watch, troubled in the vision of his
heart, as if he were escaped out of a battle.

   {40:7} When all is safe, he awaketh, and marvelleth that the fear
was nothing.

   {40:8} [Such things happen] unto all flesh, both man and beast, and
that is sevenfold more upon sinners.

   {40:9} Death, and bloodshed, strife, and sword, calamities, famine,
tribulation, and the scourge;

   {40:10} These things are created for the wicked, and for their sakes
came the flood.

   {40:11} All things that are of the earth shall turn to the earth
again: and that which is of the waters doth return into the sea.

   {40:12} All bribery and injustice shall be blotted out: but true
dealing shall endure for ever.

   {40:13} The goods of the unjust shall be dried up like a river, and
shall vanish with noise, like a great thunder in rain.

   {40:14} While he openeth his hand he shall rejoice: so shall
transgressors come to nought.

   {40:15} The children of the ungodly shall not bring forth many
branches: but are as unclean roots upon a hard rock.

   {40:16} The weed growing upon every water and bank of a river shall
be pulled up before all grass.

   {40:17} Bountifulness is as a most fruitful garden, and mercifulness
endureth for ever.

   {40:18} To labour, and to be content with that a man hath, is a
sweet life: but he that findeth a treasure is above them both.

   {40:19} Children and the building of a city continue a man's name:
but a blameless wife is counted above them both.

   {40:20} Wine and musick rejoice the heart: but the love of wisdom is
above them both.

   {40:21} The pipe and the psaltery make sweet melody: but a pleasant
tongue is above them both.

   {40:22} Thine eye desireth favour and beauty: but more than both
corn while it is green.

   {40:23} A friend and companion never meet amiss: but above both is a
wife with her husband.

   {40:24} Brethren and help are against time of trouble: but alms
shall deliver more than them both.

   {40:25} Gold and silver make the foot stand sure: but counsel is
esteemed above them both.

   {40:26} Riches and strength lift up the heart: but the fear of the
Lord is above them both: there is no want in the fear of the Lord, and
it needeth not to seek help.

   {40:27} The fear of the Lord is a fruitful garden, and covereth him
above all glory.

   {40:28} My son, lead not a beggar's life; for better it is to die
than to beg.

   {40:29} The life of him that dependeth on another man's table is not
to be counted for a life; for he polluteth himself with other men's
meat: but a wise man well nurtured will beware thereof.

   {40:30} Begging is sweet in the mouth of the shameless: but in his
belly there shall burn a fire.

   {41:1} O death, how bitter is the remembrance of thee to a man that
liveth at rest in his possessions, unto the man that hath nothing to
vex him, and that hath prosperity in all things: yea, unto him that is
yet able to receive meat!

   {41:2} O death, acceptable is thy sentence unto the needy, and unto
him whose strength faileth, that is now in the last age, and is vexed
with all things, and to him that despaireth, and hath lost patience!

   {41:3} Fear not the sentence of death, remember them that have been
before thee, and that come after; for this is the sentence of the Lord
over all flesh.

   {41:4} And why art thou against the pleasure of the most High? there
is no inquisition in the grave, whether thou have lived ten, or an
hundred, or a thousand years.

   {41:5} The children of sinners are abominable children, and they
that are conversant in the dwelling of the ungodly.

   {41:6} The inheritance of sinners' children shall perish, and their
posterity shall have a perpetual reproach.

   {41:7} The children will complain of an ungodly father, because they
shall be reproached for his sake.

   {41:8} Woe be unto you, ungodly men, which have forsaken the law of
the most high God! for if ye increase, it shall be to your destruction:

   {41:9} And if ye be born, ye shall be born to a curse: and if ye
die, a curse shall be your portion.

   {41:10} All that are of the earth shall turn to earth again: so the
ungodly shall go from a curse to destruction.

   {41:11} The mourning of men is about their bodies: but an ill name
of sinners shall be blotted out.

   {41:12} Have regard to thy name; for that shall continue with thee
above a thousand great treasures of gold.

   {41:13} A good life hath but few days: but a good name endureth for
ever.

   {41:14} My children, keep discipline in peace: for wisdom that is
hid, and a treasure that is not seen, what profit is in them both?

   {41:15} A man that hideth his foolishness is better than a man that
hideth his wisdom.

   {41:16} Therefore be shamefaced according to my word: for it is not
good to retain all shamefacedness; neither is it altogether approved in
every thing.

   {41:17} Be ashamed of whoredom before father and mother: and of a
lie before a prince and a mighty man;

   {41:18} Of an offence before a judge and ruler; of iniquity before a
congregation and people; of unjust dealing before thy partner and
friend;

   {41:19} And of theft in regard of the place where thou sojournest,
and in regard of the truth of God and his covenant; and to lean with
thine elbow upon the meat; and of scorning to give and take;

   {41:20} And of silence before them that salute thee; and to look
upon an harlot;

   {41:21} And to turn away thy face from thy kinsman; or to take away
a portion or a gift; or to gaze upon another man's wife.

   {41:22} Or to be overbusy with his maid, and come not near her bed;
or of upbraiding speeches before friends; and after thou hast given,
upbraid not;

   {41:23} Or of iterating and speaking again that which thou hast
heard; and of revealing of secrets.

   {41:24} So shalt thou be truly shamefaced and find favour before all
men.

   {42:1} Of these things be not thou ashamed, and accept no person to
sin thereby:

   {42:2} Of the law of the most High, and his covenant; and of
judgment to justify the ungodly;

   {42:3} Of reckoning with thy partners and travellers; or of the gift
of the heritage of friends;

   {42:4} Of exactness of balance and weights; or of getting much or
little;

   {42:5} And of merchants' indifferent selling; of much correction of
children; and to make the side of an evil servant to bleed.

   {42:6} Sure keeping is good, where an evil wife is; and shut up,
where many hands are.

   {42:7} Deliver all things in number and weight; and put all in
writing that thou givest out, or receivest in.

   {42:8} Be not ashamed to inform the unwise and foolish, and the
extreme aged that contendeth with those that are young: thus shalt thou
be truly learned, and approved of all men living.

   {42:9} The father waketh for the daughter, when no man knoweth; and
the care for her taketh away sleep: when she is young, lest she pass
away the flower of her age; and being married, lest she should be hated:

   {42:10} In her virginity, lest she should be defiled and gotten with
child in her father's house; and having an husband, lest she should
misbehave herself; and when she is married, lest she should be barren.

   {42:11} Keep a sure watch over a shameless daughter, lest she make
thee a laughingstock to thine enemies, and a byword in the city, and a
reproach among the people, and make thee ashamed before the multitude.

   {42:12} Behold not every body's beauty, and sit not in the midst of
women.

   {42:13} For from garments cometh a moth, and from women wickedness.

   {42:14} Better is the churlishness of a man than a courteous woman,
a woman, I say, which bringeth shame and reproach.

   {42:15} I will now remember the works of the Lord, and declare the
things that I have seen: In the words of the Lord are his works.

   {42:16} The sun that giveth light looketh upon all things, and the
work thereof is full of the glory of the Lord.

   {42:17} The Lord hath not given power to the saints to declare all
his marvellous works, which the Almighty Lord firmly settled, that
whatsoever is might be established for his glory.

   {42:18} He seeketh out the deep, and the heart, and considereth
their crafty devices: for the Lord knoweth all that may be known, and
he beholdeth the signs of the world.

   {42:19} He declareth the things that are past, and for to come, and
revealeth the steps of hidden things.

   {42:20} No thought escapeth him, neither any word is hidden from him.

   {42:21} He hath garnished the excellent works of his wisdom, and he
is from everlasting to everlasting: unto him may nothing be added,
neither can he be diminished, and he hath no need of any counsellor.

   {42:22} Oh how desirable are all his works! and that a man may see
even to a spark.

   {42:23} All these things live and remain for ever for all uses, and
they are all obedient.

   {42:24} All things are double one against another: and he hath made
nothing imperfect.

   {42:25} One thing establisheth the good or another: and who shall be
filled with beholding his glory?

   {43:1} The pride of the height, the clear firmament, the beauty of
heaven, with his glorious shew;

   {43:2} The sun when it appeareth, declaring at his rising a
marvellous instrument, the work of the most High:

   {43:3} At noon it parcheth the country, and who can abide the
burning heat thereof?

   {43:4} A man blowing a furnace is in works of heat, but the sun
burneth the mountains three times more; breathing out fiery vapours,
and sending forth bright beams, it dimmeth the eyes.

   {43:5} Great is the Lord that made it; and at his commandment
runneth hastily.

   {43:6} He made the moon also to serve in her season for a
declaration of times, and a sign of the world.

   {43:7} From the moon is the sign of feasts, a light that decreaseth
in her perfection.

   {43:8} The month is called after her name, increasing wonderfully in
her changing, being an instrument of the armies above, shining in the
firmament of heaven;

   {43:9} The beauty of heaven, the glory of the stars, an ornament
giving light in the highest places of the Lord.

   {43:10} At the commandment of the Holy One they will stand in their
order, and never faint in their watches.

   {43:11} Look upon the rainbow, and praise him that made it; very
beautiful it is in the brightness thereof.

   {43:12} It compasseth the heaven about with a glorious circle, and
the hands of the most High have bended it.

   {43:13} By his commandment he maketh the snow to fall aplace, and
sendeth swiftly the lightnings of his judgment.

   {43:14} Through this the treasures are opened: and clouds fly forth
as fowls.

   {43:15} By his great power he maketh the clouds firm, and the
hailstones are broken small.

   {43:16} At his sight the mountains are shaken, and at his will the
south wind bloweth.

   {43:17} The noise of the thunder maketh the earth to tremble: so
doth the northern storm and the whirlwind: as birds flying he
scattereth the snow, and the falling down thereof is as the lighting of
grasshoppers:

   {43:18} The eye marvelleth at the beauty of the whiteness thereof,
and the heart is astonished at the raining of it.

   {43:19} The hoarfrost also as salt he poureth on the earth, and
being congealed, it lieth on the top of sharp stakes.

   {43:20} When the cold north wind bloweth, and the water is congealed
into ice, it abideth upon every gathering together of water, and
clotheth the water as with a breastplate.

   {43:21} It devoureth the mountains, and burneth the wilderness, and
consumeth the grass as fire.

   {43:22} A present remedy of all is a mist coming speedily, a dew
coming after heat refresheth.

   {43:23} By his counsel he appeaseth the deep, and planteth islands
therein.

   {43:24} They that sail on the sea tell of the danger thereof; and
when we hear it with our ears, we marvel thereat.

   {43:25} For therein be strange and wondrous works, variety of all
kinds of beasts and whales created.

   {43:26} By him the end of them hath prosperous success, and by his
word all things consist.

   {43:27} We may speak much, and yet come short: wherefore in sum, he
is all.

   {43:28} How shall we be able to magnify him? for he is great above
all his works.

   {43:29} The Lord is terrible and very great, and marvellous is his
power.

   {43:30} When ye glorify the Lord, exalt him as much as ye can; for
even yet will he far exceed: and when ye exalt him, put forth all your
strength, and be not weary; for ye can never go far enough.

   {43:31} Who hath seen him, that he might tell us? and who can
magnify him as he is?

   {43:32} There are yet hid greater things than these be, for we have
seen but a few of his works.

   {43:33} For the Lord hath made all things; and to the godly hath he
given wisdom.

   {44:1} Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begat us.

   {44:2} The Lord hath wrought great glory by them through his great
power from the beginning.

   {44:3} Such as did bear rule in their kingdoms, men renowned for
their power, giving counsel by their understanding, and declaring
prophecies:

   {44:4} Leaders of the people by their counsels, and by their
knowledge of learning meet for the people, wise and eloquent are their
instructions:

   {44:5} Such as found out musical tunes, and recited verses in
writing:

   {44:6} Rich men furnished with ability, living peaceably in their
habitations:

   {44:7} All these were honoured in their generations, and were the
glory of their times.

   {44:8} There be of them, that have left a name behind them, that
their praises might be reported.

   {44:9} And some there be, which have no memorial; who are perished,
as though they had never been; and are become as though they had never
been born; and their children after them.

   {44:10} But these were merciful men, whose righteousness hath not
been forgotten.

   {44:11} With their seed shall continually remain a good inheritance,
and their children are within the covenant.

   {44:12} Their seed standeth fast, and their children for their sakes.

   {44:13} Their seed shall remain for ever, and their glory shall not
be blotted out.

   {44:14} Their bodies are buried in peace; but their name liveth for
evermore.

   {44:15} The people will tell of their wisdom, and the congregation
will shew forth their praise.

   {44:16} Enoch pleased the Lord, and was translated, being an example
of repentance to all generations.

   {44:17} Noah was found perfect and righteous; in the time of wrath
he was taken in exchange [for the world;] therefore was he left as a
remnant unto the earth, when the flood came.

   {44:18} An everlasting covenant was made with him, that all flesh
should perish no more by the flood.

   {44:19} Abraham was a great father of many people: in glory was
there none like unto him;

   {44:20} Who kept the law of the most High, and was in covenant with
him: he established the covenant in his flesh; and when he was proved,
he was found faithful.

   {44:21} Therefore he assured him by an oath, that he would bless the
nations in his seed, and that he would multiply him as the dust of the
earth, and exalt his seed as the stars, and cause them to inherit from
sea to sea, and from the river unto the utmost part of the land.

   {44:22} With Isaac did he establish likewise [for Abraham his
father's sake] the blessing of all men, and the covenant, And made it
rest upon the head of Jacob. He acknowledged him in his blessing, and
gave him an heritage, and divided his portions; among the twelve tribes
did he part them.

   {45:1} And he brought out of him a merciful man, which found favour
in the sight of all flesh, even Moses, beloved of God and men, whose
memorial is blessed.

   {45:2} He made him like to the glorious saints, and magnified him,
so that his enemies stood in fear of him.

   {45:3} By his words he caused the wonders to cease, and he made him
glorious in the sight of kings, and gave him a commandment for his
people, and shewed him part of his glory.

   {45:4} He sanctified him in his faithfuless and meekness, and chose
him out of all men.

   {45:5} He made him to hear his voice, and brought him into the dark
cloud, and gave him commandments before his face, even the law of life
and knowledge, that he might teach Jacob his covenants, and Israel his
judgments.

   {45:6} He exalted Aaron, an holy man like unto him, even his
brother, of the tribe of Levi.

   {45:7} An everlasting covenant he made with him and gave him the
priesthood among the people; he beautified him with comely ornaments,
and clothed him with a robe of glory.

   {45:8} He put upon him perfect glory; and strengthened him with rich
garments, with breeches, with a long robe, and the ephod.

   {45:9} And he compassed him with pomegranates, and with many golden
bells round about, that as he went there might be a sound, and a noise
made that might be heard in the temple, for a memorial to the children
of his people;

   {45:10} With an holy garment, with gold, and blue silk, and purple,
the work of the embroidere, with a breastplate of judgment, and with
Urim and Thummim;

   {45:11} With twisted scarlet, the work of the cunning workman, with
precious stones graven like seals, and set in gold, the work of the
jeweller, with a writing engraved for a memorial, after the number of
the tribes of Israel.

   {45:12} He set a crown of gold upon the mitre, wherein was engraved
Holiness, an ornament of honour, a costly work, the desires of the
eyes, goodly and beautiful.

   {45:13} Before him there were none such, neither did ever any
stranger put them on, but only his children and his children's children
perpetually.

   {45:14} Their sacrifices shall be wholly consumed every day twice
continually.

   {45:15} Moses consecrated him, and anointed him with holy oil: this
was appointed unto him by an everlasting covenant, and to his seed, so
long as the heavens should remain, that they should minister unto him,
and execute the office of the priesthood, and bless the people in his
name.

   {45:16} He chose him out of all men living to offer sacrifices to
the Lord, incense, and a sweet savour, for a memorial, to make
reconciliation for his people.

   {45:17} He gave unto him his commandments, and authority in the
statutes of judgments, that he should teach Jacob the testimonies, and
inform Israel in his laws.

   {45:18} Strangers conspired together against him, and maligned him
in the wilderness, even the men that were of Dathan's and Abiron's
side, and the congregation of Core, with fury and wrath.

   {45:19} This the Lord saw, and it displeased him, and in his
wrathful indignation were they consumed: he did wonders upon them, to
consume them with the fiery flame.

   {45:20} But he made Aaron more honourable, and gave him an heritage,
and divided unto him the firstfruits of the increase; especially he
prepared bread in abundance:

   {45:21} For they eat of the sacrifices of the Lord, which he gave
unto him and his seed.

   {45:22} Howbeit in the land of the people he had no inheritance,
neither had he any portion among the people: for the Lord himself is
his portion and inheritance.

   {45:23} The third in glory is Phinees the son of Eleazar, because he
had zeal in the fear of the Lord, and stood up with good courage of
heart: when the people were turned back, and made reconciliation for
Israel.

   {45:24} Therefore was there a covenant of peace made with him, that
he should be the chief of the sanctuary and of his people, and that he
and his posterity should have the dignity of the priesthood for ever:

   {45:25} According to the covenant made with David son of Jesse, of
the tribe of Juda, that the inheritance of the king should be to his
posterity alone: so the inheritance of Aaron should also be unto his
seed.

   {45:26} God give you wisdom in your heart to judge his people in
righteousness, that their good things be not abolished, and that their
glory may endure for ever.

   {46:1} Jesus the son a Nave was valiant in the wars, and was the
successor of Moses in prophecies, who according to his name was made
great for the saving of the elect of God, and taking vengeance of the
enemies that rose up against them, that he might set Israel in their
inheritance.

   {46:2} How great glory gat he, when he did lift up his hands, and
stretched out his sword against the cities!

   {46:3} Who before him so stood to it? for the Lord himself brought
his enemies unto him.

   {46:4} Did not the sun go back by his means? and was not one day as
long as two?

   {46:5} He called upon the most high Lord, when the enemies pressed
upon him on every side; and the great Lord heard him.

   {46:6} And with hailstones of mighty power he made the battle to
fall violently upon the nations, and in the descent [of Beth-horon] he
destroyed them that resisted, that the nations might know all their
strength, because he fought in the sight of the Lord, and he followed
the Mighty One.

   {46:7} In the time of Moses also he did a work of mercy, he and
Caleb the son of Jephunne, in that they withstood the congregation, and
withheld the people from sin, and appeased the wicked murmuring.

   {46:8} And of six hundred thousand people on foot, they two were
preserved to bring them in to the heritage, even unto the land that
floweth with milk and honey.

   {46:9} The Lord gave strength also unto Caleb, which remained with
him unto his old age: so that he entered upon the high places of the
land, and his seed obtained it for an heritage:

   {46:10} That all the children of Israel might see that it is good to
follow the Lord.

   {46:11} And concerning the judges, every one by name, whose heart
went not a whoring, nor departed from the Lord, let their memory be
blessed.

   {46:12} Let their bones flourish out of their place, and let the
name of them that were honoured be continued upon their children.

   {46:13} Samuel, the prophet of the Lord, beloved of his Lord,
established a kingdom, and anointed princes over his people.

   {46:14} By the law of the Lord he judged the congregation, and the
Lord had respect unto Jacob.

   {46:15} By his faithfulness he was found a true prophet, and by his
word he was known to be faithful in vision.

   {46:16} He called upon the mighty Lord, when his enemies pressed
upon him on every side, when he offered the sucking lamb.

   {46:17} And the Lord thundered from heaven, and with a great noise
made his voice to be heard.

   {46:18} And he destroyed the rulers of the Tyrians, and all the
princes cf the Philistines.

   {46:19} And before his long sleep he made protestations in the sight
of the Lord and his anointed, I have not taken any man's goods, so much
as a shoe: and no man did accuse him.

   {46:20} And after his death he prophesied, and shewed the king his
end, and lifted up his voice from the earth in prophecy, to blot out
the wickedness of the people.

   {47:1} And after him rose up Nathan to prophesy in the time of David.

   {47:2} As is the fat taken away from the peace offering, so was
David chosen out of the children of Israel.

   {47:3} He played with lions as with kids, and with bears as with
lambs.

   {47:4} Slew he not a giant, when he was yet but young? and did he
not take away reproach from the people, when he lifted up his hand with
the stone in the sling, and beat down the boasting of Goliath?

   {47:5} For he called upon the most high Lord; and he gave him
strength in his right hand to slay that mighty warrior, and set up the
horn of his people.

   {47:6} So the people honoured him with ten thousands, and praised
him in the blessings of the Lord, in that he gave him a crown of glory.

   {47:7} For he destroyed the enemies on every side, and brought to
nought the Philistines his adversaries, and brake their horn in sunder
unto this day.

   {47:8} In all his works he praised the Holy One most high with words
of glory; with his whole heart he sung songs, and loved him that made
him.

   {47:9} He set singers also before the altar, that by their voices
they might make sweet melody, and daily sing praises in their songs.

   {47:10} He beautified their feasts, and set in order the solemn
times until the end, that they might praise his holy name, and that the
temple might sound from morning.

   {47:11} The Lord took away his sins, and exalted his horn for ever:
he gave him a covenant of kings, and a throne of glory in Israel.

   {47:12} After him rose up a wise son, and for his sake he dwelt at
large.

   {47:13} Solomon reigned in a peaceable time, and was honoured; for
God made all quiet round about him, that he might build an house in his
name, and prepare his sanctuary for ever.

   {47:14} How wise wast thou in thy youth and, as a flood, filled with
understanding!

   {47:15} Thy soul covered the whole earth, and thou filledst it with
dark parables.

   {47:16} Thy name went far unto the islands; and for thy peace thou
wast beloved.

   {47:17} The countries marvelled at thee for thy songs, and proverbs,
and parables, and interpretations.

   {47:18} By the name of the Lord God, which is called the Lord God of
Israel, thou didst gather gold as tin and didst multiply silver as lead.

   {47:19} Thou didst bow thy loins unto women, and by thy body thou
wast brought into subjection.

   {47:20} Thou didst stain thy honour, and pollute thy seed: so that
thou broughtest wrath upon thy children, and wast grieved for thy folly.

   {47:21} So the kingdom was divided, and out of Ephraim ruled a
rebellious kingdom.

   {47:22} But the Lord will never leave off his mercy, neither shall
any of his works perish, neither will he abolish the posterity of his
elect, and the seed of him that loveth him he will not take away:
wherefore he gave a remnant unto Jacob, and out of him a root unto
David.

   {47:23} Thus rested Solomon with his fathers, and of his seed he
left behind him Roboam, even the foolishness of the people, and one
that had no understanding, who turned away the people through his
counsel. There was also Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who caused Israel to
sin, and shewed Ephraim the way of sin:

   {47:24} And their sins were multiplied exceedingly, that they were
driven out of the land.

   {47:25} For they sought out all wickedness, till the vengeance came
upon them.

   {48:1} Then stood up Elias the prophet as fire, and his word burned
like a lamp.

   {48:2} He brought a sore famine upon them, and by his zeal he
diminished their number.

   {48:3} By the word of the Lord he shut up the heaven, and also three
times brought down fire.

   {48:4} O Elias, how wast thou honoured in thy wondrous deeds! and
who may glory like unto thee!

   {48:5} Who didst raise up a dead man from death, and his soul from
the place of the dead, by the word of the most High:

   {48:6} Who broughtest kings to destruction, and honorable men from
their bed:

   {48:7} Who heardest the rebuke of the Lord in Sinai, and in Horeb
the judgment of vengeance:

   {48:8} Who annointedst kings to take revenge, and prophets to
succeed after him:

   {48:9} Who was taken up in a whirlwind of fire, and in a chariot of
fiery horses:

   {48:10} Who wast ordained for reproofs in their times, to pacify the
wrath of the Lord's judgment, before it brake forth into fury, and to
turn the heart of the father unto the son, and to restore the tribes of
Jacob.

   {48:11} Blessed are they that saw thee, and slept in love; for we
shall surely live.

   {48:12} Elias it was, who was covered with a whirlwind: and Eliseus
was filled with his spirit: whilst he lived, he was not moved with the
presence of any prince, neither could any bring him into subjection.

   {48:13} No word could overcome him; and after his death his body
prophesied.

   {48:14} He did wonders in his life, and at his death were his works
marvellous.

   {48:15} For all this the people repented not, neither departed they
from their sins, till they were spoiled and carried out of their land,
and were scattered through all the earth: yet there remained a small
people, and a ruler in the house of David:

   {48:16} Of whom some did that which was pleasing to God, and some
multiplied sins.

   {48:17} Ezekias fortified his city, and brought in water into the
midst thereof: he digged the hard rock with iron, and made wells for
waters.

   {48:18} In his time Sennacherib came up, and sent Rabsaces, and
lifted up his hand against Sion, and boasted proudly.

   {48:19} Then trembled their hearts and hands, and they were in pain,
as women in travail.

   {48:20} But they called upon the Lord which is merciful, and
stretched out their hands toward him: and immediately the Holy One
heard them out of heaven, and delivered them by the ministry of Esay.

   {48:21} He smote the host of the Assyrians, and his angel destroyed
them.

   {48:22} For Ezekias had done the thing that pleased the Lord, and
was strong in the ways of David his father, as Esay the prophet, who
was great and faithful in his vision, had commanded him.

   {48:23} In his time the sun went backward, and he lengthened the
king's life.

   {48:24} He saw by an excellent spirit what should come to pass at
the last, and he comforted them that mourned in Sion.

   {48:25} He shewed what should come to pass for ever, and secret
things or ever they came.

   {49:1} The remembrance of Josias is like the composition of the
perfume that is made by the art of the apothecary: it is sweet as honey
in all mouths, and as musick at a banquet of wine.

   {49:2} He behaved himself uprightly in the conversion of the people,
and took away the abominations of iniquity.

   {49:3} He directed his heart unto the Lord, and in the time of the
ungodly he established the worship of God.

   {49:4} All, except David and Ezekias and Josias, were defective: for
they forsook the law of the most High, even the kings of Juda failed.

   {49:5} Therefore he gave their power unto others, and their glory to
a strange nation.

   {49:6} They burnt the chosen city of the sanctuary, and made the
streets desolate, according to the prophecy of Jeremias.

   {49:7} For they entreated him evil, who nevertheless was a prophet,
sanctified in his mother's womb, that he might root out, and afflict,
and destroy; and that he might build up also, and plant.

   {49:8} It was Ezekiel who saw the glorious vision, which was shewed
him upon the chariot of the cherubims.

   {49:9} For he made mention of the enemies under the figure of the
rain, and directed them that went right.

   {49:10} And of the twelve prophets let the memorial be blessed, and
let their bones flourish again out of their place: for they comforted
Jacob, and delivered them by assured hope.

   {49:11} How shall we magnify Zorobabel? even he was as a signet on
the right hand:

   {49:12} So was Jesus the son of Josedec: who in their time builded
the house, and set up an holy temple to the Lord, which was prepared
for everlasting glory.

   {49:13} And among the elect was Neemias, whose renown is great, who
raised up for us the walls that were fallen, and set up the gates and
the bars, and raised up our ruins again.

   {49:14} But upon the earth was no man created like Enoch; for he was
taken from the earth.

   {49:15} Neither was there a young man born like Joseph, a governor
of his brethren, a stay of the people, whose bones were regarded of the
Lord.

   {49:16} Sem and Seth were in great honour among men, and so was Adam
above every living thing in creation.

   {50:1} Simon the high priest, the son of Onias, who in his life
repaired the house again, and in his days fortified the temple:

   {50:2} And by him was built from the foundation the double height,
the high fortress of the wall about the temple:

   {50:3} In his days the cistern to receive water, being in compass as
the sea, was covered with plates of brass:

   {50:4} He took care of the temple that it should not fall, and
fortified the city against besieging:

   {50:5} How was he honoured in the midst of the people in his coming
out of the sanctuary!

   {50:6} He was as the morning star in the midst of a cloud, and as
the moon at the full:

   {50:7} As the sun shining upon the temple of the most High, and as
the rainbow giving light in the bright clouds:

   {50:8} And as the flower of roses in the spring of the year, as
lilies by the rivers of waters, and as the branches of the frankincense
tree in the time of summer:

   {50:9} As fire and incense in the censer, and as a vessel of beaten
gold set with all manner of precious stones:

   {50:10} And as a fair olive tree budding forth fruit, and as a
cypress tree which groweth up to the clouds.

   {50:11} When he put on the robe of honour, and was clothed with the
perfection of glory, when he went up to the holy altar, he made the
garment of holiness honourable.

   {50:12} When he took the portions out of the priests' hands, he
himself stood by the hearth of the altar, compassed about, as a young
cedar in Libanus; and as palm trees compassed they him round about.

   {50:13} So were all the sons of Aaron in their glory, and the
oblations of the Lord in their hands, before all the congregation of
Israel.

   {50:14} And finishing the service at the altar, that he might adorn
the offering of the most high Almighty,

   {50:15} He stretched out his hand to the cup, and poured of the
blood of the grape, he poured out at the foot of the altar a
sweetsmelling savour unto the most high King of all.

   {50:16} Then shouted the sons of Aaron, and sounded the silver
trumpets, and made a great noise to be heard, for a remembrance before
the most High.

   {50:17} Then all the people together hasted, and fell down to the
earth upon their faces to worship their Lord God Almighty, the most
High.

   {50:18} The singers also sang praises with their voices, with great
variety of sounds was there made sweet melody.

   {50:19} And the people besought the Lord, the most High, by prayer
before him that is merciful, till the solemnity of the Lord was ended,
and they had finished his service.

   {50:20} Then he went down, and lifted up his hands over the whole
congregation of the children of Israel, to give the blessing of the
Lord with his lips, and to rejoice in his name.

   {50:21} And they bowed themselves down to worship the second time,
that they might receive a blessing from the most High.

   {50:22} Now therefore bless ye the God of all, which only doeth
wondrous things every where, which exalteth our days from the womb, and
dealeth with us according to his mercy.

   {50:23} He grant us joyfulness of heart, and that peace may be in
our days in Israel for ever:

   {50:24} That he would confirm his mercy with us, and deliver us at
his time!

   {50:25} There be two manner of nations which my heart abhorreth, and
the third is no nation:

   {50:26} They that sit upon the mountain of Samaria, and they that
dwell among the Philistines, and that foolish people that dwell in
Sichem.

   {50:27} Jesus the son of Sirach of Jerusalem hath written in this
book the instruction of understanding and knowledge, who out of his
heart poured forth wisdom.

   {50:28} Blessed is he that shall be exercised in these things; and
he that layeth them up in his heart shall become wise.

   {50:29} For if he do them, he shall be strong to all things: for the
light of the Lord leadeth him, who giveth wisdom to the godly. Blessed
be the name of the Lord for ever. Amen, Amen.

   A Prayer of Jesus the son of Sirach.

   {51:1} I will thank thee, O Lord and King, and praise thee, O God my
Saviour: I do give praise unto thy name:

   {51:2} For thou art my defender and helper, and has preserved my
body from destruction, and from the snare of the slanderous tongue, and
from the lips that forge lies, and has been mine helper against mine
adversaries:

   {51:3} And hast delivered me, according to the multitude of they
mercies and greatness of thy name, from the teeth of them that were
ready to devour me, and out of the hands of such as sought after my
life, and from the manifold afflictions which I had;

   {51:4} From the choking of fire on every side, and from the midst of
the fire which I kindled not;

   {51:5} From the depth of the belly of hell, from an unclean tongue,
and from lying words.

   {51:6} By an accusation to the king from an unrighteous tongue my
soul drew near even unto death, my life was near to the hell beneath.

   {51:7} They compassed me on every side, and there was no man to help
me: I looked for the succour of men, but there was none.

   {51:8} Then thought I upon thy mercy, O Lord, and upon thy acts of
old, how thou deliverest such as wait for thee, and savest them out of
the hands of the enemies.

   {51:9} Then lifted I up my supplications from the earth, and prayed
for deliverance from death.

   {51:10} I called upon the Lord, the Father of my Lord, that he would
not leave me in the days of my trouble, and in the time of the proud,
when there was no help.

   {51:11} I will praise thy name continually, and will sing praises
with thanksgiving; and so my prayer was heard:

   {51:12} For thou savedst me from destruction, and deliveredst me
from the evil time: therefore will I give thanks, and praise thee, and
bless they name, O Lord.

   {51:13} When I was yet young, or ever I went abroad, I desired
wisdom openly in my prayer.

   {51:14} I prayed for her before the temple, and will seek her out
even to the end.

   {51:15} Even from the flower till the grape was ripe hath my heart
delighted in her: my foot went the right way, from my youth up sought I
after her.

   {51:16} I bowed down mine ear a little, and received her, and gat
much learning.

   {51:17} I profited therein, therefore will I ascribe glory unto him
that giveth me wisdom.

   {51:18} For I purposed to do after her, and earnestly I followed
that which is good; so shall I not be confounded.

   {51:19} My soul hath wrestled with her, and in my doings I was
exact: I stretched forth my hands to the heaven above, and bewailed my
ignorances of her.

   {51:20} I directed my soul unto her, and I found her in pureness: I
have had my heart joined with her from the beginning, therefore shall I
not be foresaken.

   {51:21} My heart was troubled in seeking her: therefore have I
gotten a good possession.

   {51:22} The Lord hath given me a tongue for my reward, and I will
praise him therewith.

   {51:23} Draw near unto me, ye unlearned, and dwell in the house of
learning.

   {51:24} Wherefore are ye slow, and what say ye to these things,
seeing your souls are very thirsty?

   {51:25} I opened my mouth, and said, Buy her for yourselves without
money.

   {51:26} Put your neck under the yoke, and let your soul receive
instruction: she is hard at hand to find.

   {51:27} Behold with your eyes, how that I have but little labour,
and have gotten unto me much rest.

   {51:28} Get learning with a great sum of money, and get much gold by
her.

   {51:29} Let your soul rejoice in his mercy, and be not ashamed of
his praise.

   {51:30} Work your work betimes, and in his time he will give you
your reward.





The Song of Solomon

   {1:1} The song of songs, which [is] Solomon's. {1:2} Let him kiss me
with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love [is] better than wine. {1:3}
Because of the savour of thy good ointments thy name [is as] ointment
poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee. {1:4} Draw me, we
will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we
will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than
wine: the upright love thee. {1:5} I [am] black, but comely, O ye
daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of
Solomon. {1:6} Look not upon me, because I [am] black, because the sun
hath looked upon me: my mother's children were angry with me; they made
me the keeper of the vineyards; [but] mine own vineyard have I not
kept. {1:7} 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?

   {1:8} 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. {1:9} I have compared thee, O my love, to a company of horses in
Pharaoh's chariots. {1:10} Thy cheeks are comely with rows [of jewels,]
thy neck with chains [of gold. ]{1:11} We will make thee borders of
gold with studs of silver.

   {1:12} While the king [sitteth] at his table, my spikenard sendeth
forth the smell thereof. {1:13} A bundle of myrrh [is] my wellbeloved
unto me; he shall lie all night betwixt my breasts. {1:14} My beloved
[is] unto me [as] a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of En-gedi.
{1:15} Behold, thou [art] fair, my love; behold, thou [art] fair; thou
[hast] doves' eyes. {1:16} Behold, thou [art] fair, my beloved, yea,
pleasant: also our bed [is] green. {1:17} The beams of our house [are]
cedar, [and] our rafters of fir.

   {2:1} I [am] the rose of Sharon, [and] the lily of the valleys.
{2:2} As the lily among thorns, so [is] my love among the daughters.
{2:3} As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so [is] my beloved
among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his
fruit [was] sweet to my taste. {2:4} He brought me to the banqueting
house, and his banner over me [was] love. {2:5} Stay me with flagons,
comfort me with apples: for I [am] sick of love. {2:6} His left hand
[is] under my head, and his right hand doth embrace me. {2:7} 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.

   {2:8} The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh leaping upon the
mountains, skipping upon the hills. {2:9} My beloved is like a roe or a
young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at
the windows, shewing himself through the lattice. {2:10} My beloved
spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.
{2:11} For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over [and] gone; {2:12}
The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing [of birds] is
come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; {2:13} The fig
tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines [with] the tender
grape give a [good] smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.

   {2:14} 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.
{2:15} Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for
our vines [have] tender grapes.

   {2:16} My beloved [is] mine, and I [am] his: he feedeth among the
lilies. {2:17} 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.

   {3:1} By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought
him, but I found him not. {3:2} I will rise now, and go about the city
in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul
loveth: I sought him, but I found him not. {3:3} The watchmen that go
about the city found me: [to whom I said,] Saw ye him whom my soul
loveth? {3:4} [It was] but a little that I passed from them, but I
found him whom 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. {3:5} 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.

   {3:6} Who [is] this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars
of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the
merchant? {3:7} Behold his bed, which [is] Solomon's; threescore
valiant men [are] about it, of the valiant of Israel. {3:8} They all
hold swords, [being] expert in war: every man [hath] his sword upon his
thigh because of fear in the night. {3:9} King Solomon made himself a
chariot of the wood of Lebanon. {3:10} He made the pillars thereof [of]
silver, the bottom thereof [of] gold, the covering of it [of] purple,
the midst thereof being paved [with] love, for the daughters of
Jerusalem. {3:11} 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.

   {4:1} 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. {4:2} 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. {4:3}
Thy lips [are] like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech [is] comely:
thy temples [are] like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks. {4:4}
Thy neck [is] like the tower of David builded for an armoury, whereon
there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men. {4:5} Thy
two breasts [are] like two young roes that are twins, which feed among
the lilies. {4:6} Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, I
will get me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.
{4:7} Thou [art] all fair, my love; [there is] no spot in thee.

   {4:8} Come with me from Lebanon, [my] spouse, with me from Lebanon:
look from the top of Amana, from the top of Shenir and Hermon, from the
lions' dens, from the mountains of the leopards. {4:9} 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. {4:10} 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! {4:11} 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. {4:12} A garden inclosed [is] my sister, [my] spouse; a spring
shut up, a fountain sealed. {4:13} Thy plants [are] an orchard of
pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard, {4:14}
Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of
frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices: {4:15} A
fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.

   {4:16} 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.

   {5:1} I am come into my garden, my sister, [my] spouse: I have
gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my
honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea,
drink abundantly, O beloved.

   {5:2} I sleep, but my heart waketh: [it is] the voice of my beloved
that knocketh, [saying,] Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my
undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, [and] my locks with the
drops of the night. {5:3} I have put off my coat; how shall I put it
on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them? {5:4} My beloved
put in his hand by the hole [of the door,] and my bowels were moved for
him. {5:5} I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped [with]
myrrh, and my fingers [with] sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of
the lock. {5:6} 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. {5:7}
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. {5:8} I
charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye
tell him, that I [am] sick of love.

   {5:9} What [is] thy beloved more than [another] beloved, O thou
fairest among women? what [is] thy beloved more than [another] beloved,
that thou dost so charge us? {5:10} My beloved [is] white and ruddy,
the chiefest among ten thousand. {5:11} His head [is as] the most fine
gold, his locks [are] bushy, [and] black as a raven. {5:12} His eyes
[are] as [the eyes] of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk,
[and] fitly set. {5:13} His cheeks [are] as a bed of spices, [as] sweet
flowers: his lips [like] lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh. {5:14}
His hands [are as] gold rings set with the beryl: his belly [is as]
bright ivory overlaid [with] sapphires. {5:15} His legs [are as]
pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold: his countenance [is]
as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars. {5:16} His mouth [is] most sweet:
yea, he [is] altogether lovely. This [is] my beloved, and this [is] my
friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.

   {6:1} Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou fairest among women?
whither is thy beloved turned aside? that we may seek him with thee.
{6:2} My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices,
to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies. {6:3} I [am] my
beloved's, and my beloved [is] mine: he feedeth among the lilies.

   {6:4} Thou [art] beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as
Jerusalem, terrible as [an army] with banners. {6:5} Turn away thine
eyes from me, for they have overcome me: thy hair [is] as a flock of
goats that appear from Gilead. {6:6} Thy teeth [are] as a flock of
sheep which go up from the washing, whereof every one beareth twins,
and [there is] not one barren among them. {6:7} As a piece of a
pomegranate [are] thy temples within thy locks. {6:8} There are
threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins without
number. {6:9} My dove, my undefiled is [but] one; she [is] the [only]
one of her 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.

   {6:10} Who [is] she [that] looketh forth as the morning, fair as the
moon, clear as the sun, [and] terrible as [an army] with banners?
{6:11} I went down into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the
valley, [and] to see whether the vine flourished, [and] the
pomegranates budded. {6:12} Or ever I was aware, my soul made me [like]
the chariots of Amminadib. {6:13} 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.

   {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. {7:2} Thy navel [is like] a round goblet, [which]
wanteth not liquor: thy belly [is like] an heap of wheat set about with
lilies. {7:3} Thy two breasts [are] like two young roes [that are]
twins. {7:4} Thy neck [is] as a tower of ivory; thine eyes [like] the
fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bath-rabbim: thy nose [is] as the
tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus. {7:5} Thine head upon
thee [is] like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king
[is] held in the galleries. {7:6} How fair and how pleasant art thou, O
love, for delights! {7:7} This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and
thy breasts to clusters [of grapes. ]{7:8} 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; {7:9} 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.

   {7:10} I [am] my beloved's, and his desire [is] toward me. {7:11}
Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the
villages. {7:12} 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. {7:13} 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.

   {8:1} O that thou [wert] as my brother, that sucked the breasts of
my mother! [when] I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, I
should not be despised. {8:2} 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. {8:3} His left hand
[should be] under my head, and his right hand should embrace me. {8:4}
I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake
[my] love, until he please. {8:5} Who [is] this that cometh up from the
wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple
tree: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth
[that] bare thee.

   {8:6} 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.
{8:7} 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.

   {8:8} 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? {8:9} If
she [be] a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she
[be] a door, we will inclose her with boards of cedar. {8:10} I [am] a
wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that
found favour. {8:11} Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon; he let out
the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring
a thousand [pieces] of silver. {8:12} My vineyard, which [is] mine,
[is] before me: thou, O Solomon, [must have] a thousand, and those that
keep the fruit thereof two hundred. {8:13} Thou that dwellest in the
gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: cause me to hear [it.]

   {8:14} Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a
young hart upon the mountains of spices.





The History of Susanna [in Daniel]

   Set apart from the beginning of Daniel, because it is not in the
Hebrew, as neither the Narration of Bel and the Dragon.



   {1:1} There dwelt a man in Babylon, called Joacim:

   {1:2} And he took a wife, whose name was Susanna, the daughter of
Chelcias, a very fair woman, and one that feared the Lord.

   {1:3} Her parents also were righteous, and taught their daughter
according to the law of Moses.

   {1:4} Now Joacim was a great rich man, and had a fair garden joining
unto his house: and to him resorted the Jews; because he was more
honourable than all others.

   {1:5} The same year were appointed two of the ancients of the people
to be judges, such as the Lord spake of, that wickedness came from
Babylon from ancient judges, who seemed to govern the people.

   {1:6} These kept much at Joacim's house: and all that had any suits
in law came unto them.

   {1:7} Now when the people departed away at noon, Susanna went into
her husband's garden to walk.

   {1:8} And the two elders saw her going in every day, and walking; so
that their lust was inflamed toward her.

   {1:9} And they perverted their own mind, and turned away their eyes,
that they might not look unto heaven, nor remember just judgments.

   {1:10} And albeit they both were wounded with her love, yet durst
not one shew another his grief.

   {1:11} For they were ashamed to declare their lust, that they
desired to have to do with her.

   {1:12} Yet they watched diligently from day to day to see her.

   {1:13} And the one said to the other, Let us now go home: for it is
dinner time.

   {1:14} So when they were gone out, they parted the one from the
other, and turning back again they came to the same place; and after
that they had asked one another the cause, they acknowledged their
lust: then appointed they a time both together, when they might find
her alone.

   {1:15} And it fell out, as they watched a fit time, she went in as
before with two maids only, and she was desirous to wash herself in the
garden: for it was hot.

   {1:16} And there was no body there save the two elders, that had hid
themselves, and watched her.

   {1:17} Then she said to her maids, Bring me oil and washing balls,
and shut the garden doors, that I may wash me.

   {1:18} And they did as she bade them, and shut the garden doors, and
went out themselves at privy doors to fetch the things that she had
commanded them: but they saw not the elders, because they were hid.

   {1:19} Now when the maids were gone forth, the two elders rose up,
and ran unto her, saying,

   {1:20} Behold, the garden doors are shut, that no man can see us,
and we are in love with thee; therefore consent unto us, and lie with
us.

   {1:21} If thou wilt not, we will bear witness against thee, that a
young man was with thee: and therefore thou didst send away thy maids
from thee.

   {1:22} Then Susanna sighed, and said, I am straitened on every side:
for if I do this thing, it is death unto me: and if I do it not I
cannot escape your hands.

   {1:23} It is better for me to fall into your hands, and not do it,
than to sin in the sight of the Lord.

   {1:24} With that Susanna cried with a loud voice: and the two elders
cried out against her.

   {1:25} Then ran the one, and opened the garden door.

   {1:26} So when the servants of the house heard the cry in the
garden, they rushed in at the privy door, to see what was done unto her.

   {1:27} But when the elders had declared their matter, the servants
were greatly ashamed: for there was never such a report made of Susanna.

   {1:28} And it came to pass the next day, when the people were
assembled to her husband Joacim, the two elders came also full of
mischievous imagination against Susanna to put her to death;

   {1:29} And said before the people, Send for Susanna, the daughter of
Chelcias, Joacim's wife. And so they sent.

   {1:30} So she came with her father and mother, her children, and all
her kindred.

   {1:31} Now Susanna was a very delicate woman, and beauteous to
behold.

   {1:32} And these wicked men commanded to uncover her face, (for she
was covered) that they might be filled with her beauty.

   {1:33} Therefore her friends and all that saw her wept.

   {1:34} Then the two elders stood up in the midst of the people, and
laid their hands upon her head.

   {1:35} And she weeping looked up toward heaven: for her heart
trusted in the Lord.

   {1:36} And the elders said, As we walked in the garden alone, this
woman came in with two maids, and shut the garden doors, and sent the
maids away.

   {1:37} Then a young man, who there was hid, came unto her, and lay
with her.

   {1:38} Then we that stood in a corner of the garden, seeing this
wickedness, ran unto them.

   {1:39} And when we saw them together, the man we could not hold: for
he was stronger than we, and opened the door, and leaped out.

   {1:40} But having taken this woman, we asked who the young man was,
but she would not tell us: these things do we testify.

   {1:41} Then the assembly believed them as those that were the elders
and judges of the people: so they condemned her to death.

   {1:42} Then Susanna cried out with a loud voice, and said, O
everlasting God, that knowest the secrets, and knowest all things
before they be:

   {1:43} Thou knowest that they have borne false witness against me,
and, behold, I must die; whereas I never did such things as these men
have maliciously invented against me.

   {1:44} And the Lord heard her voice.

   {1:45} Therefore when she was led to be put to death, the Lord
raised up the holy spirit of a young youth whose name was Daniel:

   {1:46} Who cried with a loud voice, I am clear from the blood of
this woman.

   {1:47} Then all the people turned them toward him, and said, What
mean these words that thou hast spoken?

   {1:48} So he standing in the midst of them said, Are ye such fools,
ye sons of Israel, that without examination or knowledge of the truth
ye have condemned a daughter of Israel?

   {1:49} Return again to the place of judgment: for they have borne
false witness against her.

   {1:50} Wherefore all the people turned again in haste, and the
elders said unto him, Come, sit down among us, and shew it us, seeing
God hath given thee the honour of an elder.

   {1:51} Then said Daniel unto them, Put these two aside one far from
another, and I will examine them.

   {1:52} So when they were put asunder one from another, he called one
of them, and said unto him, O thou that art waxen old in wickedness,
now thy sins which thou hast committed aforetime are come to light.

   {1:53} For thou hast pronounced false judgment and hast condemned
the innocent and hast let the guilty go free; albeit the Lord saith,
The innocent and righteous shalt thou not slay.

   {1:54} Now then, if thou hast seen her, tell me, Under what tree
sawest thou them companying together? Who answered, Under a mastick
tree.

   {1:55} And Daniel said, Very well; thou hast lied against thine own
head; for even now the angel of God hath received the sentence of God
to cut thee in two.

   {1:56} So he put him aside, and commanded to bring the other, and
said unto him, O thou seed of Chanaan, and not of Juda, beauty hath
deceived thee, and lust hath perverted thine heart.

   {1:57} Thus have ye dealt with the daughters of Israel, and they for
fear companied with you: but the daughter of Juda would not abide your
wickedness.

   {1:58} Now therefore tell me, Under what tree didst thou take them
companying together? Who answered, Under an holm tree.

   {1:59} Then said Daniel unto him, Well; thou hast also lied against
thine own head: for the angel of God waiteth with the sword to cut thee
in two, that he may destroy you.

   {1:60} With that all the assembly cried out with a loud voice, and
praised God, who saveth them that trust in him.

   {1:61} And they arose against the two elders, for Daniel had
convicted them of false witness by their own mouth:

   {1:62} And according to the law of Moses they did unto them in such
sort as they maliciously intended to do to their neighbour: and they
put them to death. Thus the innocent blood was saved the same day.

   {1:63} Therefore Chelcias and his wife praised God for their
daughter Susanna, with Joacim her husband, and all the kindred, because
there was no dishonesty found in her.

   {1:64} From that day forth was Daniel had in great reputation in the
sight of the people.





The Epistle of Paul to Titus

   {1:1} Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ,
according to the faith of God's elect, and the acknowledging of the
truth which is after godliness; {1:2} In hope of eternal life, which
God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began; {1:3} But hath
in due times manifested his word through preaching, which is committed
unto me according to the commandment of God our Saviour; {1:4} To
Titus, [mine] own son after the common faith: Grace, mercy, [and]
peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour.

   {1:5} 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: {1:6} If any be blameless, the husband of one
wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly. {1:7} For
a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not
soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;
{1:8} But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just,
holy, temperate; {1:9} Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been
taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to
convince the gainsayers. {1:10} For there are many unruly and vain
talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision: {1:11} Whose
mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which
they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake. {1:12} One of themselves,
[even] a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians [are] alway liars,
evil beasts, slow bellies. {1:13} This witness is true. Wherefore
rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith; {1:14} Not
giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from
the truth. {1:15} Unto the pure all things [are] pure: but unto them
that are defiled and unbelieving [is] nothing pure; but even their mind
and conscience is defiled. {1:16} They profess that they know God; but
in works they deny [him,] being abominable, and disobedient, and unto
every good work reprobate.

   {2:1} But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine: {2:2}
That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in
charity, in patience. {2:3} The aged women likewise, that [they be] in
behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much
wine, teachers of good things; {2:4} That they may teach the young
women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,
{2:5} [To be] discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to
their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed. {2:6} Young
men likewise exhort to be sober minded. {2:7} In all things shewing
thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine [shewing] uncorruptness,
gravity, sincerity, {2:8} Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that
he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to
say of you. {2:9} [Exhort] servants to be obedient unto their own
masters, [and] to please [them] well in all [things;] not answering
again; {2:10} Not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity; that they
may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things. {2:11} For the
grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, {2:12}
Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live
soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; {2:13} Looking
for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and
our Saviour Jesus Christ; {2:14} Who gave himself for us, that he might
redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people,
zealous of good works. {2:15} These things speak, and exhort, and
rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee.

   {3:1} Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers,
to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work, {3:2} To speak
evil of no man, to be no brawlers, [but] gentle, shewing all meekness
unto all men. {3:3} For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish,
disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in
malice and envy, hateful, [and] hating one another. {3:4} But after
that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared,
{3:5} Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according
to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing
of the Holy Ghost; {3:6} Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus
Christ our Saviour; {3:7} That being justified by his grace, we should
be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life. {3:8} [This is] a
faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly,
that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good
works. These things are good and profitable unto men. {3:9} But avoid
foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings
about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain. {3:10} A man that is
an heretick after the first and second admonition reject; {3:11}
Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned
of himself.

   {3:12} When I shall send Artemas unto thee, or Tychicus, be diligent
to come unto me to Nicopolis: for I have determined there to winter.
{3:13} Bring Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their journey diligently,
that nothing be wanting unto them. {3:14} And let ours also learn to
maintain good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful.

   {3:15} All that are with me salute thee. Greet them that love us in
the faith. Grace [be] with you all. Amen.





The Book of Tobit

   {1:1} The book of the words of Tobit, son of Tobiel, the son of
Ananiel, the son of Aduel, the son of Gabael, of the seed of Asael, of
the tribe of Nephthali;

   {1:2} Who in the time of Enemessar king of the Assyrians was led
captive out of Thisbe, which is at the right hand of that city, which
is called properly Nephthali in Galilee above Aser.

   {1:3} I Tobit have walked all the days of my life in the ways of
truth and justice, and I did many almsdeeds to my brethren, and my
nation, who came with me to Nineve, into the land of the Assyrians.

   {1:4} And when I was in mine own country, in the land of Israel
being but young, all the tribe of Nephthali my father fell from the
house of Jerusalem, which was chosen out of all the tribes of Israel,
that all the tribes should sacrifice there, where the temple of the
habitation of the most High was consecrated and built for all ages.

   {1:5} Now all the tribes which together revolted, and the house of
my father Nephthali, sacrificed unto the heifer Baal.

   {1:6} But I alone went often to Jerusalem at the feasts, as it was
ordained unto all the people of Israel by an everlasting decree, having
the firstfruits and tenths of increase, with that which was first
shorn; and them gave I at the altar to the priests the children of
Aaron.

   {1:7} The first tenth part of all increase I gave to the sons of
Aaron, who ministered at Jerusalem: another tenth part I sold away, and
went, and spent it every year at Jerusalem:

   {1:8} And the third I gave unto them to whom it was meet, as Debora
my father's mother had commanded me, because I was left an orphan by my
father.

   {1:9} Furthermore, when I was come to the age of a man, I married
Anna of mine own kindred, and of her I begat Tobias.

   {1:10} And when we were carried away captives to Nineve, all my
brethren and those that were of my kindred did eat of the bread of the
Gentiles.

   {1:11} But I kept myself from eating;

   {1:12} Because I remembered God with all my heart.

   {1:13} And the most High gave me grace and favour before Enemessar,
so that I was his purveyor.

   {1:14} And I went into Media, and left in trust with Gabael, the
brother of Gabrias, at Rages a city of Media ten talents of silver.

   {1:15} Now when Enemessar was dead, Sennacherib his son reigned in
his stead; whose estate was troubled, that I could not go into Media.

   {1:16} And in the time of Enemessar I gave many alms to my brethren,
and gave my bread to the hungry,

   {1:17} And my clothes to the naked: and if I saw any of my nation
dead, or cast about the walls of Nineve, I buried him.

   {1:18} And if the king Sennacherib had slain any, when he was come,
and fled from Judea, I buried them privily; for in his wrath he killed
many; but the bodies were not found, when they were sought for of the
king.

   {1:19} And when one of the Ninevites went and complained of me to
the king, that I buried them, and hid myself; understanding that I was
sought for to be put to death, I withdrew myself for fear.

   {1:20} Then all my goods were forcibly taken away, neither was there
any thing left me, beside my wife Anna and my son Tobias.

   {1:21} And there passed not five and fifty days, before two of his
sons killed him, and they fled into the mountains of Ararath; and
Sarchedonus his son reigned in his stead; who appointed over his
father's accounts, and over all his affairs, Achiacharus my brother
Anael's son.

   {1:22} And Achiacharus intreating for me, I returned to Nineve. Now
Achiacharus was cupbearer, and keeper of the signet, and steward, and
overseer of the accounts: and Sarchedonus appointed him next unto him:
and he was my brother's son.

   {2:1} Now when I was come home again, and my wife Anna was restored
unto me, with my son Tobias, in the feast of Pentecost, which is the
holy feast of the seven weeks, there was a good dinner prepared me, in
the which I sat down to eat.

   {2:2} And when I saw abundance of meat, I said to my son, Go and
bring what poor man soever thou shalt find out of our brethren, who is
mindful of the Lord; and, lo, I tarry for thee.

   {2:3} But he came again, and said, Father, one of our nation is
strangled, and is cast out in the marketplace.

   {2:4} Then before I had tasted of any meat, I started up, and took
him up into a room until the going down of the sun.

   {2:5} Then I returned, and washed myself, and ate my meat in
heaviness,

   {2:6} Remembering that prophecy of Amos, as he said, Your feasts
shall be turned into mourning, and all your mirth into lamentation.

   {2:7} Therefore I wept: and after the going down of the sun I went
and made a grave, and buried him.

   {2:8} But my neighbours mocked me, and said, This man is not yet
afraid to be put to death for this matter: who fled away; and yet, lo,
he burieth the dead again.

   {2:9} The same night also I returned from the burial, and slept by
the wall of my courtyard, being polluted and my face was uncovered:

   {2:10} And I knew not that there were sparrows in the wall, and mine
eyes being open, the sparrows muted warm dung into mine eyes, and a
whiteness came in mine eyes: and I went to the physicians, but they
helped me not: moreover Achiacharus did nourish me, until I went into
Elymais.

   {2:11} And my wife Anna did take women's works to do.

   {2:12} And when she had sent them home to the owners, they paid her
wages, and gave her also besides a kid.

   {2:13} And when it was in my house, and began to cry, I said unto
her, From whence is this kid? is it not stolen? render it to the
owners; for it is not lawful to eat any thing that is stolen.

   {2:14} But she replied upon me, It was given for a gift more than
the wages. Howbeit I did not believe her, but bade her render it to the
owners: and I was abashed at her. But she replied upon me, Where are
thine alms and thy righteous deeds? behold, thou and all thy works are
known.

   {3:1} Then I being grieved did weep, and in my sorrow prayed, saying,

   {3:2} O Lord, thou art just, and all thy works and all thy ways are
mercy and truth, and thou judgest truly and justly for ever.

   {3:3} Remember me, and look on me, punish me not for my sins and
ignorances, and the sins of my fathers, who have sinned before thee:

   {3:4} For they obeyed not thy commandments: wherefore thou hast
delivered us for a spoil, and unto captivity, and unto death, and for a
proverb of reproach to all the nations among whom we are dispersed.

   {3:5} And now thy judgments are many and true: deal with me
according to my sins and my fathers': because we have not kept thy
commandments, neither have walked in truth before thee.

   {3:6} Now therefore deal with me as seemeth best unto thee, and
command my spirit to be taken from me, that I may be dissolved, and
become earth: for it is profitable for me to die rather than to live,
because I have heard false reproaches, and have much sorrow: command
therefore that I may now be delivered out of this distress, and go into
the everlasting place: turn not thy face away from me.

   {3:7} It came to pass the same day, that in Ecbatane a city of Media
Sara the daughter of Raguel was also reproached by her father's maids;

   {3:8} Because that she had been married to seven husbands, whom
Asmodeus the evil spirit had killed, before they had lain with her.
Dost thou not know, said they, that thou hast strangled thine husbands?
thou hast had already seven husbands, neither wast thou named after any
of them.

   {3:9} Wherefore dost thou beat us for them? if they be dead, go thy
ways after them, let us never see of thee either son or daughter.

   {3:10} Whe she heard these things, she was very sorrowful, so that
she thought to have strangled herself; and she said, I am the only
daughter of my father, and if I do this, it shall be a reproach unto
him, and I shall bring his old age with sorrow unto the grave.

   {3:11} Then she prayed toward the window, and said, Blessed art
thou, O Lord my God, and thine holy and glorious name is blessed and
honourable for ever: let all thy works praise thee for ever.

   {3:12} And now, O Lord, I set mine eyes and my face toward thee,

   {3:13} And say, Take me out of the earth, that I may hear no more
the reproach.

   {3:14} Thou knowest, Lord, that I am pure from all sin with man,

   {3:15} And that I never polluted my name, nor the name of my father,
in the land of my captivity: I am the only daughter of my father,
neither hath he any child to be his heir, neither any near kinsman, nor
any son of his alive, to whom I may keep myself for a wife: my seven
husbands are already dead; and why should I live? but if it please not
thee that I should die, command some regard to be had of me, and pity
taken of me, that I hear no more reproach.

   {3:16} So the prayers of them both were heard before the majesty of
the great God.

   {3:17} And Raphael was sent to heal them both, that is, to scale
away the whiteness of Tobit's eyes, and to give Sara the daughter of
Raguel for a wife to Tobias the son of Tobit; and to bind Asmodeus the
evil spirit; because she belonged to Tobias by right of inheritance.
The selfsame time came Tobit home, and entered into his house, and Sara
the daughter of Raguel came down from her upper chamber.

   {4:1} In that day Tobit remembered the money which he had committed
to Gabael in Rages of Media,

   {4:2} And said with himself, I have wished for death; wherefore do I
not call for my son Tobias that I may signify to him of the money
before I die?

   {4:3} And when he had called him, he said, My son, when I am dead,
bury me; and despise not thy mother, but honour her all the days of thy
life, and do that which shall please her, and grieve her not.

   {4:4} Remember, my son, that she saw many dangers for thee, when
thou wast in her womb: and when she is dead, bury her by me in one
grave.

   {4:5} My son, be mindful of the Lord our God all thy days, and let
not thy will be set to sin, or to transgress his commandments: do
uprightly all thy life long, and follow not the ways of unrighteousness.

   {4:6} For if thou deal truly, thy doings shall prosperously succeed
to thee, and to all them that live justly.

   {4:7} Give alms of thy substance; and when thou givest alms, let not
thine eye be envious, neither turn thy face from any poor, and the face
of God shall not be turned away from thee.

   {4:8} If thou hast abundance give alms accordingly: if thou have but
a little, be not afraid to give according to that little:

   {4:9} For thou layest up a good treasure for thyself against the day
of necessity.

   {4:10} Because that alms do deliver from death, and suffereth not to
come into darkness.

   {4:11} For alms is a good gift unto all that give it in the sight of
the most High.

   {4:12} Beware of all whoredom, my son, and chiefly take a wife of
the seed of thy fathers, and take not a strange woman to wife, which is
not of thy father's tribe: for we are the children of the prophets,
Noe, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: remember, my son, that our fathers from
the beginning, even that they all married wives of their own kindred,
and were blessed in their children, and their seed shall inherit the
land.

   {4:13} Now therefore, my son, love thy brethren, and despise not in
thy heart thy brethren, the sons and daughters of thy people, in not
taking a wife of them: for in pride is destruction and much trouble,
and in lewdness is decay and great want: for lewdness is the mother of
famine.

   {4:14} Let not the wages of any man, which hath wrought for thee,
tarry with thee, but give him it out of hand: for if thou serve God, he
will also repay thee: be circumspect my son, in all things thou doest,
and be wise in all thy conversation.

   {4:15} Do that to no man which thou hatest: drink not wine to make
thee drunken: neither let drunkenness go with thee in thy journey.

   {4:16} Give of thy bread to the hungry, and of thy garments to them
that are naked; and according to thine abundance give alms: and let not
thine eye be envious, when thou givest alms.

   {4:17} Pour out thy bread on the burial of the just, but give
nothing to the wicked.

   {4:18} Ask counsel of all that are wise, and despise not any counsel
that is profitable.

   {4:19} Bless the Lord thy God alway, and desire of him that thy ways
may be directed, and that all thy paths and counsels may prosper: for
every nation hath not counsel; but the Lord himself giveth all good
things, and he humbleth whom he will, as he will; now therefore, my
son, remember my commandments, neither let them be put out of thy mind.

   {4:20} And now I signify this to they that I committed ten talents
to Gabael the son of Gabrias at Rages in Media.

   {4:21} And fear not, my son, that we are made poor: for thou hast
much wealth, if thou fear God, and depart from all sin, and do that
which is pleasing in his sight.

   {5:1} Tobias then answered and said, Father, I will do all things
which thou hast commanded me:

   {5:2} But how can I receive the money, seeing I know him not?

   {5:3} Then he gave him the handwriting, and said unto him, Seek thee
a man which may go with thee, whiles I yet live, and I will give him
wages: and go and receive the money.

   {5:4} Therefore when he went to seek a man, he found Raphael that
was an angel.

   {5:5} But he knew not; and he said unto him, Canst thou go with me
to Rages? and knowest thou those places well?

   {5:6} To whom the angel said, I will go with thee, and I know the
way well: for I have lodged with our brother Gabael.

   {5:7} Then Tobias said unto him, Tarry for me, till I tell my father.

   {5:8} Then he said unto him, Go and tarry not. So he went in and
said to his father, Behold, I have found one which will go with me.
Then he said, Call him unto me, that I may know of what tribe he is,
and whether he be a trusty man to go with thee.

   {5:9} So he called him, and he came in, and they saluted one another.

   {5:10} Then Tobit said unto him, Brother, shew me of what tribe and
family thou art.

   {5:11} To whom he said, Dost thou seek for a tribe or family, or an
hired man to go with thy son? Then Tobit said unto him, I would know,
brother, thy kindred and name.

   {5:12} Then he said, I am Azarias, the son of Ananias the great, and
of thy brethren.

   {5:13} Then Tobit said, Thou art welcome, brother; be not now angry
with me, because I have enquired to know thy tribe and thy family; for
thou art my brother, of an honest and good stock: for I know Ananias
and Jonathas, sons of that great Samaias, as we went together to
Jerusalem to worship, and offered the firstborn, and the tenths of the
fruits; and they were not seduced with the error of our brethren: my
brother, thou art of a good stock.

   {5:14} But tell me, what wages shall I give thee? wilt thou a drachm
a day, and things necessary, as to mine own son?

   {5:15} Yea, moreover, if ye return safe, I will add something to thy
wages.

   {5:16} So they were well pleased. Then said he to Tobias, Prepare
thyself for the journey, and God send you a good journey. And when his
son had prepared all things for the journey, his father said, Go thou
with this man, and God, which dwelleth in heaven, prosper your journey,
and the angel of God keep you company. So they went forth both, and the
young man's dog with them.

   {5:17} But Anna his mother wept, and said to Tobit, Why hast thou
sent away our son? is he not the staff of our hand, in going in and out
before us?

   {5:18} Be not greedy to add money to money: but let it be as refuse
in respect of our child.

   {5:19} For that which the Lord hath given us to live with doth
suffice us.

   {5:20} Then said Tobit to her, Take no care, my sister; he shall
return in safety, and thine eyes shall see him.

   {5:21} For the good angel will keep him company, and his journey
shall be prosperous, and he shall return safe.

   {5:22} Then she made an end of weeping.

   {6:1} And as they went on their journey, they came in the evening to
the river Tigris, and they lodged there.

   {6:2} And when the young man went down to wash himself, a fish
leaped out of the river, and would have devoured him.

   {6:3} Then the angel said unto him, Take the fish. And the young man
laid hold of the fish, and drew it to land.

   {6:4} To whom the angel said, Open the fish, and take the heart and
the liver and the gall, and put them up safely.

   {6:5} So the young man did as the angel commanded him; and when they
had roasted the fish, they did eat it: then they both went on their
way, till they drew near to Ecbatane.

   {6:6} Then the young man said to the angel, Brother Azarias, to what
use is the heart and the liver and the gal of the fish?

   {6:7} And he said unto him, Touching the heart and the liver, if a
devil or an evil spirit trouble any, we must make a smoke thereof
before the man or the woman, and the party shall be no more vexed.

   {6:8} As for the gall, it is good to anoint a man that hath
whiteness in his eyes, and he shall be healed.

   {6:9} And when they were come near to Rages,

   {6:10} The angel said to the young man, Brother, to day we shall
lodge with Raguel, who is thy cousin; he also hath one only daughter,
named Sara; I will speak for her, that she may be given thee for a wife.

   {6:11} For to thee doth the right of her appertain, seeing thou only
art of her kindred.

   {6:12} And the maid is fair and wise: now therefore hear me, and I
will speak to her father; and when we return from Rages we will
celebrate the marriage: for I know that Raguel cannot marry her to
another according to the law of Moses, but he shall be guilty of death,
because the right of inheritance doth rather appertain to thee than to
any other.

   {6:13} Then the young man answered the angel, I have heard, brother
Azarias that this maid hath been given to seven men, who all died in
the marriage chamber.

   {6:14} And now I am the only son of my father, and I am afraid, lest
if I go in unto her, I die, as the other before: for a wicked spirit
loveth her, which hurteth no body, but those which come unto her;
wherefore I also fear lest I die, and bring my father's and my mother's
life because of me to the grave with sorrow: for they have no other son
to bury them.

   {6:15} Then the angel said unto him, Dost thou not remember the
precepts which thy father gave thee, that thou shouldest marry a wife
of thine own kindred? wherefore hear me, O my brother; for she shall be
given thee to wife; and make thou no reckoning of the evil spirit; for
this same night shall she be given thee in marriage.

   {6:16} And when thou shalt come into the marriage chamber, thou
shalt take the ashes of perfume, and shalt lay upon them some of the
heart and liver of the fish, and shalt make a smoke with it:

   {6:17} And the devil shall smell it, and flee away, and never come
again any more: but when thou shalt come to her, rise up both of you,
and pray to God which is merciful, who will have pity on you, and save
you: fear not, for she is appointed unto thee from the beginning; and
thou shalt preserve her, and she shall go with thee. Moreover I suppose
that she shall bear thee children. Now when Tobias had heard these
things, he loved her, and his heart was effectually joined to her.

   {7:1} And when they were come to Ecbatane, they came to the house of
Raguel, and Sara met them: and after they had saluted one another, she
brought them into the house.

   {7:2} Then said Raguel to Edna his wife, How like is this young man
to Tobit my cousin!

   {7:3} And Raguel asked them, From whence are ye, brethren? To whom
they said, We are of the sons of Nephthalim, which are captives in
Nineve.

   {7:4} Then he said to them, Do ye know Tobit our kinsman? And they
said, We know him. Then said he, Is he in good health?

   {7:5} And they said, He is both alive, and in good health: and
Tobias said, He is my father.

   {7:6} Then Raguel leaped up, and kissed him, and wept,

   {7:7} And blessed him, and said unto him, Thou art the son of an
honest and good man. But when he had heard that Tobit was blind, he was
sorrowful, and wept.

   {7:8} And likewise Edna his wife and Sara his daughter wept.
Moreover they entertained them cheerfully; and after that they had
killed a ram of the flock, they set store of meat on the table. Then
said Tobias to Raphael, Brother Azarias, speak of those things of which
thou didst talk in the way, and let this business be dispatched.

   {7:9} So he communicated the matter with Raguel: and Raguel said to
Tobias, Eat and drink, and make merry:

   {7:10} For it is meet that thou shouldest marry my daughter:
nevertheless I will declare unto thee the truth.

   {7:11} I have given my daughter in marriage to seven men, who died
that night they came in unto her: nevertheless for the present be
merry. But Tobias said, I will eat nothing here, till we agree and
swear one to another.

   {7:12} Raguel said, Then take her from henceforth according to the
manner, for thou art her cousin, and she is thine, and the merciful God
give you good success in all things.

   {7:13} Then he called his daughter Sara, and she came to her father,
and he took her by the hand, and gave her to be wife to Tobias, saying,
Behold, take her after the law of Moses, and lead her away to thy
father. And he blessed them;

   {7:14} And called Edna his wife, and took paper, and did write an
instrument of covenants, and sealed it.

   {7:15} Then they began to eat.

   {7:16} After Raguel called his wife Edna, and said unto her, Sister,
prepare another chamber, and bring her in thither.

   {7:17} Which when she had done as he had bidden her, she brought her
thither: and she wept, and she received the tears of her daughter, and
said unto her,

   {7:18} Be of good comfort, my daughter; the Lord of heaven and earth
give thee joy for this thy sorrow: be of good comfort, my daughter.

   {8:1} And when they had supped, they brought Tobias in unto her.

   {8:2} And as he went, he remembered the words of Raphael, and took
the ashes of the perfumes, and put the heart and the liver of the fish
thereupon, and made a smoke therewith.

   {8:3} The which smell when the evil spirit had smelled, he fled into
the utmost parts of Egypt, and the angel bound him.

   {8:4} And after that they were both shut in together, Tobias rose
out of the bed, and said, Sister, arise, and let us pray that God would
have pity on us.

   {8:5} Then began Tobias to say, Blessed art thou, O God of our
fathers, and blessed is thy holy and glorious name for ever; let the
heavens bless thee, and all thy creatures.

   {8:6} Thou madest Adam, and gavest him Eve his wife for an helper
and stay: of them came mankind: thou hast said, It is not good that man
should be alone; let us make unto him an aid like unto himself.

   {8:7} And now, O Lord, I take not this my sister for lust but
uprightly: therefore mercifully ordain that we may become aged together.

   {8:8} And she said with him, Amen.

   {8:9} So they slept both that night. And Raguel arose, and went and
made a grave,

   {8:10} Saying, I fear lest he also be dead.

   {8:11} But when Raguel was come into his house,

   {8:12} He said unto his wife Edna. Send one of the maids, and let
her see whether he be alive: if he be not, that we may bury him, and no
man know it.

   {8:13} So the maid opened the door, and went in, and found them both
asleep,

   {8:14} And came forth, and told them that he was alive.

   {8:15} Then Raguel praised God, and said, O God, thou art worthy to
be praised with all pure and holy praise; therefore let thy saints
praise thee with all thy creatures; and let all thine angels and thine
elect praise thee for ever.

   {8:16} Thou art to be praised, for thou hast made me joyful; and
that is not come to me which I suspected; but thou hast dealt with us
according to thy great mercy.

   {8:17} Thou art to be praised because thou hast had mercy of two
that were the only begotten children of their fathers: grant them
mercy, O Lord, and finish their life in health with joy and mercy.

   {8:18} Then Raguel bade his servants to fill the grave.

   {8:19} And he kept the wedding feast fourteen days.

   {8:20} For before the days of the marriage were finished, Raguel had
said unto him by an oath, that he should not depart till the fourteen
days of the marriage were expired;

   {8:21} And then he should take the half of his goods, and go in
safety to his father; and should have the rest when I and my wife be
dead.

   {9:1} Then Tobias called Raphael, and said unto him,

   {9:2} Brother Azarias, take with thee a servant, and two camels, and
go to Rages of Media to Gabael, and bring me the money, and bring him
to the wedding.

   {9:3} For Raguel hath sworn that I shall not depart.

   {9:4} But my father counteth the days; and if I tarry long, he will
be very sorry.

   {9:5} So Raphael went out, and lodged with Gabael, and gave him the
handwriting: who brought forth bags which were sealed up, and gave them
to him.

   {9:6} And early in the morning they went forth both together, and
came to the wedding: and Tobias blessed his wife.

   {10:1} Now Tobit his father counted every day: and when the days of
the journey were expired, and they came not,

   {10:2} Then Tobit said, Are they detained? or is Gabael dead, and
there is no man to give him the money?

   {10:3} Therefore he was very sorry.

   {10:4} Then his wife said unto him, My son is dead, seeing he
stayeth long; and she began to wail him, and said,

   {10:5} Now I care for nothing, my son, since I have let thee go, the
light of mine eyes.

   {10:6} To whom Tobit said, Hold thy peace, take no care, for he is
safe.

   {10:7} But she said, Hold thy peace, and deceive me not; my son is
dead. And she went out every day into the way which they went, and did
eat no meat on the daytime, and ceased not whole nights to bewail her
son Tobias, until the fourteen days of the wedding were expired, which
Raguel had sworn that he should spend there. Then Tobias said to
Raguel, Let me go, for my father and my mother look no more to see me.

   {10:8} But his father in law said unto him, Tarry with me, and I
will send to thy father, and they shall declare unto him how things go
with thee.

   {10:9} But Tobias said, No; but let me go to my father.

   {10:10} Then Raguel arose, and gave him Sara his wife, and half his
goods, servants, and cattle, and money:

   {10:11} And he blessed them, and sent them away, saying, The God of
heaven give you a prosperous journey, my children.

   {10:12} And he said to his daughter, Honour thy father and thy
mother in law, which are now thy parents, that I may hear good report
of thee. And he kissed her. Edna also said to Tobias, The Lord of
heaven restore thee, my dear brother, and grant that I may see thy
children of my daughter Sara before I die, that I may rejoice before
the Lord: behold, I commit my daughter unto thee of special trust;
where are do not entreat her evil.

   {11:1} After these things Tobias went his way, praising God that he
had given him a prosperous journey, and blessed Raguel and Edna his
wife, and went on his way till they drew near unto Nineve.

   {11:2} Then Raphael said to Tobias, Thou knowest, brother, how thou
didst leave thy father:

   {11:3} Let us haste before thy wife, and prepare the house.

   {11:4} And take in thine hand the gall of the fish. So they went
their way, and the dog went after them.

   {11:5} Now Anna sat looking about toward the way for her son.

   {11:6} And when she espied him coming, she said to his father,
Behold, thy son cometh, and the man that went with him.

   {11:7} Then said Raphael, I know, Tobias, that thy father will open
his eyes.

   {11:8} Therefore anoint thou his eyes with the gall, and being
pricked therewith, he shall rub, and the whiteness shall fall away, and
he shall see thee.

   {11:9} Then Anna ran forth, and fell upon the neck of her son, and
said unto him, Seeing I have seen thee, my son, from henceforth I am
content to die. And they wept both.

   {11:10} Tobit also went forth toward the door, and stumbled: but his
son ran unto him,

   {11:11} And took hold of his father: and he strake of the gall on
his fathers' eyes, saying, Be of good hope, my father.

   {11:12} And when his eyes began to smart, he rubbed them;

   {11:13} And the whiteness pilled away from the corners of his eyes:
and when he saw his son, he fell upon his neck.

   {11:14} And he wept, and said, Blessed art thou, O God, and blessed
is thy name for ever; and blessed are all thine holy angels:

   {11:15} For thou hast scourged, and hast taken pity on me: for,
behold, I see my son Tobias. And his son went in rejoicing, and told
his father the great things that had happened to him in Media.

   {11:16} Then Tobit went out to meet his daughter in law at the gate
of Nineve, rejoicing and praising God: and they which saw him go
marvelled, because he had received his sight.

   {11:17} But Tobias gave thanks before them, because God had mercy on
him. And when he came near to Sara his daughter in law, he blessed her,
saying, Thou art welcome, daughter: God be blessed, which hath brought
thee unto us, and blessed be thy father and thy mother. And there was
joy among all his brethren which were at Nineve.

   {11:18} And Achiacharus, and Nasbas his brother's son, came:

   {11:19} And Tobias' wedding was kept seven days with great joy.

   {12:1} Then Tobit called his son Tobias, and said unto him, My son,
see that the man have his wages, which went with thee, and thou must
give him more.

   {12:2} And Tobias said unto him, O father, it is no harm to me to
give him half of those things which I have brought:

   {12:3} For he hath brought me again to thee in safety, and made
whole my wife, and brought me the money, and likewise healed thee.

   {12:4} Then the old man said, It is due unto him.

   {12:5} So he called the angel, and he said unto him, Take half of
all that ye have brought and go away in safety.

   {12:6} Then he took them both apart, and said unto them, Bless God,
praise him, and magnify him, and praise him for the things which he
hath done unto you in the sight of all that live. It is good to praise
God, and exalt his name, and honourably to shew forth the works of God;
therefore be not slack to praise him.

   {12:7} It is good to keep close the secret of a king, but it is
honourable to reveal the works of God. Do that which is good, and no
evil shall touch you.

   {12:8} Prayer is good with fasting and alms and righteousness. A
little with righteousness is better than much with unrighteousness. It
is better to give alms than to lay up gold:

   {12:9} For alms doth deliver from death, and shall purge away all
sin. Those that exercise alms and righteousness shall be filled with
life:

   {12:10} But they that sin are enemies to their own life.

   {12:11} Surely I will keep close nothing from you. For I said, It
was good to keep close the secret of a king, but that it was honourable
to reveal the works of God.

   {12:12} Now therefore, when thou didst pray, and Sara thy daughter
in law, I did bring the remembrance of your prayers before the Holy
One: and when thou didst bury the dead, I was with thee likewise.

   {12:13} And when thou didst not delay to rise up, and leave thy
dinner, to go and cover the dead, thy good deed was not hid from me:
but I was with thee.

   {12:14} And now God hath sent me to heal thee and Sara thy daughter
in law.

   {12:15} I am Raphael, one of the seven holy angels, which present
the prayers of the saints, and which go in and out before the glory of
the Holy One.

   {12:16} Then they were both troubled, and fell upon their faces: for
they feared.

   {12:17} But he said unto them, Fear not, for it shall go well with
you; praise God therefore.

   {12:18} For not of any favour of mine, but by the will of our God I
came; wherefore praise him for ever.

   {12:19} All these days I did appear unto you; but I did neither eat
nor drink, but ye did see a vision.

   {12:20} Now therefore give God thanks: for I go up to him that sent
me; but write all things which are done in a book.

   {12:21} And when they arose, they saw him no more.

   {12:22} Then they confessed the great and wonderful works of God,
and how the angel of the Lord had appeared unto them.

   {13:1} Then Tobit wrote a prayer of rejoicing, and said, Blessed be
God that liveth for ever, and blessed be his kingdom.

   {13:2} For he doth scourge, and hath mercy: he leadeth down to hell,
and bringeth up again: neither is there any that can avoid his hand.

   {13:3} Confess him before the Gentiles, ye children of Israel: for
he hath scattered us among them.

   {13:4} There declare his greatness, and extol him before all the
living: for he is our Lord, and he is the God our Father for ever.

   {13:5} And he will scourge us for our iniquities, and will have
mercy again, and will gather us out of all nations, among whom he hath
scattered us.

   {13:6} If ye turn to him with your whole heart, and with your whole
mind, and deal uprightly before him, then will he turn unto you, and
will not hide his face from you. Therefore see what he will do with
you, and confess him with your whole mouth, and praise the Lord of
might, and extol the everlasting King. In the land of my captivity do I
praise him, and declare his might and majesty to a sinful nation. O ye
sinners, turn and do justice before him: who can tell if he will accept
you, and have mercy on you?

   {13:7} I will extol my God, and my soul shall praise the King of
heaven, and shall rejoice in his greatness.

   {13:8} Let all men speak, and let all praise him for his
righteousness.

   {13:9} O Jerusalem, the holy city, he will scourge thee for thy
children's works, and will have mercy again on the sons of the
righteous.

   {13:10} Give praise to the Lord, for he is good: and praise the
everlasting King, that his tabernacle may be builded in thee again with
joy, and let him make joyful there in thee those that are captives, and
love in thee for ever those that are miserable.

   {13:11} Many nations shall come from far to the name of the Lord God
with gifts in their hands, even gifts to the King of heaven; all
generations shall praise thee with great joy.

   {13:12} Cursed are all they which hate thee, and blessed shall all
be which love thee for ever.

   {13:13} Rejoice and be glad for the children of the just: for they
shall be gathered together, and shall bless the Lord of the just.

   {13:14} O blessed are they which love thee, for they shall rejoice
in thy peace: blessed are they which have been sorrowful for all thy
scourges; for they shall rejoice for thee, when they have seen all thy
glory, and shall be glad for ever.

   {13:15} Let my soul bless God the great King.

   {13:16} For Jerusalem shall be built up with sapphires and emeralds,
and precious stone: thy walls and towers and battlements with pure gold.

   {13:17} And the streets of Jerusalem shall be paved with beryl and
carbuncle and stones of Ophir.

   {13:18} And all her streets shall say, Alleluia; and they shall
praise him, saying, Blessed be God, which hath extolled it for ever.

   {14:1} So Tobit made an end of praising God.

   {14:2} And he was eight and fifty years old when he lost his sight,
which was restored to him after eight years: and he gave alms, and he
increased in the fear of the Lord God, and praised him.

   {14:3} And when he was very aged he called his son, and the sons of
his son, and said to him, My son, take thy children; for, behold, I am
aged, and am ready to depart out of this life.

   {14:4} Go into Media my son, for I surely believe those things which
Jonas the prophet spake of Nineve, that it shall be overthrown; and
that for a time peace shall rather be in Media; and that our brethren
shall lie scattered in the earth from that good land: and Jerusalem
shall be desolate, and the house of God in it shall be burned, and
shall be desolate for a time;

   {14:5} And that again God will have mercy on them, and bring them
again into the land, where they shall build a temple, but not like to
the first, until the time of that age be fulfilled; and afterward they
shall return from all places of their captivity, and build up Jerusalem
gloriously, and the house of God shall be built in it for ever with a
glorious building, as the prophets have spoken thereof.

   {14:6} And all nations shall turn, and fear the Lord God truly, and
shall bury their idols.

   {14:7} So shall all nations praise the Lord, and his people shall
confess God, and the Lord shall exalt his people; and all those which
love the Lord God in truth and justice shall rejoice, shewing mercy to
our brethren.

   {14:8} And now, my son, depart out of Nineve, because that those
things which the prophet Jonas spake shall surely come to pass.

   {14:9} But keep thou the law and the commandments, and shew thyself
merciful and just, that it may go well with thee.

   {14:10} And bury me decently, and thy mother with me; but tarry no
longer at Nineve. Remember, my son, how Aman handled Achiacharus that
brought him up, how out of light he brought him into darkness, and how
he rewarded him again: yet Achiacharus was saved, but the other had his
reward: for he went down into darkness. Manasses gave alms, and escaped
the snares of death which they had set for him: but Aman fell into the
snare, and perished.

   {14:11} Wherefore now, my son, consider what alms doeth, and how
righteousness doth deliver. When he had said these things, he gave up
the ghost in the bed, being an hundred and eight and fifty years old;
and he buried him honourably.

   {14:12} And when Anna his mother was dead, he buried her with his
father. But Tobias departed with his wife and children to Ecbatane to
Raguel his father in law,

   {14:13} Where he became old with honour, and he buried his father
and mother in law honourably, and he inherited their substance, and his
father Tobit's.

   {14:14} And he died at Ecbatane in Media, being an hundred and seven
and twenty years old.

   {14:15} But before he died he heard of the destruction of Nineve,
which was taken by Nabuchodonosor and Assuerus: and before his death he
rejoiced over Nineve.





The Book of Wisdom or The Wisdom of Solomon

   {1:1} Love righteousness, ye that be judges of the earth: think of
the Lord with a good (heart,) and in simplicity of heart seek him.

   {1:2} For he will be found of them that tempt him not; and sheweth
himself unto such as do not distrust him.

   {1:3} For froward thoughts separate from God: and his power, when it
is tried, reproveth the unwise.

   {1:4} For into a malicious soul wisdom shall not enter; nor dwell in
the body that is subject unto sin.

   {1:5} For the holy spirit of discipline will flee deceit, and remove
from thoughts that are without understanding, and will not abide when
unrighteousness cometh in.

   {1:6} For wisdom is a loving spirit; and will not acquit a
blasphemer of his words: for God is witness of his reins, and a true
beholder of his heart, and a hearer of his tongue.

   {1:7} For the Spirit of the Lord filleth the world: and that which
containeth all things hath knowledge of the voice.

   {1:8} Therefore he that speaketh unrighteous things cannot be hid:
neither shall vengeance, when it punisheth, pass by him.

   {1:9} For inquisition shall be made into the counsels of the
ungodly: and the sound of his words shall come unto the Lord for the
manifestation of his wicked deeds.

   {1:10} For the ear of jealousy heareth all things: and the noise of
murmurings is not hid.

   {1:11} Therefore beware of murmuring, which is unprofitable; and
refrain your tongue from backbiting: for there is no word so secret,
that shall go for nought: and the mouth that belieth slayeth the soul.

   {1:12} Seek not death in the error of your life: and pull not upon
yourselves destruction with the works of your hands.

   {1:13} For God made not death: neither hath he pleasure in the
destruction of the living.

   {1:14} For he created all things, that they might have their being:
and the generations of the world were healthful; and there is no poison
of destruction in them, nor the kingdom of death upon the earth:

   {1:15} (For righteousness is immortal:)

   {1:16} But ungodly men with their works and words called it to them:
for when they thought to have it their friend, they consumed to nought,
and made a covenant with it, because they are worthy to take part with
it.

   {2:1} For the ungodly said, reasoning with themselves, but not
aright, Our life is short and tedious, and in the death of a man there
is no remedy: neither was there any man known to have returned from the
grave.

   {2:2} For we are born at all adventure: and we shall be hereafter as
though we had never been: for the breath in our nostrils is as smoke,
and a little spark in the moving of our heart:

   {2:3} Which being extinguished, our body shall be turned into ashes,
and our spirit shall vanish as the soft air,

   {2:4} And our name shall be forgotten in time, and no man shall have
our works in remembrance, and our life shall pass away as the trace of
a cloud, and shall be dispersed as a mist, that is driven away with the
beams of the sun, and overcome with the heat thereof.

   {2:5} For our time is a very shadow that passeth away; and after our
end there is no returning: for it is fast sealed, so that no man cometh
again.

   {2:6} Come on therefore, let us enjoy the good things that are
present: and let us speedily use the creatures like as in youth.

   {2:7} Let us fill ourselves with costly wine and ointments: and let
no flower of the spring pass by us:

   {2:8} Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds, before they be withered:

   {2:9} Let none of us go without his part of our voluptuousness: let
us leave tokens of our joyfulness in every place: for this is our
portion, and our lot is this.

   {2:10} Let us oppress the poor righteous man, let us not spare the
widow, nor reverence the ancient gray hairs of the aged.

   {2:11} Let our strength be the law of justice: for that which is
feeble is found to be nothing worth.

   {2:12} Therefore let us lie in wait for the righteous; because he is
not for our turn, and he is clean contrary to our doings: he upbraideth
us with our offending the law, and objecteth to our infamy the
transgressings of our education.

   {2:13} He professeth to have the knowledge of God: and he calleth
himself the child of the Lord.

   {2:14} He was made to reprove our thoughts.

   {2:15} He is grievous unto us even to behold: for his life is not
like other men's, his ways are of another fashion.

   {2:16} We are esteemed of him as counterfeits: he abstaineth from
our ways as from filthiness: he pronounceth the end of the just to be
blessed, and maketh his boast that God is his father.

   {2:17} Let us see if his words be true: and let us prove what shall
happen in the end of him.

   {2:18} For if the just man be the son of God, he will help him, and
deliver him from the hand of his enemies.

   {2:19} Let us examine him with despitefulness and torture, that we
may know his meekness, and prove his patience.

   {2:20} Let us condemn him with a shameful death: for by his own
saying he shall be respected.

   {2:21} Such things they did imagine, and were deceived: for their
own wickedness hath blinded them.

   {2:22} As for the mysteries of God, they kn ew them not: neither
hoped they for the wages of righteousness, nor discerned a reward for
blameless souls.

   {2:23} For God created man to be immortal, and made him to be an
image of his own eternity.

   {2:24} Nevertheless through envy of the devil came death into the
world: and they that do hold of his side do find it.

   {3:1} But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and
there shall no torment touch them.

   {3:2} In the sight of the unwise they seemed to die: and their
departure is taken for misery,

   {3:3} And their going from us to be utter destruction: but they are
in peace.

   {3:4} For though they be punished in the sight of men, yet is their
hope full of immortality.

   {3:5} And having been a little chastised, they shall be greatly
rewarded: for God proved them, and found them worthy for himself.

   {3:6} As gold in the furnace hath he tried them, and received them
as a burnt offering.

   {3:7} And in the time of their visitation they shall shine, and run
to and fro like sparks among the stubble.

   {3:8} They shall judge the nations, and have dominion over the
people, and their Lord shall reign for ever.

   {3:9} They that put their trust in him shall understand the truth:
and such as be faithful in love shall abide with him: for grace and
mercy is to his saints, and he hath care for his elect.

   {3:10} But the ungodly shall be punished according to their own
imaginations, which have neglected the righteous, and forsaken the Lord.

   {3:11} For whoso despiseth wisdom and nurture, he is miserable, and
their hope is vain, their labours unfruitful, and their works
unprofitable:

   {3:12} Their wives are foolish, and their children wicked:

   {3:13} Their offspring is cursed. Wherefore blessed is the barren
that is undefiled, which hath not known the sinful bed: she shall have
fruit in the visitation of souls.

   {3:14} And blessed is the eunuch, which with his hands hath wrought
no iniquity, nor imagined wicked things against God: for unto him shall
be given the special gift of faith, and an inheritance in the temple of
the Lord more acceptable to his mind.

   {3:15} For glorious is the fruit of good labours: and the root of
wisdom shall never fall away.

   {3:16} As for the children of adulterers, they shall not come to
their perfection, and the seed of an unrighteous bed shall be rooted
out.

   {3:17} For though they live long, yet shall they be nothing
regarded: and their last age shall be without honour.

   {3:18} Or, if they die quickly, they have no hope, neither comfort
in the day of trial.

   {3:19} For horrible is the end of the unrighteous generation.

   {4:1} Better it is to have no children, and to have virtue: for the
memorial thereof is immortal: because it is known with God, and with
men.

   {4:2} When it is present, men take example at it; and when it is
gone, they desire it: it weareth a crown, and triumpheth for ever,
having gotten the victory, striving for undefiled rewards.

   {4:3} But the multiplying brood of the ungodly shall not thrive, nor
take deep rooting from bastard slips, nor lay any fast foundation.

   {4:4} For though they flourish in branches for a time; yet standing
not last, they shall be shaken with the wind, and through the force of
winds they shall be rooted out.

   {4:5} The imperfect branches shall be broken off, their fruit
unprofitable, not ripe to eat, yea, meet for nothing.

   {4:6} For children begotten of unlawful beds are witnesses of
wickedness against their parents in their trial.

   {4:7} But though the righteous be prevented with death, yet shall he
be in rest.

   {4:8} For honourable age is not that which standeth in length of
time, nor that is measured by number of years.

   {4:9} But wisdom is the gray hair unto men, and an unspotted life is
old age.

   {4:10} He pleased God, and was beloved of him: so that living among
sinners he was translated.

   {4:11} Yea speedily was he taken away, lest that wickedness should
alter his understanding, or deceit beguile his soul.

   {4:12} For the bewitching of naughtiness doth obscure things that
are honest; and the wandering of concupiscence doth undermine the
simple mind.

   {4:13} He, being made perfect in a short time, fulfilled a long time:

   {4:14} For his soul pleased the Lord: therefore hasted he to take
him away from among the wicked.

   {4:15} This the people saw, and understood it not, neither laid they
up this in their minds, That his grace and mercy is with his saints,
and that he hath respect unto his chosen.

   {4:16} Thus the righteous that is dead shall condemn the ungodly
which are living; and youth that is soon perfected the many years and
old age of the unrighteous.

   {4:17} For they shall see the end of the wise, and shall not
understand what God in his counsel hath decreed of him, and to what end
the Lord hath set him in safety.

   {4:18} They shall see him, and despise him; but God shall laugh them
to scorn: and they shall hereafter be a vile carcase, and a reproach
among the dead for evermore.

   {4:19} For he shall rend them, and cast them down headlong, that
they shall be speechless; and he shall shake them from the foundation;
and they shall be utterly laid waste, and be in sorrow; and their
memorial shall perish.

   {4:20} And when they cast up the accounts of their sins, they shall
come with fear: and their own iniquities shall convince them to their
face.

   {5:1} Then shall the righteous man stand in great boldness before
the face of such as have afflicted him, and made no account of his
labours.

   {5:2} When they see it, they shall be troubled with terrible fear,
and shall be amazed at the strangeness of his salvation, so far beyond
all that they looked for.

   {5:3} And they repenting and groaning for anguish of spirit shall
say within themselves, This was he, whom we had sometimes in derision,
and a proverb of reproach:

   {5:4} We fools accounted his life madness, and his end to be without
honour:

   {5:5} How is he numbered among the children of God, and his lot is
among the saints!

   {5:6} Therefore have we erred from the way of truth, and the light
of righteousness hath not shined unto us, and the sun of righteousness
rose not upon us.

   {5:7} We wearied ourselves in the way of wickedness and destruction:
yea, we have gone through deserts, where there lay no way: but as for
the way of the Lord, we have not known it.

   {5:8} What hath pride profited us? or what good hath riches with our
vaunting brought us?

   {5:9} All those things are passed away like a shadow, and as a post
that hasted by;

   {5:10} And as a ship that passeth over the waves of the water, which
when it is gone by, the trace thereof cannot be found, neither the
pathway of the keel in the waves;

   {5:11} Or as when a bird hath flown through the air, there is no
token of her way to be found, but the light air being beaten with the
stroke of her wings and parted with the violent noise and motion of
them, is passed through, and therein afterwards no sign where she went
is to be found;

   {5:12} Or like as when an arrow is shot at a mark, it parteth the
air, which immediately cometh together again, so that a man cannot know
where it went through:

   {5:13} Even so we in like manner, as soon as we were born, began to
draw to our end, and had no sign of virtue to shew; but were consumed
in our own wickedness.

   {5:14} For the hope of the Godly is like dust that is blown away
with the wind; like a thin froth that is driven away with the storm;
like as the smoke which is dispersed here and there with a tempest, and
passeth away as the remembrance of a guest that tarrieth but a day.

   {5:15} But the righteous live for evermore; their reward also is
with the Lord, and the care of them is with the most High.

   {5:16} Therefore shall they receive a glorious kingdom, and a
beautiful crown from the Lord's hand: for with his right hand shall he
cover them, and with his arm shall he protect them.

   {5:17} He shall take to him his jealousy for complete armour, and
make the creature his weapon for the revenge of his enemies.

   {5:18} He shall put on righteousness as a breastplate, and true
judgment instead of an helmet.

   {5:19} He shall take holiness for an invincible shield.

   {5:20} His severe wrath shall he sharpen for a sword, and the world
shall fight with him against the unwise.

   {5:21} Then shall the right aiming thunderbolts go abroad; and from
the clouds, as from a well drawn bow, shall they fly to the mark.

   {5:22} And hailstones full of wrath shall be cast as out of a stone
bow, and the water of the sea shall rage against them, and the floods
shall cruelly drown them.

   {5:23} Yea, a mighty wind shall stand up against them, and like a
storm shall blow them away: thus iniquity shall lay waste the whole
earth, and ill dealing shall overthrow the thrones of the mighty.

   {6:1} Hear therefore, O ye kings, and understand; learn, ye that be
judges of the ends of the earth.

   {6:2} Give ear, ye that rule the people, and glory in the multitude
of nations.

   {6:3} For power is given you of the Lord, and sovereignty from the
Highest, who shall try your works, and search out your counsels.

   {6:4} Because, being ministers of his kingdom, ye have not judged
aright, nor kept the law, nor walked after the counsel of God;

   {6:5} Horribly and speedily shall he come upon you: for a sharp
judgment shall be to them that be in high places.

   {6:6} For mercy will soon pardon the meanest: but mighty men shall
be mightily tormented.

   {6:7} For he which is Lord over all shall fear no man's person,
neither shall he stand in awe of any man's greatness: for he hath made
the small and great, and careth for all alike.

   {6:8} But a sore trial shall come upon the mighty.

   {6:9} Unto you therefore, O kings, do I speak, that ye may learn
wisdom, and not fall away.

   {6:10} For they that keep holiness holily shall be judged holy: and
they that have learned such things shall find what to answer.

   {6:11} Wherefore set your affection upon my words; desire them, and
ye shall be instructed.

   {6:12} Wisdom is glorious, and never fadeth away: yea, she is easily
seen of them that love her, and found of such as seek her.

   {6:13} She preventeth them that desire her, in making herself first
known unto them.

   {6:14} Whoso seeketh her early shall have no great travail: for he
shall find her sitting at his doors.

   {6:15} To think therefore upon her is perfection of wisdom: and
whoso watcheth for her shall quickly be without care.

   {6:16} For she goeth about seeking such as are worthy of her,
sheweth herself favourably unto them in the ways, and meeteth them in
every thought.

   {6:17} For the very true beginning of her is the desire of
discipline; and the care of discipline is love;

   {6:18} And love is the keeping of her laws; and the giving heed unto
her laws is the assurance of incorruption;

   {6:19} And incorruption maketh us near unto God:

   {6:20} Therefore the desire of wisdom bringeth to a kingdom.

   {6:21} If your delight be then in thrones and sceptres, O ye kings
of the people, honour wisdom, that ye may reign for evermore.

   {6:22} As for wisdom, what she is, and how she came up, I will tell
you, and will not hide mysteries from you: but will seek her out from
the beginning of her nativity, and bring the knowledge of her into
light, and will not pass over the truth.

   {6:23} Neither will I go with consuming envy; for such a man shall
have no fellowship with wisdom.

   {6:24} But the multitude of the wise is the welfare of the world:
and a wise king is the upholding of the people.

   {6:25} Receive therefore instruction through my words, and it shall
do you good.

   {7:1} I myself also am a mortal man, like to all, and the offspring
of him that was first made of the earth,

   {7:2} And in my mother's womb was fashioned to be flesh in the time
of ten months, being compacted in blood, of the seed of man, and the
pleasure that came with sleep.

   {7:3} And when I was born, I drew in the common air, and fell upon
the earth, which is of like nature, and the first voice which I uttered
was crying, as all others do.

   {7:4} I was nursed in swaddling clothes, and that with cares.

   {7:5} For there is no king that had any other beginning of birth.

   {7:6} For all men have one entrance into life, and the like going
out.

   {7:7} Wherefore I prayed, and understanding was given me: I called
upon God, and the spirit of wisdom came to me.

   {7:8} I preferred her before sceptres and thrones, and esteemed
riches nothing in comparison of her.

   {7:9} Neither compared I unto her any precious stone, because all
gold in respect of her is as a little sand, and silver shall be counted
as clay before her.

   {7:10} I loved her above health and beauty, and chose to have her
instead of light: for the light that cometh from her never goeth out.

   {7:11} All good things together came to me with her, and innumerable
riches in her hands.

   {7:12} And I rejoiced in them all, because wisdom goeth before them:
and I knew not that she was the mother of them.

   {7:13} I learned diligently, and do communicate her liberally: I do
not hide her riches.

   {7:14} For she is a treasure unto men that never faileth: which they
that use become the friends of God, being commended for the gifts that
come from learning.

   {7:15} God hath granted me to speak as I would, and to conceive as
is meet for the things that are given me: because it is he that leadeth
unto wisdom, and directeth the wise.

   {7:16} For in his hand are both we and our words; all wisdom also,
and knowledge of workmanship.

   {7:17} For he hath given me certain knowledge of the things that
are, namely, to know how the world was made, and the operation of the
elements:

   {7:18} The beginning, ending, and midst of the times: the
alterations of the turning of the sun, and the change of seasons:

   {7:19} The circuits of years, and the positions of stars:

   {7:20} The natures of living creatures, and the furies of wild
beasts: the violence of winds, and the reasonings of men: the
diversities of plants and the virtues of roots:

   {7:21} And all such things as are either secret or manifest, them I
know.

   {7:22} For wisdom, which is the worker of all things, taught me: for
in her is an understanding spirit holy, one only, manifold, subtil,
lively, clear, undefiled, plain, not subject to hurt, loving the thing
that is good quick, which cannot be letted, ready to do good,

   {7:23} Kind to man, steadfast, sure, free from care, having all
power, overseeing all things, and going through all understanding,
pure, and most subtil, spirits.

   {7:24} For wisdom is more moving than any motion: she passeth and
goeth through all things by reason of her pureness.

   {7:25} For she is the breath of the power of God, and a pure
influence flowing from the glory of the Almighty: therefore can no
defiled thing fall into her.

   {7:26} For she is the brightness of the everlasting light, the
unspotted mirror of the power of God, and the image of his goodness.

   {7:27} And being but one, she can do all things: and remaining in
herself, she maketh all things new: and in all ages entering into holy
souls, she maketh them friends of God, and prophets.

   {7:28} For God loveth none but him that dwelleth with wisdom.

   {7:29} For she is more beautiful than the sun, and above all the
order of stars: being compared with the light, she is found before it.

   {7:30} For after this cometh night: but vice shall not prevail
against wisdom.

   {8:1} Wisdom reacheth from one end to another mightily: and sweetly
doth she order all things.

   {8:2} I loved her, and sought her out from my youth, I desired to
make her my spouse, and I was a lover of her beauty.

   {8:3} In that she is conversant with God, she magnifieth her
nobility: yea, the Lord of all things himself loved her.

   {8:4} For she is privy to the mysteries of the knowledge of God, and
a lover of his works.

   {8:5} If riches be a possession to be desired in this life; what is
richer than wisdom, that worketh all things?

   {8:6} And if prudence work; who of all that are is a more cunning
workman than she?

   {8:7} And if a man love righteousness her labours are virtues: for
she teacheth temperance and prudence, justice and fortitude: which are
such things, as en can have nothing more profitable in their life.

   {8:8} If a man desire much experience, she knoweth things of old,
and conjectureth aright what is to come: she knoweth the subtilties of
speeches, and can expound dark sentences: she foreseeth signs and
wonders, and the events of seasons and times.

   {8:9} Therefore I purposed to take her to me to live with me,
knowing that she would be a counsellor of good things, and a comfort in
cares and grief.

   {8:10} For her sake I shall have estimation among the multitude, and
honour with the elders, though I be young.

   {8:11} I shall be found of a quick conceit in judgment, and shall be
admired in the sight of great men.

   {8:12} When I hold my tongue, they shall bide my leisure, and when I
speak, they shall give good ear unto me: if I talk much, they shall lay
their hands upon their mouth.

   {8:13} Moreover by the means of her I shall obtain immortality, and
leave behind me an everlasting memorial to them that come after me.

   {8:14} I shall set the people in order, and the nations shall be
subject unto me.

   {8:15} Horrible tyrants shall be afraid, when they do but hear of
me; I shall be found good among the multitude, and valiant in war.

   {8:16} After I am come into mine house, I will repose myself with
her: for her conversation hath no bitterness; and to live with her hath
no sorrow, but mirth and joy.

   {8:17} Now when I considered these things in myself, and pondered
them in my heart, how that to be allied unto wisdom is immortality;

   {8:18} And great pleasure it is to have her friendship; and in the
works of her hands are infinite riches; and in the exercise of
conference with her, prudence; and in talking with her, a good report;
I went about seeking how to take her to me.

   {8:19} For I was a witty child, and had a good spirit.

   {8:20} Yea rather, being good, I came into a body undefiled.

   {8:21} Nevertheless, when I perceived that I could not otherwise
obtain her, except God gave her me; and that was a point of wisdom also
to know whose gift she was; I prayed unto the Lord, and besought him,
and with my whole heart I said,

   {9:1} O God of my fathers, and Lord of mercy, who hast made all
things with thy word,

   {9:2} And ordained man through thy wisdom, that he should have
dominion over the creatures which thou hast made,

   {9:3} And order the world according to equity and righteousness, and
execute judgment with an upright heart:

   {9:4} Give me wisdom, that sitteth by thy throne; and reject me not
from among thy children:

   {9:5} For I thy servant and son of thine handmaid am a feeble
person, and of a short time, and too young for the understanding of
judgment and laws.

   {9:6} For though a man be never so perfect among the children of
men, yet if thy wisdom be not with him, he shall be nothing regarded.

   {9:7} Thou hast chosen me to be a king of thy people, and a judge of
thy sons and daughters:

   {9:8} Thou hast commanded me to build a temple upon thy holy mount,
and an altar in the city wherein thou dwellest, a resemblance of the
holy tabernacle, which thou hast prepared from the beginning.

   {9:9} And wisdom was with thee: which knoweth thy works, and was
present when thou madest the world, and knew what was acceptable in thy
sight, and right in thy commandments.

   {9:10} O send her out of thy holy heavens, and from the throne of
thy glory, that being present she may labour with me, that I may know
what is pleasing unto thee.

   {9:11} For she knoweth and understandeth all things, and she shall
lead me soberly in my doings, and preserve me in her power.

   {9:12} So shall my works be acceptable, and then shall I judge thy
people righteously, and be worthy to sit in my father's seat.

   {9:13} For what man is he that can know the counsel of God? or who
can think what the will of the Lord is?

   {9:14} For the thoughts of mortal men are miserable, and our devices
are but uncertain.

   {9:15} For the corruptible body presseth down the soul, and the
earthy tabernacle weigheth down the mind that museth upon many things.

   {9:16} And hardly do we guess aright at things that are upon earth,
and with labour do we find the things that are before us: but the
things that are in heaven who hath searched out?

   {9:17} And thy counsel who hath known, except thou give wisdom, and
send thy Holy Spirit from above?

   {9:18} For so the ways of them which lived on the earth were
reformed, and men were taught the things that are pleasing unto thee,
and were saved through wisdom.

   {10:1} She preserved the first formed father of the world, that was
created alone, and brought him out of his fall,

   {10:2} And gave him power to rule all things.

   {10:3} But when the unrighteous went away from her in his anger, he
perished also in the fury wherewith he murdered his brother.

   {10:4} For whose cause the earth being drowned with the flood,
wisdom again preserved it, and directed the course of the righteous in
a piece of wood of small value.

   {10:5} Moreover, the nations in their wicked conspiracy being
confounded, she found out the righteous, and preserved him blameless
unto God, and kept him strong against his tender compassion toward his
son.

   {10:6} When the ungodly perished, she delivered the righteous man,
who fled from the fire which fell down upon the five cities.

   {10:7} Of whose wickedness even to this day the waste land that
smoketh is a testimony, and plants bearing fruit that never come to
ripeness: and a standing pillar of salt is a monument of an unbelieving
soul.

   {10:8} For regarding not wisdom, they gat not only this hurt, that
they knew not the things which were good; but also left behind them to
the world a memorial of their foolishness: so that in the things
wherein they offended they could not so much as be hid.

   {10:9} But wisdom delivered from pain those that attended upon her.

   {10:10} When the righteous fled from his brother's wrath she guided
him in right paths, shewed him the kingdom of God, and gave him
knowledge of holy things, made him rich in his travels, and multiplied
the fruit of his labours.

   {10:11} In the covetousness of such as oppressed him she stood by
him, and made him rich.

   {10:12} She defended him from his enemies, and kept him safe from
those that lay in wait, and in a sore conflict she gave him the
victory; that he might know that goodness is stronger than all.

   {10:13} When the righteous was sold, she forsook him not, but
delivered him from sin: she went down with him into the pit,

   {10:14} And left him not in bonds, till she brought him the sceptre
of the kingdom, and power against those that oppressed him: as for them
that had accused him, she shewed them to be liars, and gave him
perpetual glory.

   {10:15} She delivered the righteous people and blameless seed from
the nation that oppressed them.

   {10:16} She entered into the soul of the servant of the Lord, and
withstood dreadful kings in wonders and signs;

   {10:17} Rendered to the righteous a reward of their labours, guided
them in a marvellous way, and was unto them for a cover by day, and a
light of stars in the night season;

   {10:18} Brought them through the Red sea, and led them through much
water:

   {10:19} But she drowned their enemies, and cast them up out of the
bottom of the deep.

   {10:20} Therefore the righteous spoiled the ungodly, and praised thy
holy name, O Lord, and magnified with one accord thine hand, that
fought for them.

   {10:21} For wisdom opened the mouth of the dumb, and made the
tongues of them that cannot speak eloquent.

   {11:1} She prospered their works in the hand of the holy prophet.

   {11:2} They went through the wilderness that was not inhabited, and
pitched tents in places where there lay no way.

   {11:3} They stood against their enemies, and were avenged of their
adversaries.

   {11:4} When they were thirsty, they called upon thee, and water was
given them out of the flinty rock, and their thirst was quenched out of
the hard stone.

   {11:5} For by what things their enemies were punished, by the same
they in their need were benefited.

   {11:6} For instead of a perpetual running river troubled with foul
blood,

   {11:7} For a manifest reproof of that commandment, whereby the
infants were slain, thou gavest unto them abundance of water by a means
which they hoped not for:

   {11:8} Declaring by that thirst then how thou hadst punished their
adversaries.

   {11:9} For when they were tried albeit but in mercy chastised, they
knew how the ungodly were judged in wrath and tormented, thirsting in
another manner than the just.

   {11:10} For these thou didst admonish and try, as a father: but the
other, as a severe king, thou didst condemn and punish.

   {11:11} Whether they were absent or present, they were vexed alike.

   {11:12} For a double grief came upon them, and a groaning for the
remembrance of things past.

   {11:13} For when they heard by their own punishments the other to be
benefited, they had some feeling of the Lord.

   {11:14} For whom they respected with scorn, when he was long before
thrown out at the casting forth of the infants, him in the end, when
they saw what came to pass, they admired.

   {11:15} But for the foolish devices of their wickedness, wherewith
being deceived they worshipped serpents void of reason, and vile
beasts, thou didst send a multitude of unreasonable beasts upon them
for vengeance;

   {11:16} That they might know, that wherewithal a man sinneth, by the
same also shall he be punished.

   {11:17} For thy Almighty hand, that made the world of matter without
form, wanted not means to send among them a multitude of bears or
fierce lions,

   {11:18} Or unknown wild beasts, full of rage, newly created,
breathing out either a fiery vapour, or filthy scents of scattered
smoke, or shooting horrible sparkles out of their eyes:

   {11:19} Whereof not only the harm might dispatch them at once, but
also the terrible sight utterly destroy them.

   {11:20} Yea, and without these might they have fallen down with one
blast, being persecuted of vengeance, and scattered abroad through the
breath of thy power: but thou hast ordered all things in measure and
number and weight.

   {11:21} For thou canst shew thy great strength at all times when
thou wilt; and who may withstand the power of thine arm?

   {11:22} For the whole world before thee is as a little grain of the
balance, yea, as a drop of the morning dew that falleth down upon the
earth.

   {11:23} But thou hast mercy upon all; for thou canst do all things,
and winkest at the sins of men, because they should amend.

   {11:24} For thou lovest all the things that are, and abhorrest
nothing which thou hast made: for never wouldest thou have made any
thing, if thou hadst hated it.

   {11:25} And how could any thing have endured, if it had not been thy
will? or been preserved, if not called by thee?

   {11:26} But thou sparest all: for they are thine, O Lord, thou lover
of souls.

   {12:1} For thine incorruptible Spirit is in all things.

   {12:2} Therefore chastenest thou them by little and little that
offend, and warnest them by putting them in remembrance wherein they
have offended, that leaving their wickedness they may believe on thee,
O Lord.

   {12:3} For it was thy will to destroy by the hands of our fathers
both those old inhabitants of thy holy land,

   {12:4} Whom thou hatedst for doing most odious works of witchcrafts,
and wicked sacrifices;

   {12:5} And also those merciless murderers of children, and devourers
of man's flesh, and the feasts of blood,

   {12:6} With their priests out of the midst of their idolatrous crew,
and the parents, that killed with their own hands souls destitute of
help:

   {12:7} That the land, which thou esteemedst above all other, might
receive a worthy colony of God's children.

   {12:8} Nevertheless even those thou sparedst as men, and didst send
wasps, forerunners of thine host, to destroy them by little and little.

   {12:9} Not that thou wast unable to bring the ungodly under the hand
of the righteous in battle, or to destroy them at once with cruel
beasts, or with one rough word:

   {12:10} But executing thy judgments upon them by little and little,
thou gavest them place of repentance, not being ignorant that they were
a naughty generation, and that their malice was bred in them, and that
their cogitation would never be changed.

   {12:11} For it was a cursed seed from the beginning; neither didst
thou for fear of any man give them pardon for those things wherein they
sinned.

   {12:12} For who shall say, What hast thou done? or who shall
withstand thy judgment? or who shall accuse thee for the nations that
perish, whom thou made? or who shall come to stand against thee, to be
revenged for the unrighteous men?

   {12:13} For neither is there any God but thou that careth for all,
to whom thou mightest shew that thy judgment is not unright.

   {12:14} Neither shall king or tyrant be able to set his face against
thee for any whom thou hast punished.

   {12:15} Forsomuch then as thou art righteous thyself, thou orderest
all things righteously: thinking it not agreeable with thy power to
condemn him that hath not deserved to be punished.

   {12:16} For thy power is the beginning of righteousness, and because
thou art the Lord of all, it maketh thee to be gracious unto all.

   {12:17} For when men will not believe that thou art of a full power,
thou shewest thy strength, and among them that know it thou makest
their boldness manifest.

   {12:18} But thou, mastering thy power, judgest with equity, and
orderest us with great favour: for thou mayest use power when thou wilt.

   {12:19} But by such works hast thou taught thy people that the just
man should be merciful, and hast made thy children to be of a good hope
that thou givest repentance for sins.

   {12:20} For if thou didst punish the enemies of thy children, and
the condemned to death, with such deliberation, giving them time and
place, whereby they might be delivered from their malice:

   {12:21} With how great circumspection didst thou judge thine own
sons, unto whose fathers thou hast sworn, and made covenants of good
promises?

   {12:22} Therefore, whereas thou dost chasten us, thou scourgest our
enemies a thousand times more, to the intent that, when we judge, we
should carefully think of thy goodness, and when we ourselves are
judged, we should look for mercy.

   {12:23} Wherefore, whereas men have lived dissolutely and
unrighteously, thou hast tormented them with their own abominations.

   {12:24} For they went astray very far in the ways of error, and held
them for gods, which even among the beasts of their enemies were
despised, being deceived, as children of no understanding.

   {12:25} Therefore unto them, as to children without the use of
reason, thou didst send a judgment to mock them.

   {12:26} But they that would not be reformed by that correction,
wherein he dallied with them, shall feel a judgment worthy of God.

   {12:27} For, look, for what things they grudged, when they were
punished, that is, for them whom they thought to be gods; [now] being
punished in them, when they saw it, they acknowledged him to be the
true God, whom before they denied to know: and therefore came extreme
damnation upon them.

   {13:1} Surely vain are all men by nature, who are ignorant of God,
and could not out of the good things that are seen know him that is:
neither by considering the works did they acknowledge the workmaster;

   {13:2} But deemed either fire, or wind, or the swift air, or the
circle of the stars, or the violent water, or the lights of heaven, to
be the gods which govern the world.

   {13:3} With whose beauty if they being delighted took them to be
gods; let them know how much better the Lord of them is: for the first
author of beauty hath created them.

   {13:4} But if they were astonished at their power and virtue, let
them understand by them, how much mightier he is that made them.

   {13:5} For by the greatness and beauty of the creatures
proportionably the maker of them is seen.

   {13:6} But yet for this they are the less to be blamed: for they
peradventure err, seeking God, and desirous to find him.

   {13:7} For being conversant in his works they search him diligently,
and believe their sight: because the things are beautiful that are seen.

   {13:8} Howbeit neither are they to be pardoned.

   {13:9} For if they were able to know so much, that they could aim at
the world; how did they not sooner find out the Lord thereof?

   {13:10} But miserable are they, and in dead things is their hope,
who call them gods, which are the works of men's hands, gold and
silver, to shew art in, and resemblances of beasts, or a stone good for
nothing, the work of an ancient hand.

   {13:11} Now a carpenter that felleth timber, after he hath sawn down
a tree meet for the purpose, and taken off all the bark skilfully round
about, and hath wrought it handsomely, and made a vessel thereof fit
for the service of man's life;

   {13:12} And after spending the refuse of his work to dress his meat,
hath filled himself;

   {13:13} And taking the very refuse among those which served to no
use, being a crooked piece of wood, and full of knots, hath carved it
diligently, when he had nothing else to do, and formed it by the skill
of his understanding, and fashioned it to the image of a man;

   {13:14} Or made it like some vile beast, laying it over with
vermilion, and with paint colouring it red, and covering every spot
therein;

   {13:15} And when he had made a convenient room for it, set it in a
wall, and made it fast with iron:

   {13:16} For he provided for it that it might not fall, knowing that
it was unable to help itself; for it is an image, and hath need of help:

   {13:17} Then maketh he prayer for his goods, for his wife and
children, and is not ashamed to speak to that which hath no life.

   {13:18} For health he calleth upon that which is weak: for life
prayeth to that which is dead; for aid humbly beseecheth that which
hath least means to help: and for a good journey he asketh of that
which cannot set a foot forward:

   {13:19} And for gaining and getting, and for good success of his
hands, asketh ability to do of him, that is most unable to do any thing.

   {14:1} Again, one preparing himself to sail, and about to pass
through the raging waves, calleth upon a piece of wood more rotten than
the vessel that carrieth him.

   {14:2} For verily desire of gain devised that, and the workman built
it by his skill.

   {14:3} But thy providence, O Father, governeth it: for thou hast
made a way in the sea, and a safe path in the waves;

   {14:4} Shewing that thou canst save from all danger: yea, though a
man went to sea without art.

   {14:5} Nevertheless thou wouldest not that the works of thy wisdom
should be idle, and therefore do men commit their lives to a small
piece of wood, and passing the rough sea in a weak vessel are saved.

   {14:6} For in the old time also, when the proud giants perished, the
hope of the world governed by thy hand escaped in a weak vessel, and
left to all ages a seed of generation.

   {14:7} For blessed is the wood whereby righteousness cometh.

   {14:8} But that which is made with hands is cursed, as well it, as
he that made it: he, because he made it; and it, because, being
corruptible, it was called god.

   {14:9} For the ungodly and his ungodliness are both alike hateful
unto God.

   {14:10} For that which is made shall be punished together with him
that made it.

   {14:11} Therefore even upon the idols of the Gentiles shall there be
a visitation: because in the creature of God they are become an
abomination, and stumblingblocks to the souls of men, and a snare to
the feet of the unwise.

   {14:12} For the devising of idols was the beginning of spiritual
fornication, and the invention of them the corruption of life.

   {14:13} For neither were they from the beginning, neither shall they
be for ever.

   {14:14} For by the vain glory of men they entered into the world,
and therefore shall they come shortly to an end.

   {14:15} For a father afflicted with untimely mourning, when he hath
made an image of his child soon taken away, now honoured him as a god,
which was then a dead man, and delivered to those that were under him
ceremonies and sacrifices.

   {14:16} Thus in process of time an ungodly custom grown strong was
kept as a law, and graven images were worshipped by the commandments of
kings.

   {14:17} Whom men could not honour in presence, because they dwelt
far off, they took the counterfeit of his visage from far, and made an
express image of a king whom they honoured, to the end that by this
their forwardness they might flatter him that was absent, as if he were
present.

   {14:18} Also the singular diligence of the artificer did help to set
forward the ignorant to more superstition.

   {14:19} For he, peradventure willing to please one in authority,
forced all his skill to make the resemblance of the best fashion.

   {14:20} And so the multitude, allured by the grace of the work, took
him now for a god, which a little before was but honoured.

   {14:21} And this was an occasion to deceive the world: for men,
serving either calamity or tyranny, did ascribe unto stones and stocks
the incommunicable name.

   {14:22} Moreover this was not enough for them, that they erred in
the knowledge of God; but whereas they lived in the great war of
ignorance, those so great plagues called they peace.

   {14:23} For whilst they slew their children in sacrifices, or used
secret ceremonies, or made revellings of strange rites;

   {14:24} They kept neither lives nor marriages any longer undefiled:
but either one slew another traiterously, or grieved him by adultery.

   {14:25} So that there reigned in all men without exception blood,
manslaughter, theft, and dissimulation, corruption, unfaithfulness,
tumults, perjury,

   {14:26} Disquieting of good men, forgetfulness of good turns,
defiling of souls, changing of kind, disorder in marriages, adultery,
and shameless uncleanness.

   {14:27} For the worshipping of idols not to be named is the
beginning, the cause, and the end, of all evil.

   {14:28} For either they are mad when they be merry, or prophesy
lies, or live unjustly, or else lightly forswear themselves.

   {14:29} For insomuch as their trust is in idols, which have no life;
though they swear falsely, yet they look not to be hurt.

   {14:30} Howbeit for both causes shall they be justly punished: both
because they thought not well of God, giving heed unto idols, and also
unjustly swore in deceit, despising holiness.

   {14:31} For it is not the power of them by whom they swear: but it
is the just vengeance of sinners, that punisheth always the offence of
the ungodly.

   {15:1} But thou, O God, art gracious and true, longsuffering, and in
mercy ordering all things,

   {15:2} For if we sin, we are thine, knowing thy power: but we will
not sin, knowing that we are counted thine.

   {15:3} For to know thee is perfect righteousness: yea, to know thy
power is the root of immortality.

   {15:4} For neither did the mischievous invention of men deceive us,
nor an image spotted with divers colours, the painter's fruitless
labour;

   {15:5} The sight whereof enticeth fools to lust after it, and so
they desire the form of a dead image, that hath no breath.

   {15:6} Both they that make them, they that desire them, and they
that worship them, are lovers of evil things, and are worthy to have
such things to trust upon.

   {15:7} For the potter, tempering soft earth, fashioneth every vessel
with much labour for our service: yea, of the same clay he maketh both
the vessels that serve for clean uses, and likewise also all such as
serve to the contrary: but what is the use of either sort, the potter
himself is the judge.

   {15:8} And employing his labours lewdly, he maketh a vain god of the
same clay, even he which a little before was made of earth himself, and
within a little while after returneth to the same, out when his life
which was lent him shall be demanded.

   {15:9} Notwithstanding his care is, not that he shall have much
labour, nor that his life is short: but striveth to excel goldsmiths
and silversmiths, and endeavoureth to do like the workers in brass, and
counteth it his glory to make counterfeit things.

   {15:10} His heart is ashes, his hope is more vile than earth, and
his life of less value than clay:

   {15:11} Forasmuch as he knew not his Maker, and him that inspired
into him an active soul, and breathed in a living spirit.

   {15:12} But they counted our life a pastime, and our time here a
market for gain: for, say they, we must be getting every way, though it
be by evil means.

   {15:13} For this man, that of earthly matter maketh brittle vessels
and graven images, knoweth himself to offend above all others.

   {15:14} And all the enemies of thy people, that hold them in
subjection, are most foolish, and are more miserable than very babes.

   {15:15} For they counted all the idols of the heathen to be gods:
which neither have the use of eyes to see, nor noses to draw breath,
nor ears to hear, nor fingers of hands to handle; and as for their
feet, they are slow to go.

   {15:16} For man made them, and he that borrowed his own spirit
fashioned them: but no man can make a god like unto himself.

   {15:17} For being mortal, he worketh a dead thing with wicked hands:
for he himself is better than the things which he worshippeth: whereas
he lived once, but they never.

   {15:18} Yea, they worshipped those beasts also that are most
hateful: for being compared together, some are worse than others.

   {15:19} Neither are they beautiful, so much as to be desired in
respect of beasts: but they went without the praise of God and his
blessing.

   {16:1} Therefore by the like were they punished worthily, and by the
multitude of beasts tormented.

   {16:2} Instead of which punishment, dealing graciously with thine
own people, thou preparedst for them meat of a strange taste, even
quails to stir up their appetite:

   {16:3} To the end that they, desiring food, might for the ugly sight
of the beasts sent among them lothe even that, which they must needs
desire; but these, suffering penury for a short space, might be made
partakers of a strange taste.

   {16:4} For it was requisite, that upon them exercising tyranny
should come penury, which they could not avoid: but to these it should
only be shewed how their enemies were tormented.

   {16:5} For when the horrible fierceness of beasts came upon these,
and they perished with the stings of crooked serpents, thy wrath
endured not for ever:

   {16:6} But they were troubled for a small season, that they might be
admonished, having a sign of salvation, to put them in remembrance of
the commandment of thy law.

   {16:7} For he that turned himself toward it was not saved by the
thing that he saw, but by thee, that art the Saviour of all.

   {16:8} And in this thou madest thine enemies confess, that it is
thou who deliverest from all evil:

   {16:9} For them the bitings of grasshoppers and flies killed,
neither was there found any remedy for their life: for they were worthy
to be punished by such.

   {16:10} But thy sons not the very teeth of venomous dragons
overcame: for thy mercy was ever by them, and healed them.

   {16:11} For they were pricked, that they should remember thy words;
and were quickly saved, that not falling into deep forgetfulness, they
might be continually mindful of thy goodness.

   {16:12} For it was neither herb, nor mollifying plaister, that
restored them to health: but thy word, O Lord, which healeth all things.

   {16:13} For thou hast power of life and death: thou leadest to the
gates of hell, and bringest up again.

   {16:14} A man indeed killeth through his malice: and the spirit,
when it is gone forth, returneth not; neither the soul received up
cometh again.

   {16:15} But it is not possible to escape thine hand.

   {16:16} For the ungodly, that denied to know thee, were scourged by
the strength of thine arm: with strange rains, hails, and showers, were
they persecuted, that they could not avoid, and through fire were they
consumed.

   {16:17} For, which is most to be wondered at, the fire had more
force in the water, that quencheth all things: for the world fighteth
for the righteous.

   {16:18} For sometime the flame was mitigated, that it might not burn
up the beasts that were sent against the ungodly; but themselves might
see and perceive that they were persecuted with the judgment of God.

   {16:19} And at another time it burneth even in the midst of water
above the power of fire, that it might destroy the fruits of an unjust
land.

   {16:20} Instead whereof thou feddest thine own people with angels'
food, and didst send them from heaven bread prepared without their
labour, able to content every man's delight, and agreeing to every
taste.

   {16:21} For thy sustenance declared thy sweetness unto thy children,
and serving to the appetite of the eater, tempered itself to every
man's liking.

   {16:22} But snow and ice endured the fire, and melted not, that they
might know that fire burning in the hail, and sparkling in the rain,
did destroy the fruits of the enemies.

   {16:23} But this again did even forget his own strength, that the
righteous might be nourished.

   {16:24} For the creature that serveth thee, who art the Maker
increaseth his strength against the unrighteous for their punishment,
and abateth his strength for the benefit of such as put their trust in
thee.

   {16:25} Therefore even then was it altered into all fashions, and
was obedient to thy grace, that nourisheth all things, according to the
desire of them that had need:

   {16:26} That thy children, O Lord, whom thou lovest, might know,
that it is not the growing of fruits that nourisheth man: but that it
is thy word, which preserveth them that put their trust in thee.

   {16:27} For that which was not destroyed of the fire, being warmed
with a little sunbeam, soon melted away:

   {16:28} That it might be known, that we must prevent the sun to give
thee thanks, and at the dayspring pray unto thee.

   {16:29} For the hope of the unthankful shall melt away as the
winter's hoar frost, and shall run away as unprofitable water.

   {17:1} For great are thy judgments, and cannot be expressed:
therefore unnurtured souls have erred.

   {17:2} For when unrighteous men thought to oppress the holy nation;
they being shut up in their houses, the prisoners of darkness, and
fettered with the bonds of a long night, lay [there] exiled from the
eternal providence.

   {17:3} For while they supposed to lie hid in their secret sins, they
were scattered under a dark veil of forgetfulness, being horribly
astonished, and troubled with [strange] apparitions.

   {17:4} For neither might the corner that held them keep them from
fear: but noises [as of waters] falling down sounded about them, and
sad visions appeared unto them with heavy countenances.

   {17:5} No power of the fire might give them light: neither could the
bright flames of the stars endure to lighten that horrible night.

   {17:6} Only there appeared unto them a fire kindled of itself, very
dreadful: for being much terrified, they thought the things which they
saw to be worse than the sight they saw not.

   {17:7} As for the illusions of art magick, they were put down, and
their vaunting in wisdom was reproved with disgrace.

   {17:8} For they, that promised to drive away terrors and troubles
from a sick soul, were sick themselves of fear, worthy to be laughed at.

   {17:9} For though no terrible thing did fear them; yet being scared
with beasts that passed by, and hissing of serpents,

   {17:10} They died for fear, denying that they saw the air, which
could of no side be avoided.

   {17:11} For wickedness, condemned by her own witness, is very
timorous, and being pressed with conscience, always forecasteth
grievous things.

   {17:12} For fear is nothing else but a betraying of the succours
which reason offereth.

   {17:13} And the expectation from within, being less, counteth the
ignorance more than the cause which bringeth the torment.

   {17:14} But they sleeping the same sleep that night, which was
indeed intolerable, and which came upon them out of the bottoms of
inevitable hell,

   {17:15} Were partly vexed with monstrous apparitions, and partly
fainted, their heart failing them: for a sudden fear, and not looked
for, came upon them.

   {17:16} So then whosoever there fell down was straitly kept, shut up
in a prison without iron bars,

   {17:17} For whether he were husbandman, or shepherd, or a labourer
in the field, he was overtaken, and endured that necessity, which could
not be avoided: for they were all bound with one chain of darkness.

   {17:18} Whether it were a whistling wind, or a melodious noise of
birds among the spreading branches, or a pleasing fall of water running
violently,

   {17:19} Or a terrible sound of stones cast down, or a running that
could not be seen of skipping beasts, or a roaring voice of most savage
wild beasts, or a rebounding echo from the hollow mountains; these
things made them to swoon for fear.

   {17:20} For the whole world shined with clear light, and none were
hindered in their labour:

   {17:21} Over them only was spread an heavy night, an image of that
darkness which should afterward receive them: but yet were they unto
themselves more grievous than the darkness.

   {18:1} Nevertheless thy saints had a very great light, whose voice
they hearing, and not seeing their shape, because they also had not
suffered the same things, they counted them happy.

   {18:2} But for that they did not hurt them now, of whom they had
been wronged before, they thanked them, and besought them pardon for
that they had been enemies.

   {18:3} Instead whereof thou gavest them a burning pillar of fire,
both to be a guide of the unknown journey, and an harmless sun to
entertain them honourably.

   {18:4} For they were worthy to be deprived of light and imprisoned
in darkness, who had kept thy sons shut up, by whom the uncorrupt light
of the law was to be given unto the world.

   {18:5} And when they had determined to slay the babes of the saints,
one child being cast forth, and saved, to reprove them, thou tookest
away the multitude of their children, and destroyedst them altogether
in a mighty water.

   {18:6} Of that night were our fathers certified afore, that
assuredly knowing unto what oaths they had given credence, they might
afterwards be of good cheer.

   {18:7} So of thy people was accepted both the salvation of the
righteous, and destruction of the enemies.

   {18:8} For wherewith thou didst punish our adversaries, by the same
thou didst glorify us, whom thou hadst called.

   {18:9} For the righteous children of good men did sacrifice
secretly, and with one consent made a holy law, that the saints should
be like partakers of the same good and evil, the fathers now singing
out the songs of praise.

   {18:10} But on the other side there sounded an ill according cry of
the enemies, and a lamentable noise was carried abroad for children
that were bewailed.

   {18:11} The master and the servant were punished after one manner;
and like as the king, so suffered the common person.

   {18:12} So they all together had innumerable dead with one kind of
death; neither were the living sufficient to bury them: for in one
moment the noblest offspring of them was destroyed.

   {18:13} For whereas they would not believe any thing by reason of
the enchantments; upon the destruction of the firstborn, they
acknowledged this people to be the sons of God.

   {18:14} For while all things were in quiet silence, and that night
was in the midst of her swift course,

   {18:15} Thine Almighty word leaped down from heaven out of thy royal
throne, as a fierce man of war into the midst of a land of destruction,

   {18:16} And brought thine unfeigned commandment as a sharp sword,
and standing up filled all things with death; and it touched the
heaven, but it stood upon the earth.

   {18:17} Then suddenly visions of horrible dreams troubled them sore,
and terrors came upon them unlooked for.

   {18:18} And one thrown here, and another there, half dead, shewed
the cause of his death.

   {18:19} For the dreams that troubled them did foreshew this, lest
they should perish, and not know why they were afflicted.

   {18:20} Yea, the tasting of death touched the righteous also, and
there was a destruction of the multitude in the wilderness: but the
wrath endured not long.

   {18:21} For then the blameless man made haste, and stood forth to
defend them; and bringing the shield of his proper ministry, even
prayer, and the propitiation of incense, set himself against the wrath,
and so brought the calamity to an end, declaring that he was thy
servant.

   {18:22} So he overcame the destroyer, not with strength of body, nor
force of arms, but with a word subdued him that punished, alleging the
oaths and covenants made with the fathers.

   {18:23} For when the dead were now fallen down by heaps one upon
another, standing between, he stayed the wrath, and parted the way to
the living.

   {18:24} For in the long garment was the whole world, and in the four
rows of the stones was the glory of the fathers graven, and thy Majesty
upon the daidem of his head.

   {18:25} Unto these the destroyer gave place, and was afraid of them:
for it was enough that they only tasted of the wrath.

   {19:1} As for the ungodly, wrath came upon them without mercy unto
the end: for he knew before what they would do;

   {19:2} How that having given them leave to depart, and sent them
hastily away, they would repent and pursue them.

   {19:3} For whilst they were yet mourning and making lamentation at
the graves of the dead, they added another foolish device, and pursued
them as fugitives, whom they had intreated to be gone.

   {19:4} For the destiny, whereof they were worthy, drew them unto
this end, and made them forget the things that had already happened,
that they might fulfil the punishment which was wanting to their
torments:

   {19:5} And that thy people might pass a wonderful way: but they
might find a strange death.

   {19:6} For the whole creature in his proper kind was fashioned again
anew, serving the peculiar commandments that were given unto them, that
thy children might be kept without hurt:

   {19:7} As namely, a cloud shadowing the camp; and where water stood
before, dry land appeared; and out of the Red sea a way without
impediment; and out of the violent stream a green field:

   {19:8} Wherethrough all the people went that were defended with thy
hand, seeing thy marvellous strange wonders.

   {19:9} For they went at large like horses, and leaped like lambs,
praising thee, O Lord, who hadst delivered them.

   {19:10} For they were yet mindful of the things that were done while
they sojourned in the strange land, how the ground brought forth flies
instead of cattle, and how the river cast up a multitude of frogs
instead of fishes.

   {19:11} But afterwards they saw a new generation of fowls, when,
being led with their appetite, they asked delicate meats.

   {19:12} For quails came up unto them from the sea for their
contentment.

   {19:13} And punishments came upon the sinners not without former
signs by the force of thunders: for they suffered justly according to
their own wickedness, insomuch as they used a more hard and hateful
behaviour toward strangers.

   {19:14} For the Sodomites did not receive those, whom they knew not
when they came: but these brought friends into bondage, that had well
deserved of them.

   {19:15} And not only so, but peradventure some respect shall be had
of those, because they used strangers not friendly:

   {19:16} But these very grievously afflicted them, whom they had
received with feastings, and were already made partakers of the same
laws with them.

   {19:17} Therefore even with blindness were these stricken, as those
were at the doors of the righteous man: when, being compassed about
with horrible great darkness, every one sought the passage of his own
doors.

   {19:18} For the elements were changed in themselves by a kind of
harmony, like as in a psaltery notes change the name of the tune, and
yet are always sounds; which may well be perceived by the sight of the
things that have been done.

   {19:19} For earthly things were turned into watery, and the things,
that before swam in the water, now went upon the ground.

   {19:20} The fire had power in the water, forgetting his own virtue:
and the water forgat his own quenching nature.

   {19:21} On the other side, the flames wasted not the flesh of the
corruptible living things, though they walked therein; neither melted
they the icy kind of heavenly meat that was of nature apt to melt.

   {19:22} For in all things, O Lord, thou didst magnify thy people,
and glorify them, neither didst thou lightly regard them: but didst
assist them in every time and place.





Zechariah

   {1:1} 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, {1:2} The LORD hath been sore displeased with your
fathers. {1:3} 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. {1:4} 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. {1:5} Your
fathers, where [are] they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
{1:6} 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.

   {1:7} 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, {1:8} 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.
{1:9} 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. ]{1:10}
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. {1:11} 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.

   {1:12} 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? {1:13} And the LORD answered the angel that talked with me
[with] good words [and] comfortable words. {1:14} So the angel that
communed with me said unto me, Cry thou, saying, Thus saith the LORD of
hosts; I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.
{1:15} 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. {1:16} 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. {1:17}
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.

   {1:18} Then lifted I up mine eyes, and saw, and behold four horns.
{1:19} 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. {1:20} And the LORD shewed me four carpenters.
{1:21} Then said I, What come these to do? And he spake, saying, These
[are] the horns which have scattered Judah, so that no man did lift up
his head: but these are come to fray them, to cast out the horns of the
Gentiles, which lifted up [their] horn over the land of Judah to
scatter it.

   {2:1} I lifted up mine eyes again, and looked, and behold a man with
a measuring line in his hand. {2:2} Then said I, Whither goest thou?
And he said unto me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what [is] the breadth
thereof, and what [is] the length thereof. {2:3} And, behold, the angel
that talked with me went forth, and another angel went out to meet him,
{2:4} And said unto him, Run, speak to this young man, saying,
Jerusalem shall be inhabited [as] towns without walls for the multitude
of men and cattle therein: {2:5} For I, saith the LORD, will be unto
her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of
her.

   {2:6} Ho, ho, [come forth,] and flee from the land of the north,
saith the LORD: for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the
heaven, saith the LORD. {2:7} Deliver thyself, O Zion, that dwellest
[with] the daughter of Babylon. {2:8} 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. {2:9} 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.

   {2:10} Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion: for, lo, I come, and I
will dwell in the midst of thee, saith the LORD. {2:11} And many
nations shall be joined to the LORD in that day, and shall be my
people: and I will dwell in the midst of thee, and thou shalt know that
the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto thee. {2:12} And the LORD shall
inherit Judah his portion in the holy land, and shall choose Jerusalem
again. {2:13} Be silent, O all flesh, before the LORD: for he is raised
up out of his holy habitation.

   {3:1} 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.
{3:2} 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? {3:3} Now Joshua was clothed with filthy
garments, and stood before the angel. {3:4} 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. {3:5}
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. {3:6} And the angel of the LORD protested unto
Joshua, saying, {3:7} 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. {3:8} 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.
{3:9} 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. {3:10} In that day, saith the LORD of hosts,
shall ye call every man his neighbour under the vine and under the fig
tree.

   {4:1} And the angel that talked with me came again, and waked me, as
a man that is wakened out of his sleep, {4:2} And said unto me, What
seest thou? And I said, I have looked, 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:
{4:3} And two olive trees by it, one upon the right [side] of the bowl,
and the other upon the left [side] thereof. {4:4} So I answered and
spake to the angel that talked with me, saying, What [are] these, my
lord? {4:5} Then the angel that talked with me answered and said unto
me, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my lord. {4:6} 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. {4:7} 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.
{4:8} Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, {4:9} The
hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands
shall also finish it; and thou shalt know that the LORD of hosts hath
sent me unto you. {4:10} 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.

   {4:11} 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? {4:12} 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? {4:13} And he answered me and said,
Knowest thou not what these [be?] And I said, No, my lord. {4:14} Then
said he, These [are] the two anointed ones, that stand by the LORD of
the whole earth.

   {5:1} Then I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold
a flying roll. {5:2} 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. {5:3} 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. {5:4} 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.

   {5:5} 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.
{5:6} 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. {5:7} And, behold, there was lifted up a talent of lead: and
this [is] a woman that sitteth in the midst of the ephah. {5:8} And he
said, This [is] wickedness. And he cast it into the midst of the ephah;
and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof. {5:9} 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. {5:10} Then said I to the angel that talked with me,
Whither do these bear the ephah? {5:11} 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.

   {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. {6:2} In the first chariot
[were] red horses; and in the second chariot black horses; {6:3} And in
the third chariot white horses; and in the fourth chariot grisled and
bay horses. {6:4} Then I answered and said unto the angel that talked
with me, What [are] these, my lord? {6:5} And the angel answered and
said unto me, These [are] the four spirits of the heavens, which go
forth from standing before the Lord of all the earth. {6:6} 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. {6:7} 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.
{6:8} 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.

   {6:9} And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, {6:10} Take of
[them of] the captivity, [even] of Heldai, of Tobijah, and of Jedaiah,
which are come from Babylon, and come thou the same day, and go into
the house of Josiah the son of Zephaniah; {6:11} Then take silver and
gold, and make crowns, and set [them] upon the head of Joshua the son
of Josedech, the high priest; {6:12} 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: {6:13} 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. {6:14} 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. {6:15} 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.

   {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; {7:2} When they had sent unto the house
of God Sherezer and Regem-melech, and their men, to pray before the
LORD, {7:3} [And] to speak unto the priests which [were] in the house
of the 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?

   {7:4} Then came the word of the LORD of hosts unto me, saying, {7:5}
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? {7:6} And when
ye did eat, and when ye did drink, did not ye eat [for yourselves,] and
drink [for yourselves? ]{7:7} [Should ye] not [hear] the words which
the LORD hath cried by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was
inhabited and in prosperity, and the cities thereof round about her,
when [men] inhabited the south and the plain?

   {7:8} And the word of the LORD came unto Zechariah, saying, {7:9}
Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and
shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother: {7:10} And oppress
not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let
none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart. {7:11} But
they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped
their ears, that they should not hear. {7:12} Yea, they made their
hearts [as] an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the
words which the LORD of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former
prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the LORD of hosts. {7:13}
Therefore it is come to pass, [that] as he cried, and they would not
hear; so they cried, and I would not hear, saith the LORD of hosts:
{7:14} 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.

   {8:1} Again the word of the LORD of hosts came [to me,] saying,
{8:2} Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I was jealous for Zion with great
jealousy, and I was jealous for her with great fury. {8:3} Thus saith
the LORD; I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of
Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth; and the
mountain of the LORD of hosts the holy mountain. {8:4} 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. {8:5} And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls
playing in the streets thereof. {8:6} Thus saith the LORD of hosts; If
it be marvellous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in these
days, should it also be marvellous in mine eyes? saith the LORD of
hosts. {8:7} Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will save my
people from the east country, and from the west country; {8:8} And I
will bring them, and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and
they shall be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in
righteousness.

   {8:9} 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. {8:10} 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. {8:11}
But now I [will] not [be] unto the residue of this people as in the
former days, saith the LORD of hosts. {8:12} For the seed [shall be]
prosperous; the vine shall give her fruit, 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. ]{8:13} 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. {8:14} 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: {8:15} So again have I thought in these days to do well unto
Jerusalem and to the house of Judah: fear ye not.

   {8:16} These [are] the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man
the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in
your gates: {8:17} 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.

   {8:18} And the word of the LORD of hosts came unto me, saying,
{8:19} 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. {8:20} Thus saith
the LORD of hosts; [It shall] yet [come to pass,] that there shall come
people, and the inhabitants of many cities: {8:21} And the inhabitants
of one [city] shall go to another, saying, Let us go speedily to pray
before the LORD, and to seek the LORD of hosts: I will go also. {8:22}
Yea, many people and strong nations shall come to seek the LORD of
hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before the LORD. {8:23} Thus saith the
LORD of hosts; In those days [it shall come to 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.

   {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. {9:2} And Hamath also
shall border thereby; Tyrus, and Zidon, though it be very wise. {9:3}
And Tyrus did build herself a strong hold, and heaped up silver as the
dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets. {9:4} Behold, the Lord
will cast her out, and he will smite her power in the sea; and she
shall be devoured with fire. {9:5} Ashkelon shall see [it,] and fear;
Gaza also [shall see it,] and be very sorrowful, and Ekron; for her
expectation shall be ashamed; and the king shall perish from Gaza, and
Ashkelon shall not be inhabited. {9:6} And a bastard shall dwell in
Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines. {9:7} 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.
{9:8} 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.

   {9:9} 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. {9:10} 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 river [even] to the ends of the earth. {9:11}
As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy
prisoners out of the pit wherein [is] no water.

   {9:12} Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to
day do I declare [that] I will render double unto thee; {9:13} When I
have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up thy
sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and made thee as the sword of
a mighty man. {9:14} 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. {9:15} 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.
{9:16} And the LORD their God shall save them in that day as the flock
of his people: for they [shall be as] the stones of a crown, lifted up
as an ensign upon his land. {9:17} For how great [is] his goodness, and
how great [is] his beauty! corn shall make the young men cheerful, and
new wine the maids.

   {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. {10:2} 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. {10:3} 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. {10:4} Out of him came forth the
corner, out of him the nail, out of him the battle bow, out of him
every oppressor together.

   {10:5} And they shall be as mighty [men,] which tread down [their
enemies] 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. {10:6} 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.
{10:7} 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. {10:8} I will
hiss for them, and gather them; for I have redeemed them: and they
shall increase as they have increased. {10:9} And I will sow them among
the people: and they shall remember me in far countries; and they shall
live with their children, and turn again. {10:10} 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. {10:11} 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. {10:12} And I
will strengthen them in the LORD; and they shall walk up and down in
his name, saith the LORD.

   {11:1} Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy
cedars. {11:2} 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.

   {11:3} [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. {11:4} Thus saith the LORD my God; Feed the flock
of the slaughter; {11:5} Whose possessors slay them, and hold
themselves not guilty: and they that sell them say, Blessed [be] the
LORD; for I am rich: and their own shepherds pity them not. {11:6} 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. ]{11:7} 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. {11:8} Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and
my soul lothed them, and their soul also abhorred me. {11:9} Then said
I, I will not feed you: that that dieth, let it die; and that that is
to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let the rest eat every one the
flesh of another.

   {11:10} And I took my staff, [even] Beauty, and cut it asunder, that
I might break my covenant which I had made with all the people. {11:11}
And it was broken in that day: and so the poor of the flock that waited
upon me knew that it [was] the word of the LORD. {11:12} And I said
unto them, If ye think good, give [me] my price; and if not, forbear.
So they weighed for my price thirty [pieces] of silver. {11:13} And the
LORD said unto me, Cast it unto the potter: a goodly 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. {11:14} Then I cut asunder
mine other staff, [even] Bands, that I might break the brotherhood
between Judah and Israel.

   {11:15} And the LORD said unto me, Take unto thee yet the
instruments of a foolish shepherd. {11:16} 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. {11:17} 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.

   {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. {12:2} 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.

   {12:3} 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.
{12:4} 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. {12:5} And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart,
The inhabitants of Jerusalem [shall be] my strength in the LORD of
hosts their God.

   {12:6} In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth
of 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. {12:7} 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. {12:8} 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.

   {12:9} And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] I will seek to
destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. {12:10} And I will
pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me
whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth
for [his] only [son,] and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that
is in bitterness for [his] firstborn. {12:11} In that day shall there
be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the
valley of Megiddon. {12:12} And the land shall mourn, every family
apart; the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart;
the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart; {12:13}
The family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the
family of Shimei apart, and their wives apart; {12:14} All the families
that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.

   {13:1} In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of
David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness.

   {13:2} And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of
hosts, [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. {13:3} 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.
{13:4} 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: {13:5} But he shall say, I
[am] no prophet, I [am] an husbandman; for man taught me to keep cattle
from my youth. {13:6} And [one] shall say unto him, What [are] these
wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, [Those] with which I was
wounded [in] the house of my friends.

   {13:7} 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. {13:8} 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. {13:9} 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.

   {14:1} Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be
divided in the midst of thee. {14:2} For I will gather all nations
against Jerusalem to battle; and the 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. {14:3} Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight
against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.

   {14:4} And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of
Olives, 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. {14:5} 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. {14:6} And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the light
shall not be clear, [nor] dark: {14:7} But it shall be one day which
shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to
pass, [that] at evening time it shall be light. {14:8} 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. {14:9} And the LORD shall be king
over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name
one. {14:10} 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. {14:11} And [men] shall dwell in it, and there shall be no
more utter destruction; but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited.

   {14:12} 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. {14:13} 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. {14:14} 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.
{14:15} 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.

   {14:16} And it shall come to pass, [that] every one that is left of
all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year
to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast
of tabernacles. {14:17} And it shall be, [that] whoso will not come up
of [all] the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King,
the LORD of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain. {14:18} 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. {14:19} This shall be the
punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all nations that come not up
to keep the feast of tabernacles.

   {14:20} In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses,
HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD; and the pots in the LORD'S house shall be like
the bowls before the altar. {14:21} 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

   {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. {1:2} I will utterly
consume all [things] from off the land, saith the LORD. {1:3} I will
consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the
fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks with the wicked; and I will
cut off man from off the land, saith the LORD. {1:4} 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; {1:5} 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; {1:6} And them
that are turned back from the LORD; and [those] that have not sought
the LORD, nor enquired for him. {1:7} Hold thy peace at the presence of
the Lord GOD: for the day of the LORD [is] at hand: for the LORD hath
prepared a sacrifice, he hath bid his guests. {1:8} 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. {1:9} In the same day also will I punish all those
that leap on the threshold, which fill their masters' houses with
violence and deceit. {1:10} 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. {1:11} Howl, ye inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the merchant
people are cut down; all they that bear silver are cut off. {1:12} 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. {1:13}
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. {1:14} 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. {1:15} That day [is] a day of wrath, a day of trouble and
distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and
gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, {1:16} A day of the
trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the high
towers. {1:17} And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk
like blind men, because they have sinned against the LORD: and their
blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as the dung. {1:18}
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.

   {2:1} Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not
desired; {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. {2:3} Seek ye the LORD, all
ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek
righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of
the LORD'S anger.

   {2:4} For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they
shall drive out Ashdod at the noonday, and Ekron shall be rooted up.
{2:5} 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. {2:6} And the sea coast shall be dwellings [and] cottages
for shepherds, and folds for flocks. {2:7} And the coast shall be for
the remnant of the house of Judah; 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.

   {2:8} I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the
children of Ammon, whereby they have reproached my people, and
magnified [themselves] against their border. {2:9} Therefore [as] I
live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be
as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, [even] the breeding of
nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my
people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess
them. {2:10} This shall they have for their pride, because they have
reproached and magnified [themselves] against the people of the LORD of
hosts. {2:11} The LORD [will be] terrible unto them: for he will famish
all the gods of the earth; and [men] shall worship him, every one from
his place, [even] all the isles of the heathen.

   {2:12} Ye Ethiopians also, ye [shall be] slain by my sword. {2:13}
And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy
Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, [and] dry like a
wilderness. {2:14} 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. {2:15} 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.

   {3:1} Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing
city! {3:2} She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she
trusted not in the LORD; she drew not near to her God. {3:3} Her
princes within her [are] roaring lions; her judges [are] evening
wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow. {3:4} Her prophets
[are] light [and] treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the
sanctuary, they have done violence to the law. {3:5} The just LORD [is]
in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: every morning doth he
bring his judgment to light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no
shame. {3:6} 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.
{3:7} 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.

   {3:8} Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the LORD, until the day that
I rise up to the prey: for my determination [is] to gather the nations,
that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation,
[even] all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with
the fire of my jealousy. {3:9} For then will I turn to the people a
pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the LORD, to
serve him with one consent. {3:10} From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia
my suppliants, [even] the daughter of my dispersed, shall bring mine
offering. {3:11} In that day shalt thou not be ashamed for all thy
doings, wherein thou hast transgressed against me: for then I will take
away out of the midst of thee them that rejoice in thy pride, and thou
shalt no more be haughty because of my holy mountain. {3:12} I will
also leave in the midst of thee an afflicted and poor people, and they
shall trust in the name of the LORD. {3:13} The remnant of Israel shall
not do iniquity, nor speak lies; neither shall a deceitful tongue be
found in their mouth: for they shall feed and lie down, and none shall
make [them] afraid.

   {3:14} Sing, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel; be glad and
rejoice with all the heart, O daughter of Jerusalem. {3:15} The LORD
hath taken away thy judgments, he hath cast out thine enemy: the king
of Israel, [even] the LORD, [is] in the midst of thee: thou shalt not
see evil any more. {3:16} In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem,
Fear thou not: [and to] Zion, Let not thine hands be slack. {3:17} The
LORD thy God in the midst of thee [is] mighty; he will save, he will
rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over
thee with singing. {3:18} I will gather [them that are] sorrowful for
the solemn assembly, [who] are of thee, [to whom] the reproach of it
[was] a burden. {3:19} Behold, at that time I will undo all that
afflict thee: and I will save 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. {3:20} 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.




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Hash: SHA1


 Generated from: c:\doc\Bible\kjv\kjv.gbf
 Last revised: 13 May 2006

The King James Version of the Holy Bible is in the Public Domain. Copy
and publish it freely.



 You can check to see if any of the files listed below have been
 altered since this seal file was generated by using the sha1sum
 program (available at
 http://cryptography.org/tsu/hash/sha1sum.zip and at
 ftp://ebible.org/pub/sha1sum.zip):

 sha1sum -c seal.txt

 The integrity of the checksums in this file can be validated
 with Pretty Good Privacy or Gnu Privacy Guard and the World
 English Bible Editors key from http://eBible.org/bible/web/.

SHA1=79C38DAFD443771A4F1D43CDEC5B78409B8C1D8D 1Chron.txt
SHA1=87C8B0EB83036ECD96984CFE1BA6B3D1B6B5A670 1Cor.txt
SHA1=9189DA92F85BE3CF189664CC2C605CB749CEC7CC 1Esdras.txt
SHA1=9436539DFCFDE0B68C7A0E8A4A557C4C948F3BCA 1John.txt
SHA1=098AF429CA803A2A4CA8432F3DC1F9ABE6BC550C 1Kings.txt
SHA1=524D31FB7777942A3FD27990F7183156D52A3A9B 1Mac.txt
SHA1=C70C2C43FF4AC40EE9DFAAB91278F18B45A57834 1Peter.txt
SHA1=B0FDCBD9DA2A08B8172258197114D7D1682148EC 1Sam.txt
SHA1=E9C853905D909D07368D1138D187647E41DED302 1Thes.txt
SHA1=C9D569769417A6BA965F1B225C40DAD1E1558C62 1Tim.txt
SHA1=8F4B283C9751EB1BF7F430741B12C72C887207B5 2Chron.txt
SHA1=A98767E5D03122C2EB2BC06A2B1B9188715F86A1 2Cor.txt
SHA1=66F02027AE9E18E57E3137F6F8E8E7BEDEFF4C80 2Esdras.txt
SHA1=B2510DA2DCA02BA967A835785699936CB3329F99 2John.txt
SHA1=6ADFD890A6E990846E8E8F5896FA85F97AE16E37 2Kings.txt
SHA1=9F01095687DADF95B003219F5ECD62214A75429B 2Mac.txt
SHA1=C07DFDA72DE776D2E7AB4357F49D62BE5EDB1864 2Peter.txt
SHA1=7E75C1249D2CC88A6E219CE76D934EFAD1248735 2Sam.txt
SHA1=CFF2276E1583E61D8CC9B543A336C277685579DE 2Thes.txt
SHA1=5F40F65D4BE4BDC9BA2148DFDD42D0955E9F825D 2Tim.txt
SHA1=94FADFAF66C496E823E8B0C8B823AE01E5AC837C 3John.txt
SHA1=34CF2D0ECF55AB37BAA30210224A28281C816E19 Acts.txt
SHA1=C5D63F8C06E5BBE0904E4BB532FC6C99301224EC Amos.txt
SHA1=83C486F12CE5040D52D9B69C5EA2F36251073635 Azar.txt
SHA1=63C794295E005559B14831A418AB586693636D90 Baruch.txt
SHA1=A3BA283528722BED8D2C72AAA140679DF576CC93 Bel.txt
SHA1=05540DB500CF8F131DB86349E8446F131BB655C3 Col.txt
SHA1=A14C6098D5C39C1EB9C4B43EFBA5D74F4192EDBE Daniel.txt
SHA1=DC11F8A365D11AD023C61E4BFCD07E058A478EAB Deut.txt
SHA1=5B5475A668925C2B6EAB8770D5586D69239AE521 Eccl.txt
SHA1=9D5DFA28098013DB43631DC3B17E43390871D9B5 Eph.txt
SHA1=C6239084CCD6F2DEC0A481179892A4D92BFBA80E Esther.txt
SHA1=97B52D1A90C3FFEC71DABC8F9478C7E279488BB7 Exodus.txt
SHA1=3123E4C7DF13F319E9A2995E0B0A729C8C4DF2F6 Ezekiel.txt
SHA1=A6C0D192BDE751C440D546D4E850BED70968D0AA Ezra.txt
SHA1=44E3202DEAD2603F56669CD90B55550A6FCAEDDF Gal.txt
SHA1=9AD9958BCB85F4ABE06C81E29DBCE2BB627A4D13 Genesis.txt
SHA1=F1DD812DEDBCADFD2181E354077A35EF8BABBC91 GkEsther.txt
SHA1=7F26FE80251E4B628D06E530721EC3D2525293CC Habakkuk.txt
SHA1=1286C3184830F4DC874E318071808A05F1EB4567 Haggai.txt
SHA1=18E41D33F519030094E4B4D48A576A36042281B1 Hebrews.txt
SHA1=941DA4A9E78963D119156546D0A03BA0E33F4C93 Hosea.txt
SHA1=0B1154743B86F1D31FB53EC24839615F9C20F9D8 Isaiah.txt
SHA1=A1C26516FAF1F8E8BCE0EAFE58AB84DE86F1F397 James.txt
SHA1=35D66D49754FDC6EF50FE9298050C374DD588FA4 Jeremiah.txt
SHA1=95A056DA7D0C527B2C16DCB1B10B8E0670D52F25 Job.txt
SHA1=5FA0E72DB71E186A56AC27081A487BE152CEA9F6 Joel.txt
SHA1=F8DA94011438DC62A76EB56049CB62BAE309012A John.txt
SHA1=6AA24E3D9ED358E4490FC500D40D32241A6D2015 Jonah.txt
SHA1=BDCFAA75367BC00DB16F7BCBC71F09DDF78B025A Joshua.txt
SHA1=3D86F6701C877CCC967DD45A0361BC6AEC9EB1C1 Jude.txt
SHA1=195620AF5F61BEC8F4627C3E12DC5112E93F2CC2 Judges.txt
SHA1=DBCD15DCFF1DFE6829C0FA50C9FF35228D3C9415 Judith.txt
SHA1=CEC14E678719E2AED8852DCD59825AE54E047815 Lament.txt
SHA1=E381AE063B46FCAA7717A865E3074CB1DEC57A4D Let.txt
SHA1=D006C0ADA09F83AD89A6F7155684BB745E5AC8E2 Lev.txt
SHA1=6B29FA9DDA99C2A98C688E6ED1420B1D432E3696 Luke.txt
SHA1=9A10983CF7C14B8463ADCCF422061435362E3E0C Malachi.txt
SHA1=BDFE47F1802914872DCD2E579EEF7EA5F38BF019 Man.txt
SHA1=E8B1F622D0A927113D8D8338E96D4B61A13F02E2 Mark.txt
SHA1=0AF170A32EB011302F90606A2CF8B0BDAEB6366C Matthew.txt
SHA1=FD3951B1553876FD1AE9C13E57B3EC3BA6E6B1CE Micah.txt
SHA1=E620AFDEB60396D3778E3B845CAFF90432D5DE9F Nahum.txt
SHA1=9459876C33807A772160054DF5242EE9314504CB Nehemiah.txt
SHA1=4EFD7373E6BF9CD13B78841BFEDBC48226BCB05B Num.txt
SHA1=FBF75C7680DCAFB12AAC9F6EFE9DA6E459F55720 Obadiah.txt
SHA1=977F0962494C1F130C6B3A3FEC823049E662FA56 Philemon.txt
SHA1=BCCC8A9A56C3E7B64A380E1588D81C7F1E996781 Philip.txt
SHA1=AD7ECF90BFDB9C50E4553E59612A24F5522675E4 Proverbs.txt
SHA1=C2359F9C7B8DAA1F5C947A1E0134EBB659E2EA99 Psalms.txt
SHA1=A4D4FFA4E25CF48104C4FA4CFC938A0BF17703AC Rev.txt
SHA1=0689DB3D16361F6C89603C40CE35A3C44BB1D734 Romans.txt
SHA1=7BF312DE1C1A4B87BF0A1D009DD061A9D27B0201 Ruth.txt
SHA1=14A75BDA500D5085E169C7856B9991A4D54928A9 Sirach.txt
SHA1=B8AD6277D84F68C0C080C76DE5862725AD633AAA Song.txt
SHA1=49D2D0FC4319450802ADD0C2F557AE4D34811C44 Susanna.txt
SHA1=46DDC6860A6B4F99135D9932726E3921D2D67BAD Titus.txt
SHA1=A5B3E02C350DE95C22664179D82C0DF2D9CA4E50 Tobit.txt
SHA1=735E5E83A2AD20FB148B0D1A001F8791D9F51CE9 Wisdom.txt
SHA1=9FAFD3302AB80D9DC9B122A43CF9E995CD6D3FBC Zech.txt
SHA1=CE79155435CCFE224962A5504A12D3C529FBB832 Zeph.txt
SHA1=1937A149529C518317E8C3D380968CF845C08BC6 combine.bat
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