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hast done this, thou art cursed thou art, and unto dust shalt
above all cattle, and above thou return.
every beast of the field; upon 20 And Adam called his
thy belly shalt thou go, and wife’s name Eve; because she
dust shalt thou eat all the days was the mother of all living.
of thy life: 21 Unto Adam also and to his
15 And I will put enmity wife did the LORD God make
between thee and the woman, coats of skins, and clothed
and between thy seed and her them.
seed; it shall bruise thy head, 22 ¶ And the LORD God said,
and thou shalt bruise his heel. Behold, the man is become as
16 Unto the woman he said, I one of us, to know good and
will greatly multiply thy evil: and now, lest he put forth
sorrow and thy conception; in his hand, and take also of the
sorrow thou shalt bring forth tree of life, and eat, and live
children; and thy desire shall for ever:
be to thy husband, and he shall 23 Therefore the LORD God
rule over thee. sent him forth from the garden
17 And unto Adam he said, of Eden, to till the ground
Because thou hast hearkened from whence he was taken.
unto the voice of thy wife, and 24 So he drove out the man;
hast eaten of the tree, of which and he placed at the east of the
I commanded thee, saying, garden of Eden Cherubims,
Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed and a flaming sword which
is the ground for thy sake; in turned every way, to keep the
sorrow shalt thou eat of it all way of the tree of life.
the days of thy life;
18 Thorns also and thistles CHAPTER 4
shall it bring forth to thee; and AND Adam knew Eve his
thou shalt eat the herb of the wife; and she conceived, and
field; bare Cain, and said, I have
19 In the sweat of thy face gotten a man from the LORD.
shalt thou eat bread, till thou 2 And she again bare his
return unto the ground; for out brother Abel. And Abel was a
of it wast thou taken: for dust keeper of sheep, but Cain was
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5 And all the days that Adam he begat Jared eight hundred
lived were nine hundred and and thirty years, and begat
thirty years: and he died. sons and daughters:
6 And Seth lived an hundred 17 And all the days of
and five years, and begat Mahalaleel were eight
Enos: hundred ninety and five years:
7 And Seth lived after he and he died.
begat Enos eight hundred and 18 ¶ And Jared lived an
seven years, and begat sons hundred sixty and two years,
and daughters: and he begat Enoch:
8 And all the days of Seth 19 And Jared lived after he
were nine hundred and twelve begat Enoch eight hundred
years: and he died. years, and begat sons and
9 ¶ And Enos lived ninety daughters:
years, and begat Cainan: 20 And all the days of Jared
10 And Enos lived after he were nine hundred sixty and
begat Cainan eight hundred two years: and he died.
and fifteen years, and begat 21 ¶ And Enoch lived sixty
sons and daughters: and five years, and begat
11 And all the days of Enos Methuselah:
were nine hundred and five 22 And Enoch walked with
years: and he died. God after he begat Methuselah
12 ¶ And Cainan lived seventy three hundred years, and begat
years, and begat Mahalaleel: sons and daughters:
13 And Cainan lived after he 23 And all the days of Enoch
begat Mahalaleel eight were three hundred sixty and
hundred and forty years, and five years:
begat sons and daughters: 24 And Enoch walked with
14 And all the days of Cainan God: and he was not; for God
were nine hundred and ten took him.
years: and he died. 25 And Methuselah lived an
15 ¶ And Mahalaleel lived hundred eighty and seven
sixty and five years, and begat years, and begat Lamech:
Jared: 26 And Methuselah lived after
16 And Mahalaleel lived after he begat Lamech seven
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hundred eighty and two years, were fair; and they took them
and begat sons and daughters: wives of all which they chose.
27 And all the days of 3 And the LORD said, My
Methuselah were nine hundred spirit shall not always strive
sixty and nine years: and he with man, for that he also is
died. flesh: yet his days shall be an
28 ¶ And Lamech lived an hundred and twenty years.
hundred eighty and two years, 4 There were giants in the
and begat a son: earth in those days; and also
29 And he called his name after that, when the sons of
Noah, saying, This same shall God came in unto the
comfort us concerning our daughters of men, and they
work and toil of our hands, bare children to them, the
because of the ground which same became mighty men
the LORD hath cursed. which were of old, men of
30 And Lamech lived after he renown.
begat Noah five hundred 5 ¶ And GOD saw that the
ninety and five years, and wickedness of man was great
begat sons and daughters: in the earth, and that every
31 And all the days of Lamech imagination of the thoughts of
were seven hundred seventy his heart was only evil
and seven years: and he died. continually.
32 And Noah was five 6 And it repented the LORD
hundred years old: and Noah that he had made man on the
begat Shem, Ham, and earth, and it grieved him at his
Japheth. heart.
7 And the LORD said, I will
CHAPTER 6 destroy man whom I have
AND it came to pass, when created from the face of the
men began to multiply on the earth; both man, and beast,
face of the earth, and and the creeping thing, and the
daughters were born unto fowls of the air; for it
them, repenteth me that I have made
2 That the sons of God saw them.
the daughters of men that they 8 But Noah found grace in the
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19 Every beast, every creeping upon all that moveth upon the
thing, and every fowl, and earth, and upon all the fishes
whatsoever creepeth upon the of the sea; into your hand are
earth, after their kinds, went they delivered.
forth out of the ark. 3 Every moving thing that
20 ¶ And Noah builded an liveth shall be meat for you;
altar unto the LORD; and took even as the green herb have I
of every clean beast, and of given you all things.
every clean fowl, and offered 4 But flesh with the life
burnt offerings on the altar. thereof, which is the blood
21 And the LORD smelled a thereof, shall ye not eat.
sweet savour; and the LORD 5 And surely your blood of
said in his heart, I will not your lives will I require; at the
again curse the ground any hand of every beast will I
more for man’s sake; for the require it, and at the hand of
imagination of man’s heart is man; at the hand of every
evil from his youth; neither man’s brother will I require
will I again smite any more the life of man.
every thing living, as I have 6 Whoso sheddeth man’s
done. blood, by man shall his blood
22 While the earth remaineth, be shed: for in the image of
seedtime and harvest, and cold God made he man.
and heat, and summer and 7 And you, be ye fruitful, and
winter, and day and night shall multiply; bring forth
not cease. abundantly in the earth, and
multiply therein.
CHAPTER 9 8 ¶ And God spake unto Noah,
AND God blessed Noah and and to his sons with him,
his sons, and said unto them, saying,
Be fruitful, and multiply, and 9 And I, behold, I establish
replenish the earth. my covenant with you, and
2 And the fear of you and the with your seed after you;
dread of you shall be upon 10 And with every living
every beast of the earth, and creature that is with you, of
upon every fowl of the air, the fowl, of the cattle, and of
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thee, from me: if thou wilt seest, to thee will I give it, and
take the left hand, then I will to thy seed for ever.
go to the right; or if thou 16 And I will make thy seed
depart to the right hand, then I as the dust of the earth: so that
will go to the left. if a man can number the dust
10 And Lot lifted up his eyes, of the earth, then shall thy
and beheld all the plain of seed also be numbered.
Jordan, that it was well 17 Arise, walk through the
watered every where, before land in the length of it and in
the LORD destroyed Sodom the breadth of it; for I will
and Gomorrah, even as the give it unto thee.
garden of the LORD, like the 18 Then Abram removed his
land of Egypt, as thou comest tent, and came and dwelt in
unto Zoar. the plain of Mamre, which is
11 Then Lot chose him all the in Hebron, and built there an
plain of Jordan; and Lot altar unto the LORD.
journeyed east: and they
separated themselves the one CHAPTER 14
from the other. AND it came to pass in the
12 Abram dwelled in the land days of Amraphel king of
of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar,
the cities of the plain, and Chedorlaomer king of Elam,
pitched his tent toward and Tidal king of nations;
Sodom. 2 That these made war with
13 But the men of Sodom Bera king of Sodom, and with
were wicked and sinners Birsha king of Gomorrah,
before the LORD exceedingly. Shinab king of Admah, and
14 ¶ And the LORD said unto Shemeber king of Zeboiim,
Abram, after that Lot was and the king of Bela, which is
separated from him, Lift up Zoar.
now thine eyes, and look from 3 All these were joined
the place where thou art together in the vale of Siddim,
northward, and southward, which is the salt sea.
and eastward, and westward: 4 Twelve years they served
15 For all the land which thou Chedorlaomer, and in the
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went out to meet him after his young men have eaten, and the
return from the slaughter of portion of the men which went
Chedorlaomer, and of the with me, Aner, Eshcol, and
kings that were with him, at Mamre; let them take their
the valley of Shaveh, which is portion.
the king’s dale.
18 And Melchizedek king of CHAPTER 15
Salem brought forth bread and AFTER these things the word
wine: and he was the priest of of the LORD came unto Abram
the most high God. in a vision, saying, Fear not,
19 And he blessed him, and Abram: I am thy shield, and
said, Blessed be Abram of the thy exceeding great reward.
most high God, possessor of 2 And Abram said, Lord GOD,
heaven and earth: what wilt thou give me, seeing
20 And blessed be the most I go childless, and the steward
high God, which hath of my house is this Eliezer of
delivered thine enemies into Damascus?
thy hand. And he gave him 3 And Abram said, Behold, to
tithes of all. me thou hast given no seed:
21 And the king of Sodom and, lo, one born in my house
said unto Abram, Give me the is mine heir.
persons, and take the goods to 4 And, behold, the word of the
thyself. LORD came unto him, saying,
22 And Abram said to the This shall not be thine heir;
king of Sodom, I have lift up but he that shall come forth
mine hand unto the LORD, the out of thine own bowels shall
most high God, the possessor be thine heir.
of heaven and earth, 5 And he brought him forth
23 That I will not take from a abroad, and said, Look now
thread even to a shoelatchet, toward heaven, and tell the
and that I will not take any stars, if thou be able to
thing that is thine, lest thou number them: and he said unto
shouldest say, I have made him, So shall thy seed be.
Abram rich: 6 And he believed in the
24 Save only that which the LORD; and he counted it to
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within herself, saying, After I and they shall keep the way of
am waxed old shall I have the LORD, to do justice and
pleasure, my lord being old judgment; that the LORD may
also? bring upon Abraham that
13 And the LORD said unto which he hath spoken of him.
Abraham, Wherefore did 20 And the LORD said,
Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of Because the cry of Sodom and
a surety bear a child, which Gomorrah is great, and
am old? because their sin is very
14 Is any thing too hard for grievous;
the LORD? At the time 21 I will go down now, and
appointed I will return unto see whether they have done
thee, according to the time of altogether according to the cry
life, and Sarah shall have a of it, which is come unto me;
son. and if not, I will know.
15 Then Sarah denied, saying, 22 And the men turned their
I laughed not; for she was faces from thence, and went
afraid. And he said, Nay; but toward Sodom: but Abraham
thou didst laugh. stood yet before the LORD.
16 ¶ And the men rose up 23 ¶ And Abraham drew near,
from thence, and looked and said, Wilt thou also
toward Sodom: and Abraham destroy the righteous with the
went with them to bring them wicked?
on the way. 24 Peradventure there be fifty
17 And the LORD said, Shall I righteous within the city: wilt
hide from Abraham that thing thou also destroy and not
which I do; spare the place for the fifty
18 Seeing that Abraham shall righteous that are therein?
surely become a great and 25 That be far from thee to do
mighty nation, and all the after this manner, to slay the
nations of the earth shall be righteous with the wicked: and
blessed in him? that the righteous should be as
19 For I know him, that he the wicked, that be far from
will command his children thee: Shall not the Judge of all
and his household after him, the earth do right?
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sent Lot out of the midst of the drink wine that night also: and
overthrow, when he overthrew the younger arose, and lay
the cities in the which Lot with him; and he perceived
dwelt. not when she lay down, nor
30 ¶ And Lot went up out of when she arose.
Zoar, and dwelt in the 36 Thus were both the
mountain, and his two daughters of Lot with child by
daughters with him; for he their father.
feared to dwell in Zoar: and he 37 And the firstborn bare a
dwelt in a cave, he and his two son, and called his name
daughters. Moab: the same is the father
31 And the firstborn said unto of the Moabites unto this day.
the younger, Our father is old, 38 And the younger, she also
and there is not a man in the bare a son, and called his
earth to come in unto us after name Ben-ammi: the same is
the manner of all the earth: the father of the children of
32 Come, let us make our Ammon unto this day.
father drink wine, and we will
lie with him, that we may CHAPTER 20
preserve seed of our father. AND Abraham journeyed
33 And they made their father from thence toward the south
drink wine that night: and the country, and dwelled between
firstborn went in, and lay with Kadesh and Shur, and
her father; and he perceived sojourned in Gerar.
not when she lay down, nor 2 And Abraham said of Sarah
when she arose. his wife, She is my sister: and
34 And it came to pass on the Abimelech king of Gerar sent,
morrow, that the firstborn said and took Sarah.
unto the younger, Behold, I 3 But God came to Abimelech
lay yesternight with my father: in a dream by night, and said
let us make him drink wine to him, Behold, thou art but a
this night also; and go thou in, dead man, for the woman
and lie with him, that we may which thou hast taken; for she
preserve seed of our father. is a man’s wife.
35 And they made their father 4 But Abimelech had not
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and oxen, and gave them unto tempt Abraham, and said unto
Abimelech; and both of them him, Abraham: and he said,
made a covenant. Behold, here I am.
28 And Abraham set seven 2 And he said, Take now thy
ewe lambs of the flock by son, thine only son Isaac,
themselves. whom thou lovest, and get
29 And Abimelech said unto thee into the land of Moriah;
Abraham, What mean these and offer him there for a burnt
seven ewe lambs which thou offering upon one of the
hast set by themselves? mountains which I will tell
30 And he said, For these thee of.
seven ewe lambs shalt thou 3 ¶ And Abraham rose up
take of my hand, that they early in the morning, and
may be a witness unto me, that saddled his ass, and took two
I have digged this well. of his young men with him,
31 Wherefore he called that and Isaac his son, and clave
place Beer-sheba; because the wood for the burnt
there they sware both of them. offering, and rose up, and
32 Thus they made a covenant went unto the place of which
at Beer-sheba: then Abimelech God had told him.
rose up, and Phichol the chief 4 Then on the third day
captain of his host, and they Abraham lifted up his eyes,
returned into the land of the and saw the place afar off.
Philistines. 5 And Abraham said unto his
33 ¶ And Abraham planted a young men, Abide ye here
grove in Beer-sheba, and with the ass; and I and the lad
called there on the name of the will go yonder and worship,
LORD, the everlasting God. and come again to you.
34 And Abraham sojourned in 6 And Abraham took the
the Philistines’ land many wood of the burnt offering,
days. and laid it upon Isaac his son;
and he took the fire in his
CHAPTER 22 hand, and a knife; and they
AND it came to pass after went both of them together.
these things, that God did 7 And Isaac spake unto
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know that thou hast shewed her held his peace, to wit
kindness unto my master. whether the LORD had made
15 ¶ And it came to pass, his journey prosperous or not.
before he had done speaking, 22 And it came to pass, as the
that, behold, Rebekah came camels had done drinking, that
out, who was born to Bethuel, the man took a golden earring
son of Milcah, the wife of of half a shekel weight, and
Nahor, Abraham’s brother, two bracelets for her hands of
with her pitcher upon her ten shekels weight of gold;
shoulder. 23 And said, Whose daughter
16 And the damsel was very art thou? tell me, I pray thee:
fair to look upon, a virgin, is there room in thy father’s
neither had any man known house for us to lodge in?
her: and she went down to the 24 And she said unto him, I
well, and filled her pitcher, am the daughter of Bethuel the
and came up. son of Milcah, which she bare
17 And the servant ran to meet unto Nahor.
her, and said, Let me, I pray 25 She said moreover unto
thee, drink a little water of thy him, We have both straw and
pitcher. provender enough, and room
18 And she said, Drink, my to lodge in.
lord: and she hasted, and let 26 And the man bowed down
down her pitcher upon her his head, and worshipped the
hand, and gave him drink. LORD.
19 And when she had done 27 And he said, Blessed be the
giving him drink, she said, I LORD God of my master
will draw water for thy camels Abraham, who hath not left
also, until they have done destitute my master of his
drinking. mercy and his truth: I being in
20 And she hasted, and the way, the LORD led me to
emptied her pitcher into the the house of my master’s
trough, and ran again unto the brethren.
well to draw water, and drew 28 And the damsel ran, and
for all his camels. told them of her mother’s
21 And the man wondering at house these things.
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the well, and said, O LORD Milcah bare unto him: and I
God of my master Abraham, if put the earring upon her face,
now thou do prosper my way and the bracelets upon her
which I go: hands.
43 Behold, I stand by the well 48 And I bowed down my
of water; and it shall come to head, and worshipped the
pass, that when the virgin LORD, and blessed the LORD
cometh forth to draw water, God of my master Abraham,
and I say to her, Give me, I which had led me in the right
pray thee, a little water of thy way to take my master’s
pitcher to drink; brother’s daughter unto his
44 And she say to me, Both son.
drink thou, and I will also 49 And now if ye will deal
draw for thy camels: let the kindly and truly with my
same be the woman whom the master, tell me: and if not, tell
LORD hath appointed out for me; that I may turn to the right
my master’s son. hand, or to the left.
45 And before I had done 50 Then Laban and Bethuel
speaking in mine heart, answered and said, The thing
behold, Rebekah came forth proceedeth from the LORD: we
with her pitcher on her cannot speak unto thee bad or
shoulder; and she went down good.
unto the well, and drew water: 51 Behold, Rebekah is before
and I said unto her, Let me thee, take her, and go, and let
drink, I pray thee. her be thy master’s son’s wife,
46 And she made haste, and as the LORD hath spoken.
let down her pitcher from her 52 And it came to pass, that,
shoulder, and said, Drink, and when Abraham’s servant
I will give thy camels drink heard their words, he
also: so I drank, and she made worshipped the LORD, bowing
the camels drink also. himself to the earth.
47 And I asked her, and said, 53 And the servant brought
Whose daughter art thou? And forth jewels of silver, and
she said, The daughter of jewels of gold, and raiment,
Bethuel, Nahor’s son, whom and gave them to Rebekah: he
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and thirty and seven years: the other people; and the elder
and he gave up the ghost and shall serve the younger.
died; and was gathered unto 24 ¶ And when her days to be
his people. delivered were fulfilled,
18 And they dwelt from behold, there were twins in
Havilah unto Shur, that is her womb.
before Egypt, as thou goest 25 And the first came out red,
toward Assyria: and he died in all over like an hairy garment;
the presence of all his and they called his name Esau.
brethren. 26 And after that came his
19 ¶ And these are the brother out, and his hand took
generations of Isaac, hold on Esau’s heel; and his
Abraham’s son: Abraham name was called Jacob: and
begat Isaac: Isaac was threescore years old
20 And Isaac was forty years when she bare them.
old when he took Rebekah to 27 And the boys grew: and
wife, the daughter of Bethuel Esau was a cunning hunter, a
the Syrian of Padan-aram, the man of the field; and Jacob
sister to Laban the Syrian. was a plain man, dwelling in
21 And Isaac intreated the tents.
LORD for his wife, because 28 And Isaac loved Esau,
she was barren: and the LORD because he did eat of his
was intreated of him, and venison: but Rebekah loved
Rebekah his wife conceived. Jacob.
22 And the children struggled 29 ¶ And Jacob sod pottage:
together within her; and she and Esau came from the field,
said, If it be so, why am I and he was faint:
thus? And she went to inquire 30 And Esau said to Jacob,
of the LORD. Feed me, I pray thee, with that
23 And the LORD said unto same red pottage; for I am
her, Two nations are in thy faint: therefore was his name
womb, and two manner of called Edom.
people shall be separated from 31 And Jacob said, Sell me
thy bowels; and the one this day thy birthright.
people shall be stronger than 32 And Esau said, Behold, I
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am at the point to die: and heaven, and will give unto thy
what profit shall this birthright seed all these countries; and in
do to me? thy seed shall all the nations
33 And Jacob said, Swear to of the earth be blessed;
me this day; and he sware unto 5 Because that Abraham
him: and he sold his birthright obeyed my voice, and kept my
unto Jacob. charge, my commandments,
34 Then Jacob gave Esau my statutes, and my laws.
bread and pottage of lentiles; 6 ¶ And Isaac dwelt in Gerar:
and he did eat and drink, and 7 And the men of the place
rose up, and went his way: asked him of his wife; and he
thus Esau despised his said, She is my sister: for he
birthright. feared to say, She is my wife;
lest, said he, the men of the
CHAPTER 26 place should kill me for
AND there was a famine in Rebekah; because she was fair
the land, beside the first to look upon.
famine that was in the days of 8 And it came to pass, when
Abraham. And Isaac went he had been there a long time,
unto Abimelech king of the that Abimelech king of the
Philistines unto Gerar. Philistines looked out at a
2 And the LORD appeared window, and saw, and,
unto him, and said, Go not behold, Isaac was sporting
down into Egypt; dwell in the with Rebekah his wife.
land which I shall tell thee of: 9 And Abimelech called Isaac,
3 Sojourn in this land, and I and said, Behold, of a surety
will be with thee, and will she is thy wife: and how saidst
bless thee; for unto thee, and thou, She is my sister? And
unto thy seed, I will give all Isaac said unto him, Because I
these countries, and I will said, Lest I die for her.
perform the oath which I 10 And Abimelech said, What
sware unto Abraham thy is this thou hast done unto us?
father; one of the people might lightly
4 And I will make thy seed to have lien with thy wife, and
multiply as the stars of thou shouldest have brought
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such as I love, and bring it to will feel me, and I shall seem
me, that I may eat; that my to him as a deceiver; and I
soul may bless thee before I shall bring a curse upon me,
die. and not a blessing.
5 And Rebekah heard when 13 And his mother said unto
Isaac spake to Esau his son. him, Upon me be thy curse,
And Esau went to the field to my son: only obey my voice,
hunt for venison, and to bring and go fetch me them.
it. 14 And he went, and fetched,
6 ¶ And Rebekah spake unto and brought them to his
Jacob her son, saying, Behold, mother: and his mother made
I heard thy father speak unto savoury meat, such as his
Esau thy brother, saying, father loved.
7 Bring me venison, and make 15 And Rebekah took goodly
me savoury meat, that I may raiment of her eldest son Esau,
eat, and bless thee before the which were with her in the
LORD before my death. house, and put them upon
8 Now therefore, my son, Jacob her younger son:
obey my voice according to 16 And she put the skins of
that which I command thee. the kids of the goats upon his
9 Go now to the flock, and hands, and upon the smooth of
fetch me from thence two his neck:
good kids of the goats; and I 17 And she gave the savoury
will make them savoury meat meat and the bread, which she
for thy father, such as he had prepared, into the hand of
loveth: her son Jacob.
10 And thou shalt bring it to 18 ¶ And he came unto his
thy father, that he may eat, and father, and said, My father:
that he may bless thee before and he said, Here am I; who
his death. art thou, my son?
11 And Jacob said to Rebekah 19 And Jacob said unto his
his mother, Behold, Esau my father, I am Esau thy firstborn;
brother is a hairy man, and I I have done according as thou
am a smooth man: badest me: arise, I pray thee,
12 My father peradventure sit and eat of my venison, that
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thy soul may bless me. kissed him: and he smelled the
20 And Isaac said unto his smell of his raiment, and
son, How is it that thou hast blessed him, and said, See, the
found it so quickly, my son? smell of my son is as the smell
And he said, Because the of a field which the LORD hath
LORD thy God brought it to blessed:
me. 28 Therefore God give thee of
21 And Isaac said unto Jacob, the dew of heaven, and the
Come near, I pray thee, that I fatness of the earth, and plenty
may feel thee, my son, of corn and wine:
whether thou be my very son 29 Let people serve thee, and
Esau or not. nations bow down to thee: be
22 And Jacob went near unto lord over thy brethren, and let
Isaac his father; and he felt thy mother’s sons bow down
him, and said, The voice is to thee: cursed be every one
Jacob’s voice, but the hands that curseth thee, and blessed
are the hands of Esau. be he that blesseth thee.
23 And he discerned him not, 30 ¶ And it came to pass, as
because his hands were hairy, soon as Isaac had made an end
as his brother Esau’s hands: so of blessing Jacob, and Jacob
he blessed him. was yet scarce gone out from
24 And he said, Art thou my the presence of Isaac his
very son Esau? And he said, I father, that Esau his brother
am. came in from his hunting.
25 And he said, Bring it near 31 And he also had made
to me, and I will eat of my savoury meat, and brought it
son’s venison, that my soul unto his father, and said unto
may bless thee. And he his father, Let my father arise,
brought it near to him, and he and eat of his son’s venison,
did eat: and he brought him that thy soul may bless me.
wine, and he drank. 32 And Isaac his father said
26 And his father Isaac said unto him, Who art thou? And
unto him, Come near now, and he said, I am thy son, thy
kiss me, my son. firstborn Esau.
27 And he came near, and 33 And Isaac trembled very
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10 ¶ And Jacob went out from land; for I will not leave thee,
Beer-sheba, and went toward until I have done that which I
Haran. have spoken to thee of.
11 And he lighted upon a 16 ¶ And Jacob awaked out of
certain place, and tarried there his sleep, and he said, Surely
all night, because the sun was the LORD is in this place; and I
set; and he took of the stones knew it not.
of that place, and put them for 17 And he was afraid, and
his pillows, and lay down in said, How dreadful is this
that place to sleep. place! this is none other but
12 And he dreamed, and the house of God, and this is
behold a ladder set up on the the gate of heaven.
earth, and the top of it reached 18 And Jacob rose up early in
to heaven: and behold the the morning, and took the
angels of God ascending and stone that he had put for his
descending on it. pillows, and set it up for a
13 And, behold, the LORD pillar, and poured oil upon the
stood above it, and said, I am top of it.
the LORD God of Abraham thy 19 And he called the name of
father, and the God of Isaac: that place Beth-el: but the
the land whereon thou liest, to name of that city was called
thee will I give it, and to thy Luz at the first.
seed; 20 And Jacob vowed a vow,
14 And thy seed shall be as saying, If God will be with
the dust of the earth, and thou me, and will keep me in this
shalt spread abroad to the way that I go, and will give
west, and to the east, and to me bread to eat, and raiment
the north, and to the south: to put on,
and in thee and in thy seed 21 So that I come again to my
shall all the families of the father’s house in peace; then
earth be blessed. shall the LORD be my God:
15 And, behold, I am with 22 And this stone, which I
thee, and will keep thee in all have set for a pillar, shall be
places whither thou goest, and God’s house: and of all that
will bring thee again into this thou shalt give me I will
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surely give the tenth unto thee. the cattle should be gathered
together: water ye the sheep,
CHAPTER 29 and go and feed them.
THEN Jacob went on his 8 And they said, We cannot,
journey, and came into the until all the flocks be gathered
land of the people of the east. together, and till they roll the
2 And he looked, and behold a stone from the well’s mouth;
well in the field, and, lo, there then we water the sheep.
were three flocks of sheep 9 ¶ And while he yet spake
lying by it; for out of that well with them, Rachel came with
they watered the flocks: and a her father’s sheep: for she kept
great stone was upon the them.
well’s mouth. 10 And it came to pass, when
3 And thither were all the Jacob saw Rachel the daughter
flocks gathered: and they of Laban his mother’s brother,
rolled the stone from the and the sheep of Laban his
well’s mouth, and watered the mother’s brother, that Jacob
sheep, and put the stone again went near, and rolled the stone
upon the well’s mouth in his from the well’s mouth, and
place. watered the flock of Laban his
4 And Jacob said unto them, mother’s brother.
My brethren, whence be ye? 11 And Jacob kissed Rachel,
And they said, Of Haran are and lifted up his voice, and
we. wept.
5 And he said unto them, 12 And Jacob told Rachel that
Know ye Laban the son of he was her father’s brother,
Nahor? And they said, We and that he was Rebekah’s
know him. son: and she ran and told her
6 And he said unto them, Is he father.
well? And they said, He is 13 And it came to pass, when
well: and, behold, Rachel his Laban heard the tidings of
daughter cometh with the Jacob his sister’s son, that he
sheep. ran to meet him, and embraced
7 And he said, Lo, it is yet him, and kissed him, and
high day, neither is it time that brought him to his house. And
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served with him yet seven Rachel envied her sister; and
other years. said unto Jacob, Give me
31 ¶ And when the LORD saw children, or else I die.
that Leah was hated, he 2 And Jacob’s anger was
opened her womb: but Rachel kindled against Rachel: and he
was barren. said, Am I in God’s stead, who
32 And Leah conceived, and hath withheld from thee the
bare a son, and she called his fruit of the womb?
name Reuben: for she said, 3 And she said, Behold my
Surely the LORD hath looked maid Bilhah, go in unto her;
upon my affliction; now and she shall bear upon my
therefore my husband will knees, that I may also have
love me. children by her.
33 And she conceived again, 4 And she gave him Bilhah
and bare a son; and said, her handmaid to wife: and
Because the LORD hath heard Jacob went in unto her.
that I was hated, he hath 5 And Bilhah conceived, and
therefore given me this son bare Jacob a son.
also: and she called his name 6 And Rachel said, God hath
Simeon. judged me, and hath also
34 And she conceived again, heard my voice, and hath
and bare a son; and said, Now given me a son: therefore
this time will my husband be called she his name Dan.
joined unto me, because I have 7 And Bilhah Rachel’s maid
born him three sons: therefore conceived again, and bare
was his name called Levi. Jacob a second son.
35 And she conceived again, 8 And Rachel said, With great
and bare a son: and she said, wrestlings have I wrestled
Now will I praise the LORD: with my sister, and I have
therefore she called his name prevailed: and she called his
Judah; and left bearing. name Naphtali.
9 When Leah saw that she had
CHAPTER 30 left bearing, she took Zilpah
AND when Rachel saw that her maid, and gave her Jacob
she bare Jacob no children, to wife.
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troughs when the flocks came hath taken away all that was
to drink, that they should our father’s; and of that which
conceive when they came to was our father’s hath he gotten
drink. all this glory.
39 And the flocks conceived 2 And Jacob beheld the
before the rods, and brought countenance of Laban, and,
forth cattle ringstraked, behold, it was not toward him
speckled, and spotted. as before.
40 And Jacob did separate the 3 And the LORD said unto
lambs, and set the faces of the Jacob, Return unto the land of
flocks toward the ringstraked, thy fathers, and to thy kindred;
and all the brown in the flock and I will be with thee.
of Laban; and he put his own 4 And Jacob sent and called
flocks by themselves, and put Rachel and Leah to the field
them not unto Laban’s cattle. unto his flock,
41 And it came to pass, 5 And said unto them, I see
whensoever the stronger cattle your father’s countenance, that
did conceive, that Jacob laid it is not toward me as before;
the rods before the eyes of the but the God of my father hath
cattle in the gutters, that they been with me.
might conceive among the 6 And ye know that with all
rods. my power I have served your
42 But when the cattle were father.
feeble, he put them not in: so 7 And your father hath
the feebler were Laban’s, and deceived me, and changed my
the stronger Jacob’s. wages ten times; but God
43 And the man increased suffered him not to hurt me.
exceedingly, and had much 8 If he said thus, The speckled
cattle, and maidservants, and shall be thy wages; then all the
menservants, and camels, and cattle bare speckled: and if he
asses. said thus, The ringstraked
shall be thy hire; then bare all
CHAPTER 31 the cattle ringstraked.
AND he heard the words of 9 Thus God hath taken away
Laban’s sons, saying, Jacob the cattle of your father, and
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thee; for the custom of women thy cattle: and thou hast
is upon me. And he searched, changed my wages ten times.
but found not the images. 42 Except the God of my
36 ¶ And Jacob was wroth, father, the God of Abraham,
and chode with Laban: and and the fear of Isaac, had been
Jacob answered and said to with me, surely thou hadst
Laban, What is my trespass? sent me away now empty.
what is my sin, that thou hast God hath seen mine affliction
so hotly pursued after me? and the labour of my hands,
37 Whereas thou hast searched and rebuked thee yesternight.
all my stuff, what hast thou 43 ¶ And Laban answered and
found of all thy household said unto Jacob, These
stuff? set it here before my daughters are my daughters,
brethren and thy brethren, that and these children are my
they may judge betwixt us children, and these cattle are
both. my cattle, and all that thou
38 This twenty years have I seest is mine: and what can I
been with thee; thy ewes and do this day unto these my
thy she goats have not cast daughters, or unto their
their young, and the rams of children which they have
thy flock have I not eaten. born?
39 That which was torn of 44 Now therefore come thou,
beasts I brought not unto thee; let us make a covenant, I and
I bare the loss of it; of my thou; and let it be for a witness
hand didst thou require it, between me and thee.
whether stolen by day, or 45 And Jacob took a stone,
stolen by night. and set it up for a pillar.
40 Thus I was; in the day the 46 And Jacob said unto his
drought consumed me, and the brethren, Gather stones; and
frost by night; and my sleep they took stones, and made an
departed from mine eyes. heap: and they did eat there
41 Thus have I been twenty upon the heap.
years in thy house; I served 47 And Laban called it Jegar-
thee fourteen years for thy two sahadutha: but Jacob called it
daughters, and six years for Galeed.
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him. multitude.
7 Then Jacob was greatly 13 ¶ And he lodged there that
afraid and distressed: and he same night; and took of that
divided the people that was which came to his hand a
with him, and the flocks, and present for Esau his brother;
herds, and the camels, into 14 Two hundred she goats,
two bands; and twenty he goats, two
8 And said, If Esau come to hundred ewes, and twenty
the one company, and smite it, rams,
then the other company which 15 Thirty milch camels with
is left shall escape. their colts, forty kine, and ten
9 ¶ And Jacob said, O God of bulls, twenty she asses, and
my father Abraham, and God ten foals.
of my father Isaac, the LORD 16 And he delivered them into
which saidst unto me, Return the hand of his servants, every
unto thy country, and to thy drove by themselves; and said
kindred, and I will deal well unto his servants, Pass over
with thee: before me, and put a space
10 I am not worthy of the least betwixt drove and drove.
of all the mercies, and of all 17 And he commanded the
the truth, which thou hast foremost, saying, When Esau
shewed unto thy servant; for my brother meeteth thee, and
with my staff I passed over asketh thee, saying, Whose art
this Jordan; and now I am thou? and whither goest thou?
become two bands. and whose are these before
11 Deliver me, I pray thee, thee?
from the hand of my brother, 18 Then thou shalt say, They
from the hand of Esau: for I be thy servant Jacob’s; it is a
fear him, lest he will come and present sent unto my lord
smite me, and the mother with Esau: and, behold, also he is
the children. behind us.
12 And thou saidst, I will 19 And so commanded he the
surely do thee good, and make second, and the third, and all
thy seed as the sand of the sea, that followed the droves,
which cannot be numbered for saying, On this manner shall
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the strange gods which were name: and he called his name
in their hand, and all their Israel.
earrings which were in their 11 And God said unto him, I
ears; and Jacob hid them am God Almighty: be fruitful
under the oak which was by and multiply; a nation and a
Shechem. company of nations shall be of
5 And they journeyed: and the thee, and kings shall come out
terror of God was upon the of thy loins;
cities that were round about 12 And the land which I gave
them, and they did not pursue Abraham and Isaac, to thee I
after the sons of Jacob. will give it, and to thy seed
6 ¶ So Jacob came to Luz, after thee will I give the land.
which is in the land of 13 And God went up from
Canaan, that is, Beth-el, he him in the place where he
and all the people that were talked with him.
with him. 14 And Jacob set up a pillar in
7 And he built there an altar, the place where he talked with
and called the place El-beth- him, even a pillar of stone: and
el: because there God he poured a drink offering
appeared unto him, when he thereon, and he poured oil
fled from the face of his thereon.
brother. 15 And Jacob called the name
8 But Deborah Rebekah’s of the place where God spake
nurse died, and she was buried with him, Beth-el.
beneath Beth-el under an oak: 16 ¶ And they journeyed from
and the name of it was called Beth-el; and there was but a
Allon-bachuth. little way to come to Ephrath:
9 ¶ And God appeared unto and Rachel travailed, and she
Jacob again, when he came had hard labour.
out of Padan-aram, and 17 And it came to pass, when
blessed him. she was in hard labour, that
10 And God said unto him, the midwife said unto her,
Thy name is Jacob: thy name Fear not; thou shalt have this
shall not be called any more son also.
Jacob, but Israel shall be thy 18 And it came to pass, as her
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soul was in departing, (for she unto the city of Arbah, which
died) that she called his name is Hebron, where Abraham
Ben-oni: but his father called and Isaac sojourned.
him Benjamin. 28 And the days of Isaac were
19 And Rachel died, and was an hundred and fourscore
buried in the way to Ephrath, years.
which is Beth-lehem. 29 And Isaac gave up the
20 And Jacob set a pillar upon ghost, and died, and was
her grave: that is the pillar of gathered unto his people,
Rachel’s grave unto this day. being old and full of days: and
21 ¶ And Israel journeyed, and his sons Esau and Jacob
spread his tent beyond the buried him.
tower of Edar.
22 And it came to pass, when CHAPTER 36
Israel dwelt in that land, that NOW these are the
Reuben went and lay with generations of Esau, who is
Bilhah his father’s concubine: Edom.
and Israel heard it. Now the 2 Esau took his wives of the
sons of Jacob were twelve: daughters of Canaan; Adah the
23 The sons of Leah; Reuben, daughter of Elon the Hittite,
Jacob’s firstborn, and Simeon, and Aholibamah the daughter
and Levi, and Judah, and of Anah the daughter of
Issachar, and Zebulun: Zibeon the Hivite;
24 The sons of Rachel; 3 And Bashemath Ishmael’s
Joseph, and Benjamin: daughter, sister of Nebajoth.
25 And the sons of Bilhah, 4 And Adah bare to Esau
Rachel’s handmaid; Dan, and Eliphaz; and Bashemath bare
Naphtali: Reuel;
26 And the sons of Zilpah, 5 And Aholibamah bare Jeush,
Leah’s handmaid; Gad, and and Jaalam, and Korah: these
Asher: these are the sons of are the sons of Esau, which
Jacob, which were born to him were born unto him in the land
in Padan-aram. of Canaan.
27 ¶ And Jacob came unto 6 And Esau took his wives,
Isaac his father unto Mamre, and his sons, and his
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over us? or shalt thou indeed well with thy brethren, and
have dominion over us? And well with the flocks; and bring
they hated him yet the more me word again. So he sent him
for his dreams, and for his out of the vale of Hebron, and
words. he came to Shechem.
9 ¶ And he dreamed yet 15 ¶ And a certain man found
another dream, and told it his him, and, behold, he was
brethren, and said, Behold, I wandering in the field: and the
have dreamed a dream more; man asked him, saying, What
and, behold, the sun and the seekest thou?
moon and the eleven stars 16 And he said, I seek my
made obeisance to me. brethren: tell me, I pray thee,
10 And he told it to his father, where they feed their flocks.
and to his brethren: and his 17 And the man said, They are
father rebuked him, and said departed hence; for I heard
unto him, What is this dream them say, Let us go to Dothan.
that thou hast dreamed? Shall And Joseph went after his
I and thy mother and thy brethren, and found them in
brethren indeed come to bow Dothan.
down ourselves to thee to the 18 And when they saw him
earth? afar off, even before he came
11 And his brethren envied near unto them, they conspired
him; but his father observed against him to slay him.
the saying. 19 And they said one to
12 ¶ And his brethren went to another, Behold, this dreamer
feed their father’s flock in cometh.
Shechem. 20 Come now therefore, and
13 And Israel said unto let us slay him, and cast him
Joseph, Do not thy brethren into some pit, and we will say,
feed the flock in Shechem? Some evil beast hath devoured
come, and I will send thee him: and we shall see what
unto them. And he said to will become of his dreams.
him, Here am I. 21 And Reuben heard it, and
14 And he said to him, Go, I he delivered him out of their
pray thee, see whether it be hands; and said, Let us not kill
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30 And there shall arise after 37 ¶ And the thing was good
them seven years of famine; in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in
and all the plenty shall be the eyes of all his servants.
forgotten in the land of Egypt; 38 And Pharaoh said unto his
and the famine shall consume servants, Can we find such a
the land; one as this is, a man in whom
31 And the plenty shall not be the Spirit of God is?
known in the land by reason 39 And Pharaoh said unto
of that famine following; for it Joseph, Forasmuch as God
shall be very grievous. hath shewed thee all this, there
32 And for that the dream was is none so discreet and wise as
doubled unto Pharaoh twice; it thou art:
is because the thing is 40 Thou shalt be over my
established by God, and God house, and according unto thy
will shortly bring it to pass. word shall all my people be
33 Now therefore let Pharaoh ruled: only in the throne will I
look out a man discreet and be greater than thou.
wise, and set him over the 41 And Pharaoh said unto
land of Egypt. Joseph, See, I have set thee
34 Let Pharaoh do this, and let over all the land of Egypt.
him appoint officers over the 42 And Pharaoh took off his
land, and take up the fifth part ring from his hand, and put it
of the land of Egypt in the upon Joseph’s hand, and
seven plenteous years. arrayed him in vestures of fine
35 And let them gather all the linen, and put a gold chain
food of those good years that about his neck;
come, and lay up corn under 43 And he made him to ride in
the hand of Pharaoh, and let the second chariot which he
them keep food in the cities. had; and they cried before
36 And that food shall be for him, Bow the knee: and he
store to the land against the made him ruler over all the
seven years of famine, which land of Egypt.
shall be in the land of Egypt; 44 And Pharaoh said unto
that the land perish not Joseph, I am Pharaoh, and
through the famine. without thee shall no man lift
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corn; because that the famine but made himself strange unto
was so sore in all lands. them, and spake roughly unto
them; and he said unto them,
CHAPTER 42 Whence come ye? And they
NOW when Jacob saw that said, From the land of Canaan
there was corn in Egypt, Jacob to buy food.
said unto his sons, Why do ye 8 And Joseph knew his
look one upon another? brethren, but they knew not
2 And he said, Behold, I have him.
heard that there is corn in 9 And Joseph remembered the
Egypt: get you down thither, dreams which he dreamed of
and buy for us from thence; them, and said unto them, Ye
that we may live, and not die. are spies; to see the nakedness
3 ¶ And Joseph’s ten brethren of the land ye are come.
went down to buy corn in 10 And they said unto him,
Egypt. Nay, my lord, but to buy food
4 But Benjamin, Joseph’s are thy servants come.
brother, Jacob sent not with 11 We are all one man’s sons;
his brethren; for he said, Lest we are true men, thy servants
peradventure mischief befall are no spies.
him. 12 And he said unto them,
5 And the sons of Israel came Nay, but to see the nakedness
to buy corn among those that of the land ye are come.
came: for the famine was in 13 And they said, Thy
the land of Canaan. servants are twelve brethren,
6 And Joseph was the the sons of one man in the
governor over the land, and he land of Canaan; and, behold,
it was that sold to all the the youngest is this day with
people of the land: and our father, and one is not.
Joseph’s brethren came, and 14 And Joseph said unto them,
bowed down themselves That is it that I spake unto
before him with their faces to you, saying, Ye are spies:
the earth. 15 Hereby ye shall be proved:
7 And Joseph saw his By the life of Pharaoh ye shall
brethren, and he knew them, not go forth hence, except
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law, and said unto him, Let LORD met him, and sought to
me go, I pray thee, and return kill him.
unto my brethren which are in 25 Then Zipporah took a sharp
Egypt, and see whether they stone, and cut off the foreskin
be yet alive. And Jethro said of her son, and cast it at his
to Moses, Go in peace. feet, and said, Surely a bloody
19 And the LORD said unto husband art thou to me.
Moses in Midian, Go, return 26 So he let him go: then she
into Egypt: for all the men are said, A bloody husband thou
dead which sought thy life. art, because of the
20 And Moses took his wife circumcision.
and his sons, and set them 27 ¶ And the LORD said to
upon an ass, and he returned Aaron, Go into the wilderness
to the land of Egypt: and to meet Moses. And he went,
Moses took the rod of God in and met him in the mount of
his hand. God, and kissed him.
21 And the LORD said unto 28 And Moses told Aaron all
Moses, When thou goest to the words of the LORD who
return into Egypt, see that had sent him, and all the signs
thou do all those wonders which he had commanded
before Pharaoh, which I have him.
put in thine hand: but I will 29 ¶ And Moses and Aaron
harden his heart, that he shall went and gathered together all
not let the people go. the elders of the children of
22 And thou shalt say unto Israel:
Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD, 30 And Aaron spake all the
Israel is my son, even my words which the LORD had
firstborn: spoken unto Moses, and did
23 And I say unto thee, Let the signs in the sight of the
my son go, that he may serve people.
me: and if thou refuse to let 31 And the people believed:
him go, behold, I will slay thy and when they heard that the
son, even thy firstborn. LORD had visited the children
24 ¶ And it came to pass by of Israel, and that he had
the way in the inn, that the looked upon their affliction,
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30 And Moses said before the 6 And Moses and Aaron did
LORD, Behold, I am of as the LORD commanded
uncircumcised lips, and how them, so did they.
shall Pharaoh hearken unto 7 And Moses was fourscore
me? years old, and Aaron fourscore
and three years old, when they
CHAPTER 7 spake unto Pharaoh.
AND the LORD said unto 8 ¶ And the LORD spake unto
Moses, See, I have made thee Moses and unto Aaron,
a god to Pharaoh: and Aaron saying,
thy brother shall be thy 9 When Pharaoh shall speak
prophet. unto you, saying, Shew a
2 Thou shalt speak all that I miracle for you: then thou
command thee: and Aaron thy shalt say unto Aaron, Take thy
brother shall speak unto rod, and cast it before
Pharaoh, that he send the Pharaoh, and it shall become a
children of Israel out of his serpent.
land. 10 ¶ And Moses and Aaron
3 And I will harden Pharaoh’s went in unto Pharaoh, and
heart, and multiply my signs they did so as the LORD had
and my wonders in the land of commanded: and Aaron cast
Egypt. down his rod before Pharaoh,
4 But Pharaoh shall not and before his servants, and it
hearken unto you, that I may became a serpent.
lay my hand upon Egypt, and 11 Then Pharaoh also called
bring forth mine armies, and the wise men and the
my people the children of sorcerers: now the magicians
Israel, out of the land of Egypt of Egypt, they also did in like
by great judgments. manner with their
5 And the Egyptians shall enchantments.
know that I am the LORD, 12 For they cast down every
when I stretch forth mine hand man his rod, and they became
upon Egypt, and bring out the serpents: but Aaron’s rod
children of Israel from among swallowed up their rods.
them. 13 And he hardened Pharaoh’s
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went into his house, neither Stretch forth thine hand with
did he set his heart to this also. thy rod over the streams, over
24 And all the Egyptians the rivers, and over the ponds,
digged round about the river and cause frogs to come up
for water to drink; for they upon the land of Egypt.
could not drink of the water of 6 And Aaron stretched out his
the river. hand over the waters of Egypt;
25 And seven days were and the frogs came up, and
fulfilled, after that the LORD covered the land of Egypt.
had smitten the river. 7 And the magicians did so
with their enchantments, and
CHAPTER 8 brought up frogs upon the land
AND the LORD spake unto of Egypt.
Moses, Go unto Pharaoh, and 8 ¶ Then Pharaoh called for
say unto him, Thus saith the Moses and Aaron, and said,
LORD, Let my people go, that Intreat the LORD, that he may
they may serve me. take away the frogs from me,
2 And if thou refuse to let and from my people; and I
them go, behold, I will smite will let the people go, that
all thy borders with frogs: they may do sacrifice unto the
3 And the river shall bring LORD.
forth frogs abundantly, which 9 And Moses said unto
shall go up and come into Pharaoh, Glory over me: when
thine house, and into thy shall I intreat for thee, and for
bedchamber, and upon thy thy servants, and for thy
bed, and into the house of thy people, to destroy the frogs
servants, and upon thy people, from thee and thy houses, that
and into thine ovens, and into they may remain in the river
thy kneadingtroughs: only?
4 And the frogs shall come up 10 And he said, To morrow.
both on thee, and upon thy And he said, Be it according to
people, and upon all thy thy word: that thou mayest
servants. know that there is none like
5 ¶ And the LORD spake unto unto the LORD our God.
Moses, Say unto Aaron, 11 And the frogs shall depart
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is in the field, upon the horses, and upon beast, throughout all
upon the asses, upon the the land of Egypt.
camels, upon the oxen, and 10 And they took ashes of the
upon the sheep: there shall be furnace, and stood before
a very grievous murrain. Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled
4 And the LORD shall sever it up toward heaven; and it
between the cattle of Israel became a boil breaking forth
and the cattle of Egypt: and with blains upon man, and
there shall nothing die of all upon beast.
that is the children’s of Israel. 11 And the magicians could
5 And the LORD appointed a not stand before Moses
set time, saying, To morrow because of the boils; for the
the LORD shall do this thing in boil was upon the magicians,
the land. and upon all the Egyptians.
6 And the LORD did that thing 12 And the LORD hardened
on the morrow, and all the the heart of Pharaoh, and he
cattle of Egypt died: but of the hearkened not unto them; as
cattle of the children of Israel the LORD had spoken unto
died not one. Moses.
7 And Pharaoh sent, and, 13 ¶ And the LORD said unto
behold, there was not one of Moses, Rise up early in the
the cattle of the Israelites morning, and stand before
dead. And the heart of Pharaoh, and say unto him,
Pharaoh was hardened, and he Thus saith the LORD God of
did not let the people go. the Hebrews, Let my people
8 ¶ And the LORD said unto go, that they may serve me.
Moses and unto Aaron, Take 14 For I will at this time send
to you handfuls of ashes of the all my plagues upon thine
furnace, and let Moses heart, and upon thy servants,
sprinkle it toward the heaven and upon thy people; that thou
in the sight of Pharaoh. mayest know that there is
9 And it shall become small none like me in all the earth.
dust in all the land of Egypt, 15 For now I will stretch out
and shall be a boil breaking my hand, that I may smite thee
forth with blains upon man, and thy people with
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wherefore hast thou dealt thus follow them: and I will get me
with us, to carry us forth out honour upon Pharaoh, and
of Egypt? upon all his host, upon his
12 Is not this the word that we chariots, and upon his
did tell thee in Egypt, saying, horsemen.
Let us alone, that we may 18 And the Egyptians shall
serve the Egyptians? For it know that I am the LORD,
had been better for us to serve when I have gotten me honour
the Egyptians, than that we upon Pharaoh, upon his
should die in the wilderness. chariots, and upon his
13 ¶ And Moses said unto the horsemen.
people, Fear ye not, stand still, 19 ¶ And the angel of God,
and see the salvation of the which went before the camp
LORD, which he will shew to of Israel, removed and went
you to day: for the Egyptians behind them; and the pillar of
whom ye have seen to day, ye the cloud went from before
shall see them again no more their face, and stood behind
for ever. them:
14 The LORD shall fight for 20 And it came between the
you, and ye shall hold your camp of the Egyptians and the
peace. camp of Israel; and it was a
15 ¶ And the LORD said unto cloud and darkness to them,
Moses, Wherefore criest thou but it gave light by night to
unto me? speak unto the these: so that the one came not
children of Israel, that they go near the other all the night.
forward: 21 And Moses stretched out
16 But lift thou up thy rod, his hand over the sea; and the
and stretch out thine hand over LORD caused the sea to go
the sea, and divide it: and the back by a strong east wind all
children of Israel shall go on that night, and made the sea
dry ground through the midst dry land, and the waters were
of the sea. divided.
17 And I, behold, I will 22 And the children of Israel
harden the hearts of the went into the midst of the sea
Egyptians, and they shall upon the dry ground: and the
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from Elim, and all the 6 And Moses and Aaron said
congregation of the children of unto all the children of Israel,
Israel came unto the At even, then ye shall know
wilderness of Sin, which is that the LORD hath brought
between Elim and Sinai, on you out from the land of
the fifteenth day of the second Egypt:
month after their departing out 7 And in the morning, then ye
of the land of Egypt. shall see the glory of the
2 And the whole congregation LORD; for that he heareth your
of the children of Israel murmurings against the LORD:
murmured against Moses and and what are we, that ye
Aaron in the wilderness: murmur against us?
3 And the children of Israel 8 And Moses said, This shall
said unto them, Would to God be, when the LORD shall give
we had died by the hand of the you in the evening flesh to eat,
LORD in the land of Egypt, and in the morning bread to
when we sat by the flesh pots, the full; for that the LORD
and when we did eat bread to heareth your murmurings
the full; for ye have brought which ye murmur against him:
us forth into this wilderness, and what are we? your
to kill this whole assembly murmurings are not against
with hunger. us, but against the LORD.
4 ¶ Then said the LORD unto 9 ¶ And Moses spake unto
Moses, Behold, I will rain Aaron, Say unto all the
bread from heaven for you; congregation of the children of
and the people shall go out Israel, Come near before the
and gather a certain rate every LORD: for he hath heard your
day, that I may prove them, murmurings.
whether they will walk in my 10 And it came to pass, as
law, or no. Aaron spake unto the whole
5 And it shall come to pass, congregation of the children of
that on the sixth day they shall Israel, that they looked toward
prepare that which they bring the wilderness, and, behold,
in; and it shall be twice as the glory of the LORD
much as they gather daily. appeared in the cloud.
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11 ¶ And the LORD spake unto man for them which are in his
Moses, saying, tents.
12 I have heard the 17 And the children of Israel
murmurings of the children of did so, and gathered, some
Israel: speak unto them, more, some less.
saying, At even ye shall eat 18 And when they did mete it
flesh, and in the morning ye with an omer, he that gathered
shall be filled with bread; and much had nothing over, and he
ye shall know that I am the that gathered little had no
LORD your God. lack; they gathered every man
13 And it came to pass, that at according to his eating.
even the quails came up, and 19 And Moses said, Let no
covered the camp: and in the man leave of it till the
morning the dew lay round morning.
about the host. 20 Notwithstanding they
14 And when the dew that lay hearkened not unto Moses; but
was gone up, behold, upon the some of them left of it until
face of the wilderness there the morning, and it bred
lay a small round thing, as worms, and stank: and Moses
small as the hoar frost on the was wroth with them.
ground. 21 And they gathered it every
15 And when the children of morning, every man according
Israel saw it, they said one to to his eating: and when the
another, It is manna: for they sun waxed hot, it melted.
wist not what it was. And 22 ¶ And it came to pass, that
Moses said unto them, This is on the sixth day they gathered
the bread which the LORD twice as much bread, two
hath given you to eat. omers for one man: and all the
16 ¶ This is the thing which rulers of the congregation
the LORD hath commanded, came and told Moses.
Gather of it every man 23 And he said unto them,
according to his eating, an This is that which the LORD
omer for every man, hath said, To morrow is the
according to the number of rest of the holy sabbath unto
your persons; take ye every the LORD: bake that which ye
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holy nation. These are the into the mount, or touch the
words which thou shalt speak border of it: whosoever
unto the children of Israel. toucheth the mount shall be
7 ¶ And Moses came and surely put to death:
called for the elders of the 13 There shall not an hand
people, and laid before their touch it, but he shall surely be
faces all these words which stoned, or shot through;
the LORD commanded him. whether it be beast or man, it
8 And all the people answered shall not live: when the
together, and said, All that the trumpet soundeth long, they
LORD hath spoken we will do. shall come up to the mount.
And Moses returned the words 14 ¶ And Moses went down
of the people unto the LORD. from the mount unto the
9 And the LORD said unto people, and sanctified the
Moses, Lo, I come unto thee people; and they washed their
in a thick cloud, that the clothes.
people may hear when I speak 15 And he said unto the
with thee, and believe thee for people, Be ready against the
ever. And Moses told the third day: come not at your
words of the people unto the wives.
LORD. 16 ¶ And it came to pass on
10 ¶ And the LORD said unto the third day in the morning,
Moses, Go unto the people, that there were thunders and
and sanctify them to day and lightnings, and a thick cloud
to morrow, and let them wash upon the mount, and the voice
their clothes, of the trumpet exceeding loud;
11 And be ready against the so that all the people that was
third day: for the third day the in the camp trembled.
LORD will come down in the 17 And Moses brought forth
sight of all the people upon the people out of the camp to
mount Sinai. meet with God; and they stood
12 And thou shalt set bounds at the nether part of the mount.
unto the people round about, 18 And mount Sinai was
saying, Take heed to altogether on a smoke,
yourselves, that ye go not up because the LORD descended
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thou shalt surely bring it back work, and on the seventh day
to him again. thou shalt rest: that thine ox
5 If thou see the ass of him and thine ass may rest, and the
that hateth thee lying under his son of thy handmaid, and the
burden, and wouldest forbear stranger, may be refreshed.
to help him, thou shalt surely 13 And in all things that I
help with him. have said unto you be
6 Thou shalt not wrest the circumspect: and make no
judgment of thy poor in his mention of the name of other
cause. gods, neither let it be heard
7 Keep thee far from a false out of thy mouth.
matter; and the innocent and 14 ¶ Three times thou shalt
righteous slay thou not: for I keep a feast unto me in the
will not justify the wicked. year.
8 ¶ And thou shalt take no 15 Thou shalt keep the feast of
gift: for the gift blindeth the unleavened bread: (thou shalt
wise, and perverteth the words eat unleavened bread seven
of the righteous. days, as I commanded thee, in
9 ¶ Also thou shalt not oppress the time appointed of the
a stranger: for ye know the month Abib; for in it thou
heart of a stranger, seeing ye camest out from Egypt: and
were strangers in the land of none shall appear before me
Egypt. empty:)
10 And six years thou shalt 16 And the feast of harvest,
sow thy land, and shalt gather the firstfruits of thy labours,
in the fruits thereof: which thou hast sown in the
11 But the seventh year thou field: and the feast of
shalt let it rest and lie still; that ingathering, which is in the
the poor of thy people may end of the year, when thou
eat: and what they leave the hast gathered in thy labours
beasts of the field shall eat. In out of the field.
like manner thou shalt deal 17 Three times in the year all
with thy vineyard, and with thy males shall appear before
thy oliveyard. the Lord GOD.
12 Six days thou shalt do thy 18 Thou shalt not offer the
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12 ¶ And the LORD said unto Moses was in the mount forty
Moses, Come up to me into days and forty nights.
the mount, and be there: and I
will give thee tables of stone, CHAPTER 25
and a law, and commandments AND the LORD spake unto
which I have written; that thou Moses, saying,
mayest teach them. 2 Speak unto the children of
13 And Moses rose up, and his Israel, that they bring me an
minister Joshua: and Moses offering: of every man that
went up into the mount of giveth it willingly with his
God. heart ye shall take my
14 And he said unto the offering.
elders, Tarry ye here for us, 3 And this is the offering
until we come again unto you: which ye shall take of them;
and, behold, Aaron and Hur gold, and silver, and brass,
are with you: if any man have 4 And blue, and purple, and
any matters to do, let him scarlet, and fine linen, and
come unto them. goats’ hair,
15 And Moses went up into 5 And rams’ skins dyed red,
the mount, and a cloud and badgers’ skins, and
covered the mount. shittim wood,
16 And the glory of the LORD 6 Oil for the light, spices for
abode upon mount Sinai, and anointing oil, and for sweet
the cloud covered it six days: incense,
and the seventh day he called 7 Onyx stones, and stones to
unto Moses out of the midst of be set in the ephod, and in the
the cloud. breastplate.
17 And the sight of the glory 8 And let them make me a
of the LORD was like sanctuary; that I may dwell
devouring fire on the top of among them.
the mount in the eyes of the 9 According to all that I shew
children of Israel. thee, after the pattern of the
18 And Moses went into the tabernacle, and the pattern of
midst of the cloud, and gat all the instruments thereof,
him up into the mount: and even so shall ye make it.
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rows of stones: the first row the two wreathen chains thou
shall be a sardius, a topaz, and shalt fasten in the two ouches,
a carbuncle: this shall be the and put them on the
first row. shoulderpieces of the ephod
18 And the second row shall before it.
be an emerald, a sapphire, and 26 ¶ And thou shalt make two
a diamond. rings of gold, and thou shalt
19 And the third row a ligure, put them upon the two ends of
an agate, and an amethyst. the breastplate in the border
20 And the fourth row a beryl, thereof, which is in the side of
and an onyx, and a jasper: the ephod inward.
they shall be set in gold in 27 And two other rings of
their inclosings. gold thou shalt make, and
21 And the stones shall be shalt put them on the two
with the names of the children sides of the ephod underneath,
of Israel, twelve, according to toward the forepart thereof,
their names, like the over against the other
engravings of a signet; every coupling thereof, above the
one with his name shall they curious girdle of the ephod.
be according to the twelve 28 And they shall bind the
tribes. breastplate by the rings thereof
22 ¶ And thou shalt make unto the rings of the ephod
upon the breastplate chains at with a lace of blue, that it may
the ends of wreathen work of be above the curious girdle of
pure gold. the ephod, and that the
23 And thou shalt make upon breastplate be not loosed from
the breastplate two rings of the ephod.
gold, and shalt put the two 29 And Aaron shall bear the
rings on the two ends of the names of the children of Israel
breastplate. in the breastplate of judgment
24 And thou shalt put the two upon his heart, when he goeth
wreathen chains of gold in the in unto the holy place, for a
two rings which are on the memorial before the LORD
ends of the breastplate. continually.
25 And the other two ends of 30 ¶ And thou shalt put in the
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These be thy gods, O Israel, and all this land that I have
which have brought thee up spoken of will I give unto
out of the land of Egypt. your seed, and they shall
9 And the LORD said unto inherit it for ever.
Moses, I have seen this 14 And the LORD repented of
people, and, behold, it is a the evil which he thought to
stiffnecked people: do unto his people.
10 Now therefore let me 15 ¶ And Moses turned, and
alone, that my wrath may wax went down from the mount,
hot against them, and that I and the two tables of the
may consume them: and I will testimony were in his hand:
make of thee a great nation. the tables were written on both
11 And Moses besought the their sides; on the one side and
LORD his God, and said, on the other were they written.
LORD, why doth thy wrath 16 And the tables were the
wax hot against thy people, work of God, and the writing
which thou hast brought forth was the writing of God,
out of the land of Egypt with graven upon the tables.
great power, and with a 17 And when Joshua heard the
mighty hand? noise of the people as they
12 Wherefore should the shouted, he said unto Moses,
Egyptians speak, and say, For There is a noise of war in the
mischief did he bring them camp.
out, to slay them in the 18 And he said, It is not the
mountains, and to consume voice of them that shout for
them from the face of the mastery, neither is it the voice
earth? Turn from thy fierce of them that cry for being
wrath, and repent of this evil overcome: but the noise of
against thy people. them that sing do I hear.
13 Remember Abraham, 19 ¶ And it came to pass, as
Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, soon as he came nigh unto the
to whom thou swarest by thine camp, that he saw the calf, and
own self, and saidst unto the dancing: and Moses’ anger
them, I will multiply your waxed hot, and he cast the
seed as the stars of heaven, tables out of his hands, and
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brake them beneath the mount. gate of the camp, and said,
20 And he took the calf which Who is on the LORD’s side?
they had made, and burnt it in let him come unto me. And all
the fire, and ground it to the sons of Levi gathered
powder, and strawed it upon themselves together unto him.
the water, and made the 27 And he said unto them,
children of Israel drink of it. Thus saith the LORD God of
21 And Moses said unto Israel, Put every man his
Aaron, What did this people sword by his side, and go in
unto thee, that thou hast and out from gate to gate
brought so great a sin upon throughout the camp, and slay
them? every man his brother, and
22 And Aaron said, Let not every man his companion, and
the anger of my lord wax hot: every man his neighbour.
thou knowest the people, that 28 And the children of Levi
they are set on mischief. did according to the word of
23 For they said unto me, Moses: and there fell of the
Make us gods, which shall go people that day about three
before us: for as for this thousand men.
Moses, the man that brought 29 For Moses had said,
us up out of the land of Egypt, Consecrate yourselves to day
we wot not what is become of to the LORD, even every man
him. upon his son, and upon his
24 And I said unto them, brother; that he may bestow
Whosoever hath any gold, let upon you a blessing this day.
them break it off. So they gave 30 ¶ And it came to pass on
it me: then I cast it into the the morrow, that Moses said
fire, and there came out this unto the people, Ye have
calf. sinned a great sin: and now I
25 ¶ And when Moses saw will go up unto the LORD;
that the people were naked; peradventure I shall make an
(for Aaron had made them atonement for your sin.
naked unto their shame among 31 And Moses returned unto
their enemies:) the LORD, and said, Oh, this
26 Then Moses stood in the people have sinned a great sin,
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and have made them gods of the Perizzite, the Hivite, and
gold. the Jebusite:
32 Yet now, if thou wilt 3 Unto a land flowing with
forgive their sin—; and if not, milk and honey: for I will not
blot me, I pray thee, out of thy go up in the midst of thee; for
book which thou hast written. thou art a stiffnecked people:
33 And the LORD said unto lest I consume thee in the way.
Moses, Whosoever hath 4 ¶ And when the people
sinned against me, him will I heard these evil tidings, they
blot out of my book. mourned: and no man did put
34 Therefore now go, lead the on him his ornaments.
people unto the place of which 5 For the LORD had said unto
I have spoken unto thee: Moses, Say unto the children
behold, mine Angel shall go of Israel, Ye are a stiffnecked
before thee: nevertheless in people: I will come up into the
the day when I visit I will visit midst of thee in a moment,
their sin upon them. and consume thee: therefore
35 And the LORD plagued the now put off thy ornaments
people, because they made the from thee, that I may know
calf, which Aaron made. what to do unto thee.
6 And the children of Israel
CHAPTER 33 stripped themselves of their
AND the LORD said unto ornaments by the mount
Moses, Depart, and go up Horeb.
hence, thou and the people 7 And Moses took the
which thou hast brought up tabernacle, and pitched it
out of the land of Egypt, unto without the camp, afar off
the land which I sware unto from the camp, and called it
Abraham, to Isaac, and to the Tabernacle of the
Jacob, saying, Unto thy seed congregation. And it came to
will I give it: pass, that every one which
2 And I will send an angel sought the LORD went out
before thee; and I will drive unto the tabernacle of the
out the Canaanite, the congregation, which was
Amorite, and the Hittite, and without the camp.
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bullock as he did with the 26 And he shall burn all his fat
bullock for a sin offering, so upon the altar, as the fat of the
shall he do with this: and the sacrifice of peace offerings:
priest shall make an atonement and the priest shall make an
for them, and it shall be atonement for him as
forgiven them. concerning his sin, and it shall
21 And he shall carry forth the be forgiven him.
bullock without the camp, and 27 ¶ And if any one of the
burn him as he burned the first common people sin through
bullock: it is a sin offering for ignorance, while he doeth
the congregation. somewhat against any of the
22 ¶ When a ruler hath sinned, commandments of the LORD
and done somewhat through concerning things which
ignorance against any of the ought not to be done, and be
commandments of the LORD guilty;
his God concerning things 28 Or if his sin, which he hath
which should not be done, and sinned, come to his
is guilty; knowledge: then he shall bring
23 Or if his sin, wherein he his offering, a kid of the goats,
hath sinned, come to his a female without blemish, for
knowledge; he shall bring his his sin which he hath sinned.
offering, a kid of the goats, a 29 And he shall lay his hand
male without blemish: upon the head of the sin
24 And he shall lay his hand offering, and slay the sin
upon the head of the goat, and offering in the place of the
kill it in the place where they burnt offering.
kill the burnt offering before 30 And the priest shall take of
the LORD: it is a sin offering. the blood thereof with his
25 And the priest shall take of finger, and put it upon the
the blood of the sin offering horns of the altar of burnt
with his finger, and put it upon offering, and shall pour out all
the horns of the altar of burnt the blood thereof at the bottom
offering, and shall pour out his of the altar.
blood at the bottom of the 31 And he shall take away all
altar of burnt offering. the fat thereof, as the fat is
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took the blood, and put it upon and an offering made by fire
the horns of the altar round unto the LORD; as the LORD
about with his finger, and commanded Moses.
purified the altar, and poured 22 ¶ And he brought the other
the blood at the bottom of the ram, the ram of consecration:
altar, and sanctified it, to make and Aaron and his sons laid
reconciliation upon it. their hands upon the head of
16 And he took all the fat that the ram.
was upon the inwards, and the 23 And he slew it; and Moses
caul above the liver, and the took of the blood of it, and put
two kidneys, and their fat, and it upon the tip of Aaron’s right
Moses burned it upon the ear, and upon the thumb of his
altar. right hand, and upon the great
17 But the bullock, and his toe of his right foot.
hide, his flesh, and his dung, 24 And he brought Aaron’s
he burnt with fire without the sons, and Moses put of the
camp; as the LORD blood upon the tip of their
commanded Moses. right ear, and upon the thumbs
18 ¶ And he brought the ram of their right hands, and upon
for the burnt offering: and the great toes of their right
Aaron and his sons laid their feet: and Moses sprinkled the
hands upon the head of the blood upon the altar round
ram. about.
19 And he killed it; and 25 And he took the fat, and
Moses sprinkled the blood the rump, and all the fat that
upon the altar round about. was upon the inwards, and the
20 And he cut the ram into caul above the liver, and the
pieces; and Moses burnt the two kidneys, and their fat, and
head, and the pieces, and the the right shoulder:
fat. 26 And out of the basket of
21 And he washed the inwards unleavened bread, that was
and the legs in water; and before the LORD, he took one
Moses burnt the whole ram unleavened cake, and a cake
upon the altar: it was a burnt of oiled bread, and one wafer,
sacrifice for a sweet savour, and put them on the fat, and
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nigh me, and before all the sons with thee, when ye go
people I will be glorified. And into the tabernacle of the
Aaron held his peace. congregation, lest ye die: it
4 And Moses called Mishael shall be a statute for ever
and Elzaphan, the sons of throughout your generations:
Uzziel the uncle of Aaron, and 10 And that ye may put
said unto them, Come near, difference between holy and
carry your brethren from unholy, and between unclean
before the sanctuary out of the and clean;
camp. 11 And that ye may teach the
5 So they went near, and children of Israel all the
carried them in their coats out statutes which the LORD hath
of the camp; as Moses had spoken unto them by the hand
said. of Moses.
6 And Moses said unto Aaron, 12 ¶ And Moses spake unto
and unto Eleazar and unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and
Ithamar, his sons, Uncover not unto Ithamar, his sons that
your heads, neither rend your were left, Take the meat
clothes; lest ye die, and lest offering that remaineth of the
wrath come upon all the offerings of the LORD made
people: but let your brethren, by fire, and eat it without
the whole house of Israel, leaven beside the altar: for it is
bewail the burning which the most holy:
LORD hath kindled. 13 And ye shall eat it in the
7 And ye shall not go out from holy place, because it is thy
the door of the tabernacle of due, and thy sons’ due, of the
the congregation, lest ye die: sacrifices of the LORD made
for the anointing oil of the by fire: for so I am
LORD is upon you. And they commanded.
did according to the word of 14 And the wave breast and
Moses. heave shoulder shall ye eat in
8 ¶ And the LORD spake unto a clean place; thou, and thy
Aaron, saying, sons, and thy daughters with
9 Do not drink wine nor thee: for they be thy due, and
strong drink, thou, nor thy thy sons’ due, which are given
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burning, and the priest shall 34 And in the seventh day the
pronounce him clean: for it is priest shall look on the scall:
an inflammation of the and, behold, if the scall be not
burning. spread in the skin, nor be in
29 ¶ If a man or woman have sight deeper than the skin;
a plague upon the head or the then the priest shall pronounce
beard; him clean: and he shall wash
30 Then the priest shall see the his clothes, and be clean.
plague: and, behold, if it be in 35 But if the scall spread
sight deeper than the skin; and much in the skin after his
there be in it a yellow thin cleansing;
hair; then the priest shall 36 Then the priest shall look
pronounce him unclean: it is a on him: and, behold, if the
dry scall, even a leprosy upon scall be spread in the skin, the
the head or beard. priest shall not seek for yellow
31 And if the priest look on hair; he is unclean.
the plague of the scall, and, 37 But if the scall be in his
behold, it be not in sight sight at a stay, and that there
deeper than the skin, and that is black hair grown up therein;
there is no black hair in it; the scall is healed, he is clean:
then the priest shall shut up and the priest shall pronounce
him that hath the plague of the him clean.
scall seven days: 38 ¶ If a man also or a woman
32 And in the seventh day the have in the skin of their flesh
priest shall look on the plague: bright spots, even white bright
and, behold, if the scall spread spots;
not, and there be in it no 39 Then the priest shall look:
yellow hair, and the scall be and, behold, if the bright spots
not in sight deeper than the in the skin of their flesh be
skin; darkish white; it is a freckled
33 He shall be shaven, but the spot that groweth in the skin;
scall shall he not shave; and he is clean.
the priest shall shut up him 40 And the man whose hair is
that hath the scall seven days fallen off his head, he is bald;
more: yet is he clean.
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40 Then the priest shall into the house all the while
command that they take away that it is shut up shall be
the stones in which the plague unclean until the even.
is, and they shall cast them 47 And he that lieth in the
into an unclean place without house shall wash his clothes;
the city: and he that eateth in the house
41 And he shall cause the shall wash his clothes.
house to be scraped within 48 And if the priest shall come
round about, and they shall in, and look upon it, and,
pour out the dust that they behold, the plague hath not
scrape off without the city into spread in the house, after the
an unclean place: house was plaistered: then the
42 And they shall take other priest shall pronounce the
stones, and put them in the house clean, because the
place of those stones; and he plague is healed.
shall take other morter, and 49 And he shall take to
shall plaister the house. cleanse the house two birds,
43 And if the plague come and cedar wood, and scarlet,
again, and break out in the and hyssop:
house, after that he hath taken 50 And he shall kill the one of
away the stones, and after he the birds in an earthen vessel
hath scraped the house, and over running water:
after it is plaistered; 51 And he shall take the cedar
44 Then the priest shall come wood, and the hyssop, and the
and look, and, behold, if the scarlet, and the living bird,
plague be spread in the house, and dip them in the blood of
it is a fretting leprosy in the the slain bird, and in the
house: it is unclean. running water, and sprinkle
45 And he shall break down the house seven times:
the house, the stones of it, and 52 And he shall cleanse the
the timber thereof, and all the house with the blood of the
morter of the house; and he bird, and with the running
shall carry them forth out of water, and with the living bird,
the city into an unclean place. and with the cedar wood, and
46 Moreover he that goeth with the hyssop, and with the
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children of Israel for all their for peace offerings unto the
sins once a year. And he did as LORD.
the LORD commanded Moses. 6 And the priest shall sprinkle
the blood upon the altar of the
CHAPTER 17 LORD at the door of the
AND the LORD spake unto tabernacle of the congregation,
Moses, saying, and burn the fat for a sweet
2 Speak unto Aaron, and unto savour unto the LORD.
his sons, and unto all the 7 And they shall no more offer
children of Israel, and say unto their sacrifices unto devils,
them; This is the thing which after whom they have gone a
the LORD hath commanded, whoring. This shall be a
saying, statute for ever unto them
3 What man soever there be of throughout their generations.
the house of Israel, that killeth 8 ¶ And thou shalt say unto
an ox, or lamb, or goat, in the them, Whatsoever man there
camp, or that killeth it out of be of the house of Israel, or of
the camp, the strangers which sojourn
4 And bringeth it not unto the among you, that offereth a
door of the tabernacle of the burnt offering or sacrifice,
congregation, to offer an 9 And bringeth it not unto the
offering unto the LORD before door of the tabernacle of the
the tabernacle of the LORD; congregation, to offer it unto
blood shall be imputed unto the LORD; even that man shall
that man; he hath shed blood; be cut off from among his
and that man shall be cut off people.
from among his people: 10 ¶ And whatsoever man
5 To the end that the children there be of the house of Israel,
of Israel may bring their or of the strangers that sojourn
sacrifices, which they offer in among you, that eateth any
the open field, even that they manner of blood; I will even
may bring them unto the set my face against that soul
LORD, unto the door of the that eateth blood, and will cut
tabernacle of the congregation, him off from among his
unto the priest, and offer them people.
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11 For the life of the flesh is his clothes, and bathe himself
in the blood: and I have given in water, and be unclean until
it to you upon the altar to the even: then shall he be
make an atonement for your clean.
souls: for it is the blood that 16 But if he wash them not,
maketh an atonement for the nor bathe his flesh; then he
soul. shall bear his iniquity.
12 Therefore I said unto the
children of Israel, No soul of CHAPTER 18
you shall eat blood, neither AND the LORD spake unto
shall any stranger that Moses, saying,
sojourneth among you eat 2 Speak unto the children of
blood. Israel, and say unto them, I am
13 And whatsoever man there the LORD your God.
be of the children of Israel, or 3 After the doings of the land
of the strangers that sojourn of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt,
among you, which hunteth and shall ye not do: and after the
catcheth any beast or fowl that doings of the land of Canaan,
may be eaten; he shall even whither I bring you, shall ye
pour out the blood thereof, not do: neither shall ye walk
and cover it with dust. in their ordinances.
14 For it is the life of all flesh; 4 Ye shall do my judgments,
the blood of it is for the life and keep mine ordinances, to
thereof: therefore I said unto walk therein: I am the LORD
the children of Israel, Ye shall your God.
eat the blood of no manner of 5 Ye shall therefore keep my
flesh: for the life of all flesh is statutes, and my judgments:
the blood thereof: whosoever which if a man do, he shall
eateth it shall be cut off. live in them: I am the LORD.
15 And every soul that eateth 6 ¶ None of you shall
that which died of itself, or approach to any that is near of
that which was torn with kin to him, to uncover their
beasts, whether it be one of nakedness: I am the LORD.
your own country, or a 7 The nakedness of thy father,
stranger, he shall both wash or the nakedness of thy
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sabbath, from the day that ye the LORD for the priest.
brought the sheaf of the wave 21 And ye shall proclaim on
offering; seven sabbaths shall the selfsame day, that it may
be complete: be an holy convocation unto
16 Even unto the morrow after you: ye shall do no servile
the seventh sabbath shall ye work therein: it shall be a
number fifty days; and ye statute for ever in all your
shall offer a new meat offering dwellings throughout your
unto the LORD. generations.
17 Ye shall bring out of your 22 ¶ And when ye reap the
habitations two wave loaves harvest of your land, thou
of two tenth deals: they shall shalt not make clean riddance
be of fine flour; they shall be of the corners of thy field
baken with leaven; they are when thou reapest, neither
the firstfruits unto the LORD. shalt thou gather any gleaning
18 And ye shall offer with the of thy harvest: thou shalt leave
bread seven lambs without them unto the poor, and to the
blemish of the first year, and stranger: I am the LORD your
one young bullock, and two God.
rams: they shall be for a burnt 23 ¶ And the LORD spake unto
offering unto the LORD, with Moses, saying,
their meat offering, and their 24 Speak unto the children of
drink offerings, even an Israel, saying, In the seventh
offering made by fire, of sweet month, in the first day of the
savour unto the LORD. month, shall ye have a
19 Then ye shall sacrifice one sabbath, a memorial of
kid of the goats for a sin blowing of trumpets, an holy
offering, and two lambs of the convocation.
first year for a sacrifice of 25 Ye shall do no servile work
peace offerings. therein: but ye shall offer an
20 And the priest shall wave offering made by fire unto the
them with the bread of the LORD.
firstfruits for a wave offering 26 ¶ And the LORD spake unto
before the LORD, with the two Moses, saying,
lambs: they shall be holy to 27 Also on the tenth day of
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years unto the year of jubile, due season, and the land shall
then he shall count with him, yield her increase, and the
and according unto his years trees of the field shall yield
shall he give him again the their fruit.
price of his redemption. 5 And your threshing shall
53 And as a yearly hired reach unto the vintage, and the
servant shall he be with him: vintage shall reach unto the
and the other shall not rule sowing time: and ye shall eat
with rigour over him in thy your bread to the full, and
sight. dwell in your land safely.
54 And if he be not redeemed 6 And I will give peace in the
in these years, then he shall go land, and ye shall lie down,
out in the year of jubile, both and none shall make you
he, and his children with him. afraid: and I will rid evil
55 For unto me the children of beasts out of the land, neither
Israel are servants; they are shall the sword go through
my servants whom I brought your land.
forth out of the land of Egypt: 7 And ye shall chase your
I am the LORD your God. enemies, and they shall fall
before you by the sword.
CHAPTER 26 8 And five of you shall chase
YE shall make you no idols an hundred, and an hundred of
nor graven image, neither rear you shall put ten thousand to
you up a standing image, flight: and your enemies shall
neither shall ye set up any fall before you by the sword.
image of stone in your land, to 9 For I will have respect unto
bow down unto it: for I am the you, and make you fruitful,
LORD your God. and multiply you, and
2 ¶ Ye shall keep my sabbaths, establish my covenant with
and reverence my sanctuary: I you.
am the LORD. 10 And ye shall eat old store,
3 ¶ If ye walk in my statutes, and bring forth the old
and keep my commandments, because of the new.
and do them; 11 And I will set my
4 Then I will give you rain in tabernacle among you: and my
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soul shall not abhor you. I will punish you seven times
12 And I will walk among more for your sins.
you, and will be your God, 19 And I will break the pride
and ye shall be my people. of your power; and I will
13 I am the LORD your God, make your heaven as iron, and
which brought you forth out of your earth as brass:
the land of Egypt, that ye 20 And your strength shall be
should not be their bondmen; spent in vain: for your land
and I have broken the bands of shall not yield her increase,
your yoke, and made you go neither shall the trees of the
upright. land yield their fruits.
14 ¶ But if ye will not hearken 21 ¶ And if ye walk contrary
unto me, and will not do all unto me, and will not hearken
these commandments; unto me; I will bring seven
15 And if ye shall despise my times more plagues upon you
statutes, or if your soul abhor according to your sins.
my judgments, so that ye will 22 I will also send wild beasts
not do all my commandments, among you, which shall rob
but that ye break my covenant: you of your children, and
16 I also will do this unto you; destroy your cattle, and make
I will even appoint over you you few in number; and your
terror, consumption, and the high ways shall be desolate.
burning ague, that shall 23 And if ye will not be
consume the eyes, and cause reformed by me by these
sorrow of heart: and ye shall things, but will walk contrary
sow your seed in vain, for unto me;
your enemies shall eat it. 24 Then will I also walk
17 And I will set my face contrary unto you, and will
against you, and ye shall be punish you yet seven times for
slain before your enemies: your sins.
they that hate you shall reign 25 And I will bring a sword
over you; and ye shall flee upon you, that shall avenge
when none pursueth you. the quarrel of my covenant:
18 And if ye will not yet for and when ye are gathered
all this hearken unto me, then together within your cities, I
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all that were able to go forth to 47 ¶ But the Levites after the
war; tribe of their fathers were not
41 Those that were numbered numbered among them.
of them, even of the tribe of 48 For the LORD had spoken
Asher, were forty and one unto Moses, saying,
thousand and five hundred. 49 Only thou shalt not number
42 ¶ Of the children of the tribe of Levi, neither take
Naphtali, throughout their the sum of them among the
generations, after their children of Israel:
families, by the house of their 50 But thou shalt appoint the
fathers, according to the Levites over the tabernacle of
number of the names, from testimony, and over all the
twenty years old and upward, vessels thereof, and over all
all that were able to go forth to things that belong to it: they
war; shall bear the tabernacle, and
43 Those that were numbered all the vessels thereof; and
of them, even of the tribe of they shall minister unto it, and
Naphtali, were fifty and three shall encamp round about the
thousand and four hundred. tabernacle.
44 These are those that were 51 And when the tabernacle
numbered, which Moses and setteth forward, the Levites
Aaron numbered, and the shall take it down: and when
princes of Israel, being twelve the tabernacle is to be pitched,
men: each one was for the the Levites shall set it up: and
house of his fathers. the stranger that cometh nigh
45 So were all those that were shall be put to death.
numbered of the children of 52 And the children of Israel
Israel, by the house of their shall pitch their tents, every
fathers, from twenty years old man by his own camp, and
and upward, all that were able every man by his own
to go forth to war in Israel; standard, throughout their
46 Even all they that were hosts.
numbered were six hundred 53 But the Levites shall pitch
thousand and three thousand round about the tabernacle of
and five hundred and fifty. testimony, that there be no
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30 From thirty years old and 35 From thirty years old and
upward even unto fifty years upward even unto fifty years
old shalt thou number them, old, every one that entereth
every one that entereth into into the service, for the work
the service, to do the work of in the tabernacle of the
the tabernacle of the congregation:
congregation. 36 And those that were
31 And this is the charge of numbered of them by their
their burden, according to all families were two thousand
their service in the tabernacle seven hundred and fifty.
of the congregation; the 37 These were they that were
boards of the tabernacle, and numbered of the families of
the bars thereof, and the pillars the Kohathites, all that might
thereof, and sockets thereof, do service in the tabernacle of
32 And the pillars of the court the congregation, which
round about, and their sockets, Moses and Aaron did number
and their pins, and their cords, according to the
with all their instruments, and commandment of the LORD by
with all their service: and by the hand of Moses.
name ye shall reckon the 38 And those that were
instruments of the charge of numbered of the sons of
their burden. Gershon, throughout their
33 This is the service of the families, and by the house of
families of the sons of Merari, their fathers,
according to all their service, 39 From thirty years old and
in the tabernacle of the upward even unto fifty years
congregation, under the hand old, every one that entereth
of Ithamar the son of Aaron into the service, for the work
the priest. in the tabernacle of the
34 ¶ And Moses and Aaron congregation,
and the chief of the 40 Even those that were
congregation numbered the numbered of them, throughout
sons of the Kohathites after their families, by the house of
their families, and after the their fathers, were two
house of their fathers, thousand and six hundred and
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did so, and put them out any man giveth the priest, it
without the camp: as the LORD shall be his.
spake unto Moses, so did the 11 ¶ And the LORD spake unto
children of Israel. Moses, saying,
5 ¶ And the LORD spake unto 12 Speak unto the children of
Moses, saying, Israel, and say unto them, If
6 Speak unto the children of any man’s wife go aside, and
Israel, When a man or woman commit a trespass against him,
shall commit any sin that men 13 And a man lie with her
commit, to do a trespass carnally, and it be hid from the
against the LORD, and that eyes of her husband, and be
person be guilty; kept close, and she be defiled,
7 Then they shall confess their and there be no witness
sin which they have done: and against her, neither she be
he shall recompense his taken with the manner;
trespass with the principal 14 And the spirit of jealousy
thereof, and add unto it the come upon him, and he be
fifth part thereof, and give it jealous of his wife, and she be
unto him against whom he defiled: or if the spirit of
hath trespassed. jealousy come upon him, and
8 But if the man have no he be jealous of his wife, and
kinsman to recompense the she be not defiled:
trespass unto, let the trespass 15 Then shall the man bring
be recompensed unto the his wife unto the priest, and he
LORD, even to the priest; shall bring her offering for
beside the ram of the her, the tenth part of an ephah
atonement, whereby an of barley meal; he shall pour
atonement shall be made for no oil upon it, nor put
him. frankincense thereon; for it is
9 And every offering of all the an offering of jealousy, an
holy things of the children of offering of memorial, bringing
Israel, which they bring unto iniquity to remembrance.
the priest, shall be his. 16 And the priest shall bring
10 And every man’s hallowed her near, and set her before the
things shall be his: whatsoever LORD:
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thou be wroth with all the visitation of all men; then the
congregation? LORD hath not sent me.
23 ¶ And the LORD spake unto 30 But if the LORD make a
Moses, saying, new thing, and the earth open
24 Speak unto the her mouth, and swallow them
congregation, saying, Get you up, with all that appertain
up from about the tabernacle unto them, and they go down
of Korah, Dathan, and quick into the pit; then ye
Abiram. shall understand that these
25 And Moses rose up and men have provoked the LORD.
went unto Dathan and Abiram; 31 ¶ And it came to pass, as he
and the elders of Israel had made an end of speaking
followed him. all these words, that the
26 And he spake unto the ground clave asunder that was
congregation, saying, Depart, I under them:
pray you, from the tents of 32 And the earth opened her
these wicked men, and touch mouth, and swallowed them
nothing of theirs, lest ye be up, and their houses, and all
consumed in all their sins. the men that appertained unto
27 So they gat up from the Korah, and all their goods.
tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, 33 They, and all that
and Abiram, on every side: appertained to them, went
and Dathan and Abiram came down alive into the pit, and
out, and stood in the door of the earth closed upon them:
their tents, and their wives, and they perished from among
and their sons, and their little the congregation.
children. 34 And all Israel that were
28 And Moses said, Hereby ye round about them fled at the
shall know that the LORD hath cry of them: for they said, Lest
sent me to do all these works; the earth swallow us up also.
for I have not done them of 35 And there came out a fire
mine own mind. from the LORD, and consumed
29 If these men die the the two hundred and fifty men
common death of all men, or that offered incense.
if they be visited after the 36 ¶ And the LORD spake unto
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rebels; and thou shalt quite the sanctuary and the altar,
take away their murmurings that neither they, nor ye also,
from me, that they die not. die.
11 And Moses did so: as the 4 And they shall be joined
LORD commanded him, so did unto thee, and keep the charge
he. of the tabernacle of the
12 And the children of Israel congregation, for all the
spake unto Moses, saying, service of the tabernacle: and
Behold, we die, we perish, we a stranger shall not come nigh
all perish. unto you.
13 Whosoever cometh any 5 And ye shall keep the charge
thing near unto the tabernacle of the sanctuary, and the
of the LORD shall die: shall we charge of the altar: that there
be consumed with dying? be no wrath any more upon
the children of Israel.
CHAPTER 18 6 And I, behold, I have taken
AND the LORD said unto your brethren the Levites from
Aaron, Thou and thy sons and among the children of Israel:
thy father’s house with thee to you they are given as a gift
shall bear the iniquity of the for the LORD, to do the service
sanctuary: and thou and thy of the tabernacle of the
sons with thee shall bear the congregation.
iniquity of your priesthood. 7 Therefore thou and thy sons
2 And thy brethren also of the with thee shall keep your
tribe of Levi, the tribe of thy priest’s office for every thing
father, bring thou with thee, of the altar, and within the
that they may be joined unto vail; and ye shall serve: I have
thee, and minister unto thee: given your priest’s office unto
but thou and thy sons with you as a service of gift: and
thee shall minister before the the stranger that cometh nigh
tabernacle of witness. shall be put to death.
3 And they shall keep thy 8 ¶ And the LORD spake unto
charge, and the charge of all Aaron, Behold, I also have
the tabernacle: only they shall given thee the charge of mine
not come nigh the vessels of heave offerings of all the
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bullock, and two tenth deals 10 A several tenth deal for one
for a ram, lamb, throughout the seven
4 And one tenth deal for one lambs:
lamb, throughout the seven 11 One kid of the goats for a
lambs: sin offering; beside the sin
5 And one kid of the goats for offering of atonement, and the
a sin offering, to make an continual burnt offering, and
atonement for you: the meat offering of it, and
6 Beside the burnt offering of their drink offerings.
the month, and his meat 12 ¶ And on the fifteenth day
offering, and the daily burnt of the seventh month ye shall
offering, and his meat have an holy convocation; ye
offering, and their drink shall do no servile work, and
offerings, according unto their ye shall keep a feast unto the
manner, for a sweet savour, a LORD seven days:
sacrifice made by fire unto the 13 And ye shall offer a burnt
LORD. offering, a sacrifice made by
7 ¶ And ye shall have on the fire, of a sweet savour unto the
tenth day of this seventh LORD; thirteen young
month an holy convocation; bullocks, two rams, and
and ye shall afflict your souls: fourteen lambs of the first
ye shall not do any work year; they shall be without
therein: blemish:
8 But ye shall offer a burnt 14 And their meat offering
offering unto the LORD for a shall be of flour mingled with
sweet savour; one young oil, three tenth deals unto
bullock, one ram, and seven every bullock of the thirteen
lambs of the first year; they bullocks, two tenth deals to
shall be unto you without each ram of the two rams,
blemish: 15 And a several tenth deal to
9 And their meat offering each lamb of the fourteen
shall be of flour mingled with lambs:
oil, three tenth deals to a 16 And one kid of the goats
bullock, and two tenth deals to for a sin offering; beside the
one ram, continual burnt offering, his
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meat offering, and his drink fourteen lambs of the first year
offering. without blemish:
17 ¶ And on the second day ye 24 Their meat offering and
shall offer twelve young their drink offerings for the
bullocks, two rams, fourteen bullocks, for the rams, and for
lambs of the first year without the lambs, shall be according
spot: to their number, after the
18 And their meat offering manner:
and their drink offerings for 25 And one kid of the goats
the bullocks, for the rams, and for a sin offering; beside the
for the lambs, shall be continual burnt offering, his
according to their number, meat offering, and his drink
after the manner: offering.
19 And one kid of the goats 26 ¶ And on the fifth day nine
for a sin offering; beside the bullocks, two rams, and
continual burnt offering, and fourteen lambs of the first year
the meat offering thereof, and without spot:
their drink offerings. 27 And their meat offering
20 ¶ And on the third day and their drink offerings for
eleven bullocks, two rams, the bullocks, for the rams, and
fourteen lambs of the first year for the lambs, shall be
without blemish; according to their number,
21 And their meat offering after the manner:
and their drink offerings for 28 And one goat for a sin
the bullocks, for the rams, and offering; beside the continual
for the lambs, shall be burnt offering, and his meat
according to their number, offering, and his drink
after the manner: offering.
22 And one goat for a sin 29 ¶ And on the sixth day
offering; beside the continual eight bullocks, two rams, and
burnt offering, and his meat fourteen lambs of the first year
offering, and his drink without blemish:
offering. 30 And their meat offering
23 ¶ And on the fourth day ten and their drink offerings for
bullocks, two rams, and the bullocks, for the rams, and
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for the lambs, shall be bullock, for the ram, and for
according to their number, the lambs, shall be according
after the manner: to their number, after the
31 And one goat for a sin manner:
offering; beside the continual 38 And one goat for a sin
burnt offering, his meat offering; beside the continual
offering, and his drink burnt offering, and his meat
offering. offering, and his drink
32 ¶ And on the seventh day offering.
seven bullocks, two rams, and 39 These things ye shall do
fourteen lambs of the first year unto the LORD in your set
without blemish: feasts, beside your vows, and
33 And their meat offering your freewill offerings, for
and their drink offerings for your burnt offerings, and for
the bullocks, for the rams, and your meat offerings, and for
for the lambs, shall be your drink offerings, and for
according to their number, your peace offerings.
after the manner: 40 And Moses told the
34 And one goat for a sin children of Israel according to
offering; beside the continual all that the LORD commanded
burnt offering, his meat Moses.
offering, and his drink
offering. CHAPTER 30
35 ¶ On the eighth day ye AND Moses spake unto the
shall have a solemn assembly: heads of the tribes concerning
ye shall do no servile work the children of Israel, saying,
therein: This is the thing which the
36 But ye shall offer a burnt LORD hath commanded.
offering, a sacrifice made by 2 If a man vow a vow unto the
fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD, or swear an oath to
LORD: one bullock, one ram, bind his soul with a bond; he
seven lambs of the first year shall not break his word, he
without blemish: shall do according to all that
37 Their meat offering and proceedeth out of his mouth.
their drink offerings for the 3 If a woman also vow a vow
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unto the LORD, and bind soul, of none effect: and the
herself by a bond, being in her LORD shall forgive her.
father’s house in her youth; 9 But every vow of a widow,
4 And her father hear her vow, and of her that is divorced,
and her bond wherewith she wherewith they have bound
hath bound her soul, and her their souls, shall stand against
father shall hold his peace at her.
her: then all her vows shall 10 And if she vowed in her
stand, and every bond husband’s house, or bound her
wherewith she hath bound her soul by a bond with an oath;
soul shall stand. 11 And her husband heard it,
5 But if her father disallow her and held his peace at her, and
in the day that he heareth; not disallowed her not: then all
any of her vows, or of her her vows shall stand, and
bonds wherewith she hath every bond wherewith she
bound her soul, shall stand: bound her soul shall stand.
and the LORD shall forgive 12 But if her husband hath
her, because her father utterly made them void on the
disallowed her. day he heard them; then
6 And if she had at all an whatsoever proceeded out of
husband, when she vowed, or her lips concerning her vows,
uttered ought out of her lips, or concerning the bond of her
wherewith she bound her soul; soul, shall not stand: her
7 And her husband heard it, husband hath made them void;
and held his peace at her in the and the LORD shall forgive
day that he heard it: then her her.
vows shall stand, and her 13 Every vow, and every
bonds wherewith she bound binding oath to afflict the soul,
her soul shall stand. her husband may establish it,
8 But if her husband or her husband may make it
disallowed her on the day that void.
he heard it; then he shall make 14 But if her husband
her vow which she vowed, and altogether hold his peace at
that which she uttered with her her from day to day; then he
lips, wherewith she bound her establisheth all her vows, or
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all her bonds, which are upon thousand armed for war.
her: he confirmeth them, 6 And Moses sent them to the
because he held his peace at war, a thousand of every tribe,
her in the day that he heard them and Phinehas the son of
them. Eleazar the priest, to the war,
15 But if he shall any ways with the holy instruments, and
make them void after that he the trumpets to blow in his
hath heard them; then he shall hand.
bear her iniquity. 7 And they warred against the
16 These are the statutes, Midianites, as the LORD
which the LORD commanded commanded Moses; and they
Moses, between a man and his slew all the males.
wife, between the father and 8 And they slew the kings of
his daughter, being yet in her Midian, beside the rest of
youth in her father’s house. them that were slain; namely,
Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and
CHAPTER 31 Hur, and Reba, five kings of
AND the LORD spake unto Midian: Balaam also the son
Moses, saying, of Beor they slew with the
2 Avenge the children of sword.
Israel of the Midianites: 9 And the children of Israel
afterward shalt thou be took all the women of Midian
gathered unto thy people. captives, and their little ones,
3 And Moses spake unto the and took the spoil of all their
people, saying, Arm some of cattle, and all their flocks, and
yourselves unto the war, and all their goods.
let them go against the 10 And they burnt all their
Midianites, and avenge the cities wherein they dwelt, and
LORD of Midian. all their goodly castles, with
4 Of every tribe a thousand, fire.
throughout all the tribes of 11 And they took all the spoil,
Israel, shall ye send to the war. and all the prey, both of men
5 So there were delivered out and of beasts.
of the thousands of Israel, a 12 And they brought the
thousand of every tribe, twelve captives, and the prey, and the
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25 ¶ And the LORD spake unto 32 And the booty, being the
Moses, saying, rest of the prey which the men
26 Take the sum of the prey of war had caught, was six
that was taken, both of man hundred thousand and seventy
and of beast, thou, and Eleazar thousand and five thousand
the priest, and the chief fathers sheep,
of the congregation: 33 And threescore and twelve
27 And divide the prey into thousand beeves,
two parts; between them that 34 And threescore and one
took the war upon them, who thousand asses,
went out to battle, and 35 And thirty and two
between all the congregation: thousand persons in all, of
28 And levy a tribute unto the women that had not known
LORD of the men of war which man by lying with him.
went out to battle: one soul of 36 And the half, which was
five hundred, both of the the portion of them that went
persons, and of the beeves, out to war, was in number
and of the asses, and of the three hundred thousand and
sheep: seven and thirty thousand and
29 Take it of their half, and five hundred sheep:
give it unto Eleazar the priest, 37 And the LORD’s tribute of
for an heave offering of the the sheep was six hundred and
LORD. threescore and fifteen.
30 And of the children of 38 And the beeves were thirty
Israel’s half, thou shalt take and six thousand; of which the
one portion of fifty, of the LORD’s tribute was threescore
persons, of the beeves, of the and twelve.
asses, and of the flocks, of all 39 And the asses were thirty
manner of beasts, and give thousand and five hundred; of
them unto the Levites, which which the LORD’s tribute was
keep the charge of the threescore and one.
tabernacle of the LORD. 40 And the persons were
31 And Moses and Eleazar the sixteen thousand; of which the
priest did as the LORD LORD’s tribute was thirty and
commanded Moses. two persons.
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their father.
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.
THE FIFTH BOOK OF MOSES,
CALLED
DEUTERONOMY.
CHAPTER 1 7 Turn you, and take your
THESE be the words which journey, and go to the mount
Moses spake unto all Israel on of the Amorites, and unto all
this side Jordan in the the places nigh thereunto, in
wilderness, in the plain over the plain, in the hills, and in
against the Red sea, between the vale, and in the south, and
Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, by the sea side, to the land of
and Hazeroth, and Dizahab. the Canaanites, and unto
2 (There are eleven days’ Lebanon, unto the great river,
journey from Horeb by the the river Euphrates.
way of mount Seir unto 8 Behold, I have set the land
Kadesh-barnea.) before you: go in and possess
3 And it came to pass in the the land which the LORD
fortieth year, in the eleventh sware unto your fathers,
month, on the first day of the Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to
month, that Moses spake unto give unto them and to their
the children of Israel, seed after them.
according unto all that the 9 ¶ And I spake unto you at
LORD had given him in that time, saying, I am not able
commandment unto them; to bear you myself alone:
4 After he had slain Sihon the 10 The LORD your God hath
king of the Amorites, which multiplied you, and, behold,
dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the ye are this day as the stars of
king of Bashan, which dwelt heaven for multitude.
at Astaroth in Edrei: 11 (The LORD God of your
5 On this side Jordan, in the fathers make you a thousand
land of Moab, began Moses to times so many more as ye are,
declare this law, saying, and bless you, as he hath
6 The LORD our God spake promised you!)
unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye 12 How can I myself alone
have dwelt long enough in this bear your cumbrance, and
mount: your burden, and your strife?
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brought us word again, and all the way that ye went, until
said, It is a good land which ye came into this place.
the LORD our God doth give 32 Yet in this thing ye did not
us. believe the LORD your God,
26 Notwithstanding ye would 33 Who went in the way
not go up, but rebelled against before you, to search you out a
the commandment of the place to pitch your tents in, in
LORD your God: fire by night, to shew you by
27 And ye murmured in your what way ye should go, and in
tents, and said, Because the a cloud by day.
LORD hated us, he hath 34 And the LORD heard the
brought us forth out of the voice of your words, and was
land of Egypt, to deliver us wroth, and sware, saying,
into the hand of the Amorites, 35 Surely there shall not one
to destroy us. of these men of this evil
28 Whither shall we go up? generation see that good land,
our brethren have discouraged which I sware to give unto
our heart, saying, The people your fathers,
is greater and taller than we; 36 Save Caleb the son of
the cities are great and walled Jephunneh; he shall see it, and
up to heaven; and moreover to him will I give the land that
we have seen the sons of the he hath trodden upon, and to
Anakims there. his children, because he hath
29 Then I said unto you, wholly followed the LORD.
Dread not, neither be afraid of 37 Also the LORD was angry
them. with me for your sakes,
30 The LORD your God which saying, Thou also shalt not go
goeth before you, he shall in thither.
fight for you, according to all 38 But Joshua the son of Nun,
that he did for you in Egypt which standeth before thee, he
before your eyes; shall go in thither: encourage
31 And in the wilderness, him: for he shall cause Israel
where thou hast seen how that to inherit it.
the LORD thy God bare thee, 39 Moreover your little ones,
as a man doth bear his son, in which ye said should be a
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through Ar, the coast of Moab, journey, and pass over the
this day: river Arnon: behold, I have
19 And when thou comest given into thine hand Sihon
nigh over against the children the Amorite, king of Heshbon,
of Ammon, distress them not, and his land: begin to possess
nor meddle with them: for I it, and contend with him in
will not give thee of the land battle.
of the children of Ammon any 25 This day will I begin to put
possession; because I have the dread of thee and the fear
given it unto the children of of thee upon the nations that
Lot for a possession. are under the whole heaven,
20 (That also was accounted a who shall hear report of thee,
land of giants: giants dwelt and shall tremble, and be in
therein in old time; and the anguish because of thee.
Ammonites call them 26 ¶ And I sent messengers
Zamzummims; out of the wilderness of
21 A people great, and many, Kedemoth unto Sihon king of
and tall, as the Anakims; but Heshbon with words of peace,
the LORD destroyed them saying,
before them; and they 27 Let me pass through thy
succeeded them, and dwelt in land: I will go along by the
their stead: high way, I will neither turn
22 As he did to the children of unto the right hand nor to the
Esau, which dwelt in Seir, left.
when he destroyed the Horims 28 Thou shalt sell me meat for
from before them; and they money, that I may eat; and
succeeded them, and dwelt in give me water for money, that
their stead even unto this day: I may drink: only I will pass
23 And the Avims which through on my feet;
dwelt in Hazerim, even unto 29 (As the children of Esau
Azzah, the Caphtorims, which which dwell in Seir, and the
came forth out of Caphtor, Moabites which dwell in Ar,
destroyed them, and dwelt in did unto me;) until I shall pass
their stead.) over Jordan into the land
24 ¶ Rise ye up, take your which the LORD our God
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name of the LORD thy God in in the land which the LORD
vain: for the LORD will not thy God giveth thee.
hold him guiltless that taketh 17 Thou shalt not kill.
his name in vain. 18 Neither shalt thou commit
12 Keep the sabbath day to adultery.
sanctify it, as the LORD thy 19 Neither shalt thou steal.
God hath commanded thee. 20 Neither shalt thou bear
13 Six days thou shalt labour, false witness against thy
and do all thy work: neighbour.
14 But the seventh day is the 21 Neither shalt thou desire
sabbath of the LORD thy God: thy neighbour’s wife, neither
in it thou shalt not do any shalt thou covet thy
work, thou, nor thy son, nor neighbour’s house, his field,
thy daughter, nor thy or his manservant, or his
manservant, nor thy maidservant, his ox, or his ass,
maidservant, nor thine ox, nor or any thing that is thy
thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, neighbour’s.
nor thy stranger that is within 22 ¶ These words the LORD
thy gates; that thy manservant spake unto all your assembly
and thy maidservant may rest in the mount out of the midst
as well as thou. of the fire, of the cloud, and of
15 And remember that thou the thick darkness, with a
wast a servant in the land of great voice: and he added no
Egypt, and that the LORD thy more. And he wrote them in
God brought thee out thence two tables of stone, and
through a mighty hand and by delivered them unto me.
a stretched out arm: therefore 23 And it came to pass, when
the LORD thy God ye heard the voice out of the
commanded thee to keep the midst of the darkness, (for the
sabbath day. mountain did burn with fire,)
16 ¶ Honour thy father and thy that ye came near unto me,
mother, as the LORD thy God even all the heads of your
hath commanded thee; that thy tribes, and your elders;
days may be prolonged, and 24 And ye said, Behold, the
that it may go well with thee, LORD our God hath shewed us
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his glory and his greatness, might be well with them, and
and we have heard his voice with their children for ever!
out of the midst of the fire: we 30 Go say to them, Get you
have seen this day that God into your tents again.
doth talk with man, and he 31 But as for thee, stand thou
liveth. here by me, and I will speak
25 Now therefore why should unto thee all the
we die? for this great fire will commandments, and the
consume us: if we hear the statutes, and the judgments,
voice of the LORD our God which thou shalt teach them,
any more, then we shall die. that they may do them in the
26 For who is there of all land which I give them to
flesh, that hath heard the voice possess it.
of the living God speaking out 32 Ye shall observe to do
of the midst of the fire, as we therefore as the LORD your
have, and lived? God hath commanded you: ye
27 Go thou near, and hear all shall not turn aside to the right
that the LORD our God shall hand or to the left.
say: and speak thou unto us all 33 Ye shall walk in all the
that the LORD our God shall ways which the LORD your
speak unto thee; and we will God hath commanded you,
hear it, and do it. that ye may live, and that it
28 And the LORD heard the may be well with you, and that
voice of your words, when ye ye may prolong your days in
spake unto me; and the LORD the land which ye shall
said unto me, I have heard the possess.
voice of the words of this
people, which they have CHAPTER 6
spoken unto thee: they have NOW these are the
well said all that they have commandments, the statutes,
spoken. and the judgments, which the
29 O that there were such an LORD your God commanded
heart in them, that they would to teach you, that ye might do
fear me, and keep all my them in the land whither ye go
commandments always, that it to possess it:
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destroy thee from off the face Pharaoh, and upon all his
of the earth. household, before our eyes:
16 ¶ Ye shall not tempt the 23 And he brought us out
LORD your God, as ye tempted from thence, that he might
him in Massah. bring us in, to give us the land
17 Ye shall diligently keep the which he sware unto our
commandments of the LORD fathers.
your God, and his testimonies, 24 And the LORD commanded
and his statutes, which he hath us to do all these statutes, to
commanded thee. fear the LORD our God, for
18 And thou shalt do that our good always, that he
which is right and good in the might preserve us alive, as it is
sight of the LORD: that it may at this day.
be well with thee, and that 25 And it shall be our
thou mayest go in and possess righteousness, if we observe to
the good land which the LORD do all these commandments
sware unto thy fathers, before the LORD our God, as
19 To cast out all thine he hath commanded us.
enemies from before thee, as
the LORD hath spoken. CHAPTER 7
20 And when thy son asketh WHEN the LORD thy God
thee in time to come, saying, shall bring thee into the land
What mean the testimonies, whither thou goest to possess
and the statutes, and the it, and hath cast out many
judgments, which the LORD nations before thee, the
our God hath commanded Hittites, and the Girgashites,
you? and the Amorites, and the
21 Then thou shalt say unto Canaanites, and the Perizzites,
thy son, We were Pharaoh’s and the Hivites, and the
bondmen in Egypt; and the Jebusites, seven nations
LORD brought us out of Egypt greater and mightier than thou;
with a mighty hand: 2 And when the LORD thy
22 And the LORD shewed God shall deliver them before
signs and wonders, great and thee; thou shalt smite them,
sore, upon Egypt, upon and utterly destroy them; thou
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land, thy corn, and thy wine, which thine eyes saw, and the
and thine oil, the increase of signs, and the wonders, and
thy kine, and the flocks of thy the mighty hand, and the
sheep, in the land which he stretched out arm, whereby the
sware unto thy fathers to give LORD thy God brought thee
thee. out: so shall the LORD thy God
14 Thou shalt be blessed do unto all the people of
above all people: there shall whom thou art afraid.
not be male or female barren 20 Moreover the LORD thy
among you, or among your God will send the hornet
cattle. among them, until they that
15 And the LORD will take are left, and hide themselves
away from thee all sickness, from thee, be destroyed.
and will put none of the evil 21 Thou shalt not be
diseases of Egypt, which thou affrighted at them: for the
knowest, upon thee; but will LORD thy God is among you,
lay them upon all them that a mighty God and terrible.
hate thee. 22 And the LORD thy God will
16 And thou shalt consume all put out those nations before
the people which the LORD thee by little and little: thou
thy God shall deliver thee; mayest not consume them at
thine eye shall have no pity once, lest the beasts of the
upon them: neither shalt thou field increase upon thee.
serve their gods; for that will 23 But the LORD thy God shall
be a snare unto thee. deliver them unto thee, and
17 If thou shalt say in thine shall destroy them with a
heart, These nations are more mighty destruction, until they
than I; how can I dispossess be destroyed.
them? 24 And he shall deliver their
18 Thou shalt not be afraid of kings into thine hand, and
them: but shalt well remember thou shalt destroy their name
what the LORD thy God did from under heaven: there shall
unto Pharaoh, and unto all no man be able to stand before
Egypt; thee, until thou have destroyed
19 The great temptations them.
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the LORD thy God for the good at thy latter end;
good land which he hath given 17 And thou say in thine heart,
thee. My power and the might of
11 Beware that thou forget not mine hand hath gotten me this
the LORD thy God, in not wealth.
keeping his commandments, 18 But thou shalt remember
and his judgments, and his the LORD thy God: for it is he
statutes, which I command that giveth thee power to get
thee this day: wealth, that he may establish
12 Lest when thou hast eaten his covenant which he sware
and art full, and hast built unto thy fathers, as it is this
goodly houses, and dwelt day.
therein; 19 And it shall be, if thou do
13 And when thy herds and at all forget the LORD thy
thy flocks multiply, and thy God, and walk after other
silver and thy gold is gods, and serve them, and
multiplied, and all that thou worship them, I testify against
hast is multiplied; you this day that ye shall
14 Then thine heart be lifted surely perish.
up, and thou forget the LORD 20 As the nations which the
thy God, which brought thee LORD destroyeth before your
forth out of the land of Egypt, face, so shall ye perish;
from the house of bondage; because ye would not be
15 Who led thee through that obedient unto the voice of the
great and terrible wilderness, LORD your God.
wherein were fiery serpents,
and scorpions, and drought, CHAPTER 9
where there was no water; HEAR, O Israel: Thou art to
who brought thee forth water pass over Jordan this day, to
out of the rock of flint; go in to possess nations
16 Who fed thee in the greater and mightier than
wilderness with manna, which thyself, cities great and fenced
thy fathers knew not, that he up to heaven,
might humble thee, and that he 2 A people great and tall, the
might prove thee, to do thee children of the Anakims,
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8 Therefore shall ye keep all your heart and with all your
the commandments which I soul,
command you this day, that ye 14 That I will give you the
may be strong, and go in and rain of your land in his due
possess the land, whither ye season, the first rain and the
go to possess it; latter rain, that thou mayest
9 And that ye may prolong gather in thy corn, and thy
your days in the land, which wine, and thine oil.
the LORD sware unto your 15 And I will send grass in thy
fathers to give unto them and fields for thy cattle, that thou
to their seed, a land that mayest eat and be full.
floweth with milk and honey. 16 Take heed to yourselves,
10 ¶ For the land, whither thou that your heart be not
goest in to possess it, is not as deceived, and ye turn aside,
the land of Egypt, from and serve other gods, and
whence ye came out, where worship them;
thou sowedst thy seed, and 17 And then the LORD’s wrath
wateredst it with thy foot, as a be kindled against you, and he
garden of herbs: shut up the heaven, that there
11 But the land, whither ye go be no rain, and that the land
to possess it, is a land of hills yield not her fruit; and lest ye
and valleys, and drinketh perish quickly from off the
water of the rain of heaven: good land which the LORD
12 A land which the LORD thy giveth you.
God careth for: the eyes of the 18 ¶ Therefore shall ye lay up
LORD thy God are always these my words in your heart
upon it, from the beginning of and in your soul, and bind
the year even unto the end of them for a sign upon your
the year. hand, that they may be as
13 ¶ And it shall come to pass, frontlets between your eyes.
if ye shall hearken diligently 19 And ye shall teach them
unto my commandments your children, speaking of
which I command you this them when thou sittest in thine
day, to love the LORD your house, and when thou walkest
God, and to serve him with all by the way, when thou liest
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which the LORD hath given 28 Observe and hear all these
thee, as I have commanded words which I command thee,
thee, and thou shalt eat in thy that it may go well with thee,
gates whatsoever thy soul and with thy children after
lusteth after. thee for ever, when thou doest
22 Even as the roebuck and that which is good and right in
the hart is eaten, so thou shalt the sight of the LORD thy God.
eat them: the unclean and the 29 ¶ When the LORD thy God
clean shall eat of them alike. shall cut off the nations from
23 Only be sure that thou eat before thee, whither thou
not the blood: for the blood is goest to possess them, and
the life; and thou mayest not thou succeedest them, and
eat the life with the flesh. dwellest in their land;
24 Thou shalt not eat it; thou 30 Take heed to thyself that
shalt pour it upon the earth as thou be not snared by
water. following them, after that they
25 Thou shalt not eat it; that it be destroyed from before thee;
may go well with thee, and and that thou inquire not after
with thy children after thee, their gods, saying, How did
when thou shalt do that which these nations serve their gods?
is right in the sight of the even so will I do likewise.
LORD. 31 Thou shalt not do so unto
26 Only thy holy things which the LORD thy God: for every
thou hast, and thy vows, thou abomination to the LORD,
shalt take, and go unto the which he hateth, have they
place which the LORD shall done unto their gods; for even
choose: their sons and their daughters
27 And thou shalt offer thy they have burnt in the fire to
burnt offerings, the flesh and their gods.
the blood, upon the altar of the 32 What thing soever I
LORD thy God: and the blood command you, observe to do
of thy sacrifices shall be it: thou shalt not add thereto,
poured out upon the altar of nor diminish from it.
the LORD thy God, and thou
shalt eat the flesh. CHAPTER 13
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IF there arise among you a So shalt thou put the evil away
prophet, or a dreamer of from the midst of thee.
dreams, and giveth thee a sign 6 ¶ If thy brother, the son of
or a wonder, thy mother, or thy son, or thy
2 And the sign or the wonder daughter, or the wife of thy
come to pass, whereof he bosom, or thy friend, which is
spake unto thee, saying, Let us as thine own soul, entice thee
go after other gods, which secretly, saying, Let us go and
thou hast not known, and let serve other gods, which thou
us serve them; hast not known, thou, nor thy
3 Thou shalt not hearken unto fathers;
the words of that prophet, or 7 Namely, of the gods of the
that dreamer of dreams: for people which are round about
the LORD your God proveth you, nigh unto thee, or far off
you, to know whether ye love from thee, from the one end of
the LORD your God with all the earth even unto the other
your heart and with all your end of the earth;
soul. 8 Thou shalt not consent unto
4 Ye shall walk after the LORD him, nor hearken unto him;
your God, and fear him, and neither shall thine eye pity
keep his commandments, and him, neither shalt thou spare,
obey his voice, and ye shall neither shalt thou conceal him:
serve him, and cleave unto 9 But thou shalt surely kill
him. him; thine hand shall be first
5 And that prophet, or that upon him to put him to death,
dreamer of dreams, shall be and afterwards the hand of all
put to death; because he hath the people.
spoken to turn you away from 10 And thou shalt stone him
the LORD your God, which with stones, that he die;
brought you out of the land of because he hath sought to
Egypt, and redeemed you out thrust thee away from the
of the house of bondage, to LORD thy God, which brought
thrust thee out of the way thee out of the land of Egypt,
which the LORD thy God from the house of bondage.
commanded thee to walk in. 11 And all Israel shall hear,
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wild goat, and the pygarg, and 14 And every raven after his
the wild ox, and the chamois. kind,
6 And every beast that parteth 15 And the owl, and the night
the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft hawk, and the cuckow, and the
into two claws, and cheweth hawk after his kind,
the cud among the beasts, that 16 The little owl, and the great
ye shall eat. owl, and the swan,
7 Nevertheless these ye shall 17 And the pelican, and the
not eat of them that chew the gier eagle, and the cormorant,
cud, or of them that divide the 18 And the stork, and the
cloven hoof; as the camel, and heron after her kind, and the
the hare, and the coney: for lapwing, and the bat.
they chew the cud, but divide 19 And every creeping thing
not the hoof; therefore they that flieth is unclean unto you:
are unclean unto you. they shall not be eaten.
8 And the swine, because it 20 But of all clean fowls ye
divideth the hoof, yet cheweth may eat.
not the cud, it is unclean unto 21 ¶ Ye shall not eat of any
you: ye shall not eat of their thing that dieth of itself: thou
flesh, nor touch their dead shalt give it unto the stranger
carcase. that is in thy gates, that he
9 ¶ These ye shall eat of all may eat it; or thou mayest sell
that are in the waters: all that it unto an alien: for thou art an
have fins and scales shall ye holy people unto the LORD thy
eat: God. Thou shalt not seethe a
10 And whatsoever hath not kid in his mother’s milk.
fins and scales ye may not eat; 22 Thou shalt truly tithe all
it is unclean unto you. the increase of thy seed, that
11 ¶ Of all clean birds ye shall the field bringeth forth year by
eat. year.
12 But these are they of which 23 And thou shalt eat before
ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the LORD thy God, in the
the ossifrage, and the ospray, place which he shall choose to
13 And the glede, and the kite, place his name there, the tithe
and the vulture after his kind, of thy corn, of thy wine, and
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hearken unto the voice of the and thine heart shall not be
LORD thy God, to observe to grieved when thou givest unto
do all these commandments him: because that for this
which I command thee this thing the LORD thy God shall
day. bless thee in all thy works, and
6 For the LORD thy God in all that thou puttest thine
blesseth thee, as he promised hand unto.
thee: and thou shalt lend unto 11 For the poor shall never
many nations, but thou shalt cease out of the land: therefore
not borrow; and thou shalt I command thee, saying, Thou
reign over many nations, but shalt open thine hand wide
they shall not reign over thee. unto thy brother, to thy poor,
7 ¶ If there be among you a and to thy needy, in thy land.
poor man of one of thy 12 ¶ And if thy brother, an
brethren within any of thy Hebrew man, or an Hebrew
gates in thy land which the woman, be sold unto thee, and
LORD thy God giveth thee, serve thee six years; then in
thou shalt not harden thine the seventh year thou shalt let
heart, nor shut thine hand him go free from thee.
from thy poor brother: 13 And when thou sendest
8 But thou shalt open thine him out free from thee, thou
hand wide unto him, and shalt shalt not let him go away
surely lend him sufficient for empty:
his need, in that which he 14 Thou shalt furnish him
wanteth. liberally out of thy flock, and
9 Beware that there be not a out of thy floor, and out of thy
thought in thy wicked heart, winepress: of that wherewith
saying, The seventh year, the the LORD thy God hath
year of release, is at hand; and blessed thee thou shalt give
thine eye be evil against thy unto him.
poor brother, and thou givest 15 And thou shalt remember
him nought; and he cry unto that thou wast a bondman in
the LORD against thee, and it the land of Egypt, and the
be sin unto thee. LORD thy God redeemed thee:
10 Thou shalt surely give him, therefore I command thee this
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fatherless, and the widow, that eyes of the wise, and pervert
are within thy gates. the words of the righteous.
15 Seven days shalt thou keep 20 That which is altogether
a solemn feast unto the LORD just shalt thou follow, that
thy God in the place which the thou mayest live, and inherit
LORD shall choose: because the land which the LORD thy
the LORD thy God shall bless God giveth thee.
thee in all thine increase, and 21 ¶ Thou shalt not plant thee
in all the works of thine hands, a grove of any trees near unto
therefore thou shalt surely the altar of the LORD thy God,
rejoice. which thou shalt make thee.
16 ¶ Three times in a year 22 Neither shalt thou set thee
shall all thy males appear up any image; which the
before the LORD thy God in LORD thy God hateth.
the place which he shall
choose; in the feast of CHAPTER 17
unleavened bread, and in the THOU shalt not sacrifice unto
feast of weeks, and in the feast the LORD thy God any
of tabernacles: and they shall bullock, or sheep, wherein is
not appear before the LORD blemish, or any
empty: evilfavouredness: for that is an
17 Every man shall give as he abomination unto the LORD
is able, according to the thy God.
blessing of the LORD thy God 2 ¶ If there be found among
which he hath given thee. you, within any of thy gates
18 ¶ Judges and officers shalt which the LORD thy God
thou make thee in all thy giveth thee, man or woman,
gates, which the LORD thy that hath wrought wickedness
God giveth thee, throughout in the sight of the LORD thy
thy tribes: and they shall judge God, in transgressing his
the people with just judgment. covenant,
19 Thou shalt not wrest 3 And hath gone and served
judgment; thou shalt not other gods, and worshipped
respect persons, neither take a them, either the sun, or moon,
gift: for a gift doth blind the or any of the host of heaven,
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the land which the LORD thy the days of his life: that he
God giveth thee, and shalt may learn to fear the LORD his
possess it, and shalt dwell God, to keep all the words of
therein, and shalt say, I will this law and these statutes, to
set a king over me, like as all do them:
the nations that are about me; 20 That his heart be not lifted
15 Thou shalt in any wise set up above his brethren, and that
him king over thee, whom the he turn not aside from the
LORD thy God shall choose: commandment, to the right
one from among thy brethren hand, or to the left: to the end
shalt thou set king over thee: that he may prolong his days
thou mayest not set a stranger in his kingdom, he, and his
over thee, which is not thy children, in the midst of Israel.
brother.
16 But he shall not multiply CHAPTER 18
horses to himself, nor cause THE priests the Levites, and
the people to return to Egypt, all the tribe of Levi, shall have
to the end that he should no part nor inheritance with
multiply horses: forasmuch as Israel: they shall eat the
the LORD hath said unto you, offerings of the LORD made
Ye shall henceforth return no by fire, and his inheritance.
more that way. 2 Therefore shall they have no
17 Neither shall he multiply inheritance among their
wives to himself, that his heart brethren: the LORD is their
turn not away: neither shall he inheritance, as he hath said
greatly multiply to himself unto them.
silver and gold. 3 ¶ And this shall be the
18 And it shall be, when he priest’s due from the people,
sitteth upon the throne of his from them that offer a
kingdom, that he shall write sacrifice, whether it be ox or
him a copy of this law in a sheep; and they shall give unto
book out of that which is the priest the shoulder, and the
before the priests the Levites: two cheeks, and the maw.
19 And it shall be with him, 4 The firstfruit also of thy
and he shall read therein all corn, of thy wine, and of thine
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giveth thee to possess it, lying say, Our hands have not shed
in the field, and it be not this blood, neither have our
known who hath slain him: eyes seen it.
2 Then thy elders and thy 8 Be merciful, O LORD, unto
judges shall come forth, and thy people Israel, whom thou
they shall measure unto the hast redeemed, and lay not
cities which are round about innocent blood unto thy
him that is slain: people of Israel’s charge. And
3 And it shall be, that the city the blood shall be forgiven
which is next unto the slain them.
man, even the elders of that 9 So shalt thou put away the
city shall take an heifer, which guilt of innocent blood from
hath not been wrought with, among you, when thou shalt
and which hath not drawn in do that which is right in the
the yoke; sight of the LORD.
4 And the elders of that city 10 ¶ When thou goest forth to
shall bring down the heifer war against thine enemies, and
unto a rough valley, which is the LORD thy God hath
neither eared nor sown, and delivered them into thine
shall strike off the heifer’s hands, and thou hast taken
neck there in the valley: them captive,
5 And the priests the sons of 11 And seest among the
Levi shall come near; for them captives a beautiful woman,
the LORD thy God hath chosen and hast a desire unto her, that
to minister unto him, and to thou wouldest have her to thy
bless in the name of the LORD; wife;
and by their word shall every 12 Then thou shalt bring her
controversy and every stroke home to thine house; and she
be tried: shall shave her head, and pare
6 And all the elders of that her nails;
city, that are next unto the 13 And she shall put the
slain man, shall wash their raiment of her captivity from
hands over the heifer that is off her, and shall remain in
beheaded in the valley: thine house, and bewail her
7 And they shall answer and father and her mother a full
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them all the words of this law, hearken, O Israel; this day
when thou art passed over, thou art become the people of
that thou mayest go in unto the LORD thy God.
the land which the LORD thy 10 Thou shalt therefore obey
God giveth thee, a land that the voice of the LORD thy
floweth with milk and honey; God, and do his
as the LORD God of thy commandments and his
fathers hath promised thee. statutes, which I command
4 Therefore it shall be when thee this day.
ye be gone over Jordan, that 11 ¶ And Moses charged the
ye shall set up these stones, people the same day, saying,
which I command you this 12 These shall stand upon
day, in mount Ebal, and thou mount Gerizim to bless the
shalt plaister them with people, when ye are come
plaister. over Jordan; Simeon, and
5 And there shalt thou build Levi, and Judah, and Issachar,
an altar unto the LORD thy and Joseph, and Benjamin:
God, an altar of stones: thou 13 And these shall stand upon
shalt not lift up any iron tool mount Ebal to curse; Reuben,
upon them. Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun,
6 Thou shalt build the altar of Dan, and Naphtali.
the LORD thy God of whole 14 ¶ And the Levites shall
stones: and thou shalt offer speak, and say unto all the
burnt offerings thereon unto men of Israel with a loud
the LORD thy God: voice,
7 And thou shalt offer peace 15 Cursed be the man that
offerings, and shalt eat there, maketh any graven or molten
and rejoice before the LORD image, an abomination unto
thy God. the LORD, the work of the
8 And thou shalt write upon hands of the craftsman, and
the stones all the words of this putteth it in a secret place.
law very plainly. And all the people shall
9 ¶ And Moses and the priests answer and say, Amen.
the Levites spake unto all 16 Cursed be he that setteth
Israel, saying, Take heed, and light by his father or his
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shalt thou be when thou goest heaven to give the rain unto
out. thy land in his season, and to
7 The LORD shall cause thine bless all the work of thine
enemies that rise up against hand: and thou shalt lend unto
thee to be smitten before thy many nations, and thou shalt
face: they shall come out not borrow.
against thee one way, and flee 13 And the LORD shall make
before thee seven ways. thee the head, and not the tail;
8 The LORD shall command and thou shalt be above only,
the blessing upon thee in thy and thou shalt not be beneath;
storehouses, and in all that if that thou hearken unto the
thou settest thine hand unto; commandments of the LORD
and he shall bless thee in the thy God, which I command
land which the LORD thy God thee this day, to observe and
giveth thee. to do them:
9 The LORD shall establish 14 And thou shalt not go aside
thee an holy people unto from any of the words which I
himself, as he hath sworn unto command thee this day, to the
thee, if thou shalt keep the right hand, or to the left, to go
commandments of the LORD after other gods to serve them.
thy God, and walk in his 15 ¶ But it shall come to pass,
ways. if thou wilt not hearken unto
10 And all people of the earth the voice of the LORD thy
shall see that thou art called by God, to observe to do all his
the name of the LORD; and commandments and his
they shall be afraid of thee. statutes which I command thee
11 And the LORD shall make this day; that all these curses
thee plenteous in goods, in the shall come upon thee, and
fruit of thy body, and in the overtake thee:
fruit of thy cattle, and in the 16 Cursed shalt thou be in the
fruit of thy ground, in the land city, and cursed shalt thou be
which the LORD sware unto in the field.
thy fathers to give thee. 17 Cursed shall be thy basket
12 The LORD shall open unto and thy store.
thee his good treasure, the 18 Cursed shall be the fruit of
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thy body, and the fruit of thy dust: from heaven shall it
land, the increase of thy kine, come down upon thee, until
and the flocks of thy sheep. thou be destroyed.
19 Cursed shalt thou be when 25 The LORD shall cause thee
thou comest in, and cursed to be smitten before thine
shalt thou be when thou goest enemies: thou shalt go out one
out. way against them, and flee
20 The LORD shall send upon seven ways before them: and
thee cursing, vexation, and shalt be removed into all the
rebuke, in all that thou settest kingdoms of the earth.
thine hand unto for to do, until 26 And thy carcase shall be
thou be destroyed, and until meat unto all fowls of the air,
thou perish quickly; because and unto the beasts of the
of the wickedness of thy earth, and no man shall fray
doings, whereby thou hast them away.
forsaken me. 27 The LORD will smite thee
21 The LORD shall make the with the botch of Egypt, and
pestilence cleave unto thee, with the emerods, and with the
until he have consumed thee scab, and with the itch,
from off the land, whither whereof thou canst not be
thou goest to possess it. healed.
22 The LORD shall smite thee 28 The LORD shall smite thee
with a consumption, and with with madness, and blindness,
a fever, and with an and astonishment of heart:
inflammation, and with an 29 And thou shalt grope at
extreme burning, and with the noonday, as the blind gropeth
sword, and with blasting, and in darkness, and thou shalt not
with mildew; and they shall prosper in thy ways: and thou
pursue thee until thou perish. shalt be only oppressed and
23 And thy heaven that is over spoiled evermore, and no man
thy head shall be brass, and shall save thee.
the earth that is under thee 30 Thou shalt betroth a wife,
shall be iron. and another man shall lie with
24 The LORD shall make the her: thou shalt build an house,
rain of thy land powder and and thou shalt not dwell
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20 The LORD will not spare done thus unto this land? what
him, but then the anger of the meaneth the heat of this great
LORD and his jealousy shall anger?
smoke against that man, and 25 Then men shall say,
all the curses that are written Because they have forsaken
in this book shall lie upon the covenant of the LORD God
him, and the LORD shall blot of their fathers, which he
out his name from under made with them when he
heaven. brought them forth out of the
21 And the LORD shall land of Egypt:
separate him unto evil out of 26 For they went and served
all the tribes of Israel, other gods, and worshipped
according to all the curses of them, gods whom they knew
the covenant that are written not, and whom he had not
in this book of the law: given unto them:
22 So that the generation to 27 And the anger of the LORD
come of your children that was kindled against this land,
shall rise up after you, and the to bring upon it all the curses
stranger that shall come from that are written in this book:
a far land, shall say, when they 28 And the LORD rooted them
see the plagues of that land, out of their land in anger, and
and the sicknesses which the in wrath, and in great
LORD hath laid upon it; indignation, and cast them into
23 And that the whole land another land, as it is this day.
thereof is brimstone, and salt, 29 The secret things belong
and burning, that it is not unto the LORD our God: but
sown, nor beareth, nor any those things which are
grass groweth therein, like the revealed belong unto us and to
overthrow of Sodom, and our children for ever, that we
Gomorrah, Admah, and may do all the words of this
Zeboim, which the LORD law.
overthrew in his anger, and in
his wrath: CHAPTER 30
24 Even all nations shall say, AND it shall come to pass,
Wherefore hath the LORD when all these things are come
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upon thee, the blessing and the LORD thy God with all thine
curse, which I have set before heart, and with all thy soul,
thee, and thou shalt call them that thou mayest live.
to mind among all the nations, 7 And the LORD thy God will
whither the LORD thy God put all these curses upon thine
hath driven thee, enemies, and on them that hate
2 And shalt return unto the thee, which persecuted thee.
LORD thy God, and shalt obey 8 And thou shalt return and
his voice according to all that I obey the voice of the LORD,
command thee this day, thou and do all his commandments
and thy children, with all thine which I command thee this
heart, and with all thy soul; day.
3 That then the LORD thy God 9 And the LORD thy God will
will turn thy captivity, and make thee plenteous in every
have compassion upon thee, work of thine hand, in the fruit
and will return and gather thee of thy body, and in the fruit of
from all the nations, whither thy cattle, and in the fruit of
the LORD thy God hath thy land, for good: for the
scattered thee. LORD will again rejoice over
4 If any of thine be driven out thee for good, as he rejoiced
unto the outmost parts of over thy fathers:
heaven, from thence will the 10 If thou shalt hearken unto
LORD thy God gather thee, the voice of the LORD thy
and from thence will he fetch God, to keep his
thee: commandments and his
5 And the LORD thy God will statutes which are written in
bring thee into the land which this book of the law, and if
thy fathers possessed, and thou turn unto the LORD thy
thou shalt possess it; and he God with all thine heart, and
will do thee good, and with all thy soul.
multiply thee above thy 11 ¶ For this commandment
fathers. which I command thee this
6 And the LORD thy God will day, it is not hidden from thee,
circumcise thine heart, and the neither is it far off.
heart of thy seed, to love the 12 It is not in heaven, that
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courage: for thou shalt bring commanded you; and evil will
the children of Israel into the befall you in the latter days;
land which I sware unto them: because ye will do evil in the
and I will be with thee. sight of the LORD, to provoke
24 ¶ And it came to pass, him to anger through the work
when Moses had made an end of your hands.
of writing the words of this 30 And Moses spake in the
law in a book, until they were ears of all the congregation of
finished, Israel the words of this song,
25 That Moses commanded until they were ended.
the Levites, which bare the ark
of the covenant of the LORD, CHAPTER 32
saying, GIVE ear, O ye heavens, and I
26 Take this book of the law, will speak; and hear, O earth,
and put it in the side of the ark the words of my mouth.
of the covenant of the LORD 2 My doctrine shall drop as
your God, that it may be there the rain, my speech shall distil
for a witness against thee. as the dew, as the small rain
27 For I know thy rebellion, upon the tender herb, and as
and thy stiff neck: behold, the showers upon the grass:
while I am yet alive with you 3 Because I will publish the
this day, ye have been name of the LORD: ascribe ye
rebellious against the LORD; greatness unto our God.
and how much more after my 4 He is the Rock, his work is
death? perfect: for all his ways are
28 ¶ Gather unto me all the judgment: a God of truth and
elders of your tribes, and your without iniquity, just and right
officers, that I may speak is he.
these words in their ears, and 5 They have corrupted
call heaven and earth to record themselves, their spot is not
against them. the spot of his children: they
29 For I know that after my are a perverse and crooked
death ye will utterly corrupt generation.
yourselves, and turn aside 6 Do ye thus requite the
from the way which I have LORD, O foolish people and
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with me, and sealed up among enemies, and will reward them
my treasures? that hate me.
35 To me belongeth 42 I will make mine arrows
vengeance, and recompence; drunk with blood, and my
their foot shall slide in due sword shall devour flesh; and
time: for the day of their that with the blood of the slain
calamity is at hand, and the and of the captives, from the
things that shall come upon beginning of revenges upon
them make haste. the enemy.
36 For the LORD shall judge 43 Rejoice, O ye nations, with
his people, and repent himself his people: for he will avenge
for his servants, when he seeth the blood of his servants, and
that their power is gone, and will render vengeance to his
there is none shut up, or left. adversaries, and will be
37 And he shall say, Where merciful unto his land, and to
are their gods, their rock in his people.
whom they trusted, 44 ¶ And Moses came and
38 Which did eat the fat of spake all the words of this
their sacrifices, and drank the song in the ears of the people,
wine of their drink offerings? he, and Hoshea the son of
let them rise up and help you, Nun.
and be your protection. 45 And Moses made an end of
39 See now that I, even I, am speaking all these words to all
he, and there is no god with Israel:
me: I kill, and I make alive; I 46 And he said unto them, Set
wound, and I heal: neither is your hearts unto all the words
there any that can deliver out which I testify among you this
of my hand. day, which ye shall command
40 For I lift up my hand to your children to observe to do,
heaven, and say, I live for all the words of this law.
ever. 47 For it is not a vain thing for
41 If I whet my glittering you; because it is your life:
sword, and mine hand take and through this thing ye shall
hold on judgment; I will prolong your days in the land,
render vengeance to mine whither ye go over Jordan to
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to search out all the country. came out of Egypt; and what
4 And the woman took the ye did unto the two kings of
two men, and hid them, and the Amorites, that were on the
said thus, There came men other side Jordan, Sihon and
unto me, but I wist not whence Og, whom ye utterly
they were: destroyed.
5 And it came to pass about 11 And as soon as we had
the time of shutting of the heard these things, our hearts
gate, when it was dark, that did melt, neither did there
the men went out: whither the remain any more courage in
men went I wot not: pursue any man, because of you: for
after them quickly; for ye shall the LORD your God, he is God
overtake them. in heaven above, and in earth
6 But she had brought them up beneath.
to the roof of the house, and 12 Now therefore, I pray you,
hid them with the stalks of swear unto me by the LORD,
flax, which she had laid in since I have shewed you
order upon the roof. kindness, that ye will also
7 And the men pursued after shew kindness unto my
them the way to Jordan unto father’s house, and give me a
the fords: and as soon as they true token:
which pursued after them were 13 And that ye will save alive
gone out, they shut the gate. my father, and my mother, and
8 ¶ And before they were laid my brethren, and my sisters,
down, she came up unto them and all that they have, and
upon the roof; deliver our lives from death.
9 And she said unto the men, I 14 And the men answered her,
know that the LORD hath Our life for yours, if ye utter
given you the land, and that not this our business. And it
your terror is fallen upon us, shall be, when the LORD hath
and that all the inhabitants of given us the land, that we will
the land faint because of you. deal kindly and truly with
10 For we have heard how the thee.
LORD dried up the water of the 15 Then she let them down by
Red sea for you, when ye a cord through the window:
JOSHUA
their place, and flowed over AND it came to pass, when all
all his banks, as they did the kings of the Amorites,
before. which were on the side of
19 ¶ And the people came up Jordan westward, and all the
out of Jordan on the tenth day kings of the Canaanites, which
of the first month, and were by the sea, heard that the
encamped in Gilgal, in the east LORD had dried up the waters
border of Jericho. of Jordan from before the
20 And those twelve stones, children of Israel, until we
which they took out of Jordan, were passed over, that their
did Joshua pitch in Gilgal. heart melted, neither was there
21 And he spake unto the spirit in them any more,
children of Israel, saying, because of the children of
When your children shall ask Israel.
their fathers in time to come, 2 ¶ At that time the LORD said
saying, What mean these unto Joshua, Make thee sharp
stones? knives, and circumcise again
22 Then ye shall let your the children of Israel the
children know, saying, Israel second time.
came over this Jordan on dry 3 And Joshua made him sharp
land. knives, and circumcised the
23 For the LORD your God children of Israel at the hill of
dried up the waters of Jordan the foreskins.
from before you, until ye were 4 And this is the cause why
passed over, as the LORD your Joshua did circumcise: All the
God did to the Red sea, which people that came out of Egypt,
he dried up from before us, that were males, even all the
until we were gone over: men of war, died in the
24 That all the people of the wilderness by the way, after
earth might know the hand of they came out of Egypt.
the LORD, that it is mighty: 5 Now all the people that
that ye might fear the LORD came out were circumcised:
your God for ever. but all the people that were
born in the wilderness by the
CHAPTER 5 way as they came forth out of
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foot; for the place whereon 6 ¶ And Joshua the son of Nun
thou standest is holy. And called the priests, and said
Joshua did so. unto them, Take up the ark of
the covenant, and let seven
CHAPTER 6 priests bear seven trumpets of
NOW Jericho was straitly shut rams’ horns before the ark of
up because of the children of the LORD.
Israel: none went out, and 7 And he said unto the people,
none came in. Pass on, and compass the city,
2 And the LORD said unto and let him that is armed pass
Joshua, See, I have given into on before the ark of the LORD.
thine hand Jericho, and the 8 ¶ And it came to pass, when
king thereof, and the mighty Joshua had spoken unto the
men of valour. people, that the seven priests
3 And ye shall compass the bearing the seven trumpets of
city, all ye men of war, and go rams’ horns passed on before
round about the city once. the LORD, and blew with the
Thus shalt thou do six days. trumpets: and the ark of the
4 And seven priests shall bear covenant of the LORD
before the ark seven trumpets followed them.
of rams’ horns: and the 9 ¶ And the armed men went
seventh day ye shall compass before the priests that blew
the city seven times, and the with the trumpets, and the
priests shall blow with the rereward came after the ark,
trumpets. the priests going on, and
5 And it shall come to pass, blowing with the trumpets.
that when they make a long 10 And Joshua had
blast with the ram’s horn, and commanded the people,
when ye hear the sound of the saying, Ye shall not shout, nor
trumpet, all the people shall make any noise with your
shout with a great shout; and voice, neither shall any word
the wall of the city shall fall proceed out of your mouth,
down flat, and the people shall until the day I bid you shout;
ascend up every man straight then shall ye shout.
before him. 11 So the ark of the LORD
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the families thereof; and the what thou hast done; hide it
family which the LORD shall not from me.
take shall come by 20 And Achan answered
households; and the household Joshua, and said, Indeed I
which the LORD shall take have sinned against the LORD
shall come man by man. God of Israel, and thus and
15 And it shall be, that he that thus have I done:
is taken with the accursed 21 When I saw among the
thing shall be burnt with fire, spoils a goodly Babylonish
he and all that he hath: garment, and two hundred
because he hath transgressed shekels of silver, and a wedge
the covenant of the LORD, and of gold of fifty shekels weight,
because he hath wrought folly then I coveted them, and took
in Israel. them; and, behold, they are
16 ¶ So Joshua rose up early hid in the earth in the midst of
in the morning, and brought my tent, and the silver under
Israel by their tribes; and the it.
tribe of Judah was taken: 22 ¶ So Joshua sent
17 And he brought the family messengers, and they ran unto
of Judah; and he took the the tent; and, behold, it was
family of the Zarhites: and he hid in his tent, and the silver
brought the family of the under it.
Zarhites man by man; and 23 And they took them out of
Zabdi was taken: the midst of the tent, and
18 And he brought his brought them unto Joshua, and
household man by man; and unto all the children of Israel,
Achan, the son of Carmi, the and laid them out before the
son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, LORD.
of the tribe of Judah, was 24 And Joshua, and all Israel
taken. with him, took Achan the son
19 And Joshua said unto of Zerah, and the silver, and
Achan, My son, give, I pray the garment, and the wedge of
thee, glory to the LORD God gold, and his sons, and his
of Israel, and make confession daughters, and his oxen, and
unto him; and tell me now his asses, and his sheep, and
JOSHUA
his tent, and all that he had: 3 ¶ So Joshua arose, and all
and they brought them unto the people of war, to go up
the valley of Achor. against Ai: and Joshua chose
25 And Joshua said, Why hast out thirty thousand mighty
thou troubled us? the LORD men of valour, and sent them
shall trouble thee this day. away by night.
And all Israel stoned him with 4 And he commanded them,
stones, and burned them with saying, Behold, ye shall lie in
fire, after they had stoned wait against the city, even
them with stones. behind the city: go not very far
26 And they raised over him a from the city, but be ye all
great heap of stones unto this ready:
day. So the LORD turned from 5 And I, and all the people that
the fierceness of his anger. are with me, will approach
Wherefore the name of that unto the city: and it shall come
place was called, The valley of to pass, when they come out
Achor, unto this day. against us, as at the first, that
we will flee before them,
CHAPTER 8 6 (For they will come out after
AND the LORD said unto us) till we have drawn them
Joshua, Fear not, neither be from the city; for they will
thou dismayed: take all the say, They flee before us, as at
people of war with thee, and the first: therefore we will flee
arise, go up to Ai: see, I have before them.
given into thy hand the king of 7 Then ye shall rise up from
Ai, and his people, and his the ambush, and seize upon
city, and his land: the city: for the LORD your
2 And thou shalt do to Ai and God will deliver it into your
her king as thou didst unto hand.
Jericho and her king: only the 8 And it shall be, when ye
spoil thereof, and the cattle have taken the city, that ye
thereof, shall ye take for a shall set the city on fire:
prey unto yourselves: lay thee according to the
an ambush for the city behind commandment of the LORD
it. shall ye do. See, I have
JOSHUA
garments upon them; and all Take victuals with you for the
the bread of their provision journey, and go to meet them,
was dry and mouldy. and say unto them, We are
6 And they went to Joshua your servants: therefore now
unto the camp at Gilgal, and make ye a league with us.
said unto him, and to the men 12 This our bread we took hot
of Israel, We be come from a for our provision out of our
far country: now therefore houses on the day we came
make ye a league with us. forth to go unto you; but now,
7 And the men of Israel said behold, it is dry, and it is
unto the Hivites, Peradventure mouldy:
ye dwell among us; and how 13 And these bottles of wine,
shall we make a league with which we filled, were new;
you? and, behold, they be rent: and
8 And they said unto Joshua, these our garments and our
We are thy servants. And shoes are become old by
Joshua said unto them, Who reason of the very long
are ye? and from whence journey.
come ye? 14 And the men took of their
9 And they said unto him, victuals, and asked not
From a very far country thy counsel at the mouth of the
servants are come because of LORD.
the name of the LORD thy 15 And Joshua made peace
God: for we have heard the with them, and made a league
fame of him, and all that he with them, to let them live:
did in Egypt, and the princes of the
10 And all that he did to the congregation sware unto them.
two kings of the Amorites, 16 ¶ And it came to pass at the
that were beyond Jordan, to end of three days after they
Sihon king of Heshbon, and to had made a league with them,
Og king of Bashan, which was that they heard that they were
at Ashtaroth. their neighbours, and that they
11 Wherefore our elders and dwelt among them.
all the inhabitants of our 17 And the children of Israel
country spake to us, saying, journeyed, and came unto
JOSHUA
their cities on the third day. cursed, and there shall none of
Now their cities were Gibeon, you be freed from being
and Chephirah, and Beeroth, bondmen, and hewers of wood
and Kirjath-jearim. and drawers of water for the
18 And the children of Israel house of my God.
smote them not, because the 24 And they answered Joshua,
princes of the congregation and said, Because it was
had sworn unto them by the certainly told thy servants,
LORD God of Israel. And all how that the LORD thy God
the congregation murmured commanded his servant Moses
against the princes. to give you all the land, and to
19 But all the princes said destroy all the inhabitants of
unto all the congregation, We the land from before you,
have sworn unto them by the therefore we were sore afraid
LORD God of Israel: now of our lives because of you,
therefore we may not touch and have done this thing.
them. 25 And now, behold, we are
20 This we will do to them; in thine hand: as it seemeth
we will even let them live, lest good and right unto thee to do
wrath be upon us, because of unto us, do.
the oath which we sware unto 26 And so did he unto them,
them. and delivered them out of the
21 And the princes said unto hand of the children of Israel,
them, Let them live; but let that they slew them not.
them be hewers of wood and 27 And Joshua made them that
drawers of water unto all the day hewers of wood and
congregation; as the princes drawers of water for the
had promised them. congregation, and for the altar
22 ¶ And Joshua called for of the LORD, even unto this
them, and he spake unto them, day, in the place which he
saying, Wherefore have ye should choose.
beguiled us, saying, We are
very far from you; when ye CHAPTER 10
dwell among us? NOW it came to pass, when
23 Now therefore ye are Adoni-zedek king of
JOSHUA
13 But as for the cities that 19 There was not a city that
stood still in their strength, made peace with the children
Israel burned none of them, of Israel, save the Hivites the
save Hazor only; that did inhabitants of Gibeon: all
Joshua burn. other they took in battle.
14 And all the spoil of these 20 For it was of the LORD to
cities, and the cattle, the harden their hearts, that they
children of Israel took for a should come against Israel in
prey unto themselves; but battle, that he might destroy
every man they smote with the them utterly, and that they
edge of the sword, until they might have no favour, but that
had destroyed them, neither he might destroy them, as the
left they any to breathe. LORD commanded Moses.
15 ¶ As the LORD commanded 21 ¶ And at that time came
Moses his servant, so did Joshua, and cut off the
Moses command Joshua, and Anakims from the mountains,
so did Joshua; he left nothing from Hebron, from Debir,
undone of all that the LORD from Anab, and from all the
commanded Moses. mountains of Judah, and from
16 So Joshua took all that all the mountains of Israel:
land, the hills, and all the Joshua destroyed them utterly
south country, and all the land with their cities.
of Goshen, and the valley, and 22 There was none of the
the plain, and the mountain of Anakims left in the land of the
Israel, and the valley of the children of Israel: only in
same; Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod,
17 Even from the mount there remained.
Halak, that goeth up to Seir, 23 So Joshua took the whole
even unto Baal-gad in the land, according to all that the
valley of Lebanon under LORD said unto Moses; and
mount Hermon: and all their Joshua gave it for an
kings he took, and smote inheritance unto Israel
them, and slew them. according to their divisions by
18 Joshua made war a long their tribes. And the land
time with all those kings. rested from war.
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Moses gave not any Israel did, and they divided the
inheritance: the LORD God of land.
Israel was their inheritance, as 6 ¶ Then the children of Judah
he said unto them. came unto Joshua in Gilgal:
and Caleb the son of
CHAPTER 14 Jephunneh the Kenezite said
AND these are the countries unto him, Thou knowest the
which the children of Israel thing that the LORD said unto
inherited in the land of Moses the man of God
Canaan, which Eleazar the concerning me and thee in
priest, and Joshua the son of Kadesh-barnea.
Nun, and the heads of the 7 Forty years old was I when
fathers of the tribes of the Moses the servant of the LORD
children of Israel, distributed sent me from Kadesh-barnea
for inheritance to them. to espy out the land; and I
2 By lot was their inheritance, brought him word again as it
as the LORD commanded by was in mine heart.
the hand of Moses, for the 8 Nevertheless my brethren
nine tribes, and for the half that went up with me made the
tribe. heart of the people melt: but I
3 For Moses had given the wholly followed the LORD my
inheritance of two tribes and God.
an half tribe on the other side 9 And Moses sware on that
Jordan: but unto the Levites he day, saying, Surely the land
gave none inheritance among whereon thy feet have trodden
them. shall be thine inheritance, and
4 For the children of Joseph thy children’s for ever,
were two tribes, Manasseh and because thou hast wholly
Ephraim: therefore they gave followed the LORD my God.
no part unto the Levites in the 10 And now, behold, the
land, save cities to dwell in, LORD hath kept me alive, as
with their suburbs for their he said, these forty and five
cattle and for their substance. years, even since the LORD
5 As the LORD commanded spake this word unto Moses,
Moses, so the children of while the children of Israel
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and the border went up to the unto the side of mount Jearim,
stone of Bohan the son of which is Chesalon, on the
Reuben: north side, and went down to
7 And the border went up Beth-shemesh, and passed on
toward Debir from the valley to Timnah:
of Achor, and so northward, 11 And the border went out
looking toward Gilgal, that is unto the side of Ekron
before the going up to northward: and the border was
Adummim, which is on the drawn to Shicron, and passed
south side of the river: and the along to mount Baalah, and
border passed toward the went out unto Jabneel; and the
waters of En-shemesh, and the goings out of the border were
goings out thereof were at En- at the sea.
rogel: 12 And the west border was to
8 And the border went up by the great sea, and the coast
the valley of the son of thereof. This is the coast of the
Hinnom unto the south side of children of Judah round about
the Jebusite; the same is according to their families.
Jerusalem: and the border 13 ¶ And unto Caleb the son
went up to the top of the of Jephunneh he gave a part
mountain that lieth before the among the children of Judah,
valley of Hinnom westward, according to the
which is at the end of the commandment of the LORD to
valley of the giants northward: Joshua, even the city of Arba
9 And the border was drawn the father of Anak, which city
from the top of the hill unto is Hebron.
the fountain of the water of 14 And Caleb drove thence
Nephtoah, and went out to the the three sons of Anak,
cities of mount Ephron; and Sheshai, and Ahiman, and
the border was drawn to Talmai, the children of Anak.
Baalah, which is Kirjath- 15 And he went up thence to
jearim: the inhabitants of Debir: and
10 And the border compassed the name of Debir before was
from Baalah westward unto Kirjath-sepher.
mount Seir, and passed along 16 ¶ And Caleb said, He that
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towns, and the inhabitants of and her towns, and they who
Megiddo and her towns, even are of the valley of Jezreel.
three countries. 17 And Joshua spake unto the
12 Yet the children of house of Joseph, even to
Manasseh could not drive out Ephraim and to Manasseh,
the inhabitants of those cities; saying, Thou art a great
but the Canaanites would people, and hast great power:
dwell in that land. thou shalt not have one lot
13 Yet it came to pass, when only:
the children of Israel were 18 But the mountain shall be
waxen strong, that they put the thine; for it is a wood, and
Canaanites to tribute; but did thou shalt cut it down: and the
not utterly drive them out. outgoings of it shall be thine:
14 And the children of Joseph for thou shalt drive out the
spake unto Joshua, saying, Canaanites, though they have
Why hast thou given me but iron chariots, and though they
one lot and one portion to be strong.
inherit, seeing I am a great
people, forasmuch as the CHAPTER 18
LORD hath blessed me AND the whole congregation
hitherto? of the children of Israel
15 And Joshua answered assembled together at Shiloh,
them, If thou be a great and set up the tabernacle of
people, then get thee up to the the congregation there. And
wood country, and cut down the land was subdued before
for thyself there in the land of them.
the Perizzites and of the 2 And there remained among
giants, if mount Ephraim be the children of Israel seven
too narrow for thee. tribes, which had not yet
16 And the children of Joseph received their inheritance.
said, The hill is not enough for 3 And Joshua said unto the
us: and all the Canaanites that children of Israel, How long
dwell in the land of the valley are ye slack to go to possess
have chariots of iron, both the land, which the LORD God
they who are of Beth-shean of your fathers hath given
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8 And on the other side Jordan gave unto the Levites out of
by Jericho eastward, they their inheritance, at the
assigned Bezer in the commandment of the LORD,
wilderness upon the plain out these cities and their suburbs.
of the tribe of Reuben, and 4 And the lot came out for the
Ramoth in Gilead out of the families of the Kohathites: and
tribe of Gad, and Golan in the children of Aaron the
Bashan out of the tribe of priest, which were of the
Manasseh. Levites, had by lot out of the
9 These were the cities tribe of Judah, and out of the
appointed for all the children tribe of Simeon, and out of the
of Israel, and for the stranger tribe of Benjamin, thirteen
that sojourneth among them, cities.
that whosoever killeth any 5 And the rest of the children
person at unawares might flee of Kohath had by lot out of
thither, and not die by the the families of the tribe of
hand of the avenger of blood, Ephraim, and out of the tribe
until he stood before the of Dan, and out of the half
congregation. tribe of Manasseh, ten cities.
6 And the children of Gershon
CHAPTER 21 had by lot out of the families
THEN came near the heads of of the tribe of Issachar, and
the fathers of the Levites unto out of the tribe of Asher, and
Eleazar the priest, and unto out of the tribe of Naphtali,
Joshua the son of Nun, and and out of the half tribe of
unto the heads of the fathers Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen
of the tribes of the children of cities.
Israel; 7 The children of Merari by
2 And they spake unto them at their families had out of the
Shiloh in the land of Canaan, tribe of Reuben, and out of the
saying, The LORD commanded tribe of Gad, and out of the
by the hand of Moses to give tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities.
us cities to dwell in, with the 8 And the children of Israel
suburbs thereof for our cattle. gave by lot unto the Levites
3 And the children of Israel these cities with their suburbs,
JOSHUA
children of Israel; and the with all the nations that I have
children of Israel blessed God, cut off, even unto the great sea
and did not intend to go up westward.
against them in battle, to 5 And the LORD your God, he
destroy the land wherein the shall expel them from before
children of Reuben and Gad you, and drive them from out
dwelt. of your sight; and ye shall
34 And the children of Reuben possess their land, as the
and the children of Gad called LORD your God hath promised
the altar Ed: for it shall be a unto you.
witness between us that the 6 Be ye therefore very
LORD is God. courageous to keep and to do
all that is written in the book
CHAPTER 23 of the law of Moses, that ye
AND it came to pass a long turn not aside therefrom to the
time after that the LORD had right hand or to the left;
given rest unto Israel from all 7 That ye come not among
their enemies round about, these nations, these that
that Joshua waxed old and remain among you; neither
stricken in age. make mention of the name of
2 And Joshua called for all their gods, nor cause to swear
Israel, and for their elders, and by them, neither serve them,
for their heads, and for their nor bow yourselves unto
judges, and for their officers, them:
and said unto them, I am old 8 But cleave unto the LORD
and stricken in age: your God, as ye have done
3 And ye have seen all that the unto this day.
LORD your God hath done 9 For the LORD hath driven
unto all these nations because out from before you great
of you; for the LORD your God nations and strong: but as for
is he that hath fought for you. you, no man hath been able to
4 Behold, I have divided unto stand before you unto this day.
you by lot these nations that 10 One man of you shall chase
remain, to be an inheritance a thousand: for the LORD your
for your tribes, from Jordan, God, he it is that fighteth for
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Bochim, and said, I made you that outlived Joshua, who had
to go up out of Egypt, and seen all the great works of the
have brought you unto the LORD, that he did for Israel.
land which I sware unto your 8 And Joshua the son of Nun,
fathers; and I said, I will never the servant of the LORD, died,
break my covenant with you. being an hundred and ten
2 And ye shall make no league years old.
with the inhabitants of this 9 And they buried him in the
land; ye shall throw down border of his inheritance in
their altars: but ye have not Timnath-heres, in the mount
obeyed my voice: why have of Ephraim, on the north side
ye done this? of the hill Gaash.
3 Wherefore I also said, I will 10 And also all that generation
not drive them out from before were gathered unto their
you; but they shall be as fathers: and there arose
thorns in your sides, and their another generation after them,
gods shall be a snare unto you. which knew not the LORD, nor
4 And it came to pass, when yet the works which he had
the angel of the LORD spake done for Israel.
these words unto all the 11 ¶ And the children of Israel
children of Israel, that the did evil in the sight of the
people lifted up their voice, LORD, and served Baalim:
and wept. 12 And they forsook the LORD
5 And they called the name of God of their fathers, which
that place Bochim: and they brought them out of the land
sacrificed there unto the of Egypt, and followed other
LORD. gods, of the gods of the people
6 ¶ And when Joshua had let that were round about them,
the people go, the children of and bowed themselves unto
Israel went every man unto his them, and provoked the LORD
inheritance to possess the to anger.
land. 13 And they forsook the
7 And the people served the LORD, and served Baal and
LORD all the days of Joshua, Ashtaroth.
and all the days of the elders 14 ¶ And the anger of the
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that love him be as the sun number: and they entered into
when he goeth forth in his the land to destroy it.
might. And the land had rest 6 And Israel was greatly
forty years. impoverished because of the
Midianites; and the children of
CHAPTER 6 Israel cried unto the LORD.
AND the children of Israel did 7 ¶ And it came to pass, when
evil in the sight of the LORD: the children of Israel cried
and the LORD delivered them unto the LORD because of the
into the hand of Midian seven Midianites,
years. 8 That the LORD sent a
2 And the hand of Midian prophet unto the children of
prevailed against Israel: and Israel, which said unto them,
because of the Midianites the Thus saith the LORD God of
children of Israel made them Israel, I brought you up from
the dens which are in the Egypt, and brought you forth
mountains, and caves, and out of the house of bondage;
strong holds. 9 And I delivered you out of
3 And so it was, when Israel the hand of the Egyptians, and
had sown, that the Midianites out of the hand of all that
came up, and the Amalekites, oppressed you, and drave
and the children of the east, them out from before you, and
even they came up against gave you their land;
them; 10 And I said unto you, I am
4 And they encamped against the LORD your God; fear not
them, and destroyed the the gods of the Amorites, in
increase of the earth, till thou whose land ye dwell: but ye
come unto Gaza, and left no have not obeyed my voice.
sustenance for Israel, neither 11 ¶ And there came an angel
sheep, nor ox, nor ass. of the LORD, and sat under an
5 For they came up with their oak which was in Ophrah, that
cattle and their tents, and they pertained unto Joash the Abi-
came as grasshoppers for ezrite: and his son Gideon
multitude; for both they and threshed wheat by the
their camels were without winepress, to hide it from the
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fellow, and said, Behold, I trumpet, I and all that are with
dreamed a dream, and, lo, a me, then blow ye the trumpets
cake of barley bread tumbled also on every side of all the
into the host of Midian, and camp, and say, The sword of
came unto a tent, and smote it the LORD, and of Gideon.
that it fell, and overturned it, 19 ¶ So Gideon, and the
that the tent lay along. hundred men that were with
14 And his fellow answered him, came unto the outside of
and said, This is nothing else the camp in the beginning of
save the sword of Gideon the the middle watch; and they
son of Joash, a man of Israel: had but newly set the watch:
for into his hand hath God and they blew the trumpets,
delivered Midian, and all the and brake the pitchers that
host. were in their hands.
15 ¶ And it was so, when 20 And the three companies
Gideon heard the telling of the blew the trumpets, and brake
dream, and the interpretation the pitchers, and held the
thereof, that he worshipped, lamps in their left hands, and
and returned into the host of the trumpets in their right
Israel, and said, Arise; for the hands to blow withal: and they
LORD hath delivered into your cried, The sword of the LORD,
hand the host of Midian. and of Gideon.
16 And he divided the three 21 And they stood every man
hundred men into three in his place round about the
companies, and he put a camp: and all the host ran, and
trumpet in every man’s hand, cried, and fled.
with empty pitchers, and 22 And the three hundred
lamps within the pitchers. blew the trumpets, and the
17 And he said unto them, LORD set every man’s sword
Look on me, and do likewise: against his fellow, even
and, behold, when I come to throughout all the host: and
the outside of the camp, it the host fled to Beth-shittah in
shall be that, as I do, so shall Zererath, and to the border of
ye do. Abel-meholah, unto Tabbath.
18 When I blow with a 23 And the men of Israel
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Penuel, and spake unto them described unto him the princes
likewise: and the men of of Succoth, and the elders
Penuel answered him as the thereof, even threescore and
men of Succoth had answered seventeen men.
him. 15 And he came unto the men
9 And he spake also unto the of Succoth, and said, Behold
men of Penuel, saying, When I Zebah and Zalmunna, with
come again in peace, I will whom ye did upbraid me,
break down this tower. saying, Are the hands of
10 ¶ Now Zebah and Zebah and Zalmunna now in
Zalmunna were in Karkor, and thine hand, that we should
their hosts with them, about give bread unto thy men that
fifteen thousand men, all that are weary?
were left of all the hosts of the 16 And he took the elders of
children of the east: for there the city, and thorns of the
fell an hundred and twenty wilderness and briers, and
thousand men that drew with them he taught the men
sword. of Succoth.
11 ¶ And Gideon went up by 17 And he beat down the
the way of them that dwelt in tower of Penuel, and slew the
tents on the east of Nobah and men of the city.
Jogbehah, and smote the host: 18 ¶ Then said he unto Zebah
for the host was secure. and Zalmunna, What manner
12 And when Zebah and of men were they whom ye
Zalmunna fled, he pursued slew at Tabor? And they
after them, and took the two answered, As thou art, so
kings of Midian, Zebah and were they; each one resembled
Zalmunna, and discomfited all the children of a king.
the host. 19 And he said, They were my
13 ¶ And Gideon the son of brethren, even the sons of my
Joash returned from battle mother: as the LORD liveth, if
before the sun was up, ye had saved them alive, I
14 And caught a young man would not slay you.
of the men of Succoth, and 20 And he said unto Jether his
inquired of him: and he firstborn, Up, and slay them.
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lifted up his voice, and cried, me king over you, then come
and said unto them, Hearken and put your trust in my
unto me, ye men of Shechem, shadow: and if not, let fire
that God may hearken unto come out of the bramble, and
you. devour the cedars of Lebanon.
8 The trees went forth on a 16 Now therefore, if ye have
time to anoint a king over done truly and sincerely, in
them; and they said unto the that ye have made Abimelech
olive tree, Reign thou over us. king, and if ye have dealt well
9 But the olive tree said unto with Jerubbaal and his house,
them, Should I leave my and have done unto him
fatness, wherewith by me they according to the deserving of
honour God and man, and go his hands;
to be promoted over the trees? 17 (For my father fought for
10 And the trees said to the fig you, and adventured his life
tree, Come thou, and reign far, and delivered you out of
over us. the hand of Midian:
11 But the fig tree said unto 18 And ye are risen up against
them, Should I forsake my my father’s house this day,
sweetness, and my good fruit, and have slain his sons,
and go to be promoted over threescore and ten persons,
the trees? upon one stone, and have
12 Then said the trees unto the made Abimelech, the son of
vine, Come thou, and reign his maidservant, king over the
over us. men of Shechem, because he
13 And the vine said unto is your brother;)
them, Should I leave my wine, 19 If ye then have dealt truly
which cheereth God and man, and sincerely with Jerubbaal
and go to be promoted over and with his house this day,
the trees? then rejoice ye in Abimelech,
14 Then said all the trees unto and let him also rejoice in
the bramble, Come thou, and you:
reign over us. 20 But if not, let fire come out
15 And the bramble said unto from Abimelech, and devour
the trees, If in truth ye anoint the men of Shechem, and the
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me: the LORD the Judge be Aroer, even till thou come to
judge this day between the Minnith, even twenty cities,
children of Israel and the and unto the plain of the
children of Ammon. vineyards, with a very great
28 Howbeit the king of the slaughter. Thus the children of
children of Ammon hearkened Ammon were subdued before
not unto the words of Jephthah the children of Israel.
which he sent him. 34 ¶ And Jephthah came to
29 ¶ Then the Spirit of the Mizpeh unto his house, and,
LORD came upon Jephthah, behold, his daughter came out
and he passed over Gilead, to meet him with timbrels and
and Manasseh, and passed with dances: and she was his
over Mizpeh of Gilead, and only child; beside her he had
from Mizpeh of Gilead he neither son nor daughter.
passed over unto the children 35 And it came to pass, when
of Ammon. he saw her, that he rent his
30 And Jephthah vowed a vow clothes, and said, Alas, my
unto the LORD, and said, If daughter! thou hast brought
thou shalt without fail deliver me very low, and thou art one
the children of Ammon into of them that trouble me: for I
mine hands, have opened my mouth unto
31 Then it shall be, that the LORD, and I cannot go
whatsoever cometh forth of back.
the doors of my house to meet 36 And she said unto him, My
me, when I return in peace father, if thou hast opened thy
from the children of Ammon, mouth unto the LORD, do to
shall surely be the LORD’s, me according to that which
and I will offer it up for a hath proceeded out of thy
burnt offering. mouth; forasmuch as the
32 ¶ So Jephthah passed over LORD hath taken vengeance
unto the children of Ammon for thee of thine enemies, even
to fight against them; and the of the children of Ammon.
LORD delivered them into his 37 And she said unto her
hands. father, Let this thing be done
33 And he smote them from for me: let me alone two
JUDGES
man of God came unto me, to the man, and said unto him,
and his countenance was like Art thou the man that spakest
the countenance of an angel of unto the woman? And he said,
God, very terrible: but I asked I am.
him not whence he was, 12 And Manoah said, Now let
neither told he me his name: thy words come to pass. How
7 But he said unto me, shall we order the child, and
Behold, thou shalt conceive, how shall we do unto him?
and bear a son; and now drink 13 And the angel of the LORD
no wine nor strong drink, said unto Manoah, Of all that I
neither eat any unclean thing: said unto the woman let her
for the child shall be a beware.
Nazarite to God from the 14 She may not eat of any
womb to the day of his death. thing that cometh of the vine,
8 ¶ Then Manoah intreated the neither let her drink wine or
LORD, and said, O my Lord, strong drink, nor eat any
let the man of God which thou unclean thing: all that I
didst send come again unto us, commanded her let her
and teach us what we shall do observe.
unto the child that shall be 15 ¶ And Manoah said unto
born. the angel of the LORD, I pray
9 And God hearkened to the thee, let us detain thee, until
voice of Manoah; and the we shall have made ready a
angel of God came again unto kid for thee.
the woman as she sat in the 16 And the angel of the LORD
field: but Manoah her husband said unto Manoah, Though
was not with her. thou detain me, I will not eat
10 And the woman made of thy bread: and if thou wilt
haste, and ran, and shewed her offer a burnt offering, thou
husband, and said unto him, must offer it unto the LORD.
Behold, the man hath For Manoah knew not that he
appeared unto me, that came was an angel of the LORD.
unto me the other day. 17 And Manoah said unto the
11 And Manoah arose, and angel of the LORD, What is
went after his wife, and came thy name, that when thy
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16 And Samson said, With the him in, and laid wait for him
jawbone of an ass, heaps upon all night in the gate of the city,
heaps, with the jaw of an ass and were quiet all the night,
have I slain a thousand men. saying, In the morning, when
17 And it came to pass, when it is day, we shall kill him.
he had made an end of 3 And Samson lay till
speaking, that he cast away the midnight, and arose at
jawbone out of his hand, and midnight, and took the doors
called that place Ramath-lehi. of the gate of the city, and the
18 ¶ And he was sore athirst, two posts, and went away with
and called on the LORD, and them, bar and all, and put them
said, Thou hast given this upon his shoulders, and
great deliverance into the hand carried them up to the top of
of thy servant: and now shall I an hill that is before Hebron.
die for thirst, and fall into the 4 ¶ And it came to pass
hand of the uncircumcised? afterward, that he loved a
19 But God clave an hollow woman in the valley of Sorek,
place that was in the jaw, and whose name was Delilah.
there came water thereout; and 5 And the lords of the
when he had drunk, his spirit Philistines came up unto her,
came again, and he revived: and said unto her, Entice him,
wherefore he called the name and see wherein his great
thereof En-hakkore, which is strength lieth, and by what
in Lehi unto this day. means we may prevail against
20 And he judged Israel in the him, that we may bind him to
days of the Philistines twenty afflict him: and we will give
years. thee every one of us eleven
hundred pieces of silver.
CHAPTER 16 6 ¶ And Delilah said to
THEN went Samson to Gaza, Samson, Tell me, I pray thee,
and saw there an harlot, and wherein thy great strength
went in unto her. lieth, and wherewith thou
2 And it was told the Gazites, mightest be bound to afflict
saying, Samson is come thee.
hither. And they compassed 7 And Samson said unto her,
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house of the young man the and the teraphim, and the
Levite, even unto the house of graven image, and went in the
Micah, and saluted him. midst of the people.
16 And the six hundred men 21 So they turned and
appointed with their weapons departed, and put the little
of war, which were of the ones and the cattle and the
children of Dan, stood by the carriage before them.
entering of the gate. 22 ¶ And when they were a
17 And the five men that went good way from the house of
to spy out the land went up, Micah, the men that were in
and came in thither, and took the houses near to Micah’s
the graven image, and the house were gathered together,
ephod, and the teraphim, and and overtook the children of
the molten image: and the Dan.
priest stood in the entering of 23 And they cried unto the
the gate with the six hundred children of Dan. And they
men that were appointed with turned their faces, and said
weapons of war. unto Micah, What aileth thee,
18 And these went into that thou comest with such a
Micah’s house, and fetched company?
the carved image, the ephod, 24 And he said, Ye have taken
and the teraphim, and the away my gods which I made,
molten image. Then said the and the priest, and ye are gone
priest unto them, What do ye? away: and what have I more?
19 And they said unto him, and what is this that ye say
Hold thy peace, lay thine hand unto me, What aileth thee?
upon thy mouth, and go with 25 And the children of Dan
us, and be to us a father and a said unto him, Let not thy
priest: is it better for thee to be voice be heard among us, lest
a priest unto the house of one angry fellows run upon thee,
man, or that thou be a priest and thou lose thy life, with the
unto a tribe and a family in lives of thy household.
Israel? 26 And the children of Dan
20 And the priest’s heart was went their way: and when
glad, and he took the ephod, Micah saw that they were too
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29 And Israel set liers in wait men out of all Israel, and the
round about Gibeah. battle was sore: but they knew
30 And the children of Israel not that evil was near them.
went up against the children of 35 And the LORD smote
Benjamin on the third day, Benjamin before Israel: and
and put themselves in array the children of Israel
against Gibeah, as at other destroyed of the Benjamites
times. that day twenty and five
31 And the children of thousand and an hundred men:
Benjamin went out against the all these drew the sword.
people, and were drawn away 36 So the children of
from the city; and they began Benjamin saw that they were
to smite of the people, and smitten: for the men of Israel
kill, as at other times, in the gave place to the Benjamites,
highways, of which one goeth because they trusted unto the
up to the house of God, and liers in wait which they had
the other to Gibeah in the set beside Gibeah.
field, about thirty men of 37 And the liers in wait
Israel. hasted, and rushed upon
32 And the children of Gibeah; and the liers in wait
Benjamin said, They are drew themselves along, and
smitten down before us, as at smote all the city with the
the first. But the children of edge of the sword.
Israel said, Let us flee, and 38 Now there was an
draw them from the city unto appointed sign between the
the highways. men of Israel and the liers in
33 And all the men of Israel wait, that they should make a
rose up out of their place, and great flame with smoke rise up
put themselves in array at out of the city.
Baal-tamar: and the liers in 39 And when the men of Israel
wait of Israel came forth out retired in the battle, Benjamin
of their places, even out of the began to smite and kill of the
meadows of Gibeah. men of Israel about thirty
34 And there came against persons: for they said, Surely
Gibeah ten thousand chosen they are smitten down before
JUDGES
shall find grace. And she said 9 Let thine eyes be on the field
unto her, Go, my daughter. that they do reap, and go thou
3 And she went, and came, after them: have I not charged
and gleaned in the field after the young men that they shall
the reapers: and her hap was to not touch thee? and when thou
light on a part of the field art athirst, go unto the vessels,
belonging unto Boaz, who was and drink of that which the
of the kindred of Elimelech. young men have drawn.
4 ¶ And, behold, Boaz came 10 Then she fell on her face,
from Beth-lehem, and said and bowed herself to the
unto the reapers, The LORD be ground, and said unto him,
with you. And they answered Why have I found grace in
him, The LORD bless thee. thine eyes, that thou shouldest
5 Then said Boaz unto his take knowledge of me, seeing
servant that was set over the I am a stranger?
reapers, Whose damsel is this? 11 And Boaz answered and
6 And the servant that was set said unto her, It hath fully
over the reapers answered and been shewed me, all that thou
said, It is the Moabitish hast done unto thy mother in
damsel that came back with law since the death of thine
Naomi out of the country of husband: and how thou hast
Moab: left thy father and thy mother,
7 And she said, I pray you, let and the land of thy nativity,
me glean and gather after the and art come unto a people
reapers among the sheaves: so which thou knewest not
she came, and hath continued heretofore.
even from the morning until 12 The LORD recompense thy
now, that she tarried a little in work, and a full reward be
the house. given thee of the LORD God of
8 Then said Boaz unto Ruth, Israel, under whose wings
Hearest thou not, my thou art come to trust.
daughter? Go not to glean in 13 Then she said, Let me find
another field, neither go from favour in thy sight, my lord;
hence, but abide here fast by for that thou hast comforted
my maidens: me, and for that thou hast
RUTH
him unto the LORD all the 19 ¶ And they rose up in the
days of his life, and there shall morning early, and
no rasor come upon his head. worshipped before the LORD,
12 And it came to pass, as she and returned, and came to
continued praying before the their house to Ramah: and
LORD, that Eli marked her Elkanah knew Hannah his
mouth. wife; and the LORD
13 Now Hannah, she spake in remembered her.
her heart; only her lips moved, 20 Wherefore it came to pass,
but her voice was not heard: when the time was come about
therefore Eli thought she had after Hannah had conceived,
been drunken. that she bare a son, and called
14 And Eli said unto her, How his name Samuel, saying,
long wilt thou be drunken? put Because I have asked him of
away thy wine from thee. the LORD.
15 And Hannah answered and 21 And the man Elkanah, and
said, No, my lord, I am a all his house, went up to offer
woman of a sorrowful spirit: I unto the LORD the yearly
have drunk neither wine nor sacrifice, and his vow.
strong drink, but have poured 22 But Hannah went not up;
out my soul before the LORD. for she said unto her husband,
16 Count not thine handmaid I will not go up until the child
for a daughter of Belial: for be weaned, and then I will
out of the abundance of my bring him, that he may appear
complaint and grief have I before the LORD, and there
spoken hitherto. abide for ever.
17 Then Eli answered and 23 And Elkanah her husband
said, Go in peace: and the God said unto her, Do what
of Israel grant thee thy petition seemeth thee good; tarry until
that thou hast asked of him. thou have weaned him; only
18 And she said, Let thine the LORD establish his word.
handmaid find grace in thy So the woman abode, and
sight. So the woman went her gave her son suck until she
way, and did eat, and her weaned him.
countenance was no more sad. 24 ¶ And when she had
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great slaughter; for there fell fled before the Philistines, and
of Israel thirty thousand there hath been also a great
footmen. slaughter among the people,
11 And the ark of God was and thy two sons also, Hophni
taken; and the two sons of Eli, and Phinehas, are dead, and
Hophni and Phinehas, were the ark of God is taken.
slain. 18 And it came to pass, when
12 ¶ And there ran a man of he made mention of the ark of
Benjamin out of the army, and God, that he fell from off the
came to Shiloh the same day seat backward by the side of
with his clothes rent, and with the gate, and his neck brake,
earth upon his head. and he died: for he was an old
13 And when he came, lo, Eli man, and heavy. And he had
sat upon a seat by the wayside judged Israel forty years.
watching: for his heart 19 ¶ And his daughter in law,
trembled for the ark of God. Phinehas’ wife, was with
And when the man came into child, near to be delivered:
the city, and told it, all the city and when she heard the tidings
cried out. that the ark of God was taken,
14 And when Eli heard the and that her father in law and
noise of the crying, he said, her husband were dead, she
What meaneth the noise of bowed herself and travailed;
this tumult? And the man for her pains came upon her.
came in hastily, and told Eli. 20 And about the time of her
15 Now Eli was ninety and death the women that stood by
eight years old; and his eyes her said unto her, Fear not; for
were dim, that he could not thou hast born a son. But she
see. answered not, neither did she
16 And the man said unto Eli, regard it.
I am he that came out of the 21 And she named the child I-
army, and I fled to day out of chabod, saying, The glory is
the army. And he said, What is departed from Israel: because
there done, my son? the ark of God was taken, and
17 And the messenger because of her father in law
answered and said, Israel is and her husband.
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ark of the God of Israel to us, 4 Then said they, What shall
to slay us and our people. be the trespass offering which
11 So they sent and gathered we shall return to him? They
together all the lords of the answered, Five golden
Philistines, and said, Send emerods, and five golden
away the ark of the God of mice, according to the number
Israel, and let it go again to his of the lords of the Philistines:
own place, that it slay us not, for one plague was on you all,
and our people: for there was a and on your lords.
deadly destruction throughout 5 Wherefore ye shall make
all the city; the hand of God images of your emerods, and
was very heavy there. images of your mice that mar
12 And the men that died not the land; and ye shall give
were smitten with the glory unto the God of Israel:
emerods: and the cry of the peradventure he will lighten
city went up to heaven. his hand from off you, and
from off your gods, and from
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AND the ark of the LORD was 6 Wherefore then do ye
in the country of the harden your hearts, as the
Philistines seven months. Egyptians and Pharaoh
2 And the Philistines called hardened their hearts? when
for the priests and the he had wrought wonderfully
diviners, saying, What shall among them, did they not let
we do to the ark of the LORD? the people go, and they
tell us wherewith we shall departed?
send it to his place. 7 Now therefore make a new
3 And they said, If ye send cart, and take two milch kine,
away the ark of the God of on which there hath come no
Israel, send it not empty; but yoke, and tie the kine to the
in any wise return him a cart, and bring their calves
trespass offering: then ye shall home from them:
be healed, and it shall be 8 And take the ark of the
known to you why his hand is LORD, and lay it upon the cart;
not removed from you. and put the jewels of gold,
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LORD: which stone remaineth jearim, that the time was long;
unto this day in the field of for it was twenty years: and all
Joshua, the Beth-shemite. the house of Israel lamented
19 ¶ And he smote the men of after the LORD.
Beth-shemesh, because they 3 ¶ And Samuel spake unto all
had looked into the ark of the the house of Israel, saying, If
LORD, even he smote of the ye do return unto the LORD
people fifty thousand and with all your hearts, then put
threescore and ten men: and away the strange gods and
the people lamented, because Ashtaroth from among you,
the LORD had smitten many of and prepare your hearts unto
the people with a great the LORD, and serve him only:
slaughter. and he will deliver you out of
20 And the men of Beth- the hand of the Philistines.
shemesh said, Who is able to 4 Then the children of Israel
stand before this holy LORD did put away Baalim and
God? and to whom shall he go Ashtaroth, and served the
up from us? LORD only.
21 ¶ And they sent messengers 5 And Samuel said, Gather all
to the inhabitants of Kirjath- Israel to Mizpeh, and I will
jearim, saying, The Philistines pray for you unto the LORD.
have brought again the ark of 6 And they gathered together
the LORD; come ye down, and to Mizpeh, and drew water,
fetch it up to you. and poured it out before the
LORD, and fasted on that day,
CHAPTER 7 and said there, We have
AND the men of Kirjath- sinned against the LORD. And
jearim came, and fetched up Samuel judged the children of
the ark of the LORD, and Israel in Mizpeh.
brought it into the house of 7 And when the Philistines
Abinadab in the hill, and heard that the children of
sanctified Eleazar his son to Israel were gathered together
keep the ark of the LORD. to Mizpeh, the lords of the
2 And it came to pass, while Philistines went up against
the ark abode in Kirjath- Israel. And when the children
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of Israel heard it, they were and the hand of the LORD was
afraid of the Philistines. against the Philistines all the
8 And the children of Israel days of Samuel.
said to Samuel, Cease not to 14 And the cities which the
cry unto the LORD our God for Philistines had taken from
us, that he will save us out of Israel were restored to Israel,
the hand of the Philistines. from Ekron even unto Gath;
9 ¶ And Samuel took a and the coasts thereof did
sucking lamb, and offered it Israel deliver out of the hands
for a burnt offering wholly of the Philistines. And there
unto the LORD: and Samuel was peace between Israel and
cried unto the LORD for Israel; the Amorites.
and the LORD heard him. 15 And Samuel judged Israel
10 And as Samuel was all the days of his life.
offering up the burnt offering, 16 And he went from year to
the Philistines drew near to year in circuit to Beth-el, and
battle against Israel: but the Gilgal, and Mizpeh, and
LORD thundered with a great judged Israel in all those
thunder on that day upon the places.
Philistines, and discomfited 17 And his return was to
them; and they were smitten Ramah; for there was his
before Israel. house; and there he judged
11 And the men of Israel went Israel; and there he built an
out of Mizpeh, and pursued altar unto the LORD.
the Philistines, and smote
them, until they came under CHAPTER 8
Beth-car. AND it came to pass, when
12 Then Samuel took a stone, Samuel was old, that he made
and set it between Mizpeh and his sons judges over Israel.
Shen, and called the name of it 2 Now the name of his
Eben-ezer, saying, Hitherto firstborn was Joel; and the
hath the LORD helped us. name of his second, Abiah:
13 ¶ So the Philistines were they were judges in Beer-
subdued, and they came no sheba.
more into the coast of Israel: 3 And his sons walked not in
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his ways, but turned aside the king that shall reign over
after lucre, and took bribes, them.
and perverted judgment. 10 ¶ And Samuel told all the
4 Then all the elders of Israel words of the LORD unto the
gathered themselves together, people that asked of him a
and came to Samuel unto king.
Ramah, 11 And he said, This will be
5 And said unto him, Behold, the manner of the king that
thou art old, and thy sons walk shall reign over you: He will
not in thy ways: now make us take your sons, and appoint
a king to judge us like all the them for himself, for his
nations. chariots, and to be his
6 ¶ But the thing displeased horsemen; and some shall run
Samuel, when they said, Give before his chariots.
us a king to judge us. And 12 And he will appoint him
Samuel prayed unto the LORD. captains over thousands, and
7 And the LORD said unto captains over fifties; and will
Samuel, Hearken unto the set them to ear his ground, and
voice of the people in all that to reap his harvest, and to
they say unto thee: for they make his instruments of war,
have not rejected thee, but and instruments of his
they have rejected me, that I chariots.
should not reign over them. 13 And he will take your
8 According to all the works daughters to be
which they have done since confectionaries, and to be
the day that I brought them up cooks, and to be bakers.
out of Egypt even unto this 14 And he will take your
day, wherewith they have fields, and your vineyards, and
forsaken me, and served other your oliveyards, even the best
gods, so do they also unto of them, and give them to his
thee. servants.
9 Now therefore hearken unto 15 And he will take the tenth
their voice: howbeit yet of your seed, and of your
protest solemnly unto them, vineyards, and give to his
and shew them the manner of officers, and to his servants.
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asses, and take thought for us. young maidens going out to
6 And he said unto him, draw water, and said unto
Behold now, there is in this them, Is the seer here?
city a man of God, and he is 12 And they answered them,
an honourable man; all that he and said, He is; behold, he is
saith cometh surely to pass: before you: make haste now,
now let us go thither; for he came to day to the city;
peradventure he can shew us for there is a sacrifice of the
our way that we should go. people to day in the high
7 Then said Saul to his place:
servant, But, behold, if we go, 13 As soon as ye be come into
what shall we bring the man? the city, ye shall straightway
for the bread is spent in our find him, before he go up to
vessels, and there is not a the high place to eat: for the
present to bring to the man of people will not eat until he
God: what have we? come, because he doth bless
8 And the servant answered the sacrifice; and afterwards
Saul again, and said, Behold, I they eat that be bidden. Now
have here at hand the fourth therefore get you up; for about
part of a shekel of silver: that this time ye shall find him.
will I give to the man of God, 14 And they went up into the
to tell us our way. city: and when they were
9 (Beforetime in Israel, when come into the city, behold,
a man went to inquire of God, Samuel came out against
thus he spake, Come, and let them, for to go up to the high
us go to the seer: for he that is place.
now called a Prophet was 15 ¶ Now the LORD had told
beforetime called a Seer.) Samuel in his ear a day before
10 Then said Saul to his Saul came, saying,
servant, Well said; come, let 16 To morrow about this time
us go. So they went unto the I will send thee a man out of
city where the man of God the land of Benjamin, and
was. thou shalt anoint him to be
11 ¶ And as they went up the captain over my people Israel,
hill to the city, they found that he may save my people
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Samuel said to Saul, Bid the and give thee two loaves of
servant pass on before us, (and bread; which thou shalt
he passed on,) but stand thou receive of their hands.
still a while, that I may shew 5 After that thou shalt come to
thee the word of God. the hill of God, where is the
garrison of the Philistines: and
CHAPTER 10 it shall come to pass, when
THEN Samuel took a vial of thou art come thither to the
oil, and poured it upon his city, that thou shalt meet a
head, and kissed him, and company of prophets coming
said, Is it not because the down from the high place with
LORD hath anointed thee to be a psaltery, and a tabret, and a
captain over his inheritance? pipe, and a harp, before them;
2 When thou art departed from and they shall prophesy:
me to day, then thou shalt find 6 And the Spirit of the LORD
two men by Rachel’s will come upon thee, and thou
sepulchre in the border of shalt prophesy with them, and
Benjamin at Zelzah; and they shalt be turned into another
will say unto thee, The asses man.
which thou wentest to seek are 7 And let it be, when these
found: and, lo, thy father hath signs are come unto thee, that
left the care of the asses, and thou do as occasion serve
sorroweth for you, saying, thee; for God is with thee.
What shall I do for my son? 8 And thou shalt go down
3 Then shalt thou go on before me to Gilgal; and,
forward from thence, and thou behold, I will come down unto
shalt come to the plain of thee, to offer burnt offerings,
Tabor, and there shall meet and to sacrifice sacrifices of
thee three men going up to peace offerings: seven days
God to Beth-el, one carrying shalt thou tarry, till I come to
three kids, and another thee, and shew thee what thou
carrying three loaves of bread, shalt do.
and another carrying a bottle 9 ¶ And it was so, that when
of wine: he had turned his back to go
4 And they will salute thee, from Samuel, God gave him
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the good and the right way: with the Philistines. And the
24 Only fear the LORD, and people were called together
serve him in truth with all after Saul to Gilgal.
your heart: for consider how 5 ¶ And the Philistines
great things he hath done for gathered themselves together
you. to fight with Israel, thirty
25 But if ye shall still do thousand chariots, and six
wickedly, ye shall be thousand horsemen, and
consumed, both ye and your people as the sand which is on
king. the sea shore in multitude: and
they came up, and pitched in
CHAPTER 13 Michmash, eastward from
SAUL reigned one year; and Beth-aven.
when he had reigned two 6 When the men of Israel saw
years over Israel, that they were in a strait, (for
2 Saul chose him three the people were distressed,)
thousand men of Israel; then the people did hide
whereof two thousand were themselves in caves, and in
with Saul in Michmash and in thickets, and in rocks, and in
mount Beth-el, and a thousand high places, and in pits.
were with Jonathan in Gibeah 7 And some of the Hebrews
of Benjamin: and the rest of went over Jordan to the land
the people he sent every man of Gad and Gilead. As for
to his tent. Saul, he was yet in Gilgal, and
3 And Jonathan smote the all the people followed him
garrison of the Philistines that trembling.
was in Geba, and the 8 ¶ And he tarried seven days,
Philistines heard of it. And according to the set time that
Saul blew the trumpet Samuel had appointed: but
throughout all the land, Samuel came not to Gilgal;
saying, Let the Hebrews hear. and the people were scattered
4 And all Israel heard say that from him.
Saul had smitten a garrison of 9 And Saul said, Bring hither
the Philistines, and that Israel a burnt offering to me, and
also was had in abomination peace offerings. And he
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offered the burnt offering. own heart, and the LORD hath
10 And it came to pass, that as commanded him to be captain
soon as he had made an end of over his people, because thou
offering the burnt offering, hast not kept that which the
behold, Samuel came; and LORD commanded thee.
Saul went out to meet him, 15 And Samuel arose, and gat
that he might salute him. him up from Gilgal unto
11 ¶ And Samuel said, What Gibeah of Benjamin. And Saul
hast thou done? And Saul numbered the people that were
said, Because I saw that the present with him, about six
people were scattered from hundred men.
me, and that thou camest not 16 And Saul, and Jonathan his
within the days appointed, and son, and the people that were
that the Philistines gathered present with them, abode in
themselves together at Gibeah of Benjamin: but the
Michmash; Philistines encamped in
12 Therefore said I, The Michmash.
Philistines will come down 17 ¶ And the spoilers came
now upon me to Gilgal, and I out of the camp of the
have not made supplication Philistines in three companies:
unto the LORD: I forced one company turned unto the
myself therefore, and offered a way that leadeth to Ophrah,
burnt offering. unto the land of Shual:
13 And Samuel said to Saul, 18 And another company
Thou hast done foolishly: thou turned the way to Beth-horon:
hast not kept the and another company turned
commandment of the LORD to the way of the border that
thy God, which he looketh to the valley of
commanded thee: for now Zeboim toward the wilderness.
would the LORD have 19 ¶ Now there was no smith
established thy kingdom upon found throughout all the land
Israel for ever. of Israel: for the Philistines
14 But now thy kingdom shall said, Lest the Hebrews make
not continue: the LORD hath them swords or spears:
sought him a man after his 20 But all the Israelites went
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15 But David went and the carriage, and ran into the
returned from Saul to feed his army, and came and saluted
father’s sheep at Beth-lehem. his brethren.
16 And the Philistine drew 23 And as he talked with
near morning and evening, them, behold, there came up
and presented himself forty the champion, the Philistine of
days. Gath, Goliath by name, out of
17 And Jesse said unto David the armies of the Philistines,
his son, Take now for thy and spake according to the
brethren an ephah of this same words: and David heard
parched corn, and these ten them.
loaves, and run to the camp to 24 And all the men of Israel,
thy brethren; when they saw the man, fled
18 And carry these ten cheeses from him, and were sore
unto the captain of their afraid.
thousand, and look how thy 25 And the men of Israel said,
brethren fare, and take their Have ye seen this man that is
pledge. come up? surely to defy Israel
19 Now Saul, and they, and all is he come up: and it shall be,
the men of Israel, were in the that the man who killeth him,
valley of Elah, fighting with the king will enrich him with
the Philistines. great riches, and will give him
20 ¶ And David rose up early his daughter, and make his
in the morning, and left the father’s house free in Israel.
sheep with a keeper, and took, 26 And David spake to the
and went, as Jesse had men that stood by him, saying,
commanded him; and he came What shall be done to the man
to the trench, as the host was that killeth this Philistine, and
going forth to the fight, and taketh away the reproach from
shouted for the battle. Israel? for who is this
21 For Israel and the uncircumcised Philistine, that
Philistines had put the battle in he should defy the armies of
array, army against army. the living God?
22 And David left his carriage 27 And the people answered
in the hand of the keeper of him after this manner, saying,
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not proved it. And David said spear, and with a shield: but I
unto Saul, I cannot go with come to thee in the name of
these; for I have not proved the LORD of hosts, the God of
them. And David put them off the armies of Israel, whom
him. thou hast defied.
40 And he took his staff in his 46 This day will the LORD
hand, and chose him five deliver thee into mine hand;
smooth stones out of the and I will smite thee, and take
brook, and put them in a thine head from thee; and I
shepherd’s bag which he had, will give the carcases of the
even in a scrip; and his sling host of the Philistines this day
was in his hand: and he drew unto the fowls of the air, and
near to the Philistine. to the wild beasts of the earth;
41 And the Philistine came on that all the earth may know
and drew near unto David; and that there is a God in Israel.
the man that bare the shield 47 And all this assembly shall
went before him. know that the LORD saveth not
42 And when the Philistine with sword and spear: for the
looked about, and saw David, battle is the LORD’s, and he
he disdained him: for he was will give you into our hands.
but a youth, and ruddy, and of 48 And it came to pass, when
a fair countenance. the Philistine arose, and came
43 And the Philistine said unto and drew nigh to meet David,
David, Am I a dog, that thou that David hasted, and ran
comest to me with staves? toward the army to meet the
And the Philistine cursed Philistine.
David by his gods. 49 And David put his hand in
44 And the Philistine said to his bag, and took thence a
David, Come to me, and I will stone, and slang it, and smote
give thy flesh unto the fowls the Philistine in his forehead,
of the air, and to the beasts of that the stone sunk into his
the field. forehead; and he fell upon his
45 Then said David to the face to the earth.
Philistine, Thou comest to me 50 So David prevailed over
with a sword, and with a the Philistine with a sling and
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29 And Saul was yet the more not sinned against thee, and
afraid of David; and Saul because his works have been
became David’s enemy to thee-ward very good:
continually. 5 For he did put his life in his
30 Then the princes of the hand, and slew the Philistine,
Philistines went forth: and it and the LORD wrought a great
came to pass, after they went salvation for all Israel: thou
forth, that David behaved sawest it, and didst rejoice:
himself more wisely than all wherefore then wilt thou sin
the servants of Saul; so that against innocent blood, to slay
his name was much set by. David without a cause?
6 And Saul hearkened unto the
CHAPTER 19 voice of Jonathan: and Saul
AND Saul spake to Jonathan sware, As the LORD liveth, he
his son, and to all his servants, shall not be slain.
that they should kill David. 7 And Jonathan called David,
2 But Jonathan Saul’s son and Jonathan shewed him all
delighted much in David: and those things. And Jonathan
Jonathan told David, saying, brought David to Saul, and he
Saul my father seeketh to kill was in his presence, as in
thee: now therefore, I pray times past.
thee, take heed to thyself until 8 ¶ And there was war again:
the morning, and abide in a and David went out, and
secret place, and hide thyself: fought with the Philistines,
3 And I will go out and stand and slew them with a great
beside my father in the field slaughter; and they fled from
where thou art, and I will him.
commune with my father of 9 And the evil spirit from the
thee; and what I see, that I will LORD was upon Saul, as he sat
tell thee. in his house with his javelin in
4 ¶ And Jonathan spake good his hand: and David played
of David unto Saul his father, with his hand.
and said unto him, Let not the 10 And Saul sought to smite
king sin against his servant, David even to the wall with
against David; because he hath the javelin; but he slipped
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from thee: for if I knew 15 But also thou shalt not cut
certainly that evil were off thy kindness from my
determined by my father to house for ever: no, not when
come upon thee, then would the LORD hath cut off the
not I tell it thee? enemies of David every one
10 Then said David to from the face of the earth.
Jonathan, Who shall tell me? 16 So Jonathan made a
or what if thy father answer covenant with the house of
thee roughly? David, saying, Let the LORD
11 ¶ And Jonathan said unto even require it at the hand of
David, Come, and let us go David’s enemies.
out into the field. And they 17 And Jonathan caused
went out both of them into the David to swear again, because
field. he loved him: for he loved
12 And Jonathan said unto him as he loved his own soul.
David, O LORD God of Israel, 18 Then Jonathan said to
when I have sounded my David, To morrow is the new
father about to morrow any moon: and thou shalt be
time, or the third day, and, missed, because thy seat will
behold, if there be good be empty.
toward David, and I then send 19 And when thou hast stayed
not unto thee, and shew it three days, then thou shalt go
thee; down quickly, and come to the
13 The LORD do so and much place where thou didst hide
more to Jonathan: but if it thyself when the business was
please my father to do thee in hand, and shalt remain by
evil, then I will shew it thee, the stone Ezel.
and send thee away, that thou 20 And I will shoot three
mayest go in peace: and the arrows on the side thereof, as
LORD be with thee, as he hath though I shot at a mark.
been with my father. 21 And, behold, I will send a
14 And thou shalt not only lad, saying, Go, find out the
while yet I live shew me the arrows. If I expressly say unto
kindness of the LORD, that I the lad, Behold, the arrows are
die not: on this side of thee, take them;
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David and his men upon the cried after Saul, saying, My
rocks of the wild goats. lord the king. And when Saul
3 And he came to the looked behind him, David
sheepcotes by the way, where stooped with his face to the
was a cave; and Saul went in earth, and bowed himself.
to cover his feet: and David 9 ¶ And David said to Saul,
and his men remained in the Wherefore hearest thou men’s
sides of the cave. words, saying, Behold, David
4 And the men of David said seeketh thy hurt?
unto him, Behold the day of 10 Behold, this day thine eyes
which the LORD said unto have seen how that the LORD
thee, Behold, I will deliver had delivered thee to day into
thine enemy into thine hand, mine hand in the cave: and
that thou mayest do to him as some bade me kill thee: but
it shall seem good unto thee. mine eye spared thee; and I
Then David arose, and cut off said, I will not put forth mine
the skirt of Saul’s robe privily. hand against my lord; for he is
5 And it came to pass the LORD’s anointed.
afterward, that David’s heart 11 Moreover, my father, see,
smote him, because he had cut yea, see the skirt of thy robe in
off Saul’s skirt. my hand: for in that I cut off
6 And he said unto his men, the skirt of thy robe, and killed
The LORD forbid that I should thee not, know thou and see
do this thing unto my master, that there is neither evil nor
the LORD’s anointed, to transgression in mine hand,
stretch forth mine hand against and I have not sinned against
him, seeing he is the anointed thee; yet thou huntest my soul
of the LORD. to take it.
7 So David stayed his servants 12 The LORD judge between
with these words, and suffered me and thee, and the LORD
them not to rise against Saul. avenge me of thee: but mine
But Saul rose up out of the hand shall not be upon thee.
cave, and went on his way. 13 As saith the proverb of the
8 David also arose afterward, ancients, Wickedness
and went out of the cave, and proceedeth from the wicked:
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but mine hand shall not be well that thou shalt surely be
upon thee. king, and that the kingdom of
14 After whom is the king of Israel shall be established in
Israel come out? after whom thine hand.
dost thou pursue? after a dead 21 Swear now therefore unto
dog, after a flea. me by the LORD, that thou wilt
15 The LORD therefore be not cut off my seed after me,
judge, and judge between me and that thou wilt not destroy
and thee, and see, and plead my name out of my father’s
my cause, and deliver me out house.
of thine hand. 22 And David sware unto
16 ¶ And it came to pass, Saul. And Saul went home;
when David had made an end but David and his men gat
of speaking these words unto them up unto the hold.
Saul, that Saul said, Is this thy
voice, my son David? And CHAPTER 25
Saul lifted up his voice, and AND Samuel died; and all the
wept. Israelites were gathered
17 And he said to David, Thou together, and lamented him,
art more righteous than I: for and buried him in his house at
thou hast rewarded me good, Ramah. And David arose, and
whereas I have rewarded thee went down to the wilderness
evil. of Paran.
18 And thou hast shewed this 2 And there was a man in
day how that thou hast dealt Maon, whose possessions
well with me: forasmuch as were in Carmel; and the man
when the LORD had delivered was very great, and he had
me into thine hand, thou three thousand sheep, and a
killedst me not. thousand goats: and he was
19 For if a man find his shearing his sheep in Carmel.
enemy, will he let him go well 3 Now the name of the man
away? wherefore the LORD was Nabal; and the name of
reward thee good for that thou his wife Abigail: and she was
hast done unto me this day. a woman of good
20 And now, behold, I know understanding, and of a
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good unto us, and we were not 21 Now David had said,
hurt, neither missed we any Surely in vain have I kept all
thing, as long as we were that this fellow hath in the
conversant with them, when wilderness, so that nothing
we were in the fields: was missed of all that
16 They were a wall unto us pertained unto him: and he
both by night and day, all the hath requited me evil for good.
while we were with them 22 So and more also do God
keeping the sheep. unto the enemies of David, if I
17 Now therefore know and leave of all that pertain to him
consider what thou wilt do; for by the morning light any that
evil is determined against our pisseth against the wall.
master, and against all his 23 And when Abigail saw
household: for he is such a son David, she hasted, and lighted
of Belial, that a man cannot off the ass, and fell before
speak to him. David on her face, and bowed
18 ¶ Then Abigail made haste, herself to the ground,
and took two hundred loaves, 24 And fell at his feet, and
and two bottles of wine, and said, Upon me, my lord, upon
five sheep ready dressed, and me let this iniquity be: and let
five measures of parched corn, thine handmaid, I pray thee,
and an hundred clusters of speak in thine audience, and
raisins, and two hundred cakes hear the words of thine
of figs, and laid them on asses. handmaid.
19 And she said unto her 25 Let not my lord, I pray
servants, Go on before me; thee, regard this man of Belial,
behold, I come after you. But even Nabal: for as his name is,
she told not her husband so is he; Nabal is his name,
Nabal. and folly is with him: but I
20 And it was so, as she rode thine handmaid saw not the
on the ass, that she came down young men of my lord, whom
by the covert of the hill, and, thou didst send.
behold, David and his men 26 Now therefore, my lord, as
came down against her; and the LORD liveth, and as thy
she met them. soul liveth, seeing the LORD
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much set by in the eyes of the David was fled to Gath: and
LORD, and let him deliver me he sought no more again for
out of all tribulation. him.
25 Then Saul said to David, 5 ¶ And David said unto
Blessed be thou, my son Achish, If I have now found
David: thou shalt both do grace in thine eyes, let them
great things, and also shalt give me a place in some town
still prevail. So David went on in the country, that I may
his way, and Saul returned to dwell there: for why should
his place. thy servant dwell in the royal
city with thee?
CHAPTER 27 6 Then Achish gave him
AND David said in his heart, I Ziklag that day: wherefore
shall now perish one day by Ziklag pertaineth unto the
the hand of Saul: there is kings of Judah unto this day.
nothing better for me than that 7 And the time that David
I should speedily escape into dwelt in the country of the
the land of the Philistines; and Philistines was a full year and
Saul shall despair of me, to four months.
seek me any more in any coast 8 ¶ And David and his men
of Israel: so shall I escape out went up, and invaded the
of his hand. Geshurites, and the Gezrites,
2 And David arose, and he and the Amalekites: for those
passed over with the six nations were of old the
hundred men that were with inhabitants of the land, as thou
him unto Achish, the son of goest to Shur, even unto the
Maoch, king of Gath. land of Egypt.
3 And David dwelt with 9 And David smote the land,
Achish at Gath, he and his and left neither man nor
men, every man with his woman alive, and took away
household, even David with the sheep, and the oxen, and
his two wives, Ahinoam the the asses, and the camels, and
Jezreelitess, and Abigail the the apparel, and returned, and
Carmelitess, Nabal’s wife. came to Achish.
4 And it was told Saul that 10 And Achish said, Whither
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also deliver Israel with thee he arose from the earth, and
into the hand of the sat upon the bed.
Philistines: and to morrow 24 And the woman had a fat
shalt thou and thy sons be calf in the house; and she
with me: the LORD also shall hasted, and killed it, and took
deliver the host of Israel into flour, and kneaded it, and did
the hand of the Philistines. bake unleavened bread
20 Then Saul fell straightway thereof:
all along on the earth, and was 25 And she brought it before
sore afraid, because of the Saul, and before his servants;
words of Samuel: and there and they did eat. Then they
was no strength in him; for he rose up, and went away that
had eaten no bread all the day, night.
nor all the night.
21 ¶ And the woman came CHAPTER 29
unto Saul, and saw that he was NOW the Philistines gathered
sore troubled, and said unto together all their armies to
him, Behold, thine handmaid Aphek: and the Israelites
hath obeyed thy voice, and I pitched by a fountain which is
have put my life in my hand, in Jezreel.
and have hearkened unto thy 2 And the lords of the
words which thou spakest Philistines passed on by
unto me. hundreds, and by thousands:
22 Now therefore, I pray thee, but David and his men passed
hearken thou also unto the on in the rereward with
voice of thine handmaid, and Achish.
let me set a morsel of bread 3 Then said the princes of the
before thee; and eat, that thou Philistines, What do these
mayest have strength, when Hebrews here? And Achish
thou goest on thy way. said unto the princes of the
23 But he refused, and said, I Philistines, Is not this David,
will not eat. But his servants, the servant of Saul the king of
together with the woman, Israel, which hath been with
compelled him; and he me these days, or these years,
hearkened unto their voice. So and I have found no fault in
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that the spear came out behind and pursued after Israel no
him; and he fell down there, more, neither fought they any
and died in the same place: more.
and it came to pass, that as 29 And Abner and his men
many as came to the place walked all that night through
where Asahel fell down and the plain, and passed over
died stood still. Jordan, and went through all
24 Joab also and Abishai Bithron, and they came to
pursued after Abner: and the Mahanaim.
sun went down when they 30 And Joab returned from
were come to the hill of following Abner: and when he
Ammah, that lieth before Giah had gathered all the people
by the way of the wilderness together, there lacked of
of Gibeon. David’s servants nineteen men
25 ¶ And the children of and Asahel.
Benjamin gathered themselves 31 But the servants of David
together after Abner, and had smitten of Benjamin, and
became one troop, and stood of Abner’s men, so that three
on the top of an hill. hundred and threescore men
26 Then Abner called to Joab, died.
and said, Shall the sword 32 ¶ And they took up Asahel,
devour for ever? knowest thou and buried him in the
not that it will be bitterness in sepulchre of his father, which
the latter end? how long shall was in Beth-lehem. And Joab
it be then, ere thou bid the and his men went all night,
people return from following and they came to Hebron at
their brethren? break of day.
27 And Joab said, As God
liveth, unless thou hadst CHAPTER 3
spoken, surely then in the NOW there was long war
morning the people had gone between the house of Saul and
up every one from following the house of David: but David
his brother. waxed stronger and stronger,
28 So Joab blew a trumpet, and the house of Saul waxed
and all the people stood still, weaker and weaker.
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2 ¶ And unto David were sons and have not delivered thee
born in Hebron: and his into the hand of David, that
firstborn was Amnon, of thou chargest me to day with a
Ahinoam the Jezreelitess; fault concerning this woman?
3 And his second, Chileab, of 9 So do God to Abner, and
Abigail the wife of Nabal the more also, except, as the
Carmelite; and the third, LORD hath sworn to David,
Absalom the son of Maacah even so I do to him;
the daughter of Talmai king of 10 To translate the kingdom
Geshur; from the house of Saul, and to
4 And the fourth, Adonijah the set up the throne of David
son of Haggith; and the fifth, over Israel and over Judah,
Shephatiah the son of Abital; from Dan even to Beer-sheba.
5 And the sixth, Ithream, by 11 And he could not answer
Eglah David’s wife. These Abner a word again, because
were born to David in Hebron. he feared him.
6 ¶ And it came to pass, while 12 ¶ And Abner sent
there was war between the messengers to David on his
house of Saul and the house of behalf, saying, Whose is the
David, that Abner made land? saying also, Make thy
himself strong for the house of league with me, and, behold,
Saul. my hand shall be with thee, to
7 And Saul had a concubine, bring about all Israel unto
whose name was Rizpah, the thee.
daughter of Aiah: and Ish- 13 ¶ And he said, Well; I will
bosheth said to Abner, make a league with thee: but
Wherefore hast thou gone in one thing I require of thee,
unto my father’s concubine? that is, Thou shalt not see my
8 Then was Abner very wroth face, except thou first bring
for the words of Ish-bosheth, Michal Saul’s daughter, when
and said, Am I a dog’s head, thou comest to see my face.
which against Judah do shew 14 And David sent
kindness this day unto the messengers to Ish-bosheth
house of Saul thy father, to his Saul’s son, saying, Deliver me
brethren, and to his friends, my wife Michal, which I
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26 And when Joab was come and mourn before Abner. And
out from David, he sent king David himself followed
messengers after Abner, which the bier.
brought him again from the 32 And they buried Abner in
well of Sirah: but David knew Hebron: and the king lifted up
it not. his voice, and wept at the
27 And when Abner was grave of Abner; and all the
returned to Hebron, Joab took people wept.
him aside in the gate to speak 33 And the king lamented
with him quietly, and smote over Abner, and said, Died
him there under the fifth rib, Abner as a fool dieth?
that he died, for the blood of 34 Thy hands were not bound,
Asahel his brother. nor thy feet put into fetters: as
28 ¶ And afterward when a man falleth before wicked
David heard it, he said, I and men, so fellest thou. And all
my kingdom are guiltless the people wept again over
before the LORD for ever from him.
the blood of Abner the son of 35 And when all the people
Ner: came to cause David to eat
29 Let it rest on the head of meat while it was yet day,
Joab, and on all his father’s David sware, saying, So do
house; and let there not fail God to me, and more also, if I
from the house of Joab one taste bread, or ought else, till
that hath an issue, or that is a the sun be down.
leper, or that leaneth on a 36 And all the people took
staff, or that falleth on the notice of it, and it pleased
sword, or that lacketh bread. them: as whatsoever the king
30 So Joab and Abishai his did pleased all the people.
brother slew Abner, because 37 For all the people and all
he had slain their brother Israel understood that day that
Asahel at Gibeon in the battle. it was not of the king to slay
31 ¶ And David said to Joab, Abner the son of Ner.
and to all the people that were 38 And the king said unto his
with him, Rend your clothes, servants, Know ye not that
and gird you with sackcloth, there is a prince and a great
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all that we have heard with our heart to pray this prayer unto
ears. thee.
23 And what one nation in the 28 And now, O Lord GOD,
earth is like thy people, even thou art that God, and thy
like Israel, whom God went to words be true, and thou hast
redeem for a people to promised this goodness unto
himself, and to make him a thy servant:
name, and to do for you great 29 Therefore now let it please
things and terrible, for thy thee to bless the house of thy
land, before thy people, which servant, that it may continue
thou redeemedst to thee from for ever before thee: for thou,
Egypt, from the nations and O Lord GOD, hast spoken it:
their gods? and with thy blessing let the
24 For thou hast confirmed to house of thy servant be
thyself thy people Israel to be blessed for ever.
a people unto thee for ever:
and thou, LORD, art become CHAPTER 8
their God. AND after this it came to pass,
25 And now, O LORD God, that David smote the
the word that thou hast spoken Philistines, and subdued them:
concerning thy servant, and and David took Metheg-
concerning his house, ammah out of the hand of the
establish it for ever, and do as Philistines.
thou hast said. 2 And he smote Moab, and
26 And let thy name be measured them with a line,
magnified for ever, saying, casting them down to the
The LORD of hosts is the God ground; even with two lines
over Israel: and let the house measured he to put to death,
of thy servant David be and with one full line to keep
established before thee. alive. And so the Moabites
27 For thou, O LORD of hosts, became David’s servants, and
God of Israel, hast revealed to brought gifts.
thy servant, saying, I will 3 ¶ David smote also
build thee an house: therefore Hadadezer, the son of Rehob,
hath thy servant found in his king of Zobah, as he went to
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thy master’s son may have servants for his father. And
food to eat: but Mephibosheth David’s servants came into the
thy master’s son shall eat land of the children of
bread alway at my table. Now Ammon.
Ziba had fifteen sons and 3 And the princes of the
twenty servants. children of Ammon said unto
11 Then said Ziba unto the Hanun their lord, Thinkest
king, According to all that my thou that David doth honour
lord the king hath commanded thy father, that he hath sent
his servant, so shall thy comforters unto thee? hath not
servant do. As for David rather sent his servants
Mephibosheth, said the king, unto thee, to search the city,
he shall eat at my table, as one and to spy it out, and to
of the king’s sons. overthrow it?
12 And Mephibosheth had a 4 Wherefore Hanun took
young son, whose name was David’s servants, and shaved
Micha. And all that dwelt in off the one half of their
the house of Ziba were beards, and cut off their
servants unto Mephibosheth. garments in the middle, even
13 So Mephibosheth dwelt in to their buttocks, and sent
Jerusalem: for he did eat them away.
continually at the king’s table; 5 When they told it unto
and was lame on both his feet. David, he sent to meet them,
because the men were greatly
CHAPTER 10 ashamed: and the king said,
AND it came to pass after this, Tarry at Jericho until your
that the king of the children of beards be grown, and then
Ammon died, and Hanun his return.
son reigned in his stead. 6 ¶ And when the children of
2 Then said David, I will shew Ammon saw that they stank
kindness unto Hanun the son before David, the children of
of Nahash, as his father Ammon sent and hired the
shewed kindness unto me. Syrians of Beth-rehob, and the
And David sent to comfort Syrians of Zoba, twenty
him by the hand of his thousand footmen, and of king
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prevailed against us, and came were two men in one city; the
out unto us into the field, and one rich, and the other poor.
we were upon them even unto 2 The rich man had exceeding
the entering of the gate. many flocks and herds:
24 And the shooters shot from 3 But the poor man had
off the wall upon thy servants; nothing, save one little ewe
and some of the king’s lamb, which he had bought
servants be dead, and thy and nourished up: and it grew
servant Uriah the Hittite is up together with him, and with
dead also. his children; it did eat of his
25 Then David said unto the own meat, and drank of his
messenger, Thus shalt thou own cup, and lay in his
say unto Joab, Let not this bosom, and was unto him as a
thing displease thee, for the daughter.
sword devoureth one as well 4 And there came a traveller
as another: make thy battle unto the rich man, and he
more strong against the city, spared to take of his own flock
and overthrow it: and and of his own herd, to dress
encourage thou him. for the wayfaring man that
26 ¶ And when the wife of was come unto him; but took
Uriah heard that Uriah her the poor man’s lamb, and
husband was dead, she dressed it for the man that was
mourned for her husband. come to him.
27 And when the mourning 5 And David’s anger was
was past, David sent and greatly kindled against the
fetched her to his house, and man; and he said to Nathan,
she became his wife, and bare As the LORD liveth, the man
him a son. But the thing that that hath done this thing shall
David had done displeased the surely die:
LORD. 6 And he shall restore the
lamb fourfold, because he did
CHAPTER 12 this thing, and because he had
AND the LORD sent Nathan no pity.
unto David. And he came unto 7 ¶ And Nathan said to David,
him, and said unto him, There Thou art the man. Thus saith
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and it was set on David’s thou not tell me? And Amnon
head. And he brought forth the said unto him, I love Tamar,
spoil of the city in great my brother Absalom’s sister.
abundance. 5 And Jonadab said unto him,
31 And he brought forth the Lay thee down on thy bed, and
people that were therein, and make thyself sick: and when
put them under saws, and thy father cometh to see thee,
under harrows of iron, and say unto him, I pray thee, let
under axes of iron, and made my sister Tamar come, and
them pass through the give me meat, and dress the
brickkiln: and thus did he unto meat in my sight, that I may
all the cities of the children of see it, and eat it at her hand.
Ammon. So David and all the 6 ¶ So Amnon lay down, and
people returned unto made himself sick: and when
Jerusalem. the king was come to see him,
Amnon said unto the king, I
CHAPTER 13 pray thee, let Tamar my sister
AND it came to pass after this, come, and make me a couple
that Absalom the son of David of cakes in my sight, that I
had a fair sister, whose name may eat at her hand.
was Tamar; and Amnon the 7 Then David sent home to
son of David loved her. Tamar, saying, Go now to thy
2 And Amnon was so vexed, brother Amnon’s house, and
that he fell sick for his sister dress him meat.
Tamar; for she was a virgin; 8 So Tamar went to her
and Amnon thought it hard for brother Amnon’s house; and
him to do any thing to her. he was laid down. And she
3 But Amnon had a friend, took flour, and kneaded it, and
whose name was Jonadab, the made cakes in his sight, and
son of Shimeah David’s did bake the cakes.
brother: and Jonadab was a 9 And she took a pan, and
very subtil man. poured them out before him;
4 And he said unto him, Why but he refused to eat. And
art thou, being the king’s son, Amnon said, Have out all men
lean from day to day? wilt from me. And they went out
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his heart, to think that all the NOW Joab the son of Zeruiah
king’s sons are dead: for perceived that the king’s heart
Amnon only is dead. was toward Absalom.
34 But Absalom fled. And the 2 And Joab sent to Tekoah,
young man that kept the watch and fetched thence a wise
lifted up his eyes, and looked, woman, and said unto her, I
and, behold, there came much pray thee, feign thyself to be a
people by the way of the hill mourner, and put on now
side behind him. mourning apparel, and anoint
35 And Jonadab said unto the not thyself with oil, but be as a
king, Behold, the king’s sons woman that had a long time
come: as thy servant said, so it mourned for the dead:
is. 3 And come to the king, and
36 And it came to pass, as speak on this manner unto
soon as he had made an end of him. So Joab put the words in
speaking, that, behold, the her mouth.
king’s sons came, and lifted 4 ¶ And when the woman of
up their voice and wept: and Tekoah spake to the king, she
the king also and all his fell on her face to the ground,
servants wept very sore. and did obeisance, and said,
37 ¶ But Absalom fled, and Help, O king.
went to Talmai, the son of 5 And the king said unto her,
Ammihud, king of Geshur. What aileth thee? And she
And David mourned for his answered, I am indeed a
son every day. widow woman, and mine
38 So Absalom fled, and went husband is dead.
to Geshur, and was there three 6 And thy handmaid had two
years. sons, and they two strove
39 And the soul of king David together in the field, and there
longed to go forth unto was none to part them, but the
Absalom: for he was one smote the other, and slew
comforted concerning Amnon, him.
seeing he was dead. 7 And, behold, the whole
family is risen against thine
CHAPTER 14 handmaid, and they said,
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Deliver him that smote his speak one word unto my lord
brother, that we may kill him, the king. And he said, Say on.
for the life of his brother 13 And the woman said,
whom he slew; and we will Wherefore then hast thou
destroy the heir also: and so thought such a thing against
they shall quench my coal the people of God? for the
which is left, and shall not king doth speak this thing as
leave to my husband neither one which is faulty, in that the
name nor remainder upon the king doth not fetch home
earth. again his banished.
8 And the king said unto the 14 For we must needs die, and
woman, Go to thine house, are as water spilt on the
and I will give charge ground, which cannot be
concerning thee. gathered up again; neither
9 And the woman of Tekoah doth God respect any person:
said unto the king, My lord, O yet doth he devise means, that
king, the iniquity be on me, his banished be not expelled
and on my father’s house: and from him.
the king and his throne be 15 Now therefore that I am
guiltless. come to speak of this thing
10 And the king said, unto my lord the king, it is
Whosoever saith ought unto because the people have made
thee, bring him to me, and he me afraid: and thy handmaid
shall not touch thee any more. said, I will now speak unto the
11 Then said she, I pray thee, king; it may be that the king
let the king remember the will perform the request of his
LORD thy God, that thou handmaid.
wouldest not suffer the 16 For the king will hear, to
revengers of blood to destroy deliver his handmaid out of
any more, lest they destroy my the hand of the man that
son. And he said, As the LORD would destroy me and my son
liveth, there shall not one hair together out of the inheritance
of thy son fall to the earth. of God.
12 Then the woman said, Let 17 Then thine handmaid said,
thine handmaid, I pray thee, The word of my lord the king
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men to eat; and the wine, that upon thee all the blood of the
such as be faint in the house of Saul, in whose stead
wilderness may drink. thou hast reigned; and the
3 And the king said, And LORD hath delivered the
where is thy master’s son? kingdom into the hand of
And Ziba said unto the king, Absalom thy son: and, behold,
Behold, he abideth at thou art taken in thy mischief,
Jerusalem: for he said, To day because thou art a bloody
shall the house of Israel man.
restore me the kingdom of my 9 ¶ Then said Abishai the son
father. of Zeruiah unto the king, Why
4 Then said the king to Ziba, should this dead dog curse my
Behold, thine are all that lord the king? let me go over, I
pertained unto Mephibosheth. pray thee, and take off his
And Ziba said, I humbly head.
beseech thee that I may find 10 And the king said, What
grace in thy sight, my lord, O have I to do with you, ye sons
king. of Zeruiah? so let him curse,
5 ¶ And when king David because the LORD hath said
came to Bahurim, behold, unto him, Curse David. Who
thence came out a man of the shall then say, Wherefore hast
family of the house of Saul, thou done so?
whose name was Shimei, the 11 And David said to Abishai,
son of Gera: he came forth, and to all his servants, Behold,
and cursed still as he came. my son, which came forth of
6 And he cast stones at David, my bowels, seeketh my life:
and at all the servants of king how much more now may this
David: and all the people and Benjamite do it? let him
all the mighty men were on alone, and let him curse; for
his right hand and on his left. the LORD hath bidden him.
7 And thus said Shimei when 12 It may be that the LORD
he cursed, Come out, come will look on mine affliction,
out, thou bloody man, and and that the LORD will requite
thou man of Belial: me good for his cursing this
8 The LORD hath returned day.
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down with the men of Judah 22 And David said, What have
to meet king David. I to do with you, ye sons of
17 And there were a thousand Zeruiah, that ye should this
men of Benjamin with him, day be adversaries unto me?
and Ziba the servant of the shall there any man be put to
house of Saul, and his fifteen death this day in Israel? for do
sons and his twenty servants not I know that I am this day
with him; and they went over king over Israel?
Jordan before the king. 23 Therefore the king said
18 And there went over a ferry unto Shimei, Thou shalt not
boat to carry over the king’s die. And the king sware unto
household, and to do what he him.
thought good. And Shimei the 24 ¶ And Mephibosheth the
son of Gera fell down before son of Saul came down to
the king, as he was come over meet the king, and had neither
Jordan; dressed his feet, nor trimmed
19 And said unto the king, Let his beard, nor washed his
not my lord impute iniquity clothes, from the day the king
unto me, neither do thou departed until the day he came
remember that which thy again in peace.
servant did perversely the day 25 And it came to pass, when
that my lord the king went out he was come to Jerusalem to
of Jerusalem, that the king meet the king, that the king
should take it to his heart. said unto him, Wherefore
20 For thy servant doth know wentest not thou with me,
that I have sinned: therefore, Mephibosheth?
behold, I am come the first 26 And he answered, My lord,
this day of all the house of O king, my servant deceived
Joseph to go down to meet my me: for thy servant said, I will
lord the king. saddle me an ass, that I may
21 But Abishai the son of ride thereon, and go to the
Zeruiah answered and said, king; because thy servant is
Shall not Shimei be put to lame.
death for this, because he 27 And he hath slandered thy
cursed the LORD’s anointed? servant unto my lord the king;
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people that were with Joab deliver him only, and I will
battered the wall, to throw it depart from the city. And the
down. woman said unto Joab,
16 ¶ Then cried a wise woman Behold, his head shall be
out of the city, Hear, hear; say, thrown to thee over the wall.
I pray you, unto Joab, Come 22 Then the woman went unto
near hither, that I may speak all the people in her wisdom.
with thee. And they cut off the head of
17 And when he was come Sheba the son of Bichri, and
near unto her, the woman said, cast it out to Joab. And he
Art thou Joab? And he blew a trumpet, and they
answered, I am he. Then she retired from the city, every
said unto him, Hear the words man to his tent. And Joab
of thine handmaid. And he returned to Jerusalem unto the
answered, I do hear. king.
18 Then she spake, saying, 23 ¶ Now Joab was over all
They were wont to speak in the host of Israel: and Benaiah
old time, saying, They shall the son of Jehoiada was over
surely ask counsel at Abel: the Cherethites and over the
and so they ended the matter. Pelethites:
19 I am one of them that are 24 And Adoram was over the
peaceable and faithful in tribute: and Jehoshaphat the
Israel: thou seekest to destroy son of Ahilud was recorder:
a city and a mother in Israel: 25 And Sheva was scribe: and
why wilt thou swallow up the Zadok and Abiathar were the
inheritance of the LORD? priests:
20 And Joab answered and 26 And Ira also the Jairite was
said, Far be it, far be it from a chief ruler about David.
me, that I should swallow up
or destroy. CHAPTER 21
21 The matter is not so: but a THEN there was a famine in
man of mount Ephraim, Sheba the days of David three years,
the son of Bichri by name, year after year; and David
hath lifted up his hand against inquired of the LORD. And the
the king, even against David: LORD answered, It is for Saul,
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Adonijah shall reign after me, thy son shall reign after me,
and he shall sit upon my and he shall sit upon my
throne? throne in my stead; even so
25 For he is gone down this will I certainly do this day.
day, and hath slain oxen and 31 Then Bath-sheba bowed
fat cattle and sheep in with her face to the earth, and
abundance, and hath called all did reverence to the king, and
the king’s sons, and the said, Let my lord king David
captains of the host, and live for ever.
Abiathar the priest; and, 32 ¶ And king David said,
behold, they eat and drink Call me Zadok the priest, and
before him, and say, God save Nathan the prophet, and
king Adonijah. Benaiah the son of Jehoiada.
26 But me, even me thy And they came before the
servant, and Zadok the priest, king.
and Benaiah the son of 33 The king also said unto
Jehoiada, and thy servant them, Take with you the
Solomon, hath he not called. servants of your lord, and
27 Is this thing done by my cause Solomon my son to ride
lord the king, and thou hast upon mine own mule, and
not shewed it unto thy servant, bring him down to Gihon:
who should sit on the throne 34 And let Zadok the priest
of my lord the king after him? and Nathan the prophet anoint
28 ¶ Then king David him there king over Israel: and
answered and said, Call me blow ye with the trumpet, and
Bath-sheba. And she came say, God save king Solomon.
into the king’s presence, and 35 Then ye shall come up after
stood before the king. him, that he may come and sit
29 And the king sware, and upon my throne; for he shall
said, As the LORD liveth, that be king in my stead: and I
hath redeemed my soul out of have appointed him to be ruler
all distress, over Israel and over Judah.
30 Even as I sware unto thee 36 And Benaiah the son of
by the LORD God of Israel, Jehoiada answered the king,
saying, Assuredly Solomon and said, Amen: the LORD
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peace, and put the blood of reigned over Israel were forty
war upon his girdle that was years: seven years reigned he
about his loins, and in his in Hebron, and thirty and three
shoes that were on his feet. years reigned he in Jerusalem.
6 Do therefore according to 12 ¶ Then sat Solomon upon
thy wisdom, and let not his the throne of David his father;
hoar head go down to the and his kingdom was
grave in peace. established greatly.
7 But shew kindness unto the 13 ¶ And Adonijah the son of
sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, Haggith came to Bath-sheba
and let them be of those that the mother of Solomon. And
eat at thy table: for so they she said, Comest thou
came to me when I fled peaceably? And he said,
because of Absalom thy Peaceably.
brother. 14 He said moreover, I have
8 And, behold, thou hast with somewhat to say unto thee.
thee Shimei the son of Gera, a And she said, Say on.
Benjamite of Bahurim, which 15 And he said, Thou knowest
cursed me with a grievous that the kingdom was mine,
curse in the day when I went and that all Israel set their
to Mahanaim: but he came faces on me, that I should
down to meet me at Jordan, reign: howbeit the kingdom is
and I sware to him by the turned about, and is become
LORD, saying, I will not put my brother’s: for it was his
thee to death with the sword. from the LORD.
9 Now therefore hold him not 16 And now I ask one petition
guiltless: for thou art a wise of thee, deny me not. And she
man, and knowest what thou said unto him, Say on.
oughtest to do unto him; but 17 And he said, Speak, I pray
his hoar head bring thou down thee, unto Solomon the king,
to the grave with blood. (for he will not say thee nay,)
10 So David slept with his that he give me Abishag the
fathers, and was buried in the Shunammite to wife.
city of David. 18 And Bath-sheba said, Well;
11 And the days that David I will speak for thee unto the
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and said, Give her the living provided victuals for the king
child, and in no wise slay it: and his household: each man
she is the mother thereof. his month in a year made
28 And all Israel heard of the provision.
judgment which the king had 8 And these are their names:
judged; and they feared the The son of Hur, in mount
king: for they saw that the Ephraim:
wisdom of God was in him, to 9 The son of Dekar, in Makaz,
do judgment. and in Shaalbim, and Beth-
shemesh, and Elon-beth-
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SO king Solomon was king 10 The son of Hesed, in
over all Israel. Aruboth; to him pertained
2 And these were the princes Sochoh, and all the land of
which he had; Azariah the son Hepher:
of Zadok the priest, 11 The son of Abinadab, in all
3 Elihoreph and Ahiah, the the region of Dor; which had
sons of Shisha, scribes; Taphath the daughter of
Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, Solomon to wife:
the recorder. 12 Baana the son of Ahilud; to
4 And Benaiah the son of him pertained Taanach and
Jehoiada was over the host: Megiddo, and all Beth-shean,
and Zadok and Abiathar were which is by Zartanah beneath
the priests: Jezreel, from Beth-shean to
5 And Azariah the son of Abel-meholah, even unto the
Nathan was over the officers: place that is beyond Jokneam:
and Zabud the son of Nathan 13 The son of Geber, in
was principal officer, and the Ramoth-gilead; to him
king’s friend: pertained the towns of Jair the
6 And Ahishar was over the son of Manasseh, which are in
household: and Adoniram the Gilead; to him also pertained
son of Abda was over the the region of Argob, which is
tribute. in Bashan, threescore great
7 ¶ And Solomon had twelve cities with walls and brasen
officers over all Israel, which bars:
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four hundred and eightieth and the third was seven cubits
year after the children of Israel broad: for without in the wall
were come out of the land of of the house he made
Egypt, in the fourth year of narrowed rests round about,
Solomon’s reign over Israel, that the beams should not be
in the month Zif, which is the fastened in the walls of the
second month, that he began house.
to build the house of the 7 And the house, when it was
LORD. in building, was built of stone
2 And the house which king made ready before it was
Solomon built for the LORD, brought thither: so that there
the length thereof was was neither hammer nor axe
threescore cubits, and the nor any tool of iron heard in
breadth thereof twenty cubits, the house, while it was in
and the height thereof thirty building.
cubits. 8 The door for the middle
3 And the porch before the chamber was in the right side
temple of the house, twenty of the house: and they went up
cubits was the length thereof, with winding stairs into the
according to the breadth of the middle chamber, and out of
house; and ten cubits was the the middle into the third.
breadth thereof before the 9 So he built the house, and
house. finished it; and covered the
4 And for the house he made house with beams and boards
windows of narrow lights. of cedar.
5 ¶ And against the wall of the 10 And then he built chambers
house he built chambers round against all the house, five
about, against the walls of the cubits high: and they rested on
house round about, both of the the house with timber of
temple and of the oracle: and cedar.
he made chambers round 11 ¶ And the word of the
about: LORD came to Solomon,
6 The nethermost chamber saying,
was five cubits broad, and the 12 Concerning this house
middle was six cubits broad, which thou art in building, if
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and the sea was set above the base, a cubit and an half:
upon them, and all their hinder and also upon the mouth of it
parts were inward. were gravings with their
26 And it was an hand breadth borders, foursquare, not
thick, and the brim thereof round.
was wrought like the brim of a 32 And under the borders
cup, with flowers of lilies: it were four wheels; and the
contained two thousand baths. axletrees of the wheels were
27 ¶ And he made ten bases of joined to the base: and the
brass; four cubits was the height of a wheel was a cubit
length of one base, and four and half a cubit.
cubits the breadth thereof, and 33 And the work of the wheels
three cubits the height of it. was like the work of a chariot
28 And the work of the bases wheel: their axletrees, and
was on this manner: they had their naves, and their felloes,
borders, and the borders were and their spokes, were all
between the ledges: molten.
29 And on the borders that 34 And there were four
were between the ledges were undersetters to the four
lions, oxen, and cherubims: corners of one base: and the
and upon the ledges there was undersetters were of the very
a base above: and beneath the base itself.
lions and oxen were certain 35 And in the top of the base
additions made of thin work. was there a round compass of
30 And every base had four half a cubit high: and on the
brasen wheels, and plates of top of the base the ledges
brass: and the four corners thereof and the borders thereof
thereof had undersetters: were of the same.
under the laver were 36 For on the plates of the
undersetters molten, at the ledges thereof, and on the
side of every addition. borders thereof, he graved
31 And the mouth of it within cherubims, lions, and palm
the chapiter and above was a trees, according to the
cubit: but the mouth thereof proportion of every one, and
was round after the work of additions round about.
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the spoons, and the censers of 4 And they brought up the ark
pure gold; and the hinges of of the LORD, and the
gold, both for the doors of the tabernacle of the congregation,
inner house, the most holy and all the holy vessels that
place, and for the doors of the were in the tabernacle, even
house, to wit, of the temple. those did the priests and the
51 So was ended all the work Levites bring up.
that king Solomon made for 5 And king Solomon, and all
the house of the LORD. And the congregation of Israel, that
Solomon brought in the things were assembled unto him,
which David his father had were with him before the ark,
dedicated; even the silver, and sacrificing sheep and oxen,
the gold, and the vessels, did that could not be told nor
he put among the treasures of numbered for multitude.
the house of the LORD. 6 And the priests brought in
the ark of the covenant of the
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THEN Solomon assembled oracle of the house, to the
the elders of Israel, and all the most holy place, even under
heads of the tribes, the chief of the wings of the cherubims.
the fathers of the children of 7 For the cherubims spread
Israel, unto king Solomon in forth their two wings over the
Jerusalem, that they might place of the ark, and the
bring up the ark of the cherubims covered the ark and
covenant of the LORD out of the staves thereof above.
the city of David, which is 8 And they drew out the
Zion. staves, that the ends of the
2 And all the men of Israel staves were seen out in the
assembled themselves unto holy place before the oracle,
king Solomon at the feast in and they were not seen
the month Ethanim, which is without: and there they are
the seventh month. unto this day.
3 And all the elders of Israel 9 There was nothing in the ark
came, and the priests took up save the two tables of stone,
the ark. which Moses put there at
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them; and this house, which I Tyre to see the cities which
have hallowed for my name, Solomon had given him; and
will I cast out of my sight; and they pleased him not.
Israel shall be a proverb and a 13 And he said, What cities
byword among all people: are these which thou hast
8 And at this house, which is given me, my brother? And he
high, every one that passeth by called them the land of Cabul
it shall be astonished, and unto this day.
shall hiss; and they shall say, 14 And Hiram sent to the king
Why hath the LORD done thus sixscore talents of gold.
unto this land, and to this 15 ¶ And this is the reason of
house? the levy which king Solomon
9 And they shall answer, raised; for to build the house
Because they forsook the of the LORD, and his own
LORD their God, who brought house, and Millo, and the wall
forth their fathers out of the of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and
land of Egypt, and have taken Megiddo, and Gezer.
hold upon other gods, and 16 For Pharaoh king of Egypt
have worshipped them, and had gone up, and taken Gezer,
served them: therefore hath and burnt it with fire, and slain
the LORD brought upon them the Canaanites that dwelt in
all this evil. the city, and given it for a
10 ¶ And it came to pass at the present unto his daughter,
end of twenty years, when Solomon’s wife.
Solomon had built the two 17 And Solomon built Gezer,
houses, the house of the and Beth-horon the nether,
LORD, and the king’s house, 18 And Baalath, and Tadmor
11 (Now Hiram the king of in the wilderness, in the land,
Tyre had furnished Solomon 19 And all the cities of store
with cedar trees and fir trees, that Solomon had, and cities
and with gold, according to all for his chariots, and cities for
his desire,) that then king his horsemen, and that which
Solomon gave Hiram twenty Solomon desired to build in
cities in the land of Galilee. Jerusalem, and in Lebanon,
12 And Hiram came out from and in all the land of his
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her questions: there was not loved Israel for ever, therefore
any thing hid from the king, made he thee king, to do
which he told her not. judgment and justice.
4 And when the queen of 10 And she gave the king an
Sheba had seen all Solomon’s hundred and twenty talents of
wisdom, and the house that he gold, and of spices very great
had built, store, and precious stones:
5 And the meat of his table, there came no more such
and the sitting of his servants, abundance of spices as these
and the attendance of his which the queen of Sheba
ministers, and their apparel, gave to king Solomon.
and his cupbearers, and his 11 And the navy also of
ascent by which he went up Hiram, that brought gold from
unto the house of the LORD; Ophir, brought in from Ophir
there was no more spirit in great plenty of almug trees,
her. and precious stones.
6 And she said to the king, It 12 And the king made of the
was a true report that I heard almug trees pillars for the
in mine own land of thy acts house of the LORD, and for the
and of thy wisdom. king’s house, harps also and
7 Howbeit I believed not the psalteries for singers: there
words, until I came, and mine came no such almug trees, nor
eyes had seen it: and, behold, were seen unto this day.
the half was not told me: thy 13 And king Solomon gave
wisdom and prosperity unto the queen of Sheba all
exceedeth the fame which I her desire, whatsoever she
heard. asked, beside that which
8 Happy are thy men, happy Solomon gave her of his royal
are these thy servants, which bounty. So she turned and
stand continually before thee, went to her own country, she
and that hear thy wisdom. and her servants.
9 Blessed be the LORD thy 14 ¶ Now the weight of gold
God, which delighted in thee, that came to Solomon in one
to set thee on the throne of year was six hundred
Israel: because the LORD threescore and six talents of
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the sycomore trees that are in wives turned away his heart.
the vale, for abundance. 4 For it came to pass, when
28 ¶ And Solomon had horses Solomon was old, that his
brought out of Egypt, and wives turned away his heart
linen yarn: the king’s after other gods: and his heart
merchants received the linen was not perfect with the LORD
yarn at a price. his God, as was the heart of
29 And a chariot came up and David his father.
went out of Egypt for six 5 For Solomon went after
hundred shekels of silver, and Ashtoreth the goddess of the
an horse for an hundred and Zidonians, and after Milcom
fifty: and so for all the kings the abomination of the
of the Hittites, and for the Ammonites.
kings of Syria, did they bring 6 And Solomon did evil in the
them out by their means. sight of the LORD, and went
not fully after the LORD, as
CHAPTER 11 did David his father.
BUT king Solomon loved 7 Then did Solomon build an
many strange women, together high place for Chemosh, the
with the daughter of Pharaoh, abomination of Moab, in the
women of the Moabites, hill that is before Jerusalem,
Ammonites, Edomites, and for Molech, the
Zidonians, and Hittites; abomination of the children of
2 Of the nations concerning Ammon.
which the LORD said unto the 8 And likewise did he for all
children of Israel, Ye shall not his strange wives, which burnt
go in to them, neither shall incense and sacrificed unto
they come in unto you: for their gods.
surely they will turn away 9 ¶ And the LORD was angry
your heart after their gods: with Solomon, because his
Solomon clave unto these in heart was turned from the
love. LORD God of Israel, which
3 And he had seven hundred had appeared unto him twice,
wives, princesses, and three 10 And had commanded him
hundred concubines: and his concerning this thing, that he
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altar in the word of the LORD, Intreat now the face of the
and said, O altar, altar, thus LORD thy God, and pray for
saith the LORD; Behold, a me, that my hand may be
child shall be born unto the restored me again. And the
house of David, Josiah by man of God besought the
name; and upon thee shall he LORD, and the king’s hand
offer the priests of the high was restored him again, and
places that burn incense upon became as it was before.
thee, and men’s bones shall be 7 And the king said unto the
burnt upon thee. man of God, Come home with
3 And he gave a sign the same me, and refresh thyself, and I
day, saying, This is the sign will give thee a reward.
which the LORD hath spoken; 8 And the man of God said
Behold, the altar shall be rent, unto the king, If thou wilt give
and the ashes that are upon it me half thine house, I will not
shall be poured out. go in with thee, neither will I
4 And it came to pass, when eat bread nor drink water in
king Jeroboam heard the this place:
saying of the man of God, 9 For so was it charged me by
which had cried against the the word of the LORD, saying,
altar in Beth-el, that he put Eat no bread, nor drink water,
forth his hand from the altar, nor turn again by the same
saying, Lay hold on him. And way that thou camest.
his hand, which he put forth 10 So he went another way,
against him, dried up, so that and returned not by the way
he could not pull it in again to that he came to Beth-el.
him. 11 ¶ Now there dwelt an old
5 The altar also was rent, and prophet in Beth-el; and his
the ashes poured out from the sons came and told him all the
altar, according to the sign works that the man of God
which the man of God had had done that day in Beth-el:
given by the word of the the words which he had
LORD. spoken unto the king, them
6 And the king answered and they told also to their father.
said unto the man of God, 12 And their father said unto
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them, What way went he? For 19 So he went back with him,
his sons had seen what way and did eat bread in his house,
the man of God went, which and drank water.
came from Judah. 20 ¶ And it came to pass, as
13 And he said unto his sons, they sat at the table, that the
Saddle me the ass. So they word of the LORD came unto
saddled him the ass: and he the prophet that brought him
rode thereon, back:
14 And went after the man of 21 And he cried unto the man
God, and found him sitting of God that came from Judah,
under an oak: and he said unto saying, Thus saith the LORD,
him, Art thou the man of God Forasmuch as thou hast
that camest from Judah? And disobeyed the mouth of the
he said, I am. LORD, and hast not kept the
15 Then he said unto him, commandment which the
Come home with me, and eat LORD thy God commanded
bread. thee,
16 And he said, I may not 22 But camest back, and hast
return with thee, nor go in eaten bread and drunk water in
with thee: neither will I eat the place, of the which the
bread nor drink water with LORD did say to thee, Eat no
thee in this place: bread, and drink no water; thy
17 For it was said to me by the carcase shall not come unto
word of the LORD, Thou shalt the sepulchre of thy fathers.
eat no bread nor drink water 23 ¶ And it came to pass, after
there, nor turn again to go by he had eaten bread, and after
the way that thou camest. he had drunk, that he saddled
18 He said unto him, I am a for him the ass, to wit, for the
prophet also as thou art; and prophet whom he had brought
an angel spake unto me by the back.
word of the LORD, saying, 24 And when he was gone, a
Bring him back with thee into lion met him by the way, and
thine house, that he may eat slew him: and his carcase was
bread and drink water. But he cast in the way, and the ass
lied unto him. stood by it, the lion also stood
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groves, on every high hill, and 30 And there was war between
under every green tree. Rehoboam and Jeroboam all
24 And there were also their days.
sodomites in the land: and 31 And Rehoboam slept with
they did according to all the his fathers, and was buried
abominations of the nations with his fathers in the city of
which the LORD cast out David. And his mother’s name
before the children of Israel. was Naamah an Ammonitess.
25 ¶ And it came to pass in the And Abijam his son reigned in
fifth year of king Rehoboam, his stead.
that Shishak king of Egypt
came up against Jerusalem: CHAPTER 15
26 And he took away the NOW in the eighteenth year of
treasures of the house of the king Jeroboam the son of
LORD, and the treasures of the Nebat reigned Abijam over
king’s house; he even took Judah.
away all: and he took away all 2 Three years reigned he in
the shields of gold which Jerusalem. And his mother’s
Solomon had made. name was Maachah, the
27 And king Rehoboam made daughter of Abishalom.
in their stead brasen shields, 3 And he walked in all the sins
and committed them unto the of his father, which he had
hands of the chief of the done before him: and his heart
guard, which kept the door of was not perfect with the LORD
the king’s house. his God, as the heart of David
28 And it was so, when the his father.
king went into the house of 4 Nevertheless for David’s
the LORD, that the guard bare sake did the LORD his God
them, and brought them back give him a lamp in Jerusalem,
into the guard chamber. to set up his son after him, and
29 ¶ Now the rest of the acts to establish Jerusalem:
of Rehoboam, and all that he 5 Because David did that
did, are they not written in the which was right in the eyes of
book of the chronicles of the the LORD, and turned not aside
kings of Judah? from any thing that he
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mother: and Elijah said, See, mules alive, that we lose not
thy son liveth. all the beasts.
24 ¶ And the woman said to 6 So they divided the land
Elijah, Now by this I know between them to pass
that thou art a man of God, throughout it: Ahab went one
and that the word of the LORD way by himself, and Obadiah
in thy mouth is truth. went another way by himself.
7 ¶ And as Obadiah was in the
CHAPTER 18 way, behold, Elijah met him:
AND it came to pass after and he knew him, and fell on
many days, that the word of his face, and said, Art thou
the LORD came to Elijah in the that my lord Elijah?
third year, saying, Go, shew 8 And he answered him, I am:
thyself unto Ahab; and I will go, tell thy lord, Behold,
send rain upon the earth. Elijah is here.
2 And Elijah went to shew 9 And he said, What have I
himself unto Ahab. And there sinned, that thou wouldest
was a sore famine in Samaria. deliver thy servant into the
3 And Ahab called Obadiah, hand of Ahab, to slay me?
which was the governor of his 10 As the LORD thy God
house. (Now Obadiah feared liveth, there is no nation or
the LORD greatly: kingdom, whither my lord
4 For it was so, when Jezebel hath not sent to seek thee: and
cut off the prophets of the when they said, He is not
LORD, that Obadiah took an there; he took an oath of the
hundred prophets, and hid kingdom and nation, that they
them by fifty in a cave, and found thee not.
fed them with bread and 11 And now thou sayest, Go,
water.) tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is
5 And Ahab said unto here.
Obadiah, Go into the land, 12 And it shall come to pass,
unto all fountains of water, as soon as I am gone from
and unto all brooks: thee, that the Spirit of the
peradventure we may find LORD shall carry thee whither
grass to save the horses and I know not; and so when I
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hast let go out of thy hand a I will not give thee the
man whom I appointed to utter inheritance of my fathers. And
destruction, therefore thy life he laid him down upon his
shall go for his life, and thy bed, and turned away his face,
people for his people. and would eat no bread.
43 And the king of Israel went 5 ¶ But Jezebel his wife came
to his house heavy and to him, and said unto him,
displeased, and came to Why is thy spirit so sad, that
Samaria. thou eatest no bread?
6 And he said unto her,
CHAPTER 21 Because I spake unto Naboth
AND it came to pass after the Jezreelite, and said unto
these things, that Naboth the him, Give me thy vineyard for
Jezreelite had a vineyard, money; or else, if it please
which was in Jezreel, hard by thee, I will give thee another
the palace of Ahab king of vineyard for it: and he
Samaria. answered, I will not give thee
2 And Ahab spake unto my vineyard.
Naboth, saying, Give me thy 7 And Jezebel his wife said
vineyard, that I may have it unto him, Dost thou now
for a garden of herbs, because govern the kingdom of Israel?
it is near unto my house: and I arise, and eat bread, and let
will give thee for it a better thine heart be merry: I will
vineyard than it; or, if it seem give thee the vineyard of
good to thee, I will give thee Naboth the Jezreelite.
the worth of it in money. 8 So she wrote letters in
3 And Naboth said to Ahab, Ahab’s name, and sealed them
The LORD forbid it me, that I with his seal, and sent the
should give the inheritance of letters unto the elders and to
my fathers unto thee. the nobles that were in his
4 And Ahab came into his city, dwelling with Naboth.
house heavy and displeased 9 And she wrote in the letters,
because of the word which saying, Proclaim a fast, and
Naboth the Jezreelite had set Naboth on high among the
spoken to him: for he had said, people:
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the man of God had heard that had bid thee do some great
the king of Israel had rent his thing, wouldest thou not have
clothes, that he sent to the done it? how much rather
king, saying, Wherefore hast then, when he saith to thee,
thou rent thy clothes? let him Wash, and be clean?
come now to me, and he shall 14 Then went he down, and
know that there is a prophet in dipped himself seven times in
Israel. Jordan, according to the
9 So Naaman came with his saying of the man of God: and
horses and with his chariot, his flesh came again like unto
and stood at the door of the the flesh of a little child, and
house of Elisha. he was clean.
10 And Elisha sent a 15 ¶ And he returned to the
messenger unto him, saying, man of God, he and all his
Go and wash in Jordan seven company, and came, and stood
times, and thy flesh shall before him: and he said,
come again to thee, and thou Behold, now I know that there
shalt be clean. is no God in all the earth, but
11 But Naaman was wroth, in Israel: now therefore, I pray
and went away, and said, thee, take a blessing of thy
Behold, I thought, He will servant.
surely come out to me, and 16 But he said, As the LORD
stand, and call on the name of liveth, before whom I stand, I
the LORD his God, and strike will receive none. And he
his hand over the place, and urged him to take it; but he
recover the leper. refused.
12 Are not Abana and Pharpar, 17 And Naaman said, Shall
rivers of Damascus, better there not then, I pray thee, be
than all the waters of Israel? given to thy servant two
may I not wash in them, and mules’ burden of earth? for
be clean? So he turned and thy servant will henceforth
went away in a rage. offer neither burnt offering nor
13 And his servants came sacrifice unto other gods, but
near, and spake unto him, and unto the LORD.
said, My father, if the prophet 18 In this thing the LORD
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in the gate, and he died. life, cried to the king for her
house and for her land. And
CHAPTER 8 Gehazi said, My lord, O king,
THEN spake Elisha unto the this is the woman, and this is
woman, whose son he had her son, whom Elisha restored
restored to life, saying, Arise, to life.
and go thou and thine 6 And when the king asked
household, and sojourn the woman, she told him. So
wheresoever thou canst the king appointed unto her a
sojourn: for the LORD hath certain officer, saying, Restore
called for a famine; and it all that was hers, and all the
shall also come upon the land fruits of the field since the day
seven years. that she left the land, even
2 And the woman arose, and until now.
did after the saying of the man 7 ¶ And Elisha came to
of God: and she went with her Damascus; and Ben-hadad the
household, and sojourned in king of Syria was sick; and it
the land of the Philistines was told him, saying, The man
seven years. of God is come hither.
3 And it came to pass at the 8 And the king said unto
seven years’ end, that the Hazael, Take a present in thine
woman returned out of the hand, and go, meet the man of
land of the Philistines: and she God, and inquire of the LORD
went forth to cry unto the king by him, saying, Shall I recover
for her house and for her land. of this disease?
4 And the king talked with 9 So Hazael went to meet him,
Gehazi the servant of the man and took a present with him,
of God, saying, Tell me, I pray even of every good thing of
thee, all the great things that Damascus, forty camels’
Elisha hath done. burden, and came and stood
5 And it came to pass, as he before him, and said, Thy son
was telling the king how he Ben-hadad king of Syria hath
had restored a dead body to sent me to thee, saying, Shall I
life, that, behold, the woman, recover of this disease?
whose son he had restored to 10 And Elisha said unto him,
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Ahab his father, the LORD laid the gate, she said, Had Zimri
this burden upon him; peace, who slew his master?
26 Surely I have seen 32 And he lifted up his face to
yesterday the blood of Naboth, the window, and said, Who is
and the blood of his sons, saith on my side? who? And there
the LORD; and I will requite looked out to him two or three
thee in this plat, saith the eunuchs.
LORD. Now therefore take and 33 And he said, Throw her
cast him into the plat of down. So they threw her
ground, according to the word down: and some of her blood
of the LORD. was sprinkled on the wall, and
27 ¶ But when Ahaziah the on the horses: and he trode her
king of Judah saw this, he fled under foot.
by the way of the garden 34 And when he was come in,
house. And Jehu followed he did eat and drink, and said,
after him, and said, Smite him Go, see now this cursed
also in the chariot. And they woman, and bury her: for she
did so at the going up to Gur, is a king’s daughter.
which is by Ibleam. And he 35 And they went to bury her:
fled to Megiddo, and died but they found no more of her
there. than the skull, and the feet,
28 And his servants carried and the palms of her hands.
him in a chariot to Jerusalem, 36 Wherefore they came
and buried him in his again, and told him. And he
sepulchre with his fathers in said, This is the word of the
the city of David. LORD, which he spake by his
29 And in the eleventh year of servant Elijah the Tishbite,
Joram the son of Ahab began saying, In the portion of
Ahaziah to reign over Judah. Jezreel shall dogs eat the flesh
30 ¶ And when Jehu was of Jezebel:
come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard 37 And the carcase of Jezebel
of it; and she painted her face, shall be as dung upon the face
and tired her head, and looked of the field in the portion of
out at a window. Jezreel; so that they shall not
31 And as Jehu entered in at say, This is Jezebel.
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LORD hath done that which he he gave him his hand; and he
spake by his servant Elijah. took him up to him into the
11 So Jehu slew all that chariot.
remained of the house of Ahab 16 And he said, Come with
in Jezreel, and all his great me, and see my zeal for the
men, and his kinsfolks, and his LORD. So they made him ride
priests, until he left him none in his chariot.
remaining. 17 And when he came to
12 ¶ And he arose and Samaria, he slew all that
departed, and came to remained unto Ahab in
Samaria. And as he was at the Samaria, till he had destroyed
shearing house in the way, him, according to the saying
13 Jehu met with the brethren of the LORD, which he spake
of Ahaziah king of Judah, and to Elijah.
said, Who are ye? And they 18 ¶ And Jehu gathered all the
answered, We are the brethren people together, and said unto
of Ahaziah; and we go down them, Ahab served Baal a
to salute the children of the little; but Jehu shall serve him
king and the children of the much.
queen. 19 Now therefore call unto me
14 And he said, Take them all the prophets of Baal, all his
alive. And they took them servants, and all his priests; let
alive, and slew them at the pit none be wanting: for I have a
of the shearing house, even great sacrifice to do to Baal;
two and forty men; neither left whosoever shall be wanting,
he any of them. he shall not live. But Jehu did
15 ¶ And when he was it in subtilty, to the intent that
departed thence, he lighted on he might destroy the
Jehonadab the son of Rechab worshippers of Baal.
coming to meet him: and he 20 And Jehu said, Proclaim a
saluted him, and said to him, solemn assembly for Baal.
Is thine heart right, as my And they proclaimed it.
heart is with thy heart? And 21 And Jehu sent through all
Jehonadab answered, It is. If it Israel: and all the worshippers
be, give me thine hand. And of Baal came, so that there
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was not a man left that came and the guard and the captains
not. And they came into the cast them out, and went to the
house of Baal; and the house city of the house of Baal.
of Baal was full from one end 26 And they brought forth the
to another. images out of the house of
22 And he said unto him that Baal, and burned them.
was over the vestry, Bring 27 And they brake down the
forth vestments for all the image of Baal, and brake
worshippers of Baal. And he down the house of Baal, and
brought them forth vestments. made it a draught house unto
23 And Jehu went, and this day.
Jehonadab the son of Rechab, 28 Thus Jehu destroyed Baal
into the house of Baal, and out of Israel.
said unto the worshippers of 29 ¶ Howbeit from the sins of
Baal, Search, and look that Jeroboam the son of Nebat,
there be here with you none of who made Israel to sin, Jehu
the servants of the LORD, but departed not from after them,
the worshippers of Baal only. to wit, the golden calves that
24 And when they went in to were in Beth-el, and that were
offer sacrifices and burnt in Dan.
offerings, Jehu appointed 30 And the LORD said unto
fourscore men without, and Jehu, Because thou hast done
said, If any of the men whom I well in executing that which is
have brought into your hands right in mine eyes, and hast
escape, he that letteth him go, done unto the house of Ahab
his life shall be for the life of according to all that was in
him. mine heart, thy children of the
25 And it came to pass, as fourth generation shall sit on
soon as he had made an end of the throne of Israel.
offering the burnt offering, 31 But Jehu took no heed to
that Jehu said to the guard and walk in the law of the LORD
to the captains, Go in, and God of Israel with all his
slay them; let none come heart: for he departed not from
forth. And they smote them the sins of Jeroboam, which
with the edge of the sword; made Israel to sin.
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of Jeroboam, and all that he unto the day of his death, and
did, and his might, how he dwelt in a several house. And
warred, and how he recovered Jotham the king’s son was
Damascus, and Hamath, which over the house, judging the
belonged to Judah, for Israel, people of the land.
are they not written in the 6 And the rest of the acts of
book of the chronicles of the Azariah, and all that he did,
kings of Israel? are they not written in the
29 And Jeroboam slept with book of the chronicles of the
his fathers, even with the kings of Judah?
kings of Israel; and Zachariah 7 So Azariah slept with his
his son reigned in his stead. fathers; and they buried him
with his fathers in the city of
CHAPTER 15 David: and Jotham his son
IN the twenty and seventh reigned in his stead.
year of Jeroboam king of 8 ¶ In the thirty and eighth
Israel began Azariah son of year of Azariah king of Judah
Amaziah king of Judah to did Zachariah the son of
reign. Jeroboam reign over Israel in
2 Sixteen years old was he Samaria six months.
when he began to reign, and 9 And he did that which was
he reigned two and fifty years evil in the sight of the LORD,
in Jerusalem. And his as his fathers had done: he
mother’s name was Jecholiah departed not from the sins of
of Jerusalem. Jeroboam the son of Nebat,
3 And he did that which was who made Israel to sin.
right in the sight of the LORD, 10 And Shallum the son of
according to all that his father Jabesh conspired against him,
Amaziah had done; and smote him before the
4 Save that the high places people, and slew him, and
were not removed: the people reigned in his stead.
sacrificed and burnt incense 11 And the rest of the acts of
still on the high places. Zachariah, behold, they are
5 ¶ And the LORD smote the written in the book of the
king, so that he was a leper chronicles of the kings of
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incense in all the high places, the LORD had charged them,
as did the heathen whom the that they should not do like
LORD carried away before them.
them; and wrought wicked 16 And they left all the
things to provoke the LORD to commandments of the LORD
anger: their God, and made them
12 For they served idols, molten images, even two
whereof the LORD had said calves, and made a grove, and
unto them, Ye shall not do this worshipped all the host of
thing. heaven, and served Baal.
13 Yet the LORD testified 17 And they caused their sons
against Israel, and against and their daughters to pass
Judah, by all the prophets, and through the fire, and used
by all the seers, saying, Turn divination and enchantments,
ye from your evil ways, and and sold themselves to do evil
keep my commandments and in the sight of the LORD, to
my statutes, according to all provoke him to anger.
the law which I commanded 18 Therefore the LORD was
your fathers, and which I sent very angry with Israel, and
to you by my servants the removed them out of his sight:
prophets. there was none left but the
14 Notwithstanding they tribe of Judah only.
would not hear, but hardened 19 Also Judah kept not the
their necks, like to the neck of commandments of the LORD
their fathers, that did not their God, but walked in the
believe in the LORD their God. statutes of Israel which they
15 And they rejected his made.
statutes, and his covenant that 20 And the LORD rejected all
he made with their fathers, and the seed of Israel, and afflicted
his testimonies which he them, and delivered them into
testified against them; and the hand of spoilers, until he
they followed vanity, and had cast them out of his sight.
became vain, and went after 21 For he rent Israel from the
the heathen that were round house of David; and they
about them, concerning whom made Jeroboam the son of
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away the face of one captain shall not be able to deliver you
of the least of my master’s out of his hand:
servants, and put thy trust on 30 Neither let Hezekiah make
Egypt for chariots and for you trust in the LORD, saying,
horsemen? The LORD will surely deliver
25 Am I now come up without us, and this city shall not be
the LORD against this place to delivered into the hand of the
destroy it? The LORD said to king of Assyria.
me, Go up against this land, 31 Hearken not to Hezekiah:
and destroy it. for thus saith the king of
26 Then said Eliakim the son Assyria, Make an agreement
of Hilkiah, and Shebna, and with me by a present, and
Joah, unto Rab-shakeh, Speak, come out to me, and then eat
I pray thee, to thy servants in ye every man of his own vine,
the Syrian language; for we and every one of his fig tree,
understand it: and talk not and drink ye every one the
with us in the Jews’ language waters of his cistern:
in the ears of the people that 32 Until I come and take you
are on the wall. away to a land like your own
27 But Rab-shakeh said unto land, a land of corn and wine,
them, Hath my master sent me a land of bread and vineyards,
to thy master, and to thee, to a land of oil olive and of
speak these words? hath he honey, that ye may live, and
not sent me to the men which not die: and hearken not unto
sit on the wall, that they may Hezekiah, when he persuadeth
eat their own dung, and drink you, saying, The LORD will
their own piss with you? deliver us.
28 Then Rab-shakeh stood 33 Hath any of the gods of the
and cried with a loud voice in nations delivered at all his
the Jews’ language, and spake, land out of the hand of the
saying, Hear the word of the king of Assyria?
great king, the king of 34 Where are the gods of
Assyria: Hamath, and of Arpad? where
29 Thus saith the king, Let not are the gods of Sepharvaim,
Hezekiah deceive you: for he Hena, and Ivah? have they
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had heard that he was departed house of the LORD, and spread
from Lachish. it before the LORD.
9 And when he heard say of 15 And Hezekiah prayed
Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, before the LORD, and said, O
Behold, he is come out to fight LORD God of Israel, which
against thee: he sent dwellest between the
messengers again unto cherubims, thou art the God,
Hezekiah, saying, even thou alone, of all the
10 Thus shall ye speak to kingdoms of the earth; thou
Hezekiah king of Judah, hast made heaven and earth.
saying, Let not thy God in 16 LORD, bow down thine ear,
whom thou trustest deceive and hear: open, LORD, thine
thee, saying, Jerusalem shall eyes, and see: and hear the
not be delivered into the hand words of Sennacherib, which
of the king of Assyria. hath sent him to reproach the
11 Behold, thou hast heard living God.
what the kings of Assyria have 17 Of a truth, LORD, the kings
done to all lands, by of Assyria have destroyed the
destroying them utterly: and nations and their lands,
shalt thou be delivered? 18 And have cast their gods
12 Have the gods of the into the fire: for they were no
nations delivered them which gods, but the work of men’s
my fathers have destroyed; as hands, wood and stone:
Gozan, and Haran, and therefore they have destroyed
Rezeph, and the children of them.
Eden which were in Thelasar? 19 Now therefore, O LORD
13 Where is the king of our God, I beseech thee, save
Hamath, and the king of thou us out of his hand, that
Arpad, and the king of the city all the kingdoms of the earth
of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and may know that thou art the
Ivah? LORD God, even thou only.
14 ¶ And Hezekiah received 20 ¶ Then Isaiah the son of
the letter of the hand of the Amoz sent to Hezekiah,
messengers, and read it: and saying, Thus saith the LORD
Hezekiah went up into the God of Israel, That which thou
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17 ¶ Now the rest of the acts slew all them that had
of Manasseh, and all that he conspired against king Amon;
did, and his sin that he sinned, and the people of the land
are they not written in the made Josiah his son king in
book of the chronicles of the his stead.
kings of Judah? 25 Now the rest of the acts of
18 And Manasseh slept with Amon which he did, are they
his fathers, and was buried in not written in the book of the
the garden of his own house, chronicles of the kings of
in the garden of Uzza: and Judah?
Amon his son reigned in his 26 And he was buried in his
stead. sepulchre in the garden of
19 ¶ Amon was twenty and Uzza: and Josiah his son
two years old when he began reigned in his stead.
to reign, and he reigned two
years in Jerusalem. And his CHAPTER 22
mother’s name was JOSIAH was eight years old
Meshullemeth, the daughter of when he began to reign, and
Haruz of Jotbah. he reigned thirty and one years
20 And he did that which was in Jerusalem. And his
evil in the sight of the LORD, mother’s name was Jedidah,
as his father Manasseh did. the daughter of Adaiah of
21 And he walked in all the Boscath.
way that his father walked in, 2 And he did that which was
and served the idols that his right in the sight of the LORD,
father served, and worshipped and walked in all the way of
them: David his father, and turned
22 And he forsook the LORD not aside to the right hand or
God of his fathers, and walked to the left.
not in the way of the LORD. 3 ¶ And it came to pass in the
23 ¶ And the servants of eighteenth year of king Josiah,
Amon conspired against him, that the king sent Shaphan the
and slew the king in his own son of Azaliah, the son of
house. Meshullam, the scribe, to the
24 And the people of the land house of the LORD, saying,
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man might make his son or his images, and cut down the
daughter to pass through the groves, and filled their places
fire to Molech. with the bones of men.
11 And he took away the 15 ¶ Moreover the altar that
horses that the kings of Judah was at Beth-el, and the high
had given to the sun, at the place which Jeroboam the son
entering in of the house of the of Nebat, who made Israel to
LORD, by the chamber of sin, had made, both that altar
Nathan-melech the and the high place he brake
chamberlain, which was in the down, and burned the high
suburbs, and burned the place, and stamped it small to
chariots of the sun with fire. powder, and burned the grove.
12 And the altars that were on 16 And as Josiah turned
the top of the upper chamber himself, he spied the
of Ahaz, which the kings of sepulchres that were there in
Judah had made, and the altars the mount, and sent, and took
which Manasseh had made in the bones out of the
the two courts of the house of sepulchres, and burned them
the LORD, did the king beat upon the altar, and polluted it,
down, and brake them down according to the word of the
from thence, and cast the dust LORD which the man of God
of them into the brook Kidron. proclaimed, who proclaimed
13 And the high places that these words.
were before Jerusalem, which 17 Then he said, What title is
were on the right hand of the that that I see? And the men of
mount of corruption, which the city told him, It is the
Solomon the king of Israel had sepulchre of the man of God,
builded for Ashtoreth the which came from Judah, and
abomination of the Zidonians, proclaimed these things that
and for Chemosh the thou hast done against the
abomination of the Moabites, altar of Beth-el.
and for Milcom the 18 And he said, Let him alone;
abomination of the children of let no man move his bones. So
Ammon, did the king defile. they let his bones alone, with
14 And he brake in pieces the the bones of the prophet that
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LORD, as the LORD had said. 19 And he did that which was
14 And he carried away all evil in the sight of the LORD,
Jerusalem, and all the princes, according to all that Jehoiakim
and all the mighty men of had done.
valour, even ten thousand 20 For through the anger of
captives, and all the craftsmen the LORD it came to pass in
and smiths: none remained, Jerusalem and Judah, until he
save the poorest sort of the had cast them out from his
people of the land. presence, that Zedekiah
15 And he carried away rebelled against the king of
Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the Babylon.
king’s mother, and the king’s
wives, and his officers, and CHAPTER 25
the mighty of the land, those AND it came to pass in the
carried he into captivity from ninth year of his reign, in the
Jerusalem to Babylon. tenth month, in the tenth day
16 And all the men of might, of the month, that
even seven thousand, and Nebuchadnezzar king of
craftsmen and smiths a Babylon came, he, and all his
thousand, all that were strong host, against Jerusalem, and
and apt for war, even them the pitched against it; and they
king of Babylon brought built forts against it round
captive to Babylon. about.
17 ¶ And the king of Babylon 2 And the city was besieged
made Mattaniah his father’s unto the eleventh year of king
brother king in his stead, and Zedekiah.
changed his name to 3 And on the ninth day of the
Zedekiah. fourth month the famine
18 Zedekiah was twenty and prevailed in the city, and there
one years old when he began was no bread for the people of
to reign, and he reigned eleven the land.
years in Jerusalem. And his 4 ¶ And the city was broken
mother’s name was Hamutal, up, and all the men of war fled
the daughter of Jeremiah of by night by the way of the
Libnah. gate between two walls, which
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LORD; the brass of all these So Judah was carried away out
vessels was without weight. of their land.
17 The height of the one pillar 22 ¶ And as for the people that
was eighteen cubits, and the remained in the land of Judah,
chapiter upon it was brass: and whom Nebuchadnezzar king
the height of the chapiter three of Babylon had left, even over
cubits; and the wreathen work, them he made Gedaliah the
and pomegranates upon the son of Ahikam, the son of
chapiter round about, all of Shaphan, ruler.
brass: and like unto these had 23 And when all the captains
the second pillar with of the armies, they and their
wreathen work. men, heard that the king of
18 ¶ And the captain of the Babylon had made Gedaliah
guard took Seraiah the chief governor, there came to
priest, and Zephaniah the Gedaliah to Mizpah, even
second priest, and the three Ishmael the son of Nethaniah,
keepers of the door: and Johanan the son of
19 And out of the city he took Careah, and Seraiah the son of
an officer that was set over the Tanhumeth the Netophathite,
men of war, and five men of and Jaazaniah the son of a
them that were in the king’s Maachathite, they and their
presence, which were found in men.
the city, and the principal 24 And Gedaliah sware to
scribe of the host, which them, and to their men, and
mustered the people of the said unto them, Fear not to be
land, and threescore men of the servants of the Chaldees:
the people of the land that dwell in the land, and serve
were found in the city: the king of Babylon; and it
20 And Nebuzar-adan captain shall be well with you.
of the guard took these, and 25 But it came to pass in the
brought them to the king of seventh month, that Ishmael
Babylon to Riblah: the son of Nethaniah, the son
21 And the king of Babylon of Elishama, of the seed royal,
smote them, and slew them at came, and ten men with him,
Riblah in the land of Hamath. and smote Gedaliah, that he
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and the suburbs thereof round of Asher, and out of the tribe
about it. of Naphtali, and out of the
56 But the fields of the city, tribe of Manasseh in Bashan,
and the villages thereof, they thirteen cities.
gave to Caleb the son of 63 Unto the sons of Merari
Jephunneh. were given by lot, throughout
57 And to the sons of Aaron their families, out of the tribe
they gave the cities of Judah, of Reuben, and out of the tribe
namely, Hebron, the city of of Gad, and out of the tribe of
refuge, and Libnah with her Zebulun, twelve cities.
suburbs, and Jattir, and 64 And the children of Israel
Eshtemoa, with their suburbs, gave to the Levites these cities
58 And Hilen with her with their suburbs.
suburbs, Debir with her 65 And they gave by lot out of
suburbs, the tribe of the children of
59 And Ashan with her Judah, and out of the tribe of
suburbs, and Beth-shemesh the children of Simeon, and
with her suburbs: out of the tribe of the children
60 And out of the tribe of of Benjamin, these cities,
Benjamin; Geba with her which are called by their
suburbs, and Alemeth with her names.
suburbs, and Anathoth with 66 And the residue of the
her suburbs. All their cities families of the sons of Kohath
throughout their families were had cities of their coasts out of
thirteen cities. the tribe of Ephraim.
61 And unto the sons of 67 And they gave unto them,
Kohath, which were left of the of the cities of refuge,
family of that tribe, were cities Shechem in mount Ephraim
given out of the half tribe, with her suburbs; they gave
namely, out of the half tribe of also Gezer with her suburbs,
Manasseh, by lot, ten cities. 68 And Jokmeam with her
62 And to the sons of suburbs, and Beth-horon with
Gershom throughout their her suburbs,
families out of the tribe of 69 And Aijalon with her
Issachar, and out of the tribe suburbs, and Gath-rimmon
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2 And when David had made known his deeds among the
an end of offering the burnt people.
offerings and the peace 9 Sing unto him, sing psalms
offerings, he blessed the unto him, talk ye of all his
people in the name of the wondrous works.
LORD. 10 Glory ye in his holy name:
3 And he dealt to every one of let the heart of them rejoice
Israel, both man and woman, that seek the LORD.
to every one a loaf of bread, 11 Seek the LORD and his
and a good piece of flesh, and strength, seek his face
a flagon of wine. continually.
4 ¶ And he appointed certain 12 Remember his marvellous
of the Levites to minister works that he hath done, his
before the ark of the LORD, wonders, and the judgments of
and to record, and to thank his mouth;
and praise the LORD God of 13 O ye seed of Israel his
Israel: servant, ye children of Jacob,
5 Asaph the chief, and next to his chosen ones.
him Zechariah, Jeiel, and 14 He is the LORD our God;
Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and his judgments are in all the
Mattithiah, and Eliab, and earth.
Benaiah, and Obed-edom: and 15 Be ye mindful always of
Jeiel with psalteries and with his covenant; the word which
harps; but Asaph made a he commanded to a thousand
sound with cymbals; generations;
6 Benaiah also and Jahaziel 16 Even of the covenant which
the priests with trumpets he made with Abraham, and of
continually before the ark of his oath unto Isaac;
the covenant of God. 17 And hath confirmed the
7 ¶ Then on that day David same to Jacob for a law, and
delivered first this psalm to to Israel for an everlasting
thank the LORD into the hand covenant,
of Asaph and his brethren. 18 Saying, Unto thee will I
8 Give thanks unto the LORD, give the land of Canaan, the
call upon his name, make lot of your inheritance;
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following the sheep, that thou shall be my son: and I will not
shouldest be ruler over my take my mercy away from
people Israel: him, as I took it from him that
8 And I have been with thee was before thee:
whithersoever thou hast 14 But I will settle him in
walked, and have cut off all mine house and in my
thine enemies from before kingdom for ever: and his
thee, and have made thee a throne shall be established for
name like the name of the evermore.
great men that are in the earth. 15 According to all these
9 Also I will ordain a place for words, and according to all
my people Israel, and will this vision, so did Nathan
plant them, and they shall speak unto David.
dwell in their place, and shall 16 ¶ And David the king came
be moved no more; neither and sat before the LORD, and
shall the children of said, Who am I, O LORD God,
wickedness waste them any and what is mine house, that
more, as at the beginning, thou hast brought me hitherto?
10 And since the time that I 17 And yet this was a small
commanded judges to be over thing in thine eyes, O God; for
my people Israel. Moreover I thou hast also spoken of thy
will subdue all thine enemies. servant’s house for a great
Furthermore I tell thee that the while to come, and hast
LORD will build thee an house. regarded me according to the
11 ¶ And it shall come to pass, estate of a man of high degree,
when thy days be expired that O LORD God.
thou must go to be with thy 18 What can David speak
fathers, that I will raise up thy more to thee for the honour of
seed after thee, which shall be thy servant? for thou knowest
of thy sons; and I will thy servant.
establish his kingdom. 19 O LORD, for thy servant’s
12 He shall build me an house, sake, and according to thine
and I will stablish his throne own heart, hast thou done all
for ever. this greatness, in making
13 I will be his father, and he known all these great things.
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and put them in array against the river: and Shophach the
the Syrians. captain of the host of
11 And the rest of the people Hadarezer went before them.
he delivered unto the hand of 17 And it was told David; and
Abishai his brother, and they he gathered all Israel, and
set themselves in array against passed over Jordan, and came
the children of Ammon. upon them, and set the battle
12 And he said, If the Syrians in array against them. So when
be too strong for me, then thou David had put the battle in
shalt help me: but if the array against the Syrians, they
children of Ammon be too fought with him.
strong for thee, then I will 18 But the Syrians fled before
help thee. Israel; and David slew of the
13 Be of good courage, and let Syrians seven thousand men
us behave ourselves valiantly which fought in chariots, and
for our people, and for the forty thousand footmen, and
cities of our God: and let the killed Shophach the captain of
LORD do that which is good in the host.
his sight. 19 And when the servants of
14 So Joab and the people that Hadarezer saw that they were
were with him drew nigh put to the worse before Israel,
before the Syrians unto the they made peace with David,
battle; and they fled before and became his servants:
him. neither would the Syrians help
15 And when the children of the children of Ammon any
Ammon saw that the Syrians more.
were fled, they likewise fled
before Abishai his brother, CHAPTER 20
and entered into the city. Then AND it came to pass, that
Joab came to Jerusalem. after the year was expired, at
16 ¶ And when the Syrians the time that kings go out to
saw that they were put to the battle, Joab led forth the
worse before Israel, they sent power of the army, and wasted
messengers, and drew forth the country of the children of
the Syrians that were beyond Ammon, and came and
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LORD stand between the earth David, and went out of the
and the heaven, having a threshingfloor, and bowed
drawn sword in his hand himself to David with his face
stretched out over Jerusalem. to the ground.
Then David and the elders of 22 Then David said to Ornan,
Israel, who were clothed in Grant me the place of this
sackcloth, fell upon their threshingfloor, that I may
faces. build an altar therein unto the
17 And David said unto God, LORD: thou shalt grant it me
Is it not I that commanded the for the full price: that the
people to be numbered? even I plague may be stayed from the
it is that have sinned and done people.
evil indeed; but as for these 23 And Ornan said unto
sheep, what have they done? David, Take it to thee, and let
let thine hand, I pray thee, O my lord the king do that which
LORD my God, be on me, and is good in his eyes: lo, I give
on my father’s house; but not thee the oxen also for burnt
on thy people, that they should offerings, and the threshing
be plagued. instruments for wood, and the
18 ¶ Then the angel of the wheat for the meat offering; I
LORD commanded Gad to say give it all.
to David, that David should go 24 And king David said to
up, and set up an altar unto the Ornan, Nay; but I will verily
LORD in the threshingfloor of buy it for the full price: for I
Ornan the Jebusite. will not take that which is
19 And David went up at the thine for the LORD, nor offer
saying of Gad, which he spake burnt offerings without cost.
in the name of the LORD. 25 So David gave to Ornan for
20 And Ornan turned back, the place six hundred shekels
and saw the angel; and his of gold by weight.
four sons with him hid 26 And David built there an
themselves. Now Ornan was altar unto the LORD, and
threshing wheat. offered burnt offerings and
21 And as David came to peace offerings, and called
Ornan, Ornan looked and saw upon the LORD; and he
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shed much blood upon the I have prepared for the house
earth in my sight. of the LORD an hundred
9 Behold, a son shall be born thousand talents of gold, and a
to thee, who shall be a man of thousand thousand talents of
rest; and I will give him rest silver; and of brass and iron
from all his enemies round without weight; for it is in
about: for his name shall be abundance: timber also and
Solomon, and I will give stone have I prepared; and
peace and quietness unto thou mayest add thereto.
Israel in his days. 15 Moreover there are
10 He shall build an house for workmen with thee in
my name; and he shall be my abundance, hewers and
son, and I will be his father; workers of stone and timber,
and I will establish the throne and all manner of cunning
of his kingdom over Israel for men for every manner of
ever. work.
11 Now, my son, the LORD be 16 Of the gold, the silver, and
with thee; and prosper thou, the brass, and the iron, there is
and build the house of the no number. Arise therefore,
LORD thy God, as he hath said and be doing, and the LORD be
of thee. with thee.
12 Only the LORD give thee 17 ¶ David also commanded
wisdom and understanding, all the princes of Israel to help
and give thee charge Solomon his son, saying,
concerning Israel, that thou 18 Is not the LORD your God
mayest keep the law of the with you? and hath he not
LORD thy God. given you rest on every side?
13 Then shalt thou prosper, if for he hath given the
thou takest heed to fulfil the inhabitants of the land into
statutes and judgments which mine hand; and the land is
the LORD charged Moses with subdued before the LORD, and
concerning Israel: be strong, before his people.
and of good courage; dread 19 Now set your heart and
not, nor be dismayed. your soul to seek the LORD
14 Now, behold, in my trouble your God; arise therefore, and
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13 Also for the courses of the 18 And for the altar of incense
priests and the Levites, and for refined gold by weight; and
all the work of the service of gold for the pattern of the
the house of the LORD, and for chariot of the cherubims, that
all the vessels of service in the spread out their wings, and
house of the LORD. covered the ark of the
14 He gave of gold by weight covenant of the LORD.
for things of gold, for all 19 All this, said David, the
instruments of all manner of LORD made me understand in
service; silver also for all writing by his hand upon me,
instruments of silver by even all the works of this
weight, for all instruments of pattern.
every kind of service: 20 And David said to
15 Even the weight for the Solomon his son, Be strong
candlesticks of gold, and for and of good courage, and do
their lamps of gold, by weight it: fear not, nor be dismayed:
for every candlestick, and for for the LORD God, even my
the lamps thereof: and for the God, will be with thee; he will
candlesticks of silver by not fail thee, nor forsake thee,
weight, both for the until thou hast finished all the
candlestick, and also for the work for the service of the
lamps thereof, according to house of the LORD.
the use of every candlestick. 21 And, behold, the courses of
16 And by weight he gave the priests and the Levites,
gold for the tables of even they shall be with thee
shewbread, for every table; for all the service of the house
and likewise silver for the of God: and there shall be
tables of silver: with thee for all manner of
17 Also pure gold for the workmanship every willing
fleshhooks, and the bowls, and skilful man, for any manner of
the cups: and for the golden service: also the princes and
basons he gave gold by weight all the people will be wholly at
for every bason; and likewise thy commandment.
silver by weight for every
bason of silver: CHAPTER 29
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LORD, that he made with the saying, There shall not fail
children of Israel. thee a man in my sight to sit
12 ¶ And he stood before the upon the throne of Israel; yet
altar of the LORD in the so that thy children take heed
presence of all the to their way to walk in my
congregation of Israel, and law, as thou hast walked
spread forth his hands: before me.
13 For Solomon had made a 17 Now then, O LORD God of
brasen scaffold, of five cubits Israel, let thy word be verified,
long, and five cubits broad, which thou hast spoken unto
and three cubits high, and had thy servant David.
set it in the midst of the court: 18 But will God in very deed
and upon it he stood, and dwell with men on the earth?
kneeled down upon his knees behold, heaven and the heaven
before all the congregation of of heavens cannot contain
Israel, and spread forth his thee; how much less this
hands toward heaven, house which I have built!
14 And said, O LORD God of 19 Have respect therefore to
Israel, there is no God like the prayer of thy servant, and
thee in the heaven, nor in the to his supplication, O LORD
earth; which keepest covenant, my God, to hearken unto the
and shewest mercy unto thy cry and the prayer which thy
servants, that walk before thee servant prayeth before thee:
with all their hearts: 20 That thine eyes may be
15 Thou which hast kept with open upon this house day and
thy servant David my father night, upon the place whereof
that which thou hast promised thou hast said that thou
him; and spakest with thy wouldest put thy name there;
mouth, and hast fulfilled it to hearken unto the prayer
with thine hand, as it is this which thy servant prayeth
day. toward this place.
16 Now therefore, O LORD 21 Hearken therefore unto the
God of Israel, keep with thy supplications of thy servant,
servant David my father that and of thy people Israel, which
which thou hast promised him, they shall make toward this
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place: hear thou from thy toward this place, and confess
dwelling place, even from thy name, and turn from their
heaven; and when thou sin, when thou dost afflict
hearest, forgive. them;
22 ¶ If a man sin against his 27 Then hear thou from
neighbour, and an oath be laid heaven, and forgive the sin of
upon him to make him swear, thy servants, and of thy people
and the oath come before thine Israel, when thou hast taught
altar in this house; them the good way, wherein
23 Then hear thou from they should walk; and send
heaven, and do, and judge thy rain upon thy land, which thou
servants, by requiting the hast given unto thy people for
wicked, by recompensing his an inheritance.
way upon his own head; and 28 ¶ If there be dearth in the
by justifying the righteous, by land, if there be pestilence, if
giving him according to his there be blasting, or mildew,
righteousness. locusts, or caterpillers; if their
24 ¶ And if thy people Israel enemies besiege them in the
be put to the worse before the cities of their land; whatsoever
enemy, because they have sore or whatsoever sickness
sinned against thee; and shall there be:
return and confess thy name, 29 Then what prayer or what
and pray and make supplication soever shall be
supplication before thee in this made of any man, or of all thy
house; people Israel, when every one
25 Then hear thou from the shall know his own sore and
heavens, and forgive the sin of his own grief, and shall spread
thy people Israel, and bring forth his hands in this house:
them again unto the land 30 Then hear thou from
which thou gavest to them and heaven thy dwelling place,
to their fathers. and forgive, and render unto
26 ¶ When the heaven is shut every man according unto all
up, and there is no rain, his ways, whose heart thou
because they have sinned knowest; (for thou only
against thee; yet if they pray knowest the hearts of the
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that God had put in his heart. Jerusalem over all Israel forty
24 And they brought every years.
man his present, vessels of 31 And Solomon slept with
silver, and vessels of gold, and his fathers, and he was buried
raiment, harness, and spices, in the city of David his father:
horses, and mules, a rate year and Rehoboam his son reigned
by year. in his stead.
25 ¶ And Solomon had four
thousand stalls for horses and CHAPTER 10
chariots, and twelve thousand AND Rehoboam went to
horsemen; whom he bestowed Shechem: for to Shechem
in the chariot cities, and with were all Israel come to make
the king at Jerusalem. him king.
26 ¶ And he reigned over all 2 And it came to pass, when
the kings from the river even Jeroboam the son of Nebat,
unto the land of the who was in Egypt, whither he
Philistines, and to the border had fled from the presence of
of Egypt. Solomon the king, heard it,
27 And the king made silver that Jeroboam returned out of
in Jerusalem as stones, and Egypt.
cedar trees made he as the 3 And they sent and called
sycomore trees that are in the him. So Jeroboam and all
low plains in abundance. Israel came and spake to
28 And they brought unto Rehoboam, saying,
Solomon horses out of Egypt, 4 Thy father made our yoke
and out of all lands. grievous: now therefore ease
29 ¶ Now the rest of the acts thou somewhat the grievous
of Solomon, first and last, are servitude of thy father, and his
they not written in the book of heavy yoke that he put upon
Nathan the prophet, and in the us, and we will serve thee.
prophecy of Ahijah the 5 And he said unto them,
Shilonite, and in the visions of Come again unto me after
Iddo the seer against Jeroboam three days. And the people
the son of Nebat? departed.
30 And Solomon reigned in 6 ¶ And king Rehoboam took
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the princes and the trumpets the offices of the house of the
by the king: and all the people LORD by the hand of the
of the land rejoiced, and priests the Levites, whom
sounded with trumpets, also David had distributed in the
the singers with instruments of house of the LORD, to offer
musick, and such as taught to the burnt offerings of the
sing praise. Then Athaliah rent LORD, as it is written in the
her clothes, and said, Treason, law of Moses, with rejoicing
Treason. and with singing, as it was
14 Then Jehoiada the priest ordained by David.
brought out the captains of 19 And he set the porters at
hundreds that were set over the gates of the house of the
the host, and said unto them, LORD, that none which was
Have her forth of the ranges: unclean in any thing should
and whoso followeth her, let enter in.
him be slain with the sword. 20 And he took the captains of
For the priest said, Slay her hundreds, and the nobles, and
not in the house of the LORD. the governors of the people,
15 So they laid hands on her; and all the people of the land,
and when she was come to the and brought down the king
entering of the horse gate by from the house of the LORD:
the king’s house, they slew and they came through the
her there. high gate into the king’s
16 ¶ And Jehoiada made a house, and set the king upon
covenant between him, and the throne of the kingdom.
between all the people, and 21 And all the people of the
between the king, that they land rejoiced: and the city was
should be the LORD’s people. quiet, after that they had slain
17 Then all the people went to Athaliah with the sword.
the house of Baal, and brake it
down, and brake his altars and CHAPTER 24
his images in pieces, and slew JOASH was seven years old
Mattan the priest of Baal when he began to reign, and
before the altars. he reigned forty years in
18 Also Jehoiada appointed Jerusalem. His mother’s name
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house of the LORD, and also the king. Then the king
such as wrought iron and brass hearkened unto them.
to mend the house of the 18 And they left the house of
LORD. the LORD God of their fathers,
13 So the workmen wrought, and served groves and idols:
and the work was perfected by and wrath came upon Judah
them, and they set the house and Jerusalem for this their
of God in his state, and trespass.
strengthened it. 19 Yet he sent prophets to
14 And when they had them, to bring them again unto
finished it, they brought the the LORD; and they testified
rest of the money before the against them: but they would
king and Jehoiada, whereof not give ear.
were made vessels for the 20 And the Spirit of God came
house of the LORD, even upon Zechariah the son of
vessels to minister, and to Jehoiada the priest, which
offer withal, and spoons, and stood above the people, and
vessels of gold and silver. And said unto them, Thus saith
they offered burnt offerings in God, Why transgress ye the
the house of the LORD commandments of the LORD,
continually all the days of that ye cannot prosper?
Jehoiada. because ye have forsaken the
15 ¶ But Jehoiada waxed old, LORD, he hath also forsaken
and was full of days when he you.
died; an hundred and thirty 21 And they conspired against
years old was he when he him, and stoned him with
died. stones at the commandment of
16 And they buried him in the the king in the court of the
city of David among the house of the LORD.
kings, because he had done 22 Thus Joash the king
good in Israel, both toward remembered not the kindness
God, and toward his house. which Jehoiada his father had
17 Now after the death of done to him, but slew his son.
Jehoiada came the princes of And when he died, he said,
Judah, and made obeisance to The LORD look upon it, and
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wall of Jerusalem from the years old, and made him king
gate of Ephraim to the corner in the room of his father
gate, four hundred cubits. Amaziah.
24 And he took all the gold 2 He built Eloth, and restored
and the silver, and all the it to Judah, after that the king
vessels that were found in the slept with his fathers.
house of God with Obed- 3 Sixteen years old was
edom, and the treasures of the Uzziah when he began to
king’s house, the hostages reign, and he reigned fifty and
also, and returned to Samaria. two years in Jerusalem. His
25 ¶ And Amaziah the son of mother’s name also was
Joash king of Judah lived after Jecoliah of Jerusalem.
the death of Joash son of 4 And he did that which was
Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen right in the sight of the LORD,
years. according to all that his father
26 Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah did.
Amaziah, first and last, 5 And he sought God in the
behold, are they not written in days of Zechariah, who had
the book of the kings of Judah understanding in the visions of
and Israel? God: and as long as he sought
27 ¶ Now after the time that the LORD, God made him to
Amaziah did turn away from prosper.
following the LORD they made 6 And he went forth and
a conspiracy against him in warred against the Philistines,
Jerusalem; and he fled to and brake down the wall of
Lachish: but they sent to Gath, and the wall of Jabneh,
Lachish after him, and slew and the wall of Ashdod, and
him there. built cities about Ashdod, and
28 And they brought him upon among the Philistines.
horses, and buried him with 7 And God helped him against
his fathers in the city of Judah. the Philistines, and against the
Arabians that dwelt in Gur-
CHAPTER 26 baal, and the Mehunims.
THEN all the people of Judah 8 And the Ammonites gave
took Uzziah, who was sixteen gifts to Uzziah: and his name
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people: and their voice was offerings for the sabbaths, and
heard, and their prayer came for the new moons, and for the
up to his holy dwelling place, set feasts, as it is written in the
even unto heaven. law of the LORD.
4 Moreover he commanded
CHAPTER 31 the people that dwelt in
NOW when all this was Jerusalem to give the portion
finished, all Israel that were of the priests and the Levites,
present went out to the cities that they might be encouraged
of Judah, and brake the images in the law of the LORD.
in pieces, and cut down the 5 ¶ And as soon as the
groves, and threw down the commandment came abroad,
high places and the altars out the children of Israel brought
of all Judah and Benjamin, in in abundance the firstfruits of
Ephraim also and Manasseh, corn, wine, and oil, and honey,
until they had utterly and of all the increase of the
destroyed them all. Then all field; and the tithe of all things
the children of Israel returned, brought they in abundantly.
every man to his possession, 6 And concerning the children
into their own cities. of Israel and Judah, that dwelt
2 ¶ And Hezekiah appointed in the cities of Judah, they also
the courses of the priests and brought in the tithe of oxen
the Levites after their courses, and sheep, and the tithe of
every man according to his holy things which were
service, the priests and Levites consecrated unto the LORD
for burnt offerings and for their God, and laid them by
peace offerings, to minister, heaps.
and to give thanks, and to 7 In the third month they
praise in the gates of the tents began to lay the foundation of
of the LORD. the heaps, and finished them
3 He appointed also the king’s in the seventh month.
portion of his substance for 8 And when Hezekiah and the
the burnt offerings, to wit, for princes came and saw the
the morning and evening burnt heaps, they blessed the LORD,
offerings, and the burnt and his people Israel.
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our battles. And the people deliver their lands out of mine
rested themselves upon the hand?
words of Hezekiah king of 14 Who was there among all
Judah. the gods of those nations that
9 ¶ After this did Sennacherib my fathers utterly destroyed,
king of Assyria send his that could deliver his people
servants to Jerusalem, (but he out of mine hand, that your
himself laid siege against God should be able to deliver
Lachish, and all his power you out of mine hand?
with him,) unto Hezekiah king 15 Now therefore let not
of Judah, and unto all Judah Hezekiah deceive you, nor
that were at Jerusalem, saying, persuade you on this manner,
10 Thus saith Sennacherib neither yet believe him: for no
king of Assyria, Whereon do god of any nation or kingdom
ye trust, that ye abide in the was able to deliver his people
siege in Jerusalem? out of mine hand, and out of
11 Doth not Hezekiah the hand of my fathers: how
persuade you to give over much less shall your God
yourselves to die by famine deliver you out of mine hand?
and by thirst, saying, The 16 And his servants spake yet
LORD our God shall deliver us more against the LORD God,
out of the hand of the king of and against his servant
Assyria? Hezekiah.
12 Hath not the same 17 He wrote also letters to rail
Hezekiah taken away his high on the LORD God of Israel,
places and his altars, and and to speak against him,
commanded Judah and saying, As the gods of the
Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall nations of other lands have not
worship before one altar, and delivered their people out of
burn incense upon it? mine hand, so shall not the
13 Know ye not what I and God of Hezekiah deliver his
my fathers have done unto all people out of mine hand.
the people of other lands? 18 Then they cried with a loud
were the gods of the nations of voice in the Jews’ speech unto
those lands any ways able to the people of Jerusalem that
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THEN the people of the land 8 Now the rest of the acts of
took Jehoahaz the son of Jehoiakim, and his
Josiah, and made him king in abominations which he did,
his father’s stead in Jerusalem. and that which was found in
2 Jehoahaz was twenty and him, behold, they are written
three years old when he began in the book of the kings of
to reign, and he reigned three Israel and Judah: and
months in Jerusalem. Jehoiachin his son reigned in
3 And the king of Egypt put his stead.
him down at Jerusalem, and 9 ¶ Jehoiachin was eight years
condemned the land in an old when he began to reign,
hundred talents of silver and a and he reigned three months
talent of gold. and ten days in Jerusalem: and
4 And the king of Egypt made he did that which was evil in
Eliakim his brother king over the sight of the LORD.
Judah and Jerusalem, and 10 And when the year was
turned his name to Jehoiakim. expired, king Nebuchadnezzar
And Necho took Jehoahaz his sent, and brought him to
brother, and carried him to Babylon, with the goodly
Egypt. vessels of the house of the
5 ¶ Jehoiakim was twenty and LORD, and made Zedekiah his
five years old when he began brother king over Judah and
to reign, and he reigned eleven Jerusalem.
years in Jerusalem: and he did 11 ¶ Zedekiah was one and
that which was evil in the twenty years old when he
sight of the LORD his God. began to reign, and reigned
6 Against him came up eleven years in Jerusalem.
Nebuchadnezzar king of 12 And he did that which was
Babylon, and bound him in evil in the sight of the LORD
fetters, to carry him to his God, and humbled not
Babylon. himself before Jeremiah the
7 Nebuchadnezzar also carried prophet speaking from the
of the vessels of the house of mouth of the LORD.
the LORD to Babylon, and put 13 And he also rebelled
them in his temple at Babylon. against king Nebuchadnezzar,
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who had made him swear by house of God, great and small,
God: but he stiffened his neck, and the treasures of the house
and hardened his heart from of the LORD, and the treasures
turning unto the LORD God of of the king, and of his princes;
Israel. all these he brought to
14 ¶ Moreover all the chief of Babylon.
the priests, and the people, 19 And they burnt the house
transgressed very much after of God, and brake down the
all the abominations of the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt
heathen; and polluted the all the palaces thereof with
house of the LORD which he fire, and destroyed all the
had hallowed in Jerusalem. goodly vessels thereof.
15 And the LORD God of their 20 And them that had escaped
fathers sent to them by his from the sword carried he
messengers, rising up betimes, away to Babylon; where they
and sending; because he had were servants to him and his
compassion on his people, and sons until the reign of the
on his dwelling place: kingdom of Persia:
16 But they mocked the 21 To fulfil the word of the
messengers of God, and LORD by the mouth of
despised his words, and Jeremiah, until the land had
misused his prophets, until the enjoyed her sabbaths: for as
wrath of the LORD arose long as she lay desolate she
against his people, till there kept sabbath, to fulfil
was no remedy. threescore and ten years.
17 Therefore he brought upon 22 ¶ Now in the first year of
them the king of the Chaldees, Cyrus king of Persia, that the
who slew their young men word of the LORD spoken by
with the sword in the house of the mouth of Jeremiah might
their sanctuary, and had no be accomplished, the LORD
compassion upon young man stirred up the spirit of Cyrus
or maiden, old man, or him king of Persia, that he made a
that stooped for age: he gave proclamation throughout all
them all into his hand. his kingdom, and put it also in
18 And all the vessels of the writing, saying,
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are holy unto the LORD; the and with them was Jozabad
vessels are holy also; and the the son of Jeshua, and
silver and the gold are a Noadiah the son of Binnui,
freewill offering unto the Levites;
LORD God of your fathers. 34 By number and by weight
29 Watch ye, and keep them, of every one: and all the
until ye weigh them before the weight was written at that
chief of the priests and the time.
Levites, and chief of the 35 Also the children of those
fathers of Israel, at Jerusalem, that had been carried away,
in the chambers of the house which were come out of the
of the LORD. captivity, offered burnt
30 So took the priests and the offerings unto the God of
Levites the weight of the Israel, twelve bullocks for all
silver, and the gold, and the Israel, ninety and six rams,
vessels, to bring them to seventy and seven lambs,
Jerusalem unto the house of twelve he goats for a sin
our God. offering: all this was a burnt
31 ¶ Then we departed from offering unto the LORD.
the river of Ahava on the 36 ¶ And they delivered the
twelfth day of the first month, king’s commissions unto the
to go unto Jerusalem: and the king’s lieutenants, and to the
hand of our God was upon us, governors on this side the
and he delivered us from the river: and they furthered the
hand of the enemy, and of people, and the house of God.
such as lay in wait by the way.
32 And we came to Jerusalem, CHAPTER 9
and abode there three days. NOW when these things were
33 ¶ Now on the fourth day done, the princes came to me,
was the silver and the gold and saying, The people of Israel,
the vessels weighed in the and the priests, and the
house of our God by the hand Levites, have not separated
of Meremoth the son of Uriah themselves from the people of
the priest; and with him was the lands, doing according to
Eleazar the son of Phinehas; their abominations, even of the
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his house. And next unto him and unto the stairs that go
repaired Hattush the son of down from the city of David.
Hashabniah. 16 After him repaired
11 Malchijah the son of Nehemiah the son of Azbuk,
Harim, and Hashub the son of the ruler of the half part of
Pahath-moab, repaired the Beth-zur, unto the place over
other piece, and the tower of against the sepulchres of
the furnaces. David, and to the pool that
12 And next unto him repaired was made, and unto the house
Shallum the son of Halohesh, of the mighty.
the ruler of the half part of 17 After him repaired the
Jerusalem, he and his Levites, Rehum the son of
daughters. Bani. Next unto him repaired
13 The valley gate repaired Hashabiah, the ruler of the
Hanun, and the inhabitants of half part of Keilah, in his part.
Zanoah; they built it, and set 18 After him repaired their
up the doors thereof, the locks brethren, Bavai the son of
thereof, and the bars thereof, Henadad, the ruler of the half
and a thousand cubits on the part of Keilah.
wall unto the dung gate. 19 And next to him repaired
14 But the dung gate repaired Ezer the son of Jeshua, the
Malchiah the son of Rechab, ruler of Mizpah, another piece
the ruler of part of Beth- over against the going up to
haccerem; he built it, and set the armoury at the turning of
up the doors thereof, the locks the wall.
thereof, and the bars thereof. 20 After him Baruch the son
15 But the gate of the fountain of Zabbai earnestly repaired
repaired Shallun the son of the other piece, from the
Col-hozeh, the ruler of part of turning of the wall unto the
Mizpah; he built it, and door of the house of Eliashib
covered it, and set up the the high priest.
doors thereof, the locks 21 After him repaired
thereof, and the bars thereof, Meremoth the son of Urijah
and the wall of the pool of the son of Koz another piece,
Siloah by the king’s garden, from the door of the house of
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which is great and terrible, and work is great and large, and
fight for your brethren, your we are separated upon the
sons, and your daughters, your wall, one far from another.
wives, and your houses. 20 In what place therefore ye
15 And it came to pass, when hear the sound of the trumpet,
our enemies heard that it was resort ye thither unto us: our
known unto us, and God had God shall fight for us.
brought their counsel to 21 So we laboured in the
nought, that we returned all of work: and half of them held
us to the wall, every one unto the spears from the rising of
his work. the morning till the stars
16 And it came to pass from appeared.
that time forth, that the half of 22 Likewise at the same time
my servants wrought in the said I unto the people, Let
work, and the other half of every one with his servant
them held both the spears, the lodge within Jerusalem, that in
shields, and the bows, and the the night they may be a guard
habergeons; and the rulers to us, and labour on the day.
were behind all the house of 23 So neither I, nor my
Judah. brethren, nor my servants, nor
17 They which builded on the the men of the guard which
wall, and they that bare followed me, none of us put
burdens, with those that laded, off our clothes, saving that
every one with one of his every one put them off for
hands wrought in the work, washing.
and with the other hand held a
weapon. CHAPTER 5
18 For the builders, every one AND there was a great cry of
had his sword girded by his the people and of their wives
side, and so builded. And he against their brethren the
that sounded the trumpet was Jews.
by me. 2 For there were that said, We,
19 ¶ And I said unto the our sons, and our daughters,
nobles, and to the rulers, and are many: therefore we take
to the rest of the people, The up corn for them, that we may
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shaken out, and emptied. And prepared for me daily was one
all the congregation said, ox and six choice sheep; also
Amen, and praised the LORD. fowls were prepared for me,
And the people did according and once in ten days store of
to this promise. all sorts of wine: yet for all
14 ¶ Moreover from the time this required not I the bread of
that I was appointed to be their the governor, because the
governor in the land of Judah, bondage was heavy upon this
from the twentieth year even people.
unto the two and thirtieth year 19 Think upon me, my God,
of Artaxerxes the king, that is, for good, according to all that
twelve years, I and my I have done for this people.
brethren have not eaten the
bread of the governor. CHAPTER 6
15 But the former governors NOW it came to pass, when
that had been before me were Sanballat, and Tobiah, and
chargeable unto the people, Geshem the Arabian, and the
and had taken of them bread rest of our enemies, heard that
and wine, beside forty shekels I had builded the wall, and
of silver; yea, even their that there was no breach left
servants bare rule over the therein; (though at that time I
people: but so did not I, had not set up the doors upon
because of the fear of God. the gates;)
16 Yea, also I continued in the 2 That Sanballat and Geshem
work of this wall, neither sent unto me, saying, Come,
bought we any land: and all let us meet together in some
my servants were gathered one of the villages in the plain
thither unto the work. of Ono. But they thought to do
17 Moreover there were at my me mischief.
table an hundred and fifty of 3 And I sent messengers unto
the Jews and rulers, beside them, saying, I am doing a
those that came unto us from great work, so that I cannot
among the heathen that are come down: why should the
about us. work cease, whilst I leave it,
18 Now that which was and come down to you?
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enemies, who vexed them: and not give ear: therefore gavest
in the time of their trouble, thou them into the hand of the
when they cried unto thee, people of the lands.
thou heardest them from 31 Nevertheless for thy great
heaven; and according to thy mercies’ sake thou didst not
manifold mercies thou gavest utterly consume them, nor
them saviours, who saved forsake them; for thou art a
them out of the hand of their gracious and merciful God.
enemies. 32 Now therefore, our God,
28 But after they had rest, they the great, the mighty, and the
did evil again before thee: terrible God, who keepest
therefore leftest thou them in covenant and mercy, let not all
the hand of their enemies, so the trouble seem little before
that they had the dominion thee, that hath come upon us,
over them: yet when they on our kings, on our princes,
returned, and cried unto thee, and on our priests, and on our
thou heardest them from prophets, and on our fathers,
heaven; and many times didst and on all thy people, since
thou deliver them according to the time of the kings of
thy mercies; Assyria unto this day.
29 And testifiedst against 33 Howbeit thou art just in all
them, that thou mightest bring that is brought upon us; for
them again unto thy law: yet thou hast done right, but we
they dealt proudly, and have done wickedly:
hearkened not unto thy 34 Neither have our kings, our
commandments, but sinned princes, our priests, nor our
against thy judgments, (which fathers, kept thy law, nor
if a man do, he shall live in hearkened unto thy
them;) and withdrew the commandments and thy
shoulder, and hardened their testimonies, wherewith thou
neck, and would not hear. didst testify against them.
30 Yet many years didst thou 35 For they have not served
forbear them, and testifiedst thee in their kingdom, and in
against them by thy spirit in thy great goodness that thou
thy prophets: yet would they gavest them, and in the large
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furnaces even unto the broad chambers for the treasures, for
wall; the offerings, for the
39 And from above the gate of firstfruits, and for the tithes, to
Ephraim, and above the old gather into them out of the
gate, and above the fish gate, fields of the cities the portions
and the tower of Hananeel, of the law for the priests and
and the tower of Meah, even Levites: for Judah rejoiced for
unto the sheep gate: and they the priests and for the Levites
stood still in the prison gate. that waited.
40 So stood the two 45 And both the singers and
companies of them that gave the porters kept the ward of
thanks in the house of God, their God, and the ward of the
and I, and the half of the rulers purification, according to the
with me: commandment of David, and
41 And the priests; Eliakim, of Solomon his son.
Maaseiah, Miniamin, 46 For in the days of David
Michaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah, and Asaph of old there were
and Hananiah, with trumpets; chief of the singers, and songs
42 And Maaseiah, and of praise and thanksgiving
Shemaiah, and Eleazar, and unto God.
Uzzi, and Jehohanan, and 47 And all Israel in the days of
Malchijah, and Elam, and Zerubbabel, and in the days of
Ezer. And the singers sang Nehemiah, gave the portions
loud, with Jezrahiah their of the singers and the porters,
overseer. every day his portion: and
43 Also that day they offered they sanctified holy things
great sacrifices, and rejoiced: unto the Levites; and the
for God had made them Levites sanctified them unto
rejoice with great joy: the the children of Aaron.
wives also and the children
rejoiced: so that the joy of CHAPTER 13
Jerusalem was heard even afar ON that day they read in the
off. book of Moses in the audience
44 ¶ And at that time were of the people; and therein was
some appointed over the found written, that the
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the princes her beauty: for she shall come abroad unto all
was fair to look on. women, so that they shall
12 But the queen Vashti despise their husbands in their
refused to come at the king’s eyes, when it shall be
commandment by his reported, The king Ahasuerus
chamberlains: therefore was commanded Vashti the queen
the king very wroth, and his to be brought in before him,
anger burned in him. but she came not.
13 ¶ Then the king said to the 18 Likewise shall the ladies of
wise men, which knew the Persia and Media say this day
times, (for so was the king’s unto all the king’s princes,
manner toward all that knew which have heard of the deed
law and judgment: of the queen. Thus shall there
14 And the next unto him was arise too much contempt and
Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, wrath.
Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and 19 If it please the king, let
Memucan, the seven princes there go a royal
of Persia and Media, which commandment from him, and
saw the king’s face, and which let it be written among the
sat the first in the kingdom;) laws of the Persians and the
15 What shall we do unto the Medes, that it be not altered,
queen Vashti according to That Vashti come no more
law, because she hath not before king Ahasuerus; and let
performed the commandment the king give her royal estate
of the king Ahasuerus by the unto another that is better than
chamberlains? she.
16 And Memucan answered 20 And when the king’s
before the king and the decree which he shall make
princes, Vashti the queen hath shall be published throughout
not done wrong to the king all his empire, (for it is great,)
only, but also to all the all the wives shall give to their
princes, and to all the people husbands honour, both to great
that are in all the provinces of and small.
the king Ahasuerus. 21 And the saying pleased the
17 For this deed of the queen king and the princes; and the
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king did according to the word 4 And let the maiden which
of Memucan: pleaseth the king be queen
22 For he sent letters into all instead of Vashti. And the
the king’s provinces, into thing pleased the king; and he
every province according to did so.
the writing thereof, and to 5 ¶ Now in Shushan the palace
every people after their there was a certain Jew, whose
language, that every man name was Mordecai, the son
should bear rule in his own of Jair, the son of Shimei, the
house, and that it should be son of Kish, a Benjamite;
published according to the 6 Who had been carried away
language of every people. from Jerusalem with the
captivity which had been
CHAPTER 2 carried away with Jeconiah
AFTER these things, when the king of Judah, whom
wrath of king Ahasuerus was Nebuchadnezzar the king of
appeased, he remembered Babylon had carried away.
Vashti, and what she had 7 And he brought up
done, and what was decreed Hadassah, that is, Esther, his
against her. uncle’s daughter: for she had
2 Then said the king’s neither father nor mother, and
servants that ministered unto the maid was fair and
him, Let there be fair young beautiful; whom Mordecai,
virgins sought for the king: when her father and mother
3 And let the king appoint were dead, took for his own
officers in all the provinces of daughter.
his kingdom, that they may 8 ¶ So it came to pass, when
gather together all the fair the king’s commandment and
young virgins unto Shushan his decree was heard, and
the palace, to the house of the when many maidens were
women, unto the custody of gathered together unto
Hege the king’s chamberlain, Shushan the palace, to the
keeper of the women; and let custody of Hegai, that Esther
their things for purification be was brought also unto the
given them: king’s house, to the custody of
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his sight more than all the 23 And when inquisition was
virgins; so that he set the royal made of the matter, it was
crown upon her head, and found out; therefore they were
made her queen instead of both hanged on a tree: and it
Vashti. was written in the book of the
18 Then the king made a great chronicles before the king.
feast unto all his princes and
his servants, even Esther’s CHAPTER 3
feast; and he made a release to AFTER these things did king
the provinces, and gave gifts, Ahasuerus promote Haman
according to the state of the the son of Hammedatha the
king. Agagite, and advanced him,
19 And when the virgins were and set his seat above all the
gathered together the second princes that were with him.
time, then Mordecai sat in the 2 And all the king’s servants,
king’s gate. that were in the king’s gate,
20 Esther had not yet shewed bowed, and reverenced
her kindred nor her people; as Haman: for the king had so
Mordecai had charged her: for commanded concerning him.
Esther did the commandment But Mordecai bowed not, nor
of Mordecai, like as when she did him reverence.
was brought up with him. 3 Then the king’s servants,
21 ¶ In those days, while which were in the king’s gate,
Mordecai sat in the king’s said unto Mordecai, Why
gate, two of the king’s transgressest thou the king’s
chamberlains, Bigthan and commandment?
Teresh, of those which kept 4 Now it came to pass, when
the door, were wroth, and they spake daily unto him, and
sought to lay hand on the king he hearkened not unto them,
Ahasuerus. that they told Haman, to see
22 And the thing was known whether Mordecai’s matters
to Mordecai, who told it unto would stand: for he had told
Esther the queen; and Esther them that he was a Jew.
certified the king thereof in 5 And when Haman saw that
Mordecai’s name. Mordecai bowed not, nor did
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her, and to charge her that she Jews from another place; but
should go in unto the king, to thou and thy father’s house
make supplication unto him, shall be destroyed: and who
and to make request before knoweth whether thou art
him for her people. come to the kingdom for such
9 And Hatach came and told a time as this?
Esther the words of Mordecai. 15 ¶ Then Esther bade them
10 ¶ Again Esther spake unto return Mordecai this answer,
Hatach, and gave him 16 Go, gather together all the
commandment unto Mordecai; Jews that are present in
11 All the king’s servants, and Shushan, and fast ye for me,
the people of the king’s and neither eat nor drink three
provinces, do know, that days, night or day: I also and
whosoever, whether man or my maidens will fast likewise;
woman, shall come unto the and so will I go in unto the
king into the inner court, who king, which is not according
is not called, there is one law to the law: and if I perish, I
of his to put him to death, perish.
except such to whom the king 17 So Mordecai went his way,
shall hold out the golden and did according to all that
sceptre, that he may live: but I Esther had commanded him.
have not been called to come
in unto the king these thirty CHAPTER 5
days. NOW it came to pass on the
12 And they told to Mordecai third day, that Esther put on
Esther’s words. her royal apparel, and stood
13 Then Mordecai in the inner court of the king’s
commanded to answer Esther, house, over against the king’s
Think not with thyself that house: and the king sat upon
thou shalt escape in the king’s his royal throne in the royal
house, more than all the Jews. house, over against the gate of
14 For if thou altogether the house.
holdest thy peace at this time, 2 And it was so, when the
then shall there enlargement king saw Esther the queen
and deliverance arise to the standing in the court, that she
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Mordecai the Jew sitting at the come into the outward court of
king’s gate. the king’s house, to speak
14 ¶ Then said Zeresh his wife unto the king to hang
and all his friends unto him, Mordecai on the gallows that
Let a gallows be made of fifty he had prepared for him.
cubits high, and to morrow 5 And the king’s servants said
speak thou unto the king that unto him, Behold, Haman
Mordecai may be hanged standeth in the court. And the
thereon: then go thou in king said, Let him come in.
merrily with the king unto the 6 So Haman came in. And the
banquet. And the thing king said unto him, What shall
pleased Haman; and he caused be done unto the man whom
the gallows to be made. the king delighteth to honour?
Now Haman thought in his
CHAPTER 6 heart, To whom would the
ON that night could not the king delight to do honour
king sleep, and he commanded more than to myself?
to bring the book of records of 7 And Haman answered the
the chronicles; and they were king, For the man whom the
read before the king. king delighteth to honour,
2 And it was found written, 8 Let the royal apparel be
that Mordecai had told of brought which the king useth
Bigthana and Teresh, two of to wear, and the horse that the
the king’s chamberlains, the king rideth upon, and the
keepers of the door, who crown royal which is set upon
sought to lay hand on the king his head:
Ahasuerus. 9 And let this apparel and
3 And the king said, What horse be delivered to the hand
honour and dignity hath been of one of the king’s most
done to Mordecai for this? noble princes, that they may
Then said the king’s servants array the man withal whom
that ministered unto him, the king delighteth to honour,
There is nothing done for him. and bring him on horseback
4 ¶ And the king said, Who is through the street of the city,
in the court? Now Haman was and proclaim before him, Thus
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answered and said unto Esther king said, Hang him thereon.
the queen, Who is he, and 10 So they hanged Haman on
where is he, that durst the gallows that he had
presume in his heart to do so? prepared for Mordecai. Then
6 And Esther said, The was the king’s wrath pacified.
adversary and enemy is this
wicked Haman. Then Haman CHAPTER 8
was afraid before the king and ON that day did the king
the queen. Ahasuerus give the house of
7 ¶ And the king arising from Haman the Jews’ enemy unto
the banquet of wine in his Esther the queen. And
wrath went into the palace Mordecai came before the
garden: and Haman stood up king; for Esther had told what
to make request for his life to he was unto her.
Esther the queen; for he saw 2 And the king took off his
that there was evil determined ring, which he had taken from
against him by the king. Haman, and gave it unto
8 Then the king returned out Mordecai. And Esther set
of the palace garden into the Mordecai over the house of
place of the banquet of wine; Haman.
and Haman was fallen upon 3 ¶ And Esther spake yet
the bed whereon Esther was. again before the king, and fell
Then said the king, Will he down at his feet, and besought
force the queen also before me him with tears to put away the
in the house? As the word mischief of Haman the
went out of the king’s mouth, Agagite, and his device that he
they covered Haman’s face. had devised against the Jews.
9 And Harbonah, one of the 4 Then the king held out the
chamberlains, said before the golden sceptre toward Esther.
king, Behold also, the gallows So Esther arose, and stood
fifty cubits high, which before the king,
Haman had made for 5 And said, If it please the
Mordecai, who had spoken king, and if I have found
good for the king, standeth in favour in his sight, and the
the house of Haman. Then the thing seem right before the
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CHAPTER 10
THE BOOK OF JOB.
CHAPTER 1 the sons of God came to
THERE was a man in the land present themselves before the
of Uz, whose name was Job; LORD, and Satan came also
and that man was perfect and among them.
upright, and one that feared 7 And the LORD said unto
God, and eschewed evil. Satan, Whence comest thou?
2 And there were born unto Then Satan answered the
him seven sons and three LORD, and said, From going to
daughters. and fro in the earth, and from
3 His substance also was walking up and down in it.
seven thousand sheep, and 8 And the LORD said unto
three thousand camels, and Satan, Hast thou considered
five hundred yoke of oxen, my servant Job, that there is
and five hundred she asses, none like him in the earth, a
and a very great household; so perfect and an upright man,
that this man was the greatest one that feareth God, and
of all the men of the east. escheweth evil?
4 And his sons went and 9 Then Satan answered the
feasted in their houses, every LORD, and said, Doth Job fear
one his day; and sent and God for nought?
called for their three sisters to 10 Hast not thou made an
eat and to drink with them. hedge about him, and about
5 And it was so, when the his house, and about all that he
days of their feasting were hath on every side? thou hast
gone about, that Job sent and blessed the work of his hands,
sanctified them, and rose up and his substance is increased
early in the morning, and in the land.
offered burnt offerings 11 But put forth thine hand
according to the number of now, and touch all that he
them all: for Job said, It may hath, and he will curse thee to
be that my sons have sinned, thy face.
and cursed God in their hearts. 12 And the LORD said unto
Thus did Job continually. Satan, Behold, all that he hath
6 ¶ Now there was a day when is in thy power; only upon
JOB
2 And the LORD said unto he sat down among the ashes.
Satan, From whence comest 9 ¶ Then said his wife unto
thou? And Satan answered the him, Dost thou still retain
LORD, and said, From going to thine integrity? curse God, and
and fro in the earth, and from die.
walking up and down in it. 10 But he said unto her, Thou
3 And the LORD said unto speakest as one of the foolish
Satan, Hast thou considered women speaketh. What? shall
my servant Job, that there is we receive good at the hand of
none like him in the earth, a God, and shall we not receive
perfect and an upright man, evil? In all this did not Job sin
one that feareth God, and with his lips.
escheweth evil? and still he 11 ¶ Now when Job’s three
holdeth fast his integrity, friends heard of all this evil
although thou movedst me that was come upon him, they
against him, to destroy him came every one from his own
without cause. place; Eliphaz the Temanite,
4 And Satan answered the and Bildad the Shuhite, and
LORD, and said, Skin for skin, Zophar the Naamathite: for
yea, all that a man hath will he they had made an appointment
give for his life. together to come to mourn
5 But put forth thine hand with him and to comfort him.
now, and touch his bone and 12 And when they lifted up
his flesh, and he will curse their eyes afar off, and knew
thee to thy face. him not, they lifted up their
6 And the LORD said unto voice, and wept; and they rent
Satan, Behold, he is in thine every one his mantle, and
hand; but save his life. sprinkled dust upon their
7 ¶ So went Satan forth from heads toward heaven.
the presence of the LORD, and 13 So they sat down with him
smote Job with sore boils from upon the ground seven days
the sole of his foot unto his and seven nights, and none
crown. spake a word unto him: for
8 And he took him a potsherd they saw that his grief was
to scrape himself withal; and very great.
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5 Doth the wild ass bray when friend; but he forsaketh the
he hath grass? or loweth the fear of the Almighty.
ox over his fodder? 15 My brethren have dealt
6 Can that which is unsavoury deceitfully as a brook, and as
be eaten without salt? or is the stream of brooks they pass
there any taste in the white of away;
an egg? 16 Which are blackish by
7 The things that my soul reason of the ice, and wherein
refused to touch are as my the snow is hid:
sorrowful meat. 17 What time they wax warm,
8 Oh that I might have my they vanish: when it is hot,
request; and that God would they are consumed out of their
grant me the thing that I long place.
for! 18 The paths of their way are
9 Even that it would please turned aside; they go to
God to destroy me; that he nothing, and perish.
would let loose his hand, and 19 The troops of Tema
cut me off! looked, the companies of
10 Then should I yet have Sheba waited for them.
comfort; yea, I would harden 20 They were confounded
myself in sorrow: let him not because they had hoped; they
spare; for I have not concealed came thither, and were
the words of the Holy One. ashamed.
11 What is my strength, that I 21 For now ye are nothing; ye
should hope? and what is mine see my casting down, and are
end, that I should prolong my afraid.
life? 22 Did I say, Bring unto me?
12 Is my strength the strength or, Give a reward for me of
of stones? or is my flesh of your substance?
brass? 23 Or, Deliver me from the
13 Is not my help in me? and enemy’s hand? or, Redeem me
is wisdom driven quite from from the hand of the mighty?
me? 24 Teach me, and I will hold
14 To him that is afflicted pity my tongue: and cause me to
should be shewed from his understand wherein I have
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without mire? can the flag clothed with shame; and the
grow without water? dwelling place of the wicked
12 Whilst it is yet in his shall come to nought.
greenness, and not cut down,
it withereth before any other CHAPTER 9
herb. THEN Job answered and said,
13 So are the paths of all that 2 I know it is so of a truth: but
forget God; and the how should man be just with
hypocrite’s hope shall perish: God?
14 Whose hope shall be cut 3 If he will contend with him,
off, and whose trust shall be a he cannot answer him one of a
spider’s web. thousand.
15 He shall lean upon his 4 He is wise in heart, and
house, but it shall not stand: mighty in strength: who hath
he shall hold it fast, but it shall hardened himself against him,
not endure. and hath prospered?
16 He is green before the sun, 5 Which removeth the
and his branch shooteth forth mountains, and they know not:
in his garden. which overturneth them in his
17 His roots are wrapped anger.
about the heap, and seeth the 6 Which shaketh the earth out
place of stones. of her place, and the pillars
18 If he destroy him from his thereof tremble.
place, then it shall deny him, 7 Which commandeth the sun,
saying, I have not seen thee. and it riseth not; and sealeth
19 Behold, this is the joy of up the stars.
his way, and out of the earth 8 Which alone spreadeth out
shall others grow. the heavens, and treadeth upon
20 Behold, God will not cast the waves of the sea.
away a perfect man, neither 9 Which maketh Arcturus,
will he help the evil doers: Orion, and Pleiades, and the
21 Till he fill thy mouth with chambers of the south.
laughing, and thy lips with 10 Which doeth great things
rejoicing. past finding out; yea, and
22 They that hate thee shall be wonders without number.
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and the mouth taste his meat? out of darkness, and bringeth
12 With the ancient is out to light the shadow of
wisdom; and in length of days death.
understanding. 23 He increaseth the nations,
13 With him is wisdom and and destroyeth them: he
strength, he hath counsel and enlargeth the nations, and
understanding. straiteneth them again.
14 Behold, he breaketh down, 24 He taketh away the heart of
and it cannot be built again: he the chief of the people of the
shutteth up a man, and there earth, and causeth them to
can be no opening. wander in a wilderness where
15 Behold, he withholdeth the there is no way.
waters, and they dry up: also 25 They grope in the dark
he sendeth them out, and they without light, and he maketh
overturn the earth. them to stagger like a drunken
16 With him is strength and man.
wisdom: the deceived and the
deceiver are his. CHAPTER 13
17 He leadeth counsellers LO, mine eye hath seen all
away spoiled, and maketh the this, mine ear hath heard and
judges fools. understood it.
18 He looseth the bond of 2 What ye know, the same do
kings, and girdeth their loins I know also: I am not inferior
with a girdle. unto you.
19 He leadeth princes away 3 Surely I would speak to the
spoiled, and overthroweth the Almighty, and I desire to
mighty. reason with God.
20 He removeth away the 4 But ye are forgers of lies, ye
speech of the trusty, and are all physicians of no value.
taketh away the understanding 5 O that ye would altogether
of the aged. hold your peace! and it should
21 He poureth contempt upon be your wisdom.
princes, and weakeneth the 6 Hear now my reasoning, and
strength of the mighty. hearken to the pleadings of my
22 He discovereth deep things lips.
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please the poor, and his hands 20 Surely he shall not feel
shall restore their goods. quietness in his belly, he shall
11 His bones are full of the sin not save of that which he
of his youth, which shall lie desired.
down with him in the dust. 21 There shall none of his
12 Though wickedness be meat be left; therefore shall no
sweet in his mouth, though he man look for his goods.
hide it under his tongue; 22 In the fulness of his
13 Though he spare it, and sufficiency he shall be in
forsake it not; but keep it still straits: every hand of the
within his mouth: wicked shall come upon him.
14 Yet his meat in his bowels 23 When he is about to fill his
is turned, it is the gall of asps belly, God shall cast the fury
within him. of his wrath upon him, and
15 He hath swallowed down shall rain it upon him while he
riches, and he shall vomit is eating.
them up again: God shall cast 24 He shall flee from the iron
them out of his belly. weapon, and the bow of steel
16 He shall suck the poison of shall strike him through.
asps: the viper’s tongue shall 25 It is drawn, and cometh out
slay him. of the body; yea, the glittering
17 He shall not see the rivers, sword cometh out of his gall:
the floods, the brooks of terrors are upon him.
honey and butter. 26 All darkness shall be hid in
18 That which he laboured for his secret places: a fire not
shall he restore, and shall not blown shall consume him; it
swallow it down: according to shall go ill with him that is left
his substance shall the in his tabernacle.
restitution be, and he shall not 27 The heaven shall reveal his
rejoice therein. iniquity; and the earth shall
19 Because he hath oppressed rise up against him.
and hath forsaken the poor; 28 The increase of his house
because he hath violently shall depart, and his goods
taken away an house which he shall flow away in the day of
builded not; his wrath.
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in his house after him, when repay him what he hath done?
the number of his months is 32 Yet shall he be brought to
cut off in the midst? the grave, and shall remain in
22 Shall any teach God the tomb.
knowledge? seeing he judgeth 33 The clods of the valley
those that are high. shall be sweet unto him, and
23 One dieth in his full every man shall draw after
strength, being wholly at ease him, as there are innumerable
and quiet. before him.
24 His breasts are full of milk, 34 How then comfort ye me in
and his bones are moistened vain, seeing in your answers
with marrow. there remaineth falsehood?
25 And another dieth in the
bitterness of his soul, and CHAPTER 22
never eateth with pleasure. THEN Eliphaz the Temanite
26 They shall lie down alike answered and said,
in the dust, and the worms 2 Can a man be profitable unto
shall cover them. God, as he that is wise may be
27 Behold, I know your profitable unto himself?
thoughts, and the devices 3 Is it any pleasure to the
which ye wrongfully imagine Almighty, that thou art
against me. righteous? or is it gain to him,
28 For ye say, Where is the that thou makest thy ways
house of the prince? and perfect?
where are the dwelling places 4 Will he reprove thee for fear
of the wicked? of thee? will he enter with thee
29 Have ye not asked them into judgment?
that go by the way? and do ye 5 Is not thy wickedness great?
not know their tokens, and thine iniquities infinite?
30 That the wicked is reserved 6 For thou hast taken a pledge
to the day of destruction? they from thy brother for nought,
shall be brought forth to the and stripped the naked of their
day of wrath. clothing.
31 Who shall declare his way 7 Thou hast not given water to
to his face? and who shall the weary to drink, and thou
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their mouth wide as for the brayed; under the nettles they
latter rain. were gathered together.
24 If I laughed on them, they 8 They were children of fools,
believed it not; and the light of yea, children of base men:
my countenance they cast not they were viler than the earth.
down. 9 And now am I their song,
25 I chose out their way, and yea, I am their byword.
sat chief, and dwelt as a king 10 They abhor me, they flee
in the army, as one that far from me, and spare not to
comforteth the mourners. spit in my face.
11 Because he hath loosed my
CHAPTER 30 cord, and afflicted me, they
BUT now they that are have also let loose the bridle
younger than I have me in before me.
derision, whose fathers I 12 Upon my right hand rise
would have disdained to have the youth; they push away my
set with the dogs of my flock. feet, and they raise up against
2 Yea, whereto might the me the ways of their
strength of their hands profit destruction.
me, in whom old age was 13 They mar my path, they set
perished? forward my calamity, they
3 For want and famine they have no helper.
were solitary; fleeing into the 14 They came upon me as a
wilderness in former time wide breaking in of waters: in
desolate and waste. the desolation they rolled
4 Who cut up mallows by the themselves upon me.
bushes, and juniper roots for 15 Terrors are turned upon
their meat. me: they pursue my soul as
5 They were driven forth from the wind: and my welfare
among men, (they cried after passeth away as a cloud.
them as after a thief;) 16 And now my soul is poured
6 To dwell in the clifts of the out upon me; the days of
valleys, in caves of the earth, affliction have taken hold
and in the rocks. upon me.
7 Among the bushes they 17 My bones are pierced in me
JOB
Job had spoken, because they thrusteth him down, not man.
were elder than he. 14 Now he hath not directed
5 When Elihu saw that there his words against me: neither
was no answer in the mouth of will I answer him with your
these three men, then his speeches.
wrath was kindled. 15 They were amazed, they
6 And Elihu the son of answered no more: they left
Barachel the Buzite answered off speaking.
and said, I am young, and ye 16 When I had waited, (for
are very old; wherefore I was they spake not, but stood still,
afraid, and durst not shew you and answered no more;)
mine opinion. 17 I said, I will answer also
7 I said, Days should speak, my part, I also will shew mine
and multitude of years should opinion.
teach wisdom. 18 For I am full of matter, the
8 But there is a spirit in man: spirit within me constraineth
and the inspiration of the me.
Almighty giveth them 19 Behold, my belly is as wine
understanding. which hath no vent; it is ready
9 Great men are not always to burst like new bottles.
wise: neither do the aged 20 I will speak, that I may be
understand judgment. refreshed: I will open my lips
10 Therefore I said, Hearken and answer.
to me; I also will shew mine 21 Let me not, I pray you,
opinion. accept any man’s person,
11 Behold, I waited for your neither let me give flattering
words; I gave ear to your titles unto man.
reasons, whilst ye searched 22 For I know not to give
out what to say. flattering titles; in so doing my
12 Yea, I attended unto you, maker would soon take me
and, behold, there was none of away.
you that convinced Job, or
that answered his words: CHAPTER 33
13 Lest ye should say, We WHEREFORE, Job, I pray
have found out wisdom: God thee, hear my speeches, and
JOB
he render unto him, and cause away: and the mighty shall be
every man to find according to taken away without hand.
his ways. 21 For his eyes are upon the
12 Yea, surely God will not do ways of man, and he seeth all
wickedly, neither will the his goings.
Almighty pervert judgment. 22 There is no darkness, nor
13 Who hath given him a shadow of death, where the
charge over the earth? or who workers of iniquity may hide
hath disposed the whole themselves.
world? 23 For he will not lay upon
14 If he set his heart upon man more than right; that he
man, if he gather unto himself should enter into judgment
his spirit and his breath; with God.
15 All flesh shall perish 24 He shall break in pieces
together, and man shall turn mighty men without number,
again unto dust. and set others in their stead.
16 If now thou hast 25 Therefore he knoweth their
understanding, hear this: works, and he overturneth
hearken to the voice of my them in the night, so that they
words. are destroyed.
17 Shall even he that hateth 26 He striketh them as wicked
right govern? and wilt thou men in the open sight of
condemn him that is most others;
just? 27 Because they turned back
18 Is it fit to say to a king, from him, and would not
Thou art wicked? and to consider any of his ways:
princes, Ye are ungodly? 28 So that they cause the cry
19 How much less to him that of the poor to come unto him,
accepteth not the persons of and he heareth the cry of the
princes, nor regardeth the rich afflicted.
more than the poor? for they 29 When he giveth quietness,
all are the work of his hands. who then can make trouble?
20 In a moment shall they die, and when he hideth his face,
and the people shall be who then can behold him?
troubled at midnight, and pass whether it be done against a
JOB
38 When the dust groweth into the wilderness, and the barren
hardness, and the clods cleave land his dwellings.
fast together? 7 He scorneth the multitude of
39 Wilt thou hunt the prey for the city, neither regardeth he
the lion? or fill the appetite of the crying of the driver.
the young lions, 8 The range of the mountains
40 When they couch in their is his pasture, and he searcheth
dens, and abide in the covert after every green thing.
to lie in wait? 9 Will the unicorn be willing
41 Who provideth for the to serve thee, or abide by thy
raven his food? when his crib?
young ones cry unto God, they 10 Canst thou bind the unicorn
wander for lack of meat. with his band in the furrow?
or will he harrow the valleys
CHAPTER 39 after thee?
KNOWEST thou the time 11 Wilt thou trust him,
when the wild goats of the because his strength is great?
rock bring forth? or canst thou or wilt thou leave thy labour
mark when the hinds do to him?
calve? 12 Wilt thou believe him, that
2 Canst thou number the he will bring home thy seed,
months that they fulfil? or and gather it into thy barn?
knowest thou the time when 13 Gavest thou the goodly
they bring forth? wings unto the peacocks? or
3 They bow themselves, they wings and feathers unto the
bring forth their young ones, ostrich?
they cast out their sorrows. 14 Which leaveth her eggs in
4 Their young ones are in the earth, and warmeth them
good liking, they grow up in dust,
with corn; they go forth, and 15 And forgetteth that the foot
return not unto them. may crush them, or that the
5 Who hath sent out the wild wild beast may break them.
ass free? or who hath loosed 16 She is hardened against her
the bands of the wild ass? young ones, as though they
6 Whose house I have made were not hers: her labour is in
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thee; thou art the helper of the eyelids try, the children of
fatherless. men.
15 Break thou the arm of the 5 The LORD trieth the
wicked and the evil man: seek righteous: but the wicked and
out his wickedness till thou him that loveth violence his
find none. soul hateth.
16 The LORD is King for ever 6 Upon the wicked he shall
and ever: the heathen are rain snares, fire and brimstone,
perished out of his land. and an horrible tempest: this
17 LORD, thou hast heard the shall be the portion of their
desire of the humble: thou wilt cup.
prepare their heart, thou wilt 7 For the righteous LORD
cause thine ear to hear: loveth righteousness; his
18 To judge the fatherless and countenance doth behold the
the oppressed, that the man of upright.
the earth may no more
oppress. PSALM 12
To the chief Musician upon
PSALM 11 Sheminith, A Psalm of David.
To the chief Musician, A HELP, LORD; for the godly
Psalm of David. man ceaseth; for the faithful
IN the LORD put I my trust: fail from among the children
how say ye to my soul, Flee as of men.
a bird to your mountain? 2 They speak vanity every one
2 For, lo, the wicked bend with his neighbour: with
their bow, they make ready flattering lips and with a
their arrow upon the string, double heart do they speak.
that they may privily shoot at 3 The LORD shall cut off all
the upright in heart. flattering lips, and the tongue
3 If the foundations be that speaketh proud things:
destroyed, what can the 4 Who have said, With our
righteous do? tongue will we prevail; our
4 The LORD is in his holy lips are our own: who is lord
temple, the LORD’s throne is over us?
in heaven: his eyes behold, his 5 For the oppression of the
PSALMS
my soul: the mighty are and the words of their lips let
gathered against me; not for them even be taken in their
my transgression, nor for my pride: and for cursing and
sin, O LORD. lying which they speak.
4 They run and prepare 13 Consume them in wrath,
themselves without my fault: consume them, that they may
awake to help me, and behold. not be: and let them know that
5 Thou therefore, O LORD God ruleth in Jacob unto the
God of hosts, the God of ends of the earth. Selah.
Israel, awake to visit all the 14 And at evening let them
heathen: be not merciful to return; and let them make a
any wicked transgressors. noise like a dog, and go round
Selah. about the city.
6 They return at evening: they 15 Let them wander up and
make a noise like a dog, and down for meat, and grudge if
go round about the city. they be not satisfied.
7 Behold, they belch out with 16 But I will sing of thy
their mouth: swords are in power; yea, I will sing aloud
their lips: for who, say they, of thy mercy in the morning:
doth hear? for thou hast been my defence
8 But thou, O LORD, shalt and refuge in the day of my
laugh at them; thou shalt have trouble.
all the heathen in derision. 17 Unto thee, O my strength,
9 Because of his strength will will I sing: for God is my
I wait upon thee: for God is defence, and the God of my
my defence. mercy.
10 The God of my mercy shall
prevent me: God shall let me PSALM 60
see my desire upon mine To the chief Musician upon
enemies. Shushan-eduth, Michtam of
11 Slay them not, lest my David, to teach; when he
people forget: scatter them by strove with Aram-naharaim
thy power; and bring them and with Aram-zobah, when
down, O Lord our shield. Joab returned, and smote of
12 For the sin of their mouth Edom in the valley of salt
PSALMS
down before him: all nations name for ever: and let the
shall serve him. whole earth be filled with his
12 For he shall deliver the glory; Amen, and Amen.
needy when he crieth; the poor 20 The prayers of David the
also, and him that hath no son of Jesse are ended.
helper.
13 He shall spare the poor and PSALM 73
needy, and shall save the souls A Psalm of Asaph.
of the needy. TRULY God is good to Israel,
14 He shall redeem their soul even to such as are of a clean
from deceit and violence: and heart.
precious shall their blood be in 2 But as for me, my feet were
his sight. almost gone; my steps had
15 And he shall live, and to well nigh slipped.
him shall be given of the gold 3 For I was envious at the
of Sheba: prayer also shall be foolish, when I saw the
made for him continually; and prosperity of the wicked.
daily shall he be praised. 4 For there are no bands in
16 There shall be an handful their death: but their strength
of corn in the earth upon the is firm.
top of the mountains; the fruit 5 They are not in trouble as
thereof shall shake like other men; neither are they
Lebanon: and they of the city plagued like other men.
shall flourish like grass of the 6 Therefore pride compasseth
earth. them about as a chain;
17 His name shall endure for violence covereth them as a
ever: his name shall be garment.
continued as long as the sun: 7 Their eyes stand out with
and men shall be blessed in fatness: they have more than
him: all nations shall call him heart could wish.
blessed. 8 They are corrupt, and speak
18 Blessed be the LORD God, wickedly concerning
the God of Israel, who only oppression: they speak loftily.
doeth wondrous things. 9 They set their mouth against
19 And blessed be his glorious the heavens, and their tongue
PSALMS
righteous, and gladness for the fulness thereof; the world, and
upright in heart. they that dwell therein.
12 Rejoice in the LORD, ye 8 Let the floods clap their
righteous; and give thanks at hands: let the hills be joyful
the remembrance of his together
holiness. 9 Before the LORD; for he
cometh to judge the earth:
PSALM 98 with righteousness shall he
A Psalm. judge the world, and the
O SING unto the LORD a new people with equity.
song; for he hath done
marvellous things: his right PSALM 99
hand, and his holy arm, hath THE LORD reigneth; let the
gotten him the victory. people tremble: he sitteth
2 The LORD hath made known between the cherubims; let the
his salvation: his earth be moved.
righteousness hath he openly 2 The LORD is great in Zion;
shewed in the sight of the and he is high above all the
heathen. people.
3 He hath remembered his 3 Let them praise thy great
mercy and his truth toward the and terrible name; for it is
house of Israel: all the ends of holy.
the earth have seen the 4 The king’s strength also
salvation of our God. loveth judgment; thou dost
4 Make a joyful noise unto the establish equity, thou
LORD, all the earth: make a executest judgment and
loud noise, and rejoice, and righteousness in Jacob.
sing praise. 5 Exalt ye the LORD our God,
5 Sing unto the LORD with the and worship at his footstool;
harp; with the harp, and the for he is holy.
voice of a psalm. 6 Moses and Aaron among his
6 With trumpets and sound of priests, and Samuel among
cornet make a joyful noise them that call upon his name;
before the LORD, the King. they called upon the LORD,
7 Let the sea roar, and the and he answered them.
PSALMS
the valleys unto the place 17 Where the birds make their
which thou hast founded for nests: as for the stork, the fir
them. trees are her house.
9 Thou hast set a bound that 18 The high hills are a refuge
they may not pass over; that for the wild goats; and the
they turn not again to cover rocks for the conies.
the earth. 19 He appointed the moon for
10 He sendeth the springs into seasons: the sun knoweth his
the valleys, which run among going down.
the hills. 20 Thou makest darkness, and
11 They give drink to every it is night: wherein all the
beast of the field: the wild beasts of the forest do creep
asses quench their thirst. forth.
12 By them shall the fowls of 21 The young lions roar after
the heaven have their their prey, and seek their meat
habitation, which sing among from God.
the branches. 22 The sun ariseth, they gather
13 He watereth the hills from themselves together, and lay
his chambers: the earth is them down in their dens.
satisfied with the fruit of thy 23 Man goeth forth unto his
works. work and to his labour until
14 He causeth the grass to the evening.
grow for the cattle, and herb 24 O LORD, how manifold are
for the service of man: that he thy works! in wisdom hast
may bring forth food out of thou made them all: the earth
the earth; is full of thy riches.
15 And wine that maketh glad 25 So is this great and wide
the heart of man, and oil to sea, wherein are things
make his face to shine, and creeping innumerable, both
bread which strengtheneth small and great beasts.
man’s heart. 26 There go the ships: there is
16 The trees of the LORD are that leviathan, whom thou hast
full of sap; the cedars of made to play therein.
Lebanon, which he hath 27 These wait all upon thee;
planted; that thou mayest give them
PSALMS
him for righteousness unto all hand of the heathen; and they
generations for evermore. that hated them ruled over
32 They angered him also at them.
the waters of strife, so that it 42 Their enemies also
went ill with Moses for their oppressed them, and they were
sakes: brought into subjection under
33 Because they provoked his their hand.
spirit, so that he spake 43 Many times did he deliver
unadvisedly with his lips. them; but they provoked him
34 They did not destroy the with their counsel, and were
nations, concerning whom the brought low for their iniquity.
LORD commanded them: 44 Nevertheless he regarded
35 But were mingled among their affliction, when he heard
the heathen, and learned their their cry:
works. 45 And he remembered for
36 And they served their idols: them his covenant, and
which were a snare unto them. repented according to the
37 Yea, they sacrificed their multitude of his mercies.
sons and their daughters unto 46 He made them also to be
devils, pitied of all those that carried
38 And shed innocent blood, them captives.
even the blood of their sons 47 Save us, O LORD our God,
and of their daughters, whom and gather us from among the
they sacrificed unto the idols heathen, to give thanks unto
of Canaan: and the land was thy holy name, and to triumph
polluted with blood. in thy praise.
39 Thus were they defiled 48 Blessed be the LORD God
with their own works, and of Israel from everlasting to
went a whoring with their own everlasting: and let all the
inventions. people say, Amen. Praise ye
40 Therefore was the wrath of the LORD.
the LORD kindled against his
people, insomuch that he PSALM 107
abhorred his own inheritance. O GIVE thanks unto the
41 And he gave them into the LORD, for he is good: for his
PSALMS
soul; for the LORD hath dealt 19 In the courts of the LORD’s
bountifully with thee. house, in the midst of thee, O
8 For thou hast delivered my Jerusalem. Praise ye the
soul from death, mine eyes LORD.
from tears, and my feet from
falling. PSALM 117
9 I will walk before the LORD O PRAISE the LORD, all ye
in the land of the living. nations: praise him, all ye
10 I believed, therefore have I people.
spoken: I was greatly afflicted: 2 For his merciful kindness is
11 I said in my haste, All men great toward us: and the truth
are liars. of the LORD endureth for ever.
12 What shall I render unto Praise ye the LORD.
the LORD for all his benefits
toward me? PSALM 118
13 I will take the cup of O GIVE thanks unto the
salvation, and call upon the LORD; for he is good: because
name of the LORD. his mercy endureth for ever.
14 I will pay my vows unto 2 Let Israel now say, that his
the LORD now in the presence mercy endureth for ever.
of all his people. 3 Let the house of Aaron now
15 Precious in the sight of the say, that his mercy endureth
LORD is the death of his for ever.
saints. 4 Let them now that fear the
16 O LORD, truly I am thy LORD say, that his mercy
servant; I am thy servant, and endureth for ever.
the son of thine handmaid: 5 I called upon the LORD in
thou hast loosed my bonds. distress: the LORD answered
17 I will offer to thee the me, and set me in a large
sacrifice of thanksgiving, and place.
will call upon the name of the 6 The LORD is on my side; I
LORD. will not fear: what can man do
18 I will pay my vows unto unto me?
the LORD now in the presence 7 The LORD taketh my part
of all his people, with them that help me:
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108 Accept, I beseech thee, all them that err from thy
the freewill offerings of my statutes: for their deceit is
mouth, O LORD, and teach me falsehood.
thy judgments. 119 Thou puttest away all the
109 My soul is continually in wicked of the earth like dross:
my hand: yet do I not forget therefore I love thy
thy law. testimonies.
110 The wicked have laid a 120 My flesh trembleth for
snare for me: yet I erred not fear of thee; and I am afraid of
from thy precepts. thy judgments.
111 Thy testimonies have I AIN.
taken as an heritage for ever: 121 I have done judgment and
for they are the rejoicing of justice: leave me not to mine
my heart. oppressors.
112 I have inclined mine heart 122 Be surety for thy servant
to perform thy statutes alway, for good: let not the proud
even unto the end. oppress me.
SAMECH. 123 Mine eyes fail for thy
113 I hate vain thoughts: but salvation, and for the word of
thy law do I love. thy righteousness.
114 Thou art my hiding place 124 Deal with thy servant
and my shield: I hope in thy according unto thy mercy, and
word. teach me thy statutes.
115 Depart from me, ye 125 I am thy servant; give me
evildoers: for I will keep the understanding, that I may
commandments of my God. know thy testimonies.
116 Uphold me according 126 It is time for thee, LORD,
unto thy word, that I may live: to work: for they have made
and let me not be ashamed of void thy law.
my hope. 127 Therefore I love thy
117 Hold thou me up, and I commandments above gold;
shall be safe: and I will have yea, above fine gold.
respect unto thy statutes 128 Therefore I esteem all thy
continually. precepts concerning all things
118 Thou hast trodden down to be right; and I hate every
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when thou hast taught me thy with him that hateth peace.
statutes. 7 I am for peace: but when I
172 My tongue shall speak of speak, they are for war.
thy word: for all thy
commandments are PSALM 121
righteousness. A Song of degrees.
173 Let thine hand help me; I WILL lift up mine eyes unto
for I have chosen thy precepts. the hills, from whence cometh
174 I have longed for thy my help.
salvation, O LORD; and thy 2 My help cometh from the
law is my delight. LORD, which made heaven
175 Let my soul live, and it and earth.
shall praise thee; and let thy 3 He will not suffer thy foot to
judgments help me. be moved: he that keepeth
176 I have gone astray like a thee will not slumber.
lost sheep; seek thy servant; 4 Behold, he that keepeth
for I do not forget thy Israel shall neither slumber
commandments. nor sleep.
5 The LORD is thy keeper: the
PSALM 120 LORD is thy shade upon thy
A Song of degrees. right hand.
IN my distress I cried unto the 6 The sun shall not smite thee
LORD, and he heard me. by day, nor the moon by night.
2 Deliver my soul, O LORD, 7 The LORD shall preserve
from lying lips, and from a thee from all evil: he shall
deceitful tongue. preserve thy soul.
3 What shall be given unto 8 The LORD shall preserve thy
thee? or what shall be done going out and thy coming in
unto thee, thou false tongue? from this time forth, and even
4 Sharp arrows of the mighty, for evermore.
with coals of juniper.
5 Woe is me, that I sojourn in PSALM 122
Mesech, that I dwell in the A Song of degrees of David.
tents of Kedar! I WAS glad when they said
6 My soul hath long dwelt unto me, Let us go into the
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ever: forsake not the works of lead me, and thy right hand
thine own hands. shall hold me.
11 If I say, Surely the
PSALM 139 darkness shall cover me; even
To the chief Musician, A the night shall be light about
Psalm of David. me.
O LORD, thou hast searched 12 Yea, the darkness hideth
me, and known me. not from thee; but the night
2 Thou knowest my shineth as the day: the
downsitting and mine darkness and the light are both
uprising, thou understandest alike to thee.
my thought afar off. 13 For thou hast possessed my
3 Thou compassest my path reins: thou hast covered me in
and my lying down, and art my mother’s womb.
acquainted with all my ways. 14 I will praise thee; for I am
4 For there is not a word in fearfully and wonderfully
my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, made: marvellous are thy
thou knowest it altogether. works; and that my soul
5 Thou hast beset me behind knoweth right well.
and before, and laid thine hand 15 My substance was not hid
upon me. from thee, when I was made in
6 Such knowledge is too secret, and curiously wrought
wonderful for me; it is high, I in the lowest parts of the earth.
cannot attain unto it. 16 Thine eyes did see my
7 Whither shall I go from thy substance, yet being unperfect;
spirit? or whither shall I flee and in thy book all my
from thy presence? members were written, which
8 If I ascend up into heaven, in continuance were
thou art there: if I make my fashioned, when as yet there
bed in hell, behold, thou art was none of them.
there. 17 How precious also are thy
9 If I take the wings of the thoughts unto me, O God!
morning, and dwell in the how great is the sum of them!
uttermost parts of the sea; 18 If I should count them, they
10 Even there shall thy hand are more in number than the
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king; and I will bless thy name the glorious majesty of his
for ever and ever. kingdom.
2 Every day will I bless thee; 13 Thy kingdom is an
and I will praise thy name for everlasting kingdom, and thy
ever and ever. dominion endureth throughout
3 Great is the LORD, and all generations.
greatly to be praised; and his 14 The LORD upholdeth all
greatness is unsearchable. that fall, and raiseth up all
4 One generation shall praise those that be bowed down.
thy works to another, and shall 15 The eyes of all wait upon
declare thy mighty acts. thee; and thou givest them
5 I will speak of the glorious their meat in due season.
honour of thy majesty, and of 16 Thou openest thine hand,
thy wondrous works. and satisfiest the desire of
6 And men shall speak of the every living thing.
might of thy terrible acts: and 17 The LORD is righteous in
I will declare thy greatness. all his ways, and holy in all
7 They shall abundantly utter his works.
the memory of thy great 18 The LORD is nigh unto all
goodness, and shall sing of thy them that call upon him, to all
righteousness. that call upon him in truth.
8 The LORD is gracious, and 19 He will fulfil the desire of
full of compassion; slow to them that fear him: he also
anger, and of great mercy. will hear their cry, and will
9 The LORD is good to all: and save them.
his tender mercies are over all 20 The LORD preserveth all
his works. them that love him: but all the
10 All thy works shall praise wicked will he destroy.
thee, O LORD; and thy saints 21 My mouth shall speak the
shall bless thee. praise of the LORD: and let all
11 They shall speak of the flesh bless his holy name for
glory of thy kingdom, and talk ever and ever.
of thy power;
12 To make known to the sons PSALM 146
of men his mighty acts, and PRAISE ye the LORD. Praise
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12 When thou goest, thy steps 23 ¶ Keep thy heart with all
shall not be straitened; and diligence; for out of it are the
when thou runnest, thou shalt issues of life.
not stumble. 24 Put away from thee a
13 Take fast hold of froward mouth, and perverse
instruction; let her not go: lips put far from thee.
keep her; for she is thy life. 25 Let thine eyes look right
14 ¶ Enter not into the path of on, and let thine eyelids look
the wicked, and go not in the straight before thee.
way of evil men. 26 Ponder the path of thy feet,
15 Avoid it, pass not by it, and let all thy ways be
turn from it, and pass away. established.
16 For they sleep not, except 27 Turn not to the right hand
they have done mischief; and nor to the left: remove thy foot
their sleep is taken away, from evil.
unless they cause some to fall.
17 For they eat the bread of CHAPTER 5
wickedness, and drink the MY son, attend unto my
wine of violence. wisdom, and bow thine ear to
18 But the path of the just is my understanding:
as the shining light, that 2 That thou mayest regard
shineth more and more unto discretion, and that thy lips
the perfect day. may keep knowledge.
19 The way of the wicked is 3 ¶ For the lips of a strange
as darkness: they know not at woman drop as an
what they stumble. honeycomb, and her mouth is
20 ¶ My son, attend to my smoother than oil:
words; incline thine ear unto 4 But her end is bitter as
my sayings. wormwood, sharp as a
21 Let them not depart from twoedged sword.
thine eyes; keep them in the 5 Her feet go down to death;
midst of thine heart. her steps take hold on hell.
22 For they are life unto those 6 Lest thou shouldest ponder
that find them, and health to the path of life, her ways are
all their flesh. moveable, that thou canst not
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shall be gladness: but the but the wicked shall fall by his
expectation of the wicked own wickedness.
shall perish. 6 The righteousness of the
29 The way of the LORD is upright shall deliver them: but
strength to the upright: but transgressors shall be taken in
destruction shall be to the their own naughtiness.
workers of iniquity. 7 When a wicked man dieth,
30 The righteous shall never his expectation shall perish:
be removed: but the wicked and the hope of unjust men
shall not inhabit the earth. perisheth.
31 The mouth of the just 8 The righteous is delivered
bringeth forth wisdom: but the out of trouble, and the wicked
froward tongue shall be cut cometh in his stead.
out. 9 An hypocrite with his mouth
32 The lips of the righteous destroyeth his neighbour: but
know what is acceptable: but through knowledge shall the
the mouth of the wicked just be delivered.
speaketh frowardness. 10 When it goeth well with
the righteous, the city
CHAPTER 11 rejoiceth: and when the
A FALSE balance is wicked perish, there is
abomination to the LORD: but shouting.
a just weight is his delight. 11 By the blessing of the
2 When pride cometh, then upright the city is exalted: but
cometh shame: but with the it is overthrown by the mouth
lowly is wisdom. of the wicked.
3 The integrity of the upright 12 He that is void of wisdom
shall guide them: but the despiseth his neighbour: but a
perverseness of transgressors man of understanding holdeth
shall destroy them. his peace.
4 Riches profit not in the day 13 A talebearer revealeth
of wrath: but righteousness secrets: but he that is of a
delivereth from death. faithful spirit concealeth the
5 The righteousness of the matter.
perfect shall direct his way: 14 Where no counsel is, the
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lie: but a false witness will word: but the prudent man
utter lies. looketh well to his going.
6 A scorner seeketh wisdom, 16 A wise man feareth, and
and findeth it not: but departeth from evil: but the
knowledge is easy unto him fool rageth, and is confident.
that understandeth. 17 He that is soon angry
7 Go from the presence of a dealeth foolishly: and a man
foolish man, when thou of wicked devices is hated.
perceivest not in him the lips 18 The simple inherit folly:
of knowledge. but the prudent are crowned
8 The wisdom of the prudent with knowledge.
is to understand his way: but 19 The evil bow before the
the folly of fools is deceit. good; and the wicked at the
9 Fools make a mock at sin: gates of the righteous.
but among the righteous there 20 The poor is hated even of
is favour. his own neighbour: but the
10 The heart knoweth his own rich hath many friends.
bitterness; and a stranger doth 21 He that despiseth his
not intermeddle with his joy. neighbour sinneth: but he that
11 The house of the wicked hath mercy on the poor, happy
shall be overthrown: but the is he.
tabernacle of the upright shall 22 Do they not err that devise
flourish. evil? but mercy and truth shall
12 There is a way which be to them that devise good.
seemeth right unto a man, but 23 In all labour there is profit:
the end thereof are the ways but the talk of the lips tendeth
of death. only to penury.
13 Even in laughter the heart 24 The crown of the wise is
is sorrowful; and the end of their riches: but the
that mirth is heaviness. foolishness of fools is folly.
14 The backslider in heart 25 A true witness delivereth
shall be filled with his own souls: but a deceitful witness
ways: and a good man shall be speaketh lies.
satisfied from himself. 26 In the fear of the LORD is
15 The simple believeth every strong confidence: and his
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is his name, who dealeth in the simple pass on, and are
proud wrath. punished.
25 The desire of the slothful 4 By humility and the fear of
killeth him; for his hands the LORD are riches, and
refuse to labour. honour, and life.
26 He coveteth greedily all the 5 Thorns and snares are in the
day long: but the righteous way of the froward: he that
giveth and spareth not. doth keep his soul shall be far
27 The sacrifice of the wicked from them.
is abomination: how much 6 Train up a child in the way
more, when he bringeth it with he should go: and when he is
a wicked mind? old, he will not depart from it.
28 A false witness shall 7 The rich ruleth over the
perish: but the man that poor, and the borrower is
heareth speaketh constantly. servant to the lender.
29 A wicked man hardeneth 8 He that soweth iniquity shall
his face: but as for the upright, reap vanity: and the rod of his
he directeth his way. anger shall fail.
30 There is no wisdom nor 9 He that hath a bountiful eye
understanding nor counsel shall be blessed; for he giveth
against the LORD. of his bread to the poor.
31 The horse is prepared 10 Cast out the scorner, and
against the day of battle: but contention shall go out; yea,
safety is of the LORD. strife and reproach shall cease.
11 He that loveth pureness of
CHAPTER 22 heart, for the grace of his lips
A GOOD name is rather to be the king shall be his friend.
chosen than great riches, and 12 The eyes of the LORD
loving favour rather than preserve knowledge, and he
silver and gold. overthroweth the words of the
2 The rich and poor meet transgressor.
together: the LORD is the 13 The slothful man saith,
maker of them all. There is a lion without, I shall
3 A prudent man foreseeth the be slain in the streets.
evil, and hideth himself: but 14 The mouth of strange
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women is a deep pit: he that is their cause, and spoil the soul
abhorred of the LORD shall of those that spoiled them.
fall therein. 24 Make no friendship with an
15 Foolishness is bound in the angry man; and with a furious
heart of a child; but the rod of man thou shalt not go:
correction shall drive it far 25 Lest thou learn his ways,
from him. and get a snare to thy soul.
16 He that oppresseth the poor 26 Be not thou one of them
to increase his riches, and he that strike hands, or of them
that giveth to the rich, shall that are sureties for debts.
surely come to want. 27 If thou hast nothing to pay,
17 Bow down thine ear, and why should he take away thy
hear the words of the wise, bed from under thee?
and apply thine heart unto my 28 Remove not the ancient
knowledge. landmark, which thy fathers
18 For it is a pleasant thing if have set.
thou keep them within thee; 29 Seest thou a man diligent
they shall withal be fitted in in his business? he shall stand
thy lips. before kings; he shall not
19 That thy trust may be in the stand before mean men.
LORD, I have made known to
thee this day, even to thee. CHAPTER 23
20 Have not I written to thee WHEN thou sittest to eat with
excellent things in counsels a ruler, consider diligently
and knowledge, what is before thee:
21 That I might make thee 2 And put a knife to thy
know the certainty of the throat, if thou be a man given
words of truth; that thou to appetite.
mightest answer the words of 3 Be not desirous of his
truth to them that send unto dainties: for they are deceitful
thee? meat.
22 Rob not the poor, because 4 Labour not to be rich: cease
he is poor: neither oppress the from thine own wisdom.
afflicted in the gate: 5 Wilt thou set thine eyes
23 For the LORD will plead upon that which is not? for
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thy neighbour without cause; the earth for depth, and the
and deceive not with thy lips. heart of kings is unsearchable.
29 Say not, I will do so to him 4 Take away the dross from
as he hath done to me: I will the silver, and there shall
render to the man according to come forth a vessel for the
his work. finer.
30 I went by the field of the 5 Take away the wicked from
slothful, and by the vineyard before the king, and his throne
of the man void of shall be established in
understanding; righteousness.
31 And, lo, it was all grown 6 Put not forth thyself in the
over with thorns, and nettles presence of the king, and stand
had covered the face thereof, not in the place of great men:
and the stone wall thereof was 7 For better it is that it be said
broken down. unto thee, Come up hither;
32 Then I saw, and considered than that thou shouldest be put
it well: I looked upon it, and lower in the presence of the
received instruction. prince whom thine eyes have
33 Yet a little sleep, a little seen.
slumber, a little folding of the 8 Go not forth hastily to strive,
hands to sleep: lest thou know not what to do
34 So shall thy poverty come in the end thereof, when thy
as one that travelleth; and thy neighbour hath put thee to
want as an armed man. shame.
9 Debate thy cause with thy
CHAPTER 25 neighbour himself; and
THESE are also proverbs of discover not a secret to
Solomon, which the men of another:
Hezekiah king of Judah copied 10 Lest he that heareth it put
out. thee to shame, and thine
2 It is the glory of God to infamy turn not away.
conceal a thing: but the 11 A word fitly spoken is like
honour of kings is to search apples of gold in pictures of
out a matter. silver.
3 The heaven for height, and 12 As an earring of gold, and
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disquieted, and for four which hast thought evil, lay thine
it cannot bear: hand upon thy mouth.
22 For a servant when he 33 Surely the churning of milk
reigneth; and a fool when he is bringeth forth butter, and the
filled with meat; wringing of the nose bringeth
23 For an odious woman when forth blood: so the forcing of
she is married; and an wrath bringeth forth strife.
handmaid that is heir to her
mistress. CHAPTER 31
24 There be four things which THE words of king Lemuel,
are little upon the earth, but the prophecy that his mother
they are exceeding wise: taught him.
25 The ants are a people not 2 What, my son? and what, the
strong, yet they prepare their son of my womb? and what,
meat in the summer; the son of my vows?
26 The conies are but a feeble 3 Give not thy strength unto
folk, yet make they their women, nor thy ways to that
houses in the rocks; which destroyeth kings.
27 The locusts have no king, 4 It is not for kings, O
yet go they forth all of them Lemuel, it is not for kings to
by bands; drink wine; nor for princes
28 The spider taketh hold with strong drink:
her hands, and is in kings’ 5 Lest they drink, and forget
palaces. the law, and pervert the
29 There be three things judgment of any of the
which go well, yea, four are afflicted.
comely in going: 6 Give strong drink unto him
30 A lion which is strongest that is ready to perish, and
among beasts, and turneth not wine unto those that be of
away for any; heavy hearts.
31 A greyhound; an he goat 7 Let him drink, and forget his
also; and a king, against poverty, and remember his
whom there is no rising up. misery no more.
32 If thou hast done foolishly 8 Open thy mouth for the
in lifting up thyself, or if thou dumb in the cause of all such
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shall be praised.
31 Give her of the fruit of her
hands; and let her own works
praise her in the gates.
ECCLESIASTES;
OR, THE PREACHER.
CHAPTER 1 is that which shall be; and that
THE words of the Preacher, which is done is that which
the son of David, king in shall be done: and there is no
Jerusalem. new thing under the sun.
2 Vanity of vanities, saith the 10 Is there any thing whereof
Preacher, vanity of vanities; it may be said, See, this is
all is vanity. new? it hath been already of
3 What profit hath a man of all old time, which was before us.
his labour which he taketh 11 There is no remembrance
under the sun? of former things; neither shall
4 One generation passeth there be any remembrance of
away, and another generation things that are to come with
cometh: but the earth abideth those that shall come after.
for ever. 12 ¶ I the Preacher was king
5 The sun also ariseth, and the over Israel in Jerusalem.
sun goeth down, and hasteth 13 And I gave my heart to
to his place where he arose. seek and search out by
6 The wind goeth toward the wisdom concerning all things
south, and turneth about unto that are done under heaven:
the north; it whirleth about this sore travail hath God
continually, and the wind given to the sons of man to be
returneth again according to exercised therewith.
his circuits. 14 I have seen all the works
7 All the rivers run into the that are done under the sun;
sea; yet the sea is not full; and, behold, all is vanity and
unto the place from whence vexation of spirit.
the rivers come, thither they 15 That which is crooked
return again. cannot be made straight: and
8 All things are full of labour; that which is wanting cannot
man cannot utter it: the eye is be numbered.
not satisfied with seeing, nor 16 I communed with mine
the ear filled with hearing. own heart, saying, Lo, I am
9 The thing that hath been, it come to great estate, and have
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God doeth it, that men should man that goeth upward, and
fear before him. the spirit of the beast that
15 That which hath been is goeth downward to the earth?
now; and that which is to be 22 Wherefore I perceive that
hath already been; and God there is nothing better, than
requireth that which is past. that a man should rejoice in
16 ¶ And moreover I saw his own works; for that is his
under the sun the place of portion: for who shall bring
judgment, that wickedness him to see what shall be after
was there; and the place of him?
righteousness, that iniquity
was there. CHAPTER 4
17 I said in mine heart, God SO I returned, and considered
shall judge the righteous and all the oppressions that are
the wicked: for there is a time done under the sun: and
there for every purpose and behold the tears of such as
for every work. were oppressed, and they had
18 I said in mine heart no comforter; and on the side
concerning the estate of the of their oppressors there was
sons of men, that God might power; but they had no
manifest them, and that they comforter.
might see that they themselves 2 Wherefore I praised the dead
are beasts. which are already dead more
19 For that which befalleth the than the living which are yet
sons of men befalleth beasts; alive.
even one thing befalleth them: 3 Yea, better is he than both
as the one dieth, so dieth the they, which hath not yet been,
other; yea, they have all one who hath not seen the evil
breath; so that a man hath no work that is done under the
preeminence above a beast: sun.
for all is vanity. 4 ¶ Again, I considered all
20 All go unto one place; all travail, and every right work,
are of the dust, and all turn to that for this a man is envied of
dust again. his neighbour. This is also
21 Who knoweth the spirit of vanity and vexation of spirit.
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5 The fool foldeth his hands wise child than an old and
together, and eateth his own foolish king, who will no
flesh. more be admonished.
6 Better is an handful with 14 For out of prison he
quietness, than both the hands cometh to reign; whereas also
full with travail and vexation he that is born in his kingdom
of spirit. becometh poor.
7 ¶ Then I returned, and I saw 15 I considered all the living
vanity under the sun. which walk under the sun,
8 There is one alone, and with the second child that
there is not a second; yea, he shall stand up in his stead.
hath neither child nor brother: 16 There is no end of all the
yet is there no end of all his people, even of all that have
labour; neither is his eye been before them: they also
satisfied with riches; neither that come after shall not
saith he, For whom do I rejoice in him. Surely this also
labour, and bereave my soul of is vanity and vexation of
good? This is also vanity, yea, spirit.
it is a sore travail.
9 ¶ Two are better than one; CHAPTER 5
because they have a good KEEP thy foot when thou
reward for their labour. goest to the house of God, and
10 For if they fall, the one will be more ready to hear, than to
lift up his fellow: but woe to give the sacrifice of fools: for
him that is alone when he they consider not that they do
falleth; for he hath not another evil.
to help him up. 2 Be not rash with thy mouth,
11 Again, if two lie together, and let not thine heart be hasty
then they have heat: but how to utter any thing before God:
can one be warm alone? for God is in heaven, and thou
12 And if one prevail against upon earth: therefore let thy
him, two shall withstand him; words be few.
and a threefold cord is not 3 For a dream cometh through
quickly broken. the multitude of business; and
13 ¶ Better is a poor and a a fool’s voice is known by
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with a merry heart; for God also under the sun, and it
now accepteth thy works. seemed great unto me:
8 Let thy garments be always 14 There was a little city, and
white; and let thy head lack no few men within it; and there
ointment. came a great king against it,
9 Live joyfully with the wife and besieged it, and built great
whom thou lovest all the days bulwarks against it:
of the life of thy vanity, which 15 Now there was found in it a
he hath given thee under the poor wise man, and he by his
sun, all the days of thy vanity: wisdom delivered the city; yet
for that is thy portion in this no man remembered that same
life, and in thy labour which poor man.
thou takest under the sun. 16 Then said I, Wisdom is
10 Whatsoever thy hand better than strength:
findeth to do, do it with thy nevertheless the poor man’s
might; for there is no work, wisdom is despised, and his
nor device, nor knowledge, words are not heard.
nor wisdom, in the grave, 17 The words of wise men are
whither thou goest. heard in quiet more than the
11 ¶ I returned, and saw under cry of him that ruleth among
the sun, that the race is not to fools.
the swift, nor the battle to the 18 Wisdom is better than
strong, neither yet bread to the weapons of war: but one
wise, nor yet riches to men of sinner destroyeth much good.
understanding, nor yet favour
to men of skill; but time and CHAPTER 10
chance happeneth to them all. DEAD flies cause the
12 For man also knoweth not ointment of the apothecary to
his time: as the fishes that are send forth a stinking savour:
taken in an evil net, and as the so doth a little folly him that is
birds that are caught in the in reputation for wisdom and
snare; so are the sons of men honour.
snared in an evil time, when it 2 A wise man’s heart is at his
falleth suddenly upon them. right hand; but a fool’s heart at
13 ¶ This wisdom have I seen his left.
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the voice, and that which hath 7 ¶ Truly the light is sweet,
wings shall tell the matter. and a pleasant thing it is for
the eyes to behold the sun:
CHAPTER 11 8 But if a man live many
CAST thy bread upon the years, and rejoice in them all;
waters: for thou shalt find it yet let him remember the days
after many days. of darkness; for they shall be
2 Give a portion to seven, and many. All that cometh is
also to eight; for thou knowest vanity.
not what evil shall be upon the 9 ¶ Rejoice, O young man, in
earth. thy youth; and let thy heart
3 If the clouds be full of rain, cheer thee in the days of thy
they empty themselves upon youth, and walk in the ways of
the earth: and if the tree fall thine heart, and in the sight of
toward the south, or toward thine eyes: but know thou, that
the north, in the place where for all these things God will
the tree falleth, there it shall bring thee into judgment.
be. 10 Therefore remove sorrow
4 He that observeth the wind from thy heart, and put away
shall not sow; and he that evil from thy flesh: for
regardeth the clouds shall not childhood and youth are
reap. vanity.
5 As thou knowest not what is
the way of the spirit, nor how CHAPTER 12
the bones do grow in the REMEMBER now thy Creator
womb of her that is with child: in the days of thy youth, while
even so thou knowest not the the evil days come not, nor the
works of God who maketh all. years draw nigh, when thou
6 In the morning sow thy seed, shalt say, I have no pleasure in
and in the evening withhold them;
not thine hand: for thou 2 While the sun, or the light,
knowest not whether shall or the moon, or the stars, be
prosper, either this or that, or not darkened, nor the clouds
whether they both shall be return after the rain:
alike good. 3 In the day when the keepers
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of the house shall tremble, and yea, he gave good heed, and
the strong men shall bow sought out, and set in order
themselves, and the grinders many proverbs.
cease because they are few, 10 The preacher sought to find
and those that look out of the out acceptable words: and that
windows be darkened, which was written was
4 And the doors shall be shut upright, even words of truth.
in the streets, when the sound 11 The words of the wise are
of the grinding is low, and he as goads, and as nails fastened
shall rise up at the voice of the by the masters of assemblies,
bird, and all the daughters of which are given from one
musick shall be brought low; shepherd.
5 Also when they shall be 12 And further, by these, my
afraid of that which is high, son, be admonished: of
and fears shall be in the way, making many books there is
and the almond tree shall no end; and much study is a
flourish, and the grasshopper weariness of the flesh.
shall be a burden, and desire 13 ¶ Let us hear the
shall fail: because man goeth conclusion of the whole
to his long home, and the matter: Fear God, and keep his
mourners go about the streets: commandments: for this is the
6 Or ever the silver cord be whole duty of man.
loosed, or the golden bowl be 14 For God shall bring every
broken, or the pitcher be work into judgment, with
broken at the fountain, or the every secret thing, whether it
wheel broken at the cistern. be good, or whether it be evil.
7 Then shall the dust return to
the earth as it was: and the
spirit shall return unto God
who gave it.
8 ¶ Vanity of vanities, saith
the preacher; all is vanity.
9 And moreover, because the
preacher was wise, he still
taught the people knowledge;
THE
SONG OF SOLOMON.
CHAPTER 1 should I be as one that turneth
THE song of songs, which is aside by the flocks of thy
Solomon’s. companions?
2 Let him kiss me with the 8 ¶ If thou know not, O thou
kisses of his mouth: for thy fairest among women, go thy
love is better than wine. way forth by the footsteps of
3 Because of the savour of thy the flock, and feed thy kids
good ointments thy name is as beside the shepherds’ tents.
ointment poured forth, 9 I have compared thee, O my
therefore do the virgins love love, to a company of horses
thee. in Pharaoh’s chariots.
4 Draw me, we will run after 10 Thy cheeks are comely
thee: the king hath brought me with rows of jewels, thy neck
into his chambers: we will be with chains of gold.
glad and rejoice in thee, we 11 We will make thee borders
will remember thy love more of gold with studs of silver.
than wine: the upright love 12 ¶ While the king sitteth at
thee. his table, my spikenard
5 I am black, but comely, O ye sendeth forth the smell
daughters of Jerusalem, as the thereof.
tents of Kedar, as the curtains 13 A bundle of myrrh is my
of Solomon. wellbeloved unto me; he shall
6 Look not upon me, because I lie all night betwixt my
am black, because the sun hath breasts.
looked upon me: my mother’s 14 My beloved is unto me as a
children were angry with me; cluster of camphire in the
they made me the keeper of vineyards of En-gedi.
the vineyards; but mine own 15 Behold, thou art fair, my
vineyard have I not kept. love; behold, thou art fair;
7 Tell me, O thou whom my thou hast doves’ eyes.
soul loveth, where thou 16 Behold, thou art fair, my
feedest, where thou makest thy beloved, yea, pleasant: also
flock to rest at noon: for why our bed is green.
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14 His hands are as gold rings goats that appear from Gilead.
set with the beryl: his belly is 6 Thy teeth are as a flock of
as bright ivory overlaid with sheep which go up from the
sapphires. washing, whereof every one
15 His legs are as pillars of beareth twins, and there is not
marble, set upon sockets of one barren among them.
fine gold: his countenance is 7 As a piece of a pomegranate
as Lebanon, excellent as the are thy temples within thy
cedars. locks.
16 His mouth is most sweet: 8 There are threescore queens,
yea, he is altogether lovely. and fourscore concubines, and
This is my beloved, and this is virgins without number.
my friend, O daughters of 9 My dove, my undefiled is
Jerusalem. but one; she is the only one of
her mother, she is the choice
CHAPTER 6 one of her that bare her. The
WHITHER is thy beloved daughters saw her, and blessed
gone, O thou fairest among her; yea, the queens and the
women? whither is thy concubines, and they praised
beloved turned aside? that we her.
may seek him with thee. 10 ¶ Who is she that looketh
2 My beloved is gone down forth as the morning, fair as
into his garden, to the beds of the moon, clear as the sun, and
spices, to feed in the gardens, terrible as an army with
and to gather lilies. banners?
3 I am my beloved’s, and my 11 I went down into the
beloved is mine: he feedeth garden of nuts to see the fruits
among the lilies. of the valley, and to see
4 ¶ Thou art beautiful, O my whether the vine flourished,
love, as Tirzah, comely as and the pomegranates budded.
Jerusalem, terrible as an army 12 Or ever I was aware, my
with banners. soul made me like the chariots
5 Turn away thine eyes from of Amminadib.
me, for they have overcome 13 Return, return, O
me: thy hair is as a flock of Shulamite; return, return, that
SONG OF SOLOMON
we may look upon thee. What palm tree, I will take hold of
will ye see in the Shulamite? the boughs thereof: now also
As it were the company of two thy breasts shall be as clusters
armies. of the vine, and the smell of
thy nose like apples;
CHAPTER 7 9 And the roof of thy mouth
HOW beautiful are thy feet like the best wine for my
with shoes, O prince’s beloved, that goeth down
daughter! the joints of thy sweetly, causing the lips of
thighs are like jewels, the those that are asleep to speak.
work of the hands of a 10 ¶ I am my beloved’s, and
cunning workman. his desire is toward me.
2 Thy navel is like a round 11 Come, my beloved, let us
goblet, which wanteth not go forth into the field; let us
liquor: thy belly is like an heap lodge in the villages.
of wheat set about with lilies. 12 Let us get up early to the
3 Thy two breasts are like two vineyards; let us see if the vine
young roes that are twins. flourish, whether the tender
4 Thy neck is as a tower of grape appear, and the
ivory; thine eyes like the pomegranates bud forth: there
fishpools in Heshbon, by the will I give thee my loves.
gate of Bath-rabbim: thy nose 13 The mandrakes give a
is as the tower of Lebanon smell, and at our gates are all
which looketh toward manner of pleasant fruits, new
Damascus. and old, which I have laid up
5 Thine head upon thee is like for thee, O my beloved.
Carmel, and the hair of thine
head like purple; the king is CHAPTER 8
held in the galleries. O THAT thou wert as my
6 How fair and how pleasant brother, that sucked the
art thou, O love, for delights! breasts of my mother! when I
7 This thy stature is like to a should find thee without, I
palm tree, and thy breasts to would kiss thee; yea, I should
clusters of grapes. not be despised.
8 I said, I will go up to the 2 I would lead thee, and bring
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righteousness, the faithful city. and say, Come ye, and let us
27 Zion shall be redeemed go up to the mountain of the
with judgment, and her LORD, to the house of the God
converts with righteousness. of Jacob; and he will teach us
28 ¶ And the destruction of of his ways, and we will walk
the transgressors and of the in his paths: for out of Zion
sinners shall be together, and shall go forth the law, and the
they that forsake the LORD word of the LORD from
shall be consumed. Jerusalem.
29 For they shall be ashamed 4 And he shall judge among
of the oaks which ye have the nations, and shall rebuke
desired, and ye shall be many people: and they shall
confounded for the gardens beat their swords into
that ye have chosen. plowshares, and their spears
30 For ye shall be as an oak into pruninghooks: nation
whose leaf fadeth, and as a shall not lift up sword against
garden that hath no water. nation, neither shall they learn
31 And the strong shall be as war any more.
tow, and the maker of it as a 5 O house of Jacob, come ye,
spark, and they shall both burn and let us walk in the light of
together, and none shall the LORD.
quench them. 6 ¶ Therefore thou hast
forsaken thy people the house
CHAPTER 2 of Jacob, because they be
THE word that Isaiah the son replenished from the east, and
of Amoz saw concerning are soothsayers like the
Judah and Jerusalem. Philistines, and they please
2 And it shall come to pass in themselves in the children of
the last days, that the strangers.
mountain of the LORD’s house 7 Their land also is full of
shall be established in the top silver and gold, neither is
of the mountains, and shall be there any end of their
exalted above the hills; and all treasures; their land is also full
nations shall flow unto it. of horses, neither is there any
3 And many people shall go end of their chariots:
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his face, and with twain he but understand not; and see ye
covered his feet, and with indeed, but perceive not.
twain he did fly. 10 Make the heart of this
3 And one cried unto another, people fat, and make their ears
and said, Holy, holy, holy, is heavy, and shut their eyes; lest
the LORD of hosts: the whole they see with their eyes, and
earth is full of his glory. hear with their ears, and
4 And the posts of the door understand with their heart,
moved at the voice of him that and convert, and be healed.
cried, and the house was filled 11 Then said I, Lord, how
with smoke. long? And he answered, Until
5 ¶ Then said I, Woe is me! the cities be wasted without
for I am undone; because I am inhabitant, and the houses
a man of unclean lips, and I without man, and the land be
dwell in the midst of a people utterly desolate,
of unclean lips: for mine eyes 12 And the LORD have
have seen the King, the LORD removed men far away, and
of hosts. there be a great forsaking in
6 Then flew one of the the midst of the land.
seraphims unto me, having a 13 ¶ But yet in it shall be a
live coal in his hand, which he tenth, and it shall return, and
had taken with the tongs from shall be eaten: as a teil tree,
off the altar: and as an oak, whose
7 And he laid it upon my substance is in them, when
mouth, and said, Lo, this hath they cast their leaves: so the
touched thy lips; and thine holy seed shall be the
iniquity is taken away, and thy substance thereof.
sin purged.
8 Also I heard the voice of the CHAPTER 7
Lord, saying, Whom shall I AND it came to pass in the
send, and who will go for us? days of Ahaz the son of
Then said I, Here am I; send Jotham, the son of Uzziah,
me. king of Judah, that Rezin the
9 ¶ And he said, Go, and tell king of Syria, and Pekah the
this people, Hear ye indeed, son of Remaliah, king of
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refuse the evil, and choose the nourish a young cow, and two
good. sheep;
16 For before the child shall 22 And it shall come to pass,
know to refuse the evil, and for the abundance of milk that
choose the good, the land that they shall give he shall eat
thou abhorrest shall be butter: for butter and honey
forsaken of both her kings. shall every one eat that is left
17 ¶ The LORD shall bring in the land.
upon thee, and upon thy 23 And it shall come to pass in
people, and upon thy father’s that day, that every place shall
house, days that have not be, where there were a
come, from the day that thousand vines at a thousand
Ephraim departed from Judah; silverlings, it shall even be for
even the king of Assyria. briers and thorns.
18 And it shall come to pass in 24 With arrows and with bows
that day, that the LORD shall shall men come thither;
hiss for the fly that is in the because all the land shall
uttermost part of the rivers of become briers and thorns.
Egypt, and for the bee that is 25 And on all hills that shall
in the land of Assyria. be digged with the mattock,
19 And they shall come, and there shall not come thither
shall rest all of them in the the fear of briers and thorns:
desolate valleys, and in the but it shall be for the sending
holes of the rocks, and upon forth of oxen, and for the
all thorns, and upon all treading of lesser cattle.
bushes.
20 In the same day shall the CHAPTER 8
Lord shave with a rasor that is MOREOVER the LORD said
hired, namely, by them beyond unto me, Take thee a great
the river, by the king of roll, and write in it with a
Assyria, the head, and the hair man’s pen concerning Maher-
of the feet: and it shall also shalal-hash-baz.
consume the beard. 2 And I took unto me faithful
21 And it shall come to pass in witnesses to record, Uriah the
that day, that a man shall priest, and Zechariah the son
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but this shall be with burning against him, and join his
and fuel of fire. enemies together;
6 For unto us a child is born, 12 The Syrians before, and the
unto us a son is given: and the Philistines behind; and they
government shall be upon his shall devour Israel with open
shoulder: and his name shall mouth. For all this his anger is
be called Wonderful, not turned away, but his hand
Counseller, The mighty God, is stretched out still.
The everlasting Father, The 13 ¶ For the people turneth not
Prince of Peace. unto him that smiteth them,
7 Of the increase of his neither do they seek the LORD
government and peace there of hosts.
shall be no end, upon the 14 Therefore the LORD will
throne of David, and upon his cut off from Israel head and
kingdom, to order it, and to tail, branch and rush, in one
establish it with judgment and day.
with justice from henceforth 15 The ancient and
even for ever. The zeal of the honourable, he is the head;
LORD of hosts will perform and the prophet that teacheth
this. lies, he is the tail.
8 ¶ The Lord sent a word into 16 For the leaders of this
Jacob, and it hath lighted upon people cause them to err; and
Israel. they that are led of them are
9 And all the people shall destroyed.
know, even Ephraim and the 17 Therefore the Lord shall
inhabitant of Samaria, that say have no joy in their young
in the pride and stoutness of men, neither shall have mercy
heart, on their fatherless and
10 The bricks are fallen down, widows: for every one is an
but we will build with hewn hypocrite and an evildoer, and
stones: the sycomores are cut every mouth speaketh folly.
down, but we will change For all this his anger is not
them into cedars. turned away, but his hand is
11 Therefore the LORD shall stretched out still.
set up the adversaries of Rezin 18 ¶ For wickedness burneth
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2 And the spirit of the LORD 8 And the sucking child shall
shall rest upon him, the spirit play on the hole of the asp,
of wisdom and understanding, and the weaned child shall put
the spirit of counsel and his hand on the cockatrice’
might, the spirit of knowledge den.
and of the fear of the LORD; 9 They shall not hurt nor
3 And shall make him of destroy in all my holy
quick understanding in the mountain: for the earth shall
fear of the LORD: and he shall be full of the knowledge of the
not judge after the sight of his LORD, as the waters cover the
eyes, neither reprove after the sea.
hearing of his ears: 10 ¶ And in that day there
4 But with righteousness shall shall be a root of Jesse, which
he judge the poor, and reprove shall stand for an ensign of the
with equity for the meek of people; to it shall the Gentiles
the earth: and he shall smite seek: and his rest shall be
the earth with the rod of his glorious.
mouth, and with the breath of 11 And it shall come to pass in
his lips shall he slay the that day, that the Lord shall
wicked. set his hand again the second
5 And righteousness shall be time to recover the remnant of
the girdle of his loins, and his people, which shall be left,
faithfulness the girdle of his from Assyria, and from Egypt,
reins. and from Pathros, and from
6 The wolf also shall dwell Cush, and from Elam, and
with the lamb, and the leopard from Shinar, and from
shall lie down with the kid; Hamath, and from the islands
and the calf and the young lion of the sea.
and the fatling together; and a 12 And he shall set up an
little child shall lead them. ensign for the nations, and
7 And the cow and the bear shall assemble the outcasts of
shall feed; their young ones Israel, and gather together the
shall lie down together: and dispersed of Judah from the
the lion shall eat straw like the four corners of the earth.
ox. 13 The envy also of Ephraim
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mine anger, even them that 10 For the stars of heaven and
rejoice in my highness. the constellations thereof shall
4 The noise of a multitude in not give their light: the sun
the mountains, like as of a shall be darkened in his going
great people; a tumultuous forth, and the moon shall not
noise of the kingdoms of cause her light to shine.
nations gathered together: the 11 And I will punish the world
LORD of hosts mustereth the for their evil, and the wicked
host of the battle. for their iniquity; and I will
5 They come from a far cause the arrogancy of the
country, from the end of proud to cease, and will lay
heaven, even the LORD, and low the haughtiness of the
the weapons of his terrible.
indignation, to destroy the 12 I will make a man more
whole land. precious than fine gold; even a
6 ¶ Howl ye; for the day of the man than the golden wedge of
LORD is at hand; it shall come Ophir.
as a destruction from the 13 Therefore I will shake the
Almighty. heavens, and the earth shall
7 Therefore shall all hands be remove out of her place, in the
faint, and every man’s heart wrath of the LORD of hosts,
shall melt: and in the day of his fierce
8 And they shall be afraid: anger.
pangs and sorrows shall take 14 And it shall be as the
hold of them; they shall be in chased roe, and as a sheep that
pain as a woman that no man taketh up: they shall
travaileth: they shall be every man turn to his own
amazed one at another; their people, and flee every one into
faces shall be as flames. his own land.
9 Behold, the day of the LORD 15 Every one that is found
cometh, cruel both with wrath shall be thrust through; and
and fierce anger, to lay the every one that is joined unto
land desolate: and he shall them shall fall by the sword.
destroy the sinners thereof out 16 Their children also shall be
of it. dashed to pieces before their
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thou hast destroyed thy land, earth: and this is the hand that
and slain thy people: the seed is stretched out upon all the
of evildoers shall never be nations.
renowned. 27 For the LORD of hosts hath
21 Prepare slaughter for his purposed, and who shall
children for the iniquity of disannul it? and his hand is
their fathers; that they do not stretched out, and who shall
rise, nor possess the land, nor turn it back?
fill the face of the world with 28 In the year that king Ahaz
cities. died was this burden.
22 For I will rise up against 29 ¶ Rejoice not thou, whole
them, saith the LORD of hosts, Palestina, because the rod of
and cut off from Babylon the him that smote thee is broken:
name, and remnant, and son, for out of the serpent’s root
and nephew, saith the LORD. shall come forth a cockatrice,
23 I will also make it a and his fruit shall be a fiery
possession for the bittern, and flying serpent.
pools of water: and I will 30 And the firstborn of the
sweep it with the besom of poor shall feed, and the needy
destruction, saith the LORD of shall lie down in safety: and I
hosts. will kill thy root with famine,
24 ¶ The LORD of hosts hath and he shall slay thy remnant.
sworn, saying, Surely as I 31 Howl, O gate; cry, O city;
have thought, so shall it come thou, whole Palestina, art
to pass; and as I have dissolved: for there shall come
purposed, so shall it stand: from the north a smoke, and
25 That I will break the none shall be alone in his
Assyrian in my land, and upon appointed times.
my mountains tread him under 32 What shall one then answer
foot: then shall his yoke depart the messengers of the nation?
from off them, and his burden That the LORD hath founded
depart from off their Zion, and the poor of his
shoulders. people shall trust in it.
26 This is the purpose that is
purposed upon the whole CHAPTER 15
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to them from the face of the Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the
spoiler: for the extortioner is shouting for thy summer fruits
at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, and for thy harvest is fallen.
the oppressors are consumed 10 And gladness is taken
out of the land. away, and joy out of the
5 And in mercy shall the plentiful field; and in the
throne be established: and he vineyards there shall be no
shall sit upon it in truth in the singing, neither shall there be
tabernacle of David, judging, shouting: the treaders shall
and seeking judgment, and tread out no wine in their
hasting righteousness. presses; I have made their
6 ¶ We have heard of the pride vintage shouting to cease.
of Moab; he is very proud: 11 Wherefore my bowels shall
even of his haughtiness, and sound like an harp for Moab,
his pride, and his wrath: but and mine inward parts for Kir-
his lies shall not be so. haresh.
7 Therefore shall Moab howl 12 ¶ And it shall come to pass,
for Moab, every one shall when it is seen that Moab is
howl: for the foundations of weary on the high place, that
Kir-hareseth shall ye mourn; he shall come to his sanctuary
surely they are stricken. to pray; but he shall not
8 For the fields of Heshbon prevail.
languish, and the vine of 13 This is the word that the
Sibmah: the lords of the LORD hath spoken concerning
heathen have broken down the Moab since that time.
principal plants thereof, they 14 But now the LORD hath
are come even unto Jazer, they spoken, saying, Within three
wandered through the years, as the years of an
wilderness: her branches are hireling, and the glory of
stretched out, they are gone Moab shall be contemned,
over the sea. with all that great multitude;
9 ¶ Therefore I will bewail and the remnant shall be very
with the weeping of Jazer the small and feeble.
vine of Sibmah: I will water
thee with my tears, O CHAPTER 17
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for the sea hath spoken, even 12 And he said, Thou shalt no
the strength of the sea, saying, more rejoice, O thou
I travail not, nor bring forth oppressed virgin, daughter of
children, neither do I nourish Zidon: arise, pass over to
up young men, nor bring up Chittim; there also shalt thou
virgins. have no rest.
5 As at the report concerning 13 Behold the land of the
Egypt, so shall they be sorely Chaldeans; this people was
pained at the report of Tyre. not, till the Assyrian founded
6 Pass ye over to Tarshish; it for them that dwell in the
howl, ye inhabitants of the wilderness: they set up the
isle. towers thereof, they raised up
7 Is this your joyous city, the palaces thereof; and he
whose antiquity is of ancient brought it to ruin.
days? her own feet shall carry 14 Howl, ye ships of Tarshish:
her afar off to sojourn. for your strength is laid waste.
8 Who hath taken this counsel 15 And it shall come to pass in
against Tyre, the crowning that day, that Tyre shall be
city, whose merchants are forgotten seventy years,
princes, whose traffickers are according to the days of one
the honourable of the earth? king: after the end of seventy
9 The LORD of hosts hath years shall Tyre sing as an
purposed it, to stain the pride harlot.
of all glory, and to bring into 16 Take an harp, go about the
contempt all the honourable of city, thou harlot that hast been
the earth. forgotten; make sweet melody,
10 Pass through thy land as a sing many songs, that thou
river, O daughter of Tarshish: mayest be remembered.
there is no more strength. 17 ¶ And it shall come to pass
11 He stretched out his hand after the end of seventy years,
over the sea, he shook the that the LORD will visit Tyre,
kingdoms: the LORD hath and she shall turn to her hire,
given a commandment against and shall commit fornication
the merchant city, to destroy with all the kingdoms of the
the strong holds thereof. world upon the face of the
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2 For thou hast made of a city will wipe away tears from off
an heap; of a defenced city a all faces; and the rebuke of his
ruin: a palace of strangers to people shall he take away
be no city; it shall never be from off all the earth: for the
built. LORD hath spoken it.
3 Therefore shall the strong 9 ¶ And it shall be said in that
people glorify thee, the city of day, Lo, this is our God; we
the terrible nations shall fear have waited for him, and he
thee. will save us: this is the LORD;
4 For thou hast been a strength we have waited for him, we
to the poor, a strength to the will be glad and rejoice in his
needy in his distress, a refuge salvation.
from the storm, a shadow 10 For in this mountain shall
from the heat, when the blast the hand of the LORD rest, and
of the terrible ones is as a Moab shall be trodden down
storm against the wall. under him, even as straw is
5 Thou shalt bring down the trodden down for the dunghill.
noise of strangers, as the heat 11 And he shall spread forth
in a dry place; even the heat his hands in the midst of them,
with the shadow of a cloud: as he that swimmeth spreadeth
the branch of the terrible ones forth his hands to swim: and
shall be brought low. he shall bring down their pride
6 ¶ And in this mountain shall together with the spoils of
the LORD of hosts make unto their hands.
all people a feast of fat things, 12 And the fortress of the high
a feast of wines on the lees, of fort of thy walls shall he bring
fat things full of marrow, of down, lay low, and bring to
wines on the lees well refined. the ground, even to the dust.
7 And he will destroy in this
mountain the face of the CHAPTER 26
covering cast over all people, IN that day shall this song be
and the vail that is spread over sung in the land of Judah; We
all nations. have a strong city; salvation
8 He will swallow up death in will God appoint for walls and
victory; and the Lord GOD bulwarks.
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city where David dwelt! add against her and her munition,
ye year to year; let them kill and that distress her, shall be
sacrifices. as a dream of a night vision.
2 Yet I will distress Ariel, and 8 It shall even be as when an
there shall be heaviness and hungry man dreameth, and,
sorrow: and it shall be unto behold, he eateth; but he
me as Ariel. awaketh, and his soul is
3 And I will camp against thee empty: or as when a thirsty
round about, and will lay siege man dreameth, and, behold, he
against thee with a mount, and drinketh; but he awaketh, and,
I will raise forts against thee. behold, he is faint, and his
4 And thou shalt be brought soul hath appetite: so shall the
down, and shalt speak out of multitude of all the nations be,
the ground, and thy speech that fight against mount Zion.
shall be low out of the dust, 9 ¶ Stay yourselves, and
and thy voice shall be, as of wonder; cry ye out, and cry:
one that hath a familiar spirit, they are drunken, but not with
out of the ground, and thy wine; they stagger, but not
speech shall whisper out of the with strong drink.
dust. 10 For the LORD hath poured
5 Moreover the multitude of out upon you the spirit of deep
thy strangers shall be like sleep, and hath closed your
small dust, and the multitude eyes: the prophets and your
of the terrible ones shall be as rulers, the seers hath he
chaff that passeth away: yea, it covered.
shall be at an instant suddenly. 11 And the vision of all is
6 Thou shalt be visited of the become unto you as the words
LORD of hosts with thunder, of a book that is sealed, which
and with earthquake, and great men deliver to one that is
noise, with storm and tempest, learned, saying, Read this, I
and the flame of devouring pray thee: and he saith, I
fire. cannot; for it is sealed:
7 ¶ And the multitude of all 12 And the book is delivered
the nations that fight against to him that is not learned,
Ariel, even all that fight saying, Read this, I pray thee:
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say, I am sick: the people that filled with blood, it is made fat
dwell therein shall be forgiven with fatness, and with the
their iniquity. blood of lambs and goats, with
the fat of the kidneys of rams:
CHAPTER 34 for the LORD hath a sacrifice
COME near, ye nations, to in Bozrah, and a great
hear; and hearken, ye people: slaughter in the land of
let the earth hear, and all that Idumea.
is therein; the world, and all 7 And the unicorns shall come
things that come forth of it. down with them, and the
2 For the indignation of the bullocks with the bulls; and
LORD is upon all nations, and their land shall be soaked with
his fury upon all their armies: blood, and their dust made fat
he hath utterly destroyed with fatness.
them, he hath delivered them 8 For it is the day of the
to the slaughter. LORD’s vengeance, and the
3 Their slain also shall be cast year of recompences for the
out, and their stink shall come controversy of Zion.
up out of their carcases, and 9 And the streams thereof
the mountains shall be melted shall be turned into pitch, and
with their blood. the dust thereof into
4 And all the host of heaven brimstone, and the land
shall be dissolved, and the thereof shall become burning
heavens shall be rolled pitch.
together as a scroll: and all 10 It shall not be quenched
their host shall fall down, as night nor day; the smoke
the leaf falleth off from the thereof shall go up for ever:
vine, and as a falling fig from from generation to generation
the fig tree. it shall lie waste; none shall
5 For my sword shall be pass through it for ever and
bathed in heaven: behold, it ever.
shall come down upon 11 ¶ But the cormorant and
Idumea, and upon the people the bittern shall possess it; the
of my curse, to judgment. owl also and the raven shall
6 The sword of the LORD is dwell in it: and he shall stretch
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that escape out of mount Zion: sword; and they escaped into
the zeal of the LORD of hosts the land of Armenia: and Esar-
shall do this. haddon his son reigned in his
33 Therefore thus saith the stead.
LORD concerning the king of
Assyria, He shall not come CHAPTER 38
into this city, nor shoot an IN those days was Hezekiah
arrow there, nor come before sick unto death. And Isaiah the
it with shields, nor cast a bank prophet the son of Amoz came
against it. unto him, and said unto him,
34 By the way that he came, Thus saith the LORD, Set thine
by the same shall he return, house in order: for thou shalt
and shall not come into this die, and not live.
city, saith the LORD. 2 Then Hezekiah turned his
35 For I will defend this city face toward the wall, and
to save it for mine own sake, prayed unto the LORD,
and for my servant David’s 3 And said, Remember now,
sake. O LORD, I beseech thee, how I
36 Then the angel of the LORD have walked before thee in
went forth, and smote in the truth and with a perfect heart,
camp of the Assyrians a and have done that which is
hundred and fourscore and good in thy sight. And
five thousand: and when they Hezekiah wept sore.
arose early in the morning, 4 ¶ Then came the word of the
behold, they were all dead LORD to Isaiah, saying,
corpses. 5 Go, and say to Hezekiah,
37 ¶ So Sennacherib king of Thus saith the LORD, the God
Assyria departed, and went of David thy father, I have
and returned, and dwelt at heard thy prayer, I have seen
Nineveh. thy tears: behold, I will add
38 And it came to pass, as he unto thy days fifteen years.
was worshipping in the house 6 And I will deliver thee and
of Nisroch his god, that this city out of the hand of the
Adrammelech and Sharezer king of Assyria: and I will
his sons smote him with the defend this city.
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7 And this shall be a sign unto all my bones: from day even to
thee from the LORD, that the night wilt thou make an end of
LORD will do this thing that he me.
hath spoken; 14 Like a crane or a swallow,
8 Behold, I will bring again so did I chatter: I did mourn as
the shadow of the degrees, a dove: mine eyes fail with
which is gone down in the sun looking upward: O LORD, I am
dial of Ahaz, ten degrees oppressed; undertake for me.
backward. So the sun returned 15 What shall I say? he hath
ten degrees, by which degrees both spoken unto me, and
it was gone down. himself hath done it: I shall go
9 ¶ The writing of Hezekiah softly all my years in the
king of Judah, when he had bitterness of my soul.
been sick, and was recovered 16 O Lord, by these things
of his sickness: men live, and in all these
10 I said in the cutting off of things is the life of my spirit:
my days, I shall go to the so wilt thou recover me, and
gates of the grave: I am make me to live.
deprived of the residue of my 17 Behold, for peace I had
years. great bitterness: but thou hast
11 I said, I shall not see the in love to my soul delivered it
LORD, even the LORD, in the from the pit of corruption: for
land of the living: I shall thou hast cast all my sins
behold man no more with the behind thy back.
inhabitants of the world. 18 For the grave cannot praise
12 Mine age is departed, and thee, death can not celebrate
is removed from me as a thee: they that go down into
shepherd’s tent: I have cut off the pit cannot hope for thy
like a weaver my life: he will truth.
cut me off with pining 19 The living, the living, he
sickness: from day even to shall praise thee, as I do this
night wilt thou make an end of day: the father to the children
me. shall make known thy truth.
13 I reckoned till morning, 20 The LORD was ready to
that, as a lion, so will he break save me: therefore we will
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him, and taught him in the ye not heard? hath it not been
path of judgment, and taught told you from the beginning?
him knowledge, and shewed have ye not understood from
to him the way of the foundations of the earth?
understanding? 22 It is he that sitteth upon the
15 Behold, the nations are as a circle of the earth, and the
drop of a bucket, and are inhabitants thereof are as
counted as the small dust of grasshoppers; that stretcheth
the balance: behold, he taketh out the heavens as a curtain,
up the isles as a very little and spreadeth them out as a
thing. tent to dwell in:
16 And Lebanon is not 23 That bringeth the princes to
sufficient to burn, nor the nothing; he maketh the judges
beasts thereof sufficient for a of the earth as vanity.
burnt offering. 24 Yea, they shall not be
17 All nations before him are planted; yea, they shall not be
as nothing; and they are sown: yea, their stock shall
counted to him less than not take root in the earth: and
nothing, and vanity. he shall also blow upon them,
18 ¶ To whom then will ye and they shall wither, and the
liken God? or what likeness whirlwind shall take them
will ye compare unto him? away as stubble.
19 The workman melteth a 25 To whom then will ye liken
graven image, and the me, or shall I be equal? saith
goldsmith spreadeth it over the Holy One.
with gold, and casteth silver 26 Lift up your eyes on high,
chains. and behold who hath created
20 He that is so impoverished these things, that bringeth out
that he hath no oblation their host by number: he
chooseth a tree that will not calleth them all by names by
rot; he seeketh unto him a the greatness of his might, for
cunning workman to prepare a that he is strong in power; not
graven image, that shall not be one faileth.
moved. 27 Why sayest thou, O Jacob,
21 Have ye not known? have and speakest, O Israel, My
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way is hid from the LORD, and over kings? he gave them as
my judgment is passed over the dust to his sword, and as
from my God? driven stubble to his bow.
28 ¶ Hast thou not known? 3 He pursued them, and
hast thou not heard, that the passed safely; even by the way
everlasting God, the LORD, the that he had not gone with his
Creator of the ends of the feet.
earth, fainteth not, neither is 4 Who hath wrought and done
weary? there is no searching it, calling the generations from
of his understanding. the beginning? I the LORD, the
29 He giveth power to the first, and with the last; I am
faint; and to them that have no he.
might he increaseth strength. 5 The isles saw it, and feared;
30 Even the youths shall faint the ends of the earth were
and be weary, and the young afraid, drew near, and came.
men shall utterly fall: 6 They helped every one his
31 But they that wait upon the neighbour; and every one said
LORD shall renew their to his brother, Be of good
strength; they shall mount up courage.
with wings as eagles; they 7 So the carpenter encouraged
shall run, and not be weary; the goldsmith, and he that
and they shall walk, and not smootheth with the hammer
faint. him that smote the anvil,
saying, It is ready for the
CHAPTER 41 sodering: and he fastened it
KEEP silence before me, O with nails, that it should not
islands; and let the people be moved.
renew their strength: let them 8 But thou, Israel, art my
come near; then let them servant, Jacob whom I have
speak: let us come near chosen, the seed of Abraham
together to judgment. my friend.
2 Who raised up the righteous 9 Thou whom I have taken
man from the east, called him from the ends of the earth, and
to his foot, gave the nations called thee from the chief men
before him, and made him rule thereof, and said unto thee,
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Thou art my servant; I have and beat them small, and shalt
chosen thee, and not cast thee make the hills as chaff.
away. 16 Thou shalt fan them, and
10 ¶ Fear thou not; for I am the wind shall carry them
with thee: be not dismayed; away, and the whirlwind shall
for I am thy God: I will scatter them: and thou shalt
strengthen thee; yea, I will rejoice in the LORD, and shalt
help thee; yea, I will uphold glory in the Holy One of
thee with the right hand of my Israel.
righteousness. 17 When the poor and needy
11 Behold, all they that were seek water, and there is none,
incensed against thee shall be and their tongue faileth for
ashamed and confounded: thirst, I the LORD will hear
they shall be as nothing; and them, I the God of Israel will
they that strive with thee shall not forsake them.
perish. 18 I will open rivers in high
12 Thou shalt seek them, and places, and fountains in the
shalt not find them, even them midst of the valleys: I will
that contended with thee: they make the wilderness a pool of
that war against thee shall be water, and the dry land springs
as nothing, and as a thing of of water.
nought. 19 I will plant in the
13 For I the LORD thy God wilderness the cedar, the
will hold thy right hand, shittah tree, and the myrtle,
saying unto thee, Fear not; I and the oil tree; I will set in
will help thee. the desert the fir tree, and the
14 Fear not, thou worm Jacob, pine, and the box tree
and ye men of Israel; I will together:
help thee, saith the LORD, and 20 That they may see, and
thy redeemer, the Holy One of know, and consider, and
Israel. understand together, that the
15 Behold, I will make thee a hand of the LORD hath done
new sharp threshing this, and the Holy One of
instrument having teeth: thou Israel hath created it.
shalt thresh the mountains, 21 Produce your cause, saith
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east, and gather thee from the saved, and I have shewed,
west; when there was no strange
6 I will say to the north, Give god among you: therefore ye
up; and to the south, Keep not are my witnesses, saith the
back: bring my sons from far, LORD, that I am God.
and my daughters from the 13 Yea, before the day was I
ends of the earth; am he; and there is none that
7 Even every one that is called can deliver out of my hand: I
by my name: for I have will work, and who shall let
created him for my glory, I it?
have formed him; yea, I have 14 ¶ Thus saith the LORD,
made him. your redeemer, the Holy One
8 ¶ Bring forth the blind of Israel; For your sake I have
people that have eyes, and the sent to Babylon, and have
deaf that have ears. brought down all their nobles,
9 Let all the nations be and the Chaldeans, whose cry
gathered together, and let the is in the ships.
people be assembled: who 15 I am the LORD, your Holy
among them can declare this, One, the creator of Israel, your
and shew us former things? let King.
them bring forth their 16 Thus saith the LORD, which
witnesses, that they may be maketh a way in the sea, and a
justified: or let them hear, and path in the mighty waters;
say, It is truth. 17 Which bringeth forth the
10 Ye are my witnesses, saith chariot and horse, the army
the LORD, and my servant and the power; they shall lie
whom I have chosen: that ye down together, they shall not
may know and believe me, rise: they are extinct, they are
and understand that I am he: quenched as tow.
before me there was no God 18 ¶ Remember ye not the
formed, neither shall there be former things, neither consider
after me. the things of old.
11 I, even I, am the LORD; and 19 Behold, I will do a new
beside me there is no saviour. thing; now it shall spring
12 I have declared, and have forth; shall ye not know it? I
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potsherds of the earth. Shall fall down unto thee, they shall
the clay say to him that make supplication unto thee,
fashioneth it, What makest saying, Surely God is in thee;
thou? or thy work, He hath no and there is none else, there is
hands? no God.
10 Woe unto him that saith 15 Verily thou art a God that
unto his father, What begettest hidest thyself, O God of Israel,
thou? or to the woman, What the Saviour.
hast thou brought forth? 16 They shall be ashamed, and
11 Thus saith the LORD, the also confounded, all of them:
Holy One of Israel, and his they shall go to confusion
Maker, Ask me of things to together that are makers of
come concerning my sons, and idols.
concerning the work of my 17 But Israel shall be saved in
hands command ye me. the LORD with an everlasting
12 I have made the earth, and salvation: ye shall not be
created man upon it: I, even ashamed nor confounded
my hands, have stretched out world without end.
the heavens, and all their host 18 For thus saith the LORD
have I commanded. that created the heavens; God
13 I have raised him up in himself that formed the earth
righteousness, and I will direct and made it; he hath
all his ways: he shall build my established it, he created it not
city, and he shall let go my in vain, he formed it to be
captives, not for price nor inhabited: I am the LORD; and
reward, saith the LORD of there is none else.
hosts. 19 I have not spoken in secret,
14 Thus saith the LORD, The in a dark place of the earth: I
labour of Egypt, and said not unto the seed of
merchandise of Ethiopia and Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I
of the Sabeans, men of stature, the LORD speak righteousness,
shall come over unto thee, and I declare things that are right.
they shall be thine: they shall 20 ¶ Assemble yourselves and
come after thee; in chains they come; draw near together, ye
shall come over, and they shall that are escaped of the
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these things? The LORD hath ye, tell this, utter it even to the
loved him: he will do his end of the earth; say ye, The
pleasure on Babylon, and his LORD hath redeemed his
arm shall be on the Chaldeans. servant Jacob.
15 I, even I, have spoken; yea, 21 And they thirsted not when
I have called him: I have he led them through the
brought him, and he shall deserts: he caused the waters
make his way prosperous. to flow out of the rock for
16 ¶ Come ye near unto me, them: he clave the rock also,
hear ye this; I have not spoken and the waters gushed out.
in secret from the beginning; 22 There is no peace, saith the
from the time that it was, there LORD, unto the wicked.
am I: and now the Lord GOD,
and his Spirit, hath sent me. CHAPTER 49
17 Thus saith the LORD, thy LISTEN, O isles, unto me;
Redeemer, the Holy One of and hearken, ye people, from
Israel; I am the LORD thy God far; The LORD hath called me
which teacheth thee to profit, from the womb; from the
which leadeth thee by the way bowels of my mother hath he
that thou shouldest go. made mention of my name.
18 O that thou hadst 2 And he hath made my
hearkened to my mouth like a sharp sword; in
commandments! then had thy the shadow of his hand hath
peace been as a river, and thy he hid me, and made me a
righteousness as the waves of polished shaft; in his quiver
the sea: hath he hid me;
19 Thy seed also had been as 3 And said unto me, Thou art
the sand, and the offspring of my servant, O Israel, in whom
thy bowels like the gravel I will be glorified.
thereof; his name should not 4 Then I said, I have laboured
have been cut off nor in vain, I have spent my
destroyed from before me. strength for nought, and in
20 ¶ Go ye forth of Babylon, vain: yet surely my judgment
flee ye from the Chaldeans, is with the LORD, and my
with a voice of singing declare work with my God.
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26 And I will feed them that 4 The Lord GOD hath given
oppress thee with their own me the tongue of the learned,
flesh; and they shall be that I should know how to
drunken with their own blood, speak a word in season to him
as with sweet wine: and all that is weary: he wakeneth
flesh shall know that I the morning by morning, he
LORD am thy Saviour and thy wakeneth mine ear to hear as
Redeemer, the mighty One of the learned.
Jacob. 5 ¶ The Lord GOD hath
opened mine ear, and I was
CHAPTER 50 not rebellious, neither turned
THUS saith the LORD, Where away back.
is the bill of your mother’s 6 I gave my back to the
divorcement, whom I have put smiters, and my cheeks to
away? or which of my them that plucked off the hair:
creditors is it to whom I have I hid not my face from shame
sold you? Behold, for your and spitting.
iniquities have ye sold 7 ¶ For the Lord GOD will
yourselves, and for your help me; therefore shall I not
transgressions is your mother be confounded: therefore have
put away. I set my face like a flint, and I
2 Wherefore, when I came, know that I shall not be
was there no man? when I ashamed.
called, was there none to 8 He is near that justifieth me;
answer? Is my hand shortened who will contend with me? let
at all, that it cannot redeem? us stand together: who is mine
or have I no power to deliver? adversary? let him come near
behold, at my rebuke I dry up to me.
the sea, I make the rivers a 9 Behold, the Lord GOD will
wilderness: their fish stinketh, help me; who is he that shall
because there is no water, and condemn me? lo, they all shall
dieth for thirst. wax old as a garment; the
3 I clothe the heavens with moth shall eat them up.
blackness, and I make 10 ¶ Who is among you that
sackcloth their covering. feareth the LORD, that obeyeth
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the voice; with the voice nations; the kings shall shut
together shall they sing: for their mouths at him: for that
they shall see eye to eye, when which had not been told them
the LORD shall bring again shall they see; and that which
Zion. they had not heard shall they
9 ¶ Break forth into joy, sing consider.
together, ye waste places of
Jerusalem: for the LORD hath CHAPTER 53
comforted his people, he hath WHO hath believed our
redeemed Jerusalem. report? and to whom is the
10 The LORD hath made bare arm of the LORD revealed?
his holy arm in the eyes of all 2 For he shall grow up before
the nations; and all the ends of him as a tender plant, and as a
the earth shall see the root out of a dry ground: he
salvation of our God. hath no form nor comeliness;
11 ¶ Depart ye, depart ye, go and when we shall see him,
ye out from thence, touch no there is no beauty that we
unclean thing; go ye out of the should desire him.
midst of her; be ye clean, that 3 He is despised and rejected
bear the vessels of the LORD. of men; a man of sorrows, and
12 For ye shall not go out with acquainted with grief: and we
haste, nor go by flight: for the hid as it were our faces from
LORD will go before you; and him; he was despised, and we
the God of Israel will be your esteemed him not.
rereward. 4 ¶ Surely he hath borne our
13 ¶ Behold, my servant shall griefs, and carried our
deal prudently, he shall be sorrows: yet we did esteem
exalted and extolled, and be him stricken, smitten of God,
very high. and afflicted.
14 As many were astonied at 5 But he was wounded for our
thee; his visage was so marred transgressions, he was bruised
more than any man, and his for our iniquities: the
form more than the sons of chastisement of our peace was
men: upon him; and with his stripes
15 So shall he sprinkle many we are healed.
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confounded; for thou shalt not shall not depart from thee,
be put to shame: for thou shalt neither shall the covenant of
forget the shame of thy youth, my peace be removed, saith
and shalt not remember the the LORD that hath mercy on
reproach of thy widowhood thee.
any more. 11 ¶ O thou afflicted, tossed
5 For thy Maker is thine with tempest, and not
husband; the LORD of hosts is comforted, behold, I will lay
his name; and thy Redeemer thy stones with fair colours,
the Holy One of Israel; The and lay thy foundations with
God of the whole earth shall sapphires.
he be called. 12 And I will make thy
6 For the LORD hath called windows of agates, and thy
thee as a woman forsaken and gates of carbuncles, and all thy
grieved in spirit, and a wife of borders of pleasant stones.
youth, when thou wast 13 And all thy children shall
refused, saith thy God. be taught of the LORD; and
7 For a small moment have I great shall be the peace of thy
forsaken thee; but with great children.
mercies will I gather thee. 14 In righteousness shalt thou
8 In a little wrath I hid my be established: thou shalt be
face from thee for a moment; far from oppression; for thou
but with everlasting kindness shalt not fear: and from terror;
will I have mercy on thee, for it shall not come near thee.
saith the LORD thy Redeemer. 15 Behold, they shall surely
9 For this is as the waters of gather together, but not by me:
Noah unto me: for as I have whosoever shall gather
sworn that the waters of Noah together against thee shall fall
should no more go over the for thy sake.
earth; so have I sworn that I 16 Behold, I have created the
would not be wroth with thee, smith that bloweth the coals in
nor rebuke thee. the fire, and that bringeth forth
10 For the mountains shall an instrument for his work;
depart, and the hills be and I have created the waster
removed; but my kindness to destroy.
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to him, beside those that are sons of the sorceress, the seed
gathered unto him. of the adulterer and the whore.
9 ¶ All ye beasts of the field, 4 Against whom do ye sport
come to devour, yea, all ye yourselves? against whom
beasts in the forest. make ye a wide mouth, and
10 His watchmen are blind: draw out the tongue? are ye
they are all ignorant, they are not children of transgression, a
all dumb dogs, they cannot seed of falsehood,
bark; sleeping, lying down, 5 Enflaming yourselves with
loving to slumber. idols under every green tree,
11 Yea, they are greedy dogs slaying the children in the
which can never have enough, valleys under the clifts of the
and they are shepherds that rocks?
cannot understand: they all 6 Among the smooth stones of
look to their own way, every the stream is thy portion; they,
one for his gain, from his they are thy lot: even to them
quarter. hast thou poured a drink
12 Come ye, say they, I will offering, thou hast offered a
fetch wine, and we will fill meat offering. Should I
ourselves with strong drink; receive comfort in these?
and to morrow shall be as this 7 Upon a lofty and high
day, and much more abundant. mountain hast thou set thy
bed: even thither wentest thou
CHAPTER 57 up to offer sacrifice.
THE righteous perisheth, and 8 Behind the doors also and
no man layeth it to heart: and the posts hast thou set up thy
merciful men are taken away, remembrance: for thou hast
none considering that the discovered thyself to another
righteous is taken away from than me, and art gone up; thou
the evil to come. hast enlarged thy bed, and
2 He shall enter into peace: made thee a covenant with
they shall rest in their beds, them; thou lovedst their bed
each one walking in his where thou sawest it.
uprightness. 9 And thou wentest to the king
3 ¶ But draw near hither, ye with ointment, and didst
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fat thy bones: and thou shalt 2 But your iniquities have
be like a watered garden, and separated between you and
like a spring of water, whose your God, and your sins have
waters fail not. hid his face from you, that he
12 And they that shall be of will not hear.
thee shall build the old waste 3 For your hands are defiled
places: thou shalt raise up the with blood, and your fingers
foundations of many with iniquity; your lips have
generations; and thou shalt be spoken lies, your tongue hath
called, The repairer of the muttered perverseness.
breach, The restorer of paths 4 None calleth for justice, nor
to dwell in. any pleadeth for truth: they
13 ¶ If thou turn away thy foot trust in vanity, and speak lies;
from the sabbath, from doing they conceive mischief, and
thy pleasure on my holy day; bring forth iniquity.
and call the sabbath a delight, 5 They hatch cockatrice’ eggs,
the holy of the LORD, and weave the spider’s web:
honourable; and shalt honour he that eateth of their eggs
him, not doing thine own dieth, and that which is
ways, nor finding thine own crushed breaketh out into a
pleasure, nor speaking thine viper.
own words: 6 Their webs shall not become
14 Then shalt thou delight garments, neither shall they
thyself in the LORD; and I will cover themselves with their
cause thee to ride upon the works: their works are works
high places of the earth, and of iniquity, and the act of
feed thee with the heritage of violence is in their hands.
Jacob thy father: for the mouth 7 Their feet run to evil, and
of the LORD hath spoken it. they make haste to shed
innocent blood: their thoughts
CHAPTER 59 are thoughts of iniquity;
BEHOLD, the LORD’s hand is wasting and destruction are in
not shortened, that it cannot their paths.
save; neither his ear heavy, 8 The way of peace they know
that it cannot hear: not; and there is no judgment
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LORD; and they that have alone; and of the people there
brought it together shall drink was none with me: for I will
it in the courts of my holiness. tread them in mine anger, and
10 ¶ Go through, go through trample them in my fury; and
the gates; prepare ye the way their blood shall be sprinkled
of the people; cast up, cast up upon my garments, and I will
the highway; gather out the stain all my raiment.
stones; lift up a standard for 4 For the day of vengeance is
the people. in mine heart, and the year of
11 Behold, the LORD hath my redeemed is come.
proclaimed unto the end of the 5 And I looked, and there was
world, Say ye to the daughter none to help; and I wondered
of Zion, Behold, thy salvation that there was none to uphold:
cometh; behold, his reward is therefore mine own arm
with him, and his work before brought salvation unto me;
him. and my fury, it upheld me.
12 And they shall call them, 6 And I will tread down the
The holy people, The people in mine anger, and
redeemed of the LORD: and make them drunk in my fury,
thou shalt be called, Sought and I will bring down their
out, A city not forsaken. strength to the earth.
7 ¶ I will mention the
CHAPTER 63 lovingkindnesses of the LORD,
WHO is this that cometh from and the praises of the LORD,
Edom, with dyed garments according to all that the LORD
from Bozrah? this that is hath bestowed on us, and the
glorious in his apparel, great goodness toward the
travelling in the greatness of house of Israel, which he hath
his strength? I that speak in bestowed on them according
righteousness, mighty to save. to his mercies, and according
2 Wherefore art thou red in to the multitude of his
thine apparel, and thy lovingkindnesses.
garments like him that 8 For he said, Surely they are
treadeth in the winefat? my people, children that will
3 I have trodden the winepress not lie: so he was their
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burneth, the fire causeth the face from us, and hast
waters to boil, to make thy consumed us, because of our
name known to thine iniquities.
adversaries, that the nations 8 But now, O LORD, thou art
may tremble at thy presence! our father; we are the clay,
3 When thou didst terrible and thou our potter; and we all
things which we looked not are the work of thy hand.
for, thou camest down, the 9 ¶ Be not wroth very sore, O
mountains flowed down at thy LORD, neither remember
presence. iniquity for ever: behold, see,
4 For since the beginning of we beseech thee, we are all
the world men have not heard, thy people.
nor perceived by the ear, 10 Thy holy cities are a
neither hath the eye seen, O wilderness, Zion is a
God, beside thee, what he hath wilderness, Jerusalem a
prepared for him that waiteth desolation.
for him. 11 Our holy and our beautiful
5 Thou meetest him that house, where our fathers
rejoiceth and worketh praised thee, is burned up with
righteousness, those that fire: and all our pleasant
remember thee in thy ways: things are laid waste.
behold, thou art wroth; for we 12 Wilt thou refrain thyself for
have sinned: in those is these things, O LORD? wilt
continuance, and we shall be thou hold thy peace, and
saved. afflict us very sore?
6 But we are all as an unclean
thing, and all our CHAPTER 65
righteousnesses are as filthy I AM sought of them that
rags; and we all do fade as a asked not for me; I am found
leaf; and our iniquities, like of them that sought me not: I
the wind, have taken us away. said, Behold me, behold me,
7 And there is none that unto a nation that was not
calleth upon thy name, that called by my name.
stirreth up himself to take hold 2 I have spread out my hands
of thee: for thou hast hid thy all the day unto a rebellious
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shall break forth upon all the thee, saith the LORD, to
inhabitants of the land. deliver thee.
15 For, lo, I will call all the
families of the kingdoms of CHAPTER 2
the north, saith the LORD; and MOREOVER the word of the
they shall come, and they shall LORD came to me, saying,
set every one his throne at the 2 Go and cry in the ears of
entering of the gates of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith
Jerusalem, and against all the the LORD; I remember thee,
walls thereof round about, and the kindness of thy youth, the
against all the cities of Judah. love of thine espousals, when
16 And I will utter my thou wentest after me in the
judgments against them wilderness, in a land that was
touching all their wickedness, not sown.
who have forsaken me, and 3 Israel was holiness unto the
have burned incense unto LORD, and the firstfruits of his
other gods, and worshipped increase: all that devour him
the works of their own hands. shall offend; evil shall come
17 ¶ Thou therefore gird up upon them, saith the LORD.
thy loins, and arise, and speak 4 Hear ye the word of the
unto them all that I command LORD, O house of Jacob, and
thee: be not dismayed at their all the families of the house of
faces, lest I confound thee Israel:
before them. 5 ¶ Thus saith the LORD, What
18 For, behold, I have made iniquity have your fathers
thee this day a defenced city, found in me, that they are
and an iron pillar, and brasen gone far from me, and have
walls against the whole land, walked after vanity, and are
against the kings of Judah, become vain?
against the princes thereof, 6 Neither said they, Where is
against the priests thereof, and the LORD that brought us up
against the people of the land. out of the land of Egypt, that
19 And they shall fight against led us through the wilderness,
thee; but they shall not prevail through a land of deserts and
against thee; for I am with of pits, through a land of
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the LORD thy God, and that being unshod, and thy throat
my fear is not in thee, saith the from thirst: but thou saidst,
Lord GOD of hosts. There is no hope: no; for I
20 ¶ For of old time I have have loved strangers, and after
broken thy yoke, and burst thy them will I go.
bands; and thou saidst, I will 26 As the thief is ashamed
not transgress; when upon when he is found, so is the
every high hill and under house of Israel ashamed; they,
every green tree thou their kings, their princes, and
wanderest, playing the harlot. their priests, and their
21 Yet I had planted thee a prophets,
noble vine, wholly a right 27 Saying to a stock, Thou art
seed: how then art thou turned my father; and to a stone,
into the degenerate plant of a Thou hast brought me forth:
strange vine unto me? for they have turned their back
22 For though thou wash thee unto me, and not their face:
with nitre, and take thee much but in the time of their trouble
soap, yet thine iniquity is they will say, Arise, and save
marked before me, saith the us.
Lord GOD. 28 But where are thy gods
23 How canst thou say, I am that thou hast made thee? let
not polluted, I have not gone them arise, if they can save
after Baalim? see thy way in thee in the time of thy trouble:
the valley, know what thou for according to the number of
hast done: thou art a swift thy cities are thy gods, O
dromedary traversing her Judah.
ways; 29 Wherefore will ye plead
24 A wild ass used to the with me? ye all have
wilderness, that snuffeth up transgressed against me, saith
the wind at her pleasure; in her the LORD.
occasion who can turn her 30 In vain have I smitten your
away? all they that seek her children; they received no
will not weary themselves; in correction: your own sword
her month they shall find her. hath devoured your prophets,
25 Withhold thy foot from like a destroying lion.
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neither shall they visit it; perverted their way, and they
neither shall that be done any have forgotten the LORD their
more. God.
17 At that time they shall call 22 Return, ye backsliding
Jerusalem the throne of the children, and I will heal your
LORD; and all the nations shall backslidings. Behold, we
be gathered unto it, to the come unto thee; for thou art
name of the LORD, to the LORD our God.
Jerusalem: neither shall they 23 Truly in vain is salvation
walk any more after the hoped for from the hills, and
imagination of their evil heart. from the multitude of
18 In those days the house of mountains: truly in the LORD
Judah shall walk with the our God is the salvation of
house of Israel, and they shall Israel.
come together out of the land 24 For shame hath devoured
of the north to the land that I the labour of our fathers from
have given for an inheritance our youth; their flocks and
unto your fathers. their herds, their sons and their
19 But I said, How shall I put daughters.
thee among the children, and 25 We lie down in our shame,
give thee a pleasant land, a and our confusion covereth us:
goodly heritage of the hosts of for we have sinned against the
nations? and I said, Thou shalt LORD our God, we and our
call me, My father; and shalt fathers, from our youth even
not turn away from me. unto this day, and have not
20 ¶ Surely as a wife obeyed the voice of the LORD
treacherously departeth from our God.
her husband, so have ye dealt
treacherously with me, O CHAPTER 4
house of Israel, saith the IF thou wilt return, O Israel,
LORD. saith the LORD, return unto
21 A voice was heard upon the me: and if thou wilt put away
high places, weeping and thine abominations out of my
supplications of the children sight, then shalt thou not
of Israel: for they have remove.
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2 And thou shalt swear, The make thy land desolate; and
LORD liveth, in truth, in thy cities shall be laid waste,
judgment, and in without an inhabitant.
righteousness; and the nations 8 For this gird you with
shall bless themselves in him, sackcloth, lament and howl:
and in him shall they glory. for the fierce anger of the
3 ¶ For thus saith the LORD to LORD is not turned back from
the men of Judah and us.
Jerusalem, Break up your 9 And it shall come to pass at
fallow ground, and sow not that day, saith the LORD, that
among thorns. the heart of the king shall
4 Circumcise yourselves to the perish, and the heart of the
LORD, and take away the princes; and the priests shall
foreskins of your heart, ye be astonished, and the
men of Judah and inhabitants prophets shall wonder.
of Jerusalem: lest my fury 10 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD!
come forth like fire, and burn surely thou hast greatly
that none can quench it, deceived this people and
because of the evil of your Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall
doings. have peace; whereas the sword
5 Declare ye in Judah, and reacheth unto the soul.
publish in Jerusalem; and say, 11 At that time shall it be said
Blow ye the trumpet in the to this people and to
land: cry, gather together, and Jerusalem, A dry wind of the
say, Assemble yourselves, and high places in the wilderness
let us go into the defenced toward the daughter of my
cities. people, not to fan, nor to
6 Set up the standard toward cleanse,
Zion: retire, stay not: for I will 12 Even a full wind from
bring evil from the north, and those places shall come unto
a great destruction. me: now also will I give
7 The lion is come up from his sentence against them.
thicket, and the destroyer of 13 Behold, he shall come up
the Gentiles is on his way; he as clouds, and his chariots
is gone forth from his place to shall be as a whirlwind: his
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make a full end with you. LORD our God, that giveth
19 ¶ And it shall come to pass, rain, both the former and the
when ye shall say, Wherefore latter, in his season: he
doeth the LORD our God all reserveth unto us the
these things unto us? then appointed weeks of the
shalt thou answer them, Like harvest.
as ye have forsaken me, and 25 ¶ Your iniquities have
served strange gods in your turned away these things, and
land, so shall ye serve your sins have withholden
strangers in a land that is not good things from you.
yours. 26 For among my people are
20 Declare this in the house of found wicked men: they lay
Jacob, and publish it in Judah, wait, as he that setteth snares;
saying, they set a trap, they catch men.
21 Hear now this, O foolish 27 As a cage is full of birds,
people, and without so are their houses full of
understanding; which have deceit: therefore they are
eyes, and see not; which have become great, and waxen rich.
ears, and hear not: 28 They are waxen fat, they
22 Fear ye not me? saith the shine: yea, they overpass the
LORD: will ye not tremble at deeds of the wicked: they
my presence, which have judge not the cause, the cause
placed the sand for the bound of the fatherless, yet they
of the sea by a perpetual prosper; and the right of the
decree, that it cannot pass it: needy do they not judge.
and though the waves thereof 29 Shall I not visit for these
toss themselves, yet can they things? saith the LORD: shall
not prevail; though they roar, not my soul be avenged on
yet can they not pass over it? such a nation as this?
23 But this people hath a 30 ¶ A wonderful and horrible
revolting and a rebellious thing is committed in the land;
heart; they are revolted and 31 The prophets prophesy
gone. falsely, and the priests bear
24 Neither say they in their rule by their means; and my
heart, Let us now fear the people love to have it so: and
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sacrifices, and eat flesh. but they will not answer thee.
22 For I spake not unto your 28 But thou shalt say unto
fathers, nor commanded them them, This is a nation that
in the day that I brought them obeyeth not the voice of the
out of the land of Egypt, LORD their God, nor receiveth
concerning burnt offerings or correction: truth is perished,
sacrifices: and is cut off from their
23 But this thing commanded mouth.
I them, saying, Obey my 29 ¶ Cut off thine hair, O
voice, and I will be your God, Jerusalem, and cast it away,
and ye shall be my people: and and take up a lamentation on
walk ye in all the ways that I high places; for the LORD hath
have commanded you, that it rejected and forsaken the
may be well unto you. generation of his wrath.
24 But they hearkened not, nor 30 For the children of Judah
inclined their ear, but walked have done evil in my sight,
in the counsels and in the saith the LORD: they have set
imagination of their evil heart, their abominations in the
and went backward, and not house which is called by my
forward. name, to pollute it.
25 Since the day that your 31 And they have built the
fathers came forth out of the high places of Tophet, which
land of Egypt unto this day I is in the valley of the son of
have even sent unto you all Hinnom, to burn their sons
my servants the prophets, and their daughters in the fire;
daily rising up early and which I commanded them not,
sending them: neither came it into my heart.
26 Yet they hearkened not 32 ¶ Therefore, behold, the
unto me, nor inclined their ear, days come, saith the LORD,
but hardened their neck: they that it shall no more be called
did worse than their fathers. Tophet, nor the valley of the
27 Therefore thou shalt speak son of Hinnom, but the valley
all these words unto them; but of slaughter: for they shall
they will not hearken to thee: bury in Tophet, till there be no
thou shalt also call unto them; place.
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thou contend with horses? and mourneth unto me; the whole
if in the land of peace, wherein land is made desolate, because
thou trustedst, they wearied no man layeth it to heart.
thee, then how wilt thou do in 12 The spoilers are come upon
the swelling of Jordan? all high places through the
6 For even thy brethren, and wilderness: for the sword of
the house of thy father, even the LORD shall devour from
they have dealt treacherously the one end of the land even to
with thee; yea, they have the other end of the land: no
called a multitude after thee: flesh shall have peace.
believe them not, though they 13 They have sown wheat, but
speak fair words unto thee. shall reap thorns: they have
7 ¶ I have forsaken mine put themselves to pain, but
house, I have left mine shall not profit: and they shall
heritage; I have given the be ashamed of your revenues
dearly beloved of my soul into because of the fierce anger of
the hand of her enemies. the LORD.
8 Mine heritage is unto me as 14 ¶ Thus saith the LORD
a lion in the forest; it crieth against all mine evil
out against me: therefore have neighbours, that touch the
I hated it. inheritance which I have
9 Mine heritage is unto me as caused my people Israel to
a speckled bird, the birds inherit; Behold, I will pluck
round about are against her; them out of their land, and
come ye, assemble all the pluck out the house of Judah
beasts of the field, come to from among them.
devour. 15 And it shall come to pass,
10 Many pastors have after that I have plucked them
destroyed my vineyard, they out I will return, and have
have trodden my portion under compassion on them, and will
foot, they have made my bring them again, every man
pleasant portion a desolate to his heritage, and every man
wilderness. to his land.
11 They have made it 16 And it shall come to pass,
desolate, and being desolate it if they will diligently learn the
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filled with wine: and they run down with tears, because
shall say unto thee, Do we not the LORD’s flock is carried
certainly know that every away captive.
bottle shall be filled with 18 Say unto the king and to
wine? the queen, Humble yourselves,
13 Then shalt thou say unto sit down: for your
them, Thus saith the LORD, principalities shall come
Behold, I will fill all the down, even the crown of your
inhabitants of this land, even glory.
the kings that sit upon David’s 19 The cities of the south shall
throne, and the priests, and the be shut up, and none shall
prophets, and all the open them: Judah shall be
inhabitants of Jerusalem, with carried away captive all of it,
drunkenness. it shall be wholly carried away
14 And I will dash them one captive.
against another, even the 20 Lift up your eyes, and
fathers and the sons together, behold them that come from
saith the LORD: I will not pity, the north: where is the flock
nor spare, nor have mercy, but that was given thee, thy
destroy them. beautiful flock?
15 ¶ Hear ye, and give ear; be 21 What wilt thou say when
not proud: for the LORD hath he shall punish thee? for thou
spoken. hast taught them to be
16 Give glory to the LORD captains, and as chief over
your God, before he cause thee: shall not sorrows take
darkness, and before your feet thee, as a woman in travail?
stumble upon the dark 22 ¶ And if thou say in thine
mountains, and, while ye look heart, Wherefore come these
for light, he turn it into the things upon me? For the
shadow of death, and make it greatness of thine iniquity are
gross darkness. thy skirts discovered, and thy
17 But if ye will not hear it, heels made bare.
my soul shall weep in secret 23 Can the Ethiopian change
places for your pride; and his skin, or the leopard his
mine eye shall weep sore, and spots? then may ye also do
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Zion? why hast thou smitten LORD; Such as are for death,
us, and there is no healing for to death; and such as are for
us? we looked for peace, and the sword, to the sword; and
there is no good; and for the such as are for the famine, to
time of healing, and behold the famine; and such as are for
trouble! the captivity, to the captivity.
20 We acknowledge, O LORD, 3 And I will appoint over
our wickedness, and the them four kinds, saith the
iniquity of our fathers: for we LORD: the sword to slay, and
have sinned against thee. the dogs to tear, and the fowls
21 Do not abhor us, for thy of the heaven, and the beasts
name’s sake, do not disgrace of the earth, to devour and
the throne of thy glory: destroy.
remember, break not thy 4 And I will cause them to be
covenant with us. removed into all kingdoms of
22 Are there any among the the earth, because of
vanities of the Gentiles that Manasseh the son of Hezekiah
can cause rain? or can the king of Judah, for that which
heavens give showers? art not he did in Jerusalem.
thou he, O LORD our God? 5 For who shall have pity
therefore we will wait upon upon thee, O Jerusalem? or
thee: for thou hast made all who shall bemoan thee? or
these things. who shall go aside to ask how
thou doest?
CHAPTER 15 6 Thou hast forsaken me, saith
THEN said the LORD unto me, the LORD, thou art gone
Though Moses and Samuel backward: therefore will I
stood before me, yet my mind stretch out my hand against
could not be toward this thee, and destroy thee; I am
people: cast them out of my weary with repenting.
sight, and let them go forth. 7 And I will fan them with a
2 And it shall come to pass, if fan in the gates of the land; I
they say unto thee, Whither will bereave them of children,
shall we go forth? then thou I will destroy my people, since
shalt tell them, Thus saith the they return not from their
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the carcases of their detestable and thy high places for sin,
and abominable things. throughout all thy borders.
19 O LORD, my strength, and 4 And thou, even thyself, shalt
my fortress, and my refuge in discontinue from thine
the day of affliction, the heritage that I gave thee; and I
Gentiles shall come unto thee will cause thee to serve thine
from the ends of the earth, and enemies in the land which
shall say, Surely our fathers thou knowest not: for ye have
have inherited lies, vanity, and kindled a fire in mine anger,
things wherein there is no which shall burn for ever.
profit. 5 ¶ Thus saith the LORD;
20 Shall a man make gods Cursed be the man that
unto himself, and they are no trusteth in man, and maketh
gods? flesh his arm, and whose heart
21 Therefore, behold, I will departeth from the LORD.
this once cause them to know, 6 For he shall be like the heath
I will cause them to know in the desert, and shall not see
mine hand and my might; and when good cometh; but shall
they shall know that my name inhabit the parched places in
is The LORD. the wilderness, in a salt land
and not inhabited.
CHAPTER 17 7 Blessed is the man that
THE sin of Judah is written trusteth in the LORD, and
with a pen of iron, and with whose hope the LORD is.
the point of a diamond: it is 8 For he shall be as a tree
graven upon the table of their planted by the waters, and that
heart, and upon the horns of spreadeth out her roots by the
your altars; river, and shall not see when
2 Whilst their children heat cometh, but her leaf shall
remember their altars and their be green; and shall not be
groves by the green trees upon careful in the year of drought,
the high hills. neither shall cease from
3 O my mountain in the field, yielding fruit.
I will give thy substance and 9 ¶ The heart is deceitful
all thy treasures to the spoil, above all things, and
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11 For thus saith the LORD heart are not but for thy
touching Shallum the son of covetousness, and for to shed
Josiah king of Judah, which innocent blood, and for
reigned instead of Josiah his oppression, and for violence,
father, which went forth out of to do it.
this place; He shall not return 18 Therefore thus saith the
thither any more: LORD concerning Jehoiakim
12 But he shall die in the place the son of Josiah king of
whither they have led him Judah; They shall not lament
captive, and shall see this land for him, saying, Ah my
no more. brother! or, Ah sister! they
13 ¶ Woe unto him that shall not lament for him,
buildeth his house by saying, Ah lord! or, Ah his
unrighteousness, and his glory!
chambers by wrong; that useth 19 He shall be buried with the
his neighbour’s service burial of an ass, drawn and
without wages, and giveth him cast forth beyond the gates of
not for his work; Jerusalem.
14 That saith, I will build me a 20 ¶ Go up to Lebanon, and
wide house and large cry; and lift up thy voice in
chambers, and cutteth him out Bashan, and cry from the
windows; and it is cieled with passages: for all thy lovers are
cedar, and painted with destroyed.
vermilion. 21 I spake unto thee in thy
15 Shalt thou reign, because prosperity; but thou saidst, I
thou closest thyself in cedar? will not hear. This hath been
did not thy father eat and thy manner from thy youth,
drink, and do judgment and that thou obeyedst not my
justice, and then it was well voice.
with him? 22 The wind shall eat up all
16 He judged the cause of the thy pastors, and thy lovers
poor and needy; then it was shall go into captivity: surely
well with him: was not this to then shalt thou be ashamed
know me? saith the LORD. and confounded for all thy
17 But thine eyes and thine wickedness.
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gall: for from the prophets of not spoken to them, yet they
Jerusalem is profaneness gone prophesied.
forth into all the land. 22 But if they had stood in my
16 Thus saith the LORD of counsel, and had caused my
hosts, Hearken not unto the people to hear my words, then
words of the prophets that they should have turned them
prophesy unto you: they make from their evil way, and from
you vain: they speak a vision the evil of their doings.
of their own heart, and not out 23 Am I a God at hand, saith
of the mouth of the LORD. the LORD, and not a God afar
17 They say still unto them off?
that despise me, The LORD 24 Can any hide himself in
hath said, Ye shall have peace; secret places that I shall not
and they say unto every one see him? saith the LORD. Do
that walketh after the not I fill heaven and earth?
imagination of his own heart, saith the LORD.
No evil shall come upon you. 25 I have heard what the
18 For who hath stood in the prophets said, that prophesy
counsel of the LORD, and hath lies in my name, saying, I
perceived and heard his word? have dreamed, I have
who hath marked his word, dreamed.
and heard it? 26 How long shall this be in
19 Behold, a whirlwind of the the heart of the prophets that
LORD is gone forth in fury, prophesy lies? yea, they are
even a grievous whirlwind: it prophets of the deceit of their
shall fall grievously upon the own heart;
head of the wicked. 27 Which think to cause my
20 The anger of the LORD people to forget my name by
shall not return, until he have their dreams which they tell
executed, and till he have every man to his neighbour, as
performed the thoughts of his their fathers have forgotten my
heart: in the latter days ye name for Baal.
shall consider it perfectly. 28 The prophet that hath a
21 I have not sent these dream, let him tell a dream;
prophets, yet they ran: I have and he that hath my word, let
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good.
CHAPTER 24 6 For I will set mine eyes
THE LORD shewed me, and, upon them for good, and I will
behold, two baskets of figs bring them again to this land:
were set before the temple of and I will build them, and not
the LORD, after that pull them down; and I will
Nebuchadrezzar king of plant them, and not pluck
Babylon had carried away them up.
captive Jeconiah the son of 7 And I will give them an
Jehoiakim king of Judah, and heart to know me, that I am
the princes of Judah, with the the LORD: and they shall be
carpenters and smiths, from my people, and I will be their
Jerusalem, and had brought God: for they shall return unto
them to Babylon. me with their whole heart.
2 One basket had very good 8 ¶ And as the evil figs, which
figs, even like the figs that are cannot be eaten, they are so
first ripe: and the other basket evil; surely thus saith the
had very naughty figs, which LORD, So will I give Zedekiah
could not be eaten, they were the king of Judah, and his
so bad. princes, and the residue of
3 Then said the LORD unto Jerusalem, that remain in this
me, What seest thou, land, and them that dwell in
Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the land of Egypt:
the good figs, very good; and 9 And I will deliver them to be
the evil, very evil, that cannot removed into all the kingdoms
be eaten, they are so evil. of the earth for their hurt, to
4 ¶ Again the word of the be a reproach and a proverb, a
LORD came unto me, saying, taunt and a curse, in all places
5 Thus saith the LORD, the whither I shall drive them.
God of Israel; Like these good 10 And I will send the sword,
figs, so will I acknowledge the famine, and the pestilence,
them that are carried away among them, till they be
captive of Judah, whom I have consumed from off the land
sent out of this place into the that I gave unto them and to
land of the Chaldeans for their their fathers.
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8 ¶ For thus saith the LORD of you, saith the LORD; and I will
hosts, the God of Israel; Let bring you again into the place
not your prophets and your whence I caused you to be
diviners, that be in the midst carried away captive.
of you, deceive you, neither 15 ¶ Because ye have said,
hearken to your dreams which The LORD hath raised us up
ye cause to be dreamed. prophets in Babylon;
9 For they prophesy falsely 16 Know that thus saith the
unto you in my name: I have LORD of the king that sitteth
not sent them, saith the LORD. upon the throne of David, and
10 ¶ For thus saith the LORD, of all the people that dwelleth
That after seventy years be in this city, and of your
accomplished at Babylon I brethren that are not gone
will visit you, and perform my forth with you into captivity;
good word toward you, in 17 Thus saith the LORD of
causing you to return to this hosts; Behold, I will send
place. upon them the sword, the
11 For I know the thoughts famine, and the pestilence, and
that I think toward you, saith will make them like vile figs,
the LORD, thoughts of peace, that cannot be eaten, they are
and not of evil, to give you an so evil.
expected end. 18 And I will persecute them
12 Then shall ye call upon me, with the sword, with the
and ye shall go and pray unto famine, and with the
me, and I will hearken unto pestilence, and will deliver
you. them to be removed to all the
13 And ye shall seek me, and kingdoms of the earth, to be a
find me, when ye shall search curse, and an astonishment,
for me with all your heart. and an hissing, and a reproach,
14 And I will be found of you, among all the nations whither
saith the LORD: and I will turn I have driven them:
away your captivity, and I will 19 Because they have not
gather you from all the hearkened to my words, saith
nations, and from all the the LORD, which I sent unto
places whither I have driven them by my servants the
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from afar, and thy seed from devour thee shall be devoured;
the land of their captivity; and and all thine adversaries,
Jacob shall return, and shall be every one of them, shall go
in rest, and be quiet, and none into captivity; and they that
shall make him afraid. spoil thee shall be a spoil, and
11 For I am with thee, saith all that prey upon thee will I
the LORD, to save thee: though give for a prey.
I make a full end of all nations 17 For I will restore health
whither I have scattered thee, unto thee, and I will heal thee
yet will I not make a full end of thy wounds, saith the
of thee: but I will correct thee LORD; because they called
in measure, and will not leave thee an Outcast, saying, This
thee altogether unpunished. is Zion, whom no man seeketh
12 For thus saith the LORD, after.
Thy bruise is incurable, and 18 ¶ Thus saith the LORD;
thy wound is grievous. Behold, I will bring again the
13 There is none to plead thy captivity of Jacob’s tents, and
cause, that thou mayest be have mercy on his
bound up: thou hast no healing dwellingplaces; and the city
medicines. shall be builded upon her own
14 All thy lovers have heap, and the palace shall
forgotten thee; they seek thee remain after the manner
not; for I have wounded thee thereof.
with the wound of an enemy, 19 And out of them shall
with the chastisement of a proceed thanksgiving and the
cruel one, for the multitude of voice of them that make
thine iniquity; because thy merry: and I will multiply
sins were increased. them, and they shall not be
15 Why criest thou for thine few; I will also glorify them,
affliction? thy sorrow is and they shall not be small.
incurable for the multitude of 20 Their children also shall be
thine iniquity: because thy as aforetime, and their
sins were increased, I have congregation shall be
done these things unto thee. established before me, and I
16 Therefore all they that will punish all that oppress
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that eateth the sour grape, his which giveth the sun for a
teeth shall be set on edge. light by day, and the
31 ¶ Behold, the days come, ordinances of the moon and of
saith the LORD, that I will the stars for a light by night,
make a new covenant with the which divideth the sea when
house of Israel, and with the the waves thereof roar; The
house of Judah: LORD of hosts is his name:
32 Not according to the 36 If those ordinances depart
covenant that I made with from before me, saith the
their fathers in the day that I LORD, then the seed of Israel
took them by the hand to bring also shall cease from being a
them out of the land of Egypt; nation before me for ever.
which my covenant they 37 Thus saith the LORD; If
brake, although I was an heaven above can be
husband unto them, saith the measured, and the foundations
LORD: of the earth searched out
33 But this shall be the beneath, I will also cast off all
covenant that I will make with the seed of Israel for all that
the house of Israel; After those they have done, saith the
days, saith the LORD, I will LORD.
put my law in their inward 38 ¶ Behold, the days come,
parts, and write it in their saith the LORD, that the city
hearts; and will be their God, shall be built to the LORD
and they shall be my people. from the tower of Hananeel
34 And they shall teach no unto the gate of the corner.
more every man his 39 And the measuring line
neighbour, and every man his shall yet go forth over against
brother, saying, Know the it upon the hill Gareb, and
LORD: for they shall all know shall compass about to Goath.
me, from the least of them 40 And the whole valley of
unto the greatest of them, saith the dead bodies, and of the
the LORD: for I will forgive ashes, and all the fields unto
their iniquity, and I will the brook of Kidron, unto the
remember their sin no more. corner of the horse gate
35 ¶ Thus saith the LORD, toward the east, shall be holy
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23 And they came in, and Babylon, and he shall take it:
possessed it; but they obeyed 29 And the Chaldeans, that
not thy voice, neither walked fight against this city, shall
in thy law; they have done come and set fire on this city,
nothing of all that thou and burn it with the houses,
commandedst them to do: upon whose roofs they have
therefore thou hast caused all offered incense unto Baal, and
this evil to come upon them: poured out drink offerings
24 Behold the mounts, they unto other gods, to provoke
are come unto the city to take me to anger.
it; and the city is given into 30 For the children of Israel
the hand of the Chaldeans, that and the children of Judah have
fight against it, because of the only done evil before me from
sword, and of the famine, and their youth: for the children of
of the pestilence: and what Israel have only provoked me
thou hast spoken is come to to anger with the work of their
pass; and, behold, thou seest hands, saith the LORD.
it. 31 For this city hath been to
25 And thou hast said unto me as a provocation of mine
me, O Lord GOD, Buy thee the anger and of my fury from the
field for money, and take day that they built it even unto
witnesses; for the city is given this day; that I should remove
into the hand of the it from before my face,
Chaldeans. 32 Because of all the evil of
26 ¶ Then came the word of the children of Israel and of
the LORD unto Jeremiah, the children of Judah, which
saying, they have done to provoke me
27 Behold, I am the LORD, the to anger, they, their kings,
God of all flesh: is there any their princes, their priests, and
thing too hard for me? their prophets, and the men of
28 Therefore thus saith the Judah, and the inhabitants of
LORD; Behold, I will give this Jerusalem.
city into the hand of the 33 And they have turned unto
Chaldeans, and into the hand me the back, and not the face:
of Nebuchadrezzar king of though I taught them, rising
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and with the burnings of thy and all the people, which had
fathers, the former kings entered into the covenant,
which were before thee, so heard that every one should let
shall they burn odours for his manservant, and every one
thee; and they will lament his maidservant, go free, that
thee, saying, Ah lord! for I none should serve themselves
have pronounced the word, of them any more, then they
saith the LORD. obeyed, and let them go.
6 Then Jeremiah the prophet 11 But afterward they turned,
spake all these words unto and caused the servants and
Zedekiah king of Judah in the handmaids, whom they
Jerusalem, had let go free, to return, and
7 When the king of Babylon’s brought them into subjection
army fought against for servants and for
Jerusalem, and against all the handmaids.
cities of Judah that were left, 12 ¶ Therefore the word of the
against Lachish, and against LORD came to Jeremiah from
Azekah: for these defenced the LORD, saying,
cities remained of the cities of 13 Thus saith the LORD, the
Judah. God of Israel; I made a
8 ¶ This is the word that came covenant with your fathers in
unto Jeremiah from the LORD, the day that I brought them
after that the king Zedekiah forth out of the land of Egypt,
had made a covenant with all out of the house of bondmen,
the people which were at saying,
Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty 14 At the end of seven years
unto them; let ye go every man his
9 That every man should let brother an Hebrew, which
his manservant, and every hath been sold unto thee; and
man his maidservant, being an when he hath served thee six
Hebrew or an Hebrewess, go years, thou shalt let him go
free; that none should serve free from thee: but your
himself of them, to wit, of a fathers hearkened not unto me,
Jew his brother. neither inclined their ear.
10 Now when all the princes, 15 And ye were now turned,
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in the fire that was on the burned this roll, saying, Why
hearth. hast thou written therein,
24 Yet they were not afraid, saying, The king of Babylon
nor rent their garments, shall certainly come and
neither the king, nor any of his destroy this land, and shall
servants that heard all these cause to cease from thence
words. man and beast?
25 Nevertheless Elnathan and 30 Therefore thus saith the
Delaiah and Gemariah had LORD of Jehoiakim king of
made intercession to the king Judah; He shall have none to
that he would not burn the sit upon the throne of David:
roll: but he would not hear and his dead body shall be cast
them. out in the day to the heat, and
26 But the king commanded in the night to the frost.
Jerahmeel the son of 31 And I will punish him and
Hammelech, and Seraiah the his seed and his servants for
son of Azriel, and Shelemiah their iniquity; and I will bring
the son of Abdeel, to take upon them, and upon the
Baruch the scribe and inhabitants of Jerusalem, and
Jeremiah the prophet: but the upon the men of Judah, all the
LORD hid them. evil that I have pronounced
27 ¶ Then the word of the against them; but they
LORD came to Jeremiah, after hearkened not.
that the king had burned the 32 ¶ Then took Jeremiah
roll, and the words which another roll, and gave it to
Baruch wrote at the mouth of Baruch the scribe, the son of
Jeremiah, saying, Neriah; who wrote therein
28 Take thee again another from the mouth of Jeremiah
roll, and write in it all the all the words of the book
former words that were in the which Jehoiakim king of
first roll, which Jehoiakim the Judah had burned in the fire:
king of Judah hath burned. and there were added besides
29 And thou shalt say to unto them many like words.
Jehoiakim king of Judah, Thus
saith the LORD; Thou hast CHAPTER 37
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are sunk in the mire, and they matter was not perceived.
are turned away back. 28 So Jeremiah abode in the
23 So they shall bring out all court of the prison until the
thy wives and thy children to day that Jerusalem was taken:
the Chaldeans: and thou shalt and he was there when
not escape out of their hand, Jerusalem was taken.
but shalt be taken by the hand
of the king of Babylon: and CHAPTER 39
thou shalt cause this city to be IN the ninth year of Zedekiah
burned with fire. king of Judah, in the tenth
24 ¶ Then said Zedekiah unto month, came Nebuchadrezzar
Jeremiah, Let no man know of king of Babylon and all his
these words, and thou shalt army against Jerusalem, and
not die. they besieged it.
25 But if the princes hear that 2 And in the eleventh year of
I have talked with thee, and Zedekiah, in the fourth month,
they come unto thee, and say the ninth day of the month, the
unto thee, Declare unto us city was broken up.
now what thou hast said unto 3 And all the princes of the
the king, hide it not from us, king of Babylon came in, and
and we will not put thee to sat in the middle gate, even
death; also what the king said Nergal-sharezer, Samgar-
unto thee: nebo, Sarsechim, Rab-saris,
26 Then thou shalt say unto Nergal-sharezer, Rab-mag,
them, I presented my with all the residue of the
supplication before the king, princes of the king of
that he would not cause me to Babylon.
return to Jonathan’s house, to 4 ¶ And it came to pass, that
die there. when Zedekiah the king of
27 Then came all the princes Judah saw them, and all the
unto Jeremiah, and asked him: men of war, then they fled,
and he told them according to and went forth out of the city
all these words that the king by night, by the way of the
had commanded. So they left king’s garden, by the gate
off speaking with him; for the betwixt the two walls: and he
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went out the way of the plain. poor of the people, which had
5 But the Chaldeans’ army nothing, in the land of Judah,
pursued after them, and and gave them vineyards and
overtook Zedekiah in the fields at the same time.
plains of Jericho: and when 11 ¶ Now Nebuchadrezzar
they had taken him, they king of Babylon gave charge
brought him up to concerning Jeremiah to
Nebuchadnezzar king of Nebuzar-adan the captain of
Babylon to Riblah in the land the guard, saying,
of Hamath, where he gave 12 Take him, and look well to
judgment upon him. him, and do him no harm; but
6 Then the king of Babylon do unto him even as he shall
slew the sons of Zedekiah in say unto thee.
Riblah before his eyes: also 13 So Nebuzar-adan the
the king of Babylon slew all captain of the guard sent, and
the nobles of Judah. Nebushasban, Rab-saris, and
7 Moreover he put out Nergal-sharezer, Rab-mag,
Zedekiah’s eyes, and bound and all the king of Babylon’s
him with chains, to carry him princes;
to Babylon. 14 Even they sent, and took
8 ¶ And the Chaldeans burned Jeremiah out of the court of
the king’s house, and the the prison, and committed him
houses of the people, with fire, unto Gedaliah the son of
and brake down the walls of Ahikam the son of Shaphan,
Jerusalem. that he should carry him
9 Then Nebuzar-adan the home: so he dwelt among the
captain of the guard carried people.
away captive into Babylon the 15 ¶ Now the word of the
remnant of the people that LORD came unto Jeremiah,
remained in the city, and those while he was shut up in the
that fell away, that fell to him, court of the prison, saying,
with the rest of the people that 16 Go and speak to Ebed-
remained. melech the Ethiopian, saying,
10 But Nebuzar-adan the Thus saith the LORD of hosts,
captain of the guard left of the the God of Israel; Behold, I
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among the people that were unto us: but ye, gather ye
left in the land. wine, and summer fruits, and
7 ¶ Now when all the captains oil, and put them in your
of the forces which were in the vessels, and dwell in your
fields, even they and their cities that ye have taken.
men, heard that the king of 11 Likewise when all the Jews
Babylon had made Gedaliah that were in Moab, and among
the son of Ahikam governor in the Ammonites, and in Edom,
the land, and had committed and that were in all the
unto him men, and women, countries, heard that the king
and children, and of the poor of Babylon had left a remnant
of the land, of them that were of Judah, and that he had set
not carried away captive to over them Gedaliah the son of
Babylon; Ahikam the son of Shaphan;
8 Then they came to Gedaliah 12 Even all the Jews returned
to Mizpah, even Ishmael the out of all places whither they
son of Nethaniah, and Johanan were driven, and came to the
and Jonathan the sons of land of Judah, to Gedaliah,
Kareah, and Seraiah the son of unto Mizpah, and gathered
Tanhumeth, and the sons of wine and summer fruits very
Ephai the Netophathite, and much.
Jezaniah the son of a 13 ¶ Moreover Johanan the
Maachathite, they and their son of Kareah, and all the
men. captains of the forces that
9 And Gedaliah the son of were in the fields, came to
Ahikam the son of Shaphan Gedaliah to Mizpah,
sware unto them and to their 14 And said unto him, Dost
men, saying, Fear not to serve thou certainly know that
the Chaldeans: dwell in the Baalis the king of the
land, and serve the king of Ammonites hath sent Ishmael
Babylon, and it shall be well the son of Nethaniah to slay
with you. thee? But Gedaliah the son of
10 As for me, behold, I will Ahikam believed them not.
dwell at Mizpah to serve the 15 Then Johanan the son of
Chaldeans, which will come Kareah spake to Gedaliah in
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Mizpah secretly, saying, Let Jews that were with him, even
me go, I pray thee, and I will with Gedaliah, at Mizpah, and
slay Ishmael the son of the Chaldeans that were found
Nethaniah, and no man shall there, and the men of war.
know it: wherefore should he 4 And it came to pass the
slay thee, that all the Jews second day after he had slain
which are gathered unto thee Gedaliah, and no man knew it,
should be scattered, and the 5 That there came certain from
remnant in Judah perish? Shechem, from Shiloh, and
16 But Gedaliah the son of from Samaria, even fourscore
Ahikam said unto Johanan the men, having their beards
son of Kareah, Thou shalt not shaven, and their clothes rent,
do this thing: for thou speakest and having cut themselves,
falsely of Ishmael. with offerings and incense in
their hand, to bring them to the
CHAPTER 41 house of the LORD.
NOW it came to pass in the 6 And Ishmael the son of
seventh month, that Ishmael Nethaniah went forth from
the son of Nethaniah the son Mizpah to meet them,
of Elishama, of the seed royal, weeping all along as he went:
and the princes of the king, and it came to pass, as he met
even ten men with him, came them, he said unto them,
unto Gedaliah the son of Come to Gedaliah the son of
Ahikam to Mizpah; and there Ahikam.
they did eat bread together in 7 And it was so, when they
Mizpah. came into the midst of the
2 Then arose Ishmael the son city, that Ishmael the son of
of Nethaniah, and the ten men Nethaniah slew them, and cast
that were with him, and smote them into the midst of the pit,
Gedaliah the son of Ahikam he, and the men that were with
the son of Shaphan with the him.
sword, and slew him, whom 8 But ten men were found
the king of Babylon had made among them that said unto
governor over the land. Ishmael, Slay us not: for we
3 Ishmael also slew all the have treasures in the field, of
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up: for I repent me of the evil afraid, shall follow close after
that I have done unto you. you there in Egypt; and there
11 Be not afraid of the king of ye shall die.
Babylon, of whom ye are 17 So shall it be with all the
afraid; be not afraid of him, men that set their faces to go
saith the LORD: for I am with into Egypt to sojourn there;
you to save you, and to deliver they shall die by the sword, by
you from his hand. the famine, and by the
12 And I will shew mercies pestilence: and none of them
unto you, that he may have shall remain or escape from
mercy upon you, and cause the evil that I will bring upon
you to return to your own them.
land. 18 For thus saith the LORD of
13 ¶ But if ye say, We will not hosts, the God of Israel; As
dwell in this land, neither mine anger and my fury hath
obey the voice of the LORD been poured forth upon the
your God, inhabitants of Jerusalem; so
14 Saying, No; but we will go shall my fury be poured forth
into the land of Egypt, where upon you, when ye shall enter
we shall see no war, nor hear into Egypt: and ye shall be an
the sound of the trumpet, nor execration, and an
have hunger of bread; and astonishment, and a curse, and
there will we dwell: a reproach; and ye shall see
15 And now therefore hear the this place no more.
word of the LORD, ye remnant 19 ¶ The LORD hath said
of Judah; Thus saith the LORD concerning you, O ye remnant
of hosts, the God of Israel; If of Judah; Go ye not into
ye wholly set your faces to Egypt: know certainly that I
enter into Egypt, and go to have admonished you this day.
sojourn there; 20 For ye dissembled in your
16 Then it shall come to pass, hearts, when ye sent me unto
that the sword, which ye the LORD your God, saying,
feared, shall overtake you Pray for us unto the LORD our
there in the land of Egypt, and God; and according unto all
the famine, whereof ye were that the LORD our God shall
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and was kindled in the cities unto this day, neither have
of Judah and in the streets of they feared, nor walked in my
Jerusalem; and they are law, nor in my statutes, that I
wasted and desolate, as at this set before you and before your
day. fathers.
7 Therefore now thus saith the 11 ¶ Therefore thus saith the
LORD, the God of hosts, the LORD of hosts, the God of
God of Israel; Wherefore Israel; Behold, I will set my
commit ye this great evil face against you for evil, and
against your souls, to cut off to cut off all Judah.
from you man and woman, 12 And I will take the remnant
child and suckling, out of of Judah, that have set their
Judah, to leave you none to faces to go into the land of
remain; Egypt to sojourn there, and
8 In that ye provoke me unto they shall all be consumed,
wrath with the works of your and fall in the land of Egypt;
hands, burning incense unto they shall even be consumed
other gods in the land of by the sword and by the
Egypt, whither ye be gone to famine: they shall die, from
dwell, that ye might cut the least even unto the
yourselves off, and that ye greatest, by the sword and by
might be a curse and a the famine: and they shall be
reproach among all the nations an execration, and an
of the earth? astonishment, and a curse, and
9 Have ye forgotten the a reproach.
wickedness of your fathers, 13 For I will punish them that
and the wickedness of the dwell in the land of Egypt, as I
kings of Judah, and the have punished Jerusalem, by
wickedness of their wives, and the sword, by the famine, and
your own wickedness, and the by the pestilence:
wickedness of your wives, 14 So that none of the remnant
which they have committed in of Judah, which are gone into
the land of Judah, and in the the land of Egypt to sojourn
streets of Jerusalem? there, shall escape or remain,
10 They are not humbled even that they should return into the
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have not obeyed the voice of them for evil, and not for
the LORD, nor walked in his good: and all the men of Judah
law, nor in his statutes, nor in that are in the land of Egypt
his testimonies; therefore this shall be consumed by the
evil is happened unto you, as sword and by the famine, until
at this day. there be an end of them.
24 Moreover Jeremiah said 28 Yet a small number that
unto all the people, and to all escape the sword shall return
the women, Hear the word of out of the land of Egypt into
the LORD, all Judah that are in the land of Judah, and all the
the land of Egypt: remnant of Judah, that are
25 Thus saith the LORD of gone into the land of Egypt to
hosts, the God of Israel, sojourn there, shall know
saying; Ye and your wives whose words shall stand,
have both spoken with your mine, or theirs.
mouths, and fulfilled with 29 ¶ And this shall be a sign
your hand, saying, We will unto you, saith the LORD, that
surely perform our vows that I will punish you in this place,
we have vowed, to burn that ye may know that my
incense to the queen of words shall surely stand
heaven, and to pour out drink against you for evil:
offerings unto her: ye will 30 Thus saith the LORD;
surely accomplish your vows, Behold, I will give Pharaoh-
and surely perform your vows. hophra king of Egypt into the
26 Therefore hear ye the word hand of his enemies, and into
of the LORD, all Judah that the hand of them that seek his
dwell in the land of Egypt; life; as I gave Zedekiah king
Behold, I have sworn by my of Judah into the hand of
great name, saith the LORD, Nebuchadrezzar king of
that my name shall no more be Babylon, his enemy, and that
named in the mouth of any sought his life.
man of Judah in all the land of
Egypt, saying, The Lord GOD CHAPTER 45
liveth. THE word that Jeremiah the
27 Behold, I will watch over prophet spake unto Baruch the
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turned back, and are fled away days of old, saith the LORD.
together: they did not stand, 27 ¶ But fear not thou, O my
because the day of their servant Jacob, and be not
calamity was come upon dismayed, O Israel: for,
them, and the time of their behold, I will save thee from
visitation. afar off, and thy seed from the
22 The voice thereof shall go land of their captivity; and
like a serpent; for they shall Jacob shall return, and be in
march with an army, and come rest and at ease, and none shall
against her with axes, as make him afraid.
hewers of wood. 28 Fear thou not, O Jacob my
23 They shall cut down her servant, saith the LORD: for I
forest, saith the LORD, though am with thee; for I will make a
it cannot be searched; because full end of all the nations
they are more than the whither I have driven thee: but
grasshoppers, and are I will not make a full end of
innumerable. thee, but correct thee in
24 The daughter of Egypt measure; yet will I not leave
shall be confounded; she shall thee wholly unpunished.
be delivered into the hand of
the people of the north. CHAPTER 47
25 The LORD of hosts, the THE word of the LORD that
God of Israel, saith; Behold, I came to Jeremiah the prophet
will punish the multitude of against the Philistines, before
No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, that Pharaoh smote Gaza.
with their gods, and their 2 Thus saith the LORD;
kings; even Pharaoh, and all Behold, waters rise up out of
them that trust in him: the north, and shall be an
26 And I will deliver them overflowing flood, and shall
into the hand of those that overflow the land, and all that
seek their lives, and into the is therein; the city, and them
hand of Nebuchadrezzar king that dwell therein: then the
of Babylon, and into the hand men shall cry, and all the
of his servants: and afterward inhabitants of the land shall
it shall be inhabited, as in the howl.
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shall perish, and the plain chosen young men are gone
shall be destroyed, as the down to the slaughter, saith
LORD hath spoken. the King, whose name is the
9 Give wings unto Moab, that LORD of hosts.
it may flee and get away: for 16 The calamity of Moab is
the cities thereof shall be near to come, and his
desolate, without any to dwell affliction hasteth fast.
therein. 17 All ye that are about him,
10 Cursed be he that doeth the bemoan him; and all ye that
work of the LORD deceitfully, know his name, say, How is
and cursed be he that keepeth the strong staff broken, and
back his sword from blood. the beautiful rod!
11 ¶ Moab hath been at ease 18 Thou daughter that dost
from his youth, and he hath inhabit Dibon, come down
settled on his lees, and hath from thy glory, and sit in
not been emptied from vessel thirst; for the spoiler of Moab
to vessel, neither hath he gone shall come upon thee, and he
into captivity: therefore his shall destroy thy strong holds.
taste remained in him, and his 19 O inhabitant of Aroer,
scent is not changed. stand by the way, and espy;
12 Therefore, behold, the days ask him that fleeth, and her
come, saith the LORD, that I that escapeth, and say, What is
will send unto him wanderers, done?
that shall cause him to wander, 20 Moab is confounded; for it
and shall empty his vessels, is broken down: howl and cry;
and break their bottles. tell ye it in Arnon, that Moab
13 And Moab shall be is spoiled,
ashamed of Chemosh, as the 21 And judgment is come
house of Israel was ashamed upon the plain country; upon
of Beth-el their confidence. Holon, and upon Jahazah, and
14 ¶ How say ye, We are upon Mephaath,
mighty and strong men for the 22 And upon Dibon, and upon
war? Nebo, and upon Beth-
15 Moab is spoiled, and gone diblathaim,
up out of her cities, and his 23 And upon Kiriathaim, and
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but thou shalt surely drink of the LORD, no man shall abide
it. there, neither shall a son of
13 For I have sworn by man dwell in it.
myself, saith the LORD, that 19 Behold, he shall come up
Bozrah shall become a like a lion from the swelling
desolation, a reproach, a of Jordan against the
waste, and a curse; and all the habitation of the strong: but I
cities thereof shall be will suddenly make him run
perpetual wastes. away from her: and who is a
14 I have heard a rumour from chosen man, that I may
the LORD, and an ambassador appoint over her? for who is
is sent unto the heathen, like me? and who will appoint
saying, Gather ye together, me the time? and who is that
and come against her, and rise shepherd that will stand before
up to the battle. me?
15 For, lo, I will make thee 20 Therefore hear the counsel
small among the heathen, and of the LORD, that he hath
despised among men. taken against Edom; and his
16 Thy terribleness hath purposes, that he hath
deceived thee, and the pride of purposed against the
thine heart, O thou that inhabitants of Teman: Surely
dwellest in the clefts of the the least of the flock shall
rock, that holdest the height of draw them out: surely he shall
the hill: though thou shouldest make their habitations
make thy nest as high as the desolate with them.
eagle, I will bring thee down 21 The earth is moved at the
from thence, saith the LORD. noise of their fall, at the cry
17 Also Edom shall be a the noise thereof was heard in
desolation: every one that the Red sea.
goeth by it shall be astonished, 22 Behold, he shall come up
and shall hiss at all the and fly as the eagle, and
plagues thereof. spread his wings over Bozrah:
18 As in the overthrow of and at that day shall the heart
Sodom and Gomorrah and the of the mighty men of Edom be
neighbour cities thereof, saith as the heart of a woman in her
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though she should fortify the and the folk in the fire, and
height of her strength, yet they shall be weary.
from me shall spoilers come 59 ¶ The word which Jeremiah
unto her, saith the LORD. the prophet commanded
54 A sound of a cry cometh Seraiah the son of Neriah, the
from Babylon, and great son of Maaseiah, when he
destruction from the land of went with Zedekiah the king
the Chaldeans: of Judah into Babylon in the
55 Because the LORD hath fourth year of his reign. And
spoiled Babylon, and this Seraiah was a quiet
destroyed out of her the great prince.
voice; when her waves do roar 60 So Jeremiah wrote in a
like great waters, a noise of book all the evil that should
their voice is uttered: come upon Babylon, even all
56 Because the spoiler is come these words that are written
upon her, even upon Babylon, against Babylon.
and her mighty men are taken, 61 And Jeremiah said to
every one of their bows is Seraiah, When thou comest to
broken: for the LORD God of Babylon, and shalt see, and
recompences shall surely shalt read all these words;
requite. 62 Then shalt thou say, O
57 And I will make drunk her LORD, thou hast spoken
princes, and her wise men, her against this place, to cut it off,
captains, and her rulers, and that none shall remain in it,
her mighty men: and they neither man nor beast, but that
shall sleep a perpetual sleep, it shall be desolate for ever.
and not wake, saith the King, 63 And it shall be, when thou
whose name is the LORD of hast made an end of reading
hosts. this book, that thou shalt bind
58 Thus saith the LORD of a stone to it, and cast it into
hosts; The broad walls of the midst of Euphrates:
Babylon shall be utterly 64 And thou shalt say, Thus
broken, and her high gates shall Babylon sink, and shall
shall be burned with fire; and not rise from the evil that I
the people shall labour in vain, will bring upon her: and they
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shall be weary. Thus far are the ninth day of the month, the
the words of Jeremiah. famine was sore in the city, so
that there was no bread for the
CHAPTER 52 people of the land.
ZEDEKIAH was one and 7 Then the city was broken up,
twenty years old when he and all the men of war fled,
began to reign, and he reigned and went forth out of the city
eleven years in Jerusalem. by night by the way of the
And his mother’s name was gate between the two walls,
Hamutal the daughter of which was by the king’s
Jeremiah of Libnah. garden; (now the Chaldeans
2 And he did that which was were by the city round about:)
evil in the eyes of the LORD, and they went by the way of
according to all that Jehoiakim the plain.
had done. 8 ¶ But the army of the
3 For through the anger of the Chaldeans pursued after the
LORD it came to pass in king, and overtook Zedekiah
Jerusalem and Judah, till he in the plains of Jericho; and all
had cast them out from his his army was scattered from
presence, that Zedekiah him.
rebelled against the king of 9 Then they took the king, and
Babylon. carried him up unto the king
4 ¶ And it came to pass in the of Babylon to Riblah in the
ninth year of his reign, in the land of Hamath; where he
tenth month, in the tenth day gave judgment upon him.
of the month, that 10 And the king of Babylon
Nebuchadrezzar king of slew the sons of Zedekiah
Babylon came, he and all his before his eyes: he slew also
army, against Jerusalem, and all the princes of Judah in
pitched against it, and built Riblah.
forts against it round about. 11 Then he put out the eyes of
5 So the city was besieged Zedekiah; and the king of
unto the eleventh year of king Babylon bound him in chains,
Zedekiah. and carried him to Babylon,
6 And in the fourth month, in and put him in prison till the
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upon it; and the height of one smote them, and put them to
chapiter was five cubits, with death in Riblah in the land of
network and pomegranates Hamath. Thus Judah was
upon the chapiters round carried away captive out of his
about, all of brass. The second own land.
pillar also and the 28 This is the people whom
pomegranates were like unto Nebuchadrezzar carried away
these. captive: in the seventh year
23 And there were ninety and three thousand Jews and three
six pomegranates on a side; and twenty:
and all the pomegranates upon 29 In the eighteenth year of
the network were an hundred Nebuchadrezzar he carried
round about. away captive from Jerusalem
24 ¶ And the captain of the eight hundred thirty and two
guard took Seraiah the chief persons:
priest, and Zephaniah the 30 In the three and twentieth
second priest, and the three year of Nebuchadrezzar
keepers of the door: Nebuzar-adan the captain of
25 He took also out of the city the guard carried away captive
an eunuch, which had the of the Jews seven hundred
charge of the men of war; and forty and five persons: all the
seven men of them that were persons were four thousand
near the king’s person, which and six hundred.
were found in the city; and the 31 ¶ And it came to pass in the
principal scribe of the host, seven and thirtieth year of the
who mustered the people of captivity of Jehoiachin king of
the land; and threescore men Judah, in the twelfth month, in
of the people of the land, that the five and twentieth day of
were found in the midst of the the month, that Evil-merodach
city. king of Babylon in the first
26 So Nebuzar-adan the year of his reign lifted up the
captain of the guard took head of Jehoiachin king of
them, and brought them to the Judah, and brought him forth
king of Babylon to Riblah. out of prison,
27 And the king of Babylon 32 And spake kindly unto
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pleasant things: for she hath under foot all my mighty men
seen that the heathen entered in the midst of me: he hath
into her sanctuary, whom thou called an assembly against me
didst command that they to crush my young men: the
should not enter into thy Lord hath trodden the virgin,
congregation. the daughter of Judah, as in a
11 All her people sigh, they winepress.
seek bread; they have given 16 For these things I weep;
their pleasant things for meat mine eye, mine eye runneth
to relieve the soul: see, O down with water, because the
LORD, and consider; for I am comforter that should relieve
become vile. my soul is far from me: my
12 ¶ Is it nothing to you, all ye children are desolate, because
that pass by? behold, and see the enemy prevailed.
if there be any sorrow like 17 Zion spreadeth forth her
unto my sorrow, which is hands, and there is none to
done unto me, wherewith the comfort her: the LORD hath
LORD hath afflicted me in the commanded concerning Jacob,
day of his fierce anger. that his adversaries should be
13 From above hath he sent round about him: Jerusalem is
fire into my bones, and it as a menstruous woman
prevaileth against them: he among them.
hath spread a net for my feet, 18 ¶ The LORD is righteous;
he hath turned me back: he for I have rebelled against his
hath made me desolate and commandment: hear, I pray
faint all the day. you, all people, and behold my
14 The yoke of my sorrow: my virgins and my
transgressions is bound by his young men are gone into
hand: they are wreathed, and captivity.
come up upon my neck: he 19 I called for my lovers, but
hath made my strength to fall, they deceived me: my priests
the Lord hath delivered me and mine elders gave up the
into their hands, from whom I ghost in the city, while they
am not able to rise up. sought their meat to relieve
15 The Lord hath trodden their souls.
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have sinned!
17 For this our heart is faint;
for these things our eyes are
dim.
18 Because of the mountain of
Zion, which is desolate, the
foxes walk upon it.
19 Thou, O LORD, remainest
for ever; thy throne from
generation to generation.
20 Wherefore dost thou forget
us for ever, and forsake us so
long time?
21 Turn thou us unto thee, O
LORD, and we shall be turned;
renew our days as of old.
22 But thou hast utterly
rejected us; thou art very
wroth against us.
THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET
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CHAPTER 1 wings.
NOW it came to pass in the 7 And their feet were straight
thirtieth year, in the fourth feet; and the sole of their feet
month, in the fifth day of the was like the sole of a calf’s
month, as I was among the foot: and they sparkled like
captives by the river of the colour of burnished brass.
Chebar, that the heavens were 8 And they had the hands of a
opened, and I saw visions of man under their wings on their
God. four sides; and they four had
2 In the fifth day of the month, their faces and their wings.
which was the fifth year of 9 Their wings were joined one
king Jehoiachin’s captivity, to another; they turned not
3 The word of the LORD came when they went; they went
expressly unto Ezekiel the every one straight forward.
priest, the son of Buzi, in the 10 As for the likeness of their
land of the Chaldeans by the faces, they four had the face of
river Chebar; and the hand of a man, and the face of a lion,
the LORD was there upon him. on the right side: and they four
4 ¶ And I looked, and, behold, had the face of an ox on the
a whirlwind came out of the left side; they four also had
north, a great cloud, and a fire the face of an eagle.
infolding itself, and a 11 Thus were their faces: and
brightness was about it, and their wings were stretched
out of the midst thereof as the upward; two wings of every
colour of amber, out of the one were joined one to
midst of the fire. another, and two covered their
5 Also out of the midst thereof bodies.
came the likeness of four 12 And they went every one
living creatures. And this was straight forward: whither the
their appearance; they had the spirit was to go, they went;
likeness of a man. and they turned not when they
6 And every one had four went.
faces, and every one had four 13 As for the likeness of the
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with all thy detestable things, I the LORD have spoken it.
and with all thine 16 When I shall send upon
abominations, therefore will I them the evil arrows of
also diminish thee; neither famine, which shall be for
shall mine eye spare, neither their destruction, and which I
will I have any pity. will send to destroy you: and I
12 ¶ A third part of thee shall will increase the famine upon
die with the pestilence, and you, and will break your staff
with famine shall they be of bread:
consumed in the midst of thee: 17 So will I send upon you
and a third part shall fall by famine and evil beasts, and
the sword round about thee; they shall bereave thee; and
and I will scatter a third part pestilence and blood shall pass
into all the winds, and I will through thee; and I will bring
draw out a sword after them. the sword upon thee. I the
13 Thus shall mine anger be LORD have spoken it.
accomplished, and I will cause
my fury to rest upon them, and CHAPTER 6
I will be comforted: and they AND the word of the LORD
shall know that I the LORD came unto me, saying,
have spoken it in my zeal, 2 Son of man, set thy face
when I have accomplished my toward the mountains of
fury in them. Israel, and prophesy against
14 Moreover I will make thee them,
waste, and a reproach among 3 And say, Ye mountains of
the nations that are round Israel, hear the word of the
about thee, in the sight of all Lord GOD; Thus saith the
that pass by. Lord GOD to the mountains,
15 So it shall be a reproach and to the hills, to the rivers,
and a taunt, an instruction and and to the valleys; Behold, I,
an astonishment unto the even I, will bring a sword
nations that are round about upon you, and I will destroy
thee, when I shall execute your high places.
judgments in thee in anger and 4 And your altars shall be
in fury and in furious rebukes. desolate, and your images
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shall be broken: and I will cast themselves for the evils which
down your slain men before they have committed in all
your idols. their abominations.
5 And I will lay the dead 10 And they shall know that I
carcases of the children of am the LORD, and that I have
Israel before their idols; and I not said in vain that I would
will scatter your bones round do this evil unto them.
about your altars. 11 ¶ Thus saith the Lord GOD;
6 In all your dwellingplaces Smite with thine hand, and
the cities shall be laid waste, stamp with thy foot, and say,
and the high places shall be Alas for all the evil
desolate; that your altars may abominations of the house of
be laid waste and made Israel! for they shall fall by the
desolate, and your idols may sword, by the famine, and by
be broken and cease, and your the pestilence.
images may be cut down, and 12 He that is far off shall die
your works may be abolished. of the pestilence; and he that is
7 And the slain shall fall in the near shall fall by the sword;
midst of you, and ye shall and he that remaineth and is
know that I am the LORD. besieged shall die by the
8 ¶ Yet will I leave a remnant, famine: thus will I accomplish
that ye may have some that my fury upon them.
shall escape the sword among 13 Then shall ye know that I
the nations, when ye shall be am the LORD, when their slain
scattered through the men shall be among their idols
countries. round about their altars, upon
9 And they that escape of you every high hill, in all the tops
shall remember me among the of the mountains, and under
nations whither they shall be every green tree, and under
carried captives, because I am every thick oak, the place
broken with their whorish where they did offer sweet
heart, which hath departed savour to all their idols.
from me, and with their eyes, 14 So will I stretch out my
which go a whoring after their hand upon them, and make the
idols: and they shall lothe land desolate, yea, more
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desolate than the wilderness the land: the time is come, the
toward Diblath, in all their day of trouble is near, and not
habitations: and they shall the sounding again of the
know that I am the LORD. mountains.
8 Now will I shortly pour out
CHAPTER 7 my fury upon thee, and
MOREOVER the word of the accomplish mine anger upon
LORD came unto me, saying, thee: and I will judge thee
2 Also, thou son of man, thus according to thy ways, and
saith the Lord GOD unto the will recompense thee for all
land of Israel; An end, the end thine abominations.
is come upon the four corners 9 And mine eye shall not
of the land. spare, neither will I have pity:
3 Now is the end come upon I will recompense thee
thee, and I will send mine according to thy ways and
anger upon thee, and will thine abominations that are in
judge thee according to thy the midst of thee; and ye shall
ways, and will recompense know that I am the LORD that
upon thee all thine smiteth.
abominations. 10 Behold the day, behold, it
4 And mine eye shall not spare is come: the morning is gone
thee, neither will I have pity: forth; the rod hath blossomed,
but I will recompense thy pride hath budded.
ways upon thee, and thine 11 Violence is risen up into a
abominations shall be in the rod of wickedness: none of
midst of thee: and ye shall them shall remain, nor of their
know that I am the LORD. multitude, nor of any of theirs:
5 Thus saith the Lord GOD; neither shall there be wailing
An evil, an only evil, behold, for them.
is come. 12 The time is come, the day
6 An end is come, the end is draweth near: let not the buyer
come: it watcheth for thee; rejoice, nor the seller mourn:
behold, it is come. for wrath is upon all the
7 The morning is come unto multitude thereof.
thee, O thou that dwellest in 13 For the seller shall not
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and the land is full of blood, when the man went in; and the
and the city full of cloud filled the inner court.
perverseness: for they say, 4 Then the glory of the LORD
The LORD hath forsaken the went up from the cherub, and
earth, and the LORD seeth not. stood over the threshold of the
10 And as for me also, mine house; and the house was
eye shall not spare, neither filled with the cloud, and the
will I have pity, but I will court was full of the
recompense their way upon brightness of the LORD’s
their head. glory.
11 And, behold, the man 5 And the sound of the
clothed with linen, which had cherubims’ wings was heard
the inkhorn by his side, even to the outer court, as the
reported the matter, saying, I voice of the Almighty God
have done as thou hast when he speaketh.
commanded me. 6 And it came to pass, that
when he had commanded the
CHAPTER 10 man clothed with linen,
THEN I looked, and, behold, saying, Take fire from
in the firmament that was between the wheels, from
above the head of the between the cherubims; then
cherubims there appeared over he went in, and stood beside
them as it were a sapphire the wheels.
stone, as the appearance of the 7 And one cherub stretched
likeness of a throne. forth his hand from between
2 And he spake unto the man the cherubims unto the fire
clothed with linen, and said, that was between the
Go in between the wheels, cherubims, and took thereof,
even under the cherub, and fill and put it into the hands of
thine hand with coals of fire him that was clothed with
from between the cherubims, linen: who took it, and went
and scatter them over the city. out.
And he went in in my sight. 8 ¶ And there appeared in the
3 Now the cherubims stood on cherubims the form of a man’s
the right side of the house, hand under their wings.
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hand, and the effect of every that prophesy, and say thou
vision. unto them that prophesy out of
24 For there shall be no more their own hearts, Hear ye the
any vain vision nor flattering word of the LORD;
divination within the house of 3 Thus saith the Lord GOD;
Israel. Woe unto the foolish prophets,
25 For I am the LORD: I will that follow their own spirit,
speak, and the word that I and have seen nothing!
shall speak shall come to pass; 4 O Israel, thy prophets are
it shall be no more prolonged: like the foxes in the deserts.
for in your days, O rebellious 5 Ye have not gone up into the
house, will I say the word, and gaps, neither made up the
will perform it, saith the Lord hedge for the house of Israel
GOD. to stand in the battle in the day
26 ¶ Again the word of the of the LORD.
LORD came to me, saying, 6 They have seen vanity and
27 Son of man, behold, they of lying divination, saying, The
the house of Israel say, The LORD saith: and the LORD
vision that he seeth is for hath not sent them: and they
many days to come, and he have made others to hope that
prophesieth of the times that they would confirm the word.
are far off. 7 Have ye not seen a vain
28 Therefore say unto them, vision, and have ye not spoken
Thus saith the Lord GOD; a lying divination, whereas ye
There shall none of my words say, The LORD saith it; albeit I
be prolonged any more, but have not spoken?
the word which I have spoken 8 Therefore thus saith the
shall be done, saith the Lord Lord GOD; Because ye have
GOD. spoken vanity, and seen lies,
therefore, behold, I am against
CHAPTER 13 you, saith the Lord GOD.
AND the word of the LORD 9 And mine hand shall be
came unto me, saying, upon the prophets that see
2 Son of man, prophesy vanity, and that divine lies:
against the prophets of Israel they shall not be in the
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among the trees of the forest, any of these unto thee, to have
which I have given to the fire compassion upon thee; but
for fuel, so will I give the thou wast cast out in the open
inhabitants of Jerusalem. field, to the lothing of thy
7 And I will set my face person, in the day that thou
against them; they shall go out wast born.
from one fire, and another fire 6 ¶ And when I passed by
shall devour them; and ye thee, and saw thee polluted in
shall know that I am the thine own blood, I said unto
LORD, when I set my face thee when thou wast in thy
against them. blood, Live; yea, I said unto
8 And I will make the land thee when thou wast in thy
desolate, because they have blood, Live.
committed a trespass, saith the 7 I have caused thee to
Lord GOD. multiply as the bud of the
field, and thou hast increased
CHAPTER 16 and waxen great, and thou art
AGAIN the word of the LORD come to excellent ornaments:
came unto me, saying, thy breasts are fashioned, and
2 Son of man, cause Jerusalem thine hair is grown, whereas
to know her abominations, thou wast naked and bare.
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord 8 Now when I passed by thee,
GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy and looked upon thee, behold,
birth and thy nativity is of the thy time was the time of love;
land of Canaan; thy father was and I spread my skirt over
an Amorite, and thy mother an thee, and covered thy
Hittite. nakedness: yea, I sware unto
4 And as for thy nativity, in thee, and entered into a
the day thou wast born thy covenant with thee, saith the
navel was not cut, neither wast Lord GOD, and thou becamest
thou washed in water to mine.
supple thee; thou wast not 9 Then washed I thee with
salted at all, nor swaddled at water; yea, I throughly washed
all. away thy blood from thee, and
5 None eye pitied thee, to do I anointed thee with oil.
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useth proverbs shall use this hand of the poor and needy.
proverb against thee, saying, 50 And they were haughty,
As is the mother, so is her and committed abomination
daughter. before me: therefore I took
45 Thou art thy mother’s them away as I saw good.
daughter, that lotheth her 51 Neither hath Samaria
husband and her children; and committed half of thy sins; but
thou art the sister of thy thou hast multiplied thine
sisters, which lothed their abominations more than they,
husbands and their children: and hast justified thy sisters in
your mother was an Hittite, all thine abominations which
and your father an Amorite. thou hast done.
46 And thine elder sister is 52 Thou also, which hast
Samaria, she and her judged thy sisters, bear thine
daughters that dwell at thy left own shame for thy sins that
hand: and thy younger sister, thou hast committed more
that dwelleth at thy right hand, abominable than they: they are
is Sodom and her daughters. more righteous than thou: yea,
47 Yet hast thou not walked be thou confounded also, and
after their ways, nor done after bear thy shame, in that thou
their abominations: but, as if hast justified thy sisters.
that were a very little thing, 53 When I shall bring again
thou wast corrupted more than their captivity, the captivity of
they in all thy ways. Sodom and her daughters, and
48 As I live, saith the Lord the captivity of Samaria and
GOD, Sodom thy sister hath her daughters, then will I
not done, she nor her bring again the captivity of
daughters, as thou hast done, thy captives in the midst of
thou and thy daughters. them:
49 Behold, this was the 54 That thou mayest bear
iniquity of thy sister Sodom, thine own shame, and mayest
pride, fulness of bread, and be confounded in all that thou
abundance of idleness was in hast done, in that thou art a
her and in her daughters, comfort unto them.
neither did she strengthen the 55 When thy sisters, Sodom
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and her daughters, shall return unto thee for daughters, but
to their former estate, and not by thy covenant.
Samaria and her daughters 62 And I will establish my
shall return to their former covenant with thee; and thou
estate, then thou and thy shalt know that I am the
daughters shall return to your LORD:
former estate. 63 That thou mayest
56 For thy sister Sodom was remember, and be
not mentioned by thy mouth in confounded, and never open
the day of thy pride, thy mouth any more because
57 Before thy wickedness was of thy shame, when I am
discovered, as at the time of pacified toward thee for all
thy reproach of the daughters that thou hast done, saith the
of Syria, and all that are round Lord GOD.
about her, the daughters of the
Philistines, which despise thee CHAPTER 17
round about. AND the word of the LORD
58 Thou hast borne thy came unto me, saying,
lewdness and thine 2 Son of man, put forth a
abominations, saith the LORD. riddle, and speak a parable
59 For thus saith the Lord unto the house of Israel;
GOD; I will even deal with 3 And say, Thus saith the Lord
thee as thou hast done, which GOD; A great eagle with great
hast despised the oath in wings, longwinged, full of
breaking the covenant. feathers, which had divers
60 ¶ Nevertheless I will colours, came unto Lebanon,
remember my covenant with and took the highest branch of
thee in the days of thy youth, the cedar:
and I will establish unto thee 4 He cropped off the top of his
an everlasting covenant. young twigs, and carried it
61 Then thou shalt remember into a land of traffick; he set it
thy ways, and be ashamed, in a city of merchants.
when thou shalt receive thy 5 He took also of the seed of
sisters, thine elder and thy the land, and planted it in a
younger: and I will give them fruitful field; he placed it by
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the furnace; they are even the souls; they have taken the
dross of silver. treasure and precious things;
19 Therefore thus saith the they have made her many
Lord GOD; Because ye are all widows in the midst thereof.
become dross, behold, 26 Her priests have violated
therefore I will gather you into my law, and have profaned
the midst of Jerusalem. mine holy things: they have
20 As they gather silver, and put no difference between the
brass, and iron, and lead, and holy and profane, neither have
tin, into the midst of the they shewed difference
furnace, to blow the fire upon between the unclean and the
it, to melt it; so will I gather clean, and have hid their eyes
you in mine anger and in my from my sabbaths, and I am
fury, and I will leave you profaned among them.
there, and melt you. 27 Her princes in the midst
21 Yea, I will gather you, and thereof are like wolves
blow upon you in the fire of ravening the prey, to shed
my wrath, and ye shall be blood, and to destroy souls, to
melted in the midst thereof. get dishonest gain.
22 As silver is melted in the 28 And her prophets have
midst of the furnace, so shall daubed them with untempered
ye be melted in the midst morter, seeing vanity, and
thereof; and ye shall know that divining lies unto them,
I the LORD have poured out saying, Thus saith the Lord
my fury upon you. GOD, when the LORD hath not
23 ¶ And the word of the spoken.
LORD came unto me, saying, 29 The people of the land have
24 Son of man, say unto her, used oppression, and exercised
Thou art the land that is not robbery, and have vexed the
cleansed, nor rained upon in poor and needy: yea, they
the day of indignation. have oppressed the stranger
25 There is a conspiracy of her wrongfully.
prophets in the midst thereof, 30 And I sought for a man
like a roaring lion ravening the among them, that should make
prey; they have devoured up the hedge, and stand in the
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gap before me for the land, blue, captains and rulers, all of
that I should not destroy it: but them desirable young men,
I found none. horsemen riding upon horses.
31 Therefore have I poured 7 Thus she committed her
out mine indignation upon whoredoms with them, with
them; I have consumed them all them that were the chosen
with the fire of my wrath: men of Assyria, and with all
their own way have I on whom she doted: with all
recompensed upon their heads, their idols she defiled herself.
saith the Lord GOD. 8 Neither left she her
whoredoms brought from
CHAPTER 23 Egypt: for in her youth they
THE word of the LORD came lay with her, and they bruised
again unto me, saying, the breasts of her virginity,
2 Son of man, there were two and poured their whoredom
women, the daughters of one upon her.
mother: 9 Wherefore I have delivered
3 And they committed her into the hand of her lovers,
whoredoms in Egypt; they into the hand of the Assyrians,
committed whoredoms in their upon whom she doted.
youth: there were their breasts 10 These discovered her
pressed, and there they bruised nakedness: they took her sons
the teats of their virginity. and her daughters, and slew
4 And the names of them were her with the sword: and she
Aholah the elder, and became famous among
Aholibah her sister: and they women; for they had executed
were mine, and they bare sons judgment upon her.
and daughters. Thus were their 11 And when her sister
names; Samaria is Aholah, Aholibah saw this, she was
and Jerusalem Aholibah. more corrupt in her inordinate
5 And Aholah played the love than she, and in her
harlot when she was mine; and whoredoms more than her
she doted on her lovers, on the sister in her whoredoms.
Assyrians her neighbours, 12 She doted upon the
6 Which were clothed with Assyrians her neighbours,
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sons and their daughters, and let them seethe the bones of it
burn up their houses with fire. therein.
48 Thus will I cause lewdness 6 ¶ Wherefore thus saith the
to cease out of the land, that Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody
all women may be taught not city, to the pot whose scum is
to do after your lewdness. therein, and whose scum is not
49 And they shall recompense gone out of it! bring it out
your lewdness upon you, and piece by piece; let no lot fall
ye shall bear the sins of your upon it.
idols: and ye shall know that I 7 For her blood is in the midst
am the Lord GOD. of her; she set it upon the top
of a rock; she poured it not
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AGAIN in the ninth year, in with dust;
the tenth month, in the tenth 8 That it might cause fury to
day of the month, the word of come up to take vengeance; I
the LORD came unto me, have set her blood upon the
saying, top of a rock, that it should not
2 Son of man, write thee the be covered.
name of the day, even of this 9 Therefore thus saith the
same day: the king of Babylon Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody
set himself against Jerusalem city! I will even make the pile
this same day. for fire great.
3 And utter a parable unto the 10 Heap on wood, kindle the
rebellious house, and say unto fire, consume the flesh, and
them, Thus saith the Lord spice it well, and let the bones
GOD; Set on a pot, set it on, be burned.
and also pour water into it: 11 Then set it empty upon the
4 Gather the pieces thereof coals thereof, that the brass of
into it, even every good piece, it may be hot, and may burn,
the thigh, and the shoulder; fill and that the filthiness of it
it with the choice bones. may be molten in it, that the
5 Take the choice of the flock, scum of it may be consumed.
and burn also the bones under 12 She hath wearied herself
it, and make it boil well, and with lies, and her great scum
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strength, the joy of their glory, deliver thee to the men of the
the desire of their eyes, and east for a possession, and they
that whereupon they set their shall set their palaces in thee,
minds, their sons and their and make their dwellings in
daughters, thee: they shall eat thy fruit,
26 That he that escapeth in and they shall drink thy milk.
that day shall come unto thee, 5 And I will make Rabbah a
to cause thee to hear it with stable for camels, and the
thine ears? Ammonites a couchingplace
27 In that day shall thy mouth for flocks: and ye shall know
be opened to him which is that I am the LORD.
escaped, and thou shalt speak, 6 For thus saith the Lord GOD;
and be no more dumb: and Because thou hast clapped
thou shalt be a sign unto them; thine hands, and stamped with
and they shall know that I am the feet, and rejoiced in heart
the LORD. with all thy despite against the
land of Israel;
CHAPTER 25 7 Behold, therefore I will
THE word of the LORD came stretch out mine hand upon
again unto me, saying, thee, and will deliver thee for
2 Son of man, set thy face a spoil to the heathen; and I
against the Ammonites, and will cut thee off from the
prophesy against them; people, and I will cause thee
3 And say unto the to perish out of the countries: I
Ammonites, Hear the word of will destroy thee; and thou
the Lord GOD; Thus saith the shalt know that I am the
Lord GOD; Because thou LORD.
saidst, Aha, against my 8 ¶ Thus saith the Lord GOD;
sanctuary, when it was Because that Moab and Seir
profaned; and against the land do say, Behold, the house of
of Israel, when it was desolate; Judah is like unto all the
and against the house of heathen;
Judah, when they went into 9 Therefore, behold, I will
captivity; open the side of Moab from
4 Behold, therefore I will the cities, from his cities
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against thee, O Tyrus, and will war against thy walls, and
cause many nations to come with his axes he shall break
up against thee, as the sea down thy towers.
causeth his waves to come up. 10 By reason of the abundance
4 And they shall destroy the of his horses their dust shall
walls of Tyrus, and break cover thee: thy walls shall
down her towers: I will also shake at the noise of the
scrape her dust from her, and horsemen, and of the wheels,
make her like the top of a and of the chariots, when he
rock. shall enter into thy gates, as
5 It shall be a place for the men enter into a city wherein
spreading of nets in the midst is made a breach.
of the sea: for I have spoken it, 11 With the hoofs of his
saith the Lord GOD: and it horses shall he tread down all
shall become a spoil to the thy streets: he shall slay thy
nations. people by the sword, and thy
6 And her daughters which strong garrisons shall go down
are in the field shall be slain to the ground.
by the sword; and they shall 12 And they shall make a
know that I am the LORD. spoil of thy riches, and make a
7 ¶ For thus saith the Lord prey of thy merchandise: and
GOD; Behold, I will bring they shall break down thy
upon Tyrus Nebuchadrezzar walls, and destroy thy pleasant
king of Babylon, a king of houses: and they shall lay thy
kings, from the north, with stones and thy timber and thy
horses, and with chariots, and dust in the midst of the water.
with horsemen, and 13 And I will cause the noise
companies, and much people. of thy songs to cease; and the
8 He shall slay with the sword sound of thy harps shall be no
thy daughters in the field: and more heard.
he shall make a fort against 14 And I will make thee like
thee, and cast a mount against the top of a rock: thou shalt be
thee, and lift up the buckler a place to spread nets upon;
against thee. thou shalt be built no more:
9 And he shall set engines of for I the LORD have spoken it,
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the deaths of them that are God; thou hast walked up and
slain in the midst of the seas. down in the midst of the
9 Wilt thou yet say before him stones of fire.
that slayeth thee, I am God? 15 Thou wast perfect in thy
but thou shalt be a man, and ways from the day that thou
no God, in the hand of him wast created, till iniquity was
that slayeth thee. found in thee.
10 Thou shalt die the deaths of 16 By the multitude of thy
the uncircumcised by the hand merchandise they have filled
of strangers: for I have spoken the midst of thee with
it, saith the Lord GOD. violence, and thou hast sinned:
11 ¶ Moreover the word of the therefore I will cast thee as
LORD came unto me, saying, profane out of the mountain of
12 Son of man, take up a God: and I will destroy thee,
lamentation upon the king of O covering cherub, from the
Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus midst of the stones of fire.
saith the Lord GOD; Thou 17 Thine heart was lifted up
sealest up the sum, full of because of thy beauty, thou
wisdom, and perfect in beauty. hast corrupted thy wisdom by
13 Thou hast been in Eden the reason of thy brightness: I will
garden of God; every precious cast thee to the ground, I will
stone was thy covering, the lay thee before kings, that they
sardius, topaz, and the may behold thee.
diamond, the beryl, the onyx, 18 Thou hast defiled thy
and the jasper, the sapphire, sanctuaries by the multitude of
the emerald, and the thine iniquities, by the iniquity
carbuncle, and gold: the of thy traffick; therefore will I
workmanship of thy tabrets bring forth a fire from the
and of thy pipes was prepared midst of thee, it shall devour
in thee in the day that thou thee, and I will bring thee to
wast created. ashes upon the earth in the
14 Thou art the anointed sight of all them that behold
cherub that covereth; and I thee.
have set thee so: thou wast 19 All they that know thee
upon the holy mountain of among the people shall be
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exalt itself any more above the of Egypt for his labour
nations: for I will diminish wherewith he served against
them, that they shall no more it, because they wrought for
rule over the nations. me, saith the Lord GOD.
16 And it shall be no more the 21 ¶ In that day will I cause
confidence of the house of the horn of the house of Israel
Israel, which bringeth their to bud forth, and I will give
iniquity to remembrance, thee the opening of the mouth
when they shall look after in the midst of them; and they
them: but they shall know that shall know that I am the
I am the Lord GOD. LORD.
17 ¶ And it came to pass in the
seven and twentieth year, in CHAPTER 30
the first month, in the first day THE word of the LORD came
of the month, the word of the again unto me, saying,
LORD came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, prophesy and
18 Son of man, say, Thus saith the Lord GOD;
Nebuchadrezzar king of Howl ye, Woe worth the day!
Babylon caused his army to 3 For the day is near, even the
serve a great service against day of the LORD is near, a
Tyrus: every head was made cloudy day; it shall be the time
bald, and every shoulder was of the heathen.
peeled: yet had he no wages, 4 And the sword shall come
nor his army, for Tyrus, for upon Egypt, and great pain
the service that he had served shall be in Ethiopia, when the
against it: slain shall fall in Egypt, and
19 Therefore thus saith the they shall take away her
Lord GOD; Behold, I will give multitude, and her foundations
the land of Egypt unto shall be broken down.
Nebuchadrezzar king of 5 Ethiopia, and Libya, and
Babylon; and he shall take her Lydia, and all the mingled
multitude, and take her spoil, people, and Chub, and the
and take her prey; and it shall men of the land that is in
be the wages for his army. league, shall fall with them by
20 I have given him the land the sword.
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6 Thus saith the LORD; They hand of the wicked: and I will
also that uphold Egypt shall make the land waste, and all
fall; and the pride of her that is therein, by the hand of
power shall come down: from strangers: I the LORD have
the tower of Syene shall they spoken it.
fall in it by the sword, saith 13 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I
the Lord GOD. will also destroy the idols, and
7 And they shall be desolate in I will cause their images to
the midst of the countries that cease out of Noph; and there
are desolate, and her cities shall be no more a prince of
shall be in the midst of the the land of Egypt: and I will
cities that are wasted. put a fear in the land of Egypt.
8 And they shall know that I 14 And I will make Pathros
am the LORD, when I have set desolate, and will set fire in
a fire in Egypt, and when all Zoan, and will execute
her helpers shall be destroyed. judgments in No.
9 In that day shall messengers 15 And I will pour my fury
go forth from me in ships to upon Sin, the strength of
make the careless Ethiopians Egypt; and I will cut off the
afraid, and great pain shall multitude of No.
come upon them, as in the day 16 And I will set fire in Egypt:
of Egypt: for, lo, it cometh. Sin shall have great pain, and
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I No shall be rent asunder, and
will also make the multitude Noph shall have distresses
of Egypt to cease by the hand daily.
of Nebuchadrezzar king of 17 The young men of Aven
Babylon. and of Pi-beseth shall fall by
11 He and his people with the sword: and these cities
him, the terrible of the nations, shall go into captivity.
shall be brought to destroy the 18 At Tehaphnehes also the
land: and they shall draw their day shall be darkened, when I
swords against Egypt, and fill shall break there the yokes of
the land with the slain. Egypt: and the pomp of her
12 And I will make the rivers strength shall cease in her: as
dry, and sell the land into the for her, a cloud shall cover
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about his plants, and sent out Lord GOD; Because thou hast
her little rivers unto all the lifted up thyself in height, and
trees of the field. he hath shot up his top among
5 Therefore his height was the thick boughs, and his heart
exalted above all the trees of is lifted up in his height;
the field, and his boughs were 11 I have therefore delivered
multiplied, and his branches him into the hand of the
became long because of the mighty one of the heathen; he
multitude of waters, when he shall surely deal with him: I
shot forth. have driven him out for his
6 All the fowls of heaven wickedness.
made their nests in his boughs, 12 And strangers, the terrible
and under his branches did all of the nations, have cut him
the beasts of the field bring off, and have left him: upon
forth their young, and under the mountains and in all the
his shadow dwelt all great valleys his branches are fallen,
nations. and his boughs are broken by
7 Thus was he fair in his all the rivers of the land; and
greatness, in the length of his all the people of the earth are
branches: for his root was by gone down from his shadow,
great waters. and have left him.
8 The cedars in the garden of 13 Upon his ruin shall all the
God could not hide him: the fowls of the heaven remain,
fir trees were not like his and all the beasts of the field
boughs, and the chesnut trees shall be upon his branches:
were not like his branches; nor 14 To the end that none of all
any tree in the garden of God the trees by the waters exalt
was like unto him in his themselves for their height,
beauty. neither shoot up their top
9 I have made him fair by the among the thick boughs,
multitude of his branches: so neither their trees stand up in
that all the trees of Eden, that their height, all that drink
were in the garden of God, water: for they are all
envied him. delivered unto death, to the
10 ¶ Therefore thus saith the nether parts of the earth, in the
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tread down with your feet the a covenant of peace, and will
residue of your pastures? and cause the evil beasts to cease
to have drunk of the deep out of the land: and they shall
waters, but ye must foul the dwell safely in the wilderness,
residue with your feet? and sleep in the woods.
19 And as for my flock, they 26 And I will make them and
eat that which ye have trodden the places round about my hill
with your feet; and they drink a blessing; and I will cause the
that which ye have fouled with shower to come down in his
your feet. season; there shall be showers
20 ¶ Therefore thus saith the of blessing.
Lord GOD unto them; Behold, 27 And the tree of the field
I, even I, will judge between shall yield her fruit, and the
the fat cattle and between the earth shall yield her increase,
lean cattle. and they shall be safe in their
21 Because ye have thrust land, and shall know that I am
with side and with shoulder, the LORD, when I have broken
and pushed all the diseased the bands of their yoke, and
with your horns, till ye have delivered them out of the hand
scattered them abroad; of those that served
22 Therefore will I save my themselves of them.
flock, and they shall no more 28 And they shall no more be
be a prey; and I will judge a prey to the heathen, neither
between cattle and cattle. shall the beast of the land
23 And I will set up one devour them; but they shall
shepherd over them, and he dwell safely, and none shall
shall feed them, even my make them afraid.
servant David; he shall feed 29 And I will raise up for
them, and he shall be their them a plant of renown, and
shepherd. they shall be no more
24 And I the LORD will be consumed with hunger in the
their God, and my servant land, neither bear the shame of
David a prince among them; I the heathen any more.
the LORD have spoken it. 30 Thus shall they know that I
25 And I will make with them the LORD their God am with
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them, and that they, even the hated blood, even blood shall
house of Israel, are my pursue thee.
people, saith the Lord GOD. 7 Thus will I make mount Seir
31 And ye my flock, the flock most desolate, and cut off
of my pasture, are men, and I from it him that passeth out
am your God, saith the Lord and him that returneth.
GOD. 8 And I will fill his mountains
with his slain men: in thy hills,
CHAPTER 35 and in thy valleys, and in all
MOREOVER the word of the thy rivers, shall they fall that
LORD came unto me, saying, are slain with the sword.
2 Son of man, set thy face 9 I will make thee perpetual
against mount Seir, and desolations, and thy cities
prophesy against it, shall not return: and ye shall
3 And say unto it, Thus saith know that I am the LORD.
the Lord GOD; Behold, O 10 Because thou hast said,
mount Seir, I am against thee, These two nations and these
and I will stretch out mine two countries shall be mine,
hand against thee, and I will and we will possess it;
make thee most desolate. whereas the LORD was there:
4 I will lay thy cities waste, 11 Therefore, as I live, saith
and thou shalt be desolate, and the Lord GOD, I will even do
thou shalt know that I am the according to thine anger, and
LORD. according to thine envy which
5 Because thou hast had a thou hast used out of thy
perpetual hatred, and hast shed hatred against them; and I will
the blood of the children of make myself known among
Israel by the force of the them, when I have judged
sword in the time of their thee.
calamity, in the time that their 12 And thou shalt know that I
iniquity had an end: am the LORD, and that I have
6 Therefore, as I live, saith the heard all thy blasphemies
Lord GOD, I will prepare thee which thou hast spoken
unto blood, and blood shall against the mountains of
pursue thee: sith thou hast not Israel, saying, They are laid
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skin, and put breath in you, unto them, Thus saith the Lord
and ye shall live; and ye shall GOD; Behold, O my people, I
know that I am the LORD. will open your graves, and
7 So I prophesied as I was cause you to come up out of
commanded: and as I your graves, and bring you
prophesied, there was a noise, into the land of Israel.
and behold a shaking, and the 13 And ye shall know that I
bones came together, bone to am the LORD, when I have
his bone. opened your graves, O my
8 And when I beheld, lo, the people, and brought you up
sinews and the flesh came up out of your graves,
upon them, and the skin 14 And shall put my spirit in
covered them above: but there you, and ye shall live, and I
was no breath in them. shall place you in your own
9 Then said he unto me, land: then shall ye know that I
Prophesy unto the wind, the LORD have spoken it, and
prophesy, son of man, and say performed it, saith the LORD.
to the wind, Thus saith the 15 ¶ The word of the LORD
Lord GOD; Come from the came again unto me, saying,
four winds, O breath, and 16 Moreover, thou son of
breathe upon these slain, that man, take thee one stick, and
they may live. write upon it, For Judah, and
10 So I prophesied as he for the children of Israel his
commanded me, and the companions: then take another
breath came into them, and stick, and write upon it, For
they lived, and stood up upon Joseph, the stick of Ephraim,
their feet, an exceeding great and for all the house of Israel
army. his companions:
11 ¶ Then he said unto me, 17 And join them one to
Son of man, these bones are another into one stick; and
the whole house of Israel: they shall become one in thine
behold, they say, Our bones hand.
are dried, and our hope is lost: 18 ¶ And when the children of
we are cut off for our parts. thy people shall speak unto
12 Therefore prophesy and say thee, saying, Wilt thou not
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palm trees were upon the posts hand broad, fastened round
thereof, on this side, and on about: and upon the tables was
that side: and the going up to the flesh of the offering.
it had eight steps. 44 ¶ And without the inner
38 And the chambers and the gate were the chambers of the
entries thereof were by the singers in the inner court,
posts of the gates, where they which was at the side of the
washed the burnt offering. north gate; and their prospect
39 ¶ And in the porch of the was toward the south: one at
gate were two tables on this the side of the east gate having
side, and two tables on that the prospect toward the north.
side, to slay thereon the burnt 45 And he said unto me, This
offering and the sin offering chamber, whose prospect is
and the trespass offering. toward the south, is for the
40 And at the side without, as priests, the keepers of the
one goeth up to the entry of charge of the house.
the north gate, were two 46 And the chamber whose
tables; and on the other side, prospect is toward the north is
which was at the porch of the for the priests, the keepers of
gate, were two tables. the charge of the altar: these
41 Four tables were on this are the sons of Zadok among
side, and four tables on that the sons of Levi, which come
side, by the side of the gate; near to the LORD to minister
eight tables, whereupon they unto him.
slew their sacrifices. 47 So he measured the court,
42 And the four tables were of an hundred cubits long, and an
hewn stone for the burnt hundred cubits broad,
offering, of a cubit and an half foursquare; and the altar that
long, and a cubit and an half was before the house.
broad, and one cubit high: 48 ¶ And he brought me to the
whereupon also they laid the porch of the house, and
instruments wherewith they measured each post of the
slew the burnt offering and the porch, five cubits on this side,
sacrifice. and five cubits on that side:
43 And within were hooks, an and the breadth of the gate
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was three cubits on this side, the temple: and he said unto
and three cubits on that side. me, This is the most holy
49 The length of the porch place.
was twenty cubits, and the 5 After he measured the wall
breadth eleven cubits; and he of the house, six cubits; and
brought me by the steps the breadth of every side
whereby they went up to it: chamber, four cubits, round
and there were pillars by the about the house on every side.
posts, one on this side, and 6 And the side chambers were
another on that side. three, one over another, and
thirty in order; and they
CHAPTER 41 entered into the wall which
AFTERWARD he brought me was of the house for the side
to the temple, and measured chambers round about, that
the posts, six cubits broad on they might have hold, but they
the one side, and six cubits had not hold in the wall of the
broad on the other side, which house.
was the breadth of the 7 And there was an enlarging,
tabernacle. and a winding about still
2 And the breadth of the door upward to the side chambers:
was ten cubits; and the sides for the winding about of the
of the door were five cubits on house went still upward round
the one side, and five cubits about the house: therefore the
on the other side: and he breadth of the house was still
measured the length thereof, upward, and so increased from
forty cubits: and the breadth, the lowest chamber to the
twenty cubits. highest by the midst.
3 Then went he inward, and 8 I saw also the height of the
measured the post of the door, house round about: the
two cubits; and the door, six foundations of the side
cubits; and the breadth of the chambers were a full reed of
door, seven cubits. six great cubits.
4 So he measured the length 9 The thickness of the wall,
thereof, twenty cubits; and the which was for the side
breadth, twenty cubits, before chamber without, was five
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cubits: and that which was left against the separate place
was the place of the side which was behind it, and the
chambers that were within. galleries thereof on the one
10 And between the chambers side and on the other side, an
was the wideness of twenty hundred cubits, with the inner
cubits round about the house temple, and the porches of the
on every side. court;
11 And the doors of the side 16 The door posts, and the
chambers were toward the narrow windows, and the
place that was left, one door galleries round about on their
toward the north, and another three stories, over against the
door toward the south: and the door, cieled with wood round
breadth of the place that was about, and from the ground up
left was five cubits round to the windows, and the
about. windows were covered;
12 Now the building that was 17 To that above the door,
before the separate place at the even unto the inner house, and
end toward the west was without, and by all the wall
seventy cubits broad; and the round about within and
wall of the building was five without, by measure.
cubits thick round about, and 18 And it was made with
the length thereof ninety cherubims and palm trees, so
cubits. that a palm tree was between a
13 So he measured the house, cherub and a cherub; and
an hundred cubits long; and every cherub had two faces;
the separate place, and the 19 So that the face of a man
building, with the walls was toward the palm tree on
thereof, an hundred cubits the one side, and the face of a
long; young lion toward the palm
14 Also the breadth of the face tree on the other side: it was
of the house, and of the made through all the house
separate place toward the east, round about.
an hundred cubits. 20 From the ground unto
15 And he measured the above the door were
length of the building over cherubims and palm trees
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five and twenty thousand, and from the east side eastward:
the breadth of ten thousand: and the length shall be over
and in it shall be the sanctuary against one of the portions,
and the most holy place. from the west border unto the
4 The holy portion of the land east border.
shall be for the priests the 8 In the land shall be his
ministers of the sanctuary, possession in Israel: and my
which shall come near to princes shall no more oppress
minister unto the LORD: and it my people; and the rest of the
shall be a place for their land shall they give to the
houses, and an holy place for house of Israel according to
the sanctuary. their tribes.
5 And the five and twenty 9 ¶ Thus saith the Lord GOD;
thousand of length, and the ten Let it suffice you, O princes of
thousand of breadth, shall also Israel: remove violence and
the Levites, the ministers of spoil, and execute judgment
the house, have for and justice, take away your
themselves, for a possession exactions from my people,
for twenty chambers. saith the Lord GOD.
6 ¶ And ye shall appoint the 10 Ye shall have just balances,
possession of the city five and a just ephah, and a just
thousand broad, and five and bath.
twenty thousand long, over 11 The ephah and the bath
against the oblation of the shall be of one measure, that
holy portion: it shall be for the the bath may contain the tenth
whole house of Israel. part of an homer, and the
7 ¶ And a portion shall be for ephah the tenth part of an
the prince on the one side and homer: the measure thereof
on the other side of the shall be after the homer.
oblation of the holy portion, 12 And the shekel shall be
and of the possession of the twenty gerahs: twenty shekels,
city, before the oblation of the five and twenty shekels,
holy portion, and before the fifteen shekels, shall be your
possession of the city, from maneh.
the west side westward, and 13 This is the oblation that ye
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shall offer; the sixth part of an 18 Thus saith the Lord GOD;
ephah of an homer of wheat, In the first month, in the first
and ye shall give the sixth part day of the month, thou shalt
of an ephah of an homer of take a young bullock without
barley: blemish, and cleanse the
14 Concerning the ordinance sanctuary:
of oil, the bath of oil, ye shall 19 And the priest shall take of
offer the tenth part of a bath the blood of the sin offering,
out of the cor, which is an and put it upon the posts of the
homer of ten baths; for ten house, and upon the four
baths are an homer: corners of the settle of the
15 And one lamb out of the altar, and upon the posts of the
flock, out of two hundred, out gate of the inner court.
of the fat pastures of Israel; for 20 And so thou shalt do the
a meat offering, and for a seventh day of the month for
burnt offering, and for peace every one that erreth, and for
offerings, to make him that is simple: so shall ye
reconciliation for them, saith reconcile the house.
the Lord GOD. 21 In the first month, in the
16 All the people of the land fourteenth day of the month,
shall give this oblation for the ye shall have the passover, a
prince in Israel. feast of seven days;
17 And it shall be the prince’s unleavened bread shall be
part to give burnt offerings, eaten.
and meat offerings, and drink 22 And upon that day shall the
offerings, in the feasts, and in prince prepare for himself and
the new moons, and in the for all the people of the land a
sabbaths, in all solemnities of bullock for a sin offering.
the house of Israel: he shall 23 And seven days of the feast
prepare the sin offering, and he shall prepare a burnt
the meat offering, and the offering to the LORD, seven
burnt offering, and the peace bullocks and seven rams
offerings, to make without blemish daily the
reconciliation for the house of seven days; and a kid of the
Israel. goats daily for a sin offering.
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the west side, a portion for oblation; toward the north five
Naphtali. and twenty thousand in length,
4 And by the border of and toward the west ten
Naphtali, from the east side thousand in breadth, and
unto the west side, a portion toward the east ten thousand
for Manasseh. in breadth, and toward the
5 And by the border of south five and twenty
Manasseh, from the east side thousand in length: and the
unto the west side, a portion sanctuary of the LORD shall be
for Ephraim. in the midst thereof.
6 And by the border of 11 It shall be for the priests
Ephraim, from the east side that are sanctified of the sons
even unto the west side, a of Zadok; which have kept my
portion for Reuben. charge, which went not astray
7 And by the border of when the children of Israel
Reuben, from the east side went astray, as the Levites
unto the west side, a portion went astray.
for Judah. 12 And this oblation of the
8 ¶ And by the border of land that is offered shall be
Judah, from the east side unto unto them a thing most holy
the west side, shall be the by the border of the Levites.
offering which ye shall offer 13 And over against the
of five and twenty thousand border of the priests the
reeds in breadth, and in length Levites shall have five and
as one of the other parts, from twenty thousand in length, and
the east side unto the west ten thousand in breadth: all the
side: and the sanctuary shall length shall be five and twenty
be in the midst of it. thousand, and the breadth ten
9 The oblation that ye shall thousand.
offer unto the LORD shall be 14 And they shall not sell of
of five and twenty thousand in it, neither exchange, nor
length, and of ten thousand in alienate the firstfruits of the
breadth. land: for it is holy unto the
10 And for them, even for the LORD.
priests, shall be this holy 15 ¶ And the five thousand,
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that are left in the breadth over 19 And they that serve the city
against the five and twenty shall serve it out of all the
thousand, shall be a profane tribes of Israel.
place for the city, for 20 All the oblation shall be
dwelling, and for suburbs: and five and twenty thousand by
the city shall be in the midst five and twenty thousand: ye
thereof. shall offer the holy oblation
16 And these shall be the foursquare, with the
measures thereof; the north possession of the city.
side four thousand and five 21 ¶ And the residue shall be
hundred, and the south side for the prince, on the one side
four thousand and five and on the other of the holy
hundred, and on the east side oblation, and of the possession
four thousand and five of the city, over against the
hundred, and the west side five and twenty thousand of
four thousand and five the oblation toward the east
hundred. border, and westward over
17 And the suburbs of the city against the five and twenty
shall be toward the north two thousand toward the west
hundred and fifty, and toward border, over against the
the south two hundred and portions for the prince: and it
fifty, and toward the east two shall be the holy oblation; and
hundred and fifty, and toward the sanctuary of the house
the west two hundred and shall be in the midst thereof.
fifty. 22 Moreover from the
18 And the residue in length possession of the Levites, and
over against the oblation of from the possession of the
the holy portion shall be ten city, being in the midst of that
thousand eastward, and ten which is the prince’s, between
thousand westward: and it the border of Judah and the
shall be over against the border of Benjamin, shall be
oblation of the holy portion; for the prince.
and the increase thereof shall 23 As for the rest of the tribes,
be for food unto them that from the east side unto the
serve the city. west side, Benjamin shall
EZEKIEL
for ever: let not thy thoughts thee, and that light and
trouble thee, nor let thy understanding and excellent
countenance be changed: wisdom is found in thee.
11 There is a man in thy 15 And now the wise men, the
kingdom, in whom is the spirit astrologers, have been brought
of the holy gods; and in the in before me, that they should
days of thy father light and read this writing, and make
understanding and wisdom, known unto me the
like the wisdom of the gods, interpretation thereof: but they
was found in him; whom the could not shew the
king Nebuchadnezzar thy interpretation of the thing:
father, the king, I say, thy 16 And I have heard of thee,
father, made master of the that thou canst make
magicians, astrologers, interpretations, and dissolve
Chaldeans, and soothsayers; doubts: now if thou canst read
12 Forasmuch as an excellent the writing, and make known
spirit, and knowledge, and to me the interpretation
understanding, interpreting of thereof, thou shalt be clothed
dreams, and shewing of hard with scarlet, and have a chain
sentences, and dissolving of of gold about thy neck, and
doubts, were found in the shalt be the third ruler in the
same Daniel, whom the king kingdom.
named Belteshazzar: now let 17 ¶ Then Daniel answered
Daniel be called, and he will and said before the king, Let
shew the interpretation. thy gifts be to thyself, and
13 Then was Daniel brought give thy rewards to another;
in before the king. And the yet I will read the writing unto
king spake and said unto the king, and make known to
Daniel, Art thou that Daniel, him the interpretation.
which art of the children of 18 O thou king, the most high
the captivity of Judah, whom God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy
the king my father brought out father a kingdom, and
of Jewry? majesty, and glory, and
14 I have even heard of thee, honour:
that the spirit of the gods is in 19 And for the majesty that he
DANIEL
gave him, all people, nations, thou hast praised the gods of
and languages, trembled and silver, and gold, of brass, iron,
feared before him: whom he wood, and stone, which see
would he slew; and whom he not, nor hear, nor know: and
would he kept alive; and the God in whose hand thy
whom he would he set up; and breath is, and whose are all
whom he would he put down. thy ways, hast thou not
20 But when his heart was glorified:
lifted up, and his mind 24 Then was the part of the
hardened in pride, he was hand sent from him; and this
deposed from his kingly writing was written.
throne, and they took his glory 25 ¶ And this is the writing
from him: that was written, MENE,
21 And he was driven from MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.
the sons of men; and his heart 26 This is the interpretation of
was made like the beasts, and the thing: MENE; God hath
his dwelling was with the wild numbered thy kingdom, and
asses: they fed him with grass finished it.
like oxen, and his body was 27 TEKEL; Thou art weighed
wet with the dew of heaven; in the balances, and art found
till he knew that the most high wanting.
God ruled in the kingdom of 28 PERES; Thy kingdom is
men, and that he appointeth divided, and given to the
over it whomsoever he will. Medes and Persians.
22 And thou his son, O 29 Then commanded
Belshazzar, hast not humbled Belshazzar, and they clothed
thine heart, though thou Daniel with scarlet, and put a
knewest all this; chain of gold about his neck,
23 But hast lifted up thyself and made a proclamation
against the Lord of heaven; concerning him, that he should
and they have brought the be the third ruler in the
vessels of his house before kingdom.
thee, and thou, and thy lords, 30 ¶ In that night was
thy wives, and thy concubines, Belshazzar the king of the
have drunk wine in them; and Chaldeans slain.
DANIEL
hand until a time and times and saw, and, behold, there
and the dividing of time. stood before the river a ram
26 But the judgment shall sit, which had two horns: and the
and they shall take away his two horns were high; but one
dominion, to consume and to was higher than the other, and
destroy it unto the end. the higher came up last.
27 And the kingdom and 4 I saw the ram pushing
dominion, and the greatness of westward, and northward, and
the kingdom under the whole southward; so that no beasts
heaven, shall be given to the might stand before him,
people of the saints of the neither was there any that
most High, whose kingdom is could deliver out of his hand;
an everlasting kingdom, and but he did according to his
all dominions shall serve and will, and became great.
obey him. 5 And as I was considering,
28 Hitherto is the end of the behold, an he goat came from
matter. As for me Daniel, my the west on the face of the
cogitations much troubled me, whole earth, and touched not
and my countenance changed the ground: and the goat had a
in me: but I kept the matter in notable horn between his eyes.
my heart. 6 And he came to the ram that
had two horns, which I had
CHAPTER 8 seen standing before the river,
IN the third year of the reign and ran unto him in the fury of
of king Belshazzar a vision his power.
appeared unto me, even unto 7 And I saw him come close
me Daniel, after that which unto the ram, and he was
appeared unto me at the first. moved with choler against
2 And I saw in a vision; and it him, and smote the ram, and
came to pass, when I saw, that brake his two horns: and there
I was at Shushan in the palace, was no power in the ram to
which is in the province of stand before him, but he cast
Elam; and I saw in a vision, him down to the ground, and
and I was by the river of Ulai. stamped upon him: and there
3 Then I lifted up mine eyes, was none that could deliver
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agreement: but she shall not and shall come forth and fight
retain the power of the arm; with him, even with the king
neither shall he stand, nor his of the north: and he shall set
arm: but she shall be given up, forth a great multitude; but the
and they that brought her, and multitude shall be given into
he that begat her, and he that his hand.
strengthened her in these 12 And when he hath taken
times. away the multitude, his heart
7 But out of a branch of her shall be lifted up; and he shall
roots shall one stand up in his cast down many ten
estate, which shall come with thousands: but he shall not be
an army, and shall enter into strengthened by it.
the fortress of the king of the 13 For the king of the north
north, and shall deal against shall return, and shall set forth
them, and shall prevail: a multitude greater than the
8 And shall also carry captives former, and shall certainly
into Egypt their gods, with come after certain years with a
their princes, and with their great army and with much
precious vessels of silver and riches.
of gold; and he shall continue 14 And in those times there
more years than the king of shall many stand up against
the north. the king of the south: also the
9 So the king of the south robbers of thy people shall
shall come into his kingdom, exalt themselves to establish
and shall return into his own the vision; but they shall fall.
land. 15 So the king of the north
10 But his sons shall be stirred shall come, and cast up a
up, and shall assemble a mount, and take the most
multitude of great forces: and fenced cities: and the arms of
one shall certainly come, and the south shall not withstand,
overflow, and pass through: neither his chosen people,
then shall he return, and be neither shall there be any
stirred up, even to his fortress. strength to withstand.
11 And the king of the south 16 But he that cometh against
shall be moved with choler, him shall do according to his
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own will, and none shall stand shall come in peaceably, and
before him: and he shall stand obtain the kingdom by
in the glorious land, which by flatteries.
his hand shall be consumed. 22 And with the arms of a
17 He shall also set his face to flood shall they be overflown
enter with the strength of his from before him, and shall be
whole kingdom, and upright broken; yea, also the prince of
ones with him; thus shall he the covenant.
do: and he shall give him the 23 And after the league made
daughter of women, with him he shall work
corrupting her: but she shall deceitfully: for he shall come
not stand on his side, neither up, and shall become strong
be for him. with a small people.
18 After this shall he turn his 24 He shall enter peaceably
face unto the isles, and shall even upon the fattest places of
take many: but a prince for his the province; and he shall do
own behalf shall cause the that which his fathers have not
reproach offered by him to done, nor his fathers’ fathers;
cease; without his own he shall scatter among them
reproach he shall cause it to the prey, and spoil, and riches:
turn upon him. yea, and he shall forecast his
19 Then he shall turn his face devices against the strong
toward the fort of his own holds, even for a time.
land: but he shall stumble and 25 And he shall stir up his
fall, and not be found. power and his courage against
20 Then shall stand up in his the king of the south with a
estate a raiser of taxes in the great army; and the king of the
glory of the kingdom: but south shall be stirred up to
within few days he shall be battle with a very great and
destroyed, neither in anger, mighty army; but he shall not
nor in battle. stand: for they shall forecast
21 And in his estate shall devices against him.
stand up a vile person, to 26 Yea, they that feed of the
whom they shall not give the portion of his meat shall
honour of the kingdom: but he destroy him, and his army
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out of the land: for great shall 7 And she shall follow after
be the day of Jezreel. her lovers, but she shall not
overtake them; and she shall
CHAPTER 2 seek them, but shall not find
SAY ye unto your brethren, them: then shall she say, I will
Ammi; and to your sisters, go and return to my first
Ru-hamah. husband; for then was it better
2 Plead with your mother, with me than now.
plead: for she is not my wife, 8 For she did not know that I
neither am I her husband: let gave her corn, and wine, and
her therefore put away her oil, and multiplied her silver
whoredoms out of her sight, and gold, which they prepared
and her adulteries from for Baal.
between her breasts; 9 Therefore will I return, and
3 Lest I strip her naked, and take away my corn in the time
set her as in the day that she thereof, and my wine in the
was born, and make her as a season thereof, and will
wilderness, and set her like a recover my wool and my flax
dry land, and slay her with given to cover her nakedness.
thirst. 10 And now will I discover
4 And I will not have mercy her lewdness in the sight of
upon her children; for they be her lovers, and none shall
the children of whoredoms. deliver her out of mine hand.
5 For their mother hath played 11 I will also cause all her
the harlot: she that conceived mirth to cease, her feast days,
them hath done shamefully: her new moons, and her
for she said, I will go after my sabbaths, and all her solemn
lovers, that give me my bread feasts.
and my water, my wool and 12 And I will destroy her
my flax, mine oil and my vines and her fig trees,
drink. whereof she hath said, These
6 ¶ Therefore, behold, I will are my rewards that my lovers
hedge up thy way with thorns, have given me: and I will
and make a wall, that she shall make them a forest, and the
not find her paths. beasts of the field shall eat
HOSEA
9 And there shall be, like therefore the people that doth
people, like priest: and I will not understand shall fall.
punish them for their ways, 15 ¶ Though thou, Israel, play
and reward them their doings. the harlot, yet let not Judah
10 For they shall eat, and not offend; and come not ye unto
have enough: they shall Gilgal, neither go ye up to
commit whoredom, and shall Beth-aven, nor swear, The
not increase: because they LORD liveth.
have left off to take heed to 16 For Israel slideth back as a
the LORD. backsliding heifer: now the
11 Whoredom and wine and LORD will feed them as a lamb
new wine take away the heart. in a large place.
12 ¶ My people ask counsel at 17 Ephraim is joined to idols:
their stocks, and their staff let him alone.
declareth unto them: for the 18 Their drink is sour: they
spirit of whoredoms hath have committed whoredom
caused them to err, and they continually: her rulers with
have gone a whoring from shame do love, Give ye.
under their God. 19 The wind hath bound her
13 They sacrifice upon the up in her wings, and they shall
tops of the mountains, and be ashamed because of their
burn incense upon the hills, sacrifices.
under oaks and poplars and
elms, because the shadow CHAPTER 5
thereof is good: therefore your HEAR ye this, O priests; and
daughters shall commit hearken, ye house of Israel;
whoredom, and your spouses and give ye ear, O house of
shall commit adultery. the king; for judgment is
14 I will not punish your toward you, because ye have
daughters when they commit been a snare on Mizpah, and a
whoredom, nor your spouses net spread upon Tabor.
when they commit adultery: 2 And the revolters are
for themselves are separated profound to make slaughter,
with whores, and they though I have been a rebuker
sacrifice with harlots: of them all.
HOSEA
9 And I that am the LORD thy more, and have made them
God from the land of Egypt molten images of their silver,
will yet make thee to dwell in and idols according to their
tabernacles, as in the days of own understanding, all of it
the solemn feast. the work of the craftsmen:
10 I have also spoken by the they say of them, Let the men
prophets, and I have that sacrifice kiss the calves.
multiplied visions, and used 3 Therefore they shall be as
similitudes, by the ministry of the morning cloud, and as the
the prophets. early dew that passeth away,
11 Is there iniquity in Gilead? as the chaff that is driven with
surely they are vanity: they the whirlwind out of the floor,
sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; and as the smoke out of the
yea, their altars are as heaps in chimney.
the furrows of the fields. 4 Yet I am the LORD thy God
12 And Jacob fled into the from the land of Egypt, and
country of Syria, and Israel thou shalt know no god but
served for a wife, and for a me: for there is no saviour
wife he kept sheep. beside me.
13 And by a prophet the LORD 5 ¶ I did know thee in the
brought Israel out of Egypt, wilderness, in the land of great
and by a prophet was he drought.
preserved. 6 According to their pasture,
14 Ephraim provoked him to so were they filled; they were
anger most bitterly: therefore filled, and their heart was
shall he leave his blood upon exalted; therefore have they
him, and his reproach shall his forgotten me.
Lord return unto him. 7 Therefore I will be unto
them as a lion: as a leopard by
CHAPTER 13 the way will I observe them:
WHEN Ephraim spake 8 I will meet them as a bear
trembling, he exalted himself that is bereaved of her whelps,
in Israel; but when he and will rend the caul of their
offended in Baal, he died. heart, and there will I devour
2 And now they sin more and them like a lion: the wild beast
HOSEA
the city, and the people not be that dwell in Samaria in the
afraid? shall there be evil in a corner of a bed, and in
city, and the LORD hath not Damascus in a couch.
done it? 13 Hear ye, and testify in the
7 Surely the Lord GOD will do house of Jacob, saith the Lord
nothing, but he revealeth his GOD, the God of hosts,
secret unto his servants the 14 That in the day that I shall
prophets. visit the transgressions of
8 The lion hath roared, who Israel upon him I will also
will not fear? the Lord GOD visit the altars of Beth-el: and
hath spoken, who can but the horns of the altar shall be
prophesy? cut off, and fall to the ground.
9 ¶ Publish in the palaces at 15 And I will smite the winter
Ashdod, and in the palaces in house with the summer house;
the land of Egypt, and say, and the houses of ivory shall
Assemble yourselves upon the perish, and the great houses
mountains of Samaria, and shall have an end, saith the
behold the great tumults in the LORD.
midst thereof, and the
oppressed in the midst thereof. CHAPTER 4
10 For they know not to do HEAR this word, ye kine of
right, saith the LORD, who Bashan, that are in the
store up violence and robbery mountain of Samaria, which
in their palaces. oppress the poor, which crush
11 Therefore thus saith the the needy, which say to their
Lord GOD; An adversary there masters, Bring, and let us
shall be even round about the drink.
land; and he shall bring down 2 The Lord GOD hath sworn
thy strength from thee, and thy by his holiness, that, lo, the
palaces shall be spoiled. days shall come upon you,
12 Thus saith the LORD; As that he will take you away
the shepherd taketh out of the with hooks, and your posterity
mouth of the lion two legs, or with fishhooks.
a piece of an ear; so shall the 3 And ye shall go out at the
children of Israel be taken out breaches, every cow at that
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and treadeth upon the high seven stars and Orion, and
places of the earth, The LORD, turneth the shadow of death
The God of hosts, is his name. into the morning, and maketh
the day dark with night: that
CHAPTER 5 calleth for the waters of the
HEAR ye this word which I sea, and poureth them out
take up against you, even a upon the face of the earth: The
lamentation, O house of Israel. LORD is his name:
2 The virgin of Israel is fallen; 9 That strengtheneth the
she shall no more rise: she is spoiled against the strong, so
forsaken upon her land; there that the spoiled shall come
is none to raise her up. against the fortress.
3 For thus saith the Lord GOD; 10 They hate him that
The city that went out by a rebuketh in the gate, and they
thousand shall leave an abhor him that speaketh
hundred, and that which went uprightly.
forth by an hundred shall leave 11 Forasmuch therefore as
ten, to the house of Israel. your treading is upon the poor,
4 ¶ For thus saith the LORD and ye take from him burdens
unto the house of Israel, Seek of wheat: ye have built houses
ye me, and ye shall live: of hewn stone, but ye shall not
5 But seek not Beth-el, nor dwell in them; ye have planted
enter into Gilgal, and pass not pleasant vineyards, but ye
to Beer-sheba: for Gilgal shall shall not drink wine of them.
surely go into captivity, and 12 For I know your manifold
Beth-el shall come to nought. transgressions and your
6 Seek the LORD, and ye shall mighty sins: they afflict the
live; lest he break out like fire just, they take a bribe, and
in the house of Joseph, and they turn aside the poor in the
devour it, and there be none to gate from their right.
quench it in Beth-el. 13 Therefore the prudent shall
7 Ye who turn judgment to keep silence in that time; for it
wormwood, and leave off is an evil time.
righteousness in the earth, 14 Seek good, and not evil,
8 Seek him that maketh the that ye may live: and so the
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and I will set mine eyes upon is sifted in a sieve, yet shall
them for evil, and not for not the least grain fall upon
good. the earth.
5 And the Lord GOD of hosts 10 All the sinners of my
is he that toucheth the land, people shall die by the sword,
and it shall melt, and all that which say, The evil shall not
dwell therein shall mourn: and overtake nor prevent us.
it shall rise up wholly like a 11 ¶ In that day will I raise up
flood; and shall be drowned, the tabernacle of David that is
as by the flood of Egypt. fallen, and close up the
6 It is he that buildeth his breaches thereof; and I will
stories in the heaven, and hath raise up his ruins, and I will
founded his troop in the earth; build it as in the days of old:
he that calleth for the waters 12 That they may possess the
of the sea, and poureth them remnant of Edom, and of all
out upon the face of the earth: the heathen, which are called
The LORD is his name. by my name, saith the LORD
7 Are ye not as children of the that doeth this.
Ethiopians unto me, O 13 Behold, the days come,
children of Israel? saith the saith the LORD, that the
LORD. Have not I brought up plowman shall overtake the
Israel out of the land of reaper, and the treader of
Egypt? and the Philistines grapes him that soweth seed;
from Caphtor, and the Syrians and the mountains shall drop
from Kir? sweet wine, and all the hills
8 Behold, the eyes of the Lord shall melt.
GOD are upon the sinful 14 And I will bring again the
kingdom, and I will destroy it captivity of my people of
from off the face of the earth; Israel, and they shall build the
saving that I will not utterly waste cities, and inhabit them;
destroy the house of Jacob, and they shall plant vineyards,
saith the LORD. and drink the wine thereof;
9 For, lo, I will command, and they shall also make gardens,
I will sift the house of Israel and eat the fruit of them.
among all nations, like as corn 15 And I will plant them upon
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not divine; and the sun shall mountain of the house as the
go down over the prophets, high places of the forest.
and the day shall be dark over
them. CHAPTER 4
7 Then shall the seers be BUT in the last days it shall
ashamed, and the diviners come to pass, that the
confounded: yea, they shall all mountain of the house of the
cover their lips; for there is no LORD shall be established in
answer of God. the top of the mountains, and
8 ¶ But truly I am full of it shall be exalted above the
power by the spirit of the hills; and people shall flow
LORD, and of judgment, and unto it.
of might, to declare unto Jacob 2 And many nations shall
his transgression, and to Israel come, and say, Come, and let
his sin. us go up to the mountain of
9 Hear this, I pray you, ye the LORD, and to the house of
heads of the house of Jacob, the God of Jacob; and he will
and princes of the house of teach us of his ways, and we
Israel, that abhor judgment, will walk in his paths: for the
and pervert all equity. law shall go forth of Zion, and
10 They build up Zion with the word of the LORD from
blood, and Jerusalem with Jerusalem.
iniquity. 3 ¶ And he shall judge among
11 The heads thereof judge for many people, and rebuke
reward, and the priests thereof strong nations afar off; and
teach for hire, and the they shall beat their swords
prophets thereof divine for into plowshares, and their
money: yet will they lean spears into pruninghooks:
upon the LORD, and say, Is not nation shall not lift up a sword
the LORD among us? none evil against nation, neither shall
can come upon us. they learn war any more.
12 Therefore shall Zion for 4 But they shall sit every man
your sake be plowed as a under his vine and under his
field, and Jerusalem shall fig tree; and none shall make
become heaps, and the them afraid: for the mouth of
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the LORD of hosts hath spoken of the city, and thou shalt
it. dwell in the field, and thou
5 For all people will walk shalt go even to Babylon;
every one in the name of his there shalt thou be delivered;
god, and we will walk in the there the LORD shall redeem
name of the LORD our God for thee from the hand of thine
ever and ever. enemies.
6 In that day, saith the LORD, 11 ¶ Now also many nations
will I assemble her that are gathered against thee, that
halteth, and I will gather her say, Let her be defiled, and let
that is driven out, and her that our eye look upon Zion.
I have afflicted; 12 But they know not the
7 And I will make her that thoughts of the LORD, neither
halted a remnant, and her that understand they his counsel:
was cast far off a strong for he shall gather them as the
nation: and the LORD shall sheaves into the floor.
reign over them in mount Zion 13 Arise and thresh, O
from henceforth, even for daughter of Zion: for I will
ever. make thine horn iron, and I
8 ¶ And thou, O tower of the will make thy hoofs brass: and
flock, the strong hold of the thou shalt beat in pieces many
daughter of Zion, unto thee people: and I will consecrate
shall it come, even the first their gain unto the LORD, and
dominion; the kingdom shall their substance unto the Lord
come to the daughter of of the whole earth.
Jerusalem.
9 Now why dost thou cry out CHAPTER 5
aloud? is there no king in NOW gather thyself in troops,
thee? is thy counseller O daughter of troops: he hath
perished? for pangs have taken laid siege against us: they
thee as a woman in travail. shall smite the judge of Israel
10 Be in pain, and labour to with a rod upon the cheek.
bring forth, O daughter of 2 But thou, Beth-lehem
Zion, like a woman in travail: Ephratah, though thou be little
for now shalt thou go forth out among the thousands of Judah,
MICAH
another angel went out to meet come, and I will dwell in the
him, midst of thee, saith the LORD.
4 And said unto him, Run, 11 And many nations shall be
speak to this young man, joined to the LORD in that day,
saying, Jerusalem shall be and shall be my people: and I
inhabited as towns without will dwell in the midst of thee,
walls for the multitude of men and thou shalt know that the
and cattle therein: LORD of hosts hath sent me
5 For I, saith the LORD, will unto thee.
be unto her a wall of fire 12 And the LORD shall inherit
round about, and will be the Judah his portion in the holy
glory in the midst of her. land, and shall choose
6 ¶ Ho, ho, come forth, and Jerusalem again.
flee from the land of the north, 13 Be silent, O all flesh,
saith the LORD: for I have before the LORD: for he is
spread you abroad as the four raised up out of his holy
winds of the heaven, saith the habitation.
LORD.
7 Deliver thyself, O Zion, that CHAPTER 3
dwellest with the daughter of AND he shewed me Joshua
Babylon. the high priest standing before
8 For thus saith the LORD of the angel of the LORD, and
hosts; After the glory hath he Satan standing at his right
sent me unto the nations hand to resist him.
which spoiled you: for he that 2 And the LORD said unto
toucheth you toucheth the Satan, The LORD rebuke thee,
apple of his eye. O Satan; even the LORD that
9 For, behold, I will shake hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke
mine hand upon them, and thee: is not this a brand
they shall be a spoil to their plucked out of the fire?
servants: and ye shall know 3 Now Joshua was clothed
that the LORD of hosts hath with filthy garments, and
sent me. stood before the angel.
10 ¶ Sing and rejoice, O 4 And he answered and spake
daughter of Zion: for, lo, I unto those that stood before
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unto me, saying, This is the said unto him, What be these
word of the LORD unto two olive branches which
Zerubbabel, saying, Not by through the two golden pipes
might, nor by power, but by empty the golden oil out of
my spirit, saith the LORD of themselves?
hosts. 13 And he answered me and
7 Who art thou, O great said, Knowest thou not what
mountain? before Zerubbabel these be? And I said, No, my
thou shalt become a plain: and lord.
he shall bring forth the 14 Then said he, These are the
headstone thereof with two anointed ones, that stand
shoutings, crying, Grace, by the Lord of the whole
grace unto it. earth.
8 Moreover the word of the
LORD came unto me, saying, CHAPTER 5
9 The hands of Zerubbabel THEN I turned, and lifted up
have laid the foundation of mine eyes, and looked, and
this house; his hands shall also behold a flying roll.
finish it; and thou shalt know 2 And he said unto me, What
that the LORD of hosts hath seest thou? And I answered, I
sent me unto you. see a flying roll; the length
10 For who hath despised the thereof is twenty cubits, and
day of small things? for they the breadth thereof ten cubits.
shall rejoice, and shall see the 3 Then said he unto me, This
plummet in the hand of is the curse that goeth forth
Zerubbabel with those seven; over the face of the whole
they are the eyes of the LORD, earth: for every one that
which run to and fro through stealeth shall be cut off as on
the whole earth. this side according to it; and
11 ¶ Then answered I, and every one that sweareth shall
said unto him, What are these be cut off as on that side
two olive trees upon the right according to it.
side of the candlestick and 4 I will bring it forth, saith the
upon the left side thereof? LORD of hosts, and it shall
12 And I answered again, and enter into the house of the
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thief, and into the house of that talked with me, Whither
him that sweareth falsely by do these bear the ephah?
my name: and it shall remain 11 And he said unto me, To
in the midst of his house, and build it an house in the land of
shall consume it with the Shinar: and it shall be
timber thereof and the stones established, and set there upon
thereof. her own base.
5 ¶ Then the angel that talked
with me went forth, and said CHAPTER 6
unto me, Lift up now thine AND I turned, and lifted up
eyes, and see what is this that mine eyes, and looked, and,
goeth forth. behold, there came four
6 And I said, What is it? And chariots out from between two
he said, This is an ephah that mountains; and the mountains
goeth forth. He said moreover, were mountains of brass.
This is their resemblance 2 In the first chariot were red
through all the earth. horses; and in the second
7 And, behold, there was lifted chariot black horses;
up a talent of lead: and this is 3 And in the third chariot
a woman that sitteth in the white horses; and in the fourth
midst of the ephah. chariot grisled and bay horses.
8 And he said, This is 4 Then I answered and said
wickedness. And he cast it unto the angel that talked with
into the midst of the ephah; me, What are these, my lord?
and he cast the weight of lead 5 And the angel answered and
upon the mouth thereof. said unto me, These are the
9 Then lifted I up mine eyes, four spirits of the heavens,
and looked, and, behold, there which go forth from standing
came out two women, and the before the Lord of all the
wind was in their wings; for earth.
they had wings like the wings 6 The black horses which are
of a stork: and they lifted up therein go forth into the north
the ephah between the earth country; and the white go
and the heaven. forth after them; and the
10 Then said I to the angel grisled go forth toward the
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14 For thus saith the LORD of pass, that there shall come
hosts; As I thought to punish people, and the inhabitants of
you, when your fathers many cities:
provoked me to wrath, saith 21 And the inhabitants of one
the LORD of hosts, and I city shall go to another,
repented not: saying, Let us go speedily to
15 So again have I thought in pray before the LORD, and to
these days to do well unto seek the LORD of hosts: I will
Jerusalem and to the house of go also.
Judah: fear ye not. 22 Yea, many people and
16 ¶ These are the things that strong nations shall come to
ye shall do; Speak ye every seek the LORD of hosts in
man the truth to his neighbour; Jerusalem, and to pray before
execute the judgment of truth the LORD.
and peace in your gates: 23 Thus saith the LORD of
17 And let none of you hosts; In those days it shall
imagine evil in your hearts come to pass, that ten men
against his neighbour; and shall take hold out of all
love no false oath: for all these languages of the nations, even
are things that I hate, saith the shall take hold of the skirt of
LORD. him that is a Jew, saying, We
18 ¶ And the word of the will go with you: for we have
LORD of hosts came unto me, heard that God is with you.
saying,
19 Thus saith the LORD of CHAPTER 9
hosts; The fast of the fourth THE burden of the word of
month, and the fast of the the LORD in the land of
fifth, and the fast of the Hadrach, and Damascus shall
seventh, and the fast of the be the rest thereof: when the
tenth, shall be to the house of eyes of man, as of all the
Judah joy and gladness, and tribes of Israel, shall be
cheerful feasts; therefore love toward the LORD.
the truth and peace. 2 And Hamath also shall
20 Thus saith the LORD of border thereby; Tyrus, and
hosts; It shall yet come to Zidon, though it be very wise.
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and the heart of the children to smite the earth with a curse.
their fathers, lest I come and
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OF
JESUS CHRIST
hands they shall bear thee up, 15 The land of Zabulon, and
lest at any time thou dash thy the land of Nephthalim, by the
foot against a stone. way of the sea, beyond Jordan,
7 Jesus said unto him, It is Galilee of the Gentiles;
written again, Thou shalt not 16 The people which sat in
tempt the Lord thy God. darkness saw great light; and
8 Again, the devil taketh him to them which sat in the
up into an exceeding high region and shadow of death
mountain, and sheweth him all light is sprung up.
the kingdoms of the world, 17 ¶ From that time Jesus
and the glory of them; began to preach, and to say,
9 And saith unto him, All Repent: for the kingdom of
these things will I give thee, if heaven is at hand.
thou wilt fall down and 18 ¶ And Jesus, walking by
worship me. the sea of Galilee, saw two
10 Then saith Jesus unto him, brethren, Simon called Peter,
Get thee hence, Satan: for it is and Andrew his brother,
written, Thou shalt worship casting a net into the sea: for
the Lord thy God, and him they were fishers.
only shalt thou serve. 19 And he saith unto them,
11 Then the devil leaveth him, Follow me, and I will make
and, behold, angels came and you fishers of men.
ministered unto him. 20 And they straightway left
12 ¶ Now when Jesus had their nets, and followed him.
heard that John was cast into 21 And going on from thence,
prison, he departed into he saw other two brethren,
Galilee; James the son of Zebedee, and
13 And leaving Nazareth, he John his brother, in a ship with
came and dwelt in Zebedee their father, mending
Capernaum, which is upon the their nets; and he called them.
sea coast, in the borders of 22 And they immediately left
Zabulon and Nephthalim: the ship and their father, and
14 That it might be fulfilled followed him.
which was spoken by Esaias 23 ¶ And Jesus went about all
the prophet, saying, Galilee, teaching in their
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21 ¶ Not every one that saith that house; and it fell: and
unto me, Lord, Lord, shall great was the fall of it.
enter into the kingdom of 28 And it came to pass, when
heaven; but he that doeth the Jesus had ended these sayings,
will of my Father which is in the people were astonished at
heaven. his doctrine:
22 Many will say to me in that 29 For he taught them as one
day, Lord, Lord, have we not having authority, and not as
prophesied in thy name? and the scribes.
in thy name have cast out
devils? and in thy name done CHAPTER 8
many wonderful works? WHEN he was come down
23 And then will I profess from the mountain, great
unto them, I never knew you: multitudes followed him.
depart from me, ye that work 2 And, behold, there came a
iniquity. leper and worshipped him,
24 ¶ Therefore whosoever saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou
heareth these sayings of mine, canst make me clean.
and doeth them, I will liken 3 And Jesus put forth his
him unto a wise man, which hand, and touched him,
built his house upon a rock: saying, I will; be thou clean.
25 And the rain descended, And immediately his leprosy
and the floods came, and the was cleansed.
winds blew, and beat upon 4 And Jesus saith unto him,
that house; and it fell not: for See thou tell no man; but go
it was founded upon a rock. thy way, shew thyself to the
26 And every one that heareth priest, and offer the gift that
these sayings of mine, and Moses commanded, for a
doeth them not, shall be testimony unto them.
likened unto a foolish man, 5 ¶ And when Jesus was
which built his house upon the entered into Capernaum, there
sand: came unto him a centurion,
27 And the rain descended, beseeching him,
and the floods came, and the 6 And saying, Lord, my
winds blew, and beat upon servant lieth at home sick of
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this is Elias, which was for to 22 But I say unto you, It shall
come. be more tolerable for Tyre and
15 He that hath ears to hear, Sidon at the day of judgment,
let him hear. than for you.
16 ¶ But whereunto shall I 23 And thou, Capernaum,
liken this generation? It is like which art exalted unto heaven,
unto children sitting in the shalt be brought down to hell:
markets, and calling unto their for if the mighty works, which
fellows, have been done in thee, had
17 And saying, We have piped been done in Sodom, it would
unto you, and ye have not have remained until this day.
danced; we have mourned 24 But I say unto you, That it
unto you, and ye have not shall be more tolerable for the
lamented. land of Sodom in the day of
18 For John came neither judgment, than for thee.
eating nor drinking, and they 25 ¶ At that time Jesus
say, He hath a devil. answered and said, I thank
19 The Son of man came thee, O Father, Lord of heaven
eating and drinking, and they and earth, because thou hast
say, Behold a man gluttonous, hid these things from the wise
and a winebibber, a friend of and prudent, and hast revealed
publicans and sinners. But them unto babes.
wisdom is justified of her 26 Even so, Father: for so it
children. seemed good in thy sight.
20 ¶ Then began he to upbraid 27 All things are delivered
the cities wherein most of his unto me of my Father: and no
mighty works were done, man knoweth the Son, but the
because they repented not: Father; neither knoweth any
21 Woe unto thee, Chorazin! man the Father, save the Son,
woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for and he to whomsoever the Son
if the mighty works, which will reveal him.
were done in you, had been 28 ¶ Come unto me, all ye that
done in Tyre and Sidon, they labour and are heavy laden,
would have repented long ago and I will give you rest.
in sackcloth and ashes. 29 Take my yoke upon you,
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say to his father or his mother, blind leaders of the blind. And
It is a gift, by whatsoever thou if the blind lead the blind, both
mightest be profited by me; shall fall into the ditch.
6 And honour not his father or 15 Then answered Peter and
his mother, he shall be free. said unto him, Declare unto us
Thus have ye made the this parable.
commandment of God of none 16 And Jesus said, Are ye also
effect by your tradition. yet without understanding?
7 Ye hypocrites, well did 17 Do not ye yet understand,
Esaias prophesy of you, that whatsoever entereth in at
saying, the mouth goeth into the belly,
8 This people draweth nigh and is cast out into the
unto me with their mouth, and draught?
honoureth me with their lips; 18 But those things which
but their heart is far from me. proceed out of the mouth
9 But in vain they do worship come forth from the heart; and
me, teaching for doctrines the they defile the man.
commandments of men. 19 For out of the heart proceed
10 ¶ And he called the evil thoughts, murders,
multitude, and said unto them, adulteries, fornications, thefts,
Hear, and understand: false witness, blasphemies:
11 Not that which goeth into 20 These are the things which
the mouth defileth a man; but defile a man: but to eat with
that which cometh out of the unwashen hands defileth not a
mouth, this defileth a man. man.
12 Then came his disciples, 21 ¶ Then Jesus went thence,
and said unto him, Knowest and departed into the coasts of
thou that the Pharisees were Tyre and Sidon.
offended, after they heard this 22 And, behold, a woman of
saying? Canaan came out of the same
13 But he answered and said, coasts, and cried unto him,
Every plant, which my saying, Have mercy on me, O
heavenly Father hath not Lord, thou Son of David; my
planted, shall be rooted up. daughter is grievously vexed
14 Let them alone: they be with a devil.
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37 And they did all eat, and come to the other side, they
were filled: and they took up had forgotten to take bread.
of the broken meat that was 6 ¶ Then Jesus said unto them,
left seven baskets full. Take heed and beware of the
38 And they that did eat were leaven of the Pharisees and of
four thousand men, beside the Sadducees.
women and children. 7 And they reasoned among
39 And he sent away the themselves, saying, It is
multitude, and took ship, and because we have taken no
came into the coasts of bread.
Magdala. 8 Which when Jesus
perceived, he said unto them,
CHAPTER 16 O ye of little faith, why reason
THE Pharisees also with the ye among yourselves, because
Sadducees came, and tempting ye have brought no bread?
desired him that he would 9 Do ye not yet understand,
shew them a sign from neither remember the five
heaven. loaves of the five thousand,
2 He answered and said unto and how many baskets ye took
them, When it is evening, ye up?
say, It will be fair weather: for 10 Neither the seven loaves of
the sky is red. the four thousand, and how
3 And in the morning, It will many baskets ye took up?
be foul weather to day: for the 11 How is it that ye do not
sky is red and lowring. O ye understand that I spake it not
hypocrites, ye can discern the to you concerning bread, that
face of the sky; but can ye not ye should beware of the
discern the signs of the times? leaven of the Pharisees and of
4 A wicked and adulterous the Sadducees?
generation seeketh after a 12 Then understood they how
sign; and there shall no sign that he bade them not beware
be given unto it, but the sign of the leaven of bread, but of
of the prophet Jonas. And he the doctrine of the Pharisees
left them, and departed. and of the Sadducees.
5 And when his disciples were 13 ¶ When Jesus came into the
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22 But when the young man 29 And every one that hath
heard that saying, he went forsaken houses, or brethren,
away sorrowful: for he had or sisters, or father, or mother,
great possessions. or wife, or children, or lands,
23 ¶ Then said Jesus unto his for my name’s sake, shall
disciples, Verily I say unto receive an hundredfold, and
you, That a rich man shall shall inherit everlasting life.
hardly enter into the kingdom 30 But many that are first
of heaven. shall be last; and the last shall
24 And again I say unto you, be first.
It is easier for a camel to go
through the eye of a needle, CHAPTER 20
than for a rich man to enter FOR the kingdom of heaven is
into the kingdom of God. like unto a man that is an
25 When his disciples heard it, householder, which went out
they were exceedingly early in the morning to hire
amazed, saying, Who then can labourers into his vineyard.
be saved? 2 And when he had agreed
26 But Jesus beheld them, and with the labourers for a penny
said unto them, With men this a day, he sent them into his
is impossible; but with God all vineyard.
things are possible. 3 And he went out about the
27 ¶ Then answered Peter and third hour, and saw others
said unto him, Behold, we standing idle in the
have forsaken all, and marketplace,
followed thee; what shall we 4 And said unto them; Go ye
have therefore? also into the vineyard, and
28 And Jesus said unto them, whatsoever is right I will give
Verily I say unto you, That ye you. And they went their way.
which have followed me, in 5 Again he went out about the
the regeneration when the Son sixth and ninth hour, and did
of man shall sit in the throne likewise.
of his glory, ye also shall sit 6 And about the eleventh hour
upon twelve thrones, judging he went out, and found others
the twelve tribes of Israel. standing idle, and saith unto
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them, Why stand ye here all 14 Take that thine is, and go
the day idle? thy way: I will give unto this
7 They say unto him, Because last, even as unto thee.
no man hath hired us. He saith 15 Is it not lawful for me to do
unto them, Go ye also into the what I will with mine own? Is
vineyard; and whatsoever is thine eye evil, because I am
right, that shall ye receive. good?
8 So when even was come, the 16 So the last shall be first,
lord of the vineyard saith unto and the first last: for many be
his steward, Call the labourers, called, but few chosen.
and give them their hire, 17 ¶ And Jesus going up to
beginning from the last unto Jerusalem took the twelve
the first. disciples apart in the way, and
9 And when they came that said unto them,
were hired about the eleventh 18 Behold, we go up to
hour, they received every man Jerusalem; and the Son of man
a penny. shall be betrayed unto the
10 But when the first came, chief priests and unto the
they supposed that they should scribes, and they shall
have received more; and they condemn him to death,
likewise received every man a 19 And shall deliver him to
penny. the Gentiles to mock, and to
11 And when they had scourge, and to crucify him:
received it, they murmured and the third day he shall rise
against the goodman of the again.
house, 20 ¶ Then came to him the
12 Saying, These last have mother of Zebedee’s children
wrought but one hour, and with her sons, worshipping
thou hast made them equal him, and desiring a certain
unto us, which have borne the thing of him.
burden and heat of the day. 21 And he said unto her, What
13 But he answered one of wilt thou? She saith unto him,
them, and said, Friend, I do Grant that these my two sons
thee no wrong: didst not thou may sit, the one on thy right
agree with me for a penny? hand, and the other on the left,
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answered and said, I go, sir: servants more than the first:
and went not. and they did unto them
31 Whether of them twain did likewise.
the will of his father? They 37 But last of all he sent unto
say unto him, The first. Jesus them his son, saying, They
saith unto them, Verily I say will reverence my son.
unto you, That the publicans 38 But when the husbandmen
and the harlots go into the saw the son, they said among
kingdom of God before you. themselves, This is the heir;
32 For John came unto you in come, let us kill him, and let
the way of righteousness, and us seize on his inheritance.
ye believed him not: but the 39 And they caught him, and
publicans and the harlots cast him out of the vineyard,
believed him: and ye, when ye and slew him.
had seen it, repented not 40 When the lord therefore of
afterward, that ye might the vineyard cometh, what
believe him. will he do unto those
33 ¶ Hear another parable: husbandmen?
There was a certain 41 They say unto him, He will
householder, which planted a miserably destroy those
vineyard, and hedged it round wicked men, and will let out
about, and digged a winepress his vineyard unto other
in it, and built a tower, and let husbandmen, which shall
it out to husbandmen, and render him the fruits in their
went into a far country: seasons.
34 And when the time of the 42 Jesus saith unto them, Did
fruit drew near, he sent his ye never read in the scriptures,
servants to the husbandmen, The stone which the builders
that they might receive the rejected, the same is become
fruits of it. the head of the corner: this is
35 And the husbandmen took the Lord’s doing, and it is
his servants, and beat one, and marvellous in our eyes?
killed another, and stoned 43 Therefore say I unto you,
another. The kingdom of God shall be
36 Again, he sent other taken from you, and given to a
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nation bringing forth the fruits 5 But they made light of it,
thereof. and went their ways, one to
44 And whosoever shall fall his farm, another to his
on this stone shall be broken: merchandise:
but on whomsoever it shall 6 And the remnant took his
fall, it will grind him to servants, and entreated them
powder. spitefully, and slew them.
45 And when the chief priests 7 But when the king heard
and Pharisees had heard his thereof, he was wroth: and he
parables, they perceived that sent forth his armies, and
he spake of them. destroyed those murderers,
46 But when they sought to and burned up their city.
lay hands on him, they feared 8 Then saith he to his servants,
the multitude, because they The wedding is ready, but they
took him for a prophet. which were bidden were not
worthy.
CHAPTER 22 9 Go ye therefore into the
AND Jesus answered and highways, and as many as ye
spake unto them again by shall find, bid to the marriage.
parables, and said, 10 So those servants went out
2 The kingdom of heaven is into the highways, and
like unto a certain king, which gathered together all as many
made a marriage for his son, as they found, both bad and
3 And sent forth his servants good: and the wedding was
to call them that were bidden furnished with guests.
to the wedding: and they 11 ¶ And when the king came
would not come. in to see the guests, he saw
4 Again, he sent forth other there a man which had not on
servants, saying, Tell them a wedding garment:
which are bidden, Behold, I 12 And he saith unto him,
have prepared my dinner: my Friend, how camest thou in
oxen and my fatlings are hither not having a wedding
killed, and all things are garment? And he was
ready: come unto the speechless.
marriage. 13 Then said the king to the
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servants, Bind him hand and Cæsar’s; and unto God the
foot, and take him away, and things that are God’s.
cast him into outer darkness; 22 When they had heard these
there shall be weeping and words, they marvelled, and
gnashing of teeth. left him, and went their way.
14 For many are called, but 23 ¶ The same day came to
few are chosen. him the Sadducees, which say
15 ¶ Then went the Pharisees, that there is no resurrection,
and took counsel how they and asked him,
might entangle him in his talk. 24 Saying, Master, Moses
16 And they sent out unto him said, If a man die, having no
their disciples with the children, his brother shall
Herodians, saying, Master, we marry his wife, and raise up
know that thou art true, and seed unto his brother.
teachest the way of God in 25 Now there were with us
truth, neither carest thou for seven brethren: and the first,
any man: for thou regardest when he had married a wife,
not the person of men. deceased, and, having no
17 Tell us therefore, What issue, left his wife unto his
thinkest thou? Is it lawful to brother:
give tribute unto Cæsar, or 26 Likewise the second also,
not? and the third, unto the seventh.
18 But Jesus perceived their 27 And last of all the woman
wickedness, and said, Why died also.
tempt ye me, ye hypocrites? 28 Therefore in the
19 Shew me the tribute resurrection whose wife shall
money. And they brought unto she be of the seven? for they
him a penny. all had her.
20 And he saith unto them, 29 Jesus answered and said
Whose is this image and unto them, Ye do err, not
superscription? knowing the scriptures, nor
21 They say unto him, the power of God.
Cæsar’s. Then saith he unto 30 For in the resurrection they
them, Render therefore unto neither marry, nor are given in
Cæsar the things which are marriage, but are as the angels
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it, and brake it, and gave it to I say unto thee, That this
the disciples, and said, Take, night, before the cock crow,
eat; this is my body. thou shalt deny me thrice.
27 And he took the cup, and 35 Peter said unto him,
gave thanks, and gave it to Though I should die with thee,
them, saying, Drink ye all of yet will I not deny thee.
it; Likewise also said all the
28 For this is my blood of the disciples.
new testament, which is shed 36 ¶ Then cometh Jesus with
for many for the remission of them unto a place called
sins. Gethsemane, and saith unto
29 But I say unto you, I will the disciples, Sit ye here,
not drink henceforth of this while I go and pray yonder.
fruit of the vine, until that day 37 And he took with him Peter
when I drink it new with you and the two sons of Zebedee,
in my Father’s kingdom. and began to be sorrowful and
30 And when they had sung very heavy.
an hymn, they went out into 38 Then saith he unto them,
the mount of Olives. My soul is exceeding
31 Then saith Jesus unto them, sorrowful, even unto death:
All ye shall be offended tarry ye here, and watch with
because of me this night: for it me.
is written, I will smite the 39 And he went a little further,
shepherd, and the sheep of the and fell on his face, and
flock shall be scattered prayed, saying, O my Father,
abroad. if it be possible, let this cup
32 But after I am risen again, I pass from me: nevertheless
will go before you into not as I will, but as thou wilt.
Galilee. 40 And he cometh unto the
33 Peter answered and said disciples, and findeth them
unto him, Though all men asleep, and saith unto Peter,
shall be offended because of What, could ye not watch with
thee, yet will I never be me one hour?
offended. 41 Watch and pray, that ye
34 Jesus said unto him, Verily enter not into temptation: the
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might be fulfilled. Then all the the Christ, the Son of God.
disciples forsook him, and 64 Jesus saith unto him, Thou
fled. hast said: nevertheless I say
57 ¶ And they that had laid unto you, Hereafter shall ye
hold on Jesus led him away to see the Son of man sitting on
Caiaphas the high priest, the right hand of power, and
where the scribes and the coming in the clouds of
elders were assembled. heaven.
58 But Peter followed him 65 Then the high priest rent
afar off unto the high priest’s his clothes, saying, He hath
palace, and went in, and sat spoken blasphemy; what
with the servants, to see the further need have we of
end. witnesses? behold, now ye
59 Now the chief priests, and have heard his blasphemy.
elders, and all the council, 66 What think ye? They
sought false witness against answered and said, He is
Jesus, to put him to death; guilty of death.
60 But found none: yea, 67 Then did they spit in his
though many false witnesses face, and buffeted him; and
came, yet found they none. At others smote him with the
the last came two false palms of their hands,
witnesses, 68 Saying, Prophesy unto us,
61 And said, This fellow said, thou Christ, Who is he that
I am able to destroy the temple smote thee?
of God, and to build it in three 69 ¶ Now Peter sat without in
days. the palace: and a damsel came
62 And the high priest arose, unto him, saying, Thou also
and said unto him, Answerest wast with Jesus of Galilee.
thou nothing? what is it which 70 But he denied before them
these witness against thee? all, saying, I know not what
63 But Jesus held his peace. thou sayest.
And the high priest answered 71 And when he was gone out
and said unto him, I adjure into the porch, another maid
thee by the living God, that saw him, and said unto them
thou tell us whether thou be that were there, This fellow
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Pharisees saw him eat with from the old, and the rent is
publicans and sinners, they made worse.
said unto his disciples, How is 22 And no man putteth new
it that he eateth and drinketh wine into old bottles: else the
with publicans and sinners? new wine doth burst the
17 When Jesus heard it, he bottles, and the wine is spilled,
saith unto them, They that are and the bottles will be marred:
whole have no need of the but new wine must be put into
physician, but they that are new bottles.
sick: I came not to call the 23 And it came to pass, that he
righteous, but sinners to went through the corn fields
repentance. on the sabbath day; and his
18 And the disciples of John disciples began, as they went,
and of the Pharisees used to to pluck the ears of corn.
fast: and they come and say 24 And the Pharisees said unto
unto him, Why do the him, Behold, why do they on
disciples of John and of the the sabbath day that which is
Pharisees fast, but thy not lawful?
disciples fast not? 25 And he said unto them,
19 And Jesus said unto them, Have ye never read what
Can the children of the David did, when he had need,
bridechamber fast, while the and was an hungred, he, and
bridegroom is with them? as they that were with him?
long as they have the 26 How he went into the
bridegroom with them, they house of God in the days of
cannot fast. Abiathar the high priest, and
20 But the days will come, did eat the shewbread, which
when the bridegroom shall be is not lawful to eat but for the
taken away from them, and priests, and gave also to them
then shall they fast in those which were with him?
days. 27 And he said unto them, The
21 No man also seweth a piece sabbath was made for man,
of new cloth on an old and not man for the sabbath:
garment: else the new piece 28 Therefore the Son of man
that filled it up taketh away is Lord also of the sabbath.
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Lord hath done for thee, and Jesus, came in the press
hath had compassion on thee. behind, and touched his
20 And he departed, and garment.
began to publish in Decapolis 28 For she said, If I may touch
how great things Jesus had but his clothes, I shall be
done for him: and all men did whole.
marvel. 29 And straightway the
21 And when Jesus was fountain of her blood was
passed over again by ship unto dried up; and she felt in her
the other side, much people body that she was healed of
gathered unto him: and he was that plague.
nigh unto the sea. 30 And Jesus, immediately
22 And, behold, there cometh knowing in himself that virtue
one of the rulers of the had gone out of him, turned
synagogue, Jairus by name; him about in the press, and
and when he saw him, he fell said, Who touched my
at his feet, clothes?
23 And besought him greatly, 31 And his disciples said unto
saying, My little daughter lieth him, Thou seest the multitude
at the point of death: I pray thronging thee, and sayest
thee, come and lay thy hands thou, Who touched me?
on her, that she may be 32 And he looked round about
healed; and she shall live. to see her that had done this
24 And Jesus went with him; thing.
and much people followed 33 But the woman fearing and
him, and thronged him. trembling, knowing what was
25 And a certain woman, done in her, came and fell
which had an issue of blood down before him, and told
twelve years, him all the truth.
26 And had suffered many 34 And he said unto her,
things of many physicians, Daughter, thy faith hath made
and had spent all that she had, thee whole; go in peace, and
and was nothing bettered, but be whole of thy plague.
rather grew worse, 35 While he yet spake, there
27 When she had heard of came from the ruler of the
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but in his own country, and judgment, than for that city.
among his own kin, and in his 12 And they went out, and
own house. preached that men should
5 And he could there do no repent.
mighty work, save that he laid 13 And they cast out many
his hands upon a few sick devils, and anointed with oil
folk, and healed them. many that were sick, and
6 And he marvelled because healed them.
of their unbelief. And he went 14 And king Herod heard of
round about the villages, him; (for his name was spread
teaching. abroad:) and he said, That
7 ¶ And he called unto him the John the Baptist was risen
twelve, and began to send from the dead, and therefore
them forth by two and two; mighty works do shew forth
and gave them power over themselves in him.
unclean spirits; 15 Others said, That it is Elias.
8 And commanded them that And others said, That it is a
they should take nothing for prophet, or as one of the
their journey, save a staff prophets.
only; no scrip, no bread, no 16 But when Herod heard
money in their purse: thereof, he said, It is John,
9 But be shod with sandals; whom I beheaded: he is risen
and not put on two coats. from the dead.
10 And he said unto them, In 17 For Herod himself had sent
what place soever ye enter forth and laid hold upon John,
into an house, there abide till and bound him in prison for
ye depart from that place. Herodias’ sake, his brother
11 And whosoever shall not Philip’s wife: for he had
receive you, nor hear you, married her.
when ye depart thence, shake 18 For John had said unto
off the dust under your feet for Herod, It is not lawful for thee
a testimony against them. to have thy brother’s wife.
Verily I say unto you, It shall 19 Therefore Herodias had a
be more tolerable for Sodom quarrel against him, and
and Gomorrha in the day of would have killed him; but she
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34 And Jesus, when he came five loaves and the two fishes,
out, saw much people, and he looked up to heaven, and
was moved with compassion blessed, and brake the loaves,
toward them, because they and gave them to his disciples
were as sheep not having a to set before them; and the two
shepherd: and he began to fishes divided he among them
teach them many things. all.
35 And when the day was now 42 And they did all eat, and
far spent, his disciples came were filled.
unto him, and said, This is a 43 And they took up twelve
desert place, and now the time baskets full of the fragments,
is far passed: and of the fishes.
36 Send them away, that they 44 And they that did eat of the
may go into the country round loaves were about five
about, and into the villages, thousand men.
and buy themselves bread: for 45 And straightway he
they have nothing to eat. constrained his disciples to get
37 He answered and said unto into the ship, and to go to the
them, Give ye them to eat. other side before unto
And they say unto him, Shall Bethsaida, while he sent away
we go and buy two hundred the people.
pennyworth of bread, and give 46 And when he had sent
them to eat? them away, he departed into a
38 He saith unto them, How mountain to pray.
many loaves have ye? go and 47 And when even was come,
see. And when they knew, the ship was in the midst of
they say, Five, and two fishes. the sea, and he alone on the
39 And he commanded them land.
to make all sit down by 48 And he saw them toiling in
companies upon the green rowing; for the wind was
grass. contrary unto them: and about
40 And they sat down in the fourth watch of the night
ranks, by hundreds, and by he cometh unto them, walking
fifties. upon the sea, and would have
41 And when he had taken the passed by them.
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49 But when they saw him were but the border of his
walking upon the sea, they garment: and as many as
supposed it had been a spirit, touched him were made
and cried out: whole.
50 For they all saw him, and
were troubled. And CHAPTER 7
immediately he talked with THEN came together unto him
them, and saith unto them, Be the Pharisees, and certain of
of good cheer: it is I; be not the scribes, which came from
afraid. Jerusalem.
51 And he went up unto them 2 And when they saw some of
into the ship; and the wind his disciples eat bread with
ceased: and they were sore defiled, that is to say, with
amazed in themselves beyond unwashen, hands, they found
measure, and wondered. fault.
52 For they considered not the 3 For the Pharisees, and all the
miracle of the loaves: for their Jews, except they wash their
heart was hardened. hands oft, eat not, holding the
53 And when they had passed tradition of the elders.
over, they came into the land 4 And when they come from
of Gennesaret, and drew to the the market, except they wash,
shore. they eat not. And many other
54 And when they were come things there be, which they
out of the ship, straightway have received to hold, as the
they knew him, washing of cups, and pots,
55 And ran through that whole brasen vessels, and of tables.
region round about, and began 5 Then the Pharisees and
to carry about in beds those scribes asked him, Why walk
that were sick, where they not thy disciples according to
heard he was. the tradition of the elders, but
56 And whithersoever he eat bread with unwashen
entered, into villages, or cities, hands?
or country, they laid the sick 6 He answered and said unto
in the streets, and besought them, Well hath Esaias
him that they might touch if it prophesied of you hypocrites,
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and he followeth not us: and into the fire that never shall be
we forbad him, because he quenched:
followeth not us. 46 Where their worm dieth
39 But Jesus said, Forbid him not, and the fire is not
not: for there is no man which quenched.
shall do a miracle in my name, 47 And if thine eye offend
that can lightly speak evil of thee, pluck it out: it is better
me. for thee to enter into the
40 For he that is not against us kingdom of God with one eye,
is on our part. than having two eyes to be
41 For whosoever shall give cast into hell fire:
you a cup of water to drink in 48 Where their worm dieth
my name, because ye belong not, and the fire is not
to Christ, verily I say unto quenched.
you, he shall not lose his 49 For every one shall be
reward. salted with fire, and every
42 And whosoever shall sacrifice shall be salted with
offend one of these little ones salt.
that believe in me, it is better 50 Salt is good: but if the salt
for him that a millstone were have lost his saltness,
hanged about his neck, and he wherewith will ye season it?
were cast into the sea. Have salt in yourselves, and
43 And if thy hand offend have peace one with another.
thee, cut it off: it is better for
thee to enter into life maimed, CHAPTER 10
than having two hands to go AND he arose from thence,
into hell, into the fire that and cometh into the coasts of
never shall be quenched: Judæa by the farther side of
44 Where their worm dieth Jordan: and the people resort
not, and the fire is not unto him again; and, as he was
quenched. wont, he taught them again.
45 And if thy foot offend thee, 2 ¶ And the Pharisees came to
cut it off: it is better for thee to him, and asked him, Is it
enter halt into life, than having lawful for a man to put away
two feet to be cast into hell, his wife? tempting him.
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the trees, and strawed them in out them that sold and bought
the way. in the temple, and overthrew
9 And they that went before, the tables of the
and they that followed, cried, moneychangers, and the seats
saying, Hosanna; Blessed is he of them that sold doves;
that cometh in the name of the 16 And would not suffer that
Lord: any man should carry any
10 Blessed be the kingdom of vessel through the temple.
our father David, that cometh 17 And he taught, saying unto
in the name of the Lord: them, Is it not written, My
Hosanna in the highest. house shall be called of all
11 And Jesus entered into nations the house of prayer?
Jerusalem, and into the but ye have made it a den of
temple: and when he had thieves.
looked round about upon all 18 And the scribes and chief
things, and now the eventide priests heard it, and sought
was come, he went out unto how they might destroy him:
Bethany with the twelve. for they feared him, because
12 ¶ And on the morrow, all the people was astonished
when they were come from at his doctrine.
Bethany, he was hungry: 19 And when even was come,
13 And seeing a fig tree afar he went out of the city.
off having leaves, he came, if 20 ¶ And in the morning, as
haply he might find any thing they passed by, they saw the
thereon: and when he came to fig tree dried up from the
it, he found nothing but roots.
leaves; for the time of figs was 21 And Peter calling to
not yet. remembrance saith unto him,
14 And Jesus answered and Master, behold, the fig tree
said unto it, No man eat fruit which thou cursedst is
of thee hereafter for ever. And withered away.
his disciples heard it. 22 And Jesus answering saith
15 ¶ And they come to unto them, Have faith in God.
Jerusalem: and Jesus went into 23 For verily I say unto you,
the temple, and began to cast That whosoever shall say unto
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spices, that they might come thing to any man; for they
and anoint him. were afraid.
2 And very early in the 9 ¶ Now when Jesus was risen
morning the first day of the early the first day of the week,
week, they came unto the he appeared first to Mary
sepulchre at the rising of the Magdalene, out of whom he
sun. had cast seven devils.
3 And they said among 10 And she went and told
themselves, Who shall roll us them that had been with him,
away the stone from the door as they mourned and wept.
of the sepulchre? 11 And they, when they had
4 And when they looked, they heard that he was alive, and
saw that the stone was rolled had been seen of her, believed
away: for it was very great. not.
5 And entering into the 12 ¶ After that he appeared in
sepulchre, they saw a young another form unto two of
man sitting on the right side, them, as they walked, and
clothed in a long white went into the country.
garment; and they were 13 And they went and told it
affrighted. unto the residue: neither
6 And he saith unto them, Be believed they them.
not affrighted: Ye seek Jesus 14 ¶ Afterward he appeared
of Nazareth, which was unto the eleven as they sat at
crucified: he is risen; he is not meat, and upbraided them
here: behold the place where with their unbelief and
they laid him. hardness of heart, because
7 But go your way, tell his they believed not them which
disciples and Peter that he had seen him after he was
goeth before you into Galilee: risen.
there shall ye see him, as he 15 And he said unto them, Go
said unto you. ye into all the world, and
8 And they went out quickly, preach the gospel to every
and fled from the sepulchre; creature.
for they trembled and were 16 He that believeth and is
amazed: neither said they any baptized shall be saved; but he
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Nagge, of David,
26 Which was the son of 32 Which was the son of
Maath, which was the son of Jesse, which was the son of
Mattathias, which was the son Obed, which was the son of
of Semei, which was the son Booz, which was the son of
of Joseph, which was the son Salmon, which was the son of
of Juda, Naasson,
27 Which was the son of 33 Which was the son of
Joanna, which was the son of Aminadab, which was the son
Rhesa, which was the son of of Aram, which was the son of
Zorobabel, which was the son Esrom, which was the son of
of Salathiel, which was the Phares, which was the son of
son of Neri, Juda,
28 Which was the son of 34 Which was the son of
Melchi, which was the son of Jacob, which was the son of
Addi, which was the son of Isaac, which was the son of
Cosam, which was the son of Abraham, which was the son
Elmodam, which was the son of Thara, which was the son of
of Er, Nachor,
29 Which was the son of Jose, 35 Which was the son of
which was the son of Eliezer, Saruch, which was the son of
which was the son of Jorim, Ragau, which was the son of
which was the son of Matthat, Phalec, which was the son of
which was the son of Levi, Heber, which was the son of
30 Which was the son of Sala,
Simeon, which was the son of 36 Which was the son of
Juda, which was the son of Cainan, which was the son of
Joseph, which was the son of Arphaxad, which was the son
Jonan, which was the son of of Sem, which was the son of
Eliakim, Noe, which was the son of
31 Which was the son of Lamech,
Melea, which was the son of 37 Which was the son of
Menan, which was the son of Mathusala, which was the son
Mattatha, which was the son of Enoch, which was the son
of Nathan, which was the son of Jared, which was the son of
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him unto the brow of the hill 37 And the fame of him went
whereon their city was built, out into every place of the
that they might cast him down country round about.
headlong. 38 ¶ And he arose out of the
30 But he passing through the synagogue, and entered into
midst of them went his way, Simon’s house. And Simon’s
31 And came down to wife’s mother was taken with
Capernaum, a city of Galilee, a great fever; and they
and taught them on the besought him for her.
sabbath days. 39 And he stood over her, and
32 And they were astonished rebuked the fever; and it left
at his doctrine: for his word her: and immediately she
was with power. arose and ministered unto
33 ¶ And in the synagogue them.
there was a man, which had a 40 ¶ Now when the sun was
spirit of an unclean devil, and setting, all they that had any
cried out with a loud voice, sick with divers diseases
34 Saying, Let us alone; what brought them unto him; and he
have we to do with thee, thou laid his hands on every one of
Jesus of Nazareth? art thou them, and healed them.
come to destroy us? I know 41 And devils also came out
thee who thou art; the Holy of many, crying out, and
One of God. saying, Thou art Christ the
35 And Jesus rebuked him, Son of God. And he rebuking
saying, Hold thy peace, and them suffered them not to
come out of him. And when speak: for they knew that he
the devil had thrown him in was Christ.
the midst, he came out of him, 42 And when it was day, he
and hurt him not. departed and went into a
36 And they were all amazed, desert place: and the people
and spake among themselves, sought him, and came unto
saying, What a word is this! him, and stayed him, that he
for with authority and power should not depart from them.
he commandeth the unclean 43 And he said unto them, I
spirits, and they come out. must preach the kingdom of
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lepers are cleansed, the deaf 29 And all the people that
hear, the dead are raised, to heard him, and the publicans,
the poor the gospel is justified God, being baptized
preached. with the baptism of John.
23 And blessed is he, 30 But the Pharisees and
whosoever shall not be lawyers rejected the counsel of
offended in me. God against themselves, being
24 ¶ And when the not baptized of him.
messengers of John were 31 ¶ And the Lord said,
departed, he began to speak Whereunto then shall I liken
unto the people concerning the men of this generation?
John, What went ye out into and to what are they like?
the wilderness for to see? A 32 They are like unto children
reed shaken with the wind? sitting in the marketplace, and
25 But what went ye out for to calling one to another, and
see? A man clothed in soft saying, We have piped unto
raiment? Behold, they which you, and ye have not danced;
are gorgeously apparelled, and we have mourned to you, and
live delicately, are in kings’ ye have not wept.
courts. 33 For John the Baptist came
26 But what went ye out for to neither eating bread nor
see? A prophet? Yea, I say drinking wine; and ye say, He
unto you, and much more than hath a devil.
a prophet. 34 The Son of man is come
27 This is he, of whom it is eating and drinking; and ye
written, Behold, I send my say, Behold a gluttonous man,
messenger before thy face, and a winebibber, a friend of
which shall prepare thy way publicans and sinners!
before thee. 35 But wisdom is justified of
28 For I say unto you, Among all her children.
those that are born of women 36 ¶ And one of the Pharisees
there is not a greater prophet desired him that he would eat
than John the Baptist: but he with him. And he went into
that is least in the kingdom of the Pharisee’s house, and sat
God is greater than he. down to meat.
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Jesus had done unto him. perceive that virtue is gone out
40 And it came to pass, that, of me.
when Jesus was returned, the 47 And when the woman saw
people gladly received him: that she was not hid, she came
for they were all waiting for trembling, and falling down
him. before him, she declared unto
41 ¶ And, behold, there came him before all the people for
a man named Jairus, and he what cause she had touched
was a ruler of the synagogue: him, and how she was healed
and he fell down at Jesus’ feet, immediately.
and besought him that he 48 And he said unto her,
would come into his house: Daughter, be of good comfort:
42 For he had one only thy faith hath made thee
daughter, about twelve years whole; go in peace.
of age, and she lay a dying. 49 ¶ While he yet spake, there
But as he went the people cometh one from the ruler of
thronged him. the synagogue’s house, saying
43 ¶ And a woman having an to him, Thy daughter is dead;
issue of blood twelve years, trouble not the Master.
which had spent all her living 50 But when Jesus heard it, he
upon physicians, neither could answered him, saying, Fear
be healed of any, not: believe only, and she
44 Came behind him, and shall be made whole.
touched the border of his 51 And when he came into the
garment: and immediately her house, he suffered no man to
issue of blood stanched. go in, save Peter, and James,
45 And Jesus said, Who and John, and the father and
touched me? When all denied, the mother of the maiden.
Peter and they that were with 52 And all wept, and bewailed
him said, Master, the her: but he said, Weep not; she
multitude throng thee and is not dead, but sleepeth.
press thee, and sayest thou, 53 And they laughed him to
Who touched me? scorn, knowing that she was
46 And Jesus said, Somebody dead.
hath touched me: for I 54 And he put them all out,
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till they see the kingdom of feared as they entered into the
God. cloud.
28 ¶ And it came to pass about 35 And there came a voice out
an eight days after these of the cloud, saying, This is
sayings, he took Peter and my beloved Son: hear him.
John and James, and went up 36 And when the voice was
into a mountain to pray. past, Jesus was found alone.
29 And as he prayed, the And they kept it close, and
fashion of his countenance told no man in those days any
was altered, and his raiment of those things which they had
was white and glistering. seen.
30 And, behold, there talked 37 ¶ And it came to pass, that
with him two men, which on the next day, when they
were Moses and Elias: were come down from the hill,
31 Who appeared in glory, and much people met him.
spake of his decease which he 38 And, behold, a man of the
should accomplish at company cried out, saying,
Jerusalem. Master, I beseech thee, look
32 But Peter and they that upon my son: for he is mine
were with him were heavy only child.
with sleep: and when they 39 And, lo, a spirit taketh him,
were awake, they saw his and he suddenly crieth out;
glory, and the two men that and it teareth him that he
stood with him. foameth again, and bruising
33 And it came to pass, as him hardly departeth from
they departed from him, Peter him.
said unto Jesus, Master, it is 40 And I besought thy
good for us to be here: and let disciples to cast him out; and
us make three tabernacles; one they could not.
for thee, and one for Moses, 41 And Jesus answering said,
and one for Elias: not knowing O faithless and perverse
what he said. generation, how long shall I be
34 While he thus spake, there with you, and suffer you?
came a cloud, and Bring thy son hither.
overshadowed them: and they 42 And as he was yet a
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unto them, the scribes and the 5 But I will forewarn you
Pharisees began to urge him whom ye shall fear: Fear him,
vehemently, and to provoke which after he hath killed hath
him to speak of many things: power to cast into hell; yea, I
54 Laying wait for him, and say unto you, Fear him.
seeking to catch something 6 Are not five sparrows sold
out of his mouth, that they for two farthings, and not one
might accuse him. of them is forgotten before
God?
CHAPTER 12 7 But even the very hairs of
IN the mean time, when there your head are all numbered.
were gathered together an Fear not therefore: ye are of
innumerable multitude of more value than many
people, insomuch that they sparrows.
trode one upon another, he 8 Also I say unto you,
began to say unto his disciples Whosoever shall confess me
first of all, Beware ye of the before men, him shall the Son
leaven of the Pharisees, which of man also confess before the
is hypocrisy. angels of God:
2 For there is nothing covered, 9 But he that denieth me
that shall not be revealed; before men shall be denied
neither hid, that shall not be before the angels of God.
known. 10 And whosoever shall speak
3 Therefore whatsoever ye a word against the Son of
have spoken in darkness shall man, it shall be forgiven him:
be heard in the light; and that but unto him that blasphemeth
which ye have spoken in the against the Holy Ghost it shall
ear in closets shall be not be forgiven.
proclaimed upon the 11 And when they bring you
housetops. unto the synagogues, and unto
4 And I say unto you my magistrates, and powers, take
friends, Be not afraid of them ye no thought how or what
that kill the body, and after thing ye shall answer, or what
that have no more that they ye shall say:
can do. 12 For the Holy Ghost shall
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I know you not whence ye are; stonest them that are sent unto
depart from me, all ye workers thee; how often would I have
of iniquity. gathered thy children together,
28 There shall be weeping and as a hen doth gather her brood
gnashing of teeth, when ye under her wings, and ye
shall see Abraham, and Isaac, would not!
and Jacob, and all the 35 Behold, your house is left
prophets, in the kingdom of unto you desolate: and verily I
God, and you yourselves say unto you, Ye shall not see
thrust out. me, until the time come when
29 And they shall come from ye shall say, Blessed is he that
the east, and from the west, cometh in the name of the
and from the north, and from Lord.
the south, and shall sit down
in the kingdom of God. CHAPTER 14
30 And, behold, there are last AND it came to pass, as he
which shall be first, and there went into the house of one of
are first which shall be last. the chief Pharisees to eat
31 ¶ The same day there came bread on the sabbath day, that
certain of the Pharisees, they watched him.
saying unto him, Get thee out, 2 And, behold, there was a
and depart hence: for Herod certain man before him which
will kill thee. had the dropsy.
32 And he said unto them, Go 3 And Jesus answering spake
ye, and tell that fox, Behold, I unto the lawyers and
cast out devils, and I do cures Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful
to day and to morrow, and the to heal on the sabbath day?
third day I shall be perfected. 4 And they held their peace.
33 Nevertheless I must walk And he took him, and healed
to day, and to morrow, and the him, and let him go;
day following: for it cannot be 5 And answered them, saying,
that a prophet perish out of Which of you shall have an
Jerusalem. ass or an ox fallen into a pit,
34 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, and will not straightway pull
which killest the prophets, and him out on the sabbath day?
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6 And they could not answer they also bid thee again, and a
him again to these things. recompence be made thee.
7 ¶ And he put forth a parable 13 But when thou makest a
to those which were bidden, feast, call the poor, the
when he marked how they maimed, the lame, the blind:
chose out the chief rooms; 14 And thou shalt be blessed;
saying unto them, for they cannot recompense
8 When thou art bidden of any thee: for thou shalt be
man to a wedding, sit not recompensed at the
down in the highest room; lest resurrection of the just.
a more honourable man than 15 ¶ And when one of them
thou be bidden of him; that sat at meat with him heard
9 And he that bade thee and these things, he said unto him,
him come and say to thee, Blessed is he that shall eat
Give this man place; and thou bread in the kingdom of God.
begin with shame to take the 16 Then said he unto him, A
lowest room. certain man made a great
10 But when thou art bidden, supper, and bade many:
go and sit down in the lowest 17 And sent his servant at
room; that when he that bade supper time to say to them that
thee cometh, he may say unto were bidden, Come; for all
thee, Friend, go up higher: things are now ready.
then shalt thou have worship 18 And they all with one
in the presence of them that sit consent began to make excuse.
at meat with thee. The first said unto him, I have
11 For whosoever exalteth bought a piece of ground, and
himself shall be abased; and I must needs go and see it: I
he that humbleth himself shall pray thee have me excused.
be exalted. 19 And another said, I have
12 ¶ Then said he also to him bought five yoke of oxen, and
that bade him, When thou I go to prove them: I pray thee
makest a dinner or a supper, have me excused.
call not thy friends, nor thy 20 And another said, I have
brethren, neither thy kinsmen, married a wife, and therefore I
nor thy rich neighbours; lest cannot come.
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that the swine did eat: and no and is alive again; he was lost,
man gave unto him. and is found. And they began
17 And when he came to to be merry.
himself, he said, How many 25 Now his elder son was in
hired servants of my father’s the field: and as he came and
have bread enough and to drew nigh to the house, he
spare, and I perish with heard musick and dancing.
hunger! 26 And he called one of the
18 I will arise and go to my servants, and asked what these
father, and will say unto him, things meant.
Father, I have sinned against 27 And he said unto him, Thy
heaven, and before thee, brother is come; and thy father
19 And am no more worthy to hath killed the fatted calf,
be called thy son: make me as because he hath received him
one of thy hired servants. safe and sound.
20 And he arose, and came to 28 And he was angry, and
his father. But when he was would not go in: therefore
yet a great way off, his father came his father out, and
saw him, and had compassion, intreated him.
and ran, and fell on his neck, 29 And he answering said to
and kissed him. his father, Lo, these many
21 And the son said unto him, years do I serve thee, neither
Father, I have sinned against transgressed I at any time thy
heaven, and in thy sight, and commandment: and yet thou
am no more worthy to be never gavest me a kid, that I
called thy son. might make merry with my
22 But the father said to his friends:
servants, Bring forth the best 30 But as soon as this thy son
robe, and put it on him; and was come, which hath
put a ring on his hand, and devoured thy living with
shoes on his feet: harlots, thou hast killed for
23 And bring hither the fatted him the fatted calf.
calf, and kill it; and let us eat, 31 And he said unto him, Son,
and be merry: thou art ever with me, and all
24 For this my son was dead, that I have is thine.
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else he will hold to the one, was laid at his gate, full of
and despise the other. Ye sores,
cannot serve God and 21 And desiring to be fed with
mammon. the crumbs which fell from the
14 And the Pharisees also, rich man’s table: moreover the
who were covetous, heard all dogs came and licked his
these things: and they derided sores.
him. 22 And it came to pass, that
15 And he said unto them, Ye the beggar died, and was
are they which justify carried by the angels into
yourselves before men; but Abraham’s bosom: the rich
God knoweth your hearts: for man also died, and was buried;
that which is highly esteemed 23 And in hell he lift up his
among men is abomination in eyes, being in torments, and
the sight of God. seeth Abraham afar off, and
16 The law and the prophets Lazarus in his bosom.
were until John: since that 24 And he cried and said,
time the kingdom of God is Father Abraham, have mercy
preached, and every man on me, and send Lazarus, that
presseth into it. he may dip the tip of his finger
17 And it is easier for heaven in water, and cool my tongue;
and earth to pass, than one for I am tormented in this
tittle of the law to fail. flame.
18 Whosoever putteth away 25 But Abraham said, Son,
his wife, and marrieth another, remember that thou in thy
committeth adultery: and lifetime receivedst thy good
whosoever marrieth her that is things, and likewise Lazarus
put away from her husband evil things: but now he is
committeth adultery. comforted, and thou art
19 ¶ There was a certain rich tormented.
man, which was clothed in 26 And beside all this,
purple and fine linen, and between us and you there is a
fared sumptuously every day: great gulf fixed: so that they
20 And there was a certain which would pass from hence
beggar named Lazarus, which to you cannot; neither can they
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day that Noe entered into the 36 Two men shall be in the
ark, and the flood came, and field; the one shall be taken,
destroyed them all. and the other left.
28 Likewise also as it was in 37 And they answered and
the days of Lot; they did eat, said unto him, Where, Lord?
they drank, they bought, they And he said unto them,
sold, they planted, they Wheresoever the body is,
builded; thither will the eagles be
29 But the same day that Lot gathered together.
went out of Sodom it rained
fire and brimstone from CHAPTER 18
heaven, and destroyed them AND he spake a parable unto
all. them to this end, that men
30 Even thus shall it be in the ought always to pray, and not
day when the Son of man is to faint;
revealed. 2 Saying, There was in a city a
31 In that day, he which shall judge, which feared not God,
be upon the housetop, and his neither regarded man:
stuff in the house, let him not 3 And there was a widow in
come down to take it away: that city; and she came unto
and he that is in the field, let him, saying, Avenge me of
him likewise not return back. mine adversary.
32 Remember Lot’s wife. 4 And he would not for a
33 Whosoever shall seek to while: but afterward he said
save his life shall lose it; and within himself, Though I fear
whosoever shall lose his life not God, nor regard man;
shall preserve it. 5 Yet because this widow
34 I tell you, in that night troubleth me, I will avenge
there shall be two men in one her, lest by her continual
bed; the one shall be taken, coming she weary me.
and the other shall be left. 6 And the Lord said, Hear
35 Two women shall be what the unjust judge saith.
grinding together; the one 7 And shall not God avenge
shall be taken, and the other his own elect, which cry day
left. and night unto him, though he
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sell all that thou hast, and the twelve, and said unto
distribute unto the poor, and them, Behold, we go up to
thou shalt have treasure in Jerusalem, and all things that
heaven: and come, follow me. are written by the prophets
23 And when he heard this, he concerning the Son of man
was very sorrowful: for he shall be accomplished.
was very rich. 32 For he shall be delivered
24 And when Jesus saw that unto the Gentiles, and shall be
he was very sorrowful, he mocked, and spitefully
said, How hardly shall they entreated, and spitted on:
that have riches enter into the 33 And they shall scourge
kingdom of God! him, and put him to death: and
25 For it is easier for a camel the third day he shall rise
to go through a needle’s eye, again.
than for a rich man to enter 34 And they understood none
into the kingdom of God. of these things: and this saying
26 And they that heard it said, was hid from them, neither
Who then can be saved? knew they the things which
27 And he said, The things were spoken.
which are impossible with 35 ¶ And it came to pass, that
men are possible with God. as he was come nigh unto
28 Then Peter said, Lo, we Jericho, a certain blind man
have left all, and followed sat by the way side begging:
thee. 36 And hearing the multitude
29 And he said unto them, pass by, he asked what it
Verily I say unto you, There is meant.
no man that hath left house, or 37 And they told him, that
parents, or brethren, or wife, Jesus of Nazareth passeth by.
or children, for the kingdom 38 And he cried, saying,
of God’s sake, Jesus, thou Son of David, have
30 Who shall not receive mercy on me.
manifold more in this present 39 And they which went
time, and in the world to come before rebuked him, that he
life everlasting. should hold his peace: but he
31 ¶ Then he took unto him cried so much the more, Thou
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day:
47 And that repentance and
remission of sins should be
preached in his name among
all nations, beginning at
Jerusalem.
48 And ye are witnesses of
these things.
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.
50 ¶ And he led them out as
far as to Bethany, and he lifted
up his hands, and blessed
them.
51 And it came to pass, while
he blessed them, he was parted
from them, and carried up into
heaven.
52 And they worshipped him,
and returned to Jerusalem with
great joy:
53 And were continually in
the temple, praising and
blessing God. Amen.
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO
ST. JOHN.
CHAPTER 1 become the sons of God, even
IN the beginning was the to them that believe on his
Word, and the Word was with name:
God, and the Word was God. 13 Which were born, not of
2 The same was in the blood, nor of the will of the
beginning with God. flesh, nor of the will of man,
3 All things were made by but of God.
him; and without him was not 14 And the Word was made
any thing made that was made. flesh, and dwelt among us,
4 In him was life; and the life (and we beheld his glory, the
was the light of men. glory as of the only begotten
5 And the light shineth in of the Father,) full of grace
darkness; and the darkness and truth.
comprehended it not. 15 ¶ John bare witness of him,
6 ¶ There was a man sent from and cried, saying, This was he
God, whose name was John. of whom I spake, He that
7 The same came for a cometh after me is preferred
witness, to bear witness of the before me: for he was before
Light, that all men through me.
him might believe. 16 And of his fulness have all
8 He was not that Light, but we received, and grace for
was sent to bear witness of grace.
that Light. 17 For the law was given by
9 That was the true Light, Moses, but grace and truth
which lighteth every man that came by Jesus Christ.
cometh into the world. 18 No man hath seen God at
10 He was in the world, and any time; the only begotten
the world was made by him, Son, which is in the bosom of
and the world knew him not. the Father, he hath declared
11 He came unto his own, and him.
his own received him not. 19 ¶ And this is the record of
12 But as many as received John, when the Jews sent
him, to them gave he power to priests and Levites from
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open, and the angels of God 9 When the ruler of the feast
ascending and descending had tasted the water that was
upon the Son of man. made wine, and knew not
whence it was: (but the
CHAPTER 2 servants which drew the water
AND the third day there was a knew;) the governor of the
marriage in Cana of Galilee; feast called the bridegroom,
and the mother of Jesus was 10 And saith unto him, Every
there: man at the beginning doth set
2 And both Jesus was called, forth good wine; and when
and his disciples, to the men have well drunk, then that
marriage. which is worse: but thou hast
3 And when they wanted kept the good wine until now.
wine, the mother of Jesus saith 11 This beginning of miracles
unto him, They have no wine. did Jesus in Cana of Galilee,
4 Jesus saith unto her, and manifested forth his glory;
Woman, what have I to do and his disciples believed on
with thee? mine hour is not yet him.
come. 12 ¶ After this he went down
5 His mother saith unto the to Capernaum, he, and his
servants, Whatsoever he saith mother, and his brethren, and
unto you, do it. his disciples: and they
6 And there were set there six continued there not many
waterpots of stone, after the days.
manner of the purifying of the 13 ¶ And the Jews’ passover
Jews, containing two or three was at hand, and Jesus went
firkins apiece. up to Jerusalem,
7 Jesus saith unto them, Fill 14 And found in the temple
the waterpots with water. And those that sold oxen and sheep
they filled them up to the and doves, and the changers of
brim. money sitting:
8 And he saith unto them, 15 And when he had made a
Draw out now, and bear unto scourge of small cords, he
the governor of the feast. And drove them all out of the
they bare it. temple, and the sheep, and the
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oxen; and poured out the the feast day, many believed
changers’ money, and in his name, when they saw
overthrew the tables; the miracles which he did.
16 And said unto them that 24 But Jesus did not commit
sold doves, Take these things himself unto them, because he
hence; make not my Father’s knew all men,
house an house of 25 And needed not that any
merchandise. should testify of man: for he
17 And his disciples knew what was in man.
remembered that it was
written, The zeal of thine CHAPTER 3
house hath eaten me up. THERE was a man of the
18 ¶ Then answered the Jews Pharisees, named Nicodemus,
and said unto him, What sign a ruler of the Jews:
shewest thou unto us, seeing 2 The same came to Jesus by
that thou doest these things? night, and said unto him,
19 Jesus answered and said Rabbi, we know that thou art a
unto them, Destroy this teacher come from God: for
temple, and in three days I no man can do these miracles
will raise it up. that thou doest, except God be
20 Then said the Jews, Forty with him.
and six years was this temple 3 Jesus answered and said
in building, and wilt thou rear unto him, Verily, verily, I say
it up in three days? unto thee, Except a man be
21 But he spake of the temple born again, he cannot see the
of his body. kingdom of God.
22 When therefore he was 4 Nicodemus saith unto him,
risen from the dead, his How can a man be born when
disciples remembered that he he is old? can he enter the
had said this unto them; and second time into his mother’s
they believed the scripture, womb, and be born?
and the word which Jesus had 5 Jesus answered, Verily,
said. verily, I say unto thee, Except
23 ¶ Now when he was in a man be born of water and of
Jerusalem at the passover, in the Spirit, he cannot enter into
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when Jesus made the clay, and seeth, we know not; or who
opened his eyes. hath opened his eyes, we
15 Then again the Pharisees know not: he is of age; ask
also asked him how he had him: he shall speak for
received his sight. He said himself.
unto them, He put clay upon 22 These words spake his
mine eyes, and I washed, and parents, because they feared
do see. the Jews: for the Jews had
16 Therefore said some of the agreed already, that if any man
Pharisees, This man is not of did confess that he was Christ,
God, because he keepeth not he should be put out of the
the sabbath day. Others said, synagogue.
How can a man that is a sinner 23 Therefore said his parents,
do such miracles? And there He is of age; ask him.
was a division among them. 24 Then again called they the
17 They say unto the blind man that was blind, and said
man again, What sayest thou unto him, Give God the
of him, that he hath opened praise: we know that this man
thine eyes? He said, He is a is a sinner.
prophet. 25 He answered and said,
18 But the Jews did not Whether he be a sinner or no,
believe concerning him, that I know not: one thing I know,
he had been blind, and that, whereas I was blind, now
received his sight, until they I see.
called the parents of him that 26 Then said they to him
had received his sight. again, What did he to thee?
19 And they asked them, how opened he thine eyes?
saying, Is this your son, who 27 He answered them, I have
ye say was born blind? how told you already, and ye did
then doth he now see? not hear: wherefore would ye
20 His parents answered them hear it again? will ye also be
and said, We know that this is his disciples?
our son, and that he was born 28 Then they reviled him, and
blind: said, Thou art his disciple; but
21 But by what means he now we are Moses’ disciples.
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29 We know that God spake Thou hast both seen him, and
unto Moses: as for this fellow, it is he that talketh with thee.
we know not from whence he 38 And he said, Lord, I
is. believe. And he worshipped
30 The man answered and said him.
unto them, Why herein is a 39 ¶ And Jesus said, For
marvellous thing, that ye judgment I am come into this
know not from whence he is, world, that they which see not
and yet he hath opened mine might see; and that they which
eyes. see might be made blind.
31 Now we know that God 40 And some of the Pharisees
heareth not sinners: but if any which were with him heard
man be a worshipper of God, these words, and said unto
and doeth his will, him he him, Are we blind also?
heareth. 41 Jesus said unto them, If ye
32 Since the world began was were blind, ye should have no
it not heard that any man sin: but now ye say, We see;
opened the eyes of one that therefore your sin remaineth.
was born blind.
33 If this man were not of CHAPTER 10
God, he could do nothing. VERILY, verily, I say unto
34 They answered and said you, He that entereth not by
unto him, Thou wast the door into the sheepfold,
altogether born in sins, and but climbeth up some other
dost thou teach us? And they way, the same is a thief and a
cast him out. robber.
35 Jesus heard that they had 2 But he that entereth in by the
cast him out; and when he had door is the shepherd of the
found him, he said unto him, sheep.
Dost thou believe on the Son 3 To him the porter openeth;
of God? and the sheep hear his voice:
36 He answered and said, and he calleth his own sheep
Who is he, Lord, that I might by name, and leadeth them
believe on him? out.
37 And Jesus said unto him, 4 And when he putteth forth
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his own sheep, he goeth before the wolf coming, and leaveth
them, and the sheep follow the sheep, and fleeth: and the
him: for they know his voice. wolf catcheth them, and
5 And a stranger will they not scattereth the sheep.
follow, but will flee from him: 13 The hireling fleeth, because
for they know not the voice of he is an hireling, and careth
strangers. not for the sheep.
6 This parable spake Jesus 14 I am the good shepherd,
unto them: but they and know my sheep, and am
understood not what things known of mine.
they were which he spake unto 15 As the Father knoweth me,
them. even so know I the Father: and
7 Then said Jesus unto them I lay down my life for the
again, Verily, verily, I say sheep.
unto you, I am the door of the 16 And other sheep I have,
sheep. which are not of this fold:
8 All that ever came before me them also I must bring, and
are thieves and robbers: but they shall hear my voice; and
the sheep did not hear them. there shall be one fold, and
9 I am the door: by me if any one shepherd.
man enter in, he shall be 17 Therefore doth my Father
saved, and shall go in and out, love me, because I lay down
and find pasture. my life, that I might take it
10 The thief cometh not, but again.
for to steal, and to kill, and to 18 No man taketh it from me,
destroy: I am come that they but I lay it down of myself. I
might have life, and that they have power to lay it down, and
might have it more I have power to take it again.
abundantly. This commandment have I
11 I am the good shepherd: the received of my Father.
good shepherd giveth his life 19 ¶ There was a division
for the sheep. therefore again among the
12 But he that is an hireling, Jews for these sayings.
and not the shepherd, whose 20 And many of them said, He
own the sheep are not, seeth hath a devil, and is mad; why
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Caiaphas, being the high priest What think ye, that he will not
that same year, said unto come to the feast?
them, Ye know nothing at all, 57 Now both the chief priests
50 Nor consider that it is and the Pharisees had given a
expedient for us, that one man commandment, that, if any
should die for the people, and man knew where he were, he
that the whole nation perish should shew it, that they might
not. take him.
51 And this spake he not of
himself: but being high priest CHAPTER 12
that year, he prophesied that THEN Jesus six days before
Jesus should die for that the passover came to Bethany,
nation; where Lazarus was which had
52 And not for that nation been dead, whom he raised
only, but that also he should from the dead.
gather together in one the 2 There they made him a
children of God that were supper; and Martha served:
scattered abroad. but Lazarus was one of them
53 Then from that day forth that sat at the table with him.
they took counsel together for 3 Then took Mary a pound of
to put him to death. ointment of spikenard, very
54 Jesus therefore walked no costly, and anointed the feet of
more openly among the Jews; Jesus, and wiped his feet with
but went thence unto a country her hair: and the house was
near to the wilderness, into a filled with the odour of the
city called Ephraim, and there ointment.
continued with his disciples. 4 Then saith one of his
55 ¶ And the Jews’ passover disciples, Judas Iscariot,
was nigh at hand: and many Simon’s son, which should
went out of the country up to betray him,
Jerusalem before the passover, 5 Why was not this ointment
to purify themselves. sold for three hundred pence,
56 Then sought they for Jesus, and given to the poor?
and spake among themselves, 6 This he said, not that he
as they stood in the temple, cared for the poor; but because
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to whom hath the arm of the him not: for I came not to
Lord been revealed? judge the world, but to save
39 Therefore they could not the world.
believe, because that Esaias 48 He that rejecteth me, and
said again, receiveth not my words, hath
40 He hath blinded their eyes, one that judgeth him: the word
and hardened their heart; that that I have spoken, the same
they should not see with their shall judge him in the last day.
eyes, nor understand with 49 For I have not spoken of
their heart, and be converted, myself; but the Father which
and I should heal them. sent me, he gave me a
41 These things said Esaias, commandment, what I should
when he saw his glory, and say, and what I should speak.
spake of him. 50 And I know that his
42 ¶ Nevertheless among the commandment is life
chief rulers also many everlasting: whatsoever I
believed on him; but because speak therefore, even as the
of the Pharisees they did not Father said unto me, so I
confess him, lest they should speak.
be put out of the synagogue:
43 For they loved the praise of CHAPTER 13
men more than the praise of NOW before the feast of the
God. passover, when Jesus knew
44 ¶ Jesus cried and said, He that his hour was come that he
that believeth on me, believeth should depart out of this world
not on me, but on him that unto the Father, having loved
sent me. his own which were in the
45 And he that seeth me seeth world, he loved them unto the
him that sent me. end.
46 I am come a light into the 2 And supper being ended, the
world, that whosoever devil having now put into the
believeth on me should not heart of Judas Iscariot,
abide in darkness. Simon’s son, to betray him;
47 And if any man hear my 3 Jesus knowing that the
words, and believe not, I judge Father had given all things
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into his hands, and that he was Ye are not all clean.
come from God, and went to 12 So after he had washed
God; their feet, and had taken his
4 He riseth from supper, and garments, and was set down
laid aside his garments; and again, he said unto them,
took a towel, and girded Know ye what I have done to
himself. you?
5 After that he poureth water 13 Ye call me Master and
into a bason, and began to Lord: and ye say well; for so I
wash the disciples’ feet, and to am.
wipe them with the towel 14 If I then, your Lord and
wherewith he was girded. Master, have washed your
6 Then cometh he to Simon feet; ye also ought to wash
Peter: and Peter saith unto one another’s feet.
him, Lord, dost thou wash my 15 For I have given you an
feet? example, that ye should do as
7 Jesus answered and said I have done to you.
unto him, What I do thou 16 Verily, verily, I say unto
knowest not now; but thou you, The servant is not greater
shalt know hereafter. than his lord; neither he that is
8 Peter saith unto him, Thou sent greater than he that sent
shalt never wash my feet. him.
Jesus answered him, If I wash 17 If ye know these things,
thee not, thou hast no part happy are ye if ye do them.
with me. 18 ¶ I speak not of you all: I
9 Simon Peter saith unto him, know whom I have chosen:
Lord, not my feet only, but but that the scripture may be
also my hands and my head. fulfilled, He that eateth bread
10 Jesus saith to him, He that with me hath lifted up his heel
is washed needeth not save to against me.
wash his feet, but is clean 19 Now I tell you before it
every whit: and ye are clean, come, that, when it is come to
but not all. pass, ye may believe that I am
11 For he knew who should he.
betray him; therefore said he, 20 Verily, verily, I say unto
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were desirous to ask him, and unto you in proverbs: but the
said unto them, Do ye inquire time cometh, when I shall no
among yourselves of that I more speak unto you in
said, A little while, and ye proverbs, but I shall shew you
shall not see me: and again, a plainly of the Father.
little while, and ye shall see 26 At that day ye shall ask in
me? my name: and I say not unto
20 Verily, verily, I say unto you, that I will pray the Father
you, That ye shall weep and for you:
lament, but the world shall 27 For the Father himself
rejoice: and ye shall be loveth you, because ye have
sorrowful, but your sorrow loved me, and have believed
shall be turned into joy. that I came out from God.
21 A woman when she is in 28 I came forth from the
travail hath sorrow, because Father, and am come into the
her hour is come: but as soon world: again, I leave the
as she is delivered of the child, world, and go to the Father.
she remembereth no more the 29 His disciples said unto him,
anguish, for joy that a man is Lo, now speakest thou plainly,
born into the world. and speakest no proverb.
22 And ye now therefore have 30 Now are we sure that thou
sorrow: but I will see you knowest all things, and
again, and your heart shall needest not that any man
rejoice, and your joy no man should ask thee: by this we
taketh from you. believe that thou camest forth
23 And in that day ye shall ask from God.
me nothing. Verily, verily, I 31 Jesus answered them, Do
say unto you, Whatsoever ye ye now believe?
shall ask the Father in my 32 Behold, the hour cometh,
name, he will give it you. yea, is now come, that ye shall
24 Hitherto have ye asked be scattered, every man to his
nothing in my name: ask, and own, and shall leave me alone:
ye shall receive, that your joy and yet I am not alone,
may be full. because the Father is with me.
25 These things have I spoken 33 These things I have spoken
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14 I have given them thy in one; and that the world may
word; and the world hath know that thou hast sent me,
hated them, because they are and hast loved them, as thou
not of the world, even as I am hast loved me.
not of the world. 24 Father, I will that they also,
15 I pray not that thou whom thou hast given me, be
shouldest take them out of the with me where I am; that they
world, but that thou shouldest may behold my glory, which
keep them from the evil. thou hast given me: for thou
16 They are not of the world, lovedst me before the
even as I am not of the world. foundation of the world.
17 Sanctify them through thy 25 O righteous Father, the
truth: thy word is truth. world hath not known thee:
18 As thou hast sent me into but I have known thee, and
the world, even so have I also these have known that thou
sent them into the world. hast sent me.
19 And for their sakes I 26 And I have declared unto
sanctify myself, that they also them thy name, and will
might be sanctified through declare it: that the love
the truth. wherewith thou hast loved me
20 Neither pray I for these may be in them, and I in them.
alone, but for them also which
shall believe on me through CHAPTER 18
their word; WHEN Jesus had spoken
21 That they all may be one; these words, he went forth
as thou, Father, art in me, and with his disciples over the
I in thee, that they also may be brook Cedron, where was a
one in us: that the world may garden, into the which he
believe that thou hast sent me. entered, and his disciples.
22 And the glory which thou 2 And Judas also, which
gavest me I have given them; betrayed him, knew the place:
that they may be one, even as for Jesus ofttimes resorted
we are one: thither with his disciples.
23 I in them, and thou in me, 3 Judas then, having received
that they may be made perfect a band of men and officers
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looking in, saw the linen Lord, and I know not where
clothes lying; yet went he not they have laid him.
in. 14 And when she had thus
6 Then cometh Simon Peter said, she turned herself back,
following him, and went into and saw Jesus standing, and
the sepulchre, and seeth the knew not that it was Jesus.
linen clothes lie, 15 Jesus saith unto her,
7 And the napkin, that was Woman, why weepest thou?
about his head, not lying with whom seekest thou? She,
the linen clothes, but wrapped supposing him to be the
together in a place by itself. gardener, saith unto him, Sir,
8 Then went in also that other if thou have borne him hence,
disciple, which came first to tell me where thou hast laid
the sepulchre, and he saw, and him, and I will take him away.
believed. 16 Jesus saith unto her, Mary.
9 For as yet they knew not the She turned herself, and saith
scripture, that he must rise unto him, Rabboni; which is
again from the dead. to say, Master.
10 Then the disciples went 17 Jesus saith unto her, Touch
away again unto their own me not; for I am not yet
home. ascended to my Father: but go
11 ¶ But Mary stood without to my brethren, and say unto
at the sepulchre weeping: and them, I ascend unto my
as she wept, she stooped Father, and your Father; and to
down, and looked into the my God, and your God.
sepulchre, 18 Mary Magdalene came and
12 And seeth two angels in told the disciples that she had
white sitting, the one at the seen the Lord, and that he had
head, and the other at the feet, spoken these things unto her.
where the body of Jesus had 19 ¶ Then the same day at
lain. evening, being the first day of
13 And they say unto her, the week, when the doors were
Woman, why weepest thou? shut where the disciples were
She saith unto them, Because assembled for fear of the Jews,
they have taken away my came Jesus and stood in the
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midst, and saith unto them, them: then came Jesus, the
Peace be unto you. doors being shut, and stood in
20 And when he had so said, the midst, and said, Peace be
he shewed unto them his unto you.
hands and his side. Then were 27 Then saith he to Thomas,
the disciples glad, when they Reach hither thy finger, and
saw the Lord. behold my hands; and reach
21 Then said Jesus to them hither thy hand, and thrust it
again, Peace be unto you: as into my side: and be not
my Father hath sent me, even faithless, but believing.
so send I you. 28 And Thomas answered and
22 And when he had said this, said unto him, My Lord and
he breathed on them, and saith my God.
unto them, Receive ye the 29 Jesus saith unto him,
Holy Ghost: Thomas, because thou hast
23 Whose soever sins ye seen me, thou hast believed:
remit, they are remitted unto blessed are they that have not
them; and whose soever sins seen, and yet have believed.
ye retain, they are retained. 30 ¶ And many other signs
24 ¶ But Thomas, one of the truly did Jesus in the presence
twelve, called Didymus, was of his disciples, which are not
not with them when Jesus written in this book:
came. 31 But these are written, that
25 The other disciples ye might believe that Jesus is
therefore said unto him, We the Christ, the Son of God;
have seen the Lord. But he and that believing ye might
said unto them, Except I shall have life through his name.
see in his hands the print of
the nails, and put my finger CHAPTER 21
into the print of the nails, and AFTER these things Jesus
thrust my hand into his side, I shewed himself again to the
will not believe. disciples at the sea of Tiberias;
26 ¶ And after eight days and on this wise shewed he
again his disciples were himself.
within, and Thomas with 2 There were together Simon
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15 For these are not drunken, God did by him in the midst of
as ye suppose, seeing it is but you, as ye yourselves also
the third hour of the day. know:
16 But this is that which was 23 Him, being delivered by
spoken by the prophet Joel; the determinate counsel and
17 And it shall come to pass in foreknowledge of God, ye
the last days, saith God, I will have taken, and by wicked
pour out of my Spirit upon all hands have crucified and slain:
flesh: and your sons and your 24 Whom God hath raised up,
daughters shall prophesy, and having loosed the pains of
your young men shall see death: because it was not
visions, and your old men possible that he should be
shall dream dreams: holden of it.
18 And on my servants and on 25 For David speaketh
my handmaidens I will pour concerning him, I foresaw the
out in those days of my Spirit; Lord always before my face,
and they shall prophesy: for he is on my right hand,
19 And I will shew wonders in that I should not be moved:
heaven above, and signs in the 26 Therefore did my heart
earth beneath; blood, and fire, rejoice, and my tongue was
and vapour of smoke: glad; moreover also my flesh
20 The sun shall be turned shall rest in hope:
into darkness, and the moon 27 Because thou wilt not leave
into blood, before that great my soul in hell, neither wilt
and notable day of the Lord thou suffer thine Holy One to
come: see corruption.
21 And it shall come to pass, 28 Thou hast made known to
that whosoever shall call on me the ways of life; thou shalt
the name of the Lord shall be make me full of joy with thy
saved. countenance.
22 Ye men of Israel, hear 29 Men and brethren, let me
these words; Jesus of freely speak unto you of the
Nazareth, a man approved of patriarch David, that he is both
God among you by miracles dead and buried, and his
and wonders and signs, which sepulchre is with us unto this
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which God made with our were of the kindred of the high
fathers, saying unto Abraham, priest, were gathered together
And in thy seed shall all the at Jerusalem.
kindreds of the earth be 7 And when they had set them
blessed. in the midst, they asked, By
26 Unto you first God, having what power, or by what name,
raised up his Son Jesus, sent have ye done this?
him to bless you, in turning 8 Then Peter, filled with the
away every one of you from Holy Ghost, said unto them,
his iniquities. Ye rulers of the people, and
elders of Israel,
CHAPTER 4 9 If we this day be examined
AND as they spake unto the of the good deed done to the
people, the priests, and the impotent man, by what means
captain of the temple, and the he is made whole;
Sadducees, came upon them, 10 Be it known unto you all,
2 Being grieved that they and to all the people of Israel,
taught the people, and that by the name of Jesus
preached through Jesus the Christ of Nazareth, whom ye
resurrection from the dead. crucified, whom God raised
3 And they laid hands on from the dead, even by him
them, and put them in hold doth this man stand here
unto the next day: for it was before you whole.
now eventide. 11 This is the stone which was
4 Howbeit many of them set at nought of you builders,
which heard the word which is become the head of
believed; and the number of the corner.
the men was about five 12 Neither is there salvation in
thousand. any other: for there is none
5 ¶ And it came to pass on the other name under heaven
morrow, that their rulers, and given among men, whereby
elders, and scribes, we must be saved.
6 And Annas the high priest, 13 ¶ Now when they saw the
and Caiaphas, and John, and boldness of Peter and John,
Alexander, and as many as and perceived that they were
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sold, was it not in thine own 11 And great fear came upon
power? why hast thou all the church, and upon as
conceived this thing in thine many as heard these things.
heart? thou hast not lied unto 12 ¶ And by the hands of the
men, but unto God. apostles were many signs and
5 And Ananias hearing these wonders wrought among the
words fell down, and gave up people; (and they were all
the ghost: and great fear came with one accord in Solomon’s
on all them that heard these porch.
things. 13 And of the rest durst no
6 And the young men arose, man join himself to them: but
wound him up, and carried the people magnified them.
him out, and buried him. 14 And believers were the
7 And it was about the space more added to the Lord,
of three hours after, when his multitudes both of men and
wife, not knowing what was women.)
done, came in. 15 Insomuch that they brought
8 And Peter answered unto forth the sick into the streets,
her, Tell me whether ye sold and laid them on beds and
the land for so much? And she couches, that at the least the
said, Yea, for so much. shadow of Peter passing by
9 Then Peter said unto her, might overshadow some of
How is it that ye have agreed them.
together to tempt the Spirit of 16 There came also a
the Lord? behold, the feet of multitude out of the cities
them which have buried thy round about unto Jerusalem,
husband are at the door, and bringing sick folks, and them
shall carry thee out. which were vexed with
10 Then fell she down unclean spirits: and they were
straightway at his feet, and healed every one.
yielded up the ghost: and the 17 ¶ Then the high priest rose
young men came in, and up, and all they that were with
found her dead, and, carrying him, (which is the sect of the
her forth, buried her by her Sadducees,) and were filled
husband. with indignation,
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city, and stoned him: and the 5 Then Philip went down to
witnesses laid down their the city of Samaria, and
clothes at a young man’s feet, preached Christ unto them.
whose name was Saul. 6 And the people with one
59 And they stoned Stephen, accord gave heed unto those
calling upon God, and saying, things which Philip spake,
Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. hearing and seeing the
60 And he kneeled down, and miracles which he did.
cried with a loud voice, Lord, 7 For unclean spirits, crying
lay not this sin to their charge. with loud voice, came out of
And when he had said this, he many that were possessed with
fell asleep. them: and many taken with
palsies, and that were lame,
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AND Saul was consenting 8 And there was great joy in
unto his death. And at that that city.
time there was a great 9 But there was a certain man,
persecution against the church called Simon, which
which was at Jerusalem; and beforetime in the same city
they were all scattered abroad used sorcery, and bewitched
throughout the regions of the people of Samaria, giving
Judæa and Samaria, except the out that himself was some
apostles. great one:
2 And devout men carried 10 To whom they all gave
Stephen to his burial, and heed, from the least to the
made great lamentation over greatest, saying, This man is
him. the great power of God.
3 As for Saul, he made havock 11 And to him they had
of the church, entering into regard, because that of long
every house, and haling men time he had bewitched them
and women committed them with sorceries.
to prison. 12 But when they believed
4 Therefore they that were Philip preaching the things
scattered abroad went every concerning the kingdom of
where preaching the word. God, and the name of Jesus
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Lord. CHAPTER 12
24 For he was a good man, NOW about that time Herod
and full of the Holy Ghost and the king stretched forth his
of faith: and much people was hands to vex certain of the
added unto the Lord. church.
25 Then departed Barnabas to 2 And he killed James the
Tarsus, for to seek Saul: brother of John with the
26 And when he had found sword.
him, he brought him unto 3 And because he saw it
Antioch. And it came to pass, pleased the Jews, he
that a whole year they proceeded further to take Peter
assembled themselves with the also. (Then were the days of
church, and taught much unleavened bread.)
people. And the disciples were 4 And when he had
called Christians first in apprehended him, he put him
Antioch. in prison, and delivered him to
27 ¶ And in these days came four quaternions of soldiers to
prophets from Jerusalem unto keep him; intending after
Antioch. Easter to bring him forth to
28 And there stood up one of the people.
them named Agabus, and 5 Peter therefore was kept in
signified by the spirit that prison: but prayer was made
there should be great dearth without ceasing of the church
throughout all the world: unto God for him.
which came to pass in the days 6 And when Herod would
of Claudius Cæsar. have brought him forth, the
29 Then the disciples, every same night Peter was sleeping
man according to his ability, between two soldiers, bound
determined to send relief unto with two chains: and the
the brethren which dwelt in keepers before the door kept
Judæa: the prison.
30 Which also they did, and 7 And, behold, the angel of
sent it to the elders by the the Lord came upon him, and
hands of Barnabas and Saul. a light shined in the prison:
and he smote Peter on the
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brethren, and sailed thence the way of the Lord; and being
into Syria, and with him fervent in the spirit, he spake
Priscilla and Aquila; having and taught diligently the
shorn his head in Cenchrea: things of the Lord, knowing
for he had a vow. only the baptism of John.
19 And he came to Ephesus, 26 And he began to speak
and left them there: but he boldly in the synagogue:
himself entered into the whom when Aquila and
synagogue, and reasoned with Priscilla had heard, they took
the Jews. him unto them, and expounded
20 When they desired him to unto him the way of God more
tarry longer time with them, perfectly.
he consented not; 27 And when he was disposed
21 But bade them farewell, to pass into Achaia, the
saying, I must by all means brethren wrote, exhorting the
keep this feast that cometh in disciples to receive him: who,
Jerusalem: but I will return when he was come, helped
again unto you, if God will. them much which had
And he sailed from Ephesus. believed through grace:
22 And when he had landed at 28 For he mightily convinced
Cæsarea, and gone up, and the Jews, and that publickly,
saluted the church, he went shewing by the scriptures that
down to Antioch. Jesus was Christ.
23 And after he had spent
some time there, he departed, CHAPTER 19
and went over all the country AND it came to pass, that,
of Galatia and Phrygia in while Apollos was at Corinth,
order, strengthening all the Paul having passed through
disciples. the upper coasts came to
24 ¶ And a certain Jew named Ephesus: and finding certain
Apollos, born at Alexandria, disciples,
an eloquent man, and mighty 2 He said unto them, Have ye
in the scriptures, came to received the Holy Ghost since
Ephesus. ye believed? And they said
25 This man was instructed in unto him, We have not so
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17 And this was known to all which made silver shrines for
the Jews and Greeks also Diana, brought no small gain
dwelling at Ephesus; and fear unto the craftsmen;
fell on them all, and the name 25 Whom he called together
of the Lord Jesus was with the workmen of like
magnified. occupation, and said, Sirs, ye
18 And many that believed know that by this craft we
came, and confessed, and have our wealth.
shewed their deeds. 26 Moreover ye see and hear,
19 Many of them also which that not alone at Ephesus, but
used curious arts brought their almost throughout all Asia,
books together, and burned this Paul hath persuaded and
them before all men: and they turned away much people,
counted the price of them, and saying that they be no gods,
found it fifty thousand pieces which are made with hands:
of silver. 27 So that not only this our
20 So mightily grew the word craft is in danger to be set at
of God and prevailed. nought; but also that the
21 ¶ After these things were temple of the great goddess
ended, Paul purposed in the Diana should be despised, and
spirit, when he had passed her magnificence should be
through Macedonia and destroyed, whom all Asia and
Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, the world worshippeth.
saying, After I have been 28 And when they heard these
there, I must also see Rome. sayings, they were full of
22 So he sent into Macedonia wrath, and cried out, saying,
two of them that ministered Great is Diana of the
unto him, Timotheus and Ephesians.
Erastus; but he himself stayed 29 And the whole city was
in Asia for a season. filled with confusion: and
23 And the same time there having caught Gaius and
arose no small stir about that Aristarchus, men of
way. Macedonia, Paul’s
24 For a certain man named companions in travel, they
Demetrius, a silversmith, rushed with one accord into
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would not spend the time in 23 Save that the Holy Ghost
Asia: for he hasted, if it were witnesseth in every city,
possible for him, to be at saying that bonds and
Jerusalem the day of afflictions abide me.
Pentecost. 24 But none of these things
17 ¶ And from Miletus he sent move me, neither count I my
to Ephesus, and called the life dear unto myself, so that I
elders of the church. might finish my course with
18 And when they were come joy, and the ministry, which I
to him, he said unto them, Ye have received of the Lord
know, from the first day that I Jesus, to testify the gospel of
came into Asia, after what the grace of God.
manner I have been with you 25 And now, behold, I know
at all seasons, that ye all, among whom I
19 Serving the Lord with all have gone preaching the
humility of mind, and with kingdom of God, shall see my
many tears, and temptations, face no more.
which befell me by the lying 26 Wherefore I take you to
in wait of the Jews: record this day, that I am pure
20 And how I kept back from the blood of all men.
nothing that was profitable 27 For I have not shunned to
unto you, but have shewed declare unto you all the
you, and have taught you counsel of God.
publickly, and from house to 28 ¶ Take heed therefore unto
house, yourselves, and to all the
21 Testifying both to the Jews, flock, over the which the Holy
and also to the Greeks, Ghost hath made you
repentance toward God, and overseers, to feed the church
faith toward our Lord Jesus of God, which he hath
Christ. purchased with his own blood.
22 And now, behold, I go 29 For I know this, that after
bound in the spirit unto my departing shall grievous
Jerusalem, not knowing the wolves enter in among you,
things that shall befall me not sparing the flock.
there: 30 Also of your own selves
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6 And when we had taken our that place, besought him not to
leave one of another, we took go up to Jerusalem.
ship; and they returned home 13 Then Paul answered, What
again. mean ye to weep and to break
7 And when we had finished mine heart? for I am ready not
our course from Tyre, we to be bound only, but also to
came to Ptolemais, and saluted die at Jerusalem for the name
the brethren, and abode with of the Lord Jesus.
them one day. 14 And when he would not be
8 And the next day we that persuaded, we ceased, saying,
were of Paul’s company The will of the Lord be done.
departed, and came unto 15 And after those days we
Cæsarea: and we entered into took up our carriages, and
the house of Philip the went up to Jerusalem.
evangelist, which was one of 16 There went with us also
the seven; and abode with certain of the disciples of
him. Cæsarea, and brought with
9 And the same man had four them one Mnason of Cyprus,
daughters, virgins, which did an old disciple, with whom we
prophesy. should lodge.
10 And as we tarried there 17 And when we were come
many days, there came down to Jerusalem, the brethren
from Judæa a certain prophet, received us gladly.
named Agabus. 18 And the day following Paul
11 And when he was come went in with us unto James;
unto us, he took Paul’s girdle, and all the elders were present.
and bound his own hands and 19 And when he had saluted
feet, and said, Thus saith the them, he declared particularly
Holy Ghost, So shall the Jews what things God had wrought
at Jerusalem bind the man that among the Gentiles by his
owneth this girdle, and shall ministry.
deliver him into the hands of 20 And when they heard it,
the Gentiles. they glorified the Lord, and
12 And when we heard these said unto him, Thou seest,
things, both we, and they of brother, how many thousands
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eat nor drink till they had hath something to say unto
killed Paul. thee.
13 And they were more than 19 Then the chief captain took
forty which had made this him by the hand, and went
conspiracy. with him aside privately, and
14 And they came to the chief asked him, What is that thou
priests and elders, and said, hast to tell me?
We have bound ourselves 20 And he said, The Jews
under a great curse, that we have agreed to desire thee that
will eat nothing until we have thou wouldest bring down
slain Paul. Paul to morrow into the
15 Now therefore ye with the council, as though they would
council signify to the chief inquire somewhat of him more
captain that he bring him perfectly.
down unto you to morrow, as 21 But do not thou yield unto
though ye would inquire them: for there lie in wait for
something more perfectly him of them more than forty
concerning him: and we, or men, which have bound
ever he come near, are ready themselves with an oath, that
to kill him. they will neither eat nor drink
16 And when Paul’s sister’s till they have killed him: and
son heard of their lying in now are they ready, looking
wait, he went and entered into for a promise from thee.
the castle, and told Paul. 22 So the chief captain then let
17 Then Paul called one of the the young man depart, and
centurions unto him, and said, charged him, See thou tell no
Bring this young man unto the man that thou hast shewed
chief captain: for he hath a these things to me.
certain thing to tell him. 23 And he called unto him two
18 So he took him, and centurions, saying, Make
brought him to the chief ready two hundred soldiers to
captain, and said, Paul the go to Cæsarea, and horsemen
prisoner called me unto him, threescore and ten, and
and prayed me to bring this spearmen two hundred, at the
young man unto thee, who third hour of the night;
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God, that not only thou, but and gave him liberty to go
also all that hear me this day, unto his friends to refresh
were both almost, and himself.
altogether such as I am, except 4 And when we had launched
these bonds. from thence, we sailed under
30 And when he had thus Cyprus, because the winds
spoken, the king rose up, and were contrary.
the governor, and Bernice, and 5 And when we had sailed
they that sat with them: over the sea of Cilicia and
31 And when they were gone Pamphylia, we came to Myra,
aside, they talked between a city of Lycia.
themselves, saying, This man 6 And there the centurion
doeth nothing worthy of death found a ship of Alexandria
or of bonds. sailing into Italy; and he put
32 Then said Agrippa unto us therein.
Festus, This man might have 7 And when we had sailed
been set at liberty, if he had slowly many days, and scarce
not appealed unto Cæsar. were come over against
Cnidus, the wind not suffering
CHAPTER 27 us, we sailed under Crete, over
AND when it was determined against Salmone;
that we should sail into Italy, 8 And, hardly passing it, came
they delivered Paul and certain unto a place which is called
other prisoners unto one The fair havens; nigh
named Julius, a centurion of whereunto was the city of
Augustus’ band. Lasea.
2 And entering into a ship of 9 Now when much time was
Adramyttium, we launched, spent, and when sailing was
meaning to sail by the coasts now dangerous, because the
of Asia; one Aristarchus, a fast was now already past,
Macedonian of Thessalonica, Paul admonished them,
being with us. 10 And said unto them, Sirs, I
3 And the next day we perceive that this voyage will
touched at Sidon. And Julius be with hurt and much
courteously entreated Paul, damage, not only of the lading
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and ship, but also of our lives. sail, and so were driven.
11 Nevertheless the centurion 18 And we being exceedingly
believed the master and the tossed with a tempest, the next
owner of the ship, more than day they lightened the ship;
those things which were 19 And the third day we cast
spoken by Paul. out with our own hands the
12 And because the haven was tackling of the ship.
not commodious to winter in, 20 And when neither sun nor
the more part advised to stars in many days appeared,
depart thence also, if by any and no small tempest lay on
means they might attain to us, all hope that we should be
Phenice, and there to winter; saved was then taken away.
which is an haven of Crete, 21 But after long abstinence
and lieth toward the south Paul stood forth in the midst
west and north west. of them, and said, Sirs, ye
13 And when the south wind should have hearkened unto
blew softly, supposing that me, and not have loosed from
they had obtained their Crete, and to have gained this
purpose, loosing thence, they harm and loss.
sailed close by Crete. 22 And now I exhort you to be
14 But not long after there of good cheer: for there shall
arose against it a tempestuous be no loss of any man’s life
wind, called Euroclydon. among you, but of the ship.
15 And when the ship was 23 For there stood by me this
caught, and could not bear up night the angel of God, whose
into the wind, we let her drive. I am, and whom I serve,
16 And running under a 24 Saying, Fear not, Paul;
certain island which is called thou must be brought before
Clauda, we had much work to Cæsar: and, lo, God hath
come by the boat: given thee all them that sail
17 Which when they had with thee.
taken up, they used helps, 25 Wherefore, sirs, be of good
undergirding the ship; and, cheer: for I believe God, that it
fearing lest they should fall shall be even as it was told
into the quicksands, strake me.
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glad tidings of good things! 2 God hath not cast away his
16 But they have not all people which he foreknew.
obeyed the gospel. For Esaias Wot ye not what the scripture
saith, Lord, who hath believed saith of Elias? how he maketh
our report? intercession to God against
17 So then faith cometh by Israel, saying,
hearing, and hearing by the 3 Lord, they have killed thy
word of God. prophets, and digged down
18 But I say, Have they not thine altars; and I am left
heard? Yes verily, their sound alone, and they seek my life.
went into all the earth, and 4 But what saith the answer of
their words unto the ends of God unto him? I have reserved
the world. to myself seven thousand men,
19 But I say, Did not Israel who have not bowed the knee
know? First Moses saith, I to the image of Baal.
will provoke you to jealousy 5 Even so then at this present
by them that are no people, time also there is a remnant
and by a foolish nation I will according to the election of
anger you. grace.
20 But Esaias is very bold, 6 And if by grace, then is it no
and saith, I was found of them more of works: otherwise
that sought me not; I was grace is no more grace. But if
made manifest unto them that it be of works, then is it no
asked not after me. more grace: otherwise work is
21 But to Israel he saith, All no more work.
day long I have stretched forth 7 What then? Israel hath not
my hands unto a disobedient obtained that which he seeketh
and gainsaying people. for; but the election hath
obtained it, and the rest were
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I SAY then, Hath God cast 8 (According as it is written,
away his people? God forbid. God hath given them the spirit
For I also am an Israelite, of of slumber, eyes that they
the seed of Abraham, of the should not see, and ears that
tribe of Benjamin. they should not hear;) unto
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give him drink: for in so doing tribute also: for they are God’s
thou shalt heap coals of fire on ministers, attending
his head. continually upon this very
21 Be not overcome of evil, thing.
but overcome evil with good. 7 Render therefore to all their
dues: tribute to whom tribute
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LET every soul be subject custom; fear to whom fear;
unto the higher powers. For honour to whom honour.
there is no power but of God: 8 Owe no man any thing, but
the powers that be are to love one another: for he that
ordained of God. loveth another hath fulfilled
2 Whosoever therefore the law.
resisteth the power, resisteth 9 For this, Thou shalt not
the ordinance of God: and commit adultery, Thou shalt
they that resist shall receive to not kill, Thou shalt not steal,
themselves damnation. Thou shalt not bear false
3 For rulers are not a terror to witness, Thou shalt not covet;
good works, but to the evil. and if there be any other
Wilt thou then not be afraid of commandment, it is briefly
the power? do that which is comprehended in this saying,
good, and thou shalt have namely, Thou shalt love thy
praise of the same: neighbour as thyself.
4 For he is the minister of God 10 Love worketh no ill to his
to thee for good. But if thou neighbour: therefore love is
do that which is evil, be the fulfilling of the law.
afraid; for he beareth not the 11 And that, knowing the
sword in vain: for he is the time, that now it is high time
minister of God, a revenger to to awake out of sleep: for now
execute wrath upon him that is our salvation nearer than
doeth evil. when we believed.
5 Wherefore ye must needs be 12 The night is far spent, the
subject, not only for wrath, but day is at hand: let us therefore
also for conscience sake. cast off the works of darkness,
6 For for this cause pay ye and let us put on the armour of
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preached the gospel of Christ. and their debtors they are. For
20 Yea, so have I strived to if the Gentiles have been made
preach the gospel, not where partakers of their spiritual
Christ was named, lest I things, their duty is also to
should build upon another minister unto them in carnal
man’s foundation: things.
21 But as it is written, To 28 When therefore I have
whom he was not spoken of, performed this, and have
they shall see: and they that sealed to them this fruit, I will
have not heard shall come by you into Spain.
understand. 29 And I am sure that, when I
22 For which cause also I have come unto you, I shall come in
been much hindered from the fulness of the blessing of
coming to you. the gospel of Christ.
23 But now having no more 30 Now I beseech you,
place in these parts, and brethren, for the Lord Jesus
having a great desire these Christ’s sake, and for the love
many years to come unto you; of the Spirit, that ye strive
24 Whensoever I take my together with me in your
journey into Spain, I will prayers to God for me;
come to you: for I trust to see 31 That I may be delivered
you in my journey, and to be from them that do not believe
brought on my way in Judæa; and that my service
thitherward by you, if first I be which I have for Jerusalem
somewhat filled with your may be accepted of the saints;
company. 32 That I may come unto you
25 But now I go unto with joy by the will of God,
Jerusalem to minister unto the and may with you be
saints. refreshed.
26 For it hath pleased them of 33 Now the God of peace be
Macedonia and Achaia to with you all. Amen.
make a certain contribution for
the poor saints which are at CHAPTER 16
Jerusalem. I COMMEND unto you Phebe
27 It hath pleased them verily; our sister, which is a servant
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turn to the Lord, the vail shall ourselves your servants for
be taken away. Jesus’ sake.
17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: 6 For God, who commanded
and where the Spirit of the the light to shine out of
Lord is, there is liberty. darkness, hath shined in our
18 But we all, with open face hearts, to give the light of the
beholding as in a glass the knowledge of the glory of God
glory of the Lord, are changed in the face of Jesus Christ.
into the same image from 7 But we have this treasure in
glory to glory, even as by the earthen vessels, that the
Spirit of the Lord. excellency of the power may
be of God, and not of us.
CHAPTER 4 8 We are troubled on every
THEREFORE seeing we have side, yet not distressed; we are
this ministry, as we have perplexed, but not in despair;
received mercy, we faint not; 9 Persecuted, but not forsaken;
2 But have renounced the cast down, but not destroyed;
hidden things of dishonesty, 10 Always bearing about in
not walking in craftiness, nor the body the dying of the Lord
handling the word of God Jesus, that the life also of
deceitfully; but by Jesus might be made manifest
manifestation of the truth in our body.
commending ourselves to 11 For we which live are
every man’s conscience in the alway delivered unto death for
sight of God. Jesus’ sake, that the life also
3 But if our gospel be hid, it is of Jesus might be made
hid to them that are lost: manifest in our mortal flesh.
4 In whom the god of this 12 So then death worketh in
world hath blinded the minds us, but life in you.
of them which believe not, lest 13 We having the same spirit
the light of the glorious gospel of faith, according as it is
of Christ, who is the image of written, I believed, and
God, should shine unto them. therefore have I spoken; we
5 For we preach not ourselves, also believe, and therefore
but Christ Jesus the Lord; and speak;
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doing of it; that as there was a 19 And not that only, but who
readiness to will, so there may was also chosen of the
be a performance also out of churches to travel with us with
that which ye have. this grace, which is
12 For if there be first a administered by us to the
willing mind, it is accepted glory of the same Lord, and
according to that a man hath, declaration of your ready
and not according to that he mind:
hath not. 20 Avoiding this, that no man
13 For I mean not that other should blame us in this
men be eased, and ye abundance which is
burdened: administered by us:
14 But by an equality, that 21 Providing for honest
now at this time your things, not only in the sight of
abundance may be a supply the Lord, but also in the sight
for their want, that their of men.
abundance also may be a 22 And we have sent with
supply for your want: that them our brother, whom we
there may be equality: have oftentimes proved
15 As it is written, He that had diligent in many things, but
gathered much had nothing now much more diligent, upon
over; and he that had gathered the great confidence which I
little had no lack. have in you.
16 But thanks be to God, 23 Whether any do inquire of
which put the same earnest Titus, he is my partner and
care into the heart of Titus for fellowhelper concerning you:
you. or our brethren be inquired of,
17 For indeed he accepted the they are the messengers of the
exhortation; but being more churches, and the glory of
forward, of his own accord he Christ.
went unto you. 24 Wherefore shew ye to
18 And we have sent with him them, and before the churches,
the brother, whose praise is in the proof of your love, and of
the gospel throughout all the our boasting on your behalf.
churches;
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